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With the Stanley Cup playoffs under way, we look back on the filmmaker's history with the Red Wings, the Blackhawks, and NHL fandom.

Welcome to a weekly grab bag of thoughts and observations from the past few days and/or decades of NHL hockey. This week's three stars of comedy Recognizing the three NHL personalities from around the league who produced the most comedic fodder ...

It's been nearly two months since the NHL lockout began. NHL players continue to head overseas. The 2013 Winter Classic will now take place in 2014. In an environment as borderline dystopian as this, there's only one thing for hockey fans dancing on ...

In HBO's 24/7 series on the Rangers-Flyers Winter Classic, there was one interaction between a player and an official that made it pretty clear how certain things go down. After the Flyers' Max Talbot gets whistled for not having done much in particu...

A quick note: Given the finale last night of the HBO hock-umentary 24/7 Rangers/Flyers: The Road to the NHL Winter Classic, I'm hijacking this week's NHL goaltender blog post for a mashup of TV recapping, some leftover observations from last weekend ...

As Craig Custance and I discussed on our podcast Tuesday, The NHL Winter Classic feels like nothing so much as a wedding. There's almost a full year of build-up and planning, of finding vendors and making the most minute of arrangements. Check in at ...

Katie Baker braved the streets of Philadelphia this weekend at the NHL Winter Classic -- and lived to talk about it. (Although Bruce Springsteen was right about the "bruised and battered" part.) In this podcast, Baker and Craig Custance chat about th...

And the rest of the week in the NHL.