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Hockey News
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Someone asked Adrian Aucoin after practice Friday if he represented "the calvary" for the Phoenix Coyotes.
Aucoin, who has missed the first three games of this Western Conference Finals series against the Los Angeles King...
For the Phoenix Coyotes to avoid getting swept by the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday, NBC Sports analyst Jeremy Roenick said they have to find a way to take the positives out of yet another loss.
"I know this sounds terrible to say because they ju...
Between the four teams competing for the 2012 Memorial Cup are prospects representing 20 NHL teams.
The Montreal Canadiens have the most players to watch, among them their last two first-round draft picks -- London Knights defenseman Jarred Ti...
NEWARK, N.J. -- One might consider the odds of the New Jersey Devils winning a fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history rather slim without some offensive contribution from veteran forward Patrik Elias.
Still, the fact the Devils have performed...
With the Rangers and Devils locked in a 1-1 tie in the Eastern Conference Finals, NHL.com reached out to NBC Sports analyst Jeremy Roenick to get his take on what each team has to do to get the advantage in Game 3 Saturday at Prudential Center (1 ...
The 2012 IIHF World Hockey Championship has provided a slew of new memories, punctuated by some thrilling regulation-time endings in the quarterfinals. With the puck about to drop on the tournament semifinals, here are some notable numbers from th...
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- With all things being equal, the New York Rangers are having a hard time scoring goals during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but their power play has quietly been their saving grace.
Of the four teams remaining in the playoffs, t...
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Lesson learned, says Marian Gaborik.
"It was what it was, obviously," the Rangers' 41-goal scorer said Friday after practice. "I have to do a better job there on their second goal."
Gaborik is referring to his inability t...
If the quarterfinals proved anything, it's that anyone can win at any time. Of the four games played Thursday, two were won in the final 30 seconds and a third saw top-seeded Canada lose in the last 2:30 of regulation. When it was all over, three ...
We could know one of the two participants in the Stanley Cup Final by the end of the weekend.
The Los Angeles Kings have a chance to lock up their first trip to the Final since 1993 by beating the Phoenix Coyotes in Game 4 of the Western Confer...
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Dwight King and Jordan Nolan are two strapping 22-year-old professional athletes living in the shadows of Hollywood, a short drive from the beach, a freeway jaunt from the action. Talk about the dream, right?
Fun in the sun,...
Matthew Finn admits he played the 2011-12 season with a giant chip on his shoulder.
It certainly worked for him, as the Guelph Storm defenseman found anger to be a wonderful motivator to having a tremendous season and earning recognition as a...
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Kings have won 11 of their 12 games in this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. They're just one win away from their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 19 years after beating the Phoenix Coyotes 2-1 on Thursday night in...
LOS ANGELES -- The Phoenix Coyotes played much better in Game 3 than they did in Game 2 of this Western Conference Finals series. They've got two days to figure out a way to play even better in Game 4.
While the Coyotes were able to stay with t...
LOS ANGELES -- On opening night on a different continent, Jarret Stoll played on a line with Scott Parse and Trent Hunter -- two players who are either no longer in the organization or not active.
By December, in the waning days of the Terry Mu...
New York Rangers coach John Tortorella doesn't solely blame Marian Gaborik for the team's 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday, but he was willing to speak in generalities during a conference ca...
In the locker room of the Boston College Eagles, winner of three of the last five NCAA hockey championships, there's a wall featuring photos of all the Eagles who have hoisted the Stanley Cup, starting with Joe Mullen and on through Brian Leetch, ...
Being a 28-year-old AHL player in the New Jersey Devils organization requires great patience, especially when your last name is Gionta. That virtue is finally paying off for Stephen Gionta, who after six seasons with their farm team has contribute...
Jeff Carter was shipped to Hollywood in late February for a reason -- to vault one of the least productive goal-scoring teams in the NHL to greater heights.
But few imagined Carter would deliver a playoff performance the Los Angeles Kings haven...
The celebration that followed a beauty of a goal by 21-year-old Michael Del Zotto was a gathering of five New York Rangers who epitomize the youth movement of a franchise that once was defined as one of the oldest and least successful in the Leagu...
NEW YORK -- Despite giving up three third-period goals and getting shut out by the New York Rangers in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the New Jersey Devils didn't feel there was an awful lot they needed to change entering Game 2 ...
NEW YORK -- The sight of star forward Marian Gaborik sitting on the bench for the first 11:02 of the third period after his gaffe led to a Devils goal in the second period was emblematic of the problems the New York Rangers had in their own zone W...
NEW YORK -- It wasn't too long ago New Jersey Devils forward David Clarkson was regarded as that prototypical grinder, always willing to drop the gloves and retreat into areas on the ice where only the strong survive.
That seems like eons ago ...
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Five goals in their last five games.
Even against two Vezina Trophy candidates and even for a team not known for being offensively explosive, the Phoenix Coyotes have picked a lousy time for a scoring funk.
After being sh...
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Frustration is usually a friend to the Phoenix Coyotes. They have won a division title and pushed all the way to the their first Western Conference final by twisting more skilled teams inside-out with a combination of work ethic ...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – One minute Dustin Brown was nearly bent over backward in pain. Later he was prone, face down on the ice after a taking a hit from behind.
The Los Angeles Kings can’t help but shake their collective head at how their captai...
DALLAS -- The Dallas Stars officially welcomed former general manager and coach Bob Gainey back to the organization Wednesday. Gainey, a 1992 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, will serve as a senior advisor to the hockey department.
"I'm ...
There was wide-ranging disappointment in Vancouver after the Presidents' Trophy-winning Canucks, last spring's Stanley Cup runner-up, were eliminated from this season's championship chase in just five first-round games by the upstart Kings.
Af...
NEW YORK -- The early part of Artem Anisimov's career was all about finding a comfort level in the United States, with the language, the customs and, of course, the hockey.
Anisimov spent the first 19 years of his life in Yaroslavl, Russia, bef...
The four remaining goalies in the hunt for the Stanley Cup all have played like puck-stopping superheroes to get their teams to the conference finals.
Indeed, as "The Avengers" movie has been blowing up the box office, New Jersey's Martin Brod...
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