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Hockey News
Portland Winterhawks coach Travis Green must have felt a bit of déjà vu watching his team Monday night at the MasterCard Memorial Cup.
For the second straight game he saw a multi-goal lead evaporate, but the first-year coach -- promoted to the to...
DETROIT -- Around and around the puck went, and the clock just kept ticking.
The Chicago Blackhawks put on a passing clinic at the end of a power play early in the second period, but it ended without many quality shots on net. They kept the pu...
OTTAWA – It is often said of young teams competing in the Stanley Cup Playoffs that they need to lose so they can learn to win.
If ever that adage were to be applied to a player, it would fit Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson, whose per...
Visa presents "Small Plays" which looks at the little things during a game that turn into big results. Here is a recent example from Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Ottawa Senators.
Pageau kee...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Justin Williams was an integral part of the Los Angeles Kings' 2012 Stanley Cup run. He was in the neighborhood of being a point-per-game player with four goals and 11 assists in 20 Stanley Cup Playoff games, and finished six...
SAN JOSE -- The San Jose Sharks began scrambling to adjust their forward lines early in the first period of Game 1 of their Western Conference Quarterfinals series against the Vancouver Canucks when Martin Havlat suffered an injury.
The Sharks ...
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Regardless of whether New York Rangers coach John Tortorella is just trying to preserve some positivity around his club after a pair of losses in Boston, his message for how he feels going into Game 3 of the Eastern Conference ...
BOSTON -- If the Boston Bruins think they played perfect hockey in building their 2-0 series lead against the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, they don't need to look back any farther than the second period of Game 2 to see h...
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist attempted to put to rest any fear that an injury to his left shoulder is something that potentially could hurt his chances of playing in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals again...
OTTAWA -- Ottawa Senators center Jason Spezza was his usual smiling self Monday, seemingly suffering no ill effects after Ottawa's grinding double-overtime victory Sunday.
The Senators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 in Game 3 of their Eastern...
OTTAWA -- Erik Karlsson was a lonely man.
Sitting in the penalty box Sunday night with his Ottawa Senators down a goal and staring at a potential 0-3 deficit in the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Karlsson was not...
OTTAWA -- After allowing three power-play goals in the first two games of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Ottawa Senators' penalty kill came up big when it was needed most.
Against perhaps the finest colle...
OTTAWA -- It took three games, but the Pittsburgh Penguins finally got their first real taste of the so-called "Pesky Sens."
The Ottawa Senators' Game 3 victory in their Eastern Conference Semifinal against the Penguins provided hope to the fla...
BOSTON -- The situation facing the New York Rangers is exactly the same as it was two weeks ago, but goalie Henrik Lundqvist has identified one problem that ruins the comparison between trying to dig out of an 0-2 hole against the Washington Capit...
BOSTON -- If Torey Krug remains in the Boston Bruins' lineup for the remainder of this Eastern Conference Semifinal, the New York Rangers are going to have to find a way to scare the rookie defenseman.
Because right now he's not only fearless, ...
BOSTON -- When you're as prolific a Stanley Cup Playoff scorer as Johnny Boychuk is relative to his regular-season production, you don't let a couple near misses discourage your aggressiveness.
So after the Boston Bruins defenseman was denied t...
SAN JOSE -- When San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan saw center Logan Couture limp off the ice and to the dressing room early in the second period Saturday night against the Los Angeles Kings, he didn't wonder if his young star would back. The onl...
OTTAWA -- It is not a stretch to say that if Jason Spezza had never been forced to undergo back surgery Feb. 1 and miss three months of action, Ottawa Senators center Jean-Gabriel Pageau would have been lucky to play in the American Hockey League ...
DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings have been the gold standard in the NHL for more than a decade, something not lost on the rival Chicago Blackhawks.
This current collection of Blackhawks has been building toward trying to meet that standard, win...
BOSTON -- Despite a Hall of Fame resume, Boston Bruins forward Jaromir Jagr is in a battle with his confidence heading into Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the New York Rangers.
Jagr hasn't scored a goal in eight Stanley Cup...
CHICAGO -- The Detroit Red Wings needed a performance like the one they put on the ice Saturday at United Center.
After talking about their tired legs following a series-opening loss to the rival Chicago Blackhawks in Game 1 of the Western Conf...
CHICAGO -- It was a rough night for the Detroit defensemen in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks, but the amount of fault placed on them for the defeat might have been overstated.
Rookie Brend...
OTTAWA -- If the Ottawa Senators have any hope of regaining a foothold in the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Pittsburgh Penguins, they need their defense, specifically Erik Karlsson, to spring to life.
Karlsson logged 15:37 of ice t...
SAN JOSE -- The Los Angeles Kings know how dangerous a team can be when it comes home after digging a 2-0 hole in a Stanley Cup Playoff series.
The Kings lost their first two games in the Western Conference Quarterfinals to the St. Louis Blues ...
BOSTON -- New York Rangers forward Derick Brassard can live with the decision he made with the puck near the end of overtime of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Boston Bruins, the decision that directly led to the Bruins' ga...
PITTSBURGH -- For the Ottawa Senators to have any chance of upsetting the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, their best players are going to have to be their best players.
That definitely was not the case i...
PITTSBURGH -- Sidney Crosby was at his best Friday night in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. As a result, he rewrote the Pittsburgh Penguins' history book a bit and gave his team a 2-0 series lead against the Ottawa Senators.
Pittsb...
Nikita Zadorov showed why he's so highly regarded for the 2013 NHL Draft.
The London Knights' defenseman jumped into the play early in the third period and banged in the rebound of a Scott Harrington shot for the game-winning power-play goal a...
SAN JOSE -- The San Jose Sharks have been in this situation before, trailing 2-0 in a Stanley Cup Playoffs series -- just as they are now against the Los Angeles Kings in the Western Conference Semifinals.
Nine times to be exact. They've lost a...
CHICAGO -- The question was posed to Corey Crawford after practice Friday and his answer unintentionally summed up just how much the rivalry has changed between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings.
Crawford, Chicago's starting goalie, ...
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