The Boston Bruins dominated the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 1 of their first-round series, but they’ll need to win Game 2 without Andrew Ference. The 34-year-old defenseman received a one-game suspension for elbowing Leafs forward Mikhail [...]

Joel Quenneville led the Blackhawks to an amazing 36-7-5 record. Paul MacLean helped the Senators into the playoffs despite a rash of injuries to star players. Michel Therrien has been a great fit in Montreal. But based on what the Washington [...]

Detroit Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser could be out for the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs with an injury, as per a pair of tweets from Ansar Khan of MLive.com. DeKeyser has broken right thumb, Holland said, Babcock said he thinks he’s [...]

The 2013 playoffs already featured one hit that drew a suspension, but the scariest moment of the young postseason came on Thursday when Montreal Canadiens forward Lars Eller was taken off the ice on a stretcher after this hit by Ottawa Senators [...]

People expecting a sluggish, defense-only chess match between the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 were likely shocked to witness a wild affair on Thursday night. The Senators stole one 4-2 in a contest jam-packed with action. Let’s [...]

The Washington Capitals reminded the hockey world why they finished the 2013 season as one of the NHL’s hottest teams on Thursday, beating the New York Rangers 3-1 in Game 1. Let’s discuss the contest: Henrik Lundqvist kept an out-matched [...]

The St. Louis Blues are two wins away from advancing to the second round of the playoffs and knocking off the defending Stanley Cup champions. Blues defenseman Barret Jackman scored the winning goal with just 51 seconds remaining in the third [...]

If you tuned into the Anaheim Ducks-Detroit Red Wings game early in the third period, your first impression may have been that it was already over and remaining minutes were just a formality. Wrong. The Red Wings jumped to a 4-1 lead early in [...]

If the temperature in the Ottawa Senators-Montreal Canadiens series wasn’t already at a boil after Game 1, this will surely help. A photo of the front page was provided in a tweet from Ottawa Sun sports columnist Bruce Garrioch. The photo [...]

The playoff schedule is moving along swiftly and four more games come your way tonight including a pair of teams who faced off last night. A pair of teams try to shake off tough losses while two more are looking to bounce back after lackluster [...]

VANCOUVER — The San Jose Sharks broke a 1-1 tie with 10:43 left in the third period when veteran defenseman Dan Boyle pounced on a loose puck that Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo couldn’t corral. All Boyle had to do was snap it into a wide-open [...]

More than a few people thought that the high-scoring, red-hot New York Islanders might just pose a threat to the Pittsburgh Penguins in their first-round matchups. That gut instinct didn’t look too great after Game 1, which the Penguins won [...]

So much for sweating about goals. Last night saw a couple of blowouts and some excitement out West. The final two series yet to play kick off tonight with a pair of Game 2s to go with it. Catch all the action on NBC Sports Live Extra. Game 1: [...]

After weeks of reports, the NHL has confirmed that the Chicago Blackhawks will play the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 1, 2014 at Soldier Field. Soldier Field is better known as the home of the Chicago Bears and this contest will be just one in [...]

Wednesday represented the Toronto Maple Leafs’ first playoff game since 2004. The Boston Bruins made them look like a team that hasn’t been to the postseason in nearly a decade, beating them 4-1 in a game that might have been even more lopsided [...]

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More than a few people thought that the high-scoring, red-hot New York Islanders might just pose a threat to the Pittsburgh Penguins in their first-round matchups. That gut instinct didn’t look too great after Game 1, which the Penguins won [...]

Will Cory Schneider sink or swim? Schneider finished the regular season with great numbers (17-9-4, .927 SV%), and he was especially good in March and April as Roberto Luongo was relegated mostly to the bench. But Schneider only has four career [...]

Nothing like a little bit of drama to start the playoffs. Chicago beat Minnesota 2-1 in overtime to take Game 1 of their first-round series thanks to a Bryan Bickell super deke-out goal that beat Josh Harding. Chicago avoids potential disaster [...]

1) How will James Reimer handle the pressure of his first playoff series? From Roberto Luongo to Miikka Kiprusoff, there have been rumors since last summer about the Toronto Maple Leafs’ interest in acquiring a goaltender that would likely [...]

Apparently Cory Schneider‘s “body” injury isn’t minor after all, as Roberto Luongo will indeed get the start in Vancouver’s goal tonight in the Canucks’ series-opener versus San Jose at Rogers Arena. And really, did anyone expect [...]

After skating on the “fifth” line this morning, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby confirmed he will not play tonight versus the Islanders in the first-round series-opener at the Consol Energy Center. Crosby has been out of the Pittsburgh lineup [...]

Last night we had two games go into overtime and a third was tied through 40 minutes. Is that the start of a trend of tight games? There are three more Game 1s tonight and they can all be viewed on NBC Sports Live Extra. Game 1: The Boston Bruins [...]

The first night of the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs produced three straight low-scoring hockey games, and it looked like we were headed for three straight scores of 2-1. The Anaheim Ducks opened up a 1-0 series lead over the Detroit Red Wings in [...]

It looked like the St. Louis Blues would need only one goal to beat the L.A. Kings on Tuesday. It turned out they needed two. The Blues took a 1-0 series lead over the L.A. Kings, the defending Stanley Cup champions, in Game 1 of their Western [...]

Nothing like a little bit of drama to start the playoffs. Chicago beat Minnesota 2-1 in overtime to take Game 1 of their first-round series thanks to a Bryan Bickell super deke-out goal that beat Josh Harding. Chicago avoids potential disaster [...]

1. How much will the Wings miss Nicklas Lidstrom? The question they’ve been asking all season. In the past, the Red Wings have been able to find ways to overcome the retirement or departure of a superstar player, but the salary cap era is [...]

Turns out Minnesota won’t have its big trade deadline acquisition to start the playoffs. On Tuesday, Wild head coach Mike Yeo said Jason Pominville wasn’t “quite ready” to get back into the lineup, meaning he’d be out for Game 1 of [...]

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