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The Colorado Avalanche signed left winger Patrick Bordeleau to a three-year deal on Wednesday.

DENVER - The Colorado Avalanche signed left winger Patrick Bordeleau to a three-year deal on Wednesday. The 27-year-old enforcer led the team in hits (116) and finished second in penalty minutes (70). He also scored two ...

St. Louis Blues forward Scott Nichol, 38, announced his retirement Wednesday to accept a job as director of player development for the Nashville Predators. "During the last few years of my playing career, working with th...

The Bruins flipped the script on the Penguins in the first two games of their Eastern Conference finals series.

On SI Now, Retired wide receiver Amani Toomer and Sports Illustrated's Seth Davis discuss the three Sports Illustrated covers that were released today.

The Anaheim Ducks announced on Wednesday that goalie consultant Pete Peeters, who spent 30 years in the NHL as a player and coach, will retire. Peeters, 55, named goalie consultant with the Ducks on July 28, 2009, mentor...

There obviously will be a lot on the mind of Phoenix Coyotes coach Dave Tippett between now and the end of the month. That's when his contract is set to expire with the Coyotes, which could lead to him examining other co...

Slava Voynov is known more for breaking hockey sticks than records, but the Los Angeles Kings defenseman managed to do both as he clumsily sparked his team to a desperation playoff win.

Pittsburgh Penguins netminder Tomas Vokoun confirmed to reporters after the morning skate Wednesday that he would start in goal for the pivotal third game of the Eastern Conference finals in Boston against the Bruins on ...

This week in SI, Steve Rushin writes that the NHL's postseason is like no other in all of sports. Allan Muir agrees and offers his 20 reasons why the playoffs are the most awesome.

After getting thoroughly outplayed in the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals on home ice, the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins will try to rebound on the road as they visit the Boston Bruins for Wednesday's G...

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Corey Crawford has been largely an afterthought when it comes to goaltending candidates for Canada's 2014 Olympic hockey team in Sochi, but his performance in this year's NHL playoffs should vault him right to the top of...

The season that almost wasn't has turned out better than anyone dared expect.

The season that almost wasn't has turned out better than anyone dared expect.

The Chicago Blackhawks needed a goal, just one goal, and any scorer would have done. And it happened that one of the best snipers on the roster, Patrick Kane, had the puck on his blade late in Game 3 and the chance to er...

In a Chicago Blackhawks dressing room late Tuesday night at the Staples Center after their 3-1 loss to the Kings in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, the truth hurt worse than the shot Niklas Hjalmarsson took to t...

LOS ANGELES - Absence made the puck grow scarcer, made the neutral zone riskier, spread the teammates thinner.

LOS ANGELES - A shake-up can cause a spark or a fizzle. The Kings glittered in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.

Duncan Keith reached down for a glove and got a whack from the Kings' Jeff Carter.

LOS ANGELES-Los Angeles Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi, a New York native, said he has no trouble understanding the limited English of his Russian-born defense partner, Slava Voynov.

The momentum the Chicago Blackhawks carried with them from Chicago to Los Angeles came to an abrupt halt on the Kings' first shot.