Hockey News

It's time for our annual playoff edition of NHL stars and their celebrity doppelgangers.

Picking NHL award-winners during an 82-game season with interconference play beats 48 without it. Still, the big question this time of year winds up being: What makes a team tick? Did the Colorado Avalanche win the Centr...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - It's Broadway vs. Broad Street for the first time in 17 years. It doesn't matter if these longtime rivals are in the Patrick, Atlantic, or newly formed Metropolitan Division, when the New York Rangers an...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - For more than a decade there have been no questions about who will start in goal for the San Jose Sharks come playoff time. Whether it was Evgeni Nabokov or Antti Niemi, the Sharks have had a clear-cut...

It's Broadway vs. Broad Street for the first time in 17 years.

Phoenix Coyotes coach Dave Tippett on Wednesday was named coach for the Canadian National Team that will compete at the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship next month in Minsk, Belarus. The announcement was made by H...

TJ Brennan of the Toronto Marlies has been voted the winner of the Eddie Shore Award as the American Hockey League's outstanding defenseman for the 2013-14 season. The award honors the late Eddie Shore, a member of the H...

WILMINGTON, Mass. - For Boston Bruins centre Patrice Bergeron, the 2014 Olympics were about more than winning a second gold medal with Canada. The Sochi Games were a confidence boost that he harnessed when he returned to...

Sports Illustrated's Boomer Esiason discusses his picks to make it to the end of the NHL playoffs and compete for the Stanley Cup.

ST. LOUIS - Just like last spring, the St. Louis Blues have the higher seed but the unenviable task of facing the defending Stanley Cup champion in the first round of the playoffs. For the Blues to prevail against the Ch...

TORONTO - T.J. Brennan of the Toronto Marlies has won the Eddie Shore Award as the American Hockey League's outstanding defenceman for the 2013-14 season. Brennan is currently fifth in the league in scoring with 69 point...

The Winnipeg Jets confirmed Paul Maurice as their new head coach for the next four years Wednesday

The Tampa Bay Lightning announced on Wednesday that goaltender Ben Bishop will not play in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against the Montreal Canadiens.

Predicting which netminders could steal a playoff series

The overhaul is continuing in Buffalo after Sabres coach Ted Nolan purged most of his staff of assistants on Wednesday.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Buffalo Sabres coach Ted Nolan is overhauling his staff of assistants. Goalie coach Jim Corsi will not return, and assistant Teppo Numminen's contract will not be renewed, the Sabres announced Wednesday. ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Brandon Prust was so excited the morning of Game 1 he couldn't help pacing around the dressing room. "Playoffs starting, so the heart's pumping," Prust said. "This is a brand new season. Everything is stepp...

Talent, leadership and experience make them even better than in 2011 and '13

The Philadelphia Flyers will be without starting goaltender Steve Mason for Game 1 of the team's first-round match-up against the New York Rangers.

The Winnipeg Jets announced Wednesday that they have agreed to a four-year contract extension with head coach Paul Maurice.

TAMPA, Fla. - Cedric Paquette grew up wanting to play for the Montreal Canadiens. Now he wants badly to beat them. Paquette is set to make his Stanley Cup playoff debut for Tampa Bay in Game 1 of the Lightning's first-ro...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs signed defenceman Viktor Loov to a three-year entry-level contract Wednesday. The 21-year-old native of Sodertalje, Sweden had 12 points (five goals, seven assists) and 20 penalty minute...