There’s more dread than joy in Los Angeles about the prospect of the L.A. Kings facing off against the Edmonton Oilers for the third year in a row in the NHL playoffs. At the Frozen Royal hockey blog in Los Angeles, optimism isn’t high about the ...

When it comes to the multi-part melodrama that is the Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes franchise, Rick Bowness stands alone. Bowness is the only person on the planet who has coached the original Winnipeg Jets, the Phoenix Coyotes and the reincarnated ...

For a second consecutive season, a black cloud was one of the leading storylines as the Calgary Flames digested the disappointment of a playoff miss, cleaned out their locker-stalls and split for their summer vacations. Except that this was ...

At the NHL All-Star break, Elias Pettersson was on top of the world. He had 64 points in 49 games. He would be named third star for the month of February. He was scoring highlight-reel goals, like the nifty finish from in tight on Jan. 8 at Madison ...

While the Winnipeg Jets wound up a few points ahead and wrestled away home-ice advantage from the Colorado Avalanche, there’s not that much to separate these two elite hockey teams. The Avalanche have the NHL’s most explosive offence, a ...

Like a Cape Cod fog bank, the Boston Bruins and Maple Leafs are shrouding their Game 1 lineups in mystery. In the one and only pre-series practice for both teams at Boston’s secondary rink on Friday, both coaches took turns being tight-lipped, Jim ...

The greatest hockey player in the world has yet to experience the greatest hockey moment. There isn’t much Connor McDavid hasn’t accomplished over his first nine seasons in the NHL. It’s a resume that would be the envy of anyone who ever laced up a ...

Let’s get to Game 1 between the Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins already. As the seconds tick by until puck drop on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the TD Garden in Boston, we delve into the specifics of the best-of-seven, first-round matchup between the ...

If you tuned in Wednesday to see some scoring history in Tampa Bay, it was Nikita Kucherov, not Auston Matthews, who eventually delivered. Matthews’ wondrous season, an eight-game goal streak before being blanked the past 48 hours, earned the ...

Locked into second place in the Pacific Division after the Vancouver Canucks clinched things Tuesday night, the future becomes the key for the Edmonton Oilers as they finish up the regular-season schedule this week. And that means focusing on the ...