In his 52nd NHL playoff game, the same amount that vaulted Doug Gilmour to the Maple Leafs’ franchise lead with 77 playoff points, it was high time for Auston Matthews to step up this spring. Toronto’s season likely would be toast if it came home ...

Sebastian Aho and Jordan Martinook scored the tying and go-ahead goals nine seconds apart with just over two minutes left as the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to beat the New York Islanders 5-3 in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday in Game 2 of an Eastern ...

William Nylander was in the Maple Leafs’ Monday morning skate, but will he play? It was not clear whether Nylander’s limited work after missing the Game 1 loss to Boston with an undisclosed injury was just to test his availability for later in the ...

You’d expect Game 2 to be a lot tighter. There’s much to clean up from the first. But with that said, there isn’t a hockey fan with a pulse that wouldn’t want to run an IV and dial it up to pump six more Game 1s into their veins. The hockey was that ...

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 ...