The Philadelphia Flyers will play a game for the first time in over 4 1/2 months when they face the Boston Bruins on Sunday in Toronto. The Flyers will enter this round robin as the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference. "Obviously, the higher seed we are, the better position we're going to put ...
Goaltending will be the difference when the Arizona Coyotes and Nashville Predators meet in Game 1 of their Western Conference qualifying series Sunday afternoon in Edmonton. Of course, that can be said of any NHL game, any playoff series over the course of time. But it's particularly true for the ...
In the summer of 2020, the Calgary Flames know full well the spring of 2019 still looms large. As the Flames ready to kick off their best-of-five qualifying round series against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night in Edmonton, the horrid memories of their unceremonious upset at the hands of the ...
It's a whole new world for the 24 NHL teams participating in the playoffs, but for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens, an age-old question hovers around Game 1 of their qualifying-round series. What about the goaltenders? Pittsburgh and Montreal are playing in a safety "bubble" in ...
When the New York Islanders won four consecutive championships from 1980-83, the longest they went between hoisting the Stanley Cup and beginning a title defense was 141 days. The Florida Panthers' shortest off-season came following their trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 1996, when they had 116 ...