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Need to know: Remember these games for later
On opposite sides of the continent Tuesday night, there were two big blown leads and conversely two mighty comebacks in games that make you wonder whe...
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Need to know: Face it, Flames are cooked
For the first time, as part of the new CBA every team that does not qualify for the playoffs will have at least a remote shot at earning the first o...
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NHL - Nashville Predators' Rich Clune is on a long road to recovery
Three years ago, Nashville's Rich Clune's boozing and drug use pushed him to rock bottom, Scott Burnside writes. Which makes his recovery all the more remarkable.
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Lots of eager scouting eyes at Hawks-Kings
CHICAGO -- If it's possible to have a perfect press box storm, this might have been it. Not that a clash between two of the best teams in the Weste...
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Need to know: Stars showing signs of life
Funny how the expected can suddenly get turned on its ear in the push for a playoff berth. A week ago, after the trade deadline had passed and the ...
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Jake Muzzin comes into his own with Kings
The molten desire to become a pro athlete in spite of any and all obstacles isn't necessarily part of a person's DNA. Sometimes it has to be coaxed...
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NHL plans 6 outdoor games for 2014, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago...
The NHL is in the final planning stages of its much-anticipated series of outdoor stadium games next season that would see six outdoor contests set to take place in football and baseball stadium...
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Need to know: Wild still have work to do
So, maybe we were a bit hasty in assuming the Minnesota Wild were locks to make the playoffs. After a lackluster 4-1 loss Sunday night to the lowl...
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2013 NHL playoffs - Burnside: Five top storylines
Just about anything can happen in the playoffs, and Scott Burnside offers up his five most intriguing storylines of the postseason.
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Six outdoor games not such a bad thing
We're not privy to the NHL's marketing slogan for the 2013-14 season, but it might be something like "Go Big or Go Home, but Definitely Go Outdoors." ...
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For Shanahan, damage control, not justice
The road to Brendan Shanahan's door should be renamed The Path of Least Resistance. Whatever is guaranteed to create the least amount of fuss, what...
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Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby favors video replay in delay-of-game...
Count Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby among those who would like to see the NHL use video replay to confirm the accuracy of delay of game penalties.
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2013 NHL playoffs - Conference finalists are a testament to good management
The fact that the past four Stanley Cup champs are in this year's conference finals is a testament to good management, writes Scott Burnside.
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2013 Stanley Cup playoffs -- Burnside: Highlights of the 2013 postseason
From Boston's stirring comeback to a memorable Stanley Cup finals, these playoffs were filled with highlights, Scott Burnside writes.
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Ramblings: Turkey talk on curses, cursing
Time for a little Thanksgiving rambling session to help digest the turkey and the NHL holiday schedule. Curses, foiled again: Is there such a thin...
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NHL - Taking league's temperature at halfway point
Scott Burnside offers up his midseason report on the NHL, including teams and players who sputtered out of the gate and some who have stepped up in a big way.
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All of a sudden, the Blue Jackets are good
Columbus Blue Jackets head coach Todd Richards is trying to think of the old saying, something about becoming intoxicated by your own success. It's...
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Dodger Stadium game should be special
LOS ANGELES -- We were asked recently about how the NHL follows up the tremendous success of the Winter Classic in Ann Arbor, Mich., with its litter o...
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NHL - Scott Niedermayer's family found love of hockey in Southern California
As Scott Niedermayer has discovered through his sons, the love of hockey has nothing to do with geography, writes Scott Burnside.
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NHL - Success of outdoor games is more than money
A day like Friday with the families' happy voices rising beyond the outfield fences at Dodger Stadium suggests there is time to embrace the moment without losing sight of the importance of the two...
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