Hockey Analysis

To end the 2009-2010 regular season, the Capitals jumped over Chicago by a very slim margin to finish 1st overall. San Jose, Vancouver and Phoenix rounded out the top-5; the Edmonton Oilers ranked dead last, which should surprise no one. Read more »

Zach Parise and the Devils will square off against the Flyers in a first round Turnpike series, while the Canucks/Kings should be the best matchup in the West. Who will advance to the second round? Read more »

Mike Modano was drafted 1st overall in 1988 by the Minnesota North Stars, just the second time an American player was taken with the 1st pick in the NHL draft. He might just be the best American-born player in NHL history. Read more »

In a salary cap world, bad contracts can significantly hurt a team?s chances at continual improvement both through trades and free agent signings. Read more »

After 19 consecutive postseason berths that saw them win 4 Stanley Cup championships and have 2 Cup Finals losses, how did ?Hockeytown? get here to the fringes of the playoff picture? Read more »

Checking in on prospects like Tyler Seguin, Matt Hackett, Jamie Devane, Peter Holland and more from the OHL. Read more »

The NHL regular season ends on April 11th, and with all teams having between 13 and 16 games remaining, it is an opportune time to begin talking about individual awards. Read more »

Nick Obergan has created a statistical formula to rank all 30 NHL teams. Though he won't reveal the formula that takes into account several diverse statistics, he will reveal the results. Read more »

Most teams that have a string of playoff-free seasons manage to rebuild themselves through the draft. That wasn?t the case in Chicago; they missed on all 10 of their first round picks from 1995 to 2002. Here is how they eventually did get return to the top of the table. Read more »

With Toronto being 29th in a 30 team league and without their first-round pick, they have to do almost anything they can at the deadline to prevent public humiliation on a Friday night in June in Los Angeles (the NHL Entry Draft). Read more »

We'll absolutely take a competitive Winter Olympics over an exhibition All-Star Game, but it's still worth looking at who should have been named to the game. Read more »

'Super Sunday' saw some extremely exciting hockey with Ryan Miller and Team USA beating Canada. USA now will be on the easier side of the bracket and the Canadians will battle Russia in the quarters. Read more »

Alex Ovechkin, Henrik Sedin, Mike Green, Duncan Keith, Nicklas Backstrom, Joe Thornton and Thomas Voukon are amongst our leaders as the NHL pauses for the Olympics. Read more »

No country faces a larger pressure to win than the hosts. As if being the home country wasn?t enough, they desperately need to atone for their ugly 7th place finish in 2006. Read more »

The New Jersey Devils, not usually involved in high stakes deals, got themselves one of the most prolific goal scorers of the last decade in Ilya Kovalchuk. Read more »

The Russians are the #1 ranked team in the IIHF thanks to back-to-back World Hockey Championships in 2008 and 2009 Read more »

The Swedes won gold in 2006, and should be a force to be reckoned with again. They have plenty of star power, a great young goaltender, and can be seen all over the league leaders on the NHL stats pages. Read more »

?Out with the old and in with the new? is the theme for this year?s US squad, as Leafs? GM Brian Burke have chosen a crop of young talent. Read more »

The New Jersey Devils, not usually involved in high stakes deals, got themselves one of the most prolific goal scorers of the last decade in Ilya Kovalchuk. Read more »

The bronze medalists from 2006 will have a tough time repeating as medal-earners. Milan Hejduk and Ales Hemsky will miss the games and their goaltender duo is far from excellent. Read more »