Hockey Analysis

Here are the IIC leaders through the first two series of the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Read more »

The Kings have a host of talented young forwards, and the inevitable selection of Zach Bogosian in the 2008 draft will help improve that blue line. Read more »

The Tampa Bay Lightning finished tied with the Los Angeles Kings for a league-low 71 points, but since they had fewer wins, they won the tiebreaker and then the lottery and are the future home of Steven Stamkos. Read more »

As cohesively as the Flyers have played, they have also enjoyed a litany of stellar individual performances over their first twelve postseason contests. Read more »

Two seasons removed from winning the Stanley Cup in 2006, Carolina found themselves out of the playoffs in 2008 due to a crucial loss to Florida at home on April 4th. Read more »

GM Don Waddell has a ton of work on his hands as the Thrashers had a tough time finding non-Kovalchuk goals and had an even tougher time stopping them when Lehtonen was out. Read more »

One way or another, Jeremy Roenick finds a way to be in the spotlight. On Tuesday night the veteran center played as if he were ten years younger, scoring two goals and adding two assists in the Sharks series clinching game seven win over the Calgary Flames. Read more »

With the energy from two Game 7's on Tuesday, here are breakdowns and predictions of the NHL Final 8. Read more »

This Ducks' team was on par with last year's elite team. Instead, they ran into a loaded Dallas Stars' team, one of many who are now up to the task of potentially winning a Stanley Cup. Read more »

Rookie Carey Price won his first playoff start Thursday night against the Boston Bruins. In almost every other circumstance this would be a feat worthy of the highest praise, but for Les Canadiens, it is merely par for the course. Read more »

Pittsburgh and Colorado crashed the nets and they both now have early series leads. Read more »

The Tampa Bay Lightning finished tied with the Los Angeles Kings for a league-low 71 points, but since they had fewer wins, they won the tiebreaker and then the lottery and are the future home of Steven Stamkos. Read more »

Then, we had 16. With the playoff match-up sets, here are breakdowns of each series with predictions. Read more »

For the past three years, T.J. Oshie has been developing his hockey skills at the University of North Dakota. The collegiate star and St. Louis Blues prospect possesses all the necessary tools to succeed in the NHL and will be a welcome addition to a Blues team that desperately needs to score more goals. Read more »

Wild clinch a playoff berth, Carolina and Washington keep duking it out for the playoffs, and the Sharks lost in regulation for the first time since February 20th. Read more »

With the regular season closing Sunday, the race for the final Western playoff spots are extremely tight and could go down to the last day. Read more »

What makes this year difficult is to choose a favorite are the amount of teams that have the personnel to be considered Stanley Cup contenders. Read more »

The San Jose Sharks moved closer to the Pacific Division title by beating the Dallas Stars at home by a score of 3-2. Read more »

With the playoffs around the corner, this is the time for contenders to make statements and start separating themselves from the pretenders. Read more »

With the end of the season around the corner, who should take home all of the major awards? Read more »