The NHL's more elite free agents have either moved on or re-signed with their home team, trades have been made and the draft has come and gone. Read more »

The Stanley Cup finals will have plenty of star quality that will produce an exciting match-up between the young Lightning and the veteran Blackhawks. Read more »

The Ducks, Blackhawks, Rangers and Lightning comprise the NHL Conference Finals. Read more »

After going a respectable 6-2 predicting the first-round winners, RealGM takes a look at the Conference semifinals. Read more »

As the trade deadline passed, we got a sense of the teams that are trying to fill whatever depth holes that they had. There wasn't a ton of action on deadline day itself, but the weeks preceding it were filled with big trades that have major implications as we progress towards the playoffs. Read more »

The Predators, Blackhawks, Ducks, Lightning, Rangers and Islanders have all been banking wins of late to reach the top-tier of our NHL Power Rankings. Read more »

There are 11 NHL teams all within five points of each other at the top of the standings, but the Blackhawks, Ducks, Red Wings, Penguins and Blues headline our rankings. Read more »

While it may seem impossible for the Blackhawks to put talent around their two young superstars, it is unlikely that they will have any issues due to the rising salary cap and other talented players on long term deals already under contract. Read more »

Paul Stastny, Thomas Vanek, Marian Gaborik and Jarome Iginla are some of the biggest names in free agency. Read more »

The Bruins appear to be the consensus pick by many to win the Stanley Cup, though the Rangers may be that one dark-horse team to win it all. Read more »

The Ducks, Blues, Blackhawks, Penguins and Avalanche move into our Top-Five NHL Teams at the Sochi Olympics break. Read more »

The Bruins, Blackhawks, Penguins, Kings and Rangers are in the top-five of our preseason NHL Power Rankings. Read more »

The 1999 draft was the one that GM Brian Burke has built his entire career around, acquiring both of the Sedins for the Canucks. Read more »

Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane have won the Blackhawks a Stanley Cup, but they only receive honorable mention status on the Greatest Roster of one of the Original Six. Read more »

After the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup victory in 2010, they immediately began purging their roster in an effort to elude reaching the salary cap ceiling. A year later, two more victims were sacrificed. Read more »

For the Blackhawks, acquiring a player like Michael Frolik can be a season-saver. 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 »