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Alex Ovechkin has played in six Stanley Cup Playoffs series during his NHL career, but Thursday night’s game against the Boston Bruins marks the first time he’ll appear in a Game 1 on the road. The Washington Capitals’ string of four consecutive Southeast Division titles was snipped in this tumultuous regular season, as they conceded [...]

The three titans of the Eastern Conference are the New York Rangers (69 points), Boston Bruins (66 points) and the Philadelphia Flyers (66 points.) But the Pittsburgh Penguins are stalking that field with 62 points. Saturday’s game between the Penguins and Bruins was a game between two teams facing challenges as the NHL trade deadline [...]

OTTAWA — Try as he might, Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas can’t get the focus back on hockey.

After the NHL All-Star Game Fantasy Draft on Thursday, Thomas fielded questions about declining to take part in the Bruins’ celebratory visit to the White House [...]

From worst to first?

On Sunday Steve Conroy (who’s a columnist for the Boston Herald) speculated on what players the defending Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins may add at (or before) the upcoming NHL trade deadline, for what will conceivably be another deep playoff run. Mr. Conroy suggests that Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli may want to add the Hurricanes [...]

Brad Marchand has an as-told-to blog on ESPN Boston this season, and the latest edition covers the Boston Bruins’ grudge match against the Vancouver Canucks last weekend and his hit on defenseman Sami Salo, along with its aftermath.

On the clipping call that eventually became a 5-game suspension for clipping,[...]

Perhaps it’s the collision between politics and sports — in which elections are covered like trade deadline day and the “horse races” leading up to them are covered like game stories — that we’re always preparing ourselves for the spin around a well-hyped game.

If the Boston Bruins skate out of TD [...]

Preview: Detroit Red Wings at Pittsburgh Penguins, 7 p.m. ET. No Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal and Evgeni Malkin are game-time decisions for the Penguins. Potentially down their top three centers, Pittsburgh will try to score against Jimmy Howard who’s won nine of his last 10 starts. Tonight’s game in Pittsburgh starts a stretch for [...]

Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey according to Twitter. If you’re only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead?

So far in this admittedly very new season, the NHL has broken more or less how people expected. [...]

Goalies are both the last line of defense and the first ones to get the blame if things go poorly for an NHL team.

So a few teams, for various reason, had dramatic makeovers between the pipes this summer. There was a bit of a domino effect: One departure would lead to another arrival, which would leave [...]

The NHL announced their national television schedule for the 2011-12 season on Thursday, and thanks to the league’s new American TV deal with NBC, we’ll be treated to more games than ever before.

The most dramatic changes come on Versus, or what will soon be known as NBC Sports Network. The channel is set to change[...]