Many hockey fans feared that last year's lockout-shortened NHL season might put a damper on the sport's growing popularity in the United States. Those fears appear to have been unfounded as hockey viewership is up big this year, but even with that ...

PHILADELPHIA %u2013 The NHL reviews every incident and therefore undoubtedly will see the replays of Matt Read's clip of Dan Carcillo in the neutral zone on Tuesday, which the Rangers forward described as %u201Ca shoulder pretty square to the chin.%u201D Carcillo ...

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was in Philadelphia for Game 3 of the Flyers-Rangers series. The commissioner says the early returns on the new playoff format have been a success. (USA Today Images) ...

One of the bits Jimmy Fallon brought with him from his time on the Late Show to hosting the Tonight Show was the random superlatives. He hands out yearbook-style awards to whoever the victims are that week all in the name of comedy. Well just like last ...

We've watched a week of NHL playoff hockey, and there's been plenty to talk (and tweet) about. At times, it's been glorious, and at others, totally shameful. But that's basically what you get at this time of the year, depending on the game. After all ...

That is more than any other player in the NHL since he entered the league. Detroit Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg is second on that list with 55 goals during that same stretch. As if that's not enough, his goals-per-game rate actually increases in ...

On Wednesday the NHL named the three finalists for the Calder Trophy and two of them come from the same team. The Calder, which is given "to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition," will be handed out to one of ...

Earlier today, the NHL announced Patrick Marleau, Ryan O'Reilly, and Martin St. Louis as its candidates for the Lady Bying Trophy, the award celebrating "the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct ...