Burnside: Team-by-team grades at the midway point
As we hit the All-Star break, here's a breakdown of where teams stand.
View Article2009-10 Team Preview: Philadelphia Flyers
Dave Reginek/NHLI/Getty Images After being traded to the Flyers during draft weekend, Chris Pronger signed a seven-year, $34.9M extension with Philly....
View Article2010 Winter Classic: Will latest outdoor tilt be turning point for Flyers,...
In Classics past, the outdoor game has provided the stage for teams to make a statement. So what will we see from the Flyers and Bruins at Fenway Park?
View ArticleSecond-round breakdown: Boston Bruins versus Philadelphia Flyers
This series should be a bit of a throwback, but Scott Burnside believes the Flyers' top-end players will lead us to a third straight Philadelphia-Pittsburgh playoff clash.
View Article2010 NHL playoffs -- Philadelphia Flyers complete historic comeback, oust...
More than 31 years after Don Cherry's Boston Bruins were called for too many men on the ice and squandered a shot at a long-awaited Stanley Cup, the 2...
View Article2010 NHL playoffs -- Michael Leighton, Evgeni Nabokov, Antti Niemi and...
1. OK, four goalies are left in the hunt for the Stanley Cup, and is there one whom you would have considered a top-notch goalie at the start of the r...
View ArticleZherdev versus Gagne: Who wins here?
On a day when New Jersey Devils GM Lou Lamoriello wagered more than $100 million and 17 years of his team's existence on Ilya Kovalchuk being "th...
View ArticleEastern Conference finals breakdown: Boston Bruins versus Tampa Bay Lightning
The Eastern Conference finals matchup between the Bruins and Lightning features two teams with good to great balance up front, but which club will win?
View ArticleStanley Cup playoffs: Tampa Bay Lightning win after roller coaster of emotions
Rarely do you see an NHL team try so heartily to give away a playoff game and then fight so valiantly to steal it back the way the Tampa Bay Lightning did Saturday afternoon.
View ArticleA sense of the surreal for Bolts' Mike Smith
TAMPA, Fla. -- A career is sometimes a fragile, fleeting thing. Just ask Tampa Bay netminder Mike Smith, who earlier this year wondered if his care...
View Article2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Boston Bruins' big stars, not Tampa Bay...
Tampa Bay rolled the dice in Monday's Game 5 but ultimately missed a great opportunity in a game that was its for the taking.
View Article2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning free agency
Scott Burnside takes stock of which players coming to the ends of their contracts have helped or hurt their leverage as free agents.
View Article2011 Stanley Cup playoffs: Leadership more than a 'C' for Martin St. Louis
Undrafted, unwanted early in his career, St. Louis has a fierceness about him, even as he barrels toward his 36th birthday, that leaves his teammates in awe and his team one win from an improbable...
View ArticleBolts-Bruins: Burnside's keys to Game 7
BOSTON -- For six games, the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning have waged a war of unpredictability. Never mind game to game, this series has feat...
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