Toronto, the Atlantic Division's No. 1 seed, eliminated the wild-card Ottawa Senators in six games this postseason before jumping out to a 2-0 series lead over Florida. The Panthers then responded ...

The Stanley Cup is the only Big Four championship that predates its league. Lord Stanley commissioned the iconic trophy to honor the best Canadian hockey team in 1892, 25 years before the NHL was ...

Will Lord Stanley return to South Florida again in 2026? The only two instances of a team winning more than two straight Cups in the expansion era were both four-peats — and they happened ...

During the 1986 offseason, a very strange thing happened in the NHL: The league made a rule change that nobody got all that upset about. That was rare, even back then, because fans like to complain ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In the summer of 2003, the Penguins used a thread from arguably the greatest trade in Pittsburgh sports history to connect two Stanley Cup eras. A franchise trying to regain relevance ...

The Florida Panthers handled the Oilers but maybe were a bit too loose when handling the Stanley Cup. One of the most decorated prizes in all of sports took some damage in last night's celebration as ...

Paul Maurice is not the same person or coach he was when he got his first job in the NHL at 28 years old in the mid-1990s with the Hartford Whalers. He followed that organization to Carolina, went to ...