The San Jose Sharks have arguably had the best start of any team in the 2013 NHL playoffs. San Jose won the opening two games of their first round series against the Vancouver Canucks taking a 2-0 lead back to the Shark Tank. Todd McLellan’s team has enjoyed fantastic regular season success over the last [...]

For any successful NHL franchise failure in the postseason after a strong regular season is unacceptable. If teams like Pittsburgh and Chicago are dumped out of the first round in the 2013 playoffs then they will definitely ask questions of themselves. However, there are arguably two franchises that have more questions than others entering this [...]

The 2013 NHL playoffs kick off on Tuesday with three of the Western conference series opening their accounts on that day. The West’s top three seeds were wrapped up promptly, but the conference produced fascinating battles both for home ice advantage and its final two playoff places. Last year the eighth seed in the West [...]

The state of play in the Western conference entering Saturday’s action really is everything that the final day of the NHL’s regular season is and should be about. There are still two places in the postseason to be contested between three teams and none of the match-ups are set in stone. Hockey Schedule previews a [...]

We’ve entered the final couple of weeks of the season and the playoff race is heating up. In the Western conference the Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Ducks are mathematically guaranteed a playoff berth. It seems pretty likely that the Vancouver Canucks will join them pretty soon. That realistically leaves eight teams battling for the five [...]

In 2011-12, the Pacific division was the most exciting competition in the NHL. The division title was up for grabs between four teams up until the last weekend and four Pacific teams were vying for three places at the end of the season. In the end the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup and [...]

The San Jose Sharks beat the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday securing a second straight shutout and third straight win. It has been a bit of an up and down season for coach Todd McLellan’s team. Fans will be wondering whether this current streak is just another swing in a streaky season, or whether the [...]

The San Jose Sharks have been one of the most consistently competitive NHL teams over the past eight seasons. They look set to be competitive again this season, but rank 28th in the NHL in goals per game, a statistic that is likely to hold them back from taking the next step. That failure to [...]

Lindy Ruff holds the second most wins as a head coach of a single franchise with 571 victories across 15 seasons with the Buffalo Sabres. On Wednesday, he was removed from his position becoming the first head coach fired in the NHL this season after just 17 games. There will be more firings during an [...]

The NHL is now nine days old and there has been a real flurry of action with some teams playing as many as six games during that span. Goal-scoring is high and in a climate where more than half of the league’s power-plays are clicking at over 20%, it should be no surprise that some [...]