A rematch of the 2010 first round, when the Canadiens shocked the then-Presidents' Trophy-winning Capitals and made a ...

SportsLine handicapper Jimmie Kaylor shares his Stanley Cup futures picks, NHL Playoff bets and predictions, and his pick to ...

The 2025 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs are here ... they can handle in the first round but fall in seven games. Why they can win it all: Boy, this team looks a lot like the 2019 version, doesn ...

WASHINGTON — Hockey's Stanley Cup Playoffs begin Saturday ... yet that's exactly where the Capitals are. Now they'll look to shake it off in a first-round matchup against the Montreal Canadiens.

It's hard to imagine a reigning Stanley Cup champion being an underdog in a first-round series, but that's exactly what the landscapes looks like ... Cup Playoffs like they did a season ago.

After the first weekend of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, everyone involved in the Rantanen trade has tallied a point -- ...

A month before NHL’s playoff openers this weekend, Commissioner Gary Bettman was more than happy to defend the decision to not expand the bracket like ... first-round series. The defending ...

“If you look ... Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers open against the cross-state rival Tampa Bay Lightning. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators face off in the first Battle of Ontario ...

Here are their picks to win each first-round series, the Eastern and Western Conferences, the Conn Smythe and the Stanley Cup, as well as ... The Panthers look like a team that’s played too ...