The Buffalo Sabres are Atlantic Division champions. The Sabres officially clinched their first division title since 2010 with a 5-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. Tage Thompson scored his ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The current concentration of power in the Western Conference makes the Central Division a good bet to be the star of the show in these Stanley Cup playoffs. Don't wait for the ...

The NHL playoffs have the best game action in all of sports. No trophy is more illustrious than the Stanley Cup. And yet, the playoffs have a clear formatting problem. It is not a new idea to call out ...

If reports of NHL realignment come to pass, the Blackhawks will be separated from their Original Six rival Red Wings beginning next season. According to ESPN, in the proposed alignment that still ...

The current concentration of power in the Western Conference makes the Central Division a good bet to be the star of the show in these Stanley Cup playoffs. Don’t wait for the ending, though. The ...

The National Hockey League is proposing a realignment plan that would see the league move from six divisions to four, arranged mostly by time zone, and call for divisional playoffs instead of the ...

It’s never been clearer that the divisional playoff format needs to go, especially after what we’ve seen this season.