Rory Boylen

6 days ago | sportsnet.ca | Rory Boylen

For the fourth time in team history (which is eight years old) the Vegas Golden Knights come out of the regular season as champions of the Pacific Division. The Minnesota Wild are back in the post-season after missing out a year ago and are not only seeking to pull off an upset, but end a decade-long run without any playoff success at all. The Wild are no stranger to getting this far.

1 week ago | sportsnet.ca | Quinton Byfield |Rory Boylen

In the final regular season meeting between these two teams on Monday, the Los Angeles Kings won the game 5-0 against a shorthanded Edmonton Oilers squad that didn't dress Leon Draisaitl or Connor McDavid. The game was less about the result and more about bad blood boiling over — Edmonton totalled 53 penalty minutes and Darnell Nurse was handed a one-game suspension for a cross-check on Quinton Byfield. He'll be back for Game 1, however.

1 week ago | sportsnet.ca | Rory Boylen

The NHL season is winding down, which means the best time of the hockey schedule is near with the ups and downs of the Stanley Cup Playoffs arriving this coming weekend. It's our last opportunity to have a look back at what unfolded in the 2024-25 NHL season -- who surprised us, which teams over or under achieved, which off-season pickups panned out or not -- and we'll have a series of pieces that explore all of that this week.

2 weeks ago | sportsnet.ca | Rory Boylen

It's hard to believe, but in just 11 days the Stanley Cup Playoffs will commence. And though some of the playoff races for final wild-card placements have cooled, there is much left to play for and plenty of games with great meaning the rest of this week. At this time of year, it's important to keep tiebreaking scenarios in the back of your mind.

3 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Rory Boylen

Looking at the NHL standings today, several teams - especially in the East - on the outside can feel they still have a decent shot of winning their way back into a playoff spot. But how many truly are still in the running? With help from SN Stats and the NHL, we're looking at the teams that made the biggest comebacks into a playoff spot within the last 10 games of a regular season in the past 20 years (the salary cap era).