There will be eight series in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Here are all eight power ranked by watchability.

The Stanley Cup sits on a table in front of a portrait of Martha Washington during an event where U.S. President Donald Trump ...

“Regardless of how well your regular season goes, you’re generally judged on performance in the playoffs and things like that ...

The Stanley Cup playoffs will air across ESPN, ESPN2, TNT and truTV. You can stream the TNT/truTV games on Max (with a ...

Which eight teams will advance to the second round of the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs? USA TODAY weighs in with first-round ...

The Stanley Cup has been won by an 8-seed in the past. Top teams go out in the first round all the time. Even those who don’t ...

The latter of those matchups, which is Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars' meeting with the Colorado Avalanche should be the ...

The NHL set an attendance record in 2024-25, drawing 23,014,458 fans over 1,312 regular-season games, the league announced ...

The Wild, Canadiens, Senators, and Blues, all have a good chance of advancing. Who is the most likely? That's what we'll try ...

The playoff field features teams located across the US and Canada, from Washington and Montreal to Winnipeg and Edmonton.

The Wild are back in the NHL playoffs, and after a season threatened but never fully derailed by injury, they're getting healthy at the right time.

Jacob Markström has played more than 500 NHL games over the last decade and a half, but he’s played only 26 in the postseason ...