DETROIT --The Detroit Red Wings didn’t hold a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday. The next day, they were in second place in the Atlantic Division. Two days after that, they were in first.

As the NHL moves toward its holiday break, some teams are firing on all cylinders. Here are the five NHL teams heating up the ...

Week 9 of the NHL season is in the books, and the standings are taking shape, which means it's time to update our power rankings. The holiday break is quickly approaching, and the playoff contenders ...

Sometimes you know what you're getting with a team, even when first impressions imply otherwise. Other times, it's hard to ...

That’s a 76.25 percent accuracy rate in the Thanksgiving Day standings predicting the playoff picture over the past decade. It’s therefore a time for urgency among the teams milling about the playoff ...

The overall NHL standings are as congested as ever. As things stand, fifth-place New Jersey is just eight points ahead of 28th-place St. Louis, so it’s safe to expect plenty of movement in the ...

The top three teams in the NHL reside in the Central Division, and two of them face off Sunday when the Minnesota Wild host the Colorado Avalanche in Saint Paul, Minn.

That’s particularly the case for the Jack Adams Award, as so many head coaches around the league deserve to be recognized in ...