The Colorado Avalanche and Calgary Flames are the favorites to win the Stanley Cup, according to predictions made by NHL.com staff writers and editors.

The first round of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs lasted 51 games -- including a pair of Game 7 overtime thrillers in games No. 50 and 51 -- and now we're on to Round 2. To help digest what we saw from ...

The conference final round of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs is upon us. Sixteen teams entered the postseason tournament, but only four are left in the bracket, as the New York Rangers will take on the ...

The 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs represent a return to normalcy, after a bubble-encased postseason in 2020and a 2021 tournament that featured realigned intradivisional play, followed by a rebracketing ...

The conference finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs feature four teams in two best-of-7 series, which start Tuesday. Today, NHL.com previews the Eastern Conference Final between the New York Rangers and ...

Get your pucks ready! The Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning will go up against each other in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final championship at Colorado’s Bell Arena on Wednesday (June 22). The ...

Welcome to The Athletic's live blog for the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. This blog is a collection of the first round's news, analysis, injuries, predictions and much more as it happened.

It’s imperative to roster a player who can create a win or two between the pipes. Each season, the playoffs see a strong ...

The Colorado Avalanche are one of the best teams in the NHL. Once again, it appears as if Nathan MacKinnon and his teammates are poised to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. And with the talent on this ...

In NHL history, few teams have managed to wield the type of magic that the Colorado Avalanche have at this point in the 2025-26 season. The most recent team to ...