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NBCSN’s coverage of the 2017-18 NHL season continues with a doubleheader on Thursday night. In the early game, the Boston Bruins will host the Pittsburgh Penguins at 7:00 p.m. ET. Despite being one of the hottest teams in the NHL during the second half of the season, the Penguins are still under .500 away from home. Continue to Article

March 01, 2018 11:38:am EST

If you happened to glance at the NHL standings heading into play Wednesday night, you know the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins, who face each other Thursday night at TD Garden, could meet down the road in a playoff series. The last time the league's two black and gold teams met in the playoffs was in 2013, when the Bruins swept four straight from the Pens to advance to the Stanley Cup final. It was NOT a series that saw two teams exchanging pleasantries, with the nastiness even including a fight between non-fighters Evgeni Malkin and Patrice Bergeron. Continue to Article

February 28, 2018 10:58:pm EST

In the 12 full seasons since the 2004-05 lockout wiped out an entire NHL season, the New York Rangers have have been among the league’s most consistently successful franchises. With rock-steady goaltending from Henrik Lundqvist, they’ve qualified for the playoffs 11 times, amassed the league’s sixth-most points, won a Presidents’ Trophy and reached the Stanley Cup Final. In the past week, the Rangers have traded leading goal-scorer Michael Grabner to New Jersey, dealt star winger Rick Nash to the Boston Bruins and shipped top defenseman (and team captain) Ryan McDonagh to the Tampa Bay Lightning.1 The fire sale suggests that Rangers GM Jeff Gorton thinks his club doesn’t have much of a chance to make the playoffs this spring — they’re currently basement-dwellers in the Metropolitan Division and sit 9 points out of the last wild-card spot in the East, so he’s probably right. Continue to Article

February 28, 2018 1:25:pm EST