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Mats Zuccarello of the New York Rangers had the Montreal Canadiens rough him up, play with his hair and kick their skates at him during their Stanley Cup Playoff opening-round series. Zuccarello scored two goals as the Rangers eliminated the Canadiens in Game 6, 3-1, at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers will play the winner of the Boston Bruins vs. Ottawa Senators series, which the Senators lead 3-2 New York was the first wild card team, while the Canadiens were the Atlantic Division champions. Continue to Article

April 22, 2017 10:54:pm EST

Just a couple of weeks after Torey Krug went down with a lower body injury that had him in a knee brace and crutches leaving the TD Garden, the Bruins top puck-moving defenseman began his road back to recovery with some skating on the ice. It was clear Krug was making progress when he traveled with the rest of the Bruins to Ottawa for Friday nights Game 5, and now one has to wonder if he can somehow be a factor at the end of this first round series against the Senators. Continue to Article

April 22, 2017 8:48:pm EST

The Senators and Capitals both hold 3-2 series leads, but notching road wins over Boston and Toronto, respectively, will be no easy feat. Craig Anderson, OTT at BOS ($31): Anderson's 1.96 GAA is tops among available options, and he's likely to continue putting up gaudy numbers against a Bruins team that's having trouble transitioning from defense to offense due to an injury-depleted blue line. The low-scoring nature of this series suggests Anderson will be well worth his $31 valuation even if he doesn't earn a win. Continue to Article

April 22, 2017 8:00:pm EST

Trainers helped Eric Staal off the ice during the second period of Saturday’s Blues – Wild game, and it didn’t look good. He was tripped up by Jake Allen (inadvertently) while going in for a scoring chance and was unable to brace himself as he went head-first into the boards. Staal clearly looked woozy as he took quite a bit of time leaving for the locker room. (It’s promising that he left the ice with help rather than going out on a stretcher, though there were moments where his difficulty moving made you wonder if that might have been a safer choice.) Video will be added when available. In the meantime, here’s that scary moment in GIF form: There aren’t any updates about Staal’s condition just Continue to Article

April 22, 2017 5:37:pm EST

After winning 50 games during the regular season and entering the playoffs as the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, the Chicago Blackhawks were one of the most popular picks to win the Stanley Cup. According to the oddsmakers at the start of the playoffs they were the favorites to win it all. Not only did they fail to win the Stanley Cup, they failed to win a single game in the playoffs, getting swept out of the first-round by the Nashville Predators. That result is not sitting well Blackhawks management. General manager Stan Bowman met with the Chicago media on Saturday and did not paint a rosy picture of the Blackhawks’ postseason performance. Bowman opened his media session with a blistering Continue to Article

April 22, 2017 11:33:am EST