nhl playoffs
Justin Trudeau was right: you should cheer for the Senators
We set out to prove the Prime Minister wrong in drumming up support for the Ottawa Senators, the lone Canadian team left in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But the data says he’s right.
Why there’s no faking a playoff beard
It’s one of the last symbols of male solidarity
Here’s how to decide which U.S. team to back in the playoffs
Our (un)scientific analysis of which U.S. team to cheer for now that all the Canadian squads have been eliminated and it’s down to the final four
Why Ottawa hockey fans want to stop traffic for their team
Sens Mile came alive after Ottawa’s team knocked off the Montreal Canadiens and advanced to the conference semi-final
Toronto remembers how to cheer for playoff hockey
Nine years later, the fans never forgot how it feels to celebrate a playoff goal
Who to cheer for in the Stanley Cup playoffs
Are we allowed to root for the other Canadian teams?
Kings just starting to feel like princes in L.A.
Three in a row, a win away and all of a sudden the Kings are in “the buzz biz.”
LA Kings advance to Stanley Cup Finals
The Los Angeles Kings are going to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Canucks eliminated in OT loss to the Kings
Last year, fires burned in the streets after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals to the Boston Bruins. This time around, there was no looting and mindless vandalism. Just disappointment.
How to put an end to headhunting in the NHL
The league remains dangerously ambiguous about the role of violence in hockey
Don’t mind me; I’m on a math bender
As the paid-up holder of a Mainstream Media club card, can I warn the sportswriters away from making too much of the statistical fluke of all eight first-round NHL playoff series starting out tied through two games? The warning will arrive too late for some, but others may yet be saved.
Battle of the beards
Who scores the highest for their playoff scruff? You get to decide in our 2009 NHL Playoff Poll.