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While many are enjoying the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and others are dissecting what went around in the first round, those whose teams never made it into the dance at all have their eyes peeled on a…

The Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers will meet in a rematch from last year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. Florida won the series in seven games in 2023 after the Bruins took a 3-1 series lead. The Bruins went 4-0 against the…

Welcome back to a special edition of HNIC Coast to Coast! With just one game involving a Canadian NHL team this weekend, we'll take a quick look at how the four of seven teams that joined the playoff fray are…

It all comes down to this. In a situation that felt impossible just a week ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs have tied up their series with the Boston Bruins and head to a winner-take-all Game 7 on Saturday Night. For…

Despite being on the verge of elimination in the opening round of the NHL Playoffs, the Nashville Predators just won’t go away. In what has been a tough, offensively challenging series, the Predators found a way to score when it…

The New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes will face each other in the playoffs for the third time in the last five seasons. In 2020, Carolina (-140 series favourite) swept the Rangers in the best-of-5 Stanley Cup Qualifiers. However, in…

After snatching victory from the jaws of defeat on Tuesday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs get another opportunity to prolong their season on Thursday. With a return to home ice and a seed of doubt planted into the Boston Bruins,…

The Edmonton Oilers have an opportunity to punch their ticket into the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Wednesday night, leading the Los Angeles Kings by a 3-1 margin in their series and now holding the home-ice gauntlet.…

Is this the last stand of the Toronto Maple Leafs as we know them? All signs seem to point to yes, and they're coming in hobbled and hurt. It's not the fact that they're losing this series to the Boston…

The Vancouver Canucks can punch their tickets to the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs with a win in Game 5 of their series with the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. After dropping Game 2 of their best-of-seven…

In case you had started to doubt them, the Oilers have now officially proved that they have what it takes to beat this Kings team, and to do it handily. By the time Leon Draisaitl scored his second of the…

Welcome back to HNIC Coast To Coast, the official weekend NHL breakdown column of Canada Sports Betting. All four Canadian teams that are still in the playoff hunt will be playing across Saturday and Sunday, all looking to either extend…

For the Toronto Maple Leafs, home-ice advantage left as quickly as it came. A tight win from the Boston Bruins on Wednesday restored their grip on the series, putting them just two wins away from eliminating the blue and white.…

The scene now shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 as the Edmonton Oilers take on the Kings in the third game of their opening-round NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs series. Oh, the difference a game can make. In Game 1…

The thing about the NHL playoffs is that anything can happen. We have seen enough No. 8 seeds upset No. 1 seeds to know that there are no “sure things” when it comes to postseason hockey. Is it possible the…

The Edmonton Oilers and scoring goals just kind of go hand-in-hand. During the regular season, they were one of the best offensive teams in the league, and they certainly set the tone in Game 1 of their Western Conference playoff…

Don't look now, but the Toronto Maple Leafs have shifted from "mess" to "slight favourites" in this playoff series. Finding a way to grab a win on the road on Monday, the series shifts to Toronto with the Buds now…

Playoff fever is back in beautiful British Columbia. The Vancouver Canucks finished the regular season as one of the top teams in the NHL but still needed a comeback effort in Game 1 of their first-round playoff matchup with the…

The NHL playoffs are finally here, and hockey fans can look forward to the kind of intensity, speed, and drama that only the race for the Stanley Cup can offer. In this first-round matchup, the Edmonton Oilers, second in the…