Daniel Briere

There is nothing like your first time! This post season for the New Jersey Devils has created some stories on guys that don’t usually make the headlines. For Alexei Ponikarovsky, his first goal of the 2011-2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs came at the righ...

The Sports Illustrated jinx is alive and well. Seven days after SI posed the question—“Who Will Stop the Penguins?”—on the cover of its April 15 issue the new-look Flyers provided the answer. Paced by Claude Giroux’s three-point effort and...

During the first four games of their incendiary opening-round series, the Penguins and Flyers provided enough fireworks to rival any Fourth of July pyrotechnics display. On Friday night Marc-Andre Fleury stole the show with a goaltending effort for t...

Prior to the “Battle of Pennsylvania,” Flyers forward Scott Hartnell boldly proclaimed, “It’s going to be a bloodbath.” The Philly villain’s prediction came true—in spades—on Sunday afternoon during a raucous Game 3 at the Wells Fargo...

One of these days the Penguins are going to figure out how to play 60 minutes of solid hockey against the archrival Flyers. Steel City fans better pray that day comes soon—say, in time for Friday night’s Game 2 at CONSOL Energy Center. If not, it...

In all likelihood the Penguins and the Flyers will clash in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs sometime next week. If Sunday’s matinee contest at CONSOL Energy Center was a preview, the Pens could be in big trouble. After striking for tw...

Just when it seemed the Penguins might never lose another game, the bottom fell out against the archrival Flyers at Wells Fargo Center on Sunday. After piling up a two-goal lead (not to mention a 27-10 advantage in shots) through 40 minutes of play,...

Once upon a time the Penguins used to come down with a strange malaise called the “Philly Flu” whenever they traveled cross state to take on Philadelphia. While the Flyers remain one of the NHL’s elite teams, visiting the “City of Brotherly S...

No matter what shape or form, the Rangers continue to find different ways to win every night. The one constant has been the sensational goaltending of Henrik Lundqvist.

Sunday, January 8, 2012 5:00 pm Rogers Sportsnet, Team 1200 4th East (24-11-4) @ T-5th East (21-15-6)   It just goes to show how tight the Eastern Conference standings are.  Ottawa gives up one point, and all of a sudden they go from knocking o...

The 2012 Winter Classic showed a national audience what New York Rangers fans have known all along, that they're superior to the rival Philadelphia Flyers.

How much is enough? I was told today, after the Buffalo Sabres were blown out of the building Saturday night by a score of 8-3 at the hands of the the Pittsburgh Penguins, that every team is allowed one “stinker”. Sure, that’s fine.