If the New York Islanders are going to qualify for the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, starting netminder Ilya Sorokin is going to ...

Then they got swept by the Ducks. 2016 Candidates: The Panthers faced the Islanders in a series in which one team was guaranteed to end a decades-long playoff drought, and lost in six.

The NBA playoffs are supposed to be chalky and predictable, while the NHL’s postseason is assumed to be full of upsets and Cinderellas. That just isn’t the case anymore.

The New York Islanders began the Mathieu Darche era with a few options. The new general manager (GM) could have started the ...

But the extra playoff hockey, and the extra revenue it would generate, was an easy sell. And so the change was made, and then nobody thought of it again. Until today.

Recentralizing the draft, decreasing the no-income-tax advantage, and reverting back to the 1-8-seeded playoff format would ...