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Every playoff year, someone comes from out of nowhere to be a playoff star.  No one exemplifies this more than John Druce, or as he's known in hockey circles (i.e. amongst my brother and me)...

New York Rangers and Washington Capitals playoff history

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As reluctant as I am to give any credit to SI's Tom Layberger, his latest article-ette, the succinctly-titled "Surprise Stars: The most unlikely playoff performances in NHL history," recalls great...

One of the "new" NHL's major initiatives is the League's scheduling emphasis on intra-divisional rivalries. Teams now play each of the teams within their division eight times per season, each...

"The John Druce's, you can't pick those guys out. Sometime, somehow they just appear." - Manitoba Moose head coach Scott Arniel on how the playoffs produce surprise heroes.Druce scored 14 goals in...

Channel 276 on Comcast (in both D.C. and Montgomery County, apparently) is now the NHL Network.I turned it on to see John Druce score on Chris Terreri in Game 6 of the 1990 Patrick Division Semis...

[Ed. Note: Despite the title, this post has nothing to do with Dion Phaneuf, Elisha Cuthbert and Sean Avery.]As you've no doubt heard, this year's NHL Entry Draft is supposedly one of the deepest...

The big news out of Philly yesterday (that everyone already knew) was that the Spectrum is going to be shut down and demolished, to which I say, from the bottom of my heart, "Farewell, hell hole."D...