Stanley Cup Finals

A four-game sweep sends the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Finals for the third time in nine years.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are halfway to their second Stanley Cup since 2009.

The 2016 Stanley Cup Finals start tonight, as the San Jose Sharks face the Penguins in Pittsburgh. Here’s a preview of what to expect in this year’s battle for the NHL’s championship.

The longest postseason for the Los Angeles Kings led into the longest game they had ever played. After 94 minutes of impossibly tense hockey, Alec Martinez could scarcely believe it when a rebound off Henrik Lundqvist's pads came straight to his stick.

The champagne the Los Angeles Kings had ready for a coronation stayed in boxes. The New York Rangers suddenly have some life in the Stanley Cup finals. Henrik Lundqvist made 40 saves and had the Madison Square Garden crowd chanting his name in the Rangers' 2-1 victory in Game 4 that kept the Kings from sweeping them Wednesday night.

Jonathan Quick and the Los Angeles Kings are close to finishing off the New York Rangers in a big hurry. The All-Star goalie had his best game of the finals by far, making 32 saves to put the Kings on the cusp of another coronation with a 3-0 victory over New York in Game 3 on Monday night.

The comeback Kings did it again in the Stanley Cup finals, and this one was doubly impressive. Dustin Brown redirected Willie Mitchell's shot 10:26 into the second overtime, and the Los Angeles Kings outlasted the New York Rangers 5-4 Saturday night to take a 2-0 series lead.

Justin Williams scored 4:36 into overtime after a turnover by Dan Girardi, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Wednesday night in the Stanley Cup finals opener.

What a season for the NHL. First a lockout, then a shortened season and what a shortened season it was. With the teams only playing conference games during the regular season, it was a pleasure to see the inter-conference matchups take on a new sense of importance...

Patrice Bergeron has a punctured lung and is at a Boston-area hospital for observation. The Bruins forward was admitted Monday night, after Boston lost to Chicago 3-2 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.