OPINION
- AVRY LEWIS-McDOUGALL: Colorado Take 2-0 Series Lead After Overtime Win (The Hockey News)
- AVRY LEWIS-McDOUGALL: Canadiens Didn't Let Extended First Round Series Slow Them Down (The Hockey News)
- RYAN KENNEDY: Draft Lottery Winners: Buffalo and Seattle (The Hockey News)
- DAVID ALTER: Maple Leafs Management Choose to Stay the Course Following Early Playoffs Exit (The Hockey News)
- LYLE RICHARDSON: Could The Penguins Shop Jake Guentzel? (The Hockey News)
- MARK SPECTOR: Avalanche rob Golden Knights of Game 2 win after contentious call in OT (Sportsnet)
- ERIC ENGELS: Scheifele's predatory hit on Evans takes shine off Canadiens' Game 1 win (Sportsnet)
- ELLIOTTE FRIEDMAN: NHL facing unique situation with potential Scheifele charging suspension (Sportsnet)
- IAIN MacINTYRE: Canucks get moral victory by sticking at No. 9 at NHL Draft Lottery (Sportsnet)
- ERIC FRANCIS: Flames have lengthy list of possibilities with 12th-overall pick (Sportsnet)
- MARK MADDEN: The Penguins need change, and trading Jake Guentzel would likely provide big return (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- JOHN NIYO: Still no lottery luck for Red Wings, but Yzerman flush with draft options (Detroit News)
- NEIL BEST: Is home ice really an advantage in the NHL playoffs? (New York Newsday)
- DAVE FESCHUK: There’s nothing wrong with the Leafs, Brendan Shanahan suggests, that a little ‘killer instinct’ won’t cure (Toronto Star)
- STU COWAN: A bumpy road back to second round of playoffs for Canadiens (Montreal Gazette)
- DON BRENNAN: Balancing the books — and building from the back end — secret to success (Ottawa Sun)
- TIM BENZ: Penguins' efforts to salvage Robert Morris hockey may get some help. Will the university accept it? (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- STEVE SIMMONS: At his lowest point, Maple Leafs president Brendan Shanahan still promises the Stanley Cup (Toronto Sun)
- TARA SULLIVAN: General manager Lou Lamoriello, with his deep Rhode Island roots, is going strong at the helm of the Islanders (Boston Globe)
- DEREK VAN DIEST: VAN DIEST: Award season begins for Oilers' McDavid with Ted Lindsay nomination (Edmonton Sun)
- LUKE DeCOCK: Hurricanes, running out of options, can’t change players ... but can change goalies (Raleigh News & Observer)
- ED GRANEY: Golden Knights make amends for Game 1 debacle but still lose (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- LANCE HORNBY: Losing Leafs missed fast track to Stanley Cup final (Toronto Sun)
- MARK KISZLA: How Avalanche beat Vegas 3-2 in overtime can be explained in single word: Gruub! (Denver Post)
- PAT HICKEY: Canadiens' Game 1 win overshadowed by charge on Evans (Montreal Gazette)
- BRUCE GARRIOCH: After lottery balls drop, Ottawa Senators stay in No. 10 spot for NHL draft (Ottawa Sun)
- MIKE McINTYRE: Fans in stands hint at return to normal in trying times (Winnipeg Free Press)
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- DAVID ALTER: Maple Leafs Have a Date with Their Past After Canadiens Force Game 7 (The Hockey News)
- NICHOLAS EMANUELLI: The Bright Side: Several Positives to Take from Panthers Season, Despite Disappointing Finish (The Hockey News)
- CHRIS JOHNSTON: Leafs, Canadiens reward fans' electric atmosphere with memorable game (Sportsnet)
- ERIC ENGELS: Canadiens take Game 6 and momentum from Maple Leafs in front of home fans (Sportsnet)
- IAIN MacINTYRE: With style and substance, Pastrnak delivers in Bruins' series-opening win (Sportsnet)
- KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Islanders’ forecheck no match for Bruins’ finesse (Boston Globe)
- STEVE SIMMONS: McDavid has partner in history with Super Mario (Toronto Sun)
- JOHN SHIPLEY: Zach Parise shows he can help a contender — you know, like the Wild (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
- JIM SOUHAN: With Parise still viable, Wild has to get ready to make nice (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- TARA SULLIVAN: Tireless Charlie McAvoy continues to do it all as Bruins jump out to series lead (Boston Globe)
- ROSIE DiMANNO: The archive of epic sports meltdowns already includes the Leafs. It’s history they have no intention of repeating (Toronto Star)
- MIKE CHAMBERS: Avs have worldly playoff performers in Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Cale Makar (Denver Post)
- MARK MADDEN: Bringing back Mike Sullivan is not a no-brainer for Penguins (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- PAT HICKEY: Kotkaniemi saves the day, but bows to Carey Price (Montreal Gazette)
- KEVIN McGRAN: ‘A sign of progress for our country.’ With fans at Leafs-Habs game, it felt like a pivotal moment in Canada’s battle against COVID-19 (Toronto Star)
- TERRY JONES: Racial barrage directed at Oilers' Bear leads to outpouring of charity (Edmonton Sun)
- KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Meet Steve Babineau, the photographer behind Wayne Gretzky’s $3.75 million rookie card (Boston Globe)
- STU COWAN: A night to remember as Canadiens beat Leafs in OT (Montreal Gazette)
- DAVE POULIN: The defining moments of the Stanley Cup playoffs can be fun to define (Toronto Star)
- PAUL FRIESEN: Jets champing at the bit for second leg of playoff race (Winnipeg Sun)
- LARRY BROOKS: Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin are graying and fraying (New York Post)
- STEVE SIMMONS: Best-of-seven now a best-of-one for Maple Leafs (Toronto Sun)
- JOHN ROMANO: What did we learn about the Lightning in the first round of the playoffs? (Tampa Bay Times)
- ED GRANEY: Knights in unfamiliar underdog role in playoffs (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
- NEIL BEST: It will take perfection to stop the Perfection Line (New York Newsday)
- ROSIE DiMANNO: Everybody knows the deal. The Leafs are on the ropes, hoping to avoid a Game 7 knockout (Toronto Star)
- KEVIN PAUL DUPONT: Islanders’ run of four straight Stanley Cup championships only gets better with time (Boston Globe)
- TERRY JONES: Global pandemic led to out-of-this world Edmonton 50-50 sports raffles (Edmonton Sun)
- LANCE HORNBY: Leafs could relive nightmare from 1987 (Toronto Sun)