Kris Draper

Colorado Avalanche captain Joe Sakic, who had been pondering retirement for the last three months, has decided to play another year with the NHL team. He agreed Wednesday to a one-year, $6 million contract. "Ultimately it came down to the fact that I...

Dominant in the regular season, superb again in the postseason, the Detroit Red Wings are headed back to the Stanley Cup Finals. Just when the Red Wings lost consecutive games and were starting to look vulnerable, they bounced back strong in Game 6 of...

Robert Lang is making a habit of burning his former Red Wings teammates. For the second time in a week, the veteran center scored a big goal and the Blackhawks rallied to defeat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 Friday night at Joe Louis Arena. Trailing 2-0...

Nathan Horton scored the only goal in the shootout and host Florida beat Vancouver 4-3 on Friday night, the Panthers' first win over the Canucks in more than eight years. Taylor Pyatt, Alexander Edler and Daniel Sedin missed shots for Vancouver in the...

Trailing by two goals with less than four minutes left Saturday night, the Blackhawks had yet another power play and yet another chance to make something of the evening. The players who weren't on the ice at that point were more notable than the ones who...

Blackhawks coach Denis Savard lamented "bad bounces" after Wednesday night's 4-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings, but that implies the result had more to do with bad luck than the Red Wings' superior skill. It wasn't a bad bounce that caused Martin...

Former Blackhawks coach Brian Sutter had a theory for why they would play some of their best games of the season against the Detroit Red Wings: fear of being embarrassed. That's a feeling with which the Hawks are all too familiar after a pair of dismal...

The Blackhawks had read this book too many times before. Play well, get the lead, lose it late, go to overtime and either tie or lose it there. Thursday night at the United Center, however, they wrote a new ending. Mark Bell scored the game-winner in...

Under the best of circumstances, this promised to be a difficult season for the Blackhawks. With such a young team, the Hawks were counting on a core group of veterans to provide leadership, guidance and a few victories here and there. But the...