Lighthouse Hockey, a New York Islanders community

Three former Islanders won the 2009 Stanley Cup, filling key supplementary roles on the NHL's championship team.

This Penguins-Red Wings finals rematch reminds me more of 1987 than of 1984.

A random encounter on sports talk radio illustrates mainstream U.S. sports media's comical relationship with the NHL hockey fan.

This Islanders fan will be rooting on the Penguins in the finals, with their ex-Islanders Bill Guerin, Ruslan Fedotenko and Miro Satan, plus former assistant coach Dan Bylsma.

Belated NHL Conference finals picks -- and review of our second-round picks -- at Lighthouse Hockey.

Just when the Canucks looked to ruin hockey in Game 4 in Chicago, the hockey gods deliver yet another Capitals-Penguins gem in Game 5.

The hype will rightly center on the two marquee stars, but the Caps-Penguins series -- like the other second-round NHL series -- will pivot on the play of their teammates and the goaltenders who save their bacon.

Reviewing, and laughing at, our dumb first-round NHL playoff picks.

Within half an hour of each other in Washington and New Jersey, two NHL Game 7's turn on late goals that demonstrate the two sides of sweet offensive hockey: Brilliant individual effort and disciplined teamwork.

Quick notes and observations from two anticlimactic Game 6's, plus one more vote for John Tavares.