Stanley

Penguins split with 2-time Stanley Cup champion head coach Mike Sullivan

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Mike Sullivan’s nearly decade-long tenure running the Pittsburgh Penguins is over. The team announced Monday it was parting ways with the two-time Stanley Cup-winning coach just over a week after the Penguins missed out on the playoffs for a third straight season. Sullivan, whose 409 wins with Pittsburgh are a franchise record, led the Penguins … Read more

Federal leaders dish on who they want to win the Stanley Cup

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As the clock ticks down to the end of April, all eyes in Canada are fixed on the country’s most important campaign. Not the federal election, of course, but the quest for Lord Stanley’s Cup. Five Canadian teams remain in contention: the Edmonton Oilers, the Winnipeg Jets, the Ottawa Senators, the Toronto Maple Leafs and … Read more

One sad graphic that shows every Canadian team’s Stanley Cup playoff run since 1994

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Five of the seven Canadian hockey teams in the NHL made it to the playoffs this year, marking the most CanCon in the post-season since 2017, and hopes are high that will translate into Canada bringing Lord Stanley home. For some fans, this year’s playoff run for the home teams might carry political significance, much like the … Read more

Road through Western Conference to Stanley Cup final is ‘war of attrition’

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Five of the top eight teams in the NHL this season play in the Western Conference. Two of them must face off in a first-round showdown between Dallas and Colorado. Presidents’ Trophy-winning Winnipeg has its own demons to slay, from elite goaltender Connor Hellebuyck on out, to get over the playoff hump that has been … Read more

As NHL playoffs approach, how odds, math and probability collide on picking a Stanley Cup favourite

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Everybody’s got a hunch this time of year, a thought about the so-called Presidents’ Trophy “curse” or maybe a dark horse Stanley Cup pick. Only one team of the 16 in the NHL playoffs gets to be champion, and even before the first round begins Saturday, there is rampant disagreement on who the favourite actually … Read more

Longtime NHL executive Ray Shero, who led Penguins to 2009 Stanley Cup win, dead at 62

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Longtime NHL executive Ray Shero, the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins when they won the Stanley Cup in 2009, has died. He was 62. The Minnesota Wild announced Shero’s death Wednesday. A spokesperson for the New Jersey Devils confirmed the team found out in the morning. USA Hockey said Shero died Tuesday night. Further … Read more

100 years ago, the Victoria Cougars became the last B.C. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup

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Sunday marks exactly 100 years since a hockey team from British Columbia won the Stanley Cup. On March 30, 1925, the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League defeated the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens 6-1 to clinch their best-of-five series, becoming the last non-NHL team to raise Lord Stanley’s cup. Events will take place in the … Read more

Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran deliver ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ for the ages

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New York — Theater lovers undaunted by astronomical ticket prices are flocking to the Brooklyn Academy of Music‘s Harvey Theater to see Paul Mescal as Stanley Kowalski in the Almeida Theatre Company’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The 29-year-old Irish actor, who shot to fame with the TV adaptation of “Normal People,” earned … Read more