The San Jose Sharks will not offer goaltender Evgeni Nabokov a contract when he becomes an unrestricted free agent next week, cutting ties with one of the franchise's cornerstone players.

The Blackhawks are in the Stanley Cup finals, thanks to another big goal by Big Buff.

Big Buff, as they call Dustin Byfuglien, scored the biggest goal of his career.

If there's any team that should know how tenuous a 1-0 series lead can be in the NHL playoffs it's the Chicago Blackhawks.

When the San Jose Sharks won their first-round playoff series it was in spite of the lackluster performance from Joe Thornton and the rest of his gold medal line.

Patrick Marleau scored the tiebreaking goal 6:59 into the third period and the San Jose Sharks eliminated the two-time defending Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings with a 2-1 victory Saturday night in Game 5 of their second-round series.

The San Jose Sharks and Detroit Red Wings should be closer to full strength for Game 2 of their second-round playoff series.

So these won't be remembered as the Vonn-couver Olympics after all. It's looking like they will belong to the entire U.S. delegation instead.