Hockey fans, the most wonderful time of the year has arrived: the Stanley Cup playoffs. And the 2025 version might be as good as ever, with what looks like a wide-open race going into the postseason.

The first-round matchups are set for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and 16 teams will begin their journey toward hockey's ultimate prize. Only eight of them will make it past this first round ...

Zeev Buium, a 19-year-old rookie defenseman, realized his NHL dream playing for the Minnesota Wild in a Stanley Cup Playoffs game against the Vegas Golden Knights. Despite the team's loss ...

Every hockey player dreams of winning the Stanley Cup. Once NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman hands it to the captain of the winning team, the question becomes who will receive it next. Who could get ...

Hockey may be Canada's game, but it's been some time since they've been crowned Stanley Cup champions. Once upon a time, the Stanley Cup practically lived in Canada. Now, a good portion of hockey ...

The Montreal Canadiens were the last Canadian team to hoist the Stanley Cup when they did so during the 1992-93 season. It's been an agonizingly long drought for the country that has seven teams ...

Off the ice, the Cup is a cultural phenomenon, with viral victory celebrations, tattoos, memes, and pink tumblers. The history of the Stanley Cup does not start with a packed NHL stadium but with ...

Detroit Red Wings First season: 1926–27 First Stanley Cup: 1936 Seasons: 10 The last of the original six teams won the Cup in their 10th season in the NHL. After losing in four games in the 1934 ...

6. There's nothing blue about red-hot St. Louis. St. Louis finished the season on a 21-5-4 run. Center Robert Thomas played a sheltered role as a rookie, when the Blues won the Stanley Cup in 2019 ...

Four different teams have lifted the Stanley Cup in the last four seasons, and this year’s race appears to be wide open as well. NHL’s postseason always has some level of unpredictability ...

Hockey fans, we finally made it. The 2025 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs are here, and aside from Canada being well-represented, the first-round series look phenomenal. But all the teams seem to fit ...