The 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs have been absolutely sensational thus far, and now we’re getting to the business end of the postseason. It’s very difficult to know how a team will adapt from an 82 game season of one-off matchups and project how they’ll translate that into a deeply tactical, chess-like, seven game series.

There have been a few surprises in both the NBA and NHL playoffs, including the No. 1-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers trailing the Indiana Pacers 3-1 in their best-of-seven series. Indiana is now -325 to win the series at the BetMGM online sportsbook.

Calvin Pickard, the lone goaltender with a 4-0 record, is among the surprises emerging from the first round of NHL playoffs and Edmonton Oilers fans are likely grateful for it

The New York Islanders and Utah Hockey Club shook up the draft order Monday night with a pair of unlikely lottery wins.With the first 21 draft selections finalized after the lottery and Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs,

The Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes meet in the second round of the NHL playoffs in a series between division rivals that play the same defensively but try to score in entirely different ways.

That game’s over now. We’ve moved on,” Capitals center Nic Dowd said of Game 1. “We can learn from it, no question, but you can’t sulk on it.”