Nashville Predators

For better and worse, players from the former Soviet bloc have been the focus of playoff drama. Are they playing to type, or just playing hockey?

Stealthy sniper Ray Whitney has led league-owned Phoenix's improbable playoff run

Four years after he abandoned the Predators, Alexander Radulov is back, and it's enough to put Nashville into Cup contention

Nashville's Pekka Rinne may be great. But with goalies, nobody knows anything

It was once the most thrilling—and for goalies the most menacing—play in the game. But in today's high-octane NHL, there's rarely enough time or space for the ballyhooed blast from the past