Sean Gentille

With Carolina, Montreal, Colorado and Vegas, the NHL’s final four is set. We predict which team will win each conference final and more.

This year's Hurricanes will play Thursday for the first time in 11 days, the second-longest break between playoff series in NHL history.

Neither the players nor the coach blamed rust for the loss. What they did say sure sounded an awful lot like rust, though.

The Hurricanes have their psychological hurdles to clear in Game 2, and to a far less urgent extent, so do the Canadiens.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The day before the Carolina Hurricanes were set to start their third Eastern Conference final in four years, coach Rod Brind'Amour was asked to look backward.

“We're happy that, at least, we can start the series over,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said after his team's Game 2 overtime victory.

Carolina’s most talented forwards were going to have to enter the chat at some point. They did so in Monday's overtime win.

Explaining the names and numbers behind the Canadiens' struggle to create, plus Frederik Andersen's perspective on Cup runs.

Andersen’s agent was Claude Lemieux, who died this week. 'It's so special to be able to show up for Lemieux and make him proud,' he said.

RALEIGH, N.C. — When Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour praises his goaltender — and that's happened plenty over the last seven weeks, because his goaltender has been remarkable — one particula