 | Auditing The Los Angeles Kings, 2007-08
The Kings have a host of talented young forwards, and the inevitable selection of Zach Bogosian in the 2008 draft will help improve that blue line.
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 | Auditing The Carolina Hurricanes, 2007-08
Two seasons removed from winning the Stanley Cup in 2006, Carolina found themselves out of the playoffs in 2008 due to a crucial loss to Florida at home on April 4th.
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 | Auditing The Atlanta Thrashers, 2007-08
GM Don Waddell has a ton of work on his hands as the Thrashers had a tough time finding non-Kovalchuk goals and had an even tougher time stopping them when Lehtonen was out.
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 | Sharks Rally Around Roenick
One way or another, Jeremy Roenick finds a way to be in the spotlight. On Tuesday night the veteran center played as if he were ten years younger, scoring two goals and adding two assists in the Sharks series clinching game seven win over the Calgary Flames.
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 | Ducks Sink - Parity In The NHL
This Ducks' team was on par with last year's elite team. Instead, they ran into a loaded Dallas Stars' team, one of many who are now up to the task of potentially winning a Stanley Cup.
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 | Price Joins Roy And Dryden In Montreal Rookie Lore
Rookie Carey Price won his first playoff start Thursday night against the Boston Bruins. In almost every other circumstance this would be a feat worthy of the highest praise, but for Les Canadiens, it is merely par for the course.
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 | Auditing The Tampa Bay Lightning, 2007-2008
The Tampa Bay Lightning finished tied with the Los Angeles Kings for a league-low 71 points, but since they had fewer wins, they won the tiebreaker and then the lottery and are the future home of Steven Stamkos.
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 | An Interview With T.J. Oshie
For the past three years, T.J. Oshie has been developing his hockey skills at the University of North Dakota. The collegiate star and St. Louis Blues prospect possesses all the necessary tools to succeed in the NHL and will be a welcome addition to a Blues team that desperately needs to score more goals.
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 | No Way, Jose!
Jose Theodore is back and leading the Avalanche into the playoffs.
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 | Devils On Top
It took the Devils the better part of the season to top the closely competitive Eastern Conference in the NHL, but they are at last back in the first position. How is this possible after their slow start? Undoubtedly, it's due to their tenacious defense and one unbelievable goaltender.
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 | Grading The Deal: Richards And Homqvist To Dallas
When you have a good thing like Dallas had, why would you mess with it? Chris Richards stats certainly reflect playing on a poor team, but a -25 is not good no matter who you are playing with.
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 | The Border Battle: Minnesota Vs. Wisconsin
RealGM was on hand this past weekend at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for one of collegiate hockey’s oldest rivalries "The Border Battle" between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
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 | The State Of The Island
Without a doubt, one of the Islanders' most serious problems is scoring.
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 | Chicago's Bright Future
Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews are two of the best rookies in the NHL and join Dave Bolland and Jack Skille as a young core of Blackhawks.
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 | Expect A Ranger Turnaround
Off-season pickups Scott Gomez and Chris Drury have finally improved their play while Nigel Dawes and NHL young stars MVP Brandon Dubinsky have been pleasant surprises.
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 | Mid-Season Surprise
When Patrice Bergeron went down, many thought so would the Boston Bruins season. But that has not been the case as the Bruins have been one of this year’s mid-season surprises.
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 | Sabres Struggles Continue
If the Sabres don’t improve their play they may find themselves with the first overall pick in this years NHL entry draft which may not sound like a bad idea with a guy by the name of Steven Stamkos as the projected first overall pick.
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 | Difficult Decisions Ahead For Sutter
Daymond Langkow, Kristian Huselius and Craig Conroy are all unrestricted free agents this year while Dion Phaneuf is a restricted free agent, which puts Sutter in a difficult position. Luckily for Sutter the options are aplenty.
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 | The Chris Osgood Turnaround
Following two injury plagued years where he didn’t even play 35 games in a given season, and four years removed from the worst season of his career, Chris Osgood is enjoying a renaissance season currently in HockeyTown. How did this happen?
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 | Calling On A New Leafs' GM
The GM that succeeds John Ferguson must be one with years of experience, confidence, and patience because it will be a daunting task to overhaul a team that is littered with mistakes.
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 | Stanley Cup Contenders To Laughing Stock
What a difference a year can make. The Edmonton Oilers went from a season in which they made the Stanley Cup Finals, to a team that struggled to remain competitive the next.
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 | Not The Time To Panic
The players are frustrated, the coach is lost, and the owner is simply irate. Not much seems to be going well in Philadelphia right now, but despite a very ignominious start to the 06-07 campaign at 1-6-1 (low-lighted by a 9-1 loss to the Sabres), Flyer fans should not be ready to throw everything out the window like owner Ed Snyder is.
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 | Is This Finally The Year They Reach The Finals?
Every year Ottawa enters the playoffs as a contender yet every year they get knocked without even getting to the finals. No other team has fielded such a talented lineup year after year, yet somehow they are always eliminated. Their regular season dominance has placed them among the upper-echelon of teams yet the playoffs somehow drop them back to the pack. After their latest loss to the Buffalo Sabres, a talented and excellent skating team, the Senators clearly need to take a new approach to reaching the finals.
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