NHL Northeast Division

MONTREAL Canadiens

Thirty years after the last time two teams met in back-to-back finals, history is about to repeat itself. Same finalists as in 2007--08. Same result.

With hockey's dark art making a comeback, star players have to be protected. Call it insurance or self-defense, but clubs are muscling up with a new breed of tough guy

Baseball Theo Epstein and the player-development machine he helped build in Boston aren't going anywhere • A team that might hire Brian Cashman (if only the Yankees would let him go)

WHEN WILLIE O'REE made his debut for the Boston Bruins against the Montreal Canadiens on Jan. 18, 1958, the media largely ignored the fact that the NHL's color line had been broken. In a three-inch wire story buried...