NHL Update

I truly get involved with the NHL playoffs. There will be many posts as 16 playoff participants will battle for the Stanley Cup.

Regular season hockey, due to the fact 16 teams make the playoffs, does little for me, save going to an occasional game.

With the NHL on an Olympics break, only one team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, has a big lead in its division. They are 16 points ahead.

Both the Anaheim Ducks and Boston Bruins, each a relatively recent Stanley Cup winner, have a 7 point lead in their division.

The other division has a tie at the top with the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks, who have won two of the last four championships, as one of the teams.

The other is the team that has gone the longest without its first NHL championship. That team is the St. Louis Blues, an NHL expansion team in 1967.