Martin Brodeur News

Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas confirmed on his Facebook page Sunday he will take a one-year sabbatical from hockey.

Anze Kopitar beats Martin Brodeur in Overtime of Game 1 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final Jim McIsaac/Getty Images In the regular season, we give hockey teams five extra minutes to see if they can settle their scores before sending them off to the shootout.

Although Mike Richards has only been in Los Angeles for less than a year, he has a pretty good idea what 45 years of simmering frustration will sound like when his Kings take the ice with the Stanley Cup nearly in reach.

News item: The U.S. television ratings for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals between New Jersey and Los Angeles were down a whopping 33 percent from last year's opener between Boston and Vancouver .

Something is happening here. Often it doesn't make much sense to compare sports side-by-side, but now and then along comes a team that defies the unfathomable.

Mike Richards #10 of the Los Angeles Kings collides with Martin Brodeur #30 of the New Jersey Devils in the goal during Game Two of the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the Prudential Center on June 2, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey.

A shot by Los Angeles Kings' Drew Doughty scores past New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur during the first period of Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup finals on June 2A in Newark, N.J. By JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Sports Writer The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder are locked in a rousing series with some of the biggest stars in the sport, some ... (more)

Carter's OT Goal Gives Kings 2-0 Series Lead : Jeff Carter created 17,000 scowls in Newark on Saturday night by sliding the puck past New Jersey's Martin Brodeur in the 14th minute of overtime, giving the Kings their second straight 2-1 win in the Stanley Cup final.

So the Los Angeles Kings beat the New Jersey Devils 2-1 in OT in Game 2. Same story as Game 1, right? If you ask Twitter, the answer is probably "Yes and no." Let's take a look at what the hockey world said about Game 2. The first period was a pretty solid one overall for the Devils, but the hockey world will remember it most for Drew Doughty 's ... (more)

Matt Greene celebrates with Jeff Carter, who nets winner to down Devils in overtime and send Jersey to 2-0 deficit in Stanley Cup Finals.

Todd Hall watched the Stanley Cup opener from the firehouse and began having flashbacks to coaching Jonathan Quick back in Hamden, Conn.

The 2012 Stanley Cup Finals got underway Wednesday in New Jersey, with the Devils victorious in a 2-1 overtime win over the Los Angeles Kings.

Every piece of equipment, from his blocker pads to his training sneakers, is crisply emblazoned with his name and number 30.

New Jersey Devils' Zach Parise is due for a big payday after the Stanley Cup Finals.

So who exactly is being disrespectful to Rangers players, the writer who suggests a game plan based primarily on blocking shots and packing the defensive zone might not be broad enough to win the Stanley Cup, or the coach on his way to the summer who takes a verbal swipe at a player he knew to have played the final two rounds of the playoffs with a ... (more)

The Kings' Anze Kopitar came into his own once Darryl Sutter took over for Terry Murray as coach.

Put on your thinking caps or go from your gut and your memory. We want to hear your top Stanley Cup Finals Devil.

No strangers to losing the first game of a playoff series, the New Jersey Devils know losing the first two at home would dig a deep hole.

No strangers to losing the first game of a playoff series, the New Jersey Devils know losing the first two at home would dig a deep hole.

LITTLE GIRL LOST: A Syrian refugee girl stood in a the corridor of a school where she is living temporarily with her family, in a village near the northern Lebanese-Syrian border town of Wadi Khaled, Lebanon.