Even when you mix in all the goal-scorers, gold medallists and Stanley Cup champs, a few players stand alone as the best of the 2000s. Ryan Dixon somehow narrows it down to a top 25.

Thirteen NHL players share a Christmas birthday, while Dmitri Mironov, Stu Barnes, and Mark Friedman all played with the ...

Dubbed The Kid from Akron, with a limitless future, James is now the 40-year-old from Los Angeles with wisps of gray in his beard, his milestone birthday ... Crosby broke Mario Lemieux’s ...

Jake Evans scored for the career-high fifth consecutive game and the surging Montreal Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 on ...

The great National Hockey League contradiction of sports, celebration and politics is upon us. We have already begun the ...

Happy birthday to the first Penguin to score 50 ... the highlights have been seen all over the world, Mario Lemieux is the definition of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Just another one of those stories ...

Related – Mario Lemieux: The Triumphant Return from Retirement ... group of current and former NHL players are sharing a birthday today. The bunch includes Ted Hampson (88), Dave Gagner (60 ...

Crosby made history yet again and earned a standing ovation as the Penguins held on to defeat the Islanders 3-2 at home.

After the goal was announced, play briefly stopped as Crosby received a standing ovation and waved his glove to acknowledge ...