The calendar has flipped to February, and in the course of this NHL season that means it is trade deadline month. We are now a week away from deadline day, and hockey's swapping season is likely to pick up in the coming days. Here at NHL.com, we will bri

The Toronto Maple Leafs have somehow retained the eighth and final playoff position in the Eastern Conference, even though they have lost five out of their last six games. Pressure will now be on Brian Burke to improve his team as the current bunch of pl

08:23 AM ET 02.20 | Yes, they met, but a meeting is just a meeting. General manager Brian Burke cooled down some trade speculation regarding Rick Nash on Sunday, clarifying a report that said he was in New York to talk with Columbus Blue Jackets GM Scott

Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke travelled to New York to sit down with Columbus GM Scott Howson, but the "unscheduled meeting" was not to talk about a possible trade for Blue Jackets star forward Rick Nash. "I was there on other business," Burke

The 6-foot-4, 220-pound elephant in the big room all but obscured the significance of the Rangers’ 3-2 overtime victory last night over the 30th-overall Blue Jackets at the Garden. That’s because the immediate fate of Rick Nash, the Columbus power winger

Ron Wilson must find the scoring slumps of most of his forwards tough to watch. Among those in a funk are (from left) Mike Brown, Nikolai Kulemin and Mikhail Grabovski. (Reuters) The hockey world was buzzing over the news that Brian Burke bumped into Col