Forget the asterisk, NHL playoffs present grueling test

Sorry, Drew Doughty. It’s difficult to find anyone — from Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Ken Dryden to French-born Avalanche forward Pierre Edouard Bellemare— supporting Doughty’s assertion that these expanded NHL playoffs won’t produce, as the Los Angeles Kings defenseman put it in April, “a real” Stanley Cup winner. “I could not agree less,” Bellemare […]