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Blues come alive in 3rd period to beat Ducks 4-2 for 4th straight win

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ST. LOUIS — For about half of the Blues' eventual 4-2 win over the Ducks on Sunday night, the game might have felt all too familiar for St. Louis.

Riding a win streak? Getting back into the playoff race? Facing a bottom-feeder?

Well, Sunday could have been reminiscent of a late-January loss to the Blue Jackets in which the Blues thudded into...Read more

Feel-good ending denied for Los Gatos goalie, as Sharks fall apart in third period

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Los Gatos native Devin Cooley lived a dream on Sunday afternoon as the starting goalie for the San Jose Sharks.

It just didn’t have the feel-good ending he and his teammates wanted.

Clinging to a one-goal lead in the third period, Cooley and the Sharks allowed goals to Ryan Donato, Kevin Korchinski, and Joey Anderson in 83 seconds in what ...Read more

Penguins give long-shot playoff hopes boost with win against Red Wings

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PITTSBURGH — The Penguins would have benefitted further from a perfect weekend, but they saved their sole victory for the more essential foe.

Less than 24 hours removed from the Rangers taking it to them, the Penguins were at their best from the outset during Sunday night’s 6-3 win against the Detroit Red Wings at PPG Paints Arena. Despite ...Read more

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Big third period propels Knights to win over Devils

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LAS VEGAS — The Golden Knights scored three times in the third period for a 3-1 win over the New Jersey Devils at T-Mobile Arena on Sunday.

Left wing William Carrier scored for the first time since returning to the lineup, and center Jack Eichel broke a 1-1 tie with 8:54 remaining. Defenseman Noah Hanifin had assists on both goals.

Center ...Read more

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Avalanche escapes Edmonton with OT victory on Artturi Lehkonen's last-second game-winner

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EDMONTON, Alberta — Artturi Lehkonen scored with less than a second remaining in overtime to help the Colorado Avalanche defeat the Edmonton Oilers, 3-2, at Rogers Place in one of the best games of the NHL season.

Nathan MacKinnon threw the puck toward the net from the right wall in the dying seconds and Lehkonen was there to pounce. Sean ...Read more

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Kraken can't jumpstart offense against streaking Predators, suffer 4th straight loss

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SEATTLE — Some line shuffling by the Seattle Kraken failed to jumpstart an offense missing in action much of this homestand, including Saturday night in a fourth consecutive loss.

The only Kraken player to put a puck in the net the first two periods of this 4-1 loss to the Nashville Predators was defenseman Justin Schultz, who had one go off ...Read more

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Wild fall to Blues in shootout, squander opportunity to move up

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ST. LOUIS — The last time the Wild were in this situation — on the road against a Central Division rival with playoff implications on the line — they failed.

They blew their do-over, too.

Instead of climbing within two points of a playoff spot and building a buffer between them and their closest competition, the Wild now have only a one-...Read more

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Bruins survive late Flyers rally for 6-5 victory

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BOSTON — The Bruins have not played their best against desperate teams fighting for a playoff spots since the All-Star break. But with a revved up St. Patrick’s eve TD Garden into the game from the puck drop on Saturday night, the B’s took a three-goal lead in the third and then white-knuckled a 6-5 win home.

The B’s overcame two one-...Read more

Slow start dooms Sharks in 4-2 loss to Blue Jackets

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The San Jose Sharks came alive a little bit too late Saturday night.

With the Sharks looking listless for most of the first two periods and trailing the Columbus Blue Jackets by two goals, defenseman Henry Thrun scored at the 11:42 mark of the third period to give his team a badly needed spark.

But the Sharks could not find the equalizer as ...Read more

Penguins play with fire against first-place Rangers, get burned in another lopsided home loss

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PITTSBURGH — Saturday’s game was wildly entertaining for folks with nothing on the line. There were odd-man rushes, momentum swings and 11 goals put up on the board.

But for the Penguins, a team that is just about out of time to come together and make a move up the standings, they knew that was a style of hockey they simply couldn’t play ...Read more

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Red Wings down Sabres, halt 7-game losing streak

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DETROIT — It had to end sometime, and on Saturday the Red Wings' losing streak finally did with a 4-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres.

Christian Fischer and Patrick Kane scored second-period goals, erasing a Buffalo lead, and Daniel Sprong scored in the third period as the Wings ended a painful seven-game losing streak.

Lucas Raymond scored ...Read more

Knights fizzle in 3rd period, fall to Flames

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The third period was the Golden Knights’ undoing for the second straight game, this time resulting in a 4-1 loss to the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome on Thursday.

The Knights led 1-0 after two periods, but allowed four unanswered goals for their first loss in three games. Calgary forward Blake Coleman scored twice in the period.

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Kraken's postseason hopes get bleaker with 2-1 loss to Capitals

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SEATTLE — Trying desperately to hang around the playoff fringes, the Seattle Kraken once again found themselves playing catch-up hockey Thursday night in the final period for the third straight home game.

And they’d tie it up for a second straight contest, this time getting an Oliver Bjorkstrand power-play goal a little more than three ...Read more

Penguins shrug off Sharks -- and their own fans -- to move within five points of a playoff spot

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PITTSBURGH — The Penguins on Thursday won their first game since the NHL trade deadline, beating the NHL’s worst team, the San Jose Sharks, 6-3 at PPG Paints Arena.

The win, made possible by a decent third period and two goals from their fourth line, snapped a four-game losing streak and quieted some cantankerous fans.

There were a lot of ...Read more

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Wild, Kirill Kaprizov stay on a roll with 2-0 shutout against Ducks

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Back in December, when he still hadn't hit double digits in goals, Kirill Kaprizov looked destined for a down year.

He was barely on pace to eclipse 20 goals, about half of what he'd posted in each of his previous two seasons, and his dynamic style that made him an instant superstar with the Wild was missing.

But not for ...Read more

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Flyers can't stop Auston Matthews, Maple Leafs offense in 6-2 blowout loss

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PHILADELPHIA — Just breathe.

Yes, the Flyers were handed a 6-2 loss by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center. But it was the first of a seven-game stretch that has the Orange and Black facing stiff competition, including these same Maple Leafs in less than a week.

The expectation going into the game was it ...Read more

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Jake DeBrusk lifts Bruins over Canadiens in overtime, 2-1

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Jake DeBrusk scored 25 seconds into overtime to the lift the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre on Thursday.

After losing the opening faceoff, Hampus Lindholm beat Mike Matheson in a puck battle deep in the Bruins zone and sent Brad Marchand off on a 2-on-1 with DeBrusk. The captain fed DeBrusk, who ...Read more

Carolina Hurricanes, behind goalie Frederik Andersen, shut down Florida Panthers

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The last time the Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers were on the ice together, it was as much a 60-minute war as it was a hockey game.

Not a goal was scored until the last 20 seconds, the Canes prevailing on a Sebastian Aho score.

It figured to be more of the same Thursday as two of the best teams in the Eastern ...Read more

Red Wings stuck in a rut, lose to Coyotes for seventh consecutive defeat

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DETROIT — If the Red Wings are going to make the playoffs this season they are certainly not making it easy on themselves.

It would start with actually winning a game, and that hasn't come easy at all lately, losing for the seventh consecutive game, this time 4-1 to Arizona on Thursday.

That's two times in six days the Coyotes, near the ...Read more

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Colorado Avalanche, the NHL's fastest team, is even faster now than it was a week ago

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CALGARY — The fastest team in the NHL is the Colorado Avalanche.

That’s a popular opinion among players, coaches and informed hockey observers, but there’s also new data measuring the top speeds of skaters around the league that support this claim.

Here’s another, less tangible observation, but one that could be problematic for the ...Read more