LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights earned a point against the NHL’s best team, but lost 6-5 to the Colorado Avalanche in a shootout at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night.

Nathan MacKinnon scored the winning goal in the fourth round of the shootout.

Alexander Holtz, who had a goal and an assist for his first multipoint game as a member of ...Read more

The San Jose Sharks are back in the win column.

San Jose had not won since Dec. 16, but the Sharks put that to rest with a hard-fought 6-3 road win over the Vancouver Canucks, taking an early 2-0 lead and hanging on despite Vancouver cutting the deficit down to one goal three different times.

Ryan Reaves opened the scoring for San Jose (18-17-...Read more

There was a chance this first game back after a three-day holiday break was going to be a difficult one for the Red Wings.

Three days off without practice or games, then fly into Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, the morning of the game.

Sure enough, the Wings never found their game while losing to Carolina, 5-2.

With the victory, the Hurricanes (23-...Read more

The Wild lightened their load as they started a season-long road trip.

They kicked off a seven-game, six-city, 14-day trek by rallying for a 4-3 overtime win against the Jets at Canada Life Centre for their first victory in three games.

Matt Boldy capped off the comeback 39 seconds into 3-on-3 overtime after Mats Zuccarello forced extra time ...Read more

SUNRISE, Fla. — The third regular-season meeting between the Lightning and Panthers on Saturday night at Amerant Bank Arena had its customary flared tempers, confusing officiating and dropped gloves.

The second period ended with nine players — five from the Lightning and four from the Panthers — serving penalties from a fracas that ...Read more

After a decade and a half of the Bruins feasting on the Buffalo Sabres, the roles look like they are at long last reversed.

That’s certainly the way it looked on Saturday night in Buffalo, where the Bruins saw their losing streak reach five games (0-4-1) after they were dominated for long stretches of the game by the Sabres and lost, 4-1.

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SUNRISE, Fla. — The way Lightning defenseman J.J. Moser has played this season, he was eventually due a big pay day.

Moser, 25, quietly has emerged as one of the league’s top defensemen, his plus-24 ratio trailing only Colorado’s Cale Makar (plus-32) and Josh Manson (plus-25) among all NHL defensemen.

And right before the Lightning ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Untold riches awaited Adrian Kempe as one of the NHL's top unrestricted free agents next summer.

Mitch Marner, among last summer's top targets, got $12 million a season from Vegas in a sign-and-trade deal with Toronto hours before he would have hit the open market. With more goals than Marner over the last four full seasons, how...Read more

DETROIT — Just the contrast of it all was utterly amazing.

A year ago, standing in the same Red Wings' locker room, captain Dylan Larkin was attempting to explain the team's listless 4-0 loss to St. Louis, and a season that was heading downhill fast. Nothing was going right. There was a helpless feeling, in terms of turning the season around....Read more

Kevin Fiala very nearly completed a three-goal comeback for the Los Angeles Kings, but hit the crossbar above sprawled Kraken goaltender Joey Daccord in the final minute and sent relieved Seattle into the league Christmas break on a three-game win streak.

The Kraken won 3-2 in L.A. and finished a four-game road trip 3-1, with a winning record ...Read more

Bruce Cassidy has grown tired of talking about the Golden Knights’ slow starts.

The players decided to give their coach the best Christmas present imaginable.

Actually, it was more like five presents. They all came in the first period.

The Knights steamrolled the San Jose Sharks thanks to a five-goal first period and defeated their division...Read more

BOSTON — After a terrific 40 minutes of hockey on Tuesday night between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens, the sellout TD Garden crowd was settling in for what they hoped would be another great chapter in this storied rivalry.

What they witnessed instead was a massive Bruin meltdown.

Amidst a flurry of penalties, the B’s gave up ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild will have to wait until the new year to rediscover their winning ways at home.

Before turning over Grand Casino Arena to the World Junior Championship and simultaneously going on a seven-game road trip, the Wild were downed by the Predators, 3-2 in overtime, but will remain third in the NHL going into the holiday ...Read more

DETROIT — The Christmas break just got even more enjoyable for the Detroit Red Wings.

Heading into a three-day break, captain Dylan Larkin scored the game-tying goal against the Dallas Stars in the third period, then scored the game-winner at 34 seconds of overtime, his 20th goal, giving the Wings a 4-3 victory.

Larkin tied the game 3-3 in ...Read more

TORONTO — Dan Muse was largely happy with the game his team played Sunday night, which snapped an eight-game losing streak. Despite the Maple Leafs’ lousy record, the Pittsburgh Penguins coach knew a version of that effort would be necessary two days later in Toronto.

But the way Muse wanted his Penguins to handle the Maple Leafs Tuesday ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Skating in front of a sellout crowd of 19,994 at Xfinity Mobile Arena, the Philadelphia Flyers gave the faithful something to cheer about.

In their final home game of 2025, the Flyers beat the Vancouver Canucks, coach Rick Tocchet’s old team, 5-2.

The Flyers snapped a two-game losing streak with their second win in the past ...Read more

The St. Louis Blues couldn't give themselves a nice Christmas present in the final game before the break, losing 4-1 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night in Tampa, Fla.

Justin Faulk scored the only goal for the Blues, and Jordan Binnington made 13 saves. Pontus Holmberg, Darren Raddysh, Anthony Cirelli and Oliver Bjorkstrand each scored ...Read more