MIAMI -- The Florida Panthers have been hard to stop on the man advantage.

They've gone nine straight games with at least one power play goal, highlighted by two power play goals Saturday in their 4-3 win over the New York Rangers at the BB&T Center.

The Panthers are 17 of 64 (26.6 percent) on power plays this season, which is fourth in the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kevin Labanc scored on his shootout attempt and Martin Jones didn't allow a goal on three tries by the Detroit Red Wings, as the San Jose Sharks earned a 4-3 victory on Saturday night at SAP Center to extend their win streak to six games.

Labanc beat Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard with a wrist shot upstairs, and Jones didn't ...Read more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Before Saturday night's game against the Predators, Patrick Kane was reminded that Pekka Rinne described last month's blanking of the Blackhawks as "one of the for-sure easier shutouts" of his career.

"We know what he said," Kane said. "So take it any way you want, and be ready to play tonight."

The Hawks were ready. Rinne ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The Blues' streak of nine straight games with a point came to an end on Saturday night with a 4-1 loss to Anaheim at Enterprise Center that included the NHL debut of top Blues prospect Klim Kostin.

The Blues gifted Anaheim two goals of the four goals, one on a deflected clearing attempt that caromed in front of the net and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- From his back, the man of the night pumped his fists and wildly nodded his head. First, he screamed. Then, he cracked a smile.

This wasn't the calm, quiet Jeff Carter the hockey world has come to know over the last 15 years. But after scoring the game-winning goal in his 1,000th NHL game, even the Kings' usually stoic scorer ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- The third period has been the Wild's best of late, but it was a three-goal push in the second Saturday that helped the team earn a point from a 4-3 overtime loss to the Hurricanes at Xcel Energy Center, a result that dropped the team to 4-1-2 on home ice.

Winger Andrei Svechnikov scored 1 minute, 33 seconds into the extra frame ...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Craig Berube talked to the Blues on Thursday about the importance of adding onto to 2-1 or 3-1 leads, putting teams away, and avoiding overtime. It didn't happen Friday in Columbus.

St. Louis couldn't hold a 2-1 lead early in the third. Pierre-Luc Dubois' goal early in the period tied the game at 2-2. And then in overtime, ...Read more

Nino Niederreiter isn't much of analytics guy.

"I try not to be," he said. "If you're not scoring and you don't get the points then it's obviously in your head."

The Carolina Hurricanes forward is getting plenty of offensive chances. He isn't scoring enough. His shooting percentage this season is uncharacteristically low. As he would put it, ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Tomas Hertl scored two even strength goals in the first two periods of Thursday's game against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center. Then the San Jose Sharks' special teams came alive.

Brent Burns scored a power play goal at the 8:05 mark of the third period and Evander Kane scored shorthanded two minutes and 27 seconds later to...Read more

LAS VEGAS--The firsts just kept coming.

Zack Smith registered an assist for his first point as a Chicago Blackhawk. Kirby Dach had the first two-point game of his career.

Calvin de Haan scored his first goal since joining the Hawks in the summer. Erik Gustafsson finally scored his first goal after pouring in 17 last season.

Despite all those ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The Flyers' Carter Hart and Washington's Braden Holtby have known each other for six years, having been introduced by their sports psychologist, John Stevenson.

The rivals have become friends, and on Wednesday, they went head to head in an old-fashioned goaltenders' duel.

Advantage, Holtby.

Barely.

Evgeny Kuzentsov scored ...Read more

LOS ANGELES--Ahead of training camp this season, Todd McLellan and Ilya Kovalchuk met for lunch near the Kings practice facility in El Segundo.

Over the meal, they talked about Kovalchuk's past, including a 34-point debut with the Los Angeles Kings last season which he occasionally was benched by interim coach Willie Dejardins.

They talked ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose Sharks center Tomas Hertl attracted a crowd after he threw a hip check on Connor McDavid in the second period of Tuesday night's game with the Edmonton Oilers.

When he got out of the penalty box, he skated toward the front of the Oilers' net and found himself all alone as he tapped in a pass from Erik Karlsson past ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Well, it happened again. Overtime. For the ninth time in 19 Blues games this season, and the sixth time in the last eight games.

But this time there was a new dilemma for the Blues. With 3:31 left in overtime Tuesday against the Arizona Coyotes, they were called for too many men on the ice. But the Blues killed off the 4-on-3, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Joe Thornton managed just four assists in his first 15 games this season, but perhaps it wasn't altogether fair to judge his play by the numbers alone.

With injuries and a suspension testing the Sharks' forward depth throughout October and early November, Thornton at times found himself playing with wingers on the Sharks' ...Read more

BOSTON -- Afterward, Carter Hart considered the goal that the Boston Bruins -- the defending Eastern Conference champions, perhaps the best team in the National Hockey League -- had nearly scored against him, and he laughed.

This was in the second period Sunday night at TD Garden, when the Flyers still had the Bruins under control, before their...Read more

Don Cherry, the longtime analyst on "Hockey Night in Canada," has been let go by Rogers Sportsnet after almost 40 years as the face of the NHL on television.

During Cherry's popular "Coach's Corner" segment on Saturday night, the former Boston Bruins and Colorado Rockies coach shared some incendiary remarks about seeing people wear poppies to ...Read more