VANCOUVER, Canada — It's been a week of homecomings for Ben Kindel, visiting the city where he played his junior hockey and the area where he grew up.

He threw his own party inside Rogers Arena Sunday.

The 18-year-old rookie scored two goals as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Vancouver Canucks, 3-2, to wrap up an undefeated four-game ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights followed their most inspired effort of the season with one of their worst in franchise history, a 7-1 drubbing by the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre Sunday.

Two days after the Knights said they wanted to win for Mitch Marner in his return to Toronto, the Knights put together a disoriented performance against ...Read more

SEATTLE — It wasn’t the victory the city of Seattle really wanted on Sunday, but not a bad start.

It was a double-feature Sunday for many of the fans in attendance at Climate Pledge Arena who planned on watching or attending the NFC Championship Game later, and dressed for the occasion. The Kraken game time moved up an hour last week so no ...Read more

TORONTO — After a long and inconsistent homestand, the dominant version of the Colorado Avalanche returned Sunday afternoon.

Brock Nelson scored a hat trick, including goals on back-to-back shifts, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 32 saves as the Avs handled the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1, in an impressive performance at Scotiabank Arena.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — You could hear the roar from The Alameda.

Inside the SAP Center on Friday night, the noise wasn’t just loud; it was the sonic equivalent of a jet engine engaging its afterburners. The Sharks, a franchise that has spent the better part of this decade in a hibernation so deep it bordered on comatose, aren’t just awake.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild had one of their top goal scorers back in action … but so did the Panthers.

Florida’s Brad Marchand scored twice, including in overtime, to lift the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions to a 4-3 victory over the Wild on Saturday at Grand Casino Arena.

Marchand, who was playing for the first time in ...Read more

The Lightning arrived in Columbus playing their best stretch of hockey in years, riding a 15-game point streak and holding opponents to two goals or fewer in regulation for eight straight games.

But there’s something about Nationwide Arena that can bring out the worst in the Lightning. Maybe it’s that incessant cannon. Whatever it is, all ...Read more

It was frigid outside Saturday in Winnipeg, Canada, but inside the Canada Life Centre the Wings stayed sizzling hot.

Goals from J.T. Compher (second of the game) and Lucas Raymond scored early in the third period to break a tie, then Alex DeBrincat (empty net) and Marco Kasper scored late, sending the Wings to a 5-1 victory.

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BOSTON — Cole Caufield served notice that Team USA made a grave mistake leaving him off the Olympic team, but Morgan Geekie’s pair of goals trumped the brilliant Montreal Canadiens forward’s hat trick in the Bruins’ thrilling come-from-behind 4-3 win at TD Garden on Saturday night.

The previously slumping Geekie scored two goals, ...Read more

SEATTLE — Philipp Grubauer made 27 stops and turned away a penalty shot but the Seattle Kraken couldn’t kick their bad tendencies in a 4-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks.

The Kraken’s two heathy goalies have traded places every game for the past month, unless a back-to-back briefly altered the pattern. It wasn’t a back-to-back and it should ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. – If the San Jose Sharks have designs on making the playoffs for the first time since 2019, they’ll need to take care of business against the teams that have pretty much raised the white flag on their respective seasons.

Fortunately for the Sharks, they happen to play quite a few games against those kinds of teams between ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche have been the best third period team in the NHL by a significant margin this season.

That was not the case Friday night.

Owen Tippett had a hat trick for the Philadelphia Flyers, who scored three times in less than 10 minutes to bust open what had been a back-and-forth affair en route to a 7-3 victory against ...Read more

TORONTO — The Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 6-3, at Scotiabank Arena on Friday in Mitch Marner’s return to Toronto.

Marner had one shot on goal in his first road game against his former team since leaving the Maple Leafs for the Knights in the offseason.

Mark Stone scored twice in the third period and had an assist...Read more

The Lightning keep piling up points in different ways, but they continue to stick with their stingy defensive mindset.

They got two points Friday night in a 2-1 win in Chicago, going five shootout rounds with the Blackhawks before rookie center Dominic James beat Blackhawks goaltender Arvid Soderblom through the five hole on a wrister from the ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Patrick Kane didn’t get any closer to becoming the highest scoring American in NHL history on the Minnesota Wild’s watch.

A healthier Wild rallied 4-3 in overtime on Thursday, Jan. 22, in their return to Grand Casino Arena from a two-win road trip.

Kirill Kaprizov gave them their first and only lead 45 seconds into 3-on...Read more

EDMONTON, Alberta — The Penguins were 2-9-0 in their last 11 games against the Oilers. They were 2-3-3 on the second night of back-to-backs this season. Connor McDavid averages two points per game against Pittsburgh in his career.

A lot of numbers were going against the Penguins on Thursday. But the only one that mattered was 37.

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BOSTON — The breeze you may have felt around 9:45 p.m. might have been from some 18,000 people collectively exhaling on Causeway Street on Thursday night.

After racing out to a 4-0 lead in the first two periods, off the strength of three goals in 54 seconds in the first period, the Bruins survived by their fingernails a third-period push from...Read more

CALGARY, Alberta — It seemed strange that Penguins coach Dan Muse moved Evgeni Malkin from his customary center position upon his return from injury earlier this month.

But that bold lineup decision from the first-year coach is looking pretty smart now. Placing Tommy Novak between Egor Chinakhov and Malkin has netted positive results for ...Read more