The Penguins’ top line never really got rolling before the Olympic break.

The team around them was dramatically better this season, but the trio of Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust slightly regressed from the 2024-25 season, when they were the Penguins’ three leading scorers by a wide margin.

It didn’t look like it would get ...Read more

BUFFALO — The Red Wings are living through a March Madness in their race of the NHL playoffs, and it's no less exciting and unpredictable as the basketball version.

After two disheartening losses, the Wings went into Buffalo Friday and defeated one of the best teams in the NHL, 5-2.

Alex DeBrincat (power play, 36th goal), Lucas Raymond (23rd...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights earned a crucial point, but failed to grab the second in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Edmonton Oilers at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday.

Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard scored off a faceoff with 1:50 remaining in overtime.

The Knights (32-26-15) now trail the Oilers by two points for second place in the Pacific...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Depending on your perspective, Thursday night's Blues game against the Sharks was a pretty big matchup.

St. Louis entered with the fifth-worst record in the league. San Jose was sixth-worst. Thursday's result could be the difference in future draft positioning as both teams seem poised to miss the postseason.

The result? A 2-1 ...Read more

The Penguins were already playing without Evgeni Malkin on Thursday. Then, Sidney Crosby left the game early in the second period against the Ottawa Senators.

Pittsburgh picked up a gritty shootout win against a red-hot team anyway, as Rickard Rakell scored twice.

Both teams had incredible chances in the 3-on-3 overtime period, but goalies ...Read more

The Wild had everyone available for the first time this season, and their debut at full strength was a buzzer-beater over the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions.

They eluded the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Thursday, March 26, at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., on a goal by Joel Eriksson Ek with five seconds left for the Wild’s first ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Good teams beat bad teams. Plain and simple.

The Chicago Blackhawks entered the night tied for 29th in points percentage in the NHL (.472). The Flyers want to be a good team and ranked 15th (.571). To keep their playoff dreams alive, they needed to beat the visitors.

And they did, with authority.

In a wire-to-wire win, the ...Read more

The Kraken have still never beaten the Tampa Bay Lightning in regulation, but that was the last thing on anyone’s minds Thursday.

With the Nashville Predators strengthening their hold on the last playoff spot in the Western Conference and time running out for Seattle to do anything about it, this was essentially a must-win game. Shane Wright�...Read more

After suffering a self-inflicted, deflating loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday, the Boston Bruins had to face the hottest team in the league in the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday.

They were able to erase that bad taste left in their mouths with one of their best efforts of the season to grab two points in dramatic fashion.

Pavel Zacha ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Darren Raddysh scored his 20th goal of the season Tuesday night, tying the Tampa Bay Lightning’s single-season franchise record for goals by a defenseman, and assisted on two other scores in a hard-fought come-from-behind 6-3 win over the Minnesota Wild.

Raddysh’s goal was the second in a two-minute, 52-second stretch and ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues beat the Capitals 3-0 on Tuesday night, but lost center Robert Thomas in the process.

Thomas left the game with 11:35 remaining in the third period after he was tackled to the ice by Washington's Pierre-Luc Dubois away from the puck. Thomas bumped into Dubois (and was assessed a minor penalty for interference),...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Eight days after the worst loss of the season, the Colorado Avalanche took advantage of an opportunity to exact some payback.

The Avs came to PPG Paints Arena and while it looked far from a masterpiece at times, routed the Pittsburgh Penguins in a 6-2 victory.

Martin Necas scored twice, Scott Wedgewood made 29 saves and both ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — With love, love is worth the fall, and right now, Philadelphia Flyers’ fans are falling hard.

The Flyers returned home from an impressive three-game West Coast sweep that made everyone start believing that maybe they could sneak into the postseason. But they couldn’t carry that momentum against the Columbus Blue Jackets at ...Read more

MIAMI — Sergei Bobrovsky wanted to get in on the Florida Panthers’ milestone celebrations on Tuesday.

But to do so, it took a miraculous effort after the Panthers’ near late collapse.

After giving up three goals in a span of 2:21 late in the third period to send the game to overtime, Bobrovsky was perfect beyond regulation as the ...Read more

The San Jose Sharks were a complete no-show in the first period of the biggest game of their season so far.

The Sharks committed one mistake after another, lost one battle after another, hung their goalie out to dry and were totally outclassed in the opening 20 minutes of what became a 6-3 loss to the Nashville Predators on Tuesday at ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights failed to build off the momentum from their biggest win of the season in a 4-1 loss to the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre on Tuesday.

Two days after the Knights (32-26-14) were rewarded with a much-needed win in Dallas, they opened the first period with the game’s first nine shots.

The Jets (30-29-12) ...Read more

DETROIT — The playoff picture just became a little murkier for the Detroit Red Wings.

On a night several teams around them in the standings lost, the Wings did too Tuesday, losing 3-2 to Ottawa.

Carter Yakemchuk and Lars Eller scored goals 1:37 apart midway in the second period, extending the Senators' lead to 3-0. Yakemchuk, making his NHL ...Read more

The San Jose Sharks — at least this iteration of them — have not been in the playoff hunt before.

They weren’t supposed to be here this year.

And, boy, is that inexperience showing.

They’ve dropped 12 of their last 17 games, entering Monday’s slate five points back of the Nashville Predators, who hold that second wild-card spot with...Read more

The Tampa Bay Lightning knew that beating Calgary Sunday to complete a sweep of their four-game road trip would be no easy task. Playing an early evening game at the Saddledome after a late finish in Edmonton the previous night against a Flames team that was well-rested and coming off back-to-back wins would be a challenge.

The game wasn’t ...Read more