The Kings lost a game they needed to win Monday, falling to the Minnesota Wild 3-1 at Crypto.com Arena to muddy the team’s playoff outlook with one game left in the regular season.

The loss, the Kings’ first at home in nine games, leaves them with a one-point lead over Vegas for third place in the Pacific Division. If the Golden Knights ...Read more

The deck was stacked against the San Jose Sharks before Monday’s game with the Edmonton Oilers even began.

A handful of Sharks’ veterans were too banged up to make the team’s trip to Alberta, the team said, leaving a handful of inexperienced players to take on the world’s most dangerous forward in Connor McDavid and an Oilers offense ...Read more

DETROIT — The Red Wings keep surviving and staying in this playoff race in dramatic and remarkable fashion.

Lucas Raymond scored the overtime winner with 24.4 seconds left, after scoring the game-tying goal late in regulation time, giving the Wings an exciting 5-4 victory over Montreal.

Raymond came down with Dylan Larkin on a two-on-break ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby and the Penguins stayed alive Monday by beating the Nashville Predators, 4-2, at PPG Paints Arena. Crosby had two points in the must-win.

With the win, the Penguins jumped back ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference standings. But they still remain one point back of the Washington Capitals and ...Read more

With just one game to go in the regular season, there’s one thing that’s becoming clear for the Bruins. The Washington Capitals would not be a fun playoff opponent for them.

The B’s had a chance to clinch the Atlantic Division title on Monday at Capital One Arena, but for the second time this season the Caps blanked the B’s, this time 2...Read more

The Kings and Ducks headed in opposite directions when they skated off the ice Saturday at Crypto.com Arena.

The Kings are going to the playoffs for a third consecutive season, the team’s longest run of postseason appearances in a decade. The Ducks, meanwhile, will be heading to the golf course again after Thursday’s regular-season finale, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS —

The Golden Knights, for 40 minutes, looked like they were the ones playing for the second straight day.

The Colorado Avalanche took the T-Mobile Arena ice with energy Sunday despite completing the second night of a back-to-back. But the Knights clicked into gear the final 20 minutes of regulation and first 1:23 of overtime to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Knights make furious comeback to defeat Avalanche in OT

Tomas Hertl scored 1:23 into overtime and the Golden Knights rallied from three goals down to defeat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 at T-Mobile Arena on Sunday.

The Knights scored three goals in the third period. Two came from center William Karlsson, including the game-tying ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — It was a sleepy Sunday in St. Louis — at least inside Enterprise Center.

In their first game since being eliminated from postseason contention on Friday night, the Blues beat the Kraken 4-1 in this season's home finale.

Jordan Kyrou scored the game-winning goal just 59 seconds into the third period for St. Louis to cap a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks played their final home game of the season on Saturday — and the result was a familiar one for anybody who has followed the team the last two seasons.

The Sharks allowed two goals to Kirill Kaprizov in just 47 seconds late in the second period, turning what had been a close game into just another home ...Read more

SUNRISE, Fla. — After they went from No. 8 seed to the 2023 Stanley Cup Final last year, the Florida Panthers know home-ice advantage and a high seed only mean so much in the Stanley Cup playoffs, but they’re still happy to have the former locked up — and they’re embracing the chance to keep playing for the latter in the final week of ...Read more

The Bruins got another taste of what the playoffs will be like and they passed another test. Barely.

Facing a desperate Penguins team in Pittsburgh on Saturday night, the B’s jumped out to a three-goal lead in the second, survived a furious comeback attempt and prevailed, 6-4.

The B’s win allowed them to maintain the one-point lead over ...Read more

TORONTO — The Red Wings continue to live, ever resiliently, in this playoff race.

They could have been eliminated from the playoff race with a loss in regulation Saturday, but captain Dylan Larkin scored 41 seconds into overtime to lift the Wings to a 5-4 victory over the Maple Leafs.

The Wings, with 87 points, tied Washington and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was ugly.

But ugly wins count just as much as pretty ones. Because, when you need wins and points when postseason aspirations are still on the line, the only question that is asked is how, not how many.

On Saturday night, the Flyers didn’t get many but all they needed was one as they beat the New Jersey Devils, 1-0. The ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Mikhail Sergachev still can’t watch the video of the play that ended his regular season two months ago at Madison Square Garden.

It’s still too soon, and it brings up too many bad memories. The surgery scars on his left leg, above his knee, along the upper side of his inner calf and across the front of his ankle, already ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — For the last two months, the Blues have found themselves in games like Friday’s against Carolina.

Clinging onto playoff hopes. Scoreboard-watching the Golden Knights. Hoping to stave off elimination by poaching another victory.

By losing 5-2 to the Hurricanes, it’s going to be tougher for the final two games to hold the same ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights will defend their Stanley Cup title.

The Knights clinched a playoff spot for the sixth time in their seven-year history after a 7-2 win over Marc-Andre Fleury and the Minnesota Wild at T-Mobile Arena on Friday.

Right wing Jonathan Marchessault scored his 42nd goal of the season, and center Chandler ...Read more

It’s fair to say San Jose Sharks goalie Devin Cooley is looking more comfortable in his NHL surroundings with each passing game.

Perhaps more than that, the Los Gatos native looks like he belongs at this level.

Cooley set a new personal record as a professional with a remarkable 49 saves Thursday — including 19 in a busy first period — ...Read more

NEW YORK — No quit in New York.

It may be the rallying cry for the New York Rangers, but on Thursday night, the visitors showed they’re not done yet.

The Flyers entered the night in a downward spiral. They were losers of eight straight, getting embarrassed and outplayed by teams at the bottom of the NHL standings. Facing a Rangers team ...Read more