DENVER — Colorado Avalanche star Cale Makar will not play Wednesday night, and will “miss some time” with an upper-body injury, coach Jared Bednar said.

Makar did not play in the third period Monday night of a 9-2 win against the Calgary Flames. Nick Blankenburg will replace Makar in the lineup Wednesday night at Ball Arena against the ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche made this Bednar. Now they’ve got to lie in it.

“Results are — they come as they come,” Jared Bednar said before his Avs eviscerated the Calgary Flames, 9-2, at Ball Arena on Monday night. “And whether they’re good or bad, other people make decisions based on what they’re seeing and hearing. But I...Read more

The Kraken spent 40 minutes trying to undo the first-period damage in Edmonton, but they never found a way past goaltender Connor Ingram.

They were shut out by the Oilers, 3-0, on Tuesday night, the latest blow to their narrowing playoff chances.

Moneypuck.com put Seattle’s odds of securing its second-ever postseason berth at 23.9% with nine...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Penguins mustered a massive effort in a win against the New York Islanders on Monday. It would have been understandable if they didn’t have much left in the tank Tuesday.

Instead, they played a nearly flawless first period and raced past a fellow Eastern Conference playoff hopeful. The Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings, 5...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning could see the Montreal Canadiens down the line with much more at stake, but for now both teams are jockeying for playoff positioning in a tight Atlantic Division.

Tampa Bay knows that the Canadiens can strike quickly if you can’t stop their speed, as they did in Montreal’s last trip to Benchmark International ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Philadelphia Flyers’ final countdown began on Tuesday night.

Playing in their 74th game of the season, and facing a Washington Capitals team clinging to their own playoff dreams, the Flyers had a chance to gain some ground but instead fell, 6-4.

The loss ended the Flyers’ winning streak at three games; they have not won ...Read more

BOSTON — The Boston Bruins do not have a playoff berth secured just yet, but they are starting to smell it.

A week ago, the B’s had lost a disheartening game at home to the Toronto Maple Leafs and on the horizon was a daunting run of four straight tough opponents — Buffalo, Minnesota, Columbus and, on Tuesday night, the Dallas Stars. But ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights had to start somewhere, and it just happened to be against the team with the fewest points in the league.

But the record will show that new coach John Tortorella won in his Knights debut following a 4-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks at T-Mobile Arena on Monday.

Defensemen Rasmus Andersson and Shea Theodore scored, and...Read more

SAN JOSE – The importance of the Sharks’ game against the St. Louis Blues on Monday didn’t need to be reiterated to Macklin Celebrini, Alex Wennberg, or anyone else in a San Jose uniform.

Wennberg and Celebrini each had three points, and Adam Gaudette scored a go-ahead goal with 21 seconds left in the third period as the Sharks earned a ...Read more

DENVER — This was not a fair fight.

The Colorado Avalanche, smarting from a loss two days prior, were locked in from the opening shift Monday night and obliterated the rebuilding Calgary Flames, 9-2, at Ball Arena.

Nazem Kadri had a pair of goals against his former club. Superstar Cale Makar had three assists before not playing in the third ...Read more

ELMONT, N.Y. — The Pittsburgh Penguins were reeling, trailing by two goals in the second period and facing one of the best goalies in the NHL.

They came up with a stunning response, scoring seven unanswered goals to run away with their biggest win of the season. The Penguins dominated the New York Islanders in an 8-3 victory Monday at UBS ...Read more

There are very few days off down the stretch in this season’s condensed schedule, and the Lightning are consistently finding themselves playing three games in four days.

With nine games left in the regular season, the Lightning are still searching for 60 minutes of consistent hockey. But they’ve been able to compile points regularly in a ...Read more

The Flyers needed that one.

Not just because they were facing the No. 2 team in the NHL in the Dallas Stars. Not just because they were on the second night of a back-to-back and grinding one out when tired always feels good — for the record, Dallas was on a back-to-back, too.

And not just because Porter Martone was at Xfinity Mobile Arena ...Read more

The Bruins have their signature comeback victory of this entertaining 2025-26 season.

After a terrible, somnambulant first period, the B’s pride kicked in and they were the better team for the final 45 minutes and beat the Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-3, in a shootout at Nationwide Arena.

The B’s climbed out of the three-goal hole with three ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights fired coach Bruce Cassidy on Sunday with eight games remaining in the regular season.

Longtime coach John Tortorella has been named the team’s fourth coach in its history.

“We thank Bruce Cassidy for his dedication to our hockey club and community over the past four seasons,” general manager Kelly McCrimmon said ...Read more

The Florida Panthers held out hope they would get captain Aleksander Barkov back on the ice this season after a training camp injury forced him to get surgery on the ACL and MCL in his right knee.

That hope, primarily, was that he would return for a potential Stanley Cup playoff run, a chase for a third consecutive championship.

Those playoff ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights came back from a three-goal deficit and earned a point for the second straight game, but lost 5-4 in a shootout to the Washington Capitals at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night.

The Knights missed all three of their shootout attempts. Capitals center Dylan Strome scored their shootout goal.

The Knights ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit may be known for Motown, but on Saturday night, on national television, it was Motownphilly.

Coming off a dominating win against the Chicago Blackhawks at home, the Philaelphia Flyers went into Little Caesars Arena, continued the trend, and handed the Detroit Red Wings a 5-3 loss.

The Flyers have won two straight, five of ...Read more