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

The Boston Bruins have not clinched anything yet and they still have a long, hard road to go to earn a playoff berth.

But in their biggest game of the year to date, the B’s came up with their biggest win in Motown on Saturday night. In the furious battle for the final playoff spots in the Eastern Conference, the B’s erased two one-goal ...Read more

The St. Louis Blues salvaged their three-game road trip with a 3-1 win over the Canucks on Saturday night in Vancouver.

In beating the last-place Canucks, the Blues rebounded after a loss in Winnipeg on Sunday and a shootout loss in Calgary on Wednesday. St. Louis still has the fifth-worst record in the NHL.

Pius Suter, Pavel Buchnevich and ...Read more

The Kraken lost a third straight game Saturday afternoon against the Columbus Blue Jackets, 5-2.

With 13 games left in the regular season, Seattle sits two points behind the Nashville Predators, who now occupy the second wild-card spot in the West. The Predators have beaten the Kraken twice in the past two weeks and took down the Vegas Golden ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. ― The Philadelphia Flyers are California dreamin’.

On Monday, they headed west to face three teams, the Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks in four nights. They capped a sweep of the trip with a 4-1 win over the Sharks on Saturday.

They have now won 9 of 12 and earned a point in six straight. The Flyers’...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild finally played another contender, and now they’re back in business.

Even amid their recent struggles and without Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek, the Wild eclipsed the soaring Stars 2-1 in overtime on Saturday at Grand Casino Arena in only Dallas’ third loss in the last 18 games.

The Wild snapped...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Mired in a tight playoff race with a challenging stretch of opponents looming, the Penguins could ill-afford a loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

It looked like they were headed for one. But Erik Karlsson rescued Pittsburgh with a third-period equalizer, his second goal of the game. And the Penguins finally prevailed in a ...Read more