SALT LAKE CITY — The Pittsburgh Penguins entered their four-game Western Conference road trip with some promise but plenty of questions.

Consider those questions answered after the trip — just not in ways Pittsburgh would like. And the promise evaporated into the dry mountain air.

The Utah Mammoth beat the Penguins 5-4 on Monday at the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Given the opponent’s form, it’d be hard to not classify this as the worst performance of a young Colorado Avalanche season.

Matvei Michkov had two goals, Trevor Zegras had three assists and the Philadelphia Flyers, who entered Monday night with one win in 10 games, surprised the Avalanche, 3-2, at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

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TORONTO — The San Jose Sharks asked too much of their penalty kill and, in turn, goalie Yaroslav Askarov, against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night.

The Sharks allowed two power-play goals, including a go-ahead goal by rookie winger Gavin McKenna at the 4:56 mark of the third period, in a 3-1 loss to the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena....Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild needed Kirill Kaprizov to continue his record-breaking goal-scoring pace to outlast the Blue Jackets.

Kaprizov scored his NHL-leading 10th goal to break a 1-1 tie and lift the Wild past Columbus 2-1 on Sunday night at Grand Casino Arena.

Kaprizov is the fastest player in Wild history to reach 10 goals in a season ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Pittsburgh Penguins fans who didn’t stay up for Saturday’s late-night matchup with the Vegas Golden Knights did themselves a favor.

The pitiful performance was hardly worth losing sleep over — though Kyle Dubas can’t be resting easy after how his team has looked in the first nine games.

The Golden Knights beat the ...Read more

The Bruins were slow out of the gate for the second night in a row, but they were also able to duplicate their strong finish to beat the Kings in Los Angeles, 4-1, and complete the three-game sweep of California.

They have two days off before completing the four-game road trip with the most difficult challenge in the Dallas Stars on Tuesday. ...Read more

The St. Louis Blues finished their three-game road trip with a 5-2 loss on Saturday night against the Predators in Nashville, Tenn.

Philip Broberg and Jimmy Snuggerud (power play) scored for the Blues, who dropped to 3-4-1 on the season. Jordan Binnington made 19 saves.

Jonathan Marchessault, Filip Forsberg, Adam Edstrom, Ryan O'Reilly and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — That’s one.

After two-plus dreadful weeks, the Flyers played an urgent game and beat the visiting Ottawa Senators, 3-1, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Saturday. The win snapped a nine-game winless streak (0-6-3) to start the season, the longest in franchise history.

The Flyers came out more aggressive on the forecheck, creating ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — On the night of Oct. 18, 2006, a standing room-only crowd at Mellon Arena buzzed ahead of one of the most anticipated debuts in Penguins history.

Those fervent fans ended up getting even more than they had bargained for.

Evgeni Malkin was the marquee attraction. A great curiosity since he sneaked out of Russia, he was set to ...Read more

The Boston Bruins were not ready to start the game against the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. They were, however, prepared to finish it.

The B’s played a terrible first period and spotted the Ducks two first period goals in 21 seconds before they stormed back to score four straight goals to capture a 4-2 victory.

The B’s went 3-for-4 on the ...Read more

DENVER — Artturi Lehkonen’s contract year is off to a profitable start.

Lehkonen scored twice, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and three assists and the Colorado Avalanche shrugged off a shaky start Friday night to defeat Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins, 5-2, at Ball Arena.

After one of the worst periods of the young season to start ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It felt like one of those nights where the Vegas Golden Knights would have to do everything wrong in order to lose on Thursday. The Calgary Flames have been that bad.

There was no need to worry about that. The Knights struck early and often and rolled to a 6-2 win at T-Mobile Arena to begin a three-game homestand.

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TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning needed overtime to pull out their fifth win in six games Thursday night, 4-3 over the Seattle Kraken at Benchmark International Arena.

Victor Hedman scored his first goal of the season with 2:53 left in the five-minute 3-on-3 extra period. He poked the puck past Shane Wright, then split the other two Seattle ...Read more

DETROIT — Andrew Copp picked a timely spot to score his first goal.

Copp's goal at 15 minutes, 22 seconds of the third period snapped a tie and helped send the Red Wings to a 2-1 victory Thursday, against the Philadelphia Flyers.

Copp converted a pass from Michael Rasmussen through the crease and knocked the puck past goaltender Joseph Woll,...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Matt Boldy’s signature game of the season couldn’t have come at a better time for the Wild.

With seven veterans hurt, the Wild held off the Blues, 5-4, at Grand Casino Arena after Boldy scored his fifth career hat trick.

The Wild winger also had an assist, his four points leading the way and tying his career high.

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The San Jose Sharks are still looking for their first regulation-time win of the season.

That matters less if they keep winning in overtime or, in Thursday’s game against the Nashville Predators, in a shootout.

After neither team scored in the first two rounds of the shootout, Macklin Celebrini beat Juuse Saros, and Alex Nedeljkovic stopped ...Read more

DENVER — Jason Robertson and Roope Hintz scored for the Dallas Stars in a 3-2 shootout victory Wednesday night against the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena.

The Avs collected three points from this back-to-back set against the rival Stars. Scott Wedgewood made his second start of the season and finished with 20 saves.

Dallas took the lead ...Read more