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

The Bruins may be far from a perfect team but they seem to have hit on a winning formula. It comes down to balanced scoring and tremendous goaltending from Jeremy Swayman to cover up all the warts.

Swayman made 35 saves and the B’s rewarded their night owl fans with a 6-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on Tuesday to kick off a...Read more

DALLAS — There is more blood involved in this rivalry now.

The Colorado Avalanche's Martin Necas scored twice, while Nathan MacKinnon had a pair of assists and bloodied face after his second fight of the season in a 3-2 win Tuesday night against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center. Mackenzie Blackwood made 24 saves in an impressive ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights got goals from five different players and had 12 players get on the scoresheet in a 5-2 win over the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday.

William Karlsson scored for the second straight game, and Jack Eichel notched his fourth goal in the first seven games for the Knights (6-2-0). Adin Hill finished with...Read more

NEW YORK — The only good thing for the Lightning after their 4-1 loss Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden is that they won’t have to see the Rangers again until late March.

The thing is, through the first six games of the season — yes, a small sample size — the Lightning have played well against everyone else.

They took a four-game ...Read more

In what turned out to be a showdown between two top lines, the Winnipeg Jets’ best players upstaged the Minnesota Wild’s.

Kirill Kaprizov scored twice, but Winnipeg’s leaders had double that output to down the Wild 5-2 on Tuesday night at Canada Life Centre for the Wild’s most lopsided loss of the season.

Cole Perfetti had a pair of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — During the second period, The Black Crowes’ “Hard to Handle” blared from the speakers. “Actions speak louder than words,” Chris Robinson sang.

Indeed.

The Flyers have said all the right words during the seven game winless streak, but on Tuesday, despite losing 3-2 in a shootout on a goal by Bobby McMann, they took ...Read more

CHICAGO — At the start of a challenging road trip, the Penguins played one of the worst teams in the NHL so far this season.

It seemed like a win they needed to get, and a lot went right — Sidney Crosby finally got going with a pair of goals, while Nick Robertson scored his fourth of the season.

But one of the Penguins’ strengths so far,...Read more

It was only a matter of time before Brady Tkachuk got going.

And after not scoring through the first six games of his Florida Panthers tenure after being acquired in an offseason blockbuster trade with the Ottawa Senators, Tkachuk finally scored his first goal with his new team on Tuesday.

And then scored again. And again.

Tkachuk produced a ...Read more

DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings may have found a new, explosive scoring line Tuesday, but it wasn't enough to earn a victory.

Jack Hughes scored at 1 minute 19 seconds of overtime, giving New Jersey a 5-4 victory.

Jesper Bratt found Hughes streaking down the middle of the ice, and Hughes scored on the breakaway on goaltender John GIbson.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild overcame another top team despite losing a second player to a scary-looking injury.

They defeated the reigning Western Conference champion Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Monday at Grand Casino Arena and improved to 4-1-1 after Nico Sturm took a puck to the head and left early.

Sturm was hurt late in the ...Read more