VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The Minnesota Wild still haven’t clinched a playoff spot, but they’re getting closer.

Their 3-2 overtime rally over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night at Rogers Arena lifted them to 95 points, one ahead of the St. Louis Blues and five in front of the Calgary Flames in the battle for the two Western ...Read more

SEATTLE — Kraken 4, Blues 3, SO at Climate Pledge Arena

Notable: There were plusses and negatives on Saturday night, but the fans went home happy. In their second-to-last game of the season, the Kraken picked up a pair of standings points that could hurt their draft placement and prevailed in a seven-round shootout.

The Kraken’s Finnish ...Read more

SUNRISE, Fla. — The Florida Panthers’ long shot home ice hopes have extended into the final week of the NHL season because their backup goalie played like a top-flight starter Saturday and their unconventional shootout lineup did just enough to eke out the team’s third win in a row.

The No. 1 reason the Panthers survived the Buffalo ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Success, in Carolina Hurricanes parlance, is often defined as “2006.” That season — the end of which resulted in the Canes’ lone Stanley Cup championship — has been the measure by which all subsequent seasons have been judged.

There were, after another run in 2009, the “dark times,” also known as “BB” — ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — There’s a faction of Flyers fans out there who want the team to lose games down the stretch, and look, it’s not entirely misguided.

But when the team’s young players start putting it together the way the Flyers did on Saturday, how can you be mad about the results?

“We’re still trying to work on our our own games, ...Read more

SUNRISE, Fla. — For a little more than four weeks, Aaron Ekblad had to be away from the Florida Panthers.

That’s part of the punishment that came with the defenseman’s 20-game suspension for violating the terms of the NHL and NHL Players Association’s performance enhancing substances program, which came via a failed random drug test.

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After an awful start at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on Friday, the Penguins stabilized then rallied to earn a 4-2 win over the playoff-bound New Jersey Devils.

Sidney Crosby scored the winner after the Penguins erased a multi-goal deficit.

From one knee, the captain steered a slap pass from Bryan Rust into an open cage with 6:39 left in...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Red Wings needed a victory to stay alive and the rookie saved them.

Marco Kasper had two goals and an assist, including the overtime winner at 3 minutes, 20 seconds, giving the Wings a 4-3 victory over Tampa.

Kasper drove in from the wing against a tired group of Lightning skaters and beat goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy for ...Read more

DENVER — Gabe Landeskog did not dress for a hockey game for 1,020 days. That streak ends Friday night.

Landeskog will be in the lineup for the Colorado Eagles in an AHL contest at Blue Arena in Loveland against the Henderson Silver Knights. He has not played since June 26, 2022, when the Colorado Avalanche captain became the first player to ...Read more

DENVER — The next hockey game at Ball Arena will have much bigger stakes, thankfully.

Short five regulars due to injury, including the reigning MVP, the Colorado Avalanche dropped a 4-1 decision to the Vancouver Canucks in the final home game of its regular season Thursday night.

The Nathan MacKinnon-less Avs looked like a team that didn’t...Read more

BOSTON — The Bruins’ late season dive toward the highest draft pick possible got back on track on Thursday night at TD Garden.

After scoring a season-high seven goals in a win over the New Jersey Devils, the B’s allowed three goals in 1:33 at the start of the third period and fell to the lowly Chicago Blackhawks, 5-2, as a trio of former ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek weren’t supposed to carry the Wild in their return to action after being sidelined for six weeks injured, even longer in Kaprizov’s case.

In getting their best player and most indispensable forward back, the new-look Wild could start to rediscover their old-school ways by establishing...Read more

After going an entire month without a regulation win, losing 11 of 12 games to fall out of playoff contention, and seeing John Tortorella fired on March 27, the Philadelphia Flyers could have easily mailed it in for the final nine games of the season.

To this team’s credit, it has done the complete opposite, as the Flyers continued their ...Read more