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

DENVER — Jared Bednar and the Colorado Avalanche’s complicated relationship with the NHL rulebook continued Saturday evening.

The Winnipeg Jets came to Ball Arena and kept their faint playoff hopes alive with a 4-2 victory against the league-leading Avalanche. Cole Perfetti’s goal was the game-winner, but whether or not it should have ...Read more

St. LOUIS — The playoff push won't stop yet.

With a 5-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night, the St. Louis Blues won their fourth straight game and improved to 11-2-2 since returning from the Olympic break. For the moment -- pending Los Angeles' result on Saturday -- the Blues pulled within four points of a playoff spot, with ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins got off to a strong start Saturday. But a cascade of penalties and a brutal second period derailed their chances against one of the NHL’s best teams.

The Dallas Stars beat the Penguins, 6-3, on Saturday at PPG Paints Arena.

Pittsburgh played without Sidney Crosby (lower-body injury) and Evgeni Malkin (...Read more

Igor Chernyshov scored twice, including the go-ahead goal with 1:25 left in the third period, to lift the San Jose Sharks to a critical 3-2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday at Nationwide Arena

On the winning goal, Macklin Celebrini carried the puck into the offensive zone and passed to Will Smith. He fed Chernyshov, who one-timed ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Seattle Kraken picked up another standings point, but as Saturday’s overtime wound down, their hopes of a very needed second point fizzled.

Seattle has never been good at shootouts, and the Buffalo Sabres won their latest as quickly as possible. The Kraken fell to 1-6 in shootouts this season and 9-18 all-time, and dropped the...Read more

BOSTON — If the Boston Bruins do survive this brutal Eastern Conference race and make it to the playoffs, they got a taste of what it might be like on Saturday at TD Garden.

In a thoroughly entertaining game against a quality opponent, the B’s never trailed and then held off the supremely talented Minnesota Wild team to take two points in a...Read more

The Penguins’ top line never really got rolling before the Olympic break.

The team around them was dramatically better this season, but the trio of Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust slightly regressed from the 2024-25 season, when they were the Penguins’ three leading scorers by a wide margin.

It didn’t look like it would get ...Read more

BUFFALO — The Red Wings are living through a March Madness in their race of the NHL playoffs, and it's no less exciting and unpredictable as the basketball version.

After two disheartening losses, the Wings went into Buffalo Friday and defeated one of the best teams in the NHL, 5-2.

Alex DeBrincat (power play, 36th goal), Lucas Raymond (23rd...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights earned a crucial point, but failed to grab the second in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Edmonton Oilers at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday.

Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard scored off a faceoff with 1:50 remaining in overtime.

The Knights (32-26-15) now trail the Oilers by two points for second place in the Pacific...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Depending on your perspective, Thursday night's Blues game against the Sharks was a pretty big matchup.

St. Louis entered with the fifth-worst record in the league. San Jose was sixth-worst. Thursday's result could be the difference in future draft positioning as both teams seem poised to miss the postseason.

The result? A 2-1 ...Read more

The Penguins were already playing without Evgeni Malkin on Thursday. Then, Sidney Crosby left the game early in the second period against the Ottawa Senators.

Pittsburgh picked up a gritty shootout win against a red-hot team anyway, as Rickard Rakell scored twice.

Both teams had incredible chances in the 3-on-3 overtime period, but goalies ...Read more

The Wild had everyone available for the first time this season, and their debut at full strength was a buzzer-beater over the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions.

They eluded the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Thursday, March 26, at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla., on a goal by Joel Eriksson Ek with five seconds left for the Wild’s first ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Good teams beat bad teams. Plain and simple.

The Chicago Blackhawks entered the night tied for 29th in points percentage in the NHL (.472). The Flyers want to be a good team and ranked 15th (.571). To keep their playoff dreams alive, they needed to beat the visitors.

And they did, with authority.

In a wire-to-wire win, the ...Read more

The Kraken have still never beaten the Tampa Bay Lightning in regulation, but that was the last thing on anyone’s minds Thursday.

With the Nashville Predators strengthening their hold on the last playoff spot in the Western Conference and time running out for Seattle to do anything about it, this was essentially a must-win game. Shane Wright�...Read more

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