The Vegas Golden Knights had to start somewhere, and it just happened to be against the team with the fewest points in the league.

But the record will show that new coach John Tortorella won in his Knights debut following a 4-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks at T-Mobile Arena on Monday.

Defensemen Rasmus Andersson and Shea Theodore scored, and...Read more

SAN JOSE – The importance of the Sharks’ game against the St. Louis Blues on Monday didn’t need to be reiterated to Macklin Celebrini, Alex Wennberg, or anyone else in a San Jose uniform.

Wennberg and Celebrini each had three points, and Adam Gaudette scored a go-ahead goal with 21 seconds left in the third period as the Sharks earned a ...Read more

DENVER — This was not a fair fight.

The Colorado Avalanche, smarting from a loss two days prior, were locked in from the opening shift Monday night and obliterated the rebuilding Calgary Flames, 9-2, at Ball Arena.

Nazem Kadri had a pair of goals against his former club. Superstar Cale Makar had three assists before not playing in the third ...Read more

ELMONT, N.Y. — The Pittsburgh Penguins were reeling, trailing by two goals in the second period and facing one of the best goalies in the NHL.

They came up with a stunning response, scoring seven unanswered goals to run away with their biggest win of the season. The Penguins dominated the New York Islanders in an 8-3 victory Monday at UBS ...Read more

There are very few days off down the stretch in this season’s condensed schedule, and the Lightning are consistently finding themselves playing three games in four days.

With nine games left in the regular season, the Lightning are still searching for 60 minutes of consistent hockey. But they’ve been able to compile points regularly in a ...Read more

The Flyers needed that one.

Not just because they were facing the No. 2 team in the NHL in the Dallas Stars. Not just because they were on the second night of a back-to-back and grinding one out when tired always feels good — for the record, Dallas was on a back-to-back, too.

And not just because Porter Martone was at Xfinity Mobile Arena ...Read more

The Bruins have their signature comeback victory of this entertaining 2025-26 season.

After a terrible, somnambulant first period, the B’s pride kicked in and they were the better team for the final 45 minutes and beat the Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-3, in a shootout at Nationwide Arena.

The B’s climbed out of the three-goal hole with three ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights fired coach Bruce Cassidy on Sunday with eight games remaining in the regular season.

Longtime coach John Tortorella has been named the team’s fourth coach in its history.

“We thank Bruce Cassidy for his dedication to our hockey club and community over the past four seasons,” general manager Kelly McCrimmon said ...Read more

The Florida Panthers held out hope they would get captain Aleksander Barkov back on the ice this season after a training camp injury forced him to get surgery on the ACL and MCL in his right knee.

That hope, primarily, was that he would return for a potential Stanley Cup playoff run, a chase for a third consecutive championship.

Those playoff ...Read more

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