Hockey Page 95 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Steven Stamkos scores 4 to help Predators rout Blues
Steven Stamkos scored four goals to lead the Nashville Predators past the St. Louis Blues 7-2 Thursday night.,Ryan O'Reilly, Filip Forsberg and Michael Bunting also scored for the Predators, who won for the sixth time in eight games.,Luke Evangelista earned three assists for Nashville, while Fedor S...
Jacob Fowler lifts Canadiens over Penguins in NHL debut
Jacob Fowler made 35 saves in his NHL debut, leading the visiting Montreal Canadiens to a 4-2 win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday evening.,Alexandre Texier, Brendan Gallagher, Cole Caufield and Oliver Kapanen scored, while Lane Hutson and Juraj Slafkovsky each had two assists for the Can...
Alexander Wennberg's OT goal caps Sharks' rally past Maple Leafs
Alexander Wennberg scored at 2:49 of overtime Thursday night and the visiting San Jose Sharks came back to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2.,Wennberg knocked in the rebound after a 2-on-1 with William Eklund.,John Klingberg's goal tied the game for San Jose late in the third period to force overti...
Tim Stutzle's 2 goals propel Senators past Blue Jackets
Tim Stutzle scored twice to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 6-3 win over the host Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.,Drake Batherson and Michael Amadio each had a goal and two assists while David Perron and Claude Giroux added a goal and an assist apiece for the Senators, who had lost five of th...
Hurricanes take top spot in East with shootout win over Capitals
Seth Jarvis scored the only tally in the shootout to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 3-2 road win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday.,The victory moved the Canes into first place in the Eastern Conference. Carolina and Washington each have 40 points, but the Hurricanes hold the tiebreaker advan...
Mark Stone scores a pair as Golden Knights edge Flyers in OT
Mark Stone scored two goals, including the game-winner 2:47 into overtime, to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-2 victory over the host Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.,Jack Eichel had two assists, setting up the winner with a bullet pass from the left corner to Stone by the right side of t...
Islanders overcome key injury to take down Ducks
Anders Lee had two goals and four points Thursday night for the New York Islanders, who lost Bo Horvat to a lower-body injury while beating the Anaheim Ducks 5-2 in Elmont, N.Y.,Horvat, who leads the Islanders with 31 points (19 goals and 12 assists), twisted his ankle after getting tied up with Duc...
Lightning score early, often in rout of Devils
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored two goals and set up another and Nikita Kucherov notched four assists, fueling the Tampa Bay Lightning to an 8-4 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday in Newark, N.J.,Jake Guentzel collected one goal and two assists and Brandon Hagel, Brayden Point and defenseman D...
Islanders' Bo Horvat exits due to lower-body injury
Bo Horvat, the Islanders' leading scorer, missed the final 33-plus minutes of New York's game against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday in Elmont, N.Y., because of a lower-body injury.,Horvat, who leads the team with 19 goals and 31 points, twisted his ankle after getting tangled up with Ducks defensema...
Kraken visit slumping Mammoth after snapping skid
The Seattle Kraken's efforts on their NHL-worst penalty kill have yielded a different kind of success.,Seattle went 3-for-7 with the man advantage Wednesday in a 3-2 overtime victory over the visiting Los Angeles Kings to snap a six-game losing streak.,The Kraken will look to build on that Friday wh...
Lightning captain Victor Hedman returns to injured reserve
Tampa Bay Lightning captain Victor Hedman returned to injured reserve on Thursday and will miss at least three games.,The veteran defenseman, who turns 35 next week, recently rejoined the lineup after missing four weeks and 12 games with an undisclosed injury.,Hedman exited during the first period o...
Capitals F Ryan Leonard (shoulder) out 3-4 weeks
Washington Capitals forward Ryan Leonard will be sidelined three to four weeks with a shoulder injury, the team announced Thursday.,Leonard was injured by a hit from Anaheim defenseman Jacob Trouba during the Capitals' 4-3 shootout loss to the Ducks last Friday. He was placed on injured reserve two ...
Devils' Timo Meier takes personal leave, Evgenii Dadonov goes on IR
New Jersey Devils forward Timo Meier began a leave of absence from the team to address "a family health matter.","The entire organization supports Timo and his family and appreciates everyone respecting their privacy at this time," the Devils said in a statement Thursday.,The team was unclear how lo...
Avalanche intent on igniting sputtering power play vs. Panthers
The Colorado Avalanche have just two regulation losses through 30 games yet hold a slim lead in the Central Division.,As hot as Colorado has been -- a 16-1-3 record in its last 20 games -- it has just a two-point lead over the Dallas Stars in the division heading into Thursday night's matchup agains...
Red Wings take lessons learned into encounter vs. Oilers
The Detroit Red Wings will continue their season-long six-game road trip on Thursday night in Edmonton having received reminders of both how well they can play and how much they can't afford to let up when in control of a game.,The Red Wings, who are riding a three-game winning streak, arrive in Edm...
NHL roundup: Kraken pull even late, clip Kings in OT
Vince Dunn scored a power-play goal at 1:21 of overtime as the Seattle Kraken snapped a six-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory against the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.,Seattle's Matty Beniers tied the game on a power-play goal with 26 seconds left in regulation. Eeli Tolvanen as...
Kraken rally late, best Kings in OT to halt 6-game slide
Vince Dunn scored a power-play goal at 1:21 of overtime as the Seattle Kraken snapped a six-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory against the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.,Jared McCann and Matty Beniers also tallied for Seattle and goaltender Joey Daccord made 24 saves.,Alex Laferri...
NHL roundup: Spencer Knight, Blackhawks blank Rangers
Connor Bedard registered a goal and an assist and Spencer Knight pitched his second shutout of the season for the host Chicago Blackhawks in a 3-0 win against the New York Rangers on Wednesday.,Louis Crevier and Tyler Bertuzzi joined Bedard with a tally each as the Blackhawks rebounded from being ou...
Panthers' final-minute goal extends Mammoth's skid
Anton Lundell's goal with 52 seconds left in the third period lifted the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 road win over the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City on Wednesday.,Lundell's eighth goal of the season capped a back-and-forth contest between teams trying to get into playoff position. After winning the f...
Wings build 4-goal cushion, hang on to edge Flames
Alex DeBrincat scored twice in a three-point game as the visiting Detroit Red Wings staked a four-goal lead and held on for a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday.,Axel Sandin-Pellikka and Dylan Larkin also scored for the Red Wings, who have won three consecutive games.,Patrick Kane and ...