The Nashville Predators got some help from former coach John Hynes and the Minnesota Wild last night, locking the Preds into the first wild card spot.
Drake has a problem. It isn’t—at least not yet—Kendrick Lamar, who escalated a decade of tacit rivalry into open conflict with a diss verse on “Like That,” currently the no. 1 song in the country. (Kendrick has yet to answer Drake’s first response, “Push Ups (Drop & Give Me 50),” leaked last weekend.) Nor is Drake’s problem the larger onslaught of disgruntled collaborators who’ve suddenly teamed up against him, with disses of their own, in the aftermath of “Like That.” Yes, Drake is greatly...
Captain Dylan Larkin scored a power-play goal 41 seconds into overtime to fuel the visiting Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. Larkin deflected a shot from Patrick Kane past Ilya Samsonov for his career-best 33rd goal of the season. With the win, the Red Wings (39-32-9, 87 points) are tied with the Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers for the Eastern Conference's second wild card. The Red Wings and Capitals have two games remaining while the...
'Is there a guy on our team who can get hot? There are a bunch. People remember the playoffs. Could it be him (Joshua)? Yeah.' — Rick Tocchet on postseason potential.
WASHINGTON -- Sonny Milano scored two goals, and the Washington Capitals moved into a tie for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference with a 4-2 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Capital One Arena on Saturday.John Carlson and Nic Dowd also scored for the Capitals (38-31-11), who have won two of three. Charlie Lindgren made 32 saves. The Capitals are tied with the Philadelphia Flyers, one point ahead of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Anthony Duclair and...
BUFFALO -- The Washington Capitals lost hold of a wild card spot after a 4-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Thursday.The Pittsburgh Penguins surpassed the Capitals by one point for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference with a 6-5 overtime victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday. Washington has three games remaining. Connor McMichael and Tom Wilson scored, and Charlie Lindgren made 13 saves for the Capitals (37-31-11), who...
The Penguins did their part Monday at PPG Paints Arena. And now they wait. They defeated the Nashville Predators, 4-2, in a must-win. Sidney Crosby helped
A certain sequence of events had to happen on Monday night for four teams
PITTSBURGH -- Sidney Crosby and Erik Karlsson each had a goal and an assist, and the Pittsburgh Penguins remained in contention for the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 4-2 win against the Nashville Predators at PPG Paints Arena on Monday.Reilly Smith scored, and Marcus Pettersson had two assists for the Penguins (38-31-12), who are 8-1-3 in their past 12 games and would have been eliminated with a regulation loss. Alex Nedeljkovic made 28 saves in his 12th straight start. The Penguins remained...
WASHINGTON -- Charlie Lindgren made 16 saves, and the Washington Capitals held on to the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference with a 2-0 win against the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena on Monday.John Carlson and Nic Dowd scored for the Capitals (39-31-11), who have won three of four and control their destiny heading into the final game of the regular season against the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday. Jeremy Swayman made 23 saves for the Bruins...
With everything at stake — or at least the ambitions of playing a minimum of four postseason games on the line — the Pittsburgh Penguins turned to the goaltender they signed this past offseason with hopes he would rejuvenate his sagging career and be a true difference-maker. Alex Nedeljkovic. As
The final day of the 2023-24 NHL regular season is Thursday, but the