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03-27-23 | Oilers v. Coyotes +280 | 5-4 | Loss | -100 | 12 h 20 m | Show | |
The Coyotes are 6-1 in their last 7 home games and have been one of the top teams to bet on after the ASB. They're worth a shot here. | |||||||
03-26-23 | Maple Leafs v. Predators +160 | 3-2 | Loss | -100 | 9 h 4 m | Show | |
Despite Toronto's frustrating defeat the last time out, Auston Matthews continues to surge for the Maple Leafs. He's also been pretty good against the Nashville Predators, of late. While Matthews looks to stay hot, the Maple Leafs will try to avoid losing consecutive road games for the first time in more than two months on Sunday against the Predators. Sitting second in the Atlantic Division, Toronto (43-20-9, 95 points) is just 6-5-1 in March. On Saturday night, the Maple Leafs often outplayed the Carolina Hurricanes, and leveled things at 3-3 with Matthews' second goal late in regulation. However, the Hurricanes regained the lead 32 seconds later, and won 5-3. The result dropped Toronto to 2-2-0 amid a five-game stretch on the road, where it's 7-5-0 since losing consecutive contests during an 0-2-1 slide from Jan. 12-21. Despite dealing with knee issues this month, Matthews has 10 goals and eight assists during his past 13 games. | |||||||
03-25-23 | Red Wings +125 v. Flyers | Top | 0-3 | Loss | -100 | 1 h 27 m | Show |
Despite an array of injuries, the young Philadelphia Flyers are growing up. The Flyers improved to 3-0-1 in their last four games following a stirring 5-4 shootout victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday. Philadelphia (27-32-12, 66 points) will look to keep its positive momentum moving forward when it hosts the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday afternoon. "Pucks are going in for us," said Flyers coach John Tortorella, who picked up his 700th career victory after outlasting the Wild. "We're scoring some goals obviously. When we were losing some games, we weren't playing that bad, we just couldn't find the net. ... Now pucks have been going for us." The Flyers have been without key injured players such as Cam Atkinson, Sean Couturier, Ryan Ellis and Travis Konecny, among others. | |||||||
03-23-23 | Jets v. Ducks +211 | 3-2 | Loss | -100 | 12 h 12 m | Show | |
The Anaheim Ducks will look to play spoiler at home Thursday night when they welcome the Winnipeg Jets to town. The Jets are holding onto the final playoff spot in the Western Conference's wild-card race, while the Ducks (23-38-10, 56 points) were officially cut from postseason contention for the fifth consecutive season on Sunday. It's not unusual for teams to loosen up once they're formally eliminated after spending most of season far out of the postseason picture. But with nothing left to lose, many teams rise up. That, however, hasn't been the case for Anaheim so far. With 11 games remaining, the Ducks have hit yet another skid and are losers of four of their last five. | |||||||
03-22-23 | Penguins +140 v. Avalanche | Top | 5-2 | Win | 140 | 11 h 45 m | Show |
The Colorado Avalanche are trying to become the third team in eight years to pull off back-to-back Stanley Cup titles. The Pittsburgh Penguins did just that in 2016-17 and Colorado is on a mission to do the same, having won six straight and looking as determined as it did last season, when it won its first Cup since 2001. The Avalanche (41-22-6, 88 points) will go for their seventh straight win when they host the reeling Penguins on Wednesday night in Denver. Pittsburgh won the first game, 2-1 in overtime, at home on Feb. 7. In that game, Colorado defenseman Cale Makar suffered a concussion after taking a shot to the head from Penguins forward Jeff Carter. Pittsburgh (34-26-10, 78 points) has lost four in a row and dropped out of the second wild card in the Eastern Conference. The Penguins have reached the playoffs 16 straight seasons, winning three championships in that span, but are in danger of not extending the streak to 17 straight. | |||||||
03-20-23 | Flames v. Kings -105 | Top | 2-8 | Win | 100 | 20 h 46 m | Show |
The Calgary Flames are running out of real estate in their bid to return to the Stanley Cup playoffs. Working overtime hasn't been the answer either. The Flames are scheduled to play the first of back-to-back games in California when they face the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night. Calgary (31-24-15, 77 points) entered Sunday four points behind the Winnipeg Jets for the final wild-card spot from the Western Conference with 12 games remaining, and they're a mere point in front of the Nashville Predators. "We have to get every point we can," Flames defenseman Rasmus Andersson said. "We have a big trip coming up where we need to get four points." The Flames are coming off a 6-5 overtime loss to the visiting Dallas Stars on Saturday, dropping Calgary's record to 6-15 in overtime and shootouts this season. | |||||||
03-16-23 | Seattle Kraken v. Sharks +160 | 2-1 | Loss | -100 | 9 h 29 m | Show | |
The Seattle Kraken will play five of their next six games on the road, starting Thursday night at San Jose. Remarkably, that might bolster Seattle's playoff chances. The Kraken are a middling 16-14-4 at home this season, going 1-2-1 on their just-completed four-game homestand to drop behind Edmonton in the chase for third place in the Pacific Division. Seattle remains atop the wild-card race in the Western Conference, six points ahead of Nashville for the last playoff berth, in large part because of its 21-9-3 road record. "Bottom line, we didn't get job done. At the end of the day that's what matters," Kraken coach Dave Hakstol said after Monday's 5-2 loss to Dallas that extended his team's skid to three games (0-2-1). " ... We've been a group that's been able to turn the page and go back to the next job at hand. This group has to be able to do that again." The Kraken's penalty-killing unit came undone Monday, allowing three goals in four opportunities. Seattle had given up just one man-advantage tally on 32 chances over its previous 13 games, including a franchise-record eight-game streak without allowing one. | |||||||
03-16-23 | Lightning v. Devils -124 | 4-3 | Loss | -124 | 6 h 2 m | Show | |
It has taken the New Jersey Devils and Tampa Bay Lightning five months of the season to finally face one another, but the two Eastern Conference playoff clubs are in the middle of making up for lost time. On Thursday night for the second time in three days -- both in Newark, New Jersey -- the teams will square off in the middle of their trio of matchups. In the culmination of what will have something of a best-of-seven series playoff feel to it, the final meeting will take place Sunday in Tampa -- three inter-divisional tilts between them in six days. In a surprising development shortly before puck dropped Tuesday, the Lightning's Steven Stamkos didn't participate in the pregame skate and was ruled out. Stamkos, 33, hurt his left leg in the first period Saturday against Chicago and left the game. But he played 17:49 in Sunday's 3-2 home loss to the Winnipeg Jets. In Stamkos' stead, Brandon Hagel stepped up to the top line at left wing beside Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov. Hagel responded with his 24th tally and two assists, and Tampa Bay scored four straight times in a 4-1 victory at New Jersey. | |||||||
03-15-23 | Islanders -180 v. Ducks | Top | 6-3 | Win | 100 | 10 h 23 m | Show |
The disappointment surrounding the New York Islanders was palpable after a defeat on Tuesday, but the suddenly struggling club must quickly put that frustration in the past before facing the host Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night. New York, which currently holds the Eastern Conference's second wild-card spot, lost 5-2 to the Los Angeles Kings to start a three-game California trip. Making the setback worse for the Islanders was that they held a 1-0 lead after the first period and were in a tie game when a couple of penalties proved costly. Matt Martin was assessed an unsportsmanlike penalty for throwing the helmet of Kings forward Rasmus Kupari after they took coincidental roughing minors. Then, 30 seconds later, Zach Parise was whistled for kneeing. The Kings broke open the game with two power-play goals one minute apart before they extended the lead to 4-1 and cruised to victory. | |||||||
03-15-23 | Avalanche v. Maple Leafs -133 | 2-1 | Loss | -133 | 7 h 25 m | Show | |
The Colorado Avalanche will be without Artturi Lehkonen when they visit the Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday night. The left winger suffered a broken finger during the second period of an 8-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens Monday in the opener of a four-game trip. Lehkonen had two goals and an assist before he was injured in his first game in Montreal since the Canadiens traded him to the Avalanche on March 21, 2022. "It'll be four, six weeks. Maybe more. It's a huge loss," Avalanche coach Jared Bednar told Altitude Sports Radio on Tuesday. "Good thing is it's his finger. It's his top hand and he can continue to train." Lehkonen has career bests of 20 goals and 29 assists in 62 games this season. The Avalanche are also without forwards Gabriel Landeskog and Darren Helm, defensemen Erik Johnson and Kurtis MacDermid and goaltender Pavel Francouz. | |||||||
03-09-23 | Devils -135 v. Capitals | 3-2 | Win | 100 | 6 h 12 m | Show | |
A lengthy skid put the Washington Capitals in the unfamiliar position of selling at the NHL trade deadline. But beginning Thursday night, the Capitals have one more chance to make a run at extending their streak of consecutive postseason berths. The Capitals will look to begin crawling back into the playoff picture when they host the New Jersey Devils in the first of four straight games against teams ahead of them in the Eastern Conference wild card race. The Capitals have been off since Monday, when they fell to the host Los Angeles Kings, 4-2. The Devils last played Tuesday, when they lost to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-3. The loss was the eighth in the last 11 games (3-8-0) for the Capitals, who have gone 10-15-1 since Jan. 1 to fall into a tie for 10th place in the Eastern Conference entering Wednesday with the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators. While the Senators and Sabres made moves to bolster their rosters at the trade deadline, the Capitals -- who have made the playoffs in each of the last eight seasons, tied with the Nashville Predators for the second-longest active streak in the NHL behind the Penguins -- made six deals in which they traded six veterans and acquired six draft picks. | |||||||
03-06-23 | Flames v. Stars -125 | 5-4 | Loss | -125 | 11 h 34 m | Show | |
The Dallas Stars head into Monday's home game with the Calgary Flames riding high. A three-game winning streak and a 4-0-1 record in its last five outings has Dallas three points ahead of the pack in the Central Division, and that's not the only good news. The Stars are coming off Saturday's dominant 7-3 home-ice victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche, making an impressive statement to the rest of the league and to themselves. "We're not planning any parades," Stars coach Peter DeBoer said. "It was a really good effort, and now we have to keep building on it. I don't want to undersell the importance of the win because it's an important win, but that doesn't mean all of a sudden we're the best team in the league." The victory not only was a huge confidence booster for the Stars as a team, but also saw a couple of key players break lengthy goal-scoring slumps. Joe Pavelski snapped an 18-game goal drought with a two-point outing, while Mason Marchment scored for the first time in 33 outings. | |||||||
02-28-23 | Red Wings +118 v. Senators | 1-6 | Loss | -100 | 9 h 60 m | Show | |
The Ottawa Senators on Tuesday will be seeking back-to-back home victories over the Detroit Red Wings -- on back-to-back nights. Claude Giroux led the Senators on Monday with a goal and three assists in a 6-2 win. A postponement in December led to the unusual back-to-back set. The Senators now hold a 2-1 lead in the season series. Detroit will look to bounce back by playing cleaner hockey. The Red Wings took six penalties in the first two periods, leading to the Senators' first two goals. "It was just clear as day -- taking penalties and giving their skill (players) a little too much time and space," Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin said. "We didn't execute enough. We took way too many penalties against a power play like that. There's things to clean up for (Tuesday)." Detroit has lost two straight after winning seven of its previous eight games to jump into the playoff chase. Backup goaltender Magnus Hellberg made a career-high 36 saves against the Senators, but the defense gave up too many odd-man rushes when the teams were at even strength. | |||||||
02-26-23 | Lightning +101 v. Penguins | 3-7 | Loss | -100 | 7 h 47 m | Show | |
Both teams will be playing the second half of back-to-back games, but the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning will be on shorter rest than the Pittsburgh Penguins when they meet early Sunday evening. Pittsburgh played an afternoon road game Saturday, a 3-2 overtime win against the St. Louis Blues, and were home well before the end of Tampa Bay's 3-0 nighttime win at Detroit. The Lightning have been sputtering a bit since a three-game winning streak in the middle of the month. They had lost three of four (1-1-2) before Saturday. Even at that, Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper wasn't thrilled with his team's execution against the Red Wings, particularly defensively, beyond goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy's 45-save shutout. | |||||||
02-25-23 | Flames v. Avalanche -113 | 1-4 | Win | 100 | 10 h 12 m | Show | |
When the Avalanche went to Calgary on Oct. 13, Flames center Nazem Kadri was presented with the Stanley Cup ring he won with Colorado last June. Kadri earned the jewelry, scoring an overtime goal in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final to give the Avalanche a 3-1 series lead over Tampa Bay, and two games later, they closed out the Lightning. Colorado wanted to re-sign Kadri but salary-cap limitations prevented it, so he went north to Calgary. He will return to play in Denver for the first time when the Flames face the Avalanche on Saturday night. After stumbling for a while, the Avalanche have surged, winning their past four games and going 5-0-1 in the past six. Colorado recorded a dominant 5-1 road win over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday and will try to cap a string of three straight back-to-back sets with a win over Calgary. The recent stretch has moved Colorado within three points of the first-place Dallas Stars in the tight Central Division, and the fourth-place Avalanche have two games in hand. | |||||||
02-25-23 | Rangers v. Capitals +130 | 3-6 | Win | 130 | 1 h 18 m | Show | |
Alex Ovechkin returned to the Washington Capitals only to find his team in an unfamiliar situation, mired in a lengthy losing streak and a seller ahead of next week's trade deadline. Rapidly fading in the Eastern Conference playoff race, the Capitals are mired in their first six-game regulation losing streak of Ovechkin's career heading into a visit from the New York Rangers on Saturday afternoon. Ovechkin missed four games following the death of his father in Russia and rejoined the Capitals on Thursday when they allowed the final three goals of a 4-2 home loss to the Anaheim Ducks. Ovechkin was held without a goal for a fifth straight game, and Washington's latest loss occurred after dealing Garnet Hathaway along with longtime defenseman Dmitry Orlov to the league-leading Boston Bruins. The streak is Washington's longest skid of regulation losses since Oct. 14-29, 2003, when they were engaged in a full-blown rebuild that eventually netted them Ovechkin with the top overall pick of the 2004 draft. | |||||||
02-17-23 | Rangers v. Oilers -120 | Top | 5-4 | Loss | -120 | 11 h 54 m | Show |
Two of the hottest teams and hottest offenses in hockey match up Friday when the New York Rangers visit the Edmonton Oilers. The Rangers are on a six-game winning streak and an eight-game points streak (7-0-1), outscoring their opponents by a 39-22 margin over those eight games. New York has scored six goals in each of its last three games, marking the team's longest six-goal streak since the 1988-89 season. Edmonton saw an 11-game points streak (9-0-2) end with a 6-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday, but the Oilers picked up another point in Wednesday's 5-4 shootout loss to the Detroit Red Wings. It was a hard-earned point for the Oilers, who had to overcome three two-goal deficits to force overtime despite outshooting Detroit by a 45-23 margin. | |||||||
02-11-23 | Penguins +102 v. Kings | Top | 0-6 | Loss | -100 | 11 h 56 m | Show |
After recording a pair of victories as they returned from the All-Star break, the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins now face the well-rested Los Angeles Kings in a matchup on Saturday. The freshness scales are tilted even further considering the Penguins played Friday, earning a 6-3 road victory over the Anaheim Ducks. The Kings have been off since Jan. 31, plotting their course for the final two months in an attempt to earn a playoff berth. Both teams own the top wild-card spot in their respective conferences. The Penguins followed a 2-1 overtime victory at home over the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday by thrashing the Ducks. | |||||||
02-11-23 | Avalanche +120 v. Panthers | 5-3 | Win | 120 | 7 h 31 m | Show | |
The Panthers squandered a three-goal lead in the third period but beat Colorado, 5-4 on Jan. 10 as Matthew Tkachuk scored on the power play with 3 1/2 minutes remaining. They're trying to sweep the season series for the first time since 2016-17. Avs get their revenge today. | |||||||
02-11-23 | Canucks v. Red Wings -125 | 2-5 | Win | 100 | 1 h 42 m | Show | |
The Canucks overcame a 4-2 deficit to beat the Islanders, 6-5, on Thursday. It was their sixth win in a game in which they trailed by two goals or more this season. That's the most such wins for the Canucks in one season since they had seven in 2014-15 and twice as many as they recorded last season (three). Expect the Canucks to come back down to earth today. | |||||||
02-10-23 | Coyotes v. Blackhawks +100 | 3-4 | Win | 100 | 6 h 6 m | Show | |
Two teams battling to stay out of the Central Division cellar will square off on Friday when the Arizona Coyotes visit the Chicago Blackhawks. Arizona holds a five-point lead over Chicago for seventh place heading into the contest but the Blackhawks, who have dropped four of their last five games, still have two games in hand. Both teams are also among the top four in the Connor Bedard draft sweepstakes. Columbus (34) currently has the fewest points in the NHL, one point ahead of Chicago (35) with Arizona and Anaheim tied for third-fewest (40). The team with the worst record has an 18.5 percent chance of landing the No. 1 pick, expected to be Bedard, who is regarded as a generational talent in the Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid mold. Second place has a 13.5 percent shot in the lottery while third comes in at 11.5 percent. The contest also could be one of the final home games for Patrick Kane in a Blackhawks uniform. | |||||||
01-31-23 | Kings +181 v. Hurricanes | 4-5 | Loss | -100 | 18 h 47 m | Show | |
The Carolina Hurricanes have drawn from various sources on their latest winning streak, with nothing more impressive than Sebastian Aho's scoring burst and the contributions from a number of goalies. The Hurricanes' latest chance to unveil their winning formula will come Tuesday when they wrap up a three-game homestand against the visiting Los Angeles Kings in Raleigh, N.C. Aho has scored a goal in four consecutive games, racking up seven total goals during that stretch. "He's emerging, I think, this whole year," Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "He's playing at a high level, that's for sure." Aho and Martin Necas share the team lead with 21 goals apiece, two more than All-Star selection Andrei Svechnikov. Those three players all had one goal in the first meeting this season with Los Angeles, a 4-2 Hurricanes road victory on Dec. 3. The Hurricanes are coming off Sunday's 4-1 victory against the Boston Bruins in a matchup of the teams with the best records in the NHL. | |||||||
01-28-23 | Sabres +165 v. Wild | 2-3 | Loss | -100 | 10 h 33 m | Show | |
The surging Buffalo Sabres eye a sixth straight win when they wrap up their road trip with a visit to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday. The Sabres head into the contest after dispatching the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday, taking a 3-0 lead before the Jets scored twice in the final minutes. Buffalo is 6-1-1 in its past eight games and 14-5-1 since Dec. 13, when the Sabres kicked off their most recent six-game winning streak. "This team is fantastic," goalie Eric Comrie said. "It's the most fun I've (had) playing hockey in my whole life. It's just fun to be a part of, it's a fun group to be around. We love the game of hockey and we love each other. It's that kind of atmosphere that just breeds performance. Guys want to come here now and it's so much fun to be a part of that. Seeing these guys just battle every single night is pretty special." Rasmus Dahlin continues his remarkable campaign, surpassing last season's career-high assists (40) and point total (53) with a pair of helpers against the Jets, giving him 55 points through 47 games. The 22-year-old has seven points in his past five games. | |||||||
01-28-23 | Bruins -146 v. Panthers | 3-4 | Loss | -146 | 7 h 5 m | Show | |
The Boston Bruins still haven't lost back-to-back games this season. Meanwhile, the Florida Panthers must halt another extended losing streak. Looking to rebound from just their sixth regulation loss, the visiting Bruins aim to get back on track by handing the Panthers a season-high fourth straight loss on Saturday in Sunrise, Fla. The NHL leader with 80 points, Boston took a six-game winning streak into Thursday's 3-2 loss at Tampa Bay. Though the Bruins were held to fewer than three goals for the first time in seven games, they haven't allowed more than three during all 12 games on the new year. "We know every team is gonna give us their best now," said Boston forward David Krejci, who has nine points in his last six games. "They look at us as a statement game. We talk about it a lot. We try to get ready for every game." Boston last suffered consecutive defeats during a three-game slide from April 10-14 of last season. It last happened on the road in February 2022. | |||||||
01-26-23 | Blues v. Coyotes +145 | 0-5 | Win | 145 | 6 h 18 m | Show | |
The St. Louis Blues will continue playing catch-up in their quest for the postseason when they face the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night in Tempe, Ariz. The Blues lost ground in the playoff race when they won just three times during a seven-game homestand that ended Tuesday. That struggle left them six points out of the final Western Conference playoff slot through Tuesday's games. The predicament puts extra focus on Thursday's matchup at Mullett Arena. The game will open the Blues' three-game road trip leading into the NHL All-Star break. "We have to go into Arizona and take care of business there and then focus on the next one after that," Blues defenseman Justin Faulk said. "There's nothing more to it. We're in a hole, and we got to start digging out. If we look too far ahead, we're not gonna get anywhere." The rebuilding Coyotes have lost 12 of their last 14 games. But the Blues can't take anything for granted after losing to the Chicago Blackhawks and Buffalo Sabres by 5-3 scores in their last two games. In both losses, St. Louis failed to defend the center of its defensive zone in front of goaltender Jordan Binnington. | |||||||
01-26-23 | Devils -122 v. Predators | 4-6 | Loss | -122 | 5 h 23 m | Show | |
The New Jersey Devils understand their trend of winning games in overtime on power-play goals by Dougie Hamilton probably isn't sustainable. But it sure is exciting. The Devils look to remain hot Thursday night when they begin a two-game Western Conference road trip by visiting the Nashville Predators. Both teams were off Wednesday after earning wins at home on Tuesday night. Hamilton forced overtime by scoring with 1:10 left in regulation before he tallied the game-winner in the extra session for the second straight game to lift the Devils past the Vegas Golden Knights, 3-2. Tanner Jeannot scored the tiebreaking goal 5:38 into the third period to lead the Predators past the Winnipeg Jets, 2-1. The dramatic game-winner by Hamilton continued a longer trend by the Devils, who have won three of their last four games in overtime and earned four victories after regulation during a 7-0-1 stretch dating to Jan. 7. | |||||||
01-26-23 | Sabres v. Jets -174 | 3-2 | Loss | -174 | 5 h 20 m | Show | |
Winners of four straight and 5-1-1 in their past seven games, the Buffalo Sabres will look to keep rolling when they visit the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night. The current winning streak comes after the Sabres dropped five of their previous six outings. "I think whether we're on the road or at home, I just think we have a group that loves hockey, loves to compete, and I think that's just kind of where we're at as a team right now," Tage Thompson said. "We've got a lot of guys that are just hungry to win and hungry to perform every night, and I think you see it." The goals have tailed off a touch for Thompson, with just two in his past 10 games, but he's still picking up the points, riding a five-game point streak in which he has two goals and six assists. | |||||||
01-26-23 | Penguins v. Capitals -120 | 2-3 | Win | 100 | 5 h 39 m | Show | |
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals currently hold the two wild-card spots in the Eastern Conference, but both clubs are far from polished products. While the visiting Penguins try to win consecutive games for the first time in more than two weeks, the banged-up Capitals look to avoid their third straight defeat when the rivals meet Thursday night. Pittsburgh and Washington each own 56 points in the competitive Eastern Conference, and both are pursuing the third spot in the Metropolitan Division. Pittsburgh won the season's first meeting, 4-1 at Washington on Nov. 9. The Penguins are amid a 3-0-2 stretch, but they last won back-to-back contests on Jan. 8-10. On Tuesday, Kris Letang had two goals and two assists in his first game since Dec. 28. Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby each posted one with two assists as Pittsburgh recorded its most goals of the season during a 7-6 overtime win versus Florida. | |||||||
01-26-23 | Bruins -110 v. Lightning | 2-3 | Loss | -110 | 4 h 28 m | Show | |
The Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning meet for the third time this season Thursday night in what is shaping up to be a potential second-round matchup in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Bruins claimed victories in the first two contests between the Atlantic Division foes. Boston was victorious 5-3 on Nov. 21 in the first visit to Tampa -- Thursday night's match is the final one there -- and won again eight days later with a 3-1 decision at home. All-Star forward David Pastrnak is a large reason for the Bruins' success, which reached history-making proportions Tuesday night against bitter rival Montreal. Pastrnak earned his third point in the match by assisting on captain Patrice Bergeron's game-winning goal with less than three minutes remaining. The right winger then added an empty-net tally inside the final minute to cap Boston's 4-2 win and his four-point showing. The win gave the Bruins an NHL-best 80 points in 47 games. They are the fastest club to reach the point total in league history, overtaking the 1943-44 Canadiens and 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers, who needed 49 games to reach 80. | |||||||
01-26-23 | Red Wings -160 v. Canadiens | 4-3 | Win | 100 | 4 h 25 m | Show | |
Overtimes and shootouts haven't been kind to the Detroit Red Wings this season. That's what made their overtime victory over San Jose even more satisfying on Tuesday. They'll look to carry that momentum into a road back-to-back, beginning at Montreal on Thursday. Andrew Copp scored 25 seconds into overtime to beat the Sharks 3-2. The goal was set up by Michael Rasmussen, who pounced on the puck after Copp lost a faceoff in the San Jose zone. Rasmussen peppered the net until Copp scored on a rebound. "It wasn't too tough. He did all the work," Copp said. "Won the battle off the faceoff after I kind of lost it and took it right to the cage and both guys (defenders) kind of went to him." Detroit was 3-8 in extra sessions prior to the victory. While the Red Wings picked up a point in those losses, a few more victories after regulation would have put them in a much better position in the wild-card chase. | |||||||
01-25-23 | Canucks +165 v. Seattle Kraken | 1-6 | Loss | -100 | 8 h 27 m | Show | |
Barely a season and a half into their existence, the Seattle Kraken are about to face their third different Vancouver Canucks head coach. They're still looking for the first win against any of them. The Kraken will look to snap that streak Wednesday night when they play host to the Canucks and new coach Rick Tocchet. Tocchet, hired Sunday to replace Bruce Boudreau after the Canucks struggled to an 18-25-3 start, made his debut behind the Vancouver bench Tuesday night in a 5-2 home victory against the Chicago Blackhawks. Andrei Kuzmenko scored twice in the second period, the Canucks broke away from a 2-2 tie with goals 34 seconds apart midway through the third, and Bo Horvat added a short-handed empty-netter to equal his career high with his 31st goal of the season. The Canucks, who outshot Chicago 48-14, snapped a three-game skid and won for just the third time in the past 13 games. | |||||||
01-25-23 | Blue Jackets +329 v. Oilers | 3-2 | Win | 329 | 8 h 9 m | Show | |
It's been more than 20 years since the Edmonton Oilers last won seven straight games in a season. Considering how well the Oilers have fared against the Columbus Blue Jackets at home all-time, they appear in good position to accomplish that feat again when the teams meet Wednesday night. Following a 1-3-1 stretch from Dec. 31-Jan. 9, Edmonton has won a season-high six in a row and has outscored opponents 31-13 in the process. The Oilers most recently won seven consecutive games during their club-record, nine-game winning streak in the 2000-01 season. "We're getting contributions from everybody, whether it's on the score sheet or playing physical, blocking a shot, or being solid defensively," said Edmonton superstar Connor McDavid, who has recorded 16 of his NHL-leading 88 points during his current 10-game point streak. "I think we're getting contributions up and down the lineup -- and then a little maturity." | |||||||
01-25-23 | Hurricanes v. Stars -102 | 3-2 | Loss | -102 | 7 h 14 m | Show | |
The Carolina Hurricanes will try to extend their latest points streak when they visit the Dallas Stars on Wednesday. The Hurricanes are 4-0-1 over their last five games, continuing the team's knack for just about always leaving the rink with at least one point. Only the NHL-leading Boston Bruins have fewer regulation losses than Carolina's nine, and the Hurricanes' season included a 15-0-2 stretch that set new club records for consecutive games with a point (17) and consecutive wins (11). In Saturday's 5-2 road win over the New York Islanders, the Hurricanes faced some extra adversity. Max Pacioretty suffered a potentially season-ending Achilles tear in Carolina's previous game, and defenseman Jaccob Slavin was a late lineup scratch due to a lower-body injury. The lineup absences weren't enough to slow down the Hurricanes. Carolina scored twice in the first four minutes against New York, and Sebastian Aho scored the game's final three goals for his sixth career hat trick. | |||||||
01-25-23 | Rangers +140 v. Maple Leafs | 2-3 | Loss | -100 | 6 h 3 m | Show | |
Reuniting William Nylander and John Tavares worked well on Monday and the Toronto Maple Leafs hope the success continues Wednesday night against the visiting New York Rangers. Nylander had two goals and two assists -- all in the second period -- and the Maple Leafs opened a five-game homestand with a 5-2 victory over the New York Islanders. Tavares had a goal and an assist while Calle Jarnkrok, the other player on the line, also scored a goal. The Rangers also won Monday night, 6-2 over the visiting Florida Panthers. After losing 3-2 in overtime to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, the Maple Leafs overcame a 1-0 first-period deficit with a four-goal outburst in the second period Monday. | |||||||
01-25-23 | Islanders +116 v. Senators | 1-2 | Loss | -100 | 6 h 57 m | Show | |
Ottawa coach D.J. Smith promised changes were coming after watching his Senators continue a month-long slump Saturday night. For New York Islanders coach Lane Lambert, the search for answers to what is ailing his team is already underway but doesn't appear to be anywhere close to complete. A pair of skidding teams will meet Wednesday night when the Senators host the Islanders. The Senators have been off since Saturday, when they lost to the visiting Winnipeg Jets 5-1. The Islanders are concluding a two-game Canadian road trip after squandering another early lead Monday and falling to the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2. Some struggles are to be expected for the rebuilding Senators, who have missed the playoffs in each of the last five seasons and entered Tuesday tied with the Montreal Canadiens for the second-fewest points in the Eastern Conference. But their latest skid has increasingly frustrated Smith. The Senators have lost 10 of 16 (6-9-1) since a 14-14-2 start and are 2-6-0 since Jan. 9, a span in which they've been outscored 36-17. Five of the losses in the latter stretch have been by at least three goals. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Blackhawks +200 v. Canucks | 2-5 | Loss | -100 | 8 h 56 m | Show | |
The Vancouver Canucks finally turned the page. Vancouver's home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday marks the next chapter for the club that hired Rick Tocchet as head coach after a drawn-out firing of Bruce Boudreau. Boudreau, who coached for a couple of weeks amidst rampant speculation that he would be replaced by Tocchet, was finally relieved of his duties on Sunday. Now Tocchet -- who has been a head coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Arizona Coyotes -- takes the reins of a team that has lost seven of its past eight games and 10 of its past 12. "I don't look at it as a tough start," Tocchet said. "I look at it as a new day tomorrow. All of that other stuff lessens and lessens (each day)." The Canucks are more than a dozen points out in the playoff race, and a miracle run is almost impossible, but Tocchet -- who reportedly has a contract through the 2024-25 season -- will look to create a new atmosphere for a franchise that has now had three head coaches in less than 14 months. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Ducks +120 v. Coyotes | 5-2 | Win | 120 | 7 h 2 m | Show | |
Trevor Zegras is playing his best hockey of the season for the Anaheim Ducks and that could spell bad news for the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night at Tempe, Ariz. Zegras is riding an NHL career-high five-game point streak (five goals, four assists). He has scored seven goals in his past eight games to give him a team-leading 17 on the season. Zegras had two goals and an assist in a 6-3 loss at the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon, giving him six multigoal games for his NHL career, the second-most by an Anaheim player before turning 22 since Paul Kariya (13). "His play is greatly improving always," Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. "He's obviously an offensive threat all the time, he's gotten much better defensively and managing the puck, and his growth continues." Zegras and the Ducks might also have a chip on their shoulders when they step on the ice at the 5,000-seat Mullett Arena. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Capitals v. Avalanche -118 | 2-3 | Win | 100 | 7 h 59 m | Show | |
The last time Darcy Kuemper and Nicolas Aube-Kubel played hockey in Colorado, they were taking part in the Stanley Cup Final for the Avalanche last June. Aube-Kubel and Kuemper were essentially one-year rentals for Colorado and became salary cap casualties after the championship parade rolled through downtown Denver. Kuemper landed in Washington as the No. 1 goaltender, and Aube-Kubel went to Toronto before being waived by the Maple Leafs and claimed by the Capitals. Both former Avs will make their first trip back to Colorado when the Capitals visit Denver on Tuesday night. Colorado acquired Kuemper from Arizona ahead of last season with the hope he would stabilize the Avalanche's situation in net. He missed four postseason games due to injury but played all six Stanley Cup games. Cale Makar will not play again but we won't fall for that like against Calgary. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Sabres +125 v. Blues | 5-3 | Win | 125 | 6 h 4 m | Show | |
The St. Louis Blues hope to get winger Vladimir Tarasenko and defenseman Torey Krug back in the lineup Tuesday when they host the Buffalo Sabres. Tarasenko has been sidelined since Dec. 31 with a hand injury while Krug has been on the shelf since Dec. 23 with a lower-body injury. Both players practiced at full speed ahead of Tuesday's game at Enterprise Center, which will conclude St. Louis' seven-game homestand. The Blues went 3-3 in the first six games without their two key veterans. "They practiced today full again, which is good," Blues coach Craig Berube said. "Kruger getting another one in there, Vladi's been with us and they both seem good. Kind of wait and see." Tarasenko skated on a line with Brayden Schenn and Ivan Barbashev at even strength, and he moved back onto the net-front position on the top power-play unit. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Golden Knights v. Devils -168 | 2-3 | Win | 100 | 6 h 36 m | Show | |
The opener of a season-long six-game road trip Sunday afternoon appeared to provide the Vegas Golden Knights their best opportunity to regain the consistency they displayed while moving to the top of the Pacific Division. Instead, a loss to the lottery-bound Arizona Coyotes left the Golden Knights still seeking answers and another spark as they head across the country for a spate of games against fellow playoff contenders. The Golden Knights will look to get back on track Tuesday night, when they are scheduled to make their lone visit to face the New Jersey Devils in Newark, N.J. Both teams were off Monday after playing Sunday, when the Golden Knights fell to the Coyotes 4-1 and the host Devils earned a 2-1 overtime win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. The loss was the fifth in the last seven games (2-5-0) for the Golden Knights, who have been outscored 24-17 during the slump. On Sunday, Vegas fell behind the Coyotes -- who have the fourth-fewest points in the NHL -- just 1:59 after faceoff and trailed wire-to-wire fewer than 24 hours after scoring the first five goals in a 6-2 win over the Washington Capitals. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Panthers +141 v. Penguins | 6-7 | Loss | -100 | 6 h 7 m | Show | |
The Pittsburgh Penguins found their blueprint -- sort of -- and will be looking for more of the same Tuesday when the Florida Panthers visit. The Penguins, 4-2-2 in their past eight games, are coming off a 2-1 overtime loss on Sunday at New Jersey where nearly everything went right except the outcome. Pittsburgh controlled play and held the Devils at bay, including giving up just two shots in the second period. "I think if we continue to play with that kind of mindset, that kind of aggressiveness, then over time it's going to give us a chance to win," said Pittsburgh center and captain Sidney Crosby, who scored his team-leading 22nd goal in that game. "The challenge is doing it consistently. We've got to learn from it and bring a similar game and find a way to get two points." That would take a little more of a finishing touch on offense. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Kings -123 v. Flyers | 4-3 | Win | 100 | 6 h 39 m | Show | |
After a much-needed day off, the Philadelphia Flyers play their final home game before the All-Star break on Tuesday against the Los Angeles Kings. The Flyers looked flat early in their last game against the Winnipeg Jets as they fell behind 3-0 before rallying for three goals in what was ultimately a 5-3 setback on Sunday. Kevin Hayes did provide a lift with two power-play goals in his 600th career game in the National Hockey League. Named to the All-Star team, Hayes now has 15 goals this season. "Hockey is a weird game," Hayes said. "You get a chance you should've scored on, and you miss. A goal that's kind of a little unlikely goes in. You joke around in practice and warmups working on that stuff. Sometimes it happens in a game." The Flyers had won nine of 12 before losing to Winnipeg at home for the first time since October of 2011. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Wild v. Lightning -156 | 2-4 | Win | 100 | 6 h 35 m | Show | |
After losing for the second time on their four-game road trip through the southern part of the Eastern Conference, the Minnesota Wild will try to improve even-strength play and hopefully get a little puck luck when they visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night. Following Thursday night's 5-2 loss at the Carolina Hurricanes, coach Dean Evason's Wild fell 5-3 to the Florida Panthers on Saturday, setting up a showdown with the Lightning, who are coming off a 3-2-0 road trip across the Western Conference. The setback against Florida happened despite the cards being stacked in Minnesota's favor. Without goaltenders Sergei Bobrovsky and Spencer Knight, the Panthers turned to the AHL tandem of Alex Lyon and Mack Guzda. The Atlantic Division club also lost defensemen Aaron Ekblad and Gustav Forsling early in the game, although Forsling returned, and top-six center Sam Bennett left the game with an injury. Still, Minnesota could not manage enough offense to defeat Lyon, who made 29 saves in only his 26th NHL game and did not allow a goal at even strength. The visitors went 2-for-2 on the power play and added their third with 90 seconds left to play trailing by two and with goalie Filip Gustavsson off for the extra skater. | |||||||
01-24-23 | Sharks v. Red Wings -140 | 2-3 | Win | 100 | 5 h 9 m | Show | |
The Detroit Red Wings are in danger of losing any realistic hope they can make a playoff run as the All-Star break approaches and will look to start a much-needed hot streak at home against the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday. The Wings have gone 1-3-1 since Jan. 14 and 3-6-1 since Jan. 4, with a damaging 2-1 home loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday. "We certainly feel we played good enough to win," said Red Wings team captain Dylan Larkin, who is a point away from 400 in his career. "The effort level is not the issue. It's just when we are on our game, we have to capitalize, we have to make teams pay. We're up 3-1 in Arizona and we don't put it away (in a 4-3 shootout loss). "We had chances, we just don't put it away. We need to start. That's the maturing and growing as a team. We need to find ways to put teams away." Once one of the undisputed powerhouses in the NHL, the Red Wings haven't made the playoffs the past six seasons. They've shown gradual improvement since they hired Steve Yzerman as their general manager but still can't match the talent of some of the league's elite clubs. | |||||||
01-22-23 | Golden Knights v. Coyotes +181 | 1-4 | Win | 181 | 7 h 25 m | Show | |
The Pacific Division-leading Vegas Golden Knights will begin a six-game road stretch on Sunday night when they face the Arizona Coyotes in the second game of a back-to-back. It will be the first time that Vegas faces Arizona at its new temporary home, 4,600-seat Mullett Arena on the Arizona State campus in Tempe. And when asked about the prospect of playing in a cozy college arena for the first time, defenseman Alec Martinez, who starred at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, had one question. "Is the ASU band going to be there?" Martinez said with a smile. "That's one thing I definitely miss. The Miami hockey band was pretty stellar. Obviously, we've never been there (Mullett). I'm interested to see how it's going to go and what it's going to feel like. Excited to get back at it (Sunday)." It was a much more upbeat locker room for the Golden Knights after they snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with a lopsided 6-2 victory over the Alex Ovechkin-less Washington Capitals on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Ovechkin was out with a lower-body injury. | |||||||
01-22-23 | Jets -158 v. Flyers | 5-3 | Win | 100 | 7 h 37 m | Show | |
The Philadelphia Flyers will look for their 10th win in 13 games when they host the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night. The Flyers posted a hard-earned, 2-1 road victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday thanks in large part to 30 saves from goaltender Carter Hart. Philadelphia also played gritty defense and blocked 31 shots, eight from Ivan Provorov. More than once, Provorov went sprawling to the ice to block a shot. Scott Laughton and Noah Cates each scored one goal, and Hart preserved the victory with a scintillating pad save in the final few seconds against Lucas Raymond. | |||||||
01-22-23 | Kings v. Blackhawks +195 | 2-1 | Loss | -100 | 7 h 31 m | Show | |
The Los Angeles Kings and Chicago Blackhawks still hope to see consistent play from their goalies this season. Petr Mrazek is coming off his best performance of the season for the Blackhawks, and Jonathan Quick has been mostly solid in relief in his past two appearances for the Kings. The veteran goalies will try to build on those results and bring some stability back to the crease when Chicago hosts Los Angeles on Sunday evening. Mrazek stopped 37 of 38 shots in a 4-1 win at the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday for his second straight win. Those performances helped erase a dismal effort against the visiting Seattle Kraken on Jan. 14, when Mrazek stopped just one of five shots before getting replaced in an 8-5 loss. | |||||||
01-22-23 | Penguins v. Devils -138 | 1-2 | Win | 100 | 2 h 44 m | Show | |
A productive if imperfect road trip might have helped the New Jersey Devils begin rediscovering their early-season form. The return of goalie Tristan Jarry on Friday night might have given the Pittsburgh Penguins a clearer path to one of the wild-card spots in the Eastern Conference. A pair of longtime rivals looking to maintain their momentum are slated to meet on Sunday afternoon, when the Devils host the Penguins for the first time this season in Newark, N.J. The Devils haven't played since Thursday night, when they completed a five-game road trip by falling to the Seattle Kraken 4-3 in overtime. The Penguins won the back end of a home-and-home set with the Ottawa Senators on Friday, when Jarry made 44 saves in a 4-1 win in Pittsburgh. The loss prevented the Devils from enjoying a perfect road trip, but going 4-0-1 against the division rival Carolina Hurricanes and a trio of Pacific Division opponents allowed New Jersey to reassert itself near the top of the Metropolitan standings. | |||||||
01-19-23 | Devils -125 v. Seattle Kraken | 3-4 | Loss | -125 | 9 h 29 m | Show | |
The Seattle Kraken might want to find a neutral site for Thursday night's game against New Jersey. Because the Devils have been nearly unbeatable on the road. New Jersey has won the first four games of its five-game trip that concludes at Climate Pledge Arena and improved to 18-2-1 in away games with a 4-3 shootout victory on Monday at San Jose after Jack Hughes scored with 10 seconds remaining in regulation to tie the score. "I can't explain it," Devils coach Lindy Ruff said earlier in the week. "You know, we're finding ways to win, and I think that every team, every coach knows you're going to have to win games in different ways. ... I think our game, our detail to our game has been better on the road. We've managed the puck better on the road. I think sometimes at home there's a tendency to be a little bit more flashy, and some of our puck play has hurt us." The Devils were playing their third game in four nights in San Jose, and it showed. Still, they rallied for their 14th comeback victory of the season -- tying Tampa Bay for the league lead. | |||||||
01-18-23 | Penguins v. Senators -105 | 4-5 | Win | 100 | 6 h 11 m | Show | |
The Pittsburgh Penguins are in the mix for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference but need to find more offensive production on the road. Meanwhile, scoring goals anywhere has been an issue for the Ottawa Senators of late. While looking to avoid a sixth loss in their last seven road games, the Penguins will aim to hand the Senators their third consecutive defeat when the teams open a home-and-home on Wednesday night. Pittsburgh has won three of its last five games following an 0-4-2 slide and needed overtime to pull out a 4-3 home victory over lowly Anaheim on Monday. Evgeni Malkin had a goal with an assist and Sidney Crosby set up the winner for Jake Guentzel, who also assisted on Bryan Rust's tying goal with 25 seconds left in regulation. | |||||||
01-07-23 | Avalanche +112 v. Oilers | 3-2 | Win | 112 | 11 h 9 m | Show | |
The last time the Colorado Avalanche were in Edmonton, they were celebrating a sweep of the Oilers in the Western Conference finals and a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals. Colorado's current fortunes are far from that June 6, 2022, night in Canada. The reigning champions are mired in a five-game skid, including four losses in regulation, and are searching for answers. The Avalanche will try to end the losing streak when they play at Edmonton on Saturday night. Injuries have hampered the rhythm of Colorado's lineup but the 4-2 loss at Vancouver on Thursday night was a mixture of poor play and bad luck. The Avalanche led 2-0 when a clear attempt hit a referee to keep the puck in the Colorado end, and the Canucks scored seconds later. Defensive breakdowns led to two more goals in 34 seconds and the Avalanche had no answer. They were outshot 42-28 and went 1-for-5 on the power play. After taking the 2-0 lead early in the second period, Colorado was outshot 11-0. | |||||||
01-05-23 | Penguins +107 v. Golden Knights | 2-5 | Loss | -100 | 8 h 26 m | Show | |
The Vegas Golden Knights will get a big boost on the injury front when they open a seven-game homestand on Thursday night against the slumping Pittsburgh Penguins in Las Vegas. Center Jack Eichel, who has missed the last 11 games with a lower-body injury, took part in a full practice on Wednesday and head coach Bruce Cassidy said he would be back in the lineup barring any setbacks following the workout. Despite playing in just 27 of the team's 40 games, Eichel is third in scoring with 29 points, including 13 goals. Vegas, which doesn't play another road game until Jan. 22 at Arizona, has won two in a row after defeating Colorado 3-2 on Monday in Denver, but has struggled at home this season, winning just 11 of 20 contests (11-9-0). The Golden Knights have won their last three at T-Mobile Arena, but they weren't easy, with one being a 5-4 win over Nashville in overtime and another a 5-4 victory over St. Louis via a shootout. Before the current home win streak, Vegas had gone 1-6-0 over a seven-game home stretch with the lone 2-1 win coming in overtime over Philadelphia. Still, the Golden Knights, who are 15-3-2 on the road, lead the Western Conference with 54 points. | |||||||
01-01-23 | Islanders v. Seattle Kraken -115 | 1-4 | Win | 100 | 14 h 3 m | Show | |
Not only did the Seattle Kraken fall below the playoff line in their final game of 2022, but they were embarrassed while doing so. The Kraken lost to the visiting Edmonton Oilers 7-2 Friday to drop from third to fifth place in the Pacific Division and a point back in the Western Conference playoff race. The Kraken will try to salvage the finale of a three-game homestand when they play host to the New York Islanders on Sunday. The Kraken had no answer for Edmonton's Connor McDavid, who had a goal and four assists. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also had four assists for the Oilers, who were playing without second-leading scorer Leon Draisaitl because of an undisclosed injury. It was Seattle's eighth loss in the past 11 games (3-7-1). | |||||||
01-01-23 | Sabres v. Senators -126 | 1-3 | Win | 100 | 13 h 18 m | Show | |
The Buffalo Sabres closed out 2022 on a red-hot run. Now they'll look to maintain that momentum as they kick off the new year with a visit to the Ottawa Senators on Sunday. The Sabres are riding a six-game winning streak after a 4-3 overtime victory against the Boston Bruins on Saturday. It was also their eighth win in the past 10 games, and they are 11-3-2 since losing eight straight in regulation. They led the Bruins 2-1 after two periods but then found themselves trailing 3-2 with just over seven minutes remaining in regulation. "We just found a way, and that shows the kind of team we are this year," said Alex Tuch, who scored the game-winner, one of his two goals and four points in the contest. "We don't want to back down from anyone, and we know when adversity (happens), we can overcome it and win hockey games." They've outscored their opponents 28-12 during their six-game streak, with at least three goals scored in each game and at least four on five occasions. Buffalo leads the NHL with an average of four goals per game and has scored 136 goals just one behind league-leading Dallas. The problem is, this number is telling me that the Senators are the right side, that's where we're going. | |||||||
12-21-22 | Oilers +131 v. Stars | 6-3 | Win | 131 | 10 h 47 m | Show | |
The Edmonton Oilers' scorching-hot power play will be tested by the Dallas Stars' impressive penalty-kill unit when the two teams square off in Dallas on Wednesday. Through 33 games this season, the Oilers have scored on 32.8 percent (40-for-122) of their power-play chances, putting them in line for a piece of history. Since the NHL began charting power-play percentage as a statistic, the 1977-78 Montreal Canadiens hold the record (31.9 percent) for highest power-play percentage in a single season. Edmonton's pace has only quickened over its last 10 games. The Oilers are 17-for-38 (44.7 percent) on the power play in that span, scoring multiple goals with the extra attacker in seven of those games, including each of the last four. Unfortunately, this dominant power play hasn't translated to consistent results on the scoreboard. Edmonton has a modest 4-4-2 record in its last 10 games, including 0-1-2 in its last three. Monday's 4-3 overtime loss to the Nashville Predators saw the Oilers equalize three different times during regulation, before Nashville's Alexandre Carrier scored the overtime winner. The Oilers are 0-3-2 in their last five games decided by one goal. | |||||||
12-21-22 | Devils v. Panthers -132 | 4-2 | Loss | -132 | 7 h 20 m | Show | |
The New Jersey Devils are a tough team to figure. By the time the regular season ends, will their 21-4-1 start turn out to be a true reading of their talent? Or are the real Devils more in line with their current six-game losing streak? New Jersey, which fell 4-1 to the host Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday, will look to end the skid when it faces the Florida Panthers on Wednesday in Sunrise, Fla. The Panthers beat the Devils 4-2 on Saturday in Newark, N.J. "Our group as a whole has to be better," Devils coach Lindy Ruff said. Ruff, who is fifth on the all-time NHL wins list, could be on the proverbial hot seat if the current losing streak (0-5-1) continues much longer. But perhaps the skid is a blip on the radar. Perhaps the Devils will revert back to their season-opening form, when things looked so promising for a squad led by forwards Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt and Nico Hischier. All three of those players are younger than 25. Hughes, 21, leads the team in goals (17) and points (37). Bratt has 31 points and a team-high 21 assists, and Hischier, 23, has 29 points. Dawson Mercer, 21, is fifth on the team with 18 points. | |||||||
12-20-22 | Senators +120 v. Jets | 1-5 | Loss | -100 | 8 h 40 m | Show | |
Both the Winnipeg Jets and the visiting Ottawa Senators will try to bounce back from losses when they meet on Tuesday. Winnipeg lost 3-2 to the Seattle Kraken on Sunday, letting a 2-1 lead slip away in the third period. "We were half a step behind physically, and then mentally we complicated the game a little bit," Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. "When we do that, you're on your heels a little too much. ... We got it right down to the last five minutes. You hope at that point you can find a way to hang on, and we didn't." The loss comes at a time when the team has been dealing with a difficult batch of injuries. Blake Wheeler and Nate Schmidt are both out for at least a month, while there are still ongoing long-term injuries to Mason Appleton and Nikolaj Ehlers. Ottawa has been healthier but is also coming off a loss after a 4-2 setback against the Minnesota Wild on Sunday. In that loss the Senators tried to rally in the third period, but an early 3-0 hole was too much to come back from against the Wild. | |||||||
12-20-22 | Rangers +120 v. Penguins | 2-3 | Loss | -100 | 7 h 35 m | Show | |
It will be a when-last-we-met kind of game Tuesday when the Pittsburgh Penguins and visiting New York Rangers face off. This is the first meeting of the season between the Metropolitan Division foes, so it's the first rematch since the Rangers eliminated the Penguins in seven games in the first round of the playoffs last spring. The memories are likely to be fonder for New York, and not just because of the outcome. The series came down to overtime of Game 7, a 4-3 Rangers win with Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry gutting out his first game of the series on a badly injured foot. The Penguins had been forced to use three goalies in the series. Pittsburgh came away from the series pointing to one pivotal moment. The Penguins held a 2-0 lead in Game 5 when New York defenseman Jacob Trouba -- since named team captain -- knocked Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby out of the game with what many thought was a questionable hit to the head. The Rangers quickly scored three goals, won that game and Game 6 with Crosby out before clinching it in Game 7. | |||||||
12-20-22 | Lightning v. Maple Leafs -129 | 1-4 | Win | 100 | 7 h 32 m | Show | |
The Toronto Maple Leafs hope that a return to home ice Tuesday night to play the Tampa Bay Lightning will help them regain their winning touch. After earning a standings point in 15 consecutive games (12-0-3), the Leafs suffered regulation losses to the New York Rangers and the Washington Capitals on a two-game road trip. The Lightning, meanwhile, extended their winning streak to five games on Saturday when they opened a four-game road trip with a 5-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. With two games in hand, the third-place Lightning have pulled to within three points of the second-place Maple Leafs in the Atlantic Division, led by the Boston Bruins. "Seems like every time you look at Boston, they're winning," Maple Leafs defenseman Mark Giordano said. "That's our goal, to get to the top of our division. We were happy with the streak we were on. We have to get it back." After losing 3-1 in New York Thursday to end the team's point streak and Mitchell Marner's 23-game individual point streak, Toronto lost 5-2 at Washington on Saturday. | |||||||
12-17-22 | Panthers +125 v. Devils | 4-2 | Win | 125 | 7 h 5 m | Show | |
The New Jersey Devils will try to end their season-long losing streak on Saturday when they host the Florida Panthers in Newark, N.J. One of the top teams in the league this season with a 21-7-2 record through 30 games, the Devils are on a four-game skid (0-3-1) and have lost back-to-back games in regulation against the Dallas Stars and Philadelphia Flyers. In both games the Devils were held to a single goal, falling 4-1 and 2-1, a rarity for a team that's averaging 3.5 per game this season. In Thursday's game against Philadelphia, the Devils fired 49 shots but only beat Flyers goalie Carter Hart once in the loss. | |||||||
12-17-22 | Stars v. Hurricanes -130 | 4-5 | Win | 100 | 7 h 3 m | Show | |
The Carolina Hurricanes have been without one of their best players for a week, but they haven't missed a beat. The team's depth has shown up in big ways. The Hurricanes take a nine-game points streak into Saturday night's game against the visiting Dallas Stars in Raleigh, N.C. It is the third season in a row Carolina has established a points streak of at least nine games. "You're always counting on 20 guys," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "You can't always have the same guys being the heroes." Sebastian Aho has missed three games with a lower-body injury, and he is not expected to play Saturday against the Stars or Sunday against the Pittsburgh Penguins. In Carolina's most recent game, veteran forward Derek Stepan notched his first goal of the season and Stefan Noesen scored on penalty shot in a 3-2 win at home against Seattle. These fourth-line contributions are adding up for the Hurricanes. | |||||||
12-17-22 | Maple Leafs v. Capitals +134 | 2-5 | Win | 134 | 7 h 40 m | Show | |
Alex Ovechkin will try to catch Gordie Howe on the all-time goals list and help the Washington Capitals defeat the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Ovechkin had a four-game goal streak snapped Thursday night in a 2-1 home loss to the Dallas Stars. After being held to an assist, the Russian star still needs one goal to match Howe's 801, which is second on the all-time list. Wayne Gretzky leads with 894. Ovechkin had five shots on goal in 22:16 of ice time Thursday as Washington's five-game winning streak ended. "We're trying to win games here," Capitals right winger T.J. Oshie said. "Ovi's going to do it and we're all going to be the first ones to congratulate him and be super, super proud of him, but we're also in a little bit of a hole here. So, we'll take care of his business, and as a team we've got to focus on getting more wins here." The Maple Leafs are coming off a 3-1 road loss Thursday to the New York Rangers in which two significant streaks ended. | |||||||
12-08-22 | Jets v. Blues +110 | 5-2 | Loss | -100 | 1 h 47 m | Show | |
The Blues earned a 7-4 road victory over the New York Islanders Tuesday to snap a four-game losing streak. They broke out to a 5-1 lead and held on for the win. "It's really nice to win," Blues captain Ryan O'Reilly said. "It's something we haven't had in a while. Made it a little too exciting at the end there. But the big thing is we won a game. There's a lot of good things we did tonight. A few bad bounces in just a few minutes that gave them some life and spark. But at the end of the day it's a big win, and there's something to build off." The Blues won despite missing winger Pavel Buchnevich (lower-body injury) and defenseman Torey Krug (upper-body injury). Buchnevich has eight goals and six assists in his last 10 games. | |||||||
12-06-22 | Maple Leafs v. Stars -110 | 4-0 | Loss | -110 | 8 h 36 m | Show | |
Dallas erased a three-goal disadvantage to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4 in regulation on Nov. 23. Two nights later, Jason Robertson scored twice with the goaltender removed for an extra attacker to force overtime against the Winnipeg Jets before losing 5-4. "It's a good feeling to have a lot of belief in here," Stars defenseman Ryan Suter said. "Everyone believes in each other and knows that that next line can go get us something, either some momentum or a goal." The Stars are 1-0-1 after two games of a five-game homestand. "It's 5-1 with 12 minutes left," DeBoer said. "We could be walking out of here with nothing. That's a really critical point, and you can't underestimate the fight in the group." Dallas is 0-5 in games that have gone to overtime, including a 0-2 record in shootouts. | |||||||
12-06-22 | Panthers v. Jets +105 | 2-5 | Win | 105 | 7 h 51 m | Show | |
It's been a solid first two months of the season for the Winnipeg Jets. But while the start of the campaign has gone well, starts of games have been a different story, and one they'll try to rectify when they host the Florida Panthers on Tuesday. The Jets scored five unanswered goals after trailing 2-0 in a 5-2 win against the Anaheim Ducks, the last-place team in the Pacific Division, in their most recent outing Sunday. It was the second straight game and the third time in its past six that Winnipeg has trailed by multiple goals. "I'm the head coach so I'm responsible for the way we start and getting our team prepared. So that starts with me," Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. "The second thing is, I'm not a babysitter. These guys are men. They're professionals and they're paid to show up here and go to work. My job here is to make that happen." The Jets have allowed 22 goals in the first period, their highest total of the three periods, and have scored only 15. They've had to come from behind in seven of their 15 wins this season, and five of their victories have come after trailing after the opening frame. | |||||||
11-30-22 | Rangers v. Senators +110 | 3-1 | Loss | -100 | 6 h 41 m | Show | |
The New York Rangers will look to end a three-game losing streak when they visit the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night before the teams meet again on Friday in New York. The Rangers are coming off a 5-3 setback to visiting New Jersey on Monday after losing 4-3 to Edmonton and 3-2 to Anaheim. Ottawa is coming off a 3-2 overtime win against host Los Angeles on Sunday after knocking off the Ducks on Friday. The Rangers took a 2-0 first-period lead against the Devils on goals by Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad before falling apart defensively. New Jersey scored four times on Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin in a span of about 23 minutes bridging the first two periods to take a lead, 4-2, they wouldn't relinquish. "Goalie played [expletive] game again," said Shesterkin, who made 33 saves. "I feel so bad and play so bad. I'm ashamed. "Every goal is an easy play for me. I have to stop those. If our team wants to win the game, I have to play better." Panarin's goal was his first in 13 games for the Rangers, who squandered a multiple-goal lead for the second straight game. The Oilers scored four times in the third period to rally from a three-goal deficit on Saturday. | |||||||
11-29-22 | Avalanche v. Jets +125 | 0-5 | Win | 125 | 4 h 17 m | Show | |
The Jets had 13 players record at least one point during Sunday's 7-2 road rout of Chicago. Saku Maenalanen posted his second and third goals, while Josh Morrissey had three assists to increase his team points lead to 23 for Winnipeg, which has totaled 12 goals in winning two straight after scoring four times in losing two of the previous three. "If you want to be a successful team in this league, the only way to do it through the whole 82-game season is like that, when everybody contributes," said Winnipeg's Pierre-Luc Dubois, who recorded two goals Sunday and has six points in the past four games. | |||||||
11-28-22 | Devils v. Rangers +105 | 5-3 | Loss | -100 | 3 h 11 m | Show | |
For the first time in a decade, the first clash of a season between the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers can be accompanied by visions of a playoff rematch. A pair of Eastern Conference contenders will oppose each other for the first time this year Monday night, when the Devils are slated to visit the Rangers in a battle of longtime rivals. Both teams were off Sunday after playing at home Saturday, when the surging Devils beat the Washington Capitals 5-1 and the Rangers squandered a three-goal third-period lead and fell to the Edmonton Oilers, 4-3. The Devils' win was notable in a number of ways. The victory was the 800th for coach Lindy Ruff, who is just the fifth coach to reach 800 wins in NHL history. "It means I've been around a long time," Ruff said. "You've got to do a lot of right things, have good teams, and the way our team is playing, I have to give them a lot of credit for getting me there." The victory was also the 15th in the last 16 games for the Devils, who have outscored the Capitals and Buffalo Sabres by a combined margin of 8-2 since a 13-game winning streak -- tied for the longest in franchise history -- ended Wednesday with a 2-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. | |||||||
11-26-22 | Stars v. Avalanche -155 | Top | 1-4 | Win | 100 | 10 h 35 m | Show |
A break early Friday morning gave the Colorado Avalanche, well, a break. The Avalanche were prepared to play the Predators in Nashville on Friday afternoon before a water main break at Bridgestone Arena forced the game to be postponed to a later date. The NHL also postponed the Predators' game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday. So instead of hosting the Dallas Stars in Denver on Saturday in the second game of a back-to-back set, the Avalanche flew home and had a day off while Dallas rallied to force overtime before dropping a 5-4 decision to the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night. The Stars are on a seven-game point streak (4-0-3) despite the loss. The unexpected day off gave Colorado a chance to heal a little. Mikko Rantanen took a stick to the face during a 4-3 loss to Vancouver on Wednesday night, and Evan Rodrigues left the game with a lower-body injury and didn't play after the first intermission. Coach Jared Bednar said Thursday that Rodrigues was day-to-day but there were indications he might not miss much time. The team assigned Anton Blidh and Sampo Ranta to the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League. The downside of getting an extra day off is the Avalanche had more time to think about squandering a game to Vancouver. Colorado gave up two goals in the third period to lose in regulation and end a brief three-game winning streak. | |||||||
11-26-22 | Maple Leafs v. Penguins -126 | 4-1 | Loss | -126 | 8 h 32 m | Show | |
The visiting Toronto Maple Leafs and the Pittsburgh Penguins come streaking into their meeting Saturday night. The Maple Leafs extended their point streak to seven games (5-0-2) Friday with a 4-3 win at Minnesota, and the Penguins won their fifth game in a row, 4-1 at Philadelphia. The last time Toronto lost in regulation was Nov. 11, a 4-2 defeat by Pittsburgh. In fact, this will be the teams' third meeting of the month. The Maple Leafs won 5-2 on Nov. 15. "We talked about it before we played (the Penguins) the first time, that we were going to see them three times in November, so here's our third time," Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. "Get on the plane, get to Pittsburgh and be ready to do it again." Since that 4-2 loss in the teams' first November meeting, Toronto has found success, if not style points, Keefe said. | |||||||
11-25-22 | Kings -140 v. Sharks | 5-2 | Win | 100 | 11 h 12 m | Show | |
The Los Angeles Kings will try to snap a three-game losing streak on Friday night when they travel to San Jose to face the Sharks. Both teams are coming off disappointing losses. The Kings jumped out to a 2-0 first-period lead against the visiting New York Rangers on Tuesday, gave up three consecutive goals in the second period to fall behind, 3-2, tied it on a Sean Walker goal in the third before Chris Kreider scored twice to give the Rangers a 5-3 victory. Kings coach Todd McLellan said the inconsistent performance was characteristic of his team's season. "Our game tonight has matched our year, where we're inconsistent, we're up and down," McLellan said. "Whether it's within a game, whether it's two-game segments, one-game segments, back-to-backs, we're still searching for that." "Yeah, disappointed," said forward Kevin Fiala, who scored his seventh goal 35 seconds into the contest and added two assists. "Going into the lead like that, 2-0 in the first, got to find a way to keep going, you know? There's no reason to step off the gas." So what happened? "I think we just stopped playing," Fiala said. "In the first period we had a lot of shots on net. We didn't give them anything defensively. ... It's just another game. Got to learn from it and get better the next game." The next game is against old rival San Jose, coming off an even bigger clunker, an 8-5 loss at Seattle on Wednesday | |||||||
11-25-22 | Jets v. Stars -155 | 5-4 | Loss | -155 | 9 h 9 m | Show | |
Coming off a stunning comeback victory, the Dallas Stars will look for another win over a Central Division opponent when they host the Winnipeg Jets on Friday. The Stars trailed the Chicago Blackhawks 4-1 through 50 minutes of play on Wednesday, yet emerged with a 6-4 win after scoring five unanswered goals. After Max Domi scored for Chicago 9:37 into the third period, the Stars quickly responded on Jamie Benn's power-play marker just 38 seconds later. Then, "we just got rolling," said forward Ty Dellandrea, who tipped in the equalizer for the Stars at 14:12 of the third period. "We got the building going and we fed off of that ... (Benn's goal) kind of erupted the place. And then we just took that and every line was going. Every line contributed. Great comeback." Twelve of the Stars' 18 skaters recorded at least one point, but Jason Robertson was again a key factor with two goals. The forward extended his points streak to 13 games on Wednesday, earning himself a spot in the team's record books. Robertson tied Dave Gagner for the longest points streak in Dallas Stars history (when the franchise moved from Minnesota for the 1993-94 season). As a team, the Central-leading Stars are on a six-game points streak of their own (4-0-2). | |||||||
11-25-22 | Seattle Kraken v. Golden Knights -190 | 4-2 | Loss | -190 | 9 h 36 m | Show | |
Thanksgiving is considered a significant benchmark in the NHL. From the 2005-06 season through 2018-19, 76.3 percent of the teams that were in playoff position on the U.S. holiday made the postseason, according to NHL Stats. That bodes well for the Vegas Golden Knights and Seattle Kraken, the top two teams in the Pacific Division, respectively, heading into Friday night's matchup in Las Vegas. "It's relevant, otherwise they wouldn't bring it up every year," Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. "Still think we've got a lot of things we've got to do better. But ... I like where we are at the break at Thanksgiving. Things can change, but we put ourselves in a really good spot." The Golden Knights defeated visiting Ottawa 4-1 Wednesday as goaltender Logan Thompson stopped 39 shots for his conference-leading 11th victory of the season. Mark Stone, William Carrier, William Karlsson and Jack Eichel tallied for the Golden Knights. Both Carrier and Karlsson scored highlight-reel goals. | |||||||
11-23-22 | Oilers v. Islanders -115 | Top | 0-3 | Win | 100 | 4 h 16 m | Show |
The New York Islanders overcame some imperfections to earn a much-needed road win Monday night. The Edmonton Oilers couldn't do the same -- but they had a reasonable excuse as the latest team to fall victim to the red-hot New Jersey Devils. The Islanders and Oilers will both be looking to play more complete games Wednesday night, when New York hosts Edmonton in a Thanksgiving Eve clash in Elmont, N.Y. Both teams were off Tuesday following their games a night earlier. The Islanders overcame a late deficit in the third period to edge the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime. The Oilers fell to the surging Devils, 5-2. The Islanders' win ended a two-game losing streak and salvaged a split of a four-game road trip, even as New York gave up the first seven shots of Monday's game and were outshot 32-24. According to Natural Stat Trick, the Maple Leafs had 12 high-danger chances compared to five for New York. | |||||||
11-23-22 | Jets v. Wild -150 | Top | 1-6 | Win | 100 | 4 h 59 m | Show |
The Wild are coming off an overtime victory against the Hurricanes, a 2-1 result on Saturday that snapped a three-game (0-2-1) winless drought. Minnesota was the team with the late comeback on that night, trailing until Sam Steel tied the score 17:23 into the third period. Steel also earned an assist for helping to set up Alex Goligoski's overtime winner. Wild coach Dean Evason said he hopes the game will be a turning point and a reminder of how successful his team can be when it is at top form. "That's who we are. That team looked like us, right?" Evason asked rhetorically. "(Carolina) pushed us to play like us. ... It's a really good template for us to remember, to reinforce." Minnesota is 0-for-14 on the power play over its past five games. Solving the power-play woes could be difficult against the Jets, whose 85.7 percent (36-for-42) penalty-kill percentage is among the best in the league. The Wild's Kirill Kaprizov has seven points (two goals, five assists) during his six-game points streak. Kaprizov is two games away from matching his career-best, as he collected a pair of eight-game points streaks last season. Filip Gustavsson likely will receive another start on Wednesday, since Marc-Andre Fleury (upper-body injury) is still on the Wild's injured reserve. Gustavsson looked good against the Hurricanes, stopping 20 of 21 shots. | |||||||
11-23-22 | Bruins v. Panthers +105 | Top | 2-5 | Win | 105 | 4 h 54 m | Show |
The Panthers are still adjusting after making a couple of big offseason decisions, trading away homegrown star Jonathan Huberdeau and bringing in Paul Maurice as a coach. The Panthers also traded valuable defenseman MacKenzie Weegar in that same deal, which brought back power forward Matthew Tkachuk from the Calgary Flames. So far, it hasn't clicked. The Panthers will enter Wednesday on a three-game losing streak (0-2-1), allowing 15 regulation goals during that span. Tkachuk has done his part, leading Florida in assists (17) and points (25). Carter Verhaeghe, who scored a career-high 24 goals last season, leads the Panthers with 11 tallies, putting him on pace for a career year. But some of Florida's other big guns have been somewhat subdued so far, including Aleksander Barkov (four goals), Sam Reinhart (five), and Sam Bennett (five). Last season, Barkov scored 39 goals, Reinhart had 33 and Bennett netted 28 -- all career highs. It's been frustrating for the Panthers, who earlier this season had to endure 11 games without their top defenseman, Aaron Ekblad while starting goalie Sergei Bobrovsky has struggled (4-5-1, 3.62 GAA). The Panthers are coming off a 5-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday. In that game, Florida had 50 shots on goal and still lost despite Columbus putting only 23 on net. "We've got to get some people in front of the net to score some hard, ugly goals," Maurice said. "We're having a hard time completing plays around the net." | |||||||
11-22-22 | Rangers -106 v. Kings | 5-3 | Win | 100 | 9 h 19 m | Show | |
The Los Angeles Kings entered this week having played more games than any other NHL team this season. And they won't catch any breaks this week, either, starting with a matchup against the visiting New York Rangers on Tuesday night. Los Angeles will be trying to avoid a third successive defeat -- which would be its longest losing streak of the season -- having ended a four-game road trip with a 4-1 loss to the Vancouver Canucks and 3-2 overtime setback to the Seattle Kraken on Friday and Saturday. Kings coach Todd McLellan, whose team has three games this week as part of a 14-game November, said he can sense his players are dealing with some early-season fatigue, but he reminded reporters that every team will go through busy stretches eventually. "They'll get it at some point and we have to be playing them, so we need to take advantage of it," McLellan said. "At the end, we all play 82 games, it's just how it's dispersed, when it's dispersed and where. There will be times where certain teams are tired and other teams are fresh." Kings defenseman Alex Edler concurred that a busy schedule is never an excuse for poor play. | |||||||
11-22-22 | Sabres +101 v. Canadiens | 7-2 | Win | 101 | 6 h 52 m | Show | |
Mired in an eight-game losing streak, the Buffalo Sabres will aim to stop the slide when they visit the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday. Each of the losses during their skid have come in regulation, including their most recent setback, 5-2 against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. They've allowed at least three goals in each loss and at least four in seven of the past eight games. All but one loss has been by at least two goals. "There's always going to be ups and downs," alternate captain Zemgus Girgensons said. "If you asked me at the 7-3 mark if this was going to happen, I probably would've answered no, but it is what it is. Right now, we have the game tomorrow that is important us." Buffalo has had good moments in some games during the streak only to be done in by youthful mistakes. General manager Kevyn Adams and coach Don Granato expected those hiccups as they work to develop the young core. Other times, the losses have stemmed from details of their game and in-game habits slipping. | |||||||
11-21-22 | Avalanche v. Stars -109 | 3-2 | Loss | -109 | 7 h 9 m | Show | |
The Colorado Avalanche are short-handed and plugging in AHL players to fill out the lineup, but it hasn't yet hurt them on the ice. Colorado has kept winning despite missing key players and being outshot 80-44 over the last two games, but it will face a stiff test at the Dallas Stars on Monday night. The Avalanche wrap up their three-game road trip at Dallas and look for a road sweep. They beat Carolina in overtime on Thursday despite the Hurricanes holding a 48-15 advantage in shots on goal and then shut out Washington 4-0 on Saturday night. "We have half our team out right now, and we're still finding ways to win," Nathan MacKinnon said. "Our division's good, obviously like every other year and we need these points. We want to be in a good, solid position when we get healthy." Colorado is winning because its star players are carrying a load. Artturi Lehkonen scored the overtime goal on Thursday night and had a goal and an assist on Saturday night, while MacKinnon had a goal and an assist and Cale Makar also scored in the victory versus the Capitals. | |||||||
11-21-22 | Islanders v. Maple Leafs -164 | 3-2 | Loss | -164 | 6 h 12 m | Show | |
The New York Islanders will be out to split their four-game road trip Monday night when they play the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Islanders have lost two in a row on their trip after dropping a 5-2 decision to the Dallas Stars on Saturday. One positive the Islanders can take from the loss at Dallas is that Mathew Barzal scored his first two goals of the season. He had produced 19 assists without a goal in the previous 18 games. "I'm excited to score whether it's my first or my 15th," Barzal said. "I wasn't worried about it." His goals gave the Islanders 1-0 and 2-1 leads. "We all knew it was coming," said Anders Lee, who had an assist on Barzal's second goal. "So now we can stop worrying about that and start seeing him do it more often. I don't think that was as big a deal as it got made up." Allowing five goals, on the other hand, wasn't an ideal outcome. "Defensively, in our zone, we had a couple of breakdowns," Islanders coach Lane Lambert said. "When we broke down, they took advantage of us, and it's just something that we have to correct." | |||||||
11-21-22 | Bruins v. Lightning -109 | 5-3 | Loss | -109 | 5 h 29 m | Show | |
Two of the three hottest clubs in the Eastern Conference will meet for the first time this season when the Boston Bruins visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night. Under first-year coach Jim Montgomery, the Atlantic Division-leading Bruins have won six straight games and 16 of 18 to begin the season. Boston dropped a 7-5 decision at the Ottawa Senators in the fourth game of the season on Oct. 18. Montgomery's group also lost 2-1 at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Nov. 5. That's it. In Saturday's 6-1 home rout of the Chicago Blackhawks, the Bruins tied an NHL record with 11 straight home victories to start a season. After games at the Lightning and Florida Panthers (on Wednesday), the team will have a chance to own the high mark on Friday afternoon when the Carolina Hurricanes come to Beantown. "It's a special team," said Boston captain Patrice Bergeron, who had a goal and an assist on Thursday to increase his point total to 999 in his career. The problem is, the Bruins have been horrible in Tampa. | |||||||
11-21-22 | Oilers v. Devils -146 | 2-5 | Win | 100 | 6 h 47 m | Show | |
Thirty-nine years ago Saturday, Wayne Gretzky uttered his most famous quote after he collected a hat trick and finished with eight points in the Edmonton Oilers' rout of the New Jersey Devils. "Well, it's time they got their act together," Gretzky said. "They're ruining the whole league. They had better stop running a Mickey Mouse organization and put somebody on the ice." On Monday night, the Devils can provide more proof of how far they've come in the last four decades -- and in the last month -- by chasing a record-tying victory against the Oilers when the teams face off in Newark, N.J. Both teams earned wins Saturday. The red-hot Devils recorded their 12th straight victory after cruising past the host Ottawa Senators, 5-1. The Oilers concluded a two-game homestand by defeating the Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in overtime. New Jersey's 12-game winning streak is the second-longest in franchise history and one shy of tying the record 13-game run produced from Feb. 26 through March 23, 2001. At the time the Devils were the defending Stanley Cup champion and in the midst of a 24-season stretch in which they qualified for the playoffs 21 times, won the Cup three times and made two additional trips to the Finals. The Devils of recent vintage haven't quite fallen to the depths of the early '80s -- the infamous 13-4 loss to Gretzky and the Oilers on Nov. 19, 1983 dropped that team to 2-18-0 -- but this winning streak has vaulted New Jersey back into what had become unfamiliar air. | |||||||
11-19-22 | Kings v. Seattle Kraken -126 | 2-3 | Win | 100 | 10 h 16 m | Show | |
On the first day of the NHL's free agency signing period this summer, the Seattle Kraken inked forward Andre Burakovsky, defenseman Justin Schultz and goaltender Martin Jones to contracts. It's hard to imagine where the Kraken would be without that trio as they prepare to play host to the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night. Burakovsky leads the Kraken in scoring with 15 points through 17 games (four goals, 11 assists). Jones has been a workhorse since No. 1 goalie Philipp Grubauer got injured, going 8-4-2 with a 2.34 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage overall. Schultz has been a reliable second-pairing defender, and he scored twice, including the overtime winner, in Seattle's 3-2 victory over the visiting New York Rangers on Thursday night. Those are three of the reasons the second-year Kraken enter Saturday just two points behind Los Angeles for second place in the Pacific Division with three games in hand. Seattle is 6-1-1 in its past eight games. | |||||||
11-19-22 | Islanders v. Stars -139 | Top | 2-5 | Win | 100 | 8 h 20 m | Show |
Following a successful road stretch, the high-scoring Dallas Stars try to hand the visiting New York Islanders a second straight defeat on Saturday night. Given the Stars' potent offense, the Islanders can't afford another rough opening period. Sitting atop the Central Division with 22 points, Dallas ranks among the NHL leaders with 66 goals. The Stars have totaled 38 of those goals while going 5-2-1 in November and scored at least four in each of the last four games. Roope Hintz scored twice while Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin each had a goal with an assist during Thursday's 6-4 win at Florida to cap a 2-0-1 road trip. | |||||||
11-17-22 | Penguins -105 v. Wild | 6-4 | Win | 100 | 5 h 39 m | Show | |
The inability to get various aspects of the game clicking at the same time continue to plague both the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Minnesota Wild. Each club looks to avoid a third straight loss when they meet Thursday night in Saint Paul, Minn. Pittsburgh opened the season on a 4-0-1 stretch, then endured an 0-6-1 rut before winning two in a row. The Penguins, though, have followed that mini-run of success with a 5-4 overtime loss at Montreal and Tuesday's 5-2 home defeat to Toronto. Through 16 games, Pittsburgh has scored 56 goals and allowed 57. It's also just 2-for-22 on the power play over the last eight contests. "I think we have moments in the game where we generate scoring chances, we're playing on our toes, we're dictating the terms out there," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. "And then, there are lapses in the game where we break down -- the breakdowns are egregious, and they're hard to recover from." Meanwhile, Minnesota dropped its first three games of the season, then followed with a 5-1-1 stretch. Since that spurt, the Wild are 2-3-1 -- and coming off consecutive losses to San Jose and Nashville. It's been a six-game span in which Minnesota has allowed 11 goals, but only scored eight and been shut out twice. | |||||||
11-17-22 | Devils v. Maple Leafs -135 | 3-2 | Loss | -135 | 4 h 54 m | Show | |
The New Jersey Devils shoot for their 11th consecutive victory Thursday night when they visit the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Devils defeated the host Montreal Canadiens 5-1 on Tuesday, with Jack Hughes scoring two goals and adding an assist. Meanwhile, the Maple Leafs defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 Tuesday, with goaltender Matt Murray returning from a groin injury to play his first game since Oct. 12. The Maple Leafs already have been successful at ending one winning streak, stopping the Boston Bruins' seven-game run with a 2-1 home victory on Nov. 5. John Tavares scored his 400th career NHL goal Tuesday and Michael Bunting scored twice, but the game was about Murray, a former Penguin. Murray, who won two Stanley Cup championships with the Penguins, made 35 saves. | |||||||
11-17-22 | Canadiens v. Blue Jackets -108 | Top | 4-6 | Win | 100 | 4 h 49 m | Show |
The improving Columbus Blue Jackets look to continue their climb out of the Metropolitan Division cellar Thursday when they host the Montreal Canadiens. After a five-game losing streak, the Blue Jackets have earned points in their last three games, including a pair of home-ice wins over Philadelphia. Thursday's game is the second of a six-game homestand for Columbus. On Tuesday, Vladislav Gavrikov scored at 3:14 of overtime to give the Blue Jackets their second overtime win, with Gavrikov accounting for both game-winners. Boone Jenner scored twice, and Eric Robinson had a goal and an assist for the Blue Jackets, who did get a dose of bad news in the win. Elvis Merzlikins allowed two goals on 17 shots before leaving the game in the second period with an undisclosed injury. Merzlikins was replaced by Joonas Korpisalo, who made 18 saves. Columbus lost a pair of two-goal leads against Philadelphia before prevailing in overtime. | |||||||
11-15-22 | Flyers v. Blue Jackets +102 | 4-5 | Win | 102 | 4 h 28 m | Show | |
After a surprisingly strong start, the Philadelphia Flyers have struggled with three consecutive losses, and on Tuesday night they'll visit the Columbus Blue Jackets, who started the Flyers' losing streak last week. The Flyers, who most recently dropped consecutive home games to the Ottawa Senators and Dallas Stars, will look to rebound in the same building where things started to unravel for them: Nationwide Arena. The Flyers fell 5-2 at Columbus last Thursday, starting the slide in which they have been outscored 14-4. "I'd be more upset with the loss if I felt they weren't trying," Philadelphia head coach John Tortorella said after the flat 5-1 defeat to the Stars. "You can boo us, you can talk (expletive) about us, but I will back those guys because they're trying. If it was an effort problem, it's a different story." The Flyers scuffled on special teams, going 0-for-6 on the power play and also allowing a short-handed goal to the Stars. | |||||||
11-15-22 | Canucks +110 v. Sabres | Top | 5-4 | Win | 110 | 4 h 59 m | Show |
Both mired in losing streaks, the Vancouver Canucks visit the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday in a battle of teams desperate for a breakout performance. The Canucks have lost their last three games while the Sabres have suffered five consecutive losses. Each team lost to the league-leading Boston Bruins over the weekend -- Buffalo had a 3-1 setback on home ice Saturday, and Vancouver a 5-2 defeat in Boston on Sunday. The Sabres held a 1-0 lead until 18:51 of the second period before the Bruins scored three unanswered goals. Tage Thompson scored a tremendous short-handed marker for Buffalo's only score of the game. | |||||||
11-13-22 | Jets +121 v. Seattle Kraken | Top | 3-2 | Win | 121 | 11 h 46 m | Show |
It's often said that even an average NHL goaltender can make a save when he sees the puck. But what about when a goalie happens to be a former Vezina Trophy winner, a three-time Stanley Cup champion and a likely first-ballot Hall of Famer? Well, good luck to the opposition. The Seattle Kraken learned that Friday night in a 1-0 defeat to Marc-Andre Fleury and the Minnesota Wild in which the Kraken's five-game winning streak was snapped. The Kraken will look to return to their winning ways when they host the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night. Seattle also will try to get more traffic in front of the Jets' net after failing to do so Friday against the Wild. | |||||||
11-10-22 | Oilers +138 v. Hurricanes | Top | 2-7 | Loss | -100 | 14 h 13 m | Show |
The Carolina Hurricanes' recent problems suddenly look trivial compared to those of the Edmonton Oilers. The Hurricanes enter their Thursday home game against the Oilers coming off a shutout loss at the hands of the Florida Panthers on Wednesday and having scored only one goal over the past two games. In their last game, the Oilers saw a teammate sustain an injury that set off alarms around the team and the NHL in general. Now, Edmonton will try to demonstrate a strong mental approach amid a four-game, East Coast trip. Oilers left winger Evander Kane skated off the ice with a wrist injury that required emergency medical attention because of a cut that resulted in considerable loss of blood Tuesday night at Tampa Bay. The injury to Kane, which occurred while he was down and Lightning forward Pat Maroon skated over his wrist, was scary in nature and will result in him missing at least three months of action. | |||||||
11-10-22 | Flyers +115 v. Blue Jackets | Top | 2-5 | Loss | -100 | 14 h 9 m | Show |
Two teams that have gotten off to surprising starts this season meet Thursday when the Columbus Blue Jackets host the Philadelphia Flyers. The Blue Jackets have lost nine of their first 12 games after signing star free-agent forward Johnny Gaudreau in the offseason. The move caught the hockey world by surprise and raised expectations. Columbus has struggled out of the gate under second-year head coach Brad Larsen, losing five straight games -- including both contests to the Colorado Avalanche in the NHL Global Series last weekend in Finland. The Blue Jackets were outscored 11-4 in the two losses, including last Saturday's 5-1 setback in which the Avalanche scored three goals in under four minutes of the second period. Columbus was outshot 17-4 in the second period. | |||||||
11-09-22 | Hurricanes +100 v. Panthers | Top | 0-3 | Loss | -100 | 11 h 13 m | Show |
Matthew Tkachuk, who leads the Florida Panthers in assists (12) and points (17), will serve the second and final game of his NHL suspension on Wednesday night when his squad hosts the Carolina Hurricanes in Sunrise, Fla. While it's never ideal to lose a leading scorer, the Panthers might have found a silver lining. After Tkachuk was penalized and later suspended for a dangerous hick-stick of Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick on Saturday, Panthers coach Paul Maurice went to work on reshaping his lines. On Sunday, Maurice put Sam Reinhart and Anton Lundell together on the second line, and it clicked in a 5-3 win over the host Anaheim Ducks. Reinhart, who had been slumping, had two goals, and Lundell had a pair of assists as the Panthers closed their four-game trip with a 2-2-0 record. | |||||||
11-08-22 | Stars -115 v. Jets | Top | 1-5 | Loss | -115 | 8 h 38 m | Show |
The Dallas Stars and Winnipeg Jets are showing they can hang in there with the top teams in the NHL. Looking for a season-high fourth consecutive victory, the visiting Stars will try to keep the Jets from running their point streak to seven games on Tuesday night. Dallas currently sits atop the Central Division with 17 points, and Winnipeg is two behind. Each club is amid a 6-3-1 stretch and playing with plenty of confidence. Aiming for a third straight road victory, the Stars have outscored their opponents 18-6 in November and gone 6-for-11 on the power play while winning all three games. Jamie Benn recorded a hat trick and Jason Robertson posted a goal with two assists as Dallas won 6-2 at Edmonton on Saturday. "Things are going good, and we want to continue that," said the 33-year-old Benn, who has four goals and four assists in the last three games. Robertson has scored six times during a career-high five-game goal streak, during which he's also recorded 11 of his team-leading 18 points. | |||||||
11-08-22 | Flames v. Devils -134 | 2-3 | Win | 100 | 7 h 30 m | Show | |
Forty solid minutes over the last two periods of regulation weren't enough for the Calgary Flames against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night. And 40 solid minutes over the first two periods weren't enough for the Flames against the New York Islanders on Monday night. The skidding Flames will again look to put together a complete effort on Tuesday night, when they visit the Devils in Newark, N.J., in the second game of a three-game, East Coast road trip. The Flames squandered a two-goal, third-period lead against the Islanders on Monday night and fell 4-3 in overtime in Elmont, N.Y. The defeat was the fifth straight for Calgary, which held the lead in four of those losses and in five of its six defeats this season. The surging Devils won their sixth straight game Saturday when they frittered away a two-goal, first-period lead in Calgary before Fabian Zetterlund scored 2:38 into overtime to lift New Jersey to a 4-3 victory. The Flames, who scored 89 seconds after the opening faceoff on Saturday but trailed 3-1 after the first period, got off to a much faster start on Monday. Calgary outshot the Islanders 30-12 through two periods and maintained a 3-1 lead until midway through the third period when New York's Anders Lee and Kyle Palmieri scored in a 59-second span. Palmieri's goal was an unassisted tally following a turnover deep in the New York zone by defenseman Nick DeSimone. | |||||||
11-07-22 | Oilers -155 v. Capitals | Top | 4-5 | Loss | -155 | 7 h 8 m | Show |
The Edmonton Oilers and Washington Capitals will be looking to return to their winning ways when they meet on Monday night in Washington, D.C. The Capitals have lost their past four games and surrendered a lead in each contest. Washington gave up three goals in the third period to the visiting Arizona Coyotes on Saturday night and lost 3-2. Washington hasn't scored more than three goals in a game in its last six. "It has kind of been the same story for the last four games," Washington coach Peter Laviolette said. "We have not been scoring a lot of goals, so if you are not scoring a lot of goals, you have got to pay attention to defense." The Oilers will be trying to avoid their first three-game losing streak of the season following five straight wins. Edmonton is coming off a 6-2 loss to the visiting Dallas Stars on Saturday night to cap a three-game homestand. | |||||||
11-06-22 | Maple Leafs v. Hurricanes -154 | Top | 3-1 | Loss | -154 | 6 h 55 m | Show |
Having the best players playing the best is what Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour looks for from this team. He has seen that development often this season, and that has equated to quite a bit of success. "Our top guys have been playing really well," Brind'Amour said. The Hurricanes will take a four-game winning streak into Sunday's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Raleigh, N.C. The Maple Leafs have a three-game points streak, including back-to-back victories. The most recent of those came with a 2-1 decision against visiting Boston on Saturday night, with Auston Matthews scoring both Toronto goals. Maple Leafs defenseman Timothy Liljegren made his season debut in that game after being out because of a hernia. "It gives us another really good option both 5-on-5 and on the penalty kill," coach Sheldon Keefe said. "He has the ability to play against really good people." The Leafs ended the Bruins' seven-game winning streak, and they'd like to douse another streak on Sunday. | |||||||
11-05-22 | Islanders -130 v. Red Wings | 0-3 | Loss | -130 | 1 h 53 m | Show | |
The New York Islanders roll into Detroit on Saturday afternoon seeking a sixth straight victory. All of those victories have come in regulation, as the Islanders have outscored their opponents 22-9 during that stretch. The Islanders were down 1-0 at St. Louis after the first period on Thursday, then erupted for four goals in the second period en route to a 5-2 victory. Kyle Palmieri tied the game just 14 seconds into the period. Over the next 10 minutes, Brock Nelson, Josh Bailey and captain Anders Lee hit the back of the net. | |||||||
11-02-22 | Penguins v. Sabres +102 | 3-6 | Win | 102 | 5 h 27 m | Show | |
Tage Thompson and the Buffalo Sabres aim to continue their torrid play on Wednesday when the team concludes its four-game homestand against the skidding Pittsburgh Penguins. Thompson recorded a hat trick to highlight his career-high, six-point performance in Buffalo's 8-3 romp over the visiting Detroit Red Wings on Monday. He is the sixth different Sabres player to score six points in a game and the first since Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine on Feb. 10, 1993 -- four years before Thompson was born. Thompson, 25, has five goals and four assists in his past two games to pull even with workhorse defenseman Rasmus Dahlin for the team lead in points with 12. Despite the recent scoring surge, Thompson insists he won't let it go to his head. "I think one of the keys is to probably not get too high," he said. "Same thing if you have a bad game, you don't want to get too low. You try to stay even keel and just kind of keep doing what you've been doing. That's the mindset I'm going to stick with going forward." Buffalo coach Don Granato likely would expect nothing less from Thompson. After all, he has known Thompson since their time together at the U.S. National Team Development Program. | |||||||
11-01-22 | Golden Knights -160 v. Capitals | 3-2 | Win | 100 | 9 h 28 m | Show | |
The Vegas Golden Knights take a four-game winning streak into the opener of a five-game road trip on Tuesday night when they face the Washington Capitals in a rematch of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals. Alex Ovechkin was the MVP of that series won by Washington in five games. The 37-year-old left wing will try to achieve another milestone on Tuesday when he tries to break Gordie Howe's NHL record for most goals with one team. Howe scored 786 goals in 1,687 games with the Detroit Red Wings from 1946-71. Ovechkin, who scored his fifth goal of the season in a 3-2 shootout loss at Carolina on Monday night, has 785 goals in 1,284 games with the Capitals. "I'm always saying to stay on one team for all my career is my goal," Ovechkin told NHL.com. "Obviously, I'm lucky enough to be able to do that kind of stuff so it's pretty cool." |
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William Burns | $1,395 |
Joey Tron | $617 |
Ray Monohan | $607 |
Ross Benjamin | $583 |
Big Al McMordie | $401 |
Matt Fargo | $327 |
Ricky Tran | $297 |
Sean Higgs | $140 |
Jesse Schule | $98 |
Kyle Hunter | $66 |