PITTSBURGH — Thursday was the 73rd matchup between longstanding rivals Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. And health permitting, it won’t be the last time they face each other.

Ovechkin confirmed that in hilarious fashion Thursday morning in Pittsburgh. The Washington Capitals star was asked about playing against Crosby “one more time.”

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It’s been a trying few years for Flyers fans, but they got what they wanted on Thursday night, as the team lost its season finale, 5-4, in Buffalo, N.Y., to the Sabres, and with it, clinched the fourth-best odds in the upcoming NHL draft lottery. Entering the night, the Flyers knew a regulation loss would be enough to see them leapfrog the ...Read more

And that'll be it for the Red Wings' 2024-25 regular season.

Fittingly, somewhat disappointing.

Toronto defenseman Chris Tanev scored his third goal of the season with two seconds left in regulation time to force overtime, then forward Scott Laughton — who scored four goals in a game against the Wings earlier this season while in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Connor Bedard faced his share of challenges in a turbulent season for the Chicago Blackhawks.

A second straight campaign left the Hawks near the bottom of the league.

Bedard went through a coaching change, a 12-game goal drought and a self-admitted crisis of confidence.

Want to sign up for more? Apparently, yes.

Bedard also ...Read more

Eighty-two games are in the books. As Anakin Skywalker would say, this is where the fun begins.

The Golden Knights’ eighth regular season is in the books after a 4-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The next time the Knights take the ice will be in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Their ...Read more

SAN JOSE – Another season in which the San Jose Sharks have finished at the bottom of the NHL standings has, perhaps mercifully, come to a conclusion.

The Sharks hoped to finish the year on a positive note. But with their 3-0 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night at SAP Center, they ended with just 20 wins and 51 points, only ...Read more

The Red Wings aren't simply checking off the final days of the schedule, they are closing the season on a positive note.

They continued an impressive season-ending run Wednesday with a 5-2 victory in New Jersey.

The victories aren't going to get the Wings into the playoffs — they were eliminated Saturday — but it'll enable the Wings to ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Looking forward to the Eastern Conference final.

It begins here this weekend.

Of course, that’s not how the NHL sees it. Nor anyone north of the Florida border. The official version is that the playoff series between Tampa Bay and Florida is no different than any other first-round matchup in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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The Vegas Golden Knights clinched the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference in a 5-4 shootout loss against the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome on Tuesday.

Left wing Brandon Saad had a goal and two assists, and right wing Pavel Dorofeyev scored for the Knights (49-22-10).

That’s not the important news to come out of this game, however....Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The journey here didn’t have to be this tough.

Had the Minnesota Wild stayed on the trajectory that lifted them to one of the best starts in franchise history and atop the NHL into mid-December while Kirill Kaprizov was the early MVP favorite, they would have reached their destination much sooner.

Instead, they were ...Read more

BOSTON — The Bruins showed some fight in their season finale on Tuesday at TD Garden, but in the end they just couldn’t finish the job.

The result was emblematic of their season.

The B’s wiped out a two-goal deficit only to see Brian Dumoulin beat Jeremy Swayman from the top of the left circle in overtime to lift the playoff-bound New ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — And so it goes, and so it goes, and so soon will the Flyers season, as you know.

Skating in Game 81, the Flyers closed out the home slate with a 3-0 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets. They finished 20-20-1 at the Wells Fargo Center and moved to 5-2-1 under interim coach Brad Shaw.

Columbus needed a win to keep their postseason...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Kings were about to file onto the ice at their practice facility in El Segundo when the first embers of what would become one of the most destructive wildfires in U.S. history began to blow in Pacific Palisades.

That was on the morning of Jan. 7. Less than 24 hours later, with eight other fires burning throughout Southern ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The date was June 30, 2013. The site was the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., and Penguins scout Scott Bell was in no position to brag about the third-round pick he’d just lobbied for.

Not yet, anyway.

That is because fellow Minnesotan Jake Guentzel, taken 77th overall, was roughly the size of a field mouse. Bell’s buddies...Read more