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The result left them cold, just as losses always do. Despite rallying from a two-goal deficit, the Wild fell 3-2 to San Jose on Friday night, officially eliminating it from playoff conten...

TORONTO — The Bruins left here last night dancing on air, a 2-1 overtime win over the Maple Leafs tucked in their equipment bags and their playoff position preserved. But it was a nigh...

SUNRISE, Fla. - The Rangers are familiar with this position, a close, low-scoring affair in which they are just waiting for someone, anyone, to step forward and grab hold of the game. Wha...

VANCOUVER - In one of the most improbable comebacks imaginable, the Wild forced overtime Sunday night by rallying with two goals in the final 42 seconds after the Canucks appeared to ice ...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA - Rookie Cody Almond played his fifth NHL game during Monday's 4-1 loss to the Oilers, and even though there are only two games left in the season, the sneak peek to the...

WASHINGTON (AP) The Boston Bruins needed to win this game badly. The Bruins came into Monday's game with the Washington Capitals tied for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, and af...

BUFFALO - They will raise a banner in Buffalo now, that much was assured by the Sabres' rout of the Rangers Tuesday night. Meanwhile, at the Garden, they took a big step closer to turning...

Bring on the Flyers. With their chances at the playoffs hanging on whether they can win the rest of their games, the Rangers took care of Step1 Wednesday night with a dominating 5-1 Ga...

BOSTON—The Boston Bruins are closing in on the playoffs, and they'll have a better chance once they get there if Dennis Wideman is pitching in. The much-maligned Boston defenseman, boo...

CALGARY, ALBERTA — There were so many kids running around in Wild jerseys Thursday night, it looked like Romper Room. With six regulars out of the lineup, the Wild got even more of a H...

The Garden was alive Friday night as it hasn't been all season, because for nearly three weeks now the Rangers simply have refused to die. And though it was the regular-season home finale...

This is hockey, not baseball, so any spraying of champagne or smoking of cigars upon clinching a playoff spot would be considered most uncouth. But considering how checkered the 2009-10 s...

The Met Center is long gone, imploded years ago to make way for a sprawling furniture store and a weedy parking lot. Still, every time Mike Modano comes to the Twin Cities, a loyal corps ...

WASHINGTON — For the Bruins, locked into sixth place even before yesterday’s puck drop, Game No. 82 meant nothing for a club that finally could breathe easy, knowing it had taken care of ...

PHILADELPHIA - It is a credit to the Rangers that they made it even this far, that they fought back from oblivion to take their season down to the final ticks of the clock, and beyond. Bu...

BUFFALO — In the second period last night, just about everything went the Bruins’ way. They barraged Ryan Miller with 24 shots. They executed clean breakouts, even cleaner entries, and ra...

BUFFALO — Did the Bruins make mistakes yesterday? Plenty, including the kind that end up in the back of your net. There was Milan Lucic, who had drifted too far to his right, being way...

For a second, maybe a fraction less, it looked as if Mark Recchi and Tim Kennedy would battle for the puck that Patrice Bergeron sent skittering down the right wing. Recchi and Kennedy we...

On a night when it appeared Ryan Miller wouldn’t give an inch, Miroslav Satan found enough room in the Sabres net to move in a family of three — dog, toaster oven, and backyard swing set ...

BUFFALO — After requiring protection for his broken nose for the last six games, Zdeno Chara’s beak was deemed healed enough last night for the captain to go cage-free. Without the bars i...

They got ahead, remained ahead, and now the Bruins are moving ahead to Round 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Led by a pair of David Krejci goals, and skating their best in the postseaso...

The opening game of the Eastern Conference semifinal between the Bruins and Flyers was a wild ride, Boston’s early domination dissolving into Philadelphia’s energetic rebound. By the end ...

When he got the puck, the one he soon would drive home for the winning goal, Milan Lucic was skating in the wrong direction. Flyers goalie Brian Boucher was to his back, and Lucic, with b...

PHILADELPHIA — Everyone, it seemed, stopped to marvel at how Mike Richards buried his shoulder into David Krejci at the far blue line and dropped the Bruins center like an egg from a roof...

PHILADELPHIA — With 31.5 seconds remaining in regulation last night, Mark Recchi’s six-on-five goal tied the score at 4 and sent the game to overtime, where the Bruins, still buzzing from...

PHILADELPHIA—The Flyers' farfetched comeback is nearly complete. Michael Leighton stopped 30 shots in his first start in nearly two months to help streaking Philadelphia beat the Bosto...

Less than an hour after Simon Gagne popped in the season-ending power-play goal behind Tuukka Rask last night, Shawn Thornton had shaved off his playoff beard. Zdeno Chara was signing his...

The Stanley Cup Finals ended Wednesday night with a 4-3 overtime victory by the Chicago Blackhawks over the Philadelphia Flyers, giving Chicago a 4-2 series win and its first Stanley Cup ...

HELSINKI, FINLAND — In case hopeful fans forgot the way a large chunk of last season went, the Wild used its season opener Thursday night to offer a perfectly crafted refresher just for o...

HELSINKI, FINLAND - The Wild spent much of its week in Helsinki lounging around saunas, eating lots of reindeer and herring and picking up souvenirs. Unfortunately for Minnesota, the o...

BUFFALO - As the Rangers open their season Saturday night, it's understandable that 20-year-old center Derek Stepan says he is "excited, nervous, all of it" for his NHL debut. But he is f...

PRAGUE — Here in what the Bruins will remember as the City of Big Contracts — with Patrice Bergeron and Zdeno Chara hitting the Black-and-Gold lottery for a combined $65,500,000 in extens...

It took only two games for Sean Avery to get into his first controversy of the season - only this time, he's not the one facing a suspension. In the first period of the Rangers' see-sa...

There was a reasonably large delegation of family and friends in attendance when home- stater Matt Cullen made his official home debut for the Wild on Thursday night. "Yeah, I had quit...

The Rangers dropped their home opener, 4-3, to the Toronto Maple Leafs Friday night, but before Phil Kessel's second goal of the night beat them, the Blueshirts' biggest loss came in the ...

NEWARK — Martin Brodeur leaned to his right, expecting Gregory Campbell, who had stickhandled behind the New Jersey net, to emerge from that side with the puck. Campbell never emerged....

All that bonding that took place in Finland became strained Sunday. In fact, an organized team dinner Sunday evening would have required 20 different restaurants. Several teammates ...

With Marian Gaborik out for up to a month with a separated shoulder, Chris Drury out for six weeks with his left index finger broken for the second time this season and Vinny Prospal out ...

WASHINGTON — Last year, when Daniel Paille started the season in Buffalo as a healthy scratch for the first four games, the left wing couldn’t get an explanation from coach Lindy Ruff or ...

Todd Richards cancelled Wednesday's practice. He probably should reconsider and encore with a two-hour "bag skate." The Wild sure responded impressively to its coach's well-publicized ...

After only four games and only one power-play puck had beaten an opposing netminder in 15 go-arounds, it was evident to the Bruins’ coaching staff — assistant Geoff Ward is in charge of a...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA - There've been better Oilers -- maybe Gretzky and Messier, perhaps Kurri and Coffey. But last year when the Wild needed to rent ice to practice in suburban Edmonton,...

TORONTO - The conventional wisdom on the Rangers is that they'll go as far as Henrik Lundqvist carries them. Thursday night, Martin Biron showed what he can do to help keep Lundqvist from...

VANCOUVER — During TV timeouts, in order to keep the puck sliding, the NHL sends out crews to clean the ice. Friday night at Rogers Arena, the snow seemed to pile only in the Wild end....

In the first period, after Alex Frolov’s goal gave the Rangers a 2-0 lead, coach Claude Julien sent out Shawn Thornton for the following faceoff. Thornton knew what he had to do: engage t...

The Rangers know they don't have one player capable of replacing the injured Marian Gaborik, so in the last three games, they've gotten eight goals from seven different players. And Sunda...

The only thing that delayed the inevitable -- the Wild blowing a two-goal lead on home ice -- was Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown's five-minute major Monday night. If that didn'...

The Rangers lost their edge, then they lost their winning streak. In the process, they lost another player. Already without Marian Gaborik, Chris Drury and Vinny Prospal, the Rangers p...

There was a palpable tension surrounding the Wild on Thursday morning following comments made by Martin Havlat's agent that his client has been underutilized by coach Todd Richards. "I...

The Rangers' work ethic was strong, their power play clicked for a pair of goals and Henrik Lund.qvist was on his game. But at the Garden, none of that seems to matter these days. Cam ...