SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks ended a long losing streak on home ice in emphatic fashion on Thursday night.

Forwards Alexander Wennberg and Philipp Kurashev each had a goal and an assist, and goalie Alex Nedeljkovic made 29 saves in his best performance of the season to help lead the Sharks to a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils at ...Read more

The last three years, the Penguins often found ways to lose games that they should have won, sometimes in spectacular fashion. That’s why they missed the playoffs.

This season is young, but the opposite has been true under new coach Dan Muse.

The Penguins got off to another sluggish start Thursday against the Minnesota Wild in St. Paul, Minn...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Although there wasn’t much country music blaring from the sound system inside Xfinity Mobile Arena, there was some honky-tonk goodness for the home team on Thursday night.

Despite losing captain Sean Couturier to injury after the first period, the Flyers skated away with a 4-1 win against the visiting Nashville Predators. The...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning had every reason to believe it wasn’t their night midway through their game against the Dallas Stars Thursday at Benchmark International Arena.

But this is a team that’s suddenly finding ways to win, and its 2-1 overtime victory over Dallas was just another example.

Anthony Cirelli’s goal with 2:24 left in ...Read more

BOSTON — The Bruins may not be a great hockey team. We still don’t know if they’re even very good at all. But they can be a fun, if unconventional, watch right now.

The B’s, outshot 40-23 and held in the game by Joonas Korpisalo, coughed up a two-goal, third-period lead but pulled it out in overtime, beating the Buffalo Sabres, 4-3, on ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — As fans inside PPG Paints Arena celebrated a second Penguins goal, Abby Kendall was watching a nightmare unfold.

A man a couple of rows in front of her seat in Section 234 on Monday had attempted to jump sideways from one row to the next while moving toward the staircase separating sections 234 and 201, she said, rather than ...Read more

The Kraken came all the way back from a 3-0 deficit in the span of 10 minutes to snag a standings point on Tuesday night. For all that effort, Seattle lost in overtime to Montreal for the second time in two weeks.

Seattle and Montreal combined for a low-event first two periods with just 22 combined shots on goal. The Canadiens seemingly stirred...Read more

DENVER — Giving up four goals in fewer than five minutes is not a recipe for success on most nights in the NHL.

This wasn’t most nights for the Colorado Avalanche.

Powered by a Victor Olofsson hat trick and two goals from Nathan MacKinnon, the Avalanche prevailed, 8-4, against the New Jersey Devils on a night filled with firewagon hockey ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild are having enough trouble snapping out of their current funk let alone a years-long rut.

They lost their ninth in a row to the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night at Grand Casino Arena, getting dumped 4-3 in overtime to drop a season-high fourth straight game.

This is their worst start of the Kirill Kaprizov ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — This was a perfect way for the Red Wings to open this five-game road trip.

They took advantage of a struggling and tired St. Louis team Tuesday, beginning this long trip with a 5-2 victory over the Blues.

Like Saturday, the Wings found themselves behind. But this time it only took 47 seconds before the Blues' Brayden Schenn put ...Read more

Center Jack Eichel scored twice in the third period, including a game-winning goal with 4:59 remaining, to give the Golden Knights a 6-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center on Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C.

Eichel, on his 29th birthday, added an assist for his third game with at least three points this season.

Left wing Pavel Dorofeyev...Read more

BOSTON — When the Boston Bruins are bad, they look like they can't break out of their zone against a high school team.

But against all reasonable predictions for this confounding squad, the B’s are a team that has been able to score in bunches, especially when a little urgency is infused into their game.

Both personalities were on full ...Read more

SUNRISE, Fla. — The Florida Panthers opened the second period on Tuesday with notable jump. They lived in the Anaheim Ducks’ zone, firing off shot attempt after shot attempt trying to break open a scoreless game.

But rarely anything hit the net during that seven-plus-minute flurry.

So, naturally, what happened next?

That’s right, the ...Read more

DETROIT — Ex-NHL player and Metro Detroit native Ryan Kesler has been suspended from his youth hockey coaching duties, the head of the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association said Tuesday.

MAHA president Tom Berry said Kesler has been "summarily suspended" from MAHA and USA Hockey, the governing body for organized hockey in the U.S., which ...Read more

DETROIT — Metro Detroit native and former National Hockey League star Ryan Kesler has been charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in a Bloomfield Hills court, online records show.

Kesler, 41, was arraigned Monday on two misdemeanor counts of criminal sexual conduct in the fourth degree, according to 48th District Court records. ...Read more