The Washington Capitals won the game but may have lost their star. Nicklas Backstrom had two goals and an assist while Eric Fehr added a goal and an assist, leading the Capitals past the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Monday night in a game Alex Ovechkin left early with an apparent knee injury. Ovechkin was hurt [...]
Not even an apparent first-period injury to leading scorer Alex Ovechkin could slow down the Washington Capitals. Nicklas Backstrom had two goals and an assist while Eric Fehr added a goal and an assist Monday night, leading Washington to a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. It was the first meeting between the Southeast Division [...]
Mike Rupp shook off a leg injury in the third period, snapped a tie with his second goal of the night, and then completed his first NHL hat trick to help the Pittsburgh Penguins break a long losing streak at Madison Square Garden and sweep a home-and-home series from the New York Rangers with a [...]
Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin left Monday night's game at Carolina in the opening period with an apparent right knee injury. A spokesman for the Capitals said Ovechkin's injury would be evaluated overnight and that any further information from the team would come Tuesday morning. Ovechkin was injured with 7:55 left in the first period.
The Chicago Blackhawks are back home after a long and successful road swing and are looking forward to playing eight of their next 10 games at the United Center. The Central Division leaders will have a chance to give coach Joel Quenneville his 500th career coaching win in Tuesday's game against Columbus.
Dan Boyle scored the go-ahead goal on a power play 6:15 into the second period, and Evgeni Nabokov made 28 saves to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night. Manny Malhotra scored on a breakaway with 2:35 left and Jamie McGinn made it 4-1 on a [...]
For the second straight game, the Phoenix Coyotes got two goals from defensemen and beat another Pacific Division rival in the process. Sunday night, Jim Vandermeer scored his second goal of the game at 1:18 of overtime, center Matthew Lombardi also scored and Robert Lang had two assists, leading the Coyotes to a 3-2 victory [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins left winger Matt Cooke was suspended for two games without pay by the NHL on Sunday for a deliberate check to the head area of New York Rangers center Artem Anisimov on Saturday night. Cooke, also suspended for two games in January, is considered a repeat offender under the terms of the Collective [...]
Sidney Crosby made the Penguins' cap night giveaway at Mellon Arena an appropriate one. Crosby had his fourth career hat trick and added two assists for his second five-point game and the Pittsburgh Penguins won for the fourth time in five games, 8-3 over the New York Rangers on Saturday night. "It's always fun to [...]
Michael Ryder scored the lone goal in the shootout, lifting the Boston Bruins to a 4-3 comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night. It was the fifth win in six games — and sixth straight over the past two seasons against Ottawa — for the Bruins, who moved into first place in the [...]
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