An 80-foot slap shot by Alexander Semin in overtime closed the gap between the top two teams in the Eastern Conference.
Semin’s blast from just inside the red line somehow found its way past goaltender Tim Thomas, giving the Washington …
Minnesota Wild forward Derek Boogaard was suspended five games Saturday without pay for elbowing Calgary’s Brandon Prust in the head.
The Pittsburgh Penguins were again without Sidney Crosby. Fortunately for their playoff hopes, they still had NHL scoring leader Evgeni Malkin.
Crosby sat out for the second-straight game due to a groin injury. But after being quiet dur…
Evgeni Malkin gave the Sidney Crosby-less Pittsburgh Penguins a full two points in the standings with one powerful shot. Malkin, the NHL points leader, scored on a power play at 1:36 of overtime to give the Penguins a 5-4 victory over Chicago on Friday night in the first game of a five-game trip. Crosby missed his second straight game because of a groin injury.
The NHL trade deadline doesn’t arrive until Wednesday, but Mathieu Schneider has already made a big impact since returning for his second tour of duty with the Montreal Canadiens.
Schneider’s power-play goal with 1:39 remaining in overt…
The Battle of Ontario plays out its latest chapter as part of a Hockey Night in Canada when the Maple Leafs hit Ottawa (7 p.m. ET, CBC, NHLN-US). The second game sees the Wild travel to Edmonton for a Northwest Division battle for valuable…
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Chris Osgood’s mini midseason training camp produced results. The struggling goalie made 30 saves in his return to Detroit’s lineup after a four-game break, leading the Stanley Cup champion Red Wings to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night. Osgood has a 3.22 goals-against average, which is 42nd in the NHL, and an .883 save percentage, which is 32nd.
Mathieu Schneider was able to do for Montreal on the final shot of the game what Philadelphia failed to achieve in eight tries. Score on the power play. Schneider scored with a man advantage at 3:21 of overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 victory over Philadelphia on Friday night. “I just tried to hang on and just get a wrister through with a screen,” Schneider said.
