Category: NHL

By LARRY LAGE DETROIT (AP) — Alex DeBrincat and J.T. Compher scored in the second period and Cam Talbot finished with 32 saves to help the Detroit Red Wings keep their fading playoff hopes alive with a 2-1 win over the Florida Panthers on Sunday night. The Panthers put their goaltender on the bench to add an extra skater and Anton Lundell scored with 39.9 seconds to pull them within a goal. The defending Stanley Cup champions lost their fifth game in a row and, combined with Ottawa’s win on Sunday, are only two points ahead of the Senators, who are in the first wild-card position. Detroit...

TORONTO (AP) — Mitch Marner scored the goal-ahead goal midway through the third period, Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 in an Atlantic Division showdown Wednesday night. John Tavares and Matthew Knies also scored to help division-leading Toronto wrap up a playoff spot and and move three points ahead of Tampa Bay and four in front of Florida. Marner and Knies also had assists. Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist for defending Stanley Cup champion Florida. Gustav Forsling also scored, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 shots. In the past...

MONTREAL — Nick Suzuki scored his second goal of the game 29 seconds into overtime as the Montreal Canadiens came back for a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Florida Panthers in the second game of a home-and-home on Tuesday night. Suzuki also tied the game with 8.4 seconds remaining in regulation. Josh Anderson also scored for Montreal (35-30-9) and Sam Montembeault stopped 25 shots. Lane Hutson earned three assists to pad that total to 57 this season, passing Chris Chelios for second-most by a rookie defenseman in NHL history. Mackie Samoskevich and Niko Mikkola scored for Florida...

SUNRISE — Nick Suzuki scored to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Sunday. Suzuki scored on a snap shot with 17:58 left in the third period to put the Canadiens ahead 3-2. Juraj Slafkovsky and Lane Hutson each got an assist on the goal. Patrik Laine, Brendan Gallagher and Slafkovsky also scored for the Canadiens. Seth Jones and Sam Reinhart each scored for the Panthers. Samuel Montembeault stopped 24 shots in the win for the Canadiens. Sergei Bobrovsky had 18 saves for the Panthers. Takeaways Canadiens: Montreal is now 4-3-3 over its last 10 games....

By TIM REYNOLDS SUNRISE — Brad Marchand capped his Florida debut by setting up Sam Bennett’s winner with 41.1 seconds left in overtime, and the Panthers defeated the Utah Hockey Club 2-1 on Friday night. Bennett had both goals for Florida, including one in the second with Mackie Samoskevich and Aleksander Barkov assisting. Utah tied it early in the third on Sean Durzi’s third of the year. The win pushed Florida back into first in the Atlantic Division at 44-25-3 with 91 points, one more than Toronto and two more than Tampa Bay. All three of those teams have 10 games remaining, and Florida...

SUNRISE — Aleksander Barkov scored in the shootout round while Sergei Bobrovsky stopped all three attempts and the Florida Panthers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Sunday night. Sam Reinhart scored twice, giving him 35 goals on the season, and Anton Lundell also scored for the Panthers. Coming off a 2-4 road trip, ending with Saturday’s 6-3 loss at league-point leader Washington, the defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers have won 11 of their last 12 at home. Bryan Rust had two goals and Evgeni Malkin scored for the Penguins. Sidney Crosby assisted on both of Rust’s goals, increasing...

WASHINGTON — Tom Wilson scored his 31st goal of the season, Alex Ovechkin had a pair of assists and the Washington Capitals beat the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers 6-3 on Saturday to win their fourth game in a row and pad their lead atop the NHL. Wilson set up Connor McMichael’s opening goal in the first period before scoring his own 7 seconds after the ensuing intermission. Dylan Strome scoring 52 seconds later made it eight goals combined between the teams in the first 21 minutes of a high-event game largely lacking in defense. Anthony Beauvillier, John Carlson and Andrew...

By NICOLE KRAFT COLUMBUS, Ohio — Aleksander Barkov scored a power-play goal 29 seconds into overtime and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 shots for his third shutout in March to lead the Florida Panthers to a 1-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night. The win snapped a two-game road losing streak and kept Florida level with Toronto atop the Atlantic Division. Florida swept the season series between the teams and has won eight straight against Columbus since Dec. 13, 2022. Elvis Merzlikins, back in the lineup after missing two games for the birth of his second child, made 27...

NEW YORK (AP) — Marc Gatcomb kicked off the scoring in the third period and the New York Islanders scored three more times to defeat the Florida Panthers 4-2 on Sunday night. Maxim Tsyplakov and Noah Dobson also scored and Simon Holmstrom added an empty-net goal to seal the win. Anthony DeAngelo added two assists, and Anders Lee earned his 499th career point with an assist. Ilya Sorokin made 22 stops for the Islanders. On Tuesday, the Panthers also blew a 2-0 lead in the third period (in Boston) to lose in regulation. Sam Reinhart and Aleksander Barkov each scored and added an assist for...

MONTREAL — Cole Caufield scored his team-leading 33rd goal and added an assist to help the Montreal Canadiens beat the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Saturday night. Patrik Laine and Christian Dvorak — with his 100th career goal — also scored for Montreal. Sam Montembeault made 21 saves, including a windmill glove stop on Carter Verhaeghe late. Mackie Samoskevich scored for Florida, which lost for the second time in nine games. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 12 shots. The Canadiens, who were coming off a 5-4 overtime loss to Seattle on Wednesday, remained within a point of being in playoff position with...