12:22 AM ET BOSTON — The Boston Bruins fell to the Florida Panthers 6-3 in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference playoff series Wednesday night, the defeat the product of uncharacteristic sloppiness with the puck. “Players didn’t make the best decisions at moments,” said Bruins coach Jim Montgomery after Florida evened the best-of-seven series at
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12:24 AM ET Carolina Hurricanes winger Teuvo Teravainen will miss the remainder of the first round after suffering a broken hand in his team’s 4-3 overtime win Wednesday against the New York Islanders. The Hurricanes, who have a 2-0 series lead, will be without one of their top-six forwards after Teravainen was injured on a
3:20 PM ET TORONTO — Victor Hedman will be a game-time decision for the Tampa Bay Lightning when they take on the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 2 of their first-round NHL playoff series Thursday. “We’ll hope,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “We’ll see what kind of roster we can [tee up].” That was one
7:17 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Alexandre Texier is set to return to the Columbus Blue Jackets next NHL season after spending 2022-23 playing closer to home in Europe for personal reasons. The Blue Jackets announced Wednesday that Texier would rejoin them after playing this past year in Zurich in the Swiss National
6:50 PM ET Toronto Maple Leafs forward Michael Bunting has been suspended three games for an illegal check to the head/interference against Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak. The discipline was announced on Wednesday following a hearing for Bunting with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety earlier in the day. Bunting will sit out Games
1:46 PM ET Dallas Stars forward Joe Pavelski is in concussion protocol and will miss Game 2 against the visiting Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night, coach Peter DeBoer confirmed. “I don’t think that’s a secret,” DeBoer said Wednesday morning. Pavelski was injured on a high hit by Wild defenseman Matt Dumba in the second period
12:28 PM ET BOSTON — Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron is out for Game 2 against the Florida Panthers with an injury, coach Jim Montgomery announced Wednesday. Boston has a 1-0 series lead over Florida. The star center was a game-time decision for Game 1 but didn’t take part in pregame warmups. Montgomery said at
7:00 AM ET Mistakes. Goaltenders find them maddening. They also find them helpful. Notice how they act after giving up a goal. Sure, they react in the ways one would expect. But they also look up at the videoboard to assess what went wrong so they can learn from those miscues. This is the exact
1:18 AM ET Associated Press DENVER — Alex Wennberg had a goal and an assist, Philipp Grubauer stopped 34 shots and the Seattle Kraken made a successful playoff debut by beating the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche 3-1 on Tuesday night. The second-year Kraken became the 13th expansion franchise to earn a win in
11:42 PM ET ESPN News Services LAS VEGAS — Winnipeg Jets forward Morgan Barron took a skate to his face Tuesday night, requiring more than 75 stitches, but he returned to the ice less than a period later. Barron was injured in the first period during a big scramble in front of the Vegas Golden