PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby, his face cleanly shaven for now, settled into the bench inside the Pittsburgh Penguins dressing room on Thursday and pulled a black baseball cap over his head. For the...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — General manager Kelly McCrimmon was walking away from the Golden Knights’ locker room Monday night after a victory over the Jets, but he could have easily reversed course and done a v...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild have entered the Stanley Cup playoffs with fully professed confidence in both of their goalies. Their preference is to keep a secret whether Filip Gustavsson ...

ST. LOUIS — Dan Muse has never coached a playoff game at PPG Paints Arena. But he has been behind the bench and won postseason contests at that venue. Back when it was called Consol Energy Center. In ...

ST. LOUIS — Forward Anthony Mantha capped off his first regular season with the Pittsburgh Penguins in a surprising fashion. He led the team in scoring. During the Penguins’ regular season finale, a 7...

By The Associated Press The field for the Stanley Cup Playoffs is set, with the first series set to begin on Saturday. Six of the 16 teams did not qualify a year ago, including Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Ph...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Flyers fans could have been excused for thinking they entered some kind of time warp as they grabbed their “Let’s Go Flyers” rally towels on their way into the arena. The Grateful ...

A bitter rivalry will continue in the opening round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. ST. LOUIS — Jack St. Ivany doesn’t necessarily have any hard or bitter feelings about the Philadelphia Flyers. After th...

Philadelphia will travel to Pittsburgh to face the rival Penguins in the first round. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dan Vladar turned aside Carolina’s fourth shootout attempt, threw his arms in the air and wait...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Panthers, after years of planning how to make such an endeavor happen, are about to put a whole bunch of new players into their uniforms. The targets: girls. The Panth...

The Capitals star discussed his future after Sunday’s 3-0 win over the Penguins. WASHINGTON (AP) — If this was indeed the final home game of Alex Ovechkin’s sensational NHL career, the Washington Capi...

It’s the first playoff trip for the Penguins since 2022. When Bryan Rust speaks, he isn’t prone to ambiguity. He gets to the point. On the first day of Pittsburgh Penguins training camp Sept. 18 in Cr...

Life is quite different for Anthony Mantha than it was a year ago. Last April, he only had two children. This past April Fools’ Day, wife Caitlyn gave birth to a daughter, Estelle, joining big sisters...

Jason Schepis was at home with his kids in New Jersey watching the gold medal men’s hockey game at the Olympics when he saw some of his handiwork get scattered all over the ice late in the third perio...

It was picture day for the Pittsburgh Penguins. And boy, did Stuart Skinner stand out as he and his teammates posed for the official photograph of the 2025-26 edition of the club Tuesday at PPG Paints...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Colorado Avalanche coach Jared Bednar isn’t ready to plan any parades just yet. Moments after the Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 3-1 on Tuesday night to clinch Central Division an...

General manager Tom Fitzgerald is parting ways with the New Jersey Devils, the latest NHL team to make an abrupt late-season change in the front office or behind the bench. Co-owner David Blitzer anno...

Bring on postseason hockey in Buffalo. The Sabres’ playoff drought is finally over. Following an NHL-record 14 seasons of futility, during which the team finished no better than 19th in the league, th...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Maybe the end for the Florida Panthers came when Brad Marchand was shut down for the season last month. Or maybe it was when Seth Jones broke his collarbone and wound up missing 2...

With four games remaining in the regular season, the Pens sit in 2nd place in the Metro. Sidney Crosby was satisfied reaching one more career milestone. And Rickard Rakell was content in continuing to...