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...

The Pittsburgh Penguins don’t necessarily have a starting goaltender. But they have one who has been getting a few more starts than the other as of late. Such was the case Thursday as Stuart Skinner w...

The NHL’s trade deadline had expired at 3 p.m. March 6. And Stuart Skinner was still employed by the Pittsburgh Penguins. He could exhale. But not immediately. NHL teams often submit trades to the lea...

It remains to be seen what these Pittsburgh Penguins can really accomplish as the postseason approaches. Heck, officially qualifying for the playoffs is something they have yet to accomplish as April ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Mantha had two goals and an assist, Rickard Rakell scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied to defeat the New York Islanders 8-3 on Monday night in a crucial game in th...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bruce Cassidy is out as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights, who fired him Sunday in an abrupt late-season change and replaced him with John Tortorella. General manager Kelly McCrimmon ...