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Juraj Slafkovsky scored his third power-play goal 1:22 into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 in Game 1 of their first-round series on Sunday night.

Logan O'Connor scored for the first time in more than a year, Scott Wedgewood stopped 24 shots in his first Stanley Cup playoffs start and the top-seeded Colorado Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 in Game 1 on Sunday.

So much for the Philadelphia Flyers being too inexperienced for all this. Too young for that matter.

Anze Kopitar wrapped up the last regular season of his storied career. The Los Angeles Kings captain wants to prolong his final playoff run for as long as possible.

Alex Ovechkin can't dodge the questions about his retirement.

A Swiss hockey coach who admitted he used a certificate falsely claiming he'd been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get around China's travel restrictions for the 2022 Winter Olympics has been fired.

The New York Islanders are facing questions about a jumbotron promotion urging hockey fans to donate to a former New York City police sergeant who was recently convicted of manslaughter for hurling a cooler of ice at a man fleeing arrest.

The season finale against the Columbus Blue Jackets may have been Washington Capitals legend Alex Ovechkin's final game in the NHL. Every Capitals fan, player and coach wanted it to end with a bang.

When he was an NHL goaltender, Brian Boucher recalls that he would look up at the shot counter and keep telling himself how many more pucks he would need to stop to make it a good game.

If Alex Ovechkin knows his hockey future, he is pulling off one of the all-time kayfabes -- the term for a professional wrestler playing a character -- in a script where he strings along his team, the owner, their fans and the entire National Hockey ...