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After missing the Senators' last eight games because of an upper-body injury, the Ottawa captain returned to the lineup Thursday night for the regular-season finale against Carolina, but he didn't finish the game.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are in the midst of transition, and a rocky one at that. The playoffs -- once a rite of spring in western Pennsylvania -- will go on without one of the league's marquee clubs and one of the game's brightest stars for a third . ...

Spencer Carbery is a prime candidate to win the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year and his contemporaries around the league believe he deserves a ton of credit.

Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang's season is over.

For everything he's done since his celebrated arrival in 2016, Auston Matthews can't change the Toronto Maple Leafs' history of early round playoff collapses.

He played games for the Colorado Eagles in the latest step toward a return from a knee injury that has led to two surgeries and caused him to miss the past three regular seasons.

The 36-year-old has missed all but six games since the start of the 2023-24 season.

Maroon closed his 14th and final season when the Chicago Blackhawks lost to the Winnipeg Jets in a shootout on Saturday night. He was joined by defenseman Alec Martinez, who also made Chicago's home finale his last game.

Jonathan Marchessault played seven seasons with the Golden Knights and is the career leader in goals with 192 and points with 417. Marchessault, 34, had hoped to sign a new contract to stay in Vegas, but he and the club failed to reach an agreement.

Aaron Ekblad is back on the ice with the defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers for workouts -- but can't play until Game 3 of Florida's first-round playoff series.