PITTSBURGH — Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin has been suspended five games for slashing Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin in the head during Thursday’s game.

The NHL Department of Player Safety announced the suspension a few hours after Friday’s trade deadline. The Penguins recalled winger Ville Koivunen from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche pulled off a trade deadline day stunner, and it involves a familiar face.

Nazem Kadri, who helped the Avs win the Stanley Cup in 2022, is returning to Colorado in a trade from the Calgary Flames. The Avs sent a conditional 2028 first-round pick, a conditional 2027 second, top prospect Max Curran and Victor ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — After a series of in-season trades, the Penguins have been quiet during deadline week. But not silent.

Pittsburgh acquired monstrous winger Elmer Soderblom from the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for a 2026 third-round pick that originally belonged to the San Jose Sharks.

A 2019 sixth-round pick by Detroit, Soderblom is 6-feet-8,...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The Blues traded captain Brayden Schenn to the Islanders, the first trade for the team leading up to the deadline.

St. Louis acquired forward Jonathan Drouin, goaltending prospect Marcus Gidlof, a 2026 first-round pick and a 2026 third-round pick from the Islanders in exchange for Schenn.

Schenn, 34, was in his ninth season with ...Read more

The Lightning have not only struggled to capture points during their four-game losing streak, they also seem to have lost their sense of urgency.

Whatever has happened to them since they came out of the Olympic break, they’ve now officially let their Atlantic Division lead disappear, falling into a crowded chase for the five playoff spots ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Without Sidney Crosby, the Penguins needed Evgeni Malkin to step up and lead the offense — as he so often has throughout his career.

Instead, Malkin showed himself the door.

Upset with a cross-check to the back from Rasmus Dahlin on Thursday, Malkin turned around and slashed the Sabres defenseman in the head.

That egregious ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — There were two things hanging over the Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Thursday night: the impending NHL trade deadline and extending their winning streak.

But as the minutes continued to tick off until Friday’s 3 p.m. deadline, the Flyers’ inability to win four straight kept on going with a 3-0 loss to the Utah Mammoth. ...Read more

Bruins general manager Don Sweeney may have already decided his course of action for Friday’s trade deadline. But if he took his team’s performance in Nashville on Thursday in a vacuum, his thoughts would no doubt be sell, sell, sell.

Playing a Predators team that had already traded Michael Bunting earlier in the day, was holding out Ryan O...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Colton Parayko will remain a Blue — for now.

Parayko used his no-trade clause to block a potential trade to Buffalo that was originally reported Wednesday. According to TSN's Darren Dreger, the Blues would have received prospect Radim Mrtka and a first-round pick in exchange for their veteran defenseman.

Parayko is in the ...Read more

ANAHEIM — This Colorado Avalanche team has its new No. 3 center.

The Avs traded a 2027 first-round pick and a 2026 fifth-rounder on Thursday to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Nicolas Roy, a 6-foot-4 center who has five goals and 20 points in 59 games this season.

“Nic Roy is a really, really good third-line center,” TSN analyst Craig Button...Read more

If that was it for this group of Blues, they went out with a win.

In their last game before Friday's trade deadline, the Blues beat the Kraken 3-2 on Wednesday night in what could be the final game together for some of St. Louis' key players.

Logan Mailloux, Dylan Holloway and Robert Thomas scored for the Blues, and Joel Hofer made 35 saves as...Read more

Tomas Hertl scored the game-winner 2:11 into overtime, and the Vegas Golden Knights came back from two goals down to win 4-3 over the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday.

The Knights, who have made a habit of third period comebacks, did it again with two goals in the third to force overtime on the second night of a back-to-...Read more

ANAHEIM — This Colorado Avalanche team still has the juice.

Playing for the second consecutive night and fifth time in seven days, the Avs traveled down I-5 and completed a sweep of the Southern California teams with an impressive 5-1 win against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center.

Cale Makar had three points, Parker Kelly scored twice, Scott...Read more

SAN JOSE – No one has accused the San Jose Sharks of playing boring hockey this season, especially on this homestand.

After the Sharks lost a three-goal lead in the third period, Kiefer Sherwood scored with 3:23 left in regulation time to help lift San Jose to a thrilling 7-5 win over the Montreal Canadiens before an announced sellout crowd ...Read more

The Vegas Golden Knights had to rally from a multigoal deficit again, but couldn’t complete the comeback in a 3-2 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Tuesday.

Ivan Barbashev and Pavel Dorofeyev scored 1:37 apart after the Knights (28-19-14) trailed 3-0 early in the second period, but they lost their third straight game and three ...Read more

BOSTON — The Bruins have $11.25 million invested in their goaltending this season and, since the play has resumed after Olympic break, it has been money well spent.

After Joonas Korpisalo stole a win for the B’s over Columbus in the first game back, Jeremy Swayman stopped 34 of 35 shots and the B’s beat the Sidney Crosby-less Pittsburgh ...Read more

The Kraken closed ranks and made off with a 2-1 victory Monday night against the Carolina Hurricanes, the top team in the Eastern Conference.

As regulation wound down, Eeli Tolvanen took a holding penalty while fending off a Hurricanes extra-attacker goal. The Kraken withstood a tense 89 seconds of 6-on-4 hockey at Climate Pledge Arena.

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TORONTO — It can be a good life if you don’t weaken, and right now the Philadelphia Flyers are staying strong.

Facing a Toronto Maple Leafs in a tailspin, the Flyers bent but did not break and skated away with a 3-2 shootout victory. On this night in Toronto, the Flyers won their third straight game for the first time since the end of ...Read more