NHL Previews

In Major League Soccer, the teams from Seattle, Vancouver and Portland play for the Cascadia Cup. The cities tucked away in the Pacific Northwest — or in Vancouver’s case, just north of the U.S. border — have long had rivalries, whether in minor league baseball, minor league hockey or even, for a few years, the NBA (remember the Grizzlies and SuperSonics?). So with the NHL’s Canucks headed to Seattle to play the host Kraken on

Home from an up-and-down road trip that might signal better days are ahead, the Anaheim Ducks will put that outlook to the test when they play host to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday. The Ducks enter off an uplifting 4-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday. The Blue Jackets have a quick turnaround following a 5-1 road loss to the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday. Anaheim managed to beat Buffalo two days after

After absorbing a lopsided loss in an outdoor game Saturday, the Philadelphia Flyers will head back indoors for Wednesday’s contest versus the host Chicago Blackhawks. Still in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff chase, the Flyers steadfastly are against overemphasizing falling short to the New Jersey Devils amid the pageantry of the NHL Stadium Series at East Rutherford, N.J. “We lose the game, we move by it,” Philadelphia coach John Tortorella said. “It’s only

With their fathers and mentors in tow, the Buffalo Sabres kick off a two-game road trip when they visit the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday. Many Sabres players have their fathers joining them on the trip, while others have grandfathers or other father figures. “They have every reason … to be extremely proud,” Buffalo coach Don Granato said of their guests. “That in itself can be energizing (for the players), and it should be energizing. These

After opening a five-game western road trip with an impressive 5-2 bounce-back win at St. Louis, the Nashville Predators take on the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday in Las Vegas. It will be the second game of a back-to-back set for the Golden Knights, who snapped a two-game losing streak on Monday afternoon with a 4-0 win at San Jose. Nashville, meanwhile, has had two days off since the key game

It will be strength against strength when the Colorado Avalanche face the Vancouver Canucks in Denver on Tuesday night. At 21-5-0, Colorado has the best home record in the NHL, while Vancouver owns the sixth-best mark on the road at 18-9-4. However, the Canucks are coming off Monday’s 10-7 loss to the Minnesota Wild in Saint Paul, Minn. Vancouver led 5-2 late in the second period before the Wild rattled off six unanswered goals, later

The Minnesota Wild head on the road to face the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday feeling confident. Really, really confident. Thanks to a franchise-record performance in Monday’s 10-7 home win over the league-leading Vancouver Canucks, the Wild are only two points back of the St. Louis Blues for the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot. Minnesota is on a 5-0-1 run. “I don’t think I’ve ever been a part of something like that where they just kept

The Florida Panthers, who have surged to the second-best record in the Eastern Conference and are tied for the third-most points in the NHL, will face the lowly Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night in Sunrise, Fla. Florida has won nine of its past 10 games, and only two of those victories were by one goal. The Panthers’ defense held the opposition to two or fewer goals in all 10 games. Ottawa is 8-3-2 over its

The New Jersey Devils have reversed course from a dismal stretch by recording wins in three of their last four games. New Jersey aims to continue its recent good fortune and salvage a split of its four-game season series against the Capitals on Tuesday when the teams reconvene in Washington. The Devils stepped away from their home in Newark, N.J., and made the short trek to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford to post a 6-3