NHL Previews

The Boston Bruins hope a day off in Las Vegas was just the tonic they’ll need to get back on track. The Bruins will continue their four-game road trip on Thursday night when they visit the defending Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights and former Boston coach Bruce Cassidy. Boston began its trip with back-to-back 4-3 losses, the first in a shootout at Colorado on Monday followed 24 hours later with an overtime defeat against

Mired in a 12-game losing streak, the San Jose Sharks will try to finally get back in the win column when they visit the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday. The Sharks began the season with an 11-game winless drought (0-10-1) before going 9-7-2 over their next 18 contests. They followed that up with 12 straight regulation losses. A San Jose defeat on Thursday would mark just the 17th time in NHL history that a team has

The Arizona Coyotes found a spark with their comeback victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday. Now the Coyotes hope to re-ignite their playoff hopes when they face the Calgary Flames in Tempe, Ariz., on Thursday to end a lengthy homestand. The Coyotes, who lost their grip on a Western Conference wild-card spot with a three-game skid that started as soon as the calendar flipped to 2024, ran an emotional gamut during the 4-3 win

The Winnipeg Jets can set a franchise record with their eighth straight win when they face the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night. The Jets are also riding a 13-game point streak (11-0-2), which includes a 2-1 overtime loss to the Blackhawks on Dec. 27. The hot streak has given Winnipeg a league-leading 58 points. “Being on top of the standings, we’re going to get every team’s A-game,” said Jets forward Cole Perfetti, who has

The New York Rangers will be looking to clean up their defensive play when they hit the road for a two-game trip. They will face the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center on Thursday before moving on to Washington D.C. to face the Capitals on Saturday. The Rangers trailed 3-1 in their previous two games, a 4-3 shootout loss at the Canadiens and a 6-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks at home. Against the Canucks,

The Toronto Maple Leafs’ previous visit to Long Island coincided with the New York Islanders’ most successful stretch of the season. The Islanders are hoping history begins repeating itself Thursday night, when they host the Maple Leafs for the final time this season in Elmont, N.Y. Both teams were off Wednesday after playing at home Tuesday, when the Islanders fell to the Vancouver Canucks 5-2 and the Maple Leafs continued surging with a 7-1 win

Jaden Schwartz hardly missed a beat. The Seattle Kraken forward had a goal and an assist Tuesday in his return from a 16-game absence to help the Kraken to a 5-2 victory at Buffalo, extending their winning streak to seven games and their point streak to a franchise-record 11 (9-0-2). The Kraken will put both of those streaks on the line Thursday at Washington. Schwartz, who had been out with an upper-body injury, assisted on

The high-scoring New Jersey Devils have been playing well and also received some good news on the injury to star center Jack Hughes. Winners of five of their past seven matches (5-2-0) but idle since Saturday’s 6-4 home loss against the Vancouver Canucks, the Devils will play at the Tampa Bay Lightning Thursday night in the teams’ first meeting of the season. They will do so without the dynamic Hughes, who was felled Friday with

The Vancouver Canucks, in the midst of their longest road trip this season, go to Pittsburgh on Thursday to face the Penguins in what will be their third game in four nights. The busy schedule certainly doesn’t seem to daunt the Canucks. They are 3-1 on the seven-game jaunt and are coming off wins on back-to-back nights against the Rangers and Islanders, following a win Saturday over New Jersey in the same large metropolitan area.