NHL Previews

The reigning Stanley Cup champion Vegas Golden Knights will attempt to snap a four-game losing streak on Thursday night when they face the Los Angeles Kings in Las Vegas. The Golden Knights, who opened the season with an impressive 12-game point streak (11-0-1), have lost five of their last six games, all in regulation. Vegas has dropped four consecutive games in regulation for the first time since March 2022. Defensive struggles are a big reason

The Seattle Kraken salvaged a point with a late regulation goal in each of their last two games. But they’re hoping for a better overall result when they visit the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night. The Kraken scored with 2:29 left in the third period on Saturday night to tie the score against the visiting Kings, but they lost 3-2 in a shootout. Two days later, in the opener of a four-game road trip,

The Detroit Red Wings rank among the NHL’s highest-scoring teams this season. But their offense has virtually disappeared in the past two games. They’ll try to reverse that trend when they host the Anaheim Ducks on Monday. Detroit, which has lost five of its past six games, dropped a 2-1 decision to Carolina at home on Thursday. The Wings were then shut out at Philadelphia, 1-0, on Saturday. Flyers goaltender Samuel Ersson made 33 saves

The NHL trade deadline is nearly three months away, but the Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks already have been active. Both teams made deals this week, with one adding a player and the other subtracting one. San Jose acquired forward Jack Studnicka from the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, while Colorado traded Tomas Tatar to the Seattle Kraken. Studnicka, 24, is expected to be active when the Sharks visit Denver to play the Avalanche on

The New Jersey Devils couldn’t stop making history on Saturday night. The Anaheim Ducks would like nothing more than to start winning on Sunday night. The Devils will bid to build off a noteworthy evening while the Ducks will look to end a lengthy skid Sunday when the teams meet in Newark, N.J. The Devils are completing a back-to-back set after Jack Hughes notched a hat trick and scored his 100th career goal in Saturday’s

Amid a rough stretch, the Carolina Hurricanes will aim to get back to playing their game when they host the Washington Capitals on Sunday evening in Raleigh, N.C. The Hurricanes, who entered the season among the mix of Stanley Cup contenders, have struggled to string victories together and have won three in a row just once — from Oct. 26-30. Since then, they’ve won consecutive games four times before dropping their next outing. The latest

The Chicago Blackhawks head into Sunday’s home clash against the Vancouver Canucks looking to climb out of a deep hole. The Blackhawks will return home for the matinee matchup after they suffered a 7-1 beating from the Seattle Kraken on Thursday. Chicago capped a two-game trip in which it lost both times, by a combined 11-2 score. “I feel like we’re a better group than that, and we should be a group that comes ready

After a big victory against the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Buffalo Sabres look to win two in a row for only the second time this season when they face the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday in Tempe, Ariz. The Sabres beat the Golden Knights 5-2 on Friday in Las Vegas, scoring four unanswered goals after Vegas took a 2-1 lead early in the third period. It was Buffalo’s third win in the past five games,

Washington forward Alex Ovechkin will try to end the longest goalless drought of his 19-year NHL career when the Capitals visit the Nashville Predators on Saturday night. Ovechkin has gone 11 straight games without a goal, keeping the 38-year-old future Hall of Famer stuck on five for the season since scoring in a 4-3 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Nov. 18. The dry spell has stalled Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal