NHL Previews

The Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Lightning will meet for the first time this season on Tuesday night at Tampa, Fla., and both are anxious to put the recent past behind them. The Lightning wasted a 3-1 third-period lead at home Saturday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of their rivals in the Atlantic Division, in the second contest of Tampa Bay’s five-game homestand. The game ended in a 4-3 overtime victory for the

The San Jose Sharks are desperate for a win. San Jose, which has lost its first five games — four of them in regulation — visits the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night in Sunrise. “Our inability to execute for 60 minutes is apparent,” Sharks center Nico Sturm said. “We do a lot of good things, but we don’t do them the whole game. “We’ve got phases where it looks really good. But then we do

Alex DeBrincat’s homecoming has taken on historic proportions. DeBrincat’s knack for scoring goals has highlighted the Detroit Red Wings’ five-game winning streak. They’ll look to keep rolling when the Seattle Kraken visit on Tuesday. DeBrincat entered the week leading the league with eight goals and 12 points after he collected his fifth career hat trick in a 6-2 thumping of the Calgary Flames on Sunday. He’s the first player in franchise history to score eight

The Dallas Stars find themselves in something of an unusual spot Tuesday when they visit the Pittsburgh Penguins. They will be looking to bounce back not from a loss, but from a win. Dallas, which has no regulation losses through four games, topped the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 in overtime Saturday. However, the Stars seem to be in a hurry to move on from some disturbing bumps in their game that they don’t want to see

The Nos. 2 and 3 overall picks of the 2023 NHL Draft are expected to share the ice Tuesday when Leo Carlsson and the Anaheim Ducks visit Adam Fantilli and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Carlsson, 18, has recorded one goal in two games since Anaheim selected him with the second overall pick in late June. Last season’s Swedish Junior Hockey Player of the Year missed the Ducks’ first two games with a lower-body injury sustained

For the Boston Bruins, embarking on a four-game road trip so early in the NHL season has its benefits. The team bonding might be great, but the results are even greater. A night after defeating Los Angeles 4-2, the Bruins will go for a third straight victory in California — and their fifth in a row to begin the season — when they visit the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday. “A trip like this earlier in

The Buffalo Sabres are accustomed to lamenting their performance on defense. For the defensively oriented New York Islanders, their Friday loss was a jarring and unusual experience. A pair of teams looking to bounce back from porous efforts are slated to meet Saturday night when the Sabres host the Islanders in a battle of Eastern Conference rivals. The Sabres, in the midst of a four-game homestand, were off Friday after falling to the Calgary Flames

The Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets sport identical records as they head into a Saturday meeting at Saint Paul, Minn. While neither team is ecstatic about its 2-2-0 mark, neither team is overly disappointed. “We’ve just been even, which is our record, 2-2,” Wild coach Dean Evason said after his team’s Friday practice. “We need to take another step forward.” The record is even, but the Wild’s games have been all over the map.

Once again, the Columbus Blue Jackets have limped out of the gates. Heading into Friday’s clash with the visiting Calgary Flames, the Blue Jackets have a 1-2-0 record and have been outscored 11-7, with the latest defeat a 4-0 thumping at the hands of the Detroit Red Wings on Monday. The Blue Jackets have had plenty of time to stew about their performance while preparing to face a Flames team that arrives after a 4-3