NHL Previews

For the first time in over a month, things are starting to look up for the Arizona Coyotes. When Arizona faces the host Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon, it will be doing something it hasn’t had the chance to do since late January — win back-to-back games. After losing 14 straight games and going 0-9-2 in February, the Coyotes picked up a 5-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night, halting a dismal skid

The Philadelphia Flyers are hanging onto a playoff position, but that grasp is tenuous as they return home to face the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night. The Flyers sit third in the Metropolitan Division, but thanks to a 5-2 road loss to the Washington Capitals on Friday, their buffer has been cut. The Capitals are four points in arrears but have two games in hand. Philadelphia has lost three of four games and has claimed

According to Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper, his squad was dealt a tough hand in a very rare, late, home loss Thursday, but the Lightning have a chance at redemption when the Montreal Canadiens arrive on the Gulf Coast for Saturday night’s match. Cooper may have a point. After the Buffalo Sabres’ Tage Thompson tied it at 2 with a third-period power-play goal, the 6-foot-6 center drew a hooking call in overtime that set up

Clinging to a one-point lead for second-place in the Pacific Division over red-hot Edmonton, the Vegas Golden Knights continue what has been a bumpy five-game eastern road trip Saturday at the Buffalo Sabres. The defending Stanley Cup champions, who shot out of the gate with a 11-0-1 record, find themselves in a battle for first-round home ice and sit just three points ahead of wild-card teams Los Angeles and Nashville. The Golden Knights have lost

The Nashville Predators are playing their best hockey of the season. Meanwhile, Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon continues to show why he might be the NHL’s best player. Looking to cool off MacKinnon, the surging Predators aim for an eighth straight win on Saturday against the visiting Avalanche. Nashville closed February on a seven-game winning streak, during which it outscored opponents 32-12, scored at least four goals in every contest and killed 17-of-21 opposing power-play chances. On

The important number for the Florida Panthers in their last outing was 40. As in, the Panthers collected their 40th victory of the season and Sam Reinhart reached — and eclipsed — the 40-goal mark. When they visit Detroit on Saturday afternoon, the number they’ll be chasing is four. Florida will aim for their fourth consecutive victory overall and 14th in the last 16 games. The Panthers’ last five games have been decided by one

The Winnipeg Jets just dropped a divisional showdown and now they’ll encounter one of the Eastern Conference’s surging teams. So it doesn’t figure to be any easier for the Jets when they visit the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday afternoon at Raleigh, N.C. “A hard game,” Jets coach Rick Bowness said. “They pressure you all over the ice, and we’re going to have to play a whole lot better (than Thursday).” The Jets lost 4-1 on

The pressure is on for the New Jersey Devils, and they know it with their playoff hopes in a tenuous state. However, as the Devils prepare to visit the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night, they have pep in their step on the heels of Tuesday’s 7-2 victory over the Sharks in San Jose in the first contest of a three-game California trip. “It feels good to start off on the right foot,” New Jersey forward

The Coyotes will look to avoid matching their longest winless streak since the franchise moved to Arizona when they visit the Ottawa Senators on Friday night. Mired in a 14-game winless skid (0-12-2), the club would tie the then-Phoenix Coyotes stretch in 2003-04 should it fall in Canada’s capital city. The original Winnipeg Jets have the longest winless streak in franchise history with a whopping 30-game stretch from Oct. 19-Dec. 20, 1980. The Jets moved