The Detroit Red Wings haven’t played a playoff hockey game since the 2015-16 season, ending a 25-year run of consecutive postseason appearances. The 2024-25 sea ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning this season added another accomplishment to further its reputation as one of the premier ...

The lone trade the Detroit Red Wings made on deadline day sent forward Joe Veleno to the Chicago Blackhawks for goalie Petr ...

It's starting to feel like an annual tradition: Panthers vs. Lightning in the NHL playoffs, the battle of Florida, a matchup that has seemed to decide which team will eventually get to the Stanley Cup ...

The one thing that seems different from recent postseasons is that Tampa Bay is much more of a matchup nightmare.

The Wild, following their season-long theme of “choose your hard,” didn’t take the easy route to the playoffs.

Zemgus Girgensons has anticipated this Tuesday for his entire life. Girgensons, an 11-year NHL veteran who spent his first 10 ...

The Lightning were a committed team from the start of this season, though the results were slow to arrive. Then they went ...

Which eight teams will advance to the second round of the NHL's Stanley Cup playoffs? USA TODAY weighs in with first-round ...

Ryan McLeod collected a goal and two assists to help lift the host Buffalo Sabres to a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday in the regular-season finale for both teams.