Non-playoff NHL teams that are poised for a breakout in 2021-22

Non-playoff NHL teams that are poised for a breakout in 2021-22
Bruins beat Devils to clinch playoff berth

Bruins beat Devils to clinch playoff berth
Crosby scores 20th goal as Penguins beat Devils 4-2

Crosby scores 20th goal as Penguins beat Devils 4-2

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Seattle Kraken expansion draft: The 30 players they should select

Seattle Kraken expansion draft: The 30 players they should select

The Seattle Kraken are inching closer and closer to becoming a reality. Sure, they’re technically already in the fold as the NHL’s 32nd team, but the franchise still largely feels like a figment of our imagination thanks to the fact that there’s no real roster. Yet. Seattle’s expansion draft will

Non-playoff NHL teams that are poised for a breakout in 2021-22

Non-playoff NHL teams that are poised for a breakout in 2021-22

With the Stanley Cup handed out — and now dented after the Tampa Bay Lightning’s boat parade — the 2021 NHL season has officially come to a close. But for many of the league’s teams, the offseason is already a few months old. Sixteen teams made the playoffs and had

Bruins beat Devils to clinch playoff berth

Bruins beat Devils to clinch playoff berth

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Patrice Bergeron scored his 20th goal and the Boston Bruins clinched their fifth straight playoff berth with a dominating 3-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday night. Tuukka Rask stopped 20 shots for his second shutout of the season and Nick Ritchie broke a

Crosby scores 20th goal as Penguins beat Devils 4-2

Crosby scores 20th goal as Penguins beat Devils 4-2

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust each scored their 20th goal of the season, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Saturday. Crosby got an empty-netter with 0.1 seconds to play. His goal came following a tense net-mouth scramble in which the Devils nearly

Capitals beat Isles 1-0 in SO to reclaim sole East lead

Capitals beat Isles 1-0 in SO to reclaim sole East lead

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Evgeny Kuznetsov scored the deciding goal in a shootout, giving the Washington Capitals a 1-0 win over the New York Islanders on Thursday night to reclaim sole possession of first place in the East Division. Ilya Samsonov stopped 26 shots through overtime for his second shutout

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Berube: ‘I thought all the lines were pretty good’ against Devils

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Carl Gunnarsson: Blues’ win was ‘good for the confidence’

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Non-playoff NHL teams that are poised for a breakout in 2021-22

Bally Sports' Pete Blackburn ranks all 15 teams who didn’t make the playoffs in 2020-21

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Bruins beat Devils to clinch playoff berth

Bruins beat Devils to clinch playoff berth

Capitals beat Isles 1-0 in SO to reclaim sole East lead

Capitals beat Isles 1-0 in SO to reclaim sole East lead

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Rangers finish off four-game sweep of New Jersey Devils

Rangers finish off four-game sweep of New Jersey Devils

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Another birthday for the New York Rangers. Another big day for the birthday boy. A day after Pavel Buchnevich scored a hat trick on his big day, Mika Zibanejad celebrated his 28th birthday and helped the Rangers cap a four-game sweep of the Devils with a

Hall, Rask lead Bruins past Islanders 4-1

Hall, Rask lead Bruins past Islanders 4-1

Taylor Hall scored his first goal for Boston and Tuukka Rask stopped 22 shots to earn his first victory since February — and 300th of his career — in the Bruins' 4-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night. Rask had played just once since March 7 because

COVID-19 cap crunch limits moves made at NHL trade deadline

COVID-19 cap crunch limits moves made at NHL trade deadline

The coronarvirus pandemic turned the usual large number of NHL trade deadline deals into a trickle on Monday. The moves that did take place under a flat salary cap, highlighted by Boston landing 2018 NHL MVP Taylor Hall in a trade with Buffalo, heavily benefited the buyers. And then there

Capitals trade D Siegenthaler to Devils for 3rd-round pick

Capitals trade D Siegenthaler to Devils for 3rd-round pick

The New Jersey Devils acquired defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler from the Washington Capitals on Sunday for a 2021 third-round pick. Washington clears $800,000 in salary-cap space before the trade deadline Monday by dealing one of the eight defensemen on its active roster. New Jersey gets a 23-year-old left shot on the