NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers won the Presidents' Trophy as the NHL's top team in the regular season by mixing talent, with smart play and finding ways to win more often than not. They are facing postseason elimination for the first time because a lot of that has been missing against the Florida Panthers. Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final Thursday night was a perfect example of another very entertaining hockey game that didn't didn't go right for a number of reasons. The Panthers won

Anton Lundell broke a tie on a deflected shot with 9:38 left and the Florida Panthers moved within a victory of returning to the Stanley Cup Final.

The Rangers lost, 3-2, to the Florida Panthers Thursday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, meaning the Blueshirts are one loss from elimination.

DALLAS (AP) — There have been wild swings of momentum in the Western Conference Final, and something that has happened only one other time this late in the NHL playoffs. After Edmonton and Dallas both came back from multiple-goal deficits to win while splitting the past two games, this is now a best-of-three for a spot in the Stanley Cup Final. “You look back at this series ... there’s four games that Dallas thought they could have won, and we feel there’s four games that we could have won,” Oil

NEW YORK (AP) — Forward Filip Chytil returned to New York's lineup for Game 5 of the Rangers' Eastern Conference final against the Florida Panthers on Thursday night, replacing Blake Wheeler. Chytil, who missed most of the season with what is believed to have been a concussion, played in the first three games of the series. He was rested in Game 4 and Wheeler played for the first time since breaking a leg in February. Wheeler was called for a penalty early in overtime that led to Sam Reinhart's

NEW YORK (AP) — Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin won the NHL’s Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct for the second time Thursday. Also the 2021 winner, he's the second blueliner to win it twice, joining Red Kelly, who was a four-time winner, with three coming as a defenseman. From Denver, Slavvin joins Joe Mullen in being the second U.S.-born player to win the Lady Byng award twice. Slavin was the runaway winner this year in being named on 149 of 194 ba

NEW YORK — Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Jaccob Slavin has won the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy, the league announced Thursday.

SAGINAW — Matthew Savoie knew the trade was coming.

EDMONTON — The morning before Game 4 of the Western Conference final, veteran Edmonton Oilers forward Corey Perry was informed that his five-game exile to the press box was ending. For a player of Perry’s playoff pedigree — a former Hart Trophy winner and Stanley Cup champion — not playing during the most important time of the year wasn’t an easy thing to accept. But that was the price he needed to pay for going pointless through the Oilers' first 10 games of the playoffs. Perry was a healthy sc

EDMONTON — Kris Knoblauch thought he might be in for a long night. The Edmonton Oilers head coach was watching a confounding, uninspired, flat start unfold right in front of him on the Rogers Place ice. Down 2-1 heading into Game 4 of the NHL's Western Conference final to the battle-tested Dallas Stars, his team trailed 2-0, had yet to register a shot, and seemed like it might fade into the night midway through Wednesday's first period. "Didn't look very good," Knoblauch said. But in a series wi