The Hurricanes look to run their playoff record to 7-0 on Thursday night.

The Anaheim Ducks are the latest young team growing and thriving under the weight of its first taste of postseason pressure.

The Toronto Maple Leafs got to work in recent days, and after hiring a new general manager and a hockey operations advisor, it remains to be determined who will be the coach for next season.

Dallas GM says Rantanen played with torn MCL, wants to re-sign Benn, Robertson

The Montreal Canadiens want to take home-ice advantage in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series with the Buffalo Sabres back to Quebec with them.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Beckett Sennecke, Leo Carlsson and Jansen Harkins scored, Lukas Dostal came 5.6 seconds from his first career playoff shutout and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 on Wednesday night to even their series at a game apiece.

The final second-round matchup of the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs started on Wednesday.

The second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs continued on Wednesday night with the Buffalo Sabres and Anaheim Ducks both picking up wins. Let’s dig a little deeper into both of those games and pick out the biggest winners and losers from the night. 

Bowen Byram and Ryan McLeod scored on consecutive power-play opportunities in reviving Buffalo’s anemic special-teams unit, and the Sabres defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series.

Potential selection of McKenna or Stenberg among tasks now facing new management team of Sundin, Chayka

The Colorado Avalanche are showing their depth and dynamic play, leaving the Minnesota Wild searching for answers.

For the third time in franchise history, the Toronto Maple Leafs will select No. 1 overall in the NHL Draft after winning the 2026 lottery on Tuesday night.

Schaefer was announced alongside Montreal’s Ivan Demidov and Anaheim’s Beckett Sennecke. 

The second round of the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs featured just one matchup on Tuesday, as the Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild faced off in Game 2 of their series.

The Toronto Maple Leafs won the draft lottery on Tuesday and will pick first in June, and the player they drafted first 10 years ago could be on his way out.

The Islanders are promoting from within.

The Minnesota Wild thought all they needed was a goalie change to shut down the Colorado Avalanche. They were wrong. 

Will help hire next general manager, remain with team as adviser, alternate governor

Anaheim Ducks head coach Joel Quenneville expressed his displeasure Monday night over a controversial non-call on an icing, which led directly to the Vegas Golden Knights’ game-winning goal in the third period of Game 1 of their second-round NHL playoff series.

Tampa Bay captain did not play in playoffs, says he’s ‘in a much better place today’

Forward scores at 18:54, Ehlers has goal, assist for Carolina

The Rangers enter the NHL draft lottery Tuesday with the third-best odds of winning the No. 1 pick for the second time in six years.

The Ducks fail to capitalize on their speed advantage and give up a late goal to Ivan Barbashev to lose 3-1 in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.

Maple Leafs CEO Keith Pelley got into a heated exchange with a reporter over why new GM John Chayka was hired.

The Colorado Avalanche beating the Minnesota Wild in a 9-6 game that included 14 goals scored with a goaltender in net is an anomaly in playoff hockey, especially at the start of a series.

Defenseman facing discipline for slashing Sabres forward Benson

After one of the most tightly fought, evenly matched series in NHL playoffs history, it was the Montreal Canadiens that eeked out a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 to reach the second round.

Makar scores twice in 3rd for Colorado, which recovers after blowing early 3-goal lead

Each game of the series was decided by one goal and four went to overtime. The score was tied or within one goal for all but six minutes in the seven games.

Hall of Famer returns to where he played 13 seasons; 36-year-old back in League after role with Coyotes

The Toronto Maple Leafs hired former captain Mats Sundin as senior executive adviser of hockey operations and John Chayka as general manager Sunday

Call it the man disadvantage in Buffalo. The Sabres beat the Boston Bruins in six games in the first round of the NHL playoffs despite their power-play unit producing at one of the worst rates in a playoff series over the past 50 years.

Philadelphia Flyers coach Rick Tocchet says his team must adjust quickly after losing the opener of its second-round playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes

The Golden Knights are gearing up for a playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks starting Monday in Vegas

The Minnesota Wild will be without forward Joel Eriksson Ek and defenseman Jonas Brodin for the first two games of their second-round playoff series against Colorado because of lower-body injuries

The whole series has come down to a bounce, so let’s not expect that trend to change in the final stage. 

The Boston Bruins and Buffalo Sabres ended their playoff series with Charlie McAvoy taking out some of his frustration with a brutal slash on Zach Benson.

Logan Stankoven scored twice to continue his postseason tear and the Carolina Hurricanes smothered the Philadelphia Flyers in a 3-0 victory Saturday night to open the second-round series.

Philadelphia forward Owen Tippett sat out the Flyers’ 3-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night in Game 1 of the second-round playoff series

There is no team in the NHL that is going to be facing more pressure this offseason than the Edmonton Oilers. That pressure is already starting, and it is coming from the franchise’s two best players, forwards Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.

Saying Saturday was not a day for big decisions or announcements, Edmonton Oilers general manager Stan Bowman did concede that next season’s team will “not be the same group as today.”

The Carolina Hurricanes still have yet to trail for a single moment of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Key factors include Tampa Bay’s possession success, opportunistic play of Dobes, Montreal’s rush offense

Veteran coach Joel Quenneville took over the Anaheim Ducks last year and helped the long-suffering franchise earn a playoff series victory.

BOSTON–Early last December, the Sabres found themselves in a position they’d been in too many times in their 14-season playoff drought: the floor of the Atlantic.

Mitch Marner had two goals and an assist, Carter Hart made 21 saves and Vegas Golden Knights beat the Utah Mammoth 5-1 on Friday night in Game 6 to wrap up the first-round series.

For the first time in 19 years, the Buffalo Sabres have won an NHL playoff series by beating the Boston Bruins in six games.

Anaheim defeated Oilers in 6 games to advance for 1st time since 2017; Vegas eliminated Mammoth in 6

Took over on interim basis in March, helped Los Angeles reach playoffs

The Carolina Hurricanes were the first team to advance past the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs when they completed the sweep of the Ottawa Senators las