Topic: Jamie McGinn

This wasn't supposed to happen. The Florida Panthers started slowly last year, but -- from Jan. 30 to the end of the regular season -- were the best team in the Eastern Conference, falling just one point short of the playoffs.

The Chicago Blackhawks' quality of play isn't where Joel Quenneville would like, but when they find ways to win games like they have lately, the coach takes it as a step in the right direction.

The NHL announced Sunday the available and protected lists for the 30 teams who will provide players to the Vegas Golden Knights in this week's expansion draft.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Washington Capitals coach Barry Trotz wanted at least a three-point lead over the Columbus Blue Jackets heading into Sunday's Metropolitan Division showdown with the Blue Jackets in Columbus. He'll have it, but not the way he would have scripted it.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- While teammates keep getting traded all around him, Arizona Coyotes right winger Radim Vrbata just keeps rolling.

NEW YORK -- Most NHL teams struggled immediately after their respective bye weeks this season, but not the Columbus Blue Jackets, who returned to action with a home-ice win Saturday and followed that up with an impressive 5-2 road victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Despite some unforeseen plot complications, the script for the Anaheim Ducks' season ended just as it did for the past three: losing a seventh game in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Ryan Getzlaf was asked if the home team would ever win a game in his team's Western Conference quarterfinal series with the Nashville Predators.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Exploiting mistakes can provide the key to success in the Stanley Cup playoffs, as the Nashville Predators demonstrated Friday night.

About a week after signing the richest contract in Buffalo Sabres history, center Ryan O'Reilly was arrested and charged with driving while impaired.