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The Montreal Canadiens and Dallas Stars meet Wednesday night at American Airlines Center with both clubs seeking closure of some sort. Montreal (23-9-6), which won 2-1 in overtime at Nashville on Tuesday, looks to finish its current seven-game road trip strong. The Canadiens, who are 8-6-4 on the road, are 2-3-0 with two games remaining on their current trek which concludes Saturday in Toronto. Continue to Article

January 04, 2017 2:23:am EST

Andrei Vasilevskiy has played six straight games since goalie Ben Bishop went down with a lower-body injury on Dec. 20, and the Tampa Bay Lightning are 4-1-1 since then heading into a home game against the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night. "Vasy is getting better and better and better, and that's what you like to see," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said of his 22-year-old, who has played as Bishop's backup for the last two seasons. Winnipeg (17-19-3) has less momentum entering its first game of 2017, having taken a 5-3 loss to Columbus and a 6-2 loss to the New York Islanders in its last two games as it opens a three-game road trip that includes a back-to-back with Tampa and the Florida Panthers. Continue to Article

January 02, 2017 9:27:pm EST

Jaromir Jagr offered a brief wave to the Dallas crowd during a video tribute to Florida's 44-year-old forward in the first period. Then the No. 2 scorer in NHL history finished off a quick start that helped the Panthers end a four-game losing streak. Jagr scored his 756th career goal and had an assist and the Panthers stopped Dallas' season-best three-game winning streak with a 3-1 win in the Stars' traditional New Year's Eve home game Saturday night. Continue to Article

January 01, 2017 4:39:pm EST

Yannick Zehndery of Team Switzerland celebrates his third period goal with teammates on the bench during the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship preliminary round game against Team Denmark at the Bell Centre on December 30, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Just one year after winning the World Juniors, Team Finland has been pushed into the relegation round after Switzerland punched their ticket to the quarterfinal with a 5-4 shootout win over Denmark. Finland needed Switzerland to lose to have a chance to avoid the relegation round. Continue to Article

December 30, 2016 10:23:pm EST

The Thursday Dose looks at a Robby Fabbri hat trick and a nice relief appearance by Marc-Andre Fleury. Continue to Article

December 29, 2016 1:37:am EST