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Heading into a Saturday matchup in Philadelphia, the Flyers are coming off their bye week and the New Jersey Devils are coming off a loss in Montreal the night before. The Flyers have had to think about two straight losses on back-to-back nights to the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins by a combined score of 11-3 for the past seven days. "We have a lot of hockey to play and we're still in the playoff picture so it's easy to be optimistic in here," Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds told his team's website. Continue to Article

January 21, 2017 2:34:am EST

The Washington Capitals haven't defeated the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center in some time, so long that Capitals coach Barry Trotz has no idea exactly when his team last won there. "I don't know the last time we've ever won in Dallas, but everybody tells me it's like never, so we'll go into Dallas and see if we can put a good game together against Dallas, who's had our number," Trotz said after Washington defeated St. Louis 7-3 at Scottrade Center on Thursday. Washington (30-9-6) lost its last four trips to Dallas, but all four defeats, including a 4-3 loss in 2016, have been by a single goal. Continue to Article

January 20, 2017 9:48:pm EST

The trade deadline is fast approaching, which means Chicago Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman’s fingers should be twitching and sweat-drenched. Conventional wisdom is that the Blackhawks, who have about $742,000 in cap space, are in the market to add a veteran forward at the deadline, because that’s sorta what they do – consider Michael Frolik, Michal Handzus (a little after the deadline), Andrew Desjardins, Antoine Vermette and Andrew Ladd. Sharp has a limited no-trade clause (with 10 teams on his list), so he will have some say in what happens. Continue to Article

January 20, 2017 4:00:pm EST

St. Louis Blues goalie Jake Allen is in the midst of a personal nightmare. It was the third straight game in which he was pulled. As they head on a three-game road trip to Winnipeg, Pittsburgh and Minnesota before the All-Star Break, the Blues have decided to leave Jake Allen home for a few days as a mental break. Continue to Article

January 20, 2017 3:23:pm EST

John Tavares narrowly missed out on his second hat trick in a week, Thomas Greiss got his second straight shutout and the Islanders beat the Dallas Stars 3-0 on Thursday night in their first game since firing longtime coach Jack Capuano. New York canned Capuano in the middle of his seventh season Tuesday, replacing him on an interim basis with Doug Weight. Continue to Article

January 20, 2017 1:02:am EST

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