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The surging Boston Bruins will meet the sputtering Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night at the Honda Center, and both teams hope to enhance their respective playoff chances at the other's expense. The Bruins are in the race for the Eastern Conference's final two wild-card spots. Since interim head coach Bruce Cassidy replaced Claude Julien on Feb. 7, the Bruins won four successive games, scoring 15 goals in the process. Continue to Article

February 21, 2017 9:02:pm EST

General manager Doug Armstrong's difficult decision is paying off. Armstrong fired his friend, Ken Hitchcock, as the Blues' head coach on Feb. 1. The coaching change has breathed new life into the Blues, just like it has after similar switches with the New York Islanders and Boston Bruins this season and the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins a year ago. Continue to Article

February 21, 2017 1:03:pm EST

The Florida Panthers began their five-game road trip near the back of a crowded field in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Vincent Trocheck scored with just under 5 seconds remaining to lift the Panthers to a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Monday night. Jonathan Marchessault also scored and James Reimer stopped 26 shots to help the Panthers complete a 5-0 road trip - their first perfect trip of at least that many games in franchise history. Continue to Article

February 21, 2017 12:17:am EST

Even a week off for a bye couldn't slow the rolling Boston Bruins under interim coach Bruce Cassidy. Brad Marchand scored on a breakaway with 2:24 left in overtime and the Bruins picked up where they left off before their break by winning their fourth straight game, 2-1 over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night. ''This is a really hard building to win in and they've been playing well lately,'' Marchand said. Continue to Article

February 20, 2017 12:28:am EST

Feb 18 (The Sports Exchange) - Highlights of National Hockey League games on Saturday: -- Jets 3, Canadiens 2 Winnipeg scored two third-period goals to break a 1-1 tie and spoil Claude Julien's first game as Montreal's coach. Julien had been hired by the Canadiens on Tuesday after being fired by the Boston Bruins on Feb. 7. Mathieu Perreault and Patrik Laine both scored in the third period for Winnipeg. Perreault put the Jets ahead 2-1 at 1:16 with a backhand shot past Carey Price from the slot after Dustin Byfuglien carried the puck along the right boards and made a centering pass. ... Continue to Article

February 18, 2017 6:12:pm EST