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The expansion Golden Knights made an historic run through the regular season. Postseason hockey makes its debut on The Strip on Wednesday night with the Knights hosting the Los Angeles Kings, an experienced playoff team that hoisted the Stanley Cup as recently as 2014 and that used to hold exhibition games in Vegas. The teams split their four regular-season games, each winning once at home and once on the road, even as the Knights were making an unprecedented run through the regular season, which included winning the Pacific Division title. Continue to Article

April 10, 2018 6:57:pm EST

Intensity and animosity are a given in games involving the NHL's California contingent. San Jose and Anaheim comprised the first pair of California teams to play against one another in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 2009. Then, the eighth-seeded Ducks beat the Sharks, the NHL's top seed as the season's President's Trophy winners, in six games in the first round. Continue to Article

April 09, 2018 3:37:pm EST

New York Rangers fans got their wish with #FireAV, as the team parted ways with head coach Alain Vigneault. The news was first reported by TSN’s Bob McKenzie. After the Philadelphia Flyers clinched a playoff spot against the Rangers in a 5-0 drubbing, Vigneault told reporters that he expected to be back with the team. The Rangers concluded their fifth season under Vigneault with a 34-39-9 record. Continue to Article

April 07, 2018 11:36:pm EST

The Anaheim Ducks and Arizona Coyotes will end the NHL regular season the way they began it, by playing each other. The Coyotes, in their first game under new coach Rick Tocchet, led 4-1 at the Honda Center following Christian Fischer's goal at 13:50 of the second period, only to give up four consecutive Ducks goals and lose 5-4, with Rickard Rakell scoring the game-winning goal at 16:30 of the third period. Arizona (29-40-12) went on to lose its next 10 games, going 0-10-1 to start the season, and never recovered despite a respectable second-half surge in which it has gone 20-13-7 this calendar year. Continue to Article

April 07, 2018 2:39:am EST

Dustin Brown's fourth goal of the night was the winner as the Los Angeles Kings claimed a 5-4 overtime victory over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Thursday night. Brown blasted a sharp-angled one-timer from the bottom of the left circle to beat Wild goalie Alex Stalock 23 seconds into the extra period for his 28th goal and 61st point of the season, a career high. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick made 23 saves at Staples Center. Continue to Article

April 06, 2018 1:41:am EST