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It's a points-grab time of the season, according to the Tampa Bay Lightning and Pittsburgh Penguins, who meet Saturday at Amalie Arena. Tampa Bay (39-11-4) leads the NHL with 82 points, but the feel of the stretch drive already is creeping in after two straight losses -- even though the Lightning picked up a point in each of those games by going to a shootout against Vegas and overtime against St. Louis. "The end of the season seems closer in our minds as players and teams," defenseman Ryan McDonagh told the Tampa Bay Times. Continue to Article

February 08, 2019 7:26:pm EST

Andrei Vasilevskiy took care of that, as he needed to use his mask/head to make a save on a sprawling sequence. If you needed video evidence that Brayden Schenn hasn't been getting many bounces so far in 2018-19, you could do worse than to witness that save. Entertaining stuff, although I'd wager the Lightning would prefer that fewer pucks hit their franchise goalie in the head. Continue to Article

February 08, 2019 2:23:am EST

Rookie Jordan Binnington stymied the NHL's highest scoring team and Brayden Shenn broke out of a goal drought for the surging St. Louis Blues. Binnington made 32 saves, Shenn scored with 58.2 seconds left in overtime and the Blues won their fourth straight game, 1-0 over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night. St. Louis is 10-4-1 since the start of this calendar year. Continue to Article

February 07, 2019 11:41:pm EST

The Pittsburgh Penguins embarked on a three-game road trip with an all-too-familiar and unpleasant update: Matt Murray is injured. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said that Murray didn't miss a Wednesday practice because of a maintenance day, instead deeming it an upper-body injury that leaves Murray day-to-day. On the bright side, Sullivan said it was not a concussion, according to reports including Penguins Inside Scoop. Continue to Article

February 06, 2019 4:28:pm EST

It wasn't the hastily arranged private plane ride from Miami to Pittsburgh. No, Jared McCann's ''whoa'' moment from the most exhilarating and surreal weekend of his professional life came Sunday, when the newly acquired forward arrived at Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby's house to watch the Super Bowl with the rest of the gang. ''There's like an area to the side there, and it's Hart Trophy, Hart Trophy, Hart Trophy,'' McCann said, referring to Crosby's three NHL MVP awards. Continue to Article

February 04, 2019 4:19:pm EST

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