Washingtontimes.com (hockey)

Sheldon Keefe is out as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, fired Thursday after another early exit from the NHL playoffs.

Ownership of the NHL's team in Utah has given fans 20 choices to vote on for the franchise's new name, according to a survey sent out Wednesday by Smith Entertainment Group.

For the rest of his life, Crew Corbett Carlo can celebrate his birthday with the knowledge on the day he was born his father scored a playoff goal.

Off the goaltender's mask, off a defenseman's back, nothing but net. Well, at least in the net.

It has become a running joke with the Florida Panthers. Ask coach Paul Maurice about Sam Reinhart, and he will say something less than glowing about his team's top goal scorer.

Before the final minutes even ticked off the clock at Amerant Bank Arena on Monday night, Florida Panthers fans - clad in red jerseys and waving light-up rally towels in the air - were singing goodbye to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Nathan MacKinnon is so quick and so forceful on the ice that sometimes there's a crunching noise that follows him into the offensive end.

Sixteen teams, each one needing to win 16 games over four rounds of best-of-seven series to lift the Stanley Cup, has been the way the NHL decides its champion for nearly four decades. That isn't changing any time soon.

Artemi Panarin was an established offensive player before he signed with the New York Rangers in 2019. He has only boosted his numbers since then and is coming off a career year going into the playoffs.

The Arizona Coyotes are headed out the door for Utah after insisting for years they would stay.