Friend to friend, let's get you caught up quickly and easily ahead of the U.S. and Canada's final battle Thursday night.

Before he boldly accepted Matthew Tkachuk's invitation to fight off the opening faceoff and spoke about playing for the flag ...

DETROIT (AP) — Brandon Hagel had two goals and two assists, and the Tampa Bay Lightning snapped Detroit’s seven-game win ...

First Period_1, Tampa Bay, Hagel 25 (Cernak, Kucherov), 1:28. 2, Tampa Bay, Cernak 2 (McDonagh, Kucherov), 2:56. 3, Detroit, Tarasenko 7 (Seider, DeBrincat), 9:47. 4, Tampa Bay, Point 30 (Hagel, ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning are in a tough spot in the Eastern Conference, not only as one of the top teams, but not far away ...

Lightning: No Nikita Kucherov, no problem. Tampa Bay had plenty of offense ... We’ve rounded up the best cooling blankets to ...

When Nikita Kucherov weaved his way toward the net with ... So, there’s nothing else we can do. We just fight through it, and the guys did a good job of killing that off.” ...

Waddell was aggressive last week in his search for a top-six scoring forward. "We had some irons in the fire," he said. "But ...

Kucherov pushed his point streak to 10 games ... to-back Friday in Chicago and Saturday in Detroit. “We’ve got to fight through this, so we’ll see what we’re made of,” Cooper said.

marking Gatcomb's first NHL fight. With 2:47 remaining, the Bolts brought on the extra skater, and Vasilevskiy exited. Sorokin stood tall, stopping a bullet by Nikita Kucherov With 1:20 left ...

Kucherov dumped the puck into the offensive ... but this is character moment for our team,” Cooper said. “We gotta fight through this. So, we'll see what we're made of. This is a tough trip ...