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Dan Bylsma was especially pleased with the line of Paul Stastny, Max Pacioretty and T.J. Oshie....

SOCHI -- The Americans will take an unlucky goal-against in every game of the 2014 Sochi Olympics if their response is going to be like the one they had Thursday. Slovakia forward Tomas Tatar got away with going into the zone offside and scored......

s grandma on his chances in Sochi: "He will make a fool of himself." [ Fourth-Place Medal ] • Not only will Ondrej Pavelec not play in the Czech Republic's first game -- he won't even dress. [ Winnipeg Free Press ] • How Canada, and fighting, RUINED hockey. [ Salon ] • Pavel Datsyuk has declared himself fit to play in the tournament. [ ESPN ] • If Alex Ovechkin doesn't singlehandedly drag Team Russia...

Ryan Dadoun, Corey Abbott and Michael Finewax preview all the Pool A players including Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the U.S. in Olympic Preview....

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s dog, Puck, helps him pack for Sochi. • Randy Carlyle has his concerns about an emotional crash from his players after the Olympics. "All those things are tough things when they come back to your group after participating in that type of event because it's two or three weeks of high emotion, and the last thing on their mind is where they came from. They're playing for their country." [ Canadian Press...

s greatest players will jet off for the event. No decision, obviously, has been made about whether the league will participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea four years from now, considering the 2014 men's hockey tournament doesn't even begin for another two days. But you get the sense that the tide is certainly shifting toward a solid “no” vote four years from now. The simple fact is that...

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Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella wants you to point the finger at him when it comes to the teams losing ways of late. The Canucks lost their seventh straight game after dropping a 3-1 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Following the game, Tortorella owned up to the teams recent slide and put the losses squarely on his and the coaching staffs shoulders. Its pretty obvious...

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TORONTO -- Left winger James van Riemsdyk scored with a little more than four minutes left in the game as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Tuesday. Van Riemsdyk fired home his 21st goal of the season at 15:57 of the third period after taking a pass from right winger Phil Kessel. Center Tyler Bozak also picked up an assist. With the win, the Maple Leafs (28-21-6) ended...

TORONTO -- The Tampa Bay Lightning felt they deserved better than their 3-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday night. But Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier was brilliant in stopping 40 shots including a big save late in the game, and left winger James van Riemsdyk scored the winning goal with 4:03 left in the game. Bernier made a key save on Lightning right winger Martin St. Louis after...

victory. Bernier went post-to-post with 3:18 remaining to rob Lightning captain Martin St. Louis as he one-timed a 2-on-1 feed from Victor Hedman. Thanks to that stop, the Maple Leafs held on for a 3-2 win over Tampa Bay. Game-saving save,'...

5-4 win over the Buffalo Sabres, but he didn't stop there. The Capitals' captain also contributed two assists, one of which came on Mike Green...

- - - Maple Leafs 3, Lightning 2 James van Riemsdyk scored with a little more than four minutes left in the game as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning. Nazem Kadri also scored twice for the Maple Leafs. With their first win in three games, the Maple Leafs (28-21-6) snapped a three-game winning streak by the Lightning (31-17-5)....

While the Tampa Bay Lightning got the best of the Senators last week, a repeat performance could be hard to come by in Ottawa. The Lightning try to pick up a rare road win over the Senators as these Atlantic Division foes meet again Thursday night. Tampa Bay (31-17-5) has taken both matchups against Ottawa (23-20-10) this season, winning 3-1 on Dec. 5 and 4-3 in a shootout last Thursday. Victor Hedman...

Continued strong play at home has the Toronto Maple Leafs back on track after two consecutive road defeats. The Maple Leafs can match a season high with their fifth straight home victory Thursday night against the Florida Panthers. Toronto had won a season-high six in a row before losing at Dallas and Winnipeg, but rebounded with a 3-2 home victory over Tampa Bay on Tuesday. Nazem Kadri scored twice...

s slate of games. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished. Create-a-Caption: A Detroit Red Wings fans watches the action. (Photo by Leon Halip/NHLI via Getty Images) • • • • • Preview : Florida Panthers at Boston Bruins, 7 p.m. ET Preview : Detroit Red Wings at Philadelphia Flyers, 7 p.m. ET Preview : Tampa Bay Lightning at Toronto Maple Leafs, 7 p.m. ET...