BOSTON (AP) — Aleksander Barkov slipped through three Bruins defenders to score the go-ahead goal on Sunday night, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 16 shots to give the Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory over Boston and a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal series. One year after Florida knocked out the record-setting Bruins in the first round on its way to the Stanley Cup final, the Panthers won their third straight to send Boston to the brink of elimination. Sam Bennett and Anton Lundell al
Sunday's Scoreboard NHL Playoffs Second Round Vancouver 4 Edmonton 3 (Vancouver leads best-of-seven series 2-1) Florida 3 Boston 2 (Florida leads best-of-seven series 3-1) --- IIHF World Hockey Championship Group Stage At Prague Canada 5 Denmark 1 Finland 8 Great Britain 0 Switzerland 6 Austria 5 At Ostrava, Czechia Slovakia 6 Kazakhstan 2 Latvia 3 France 2 (OT) Sweden 5 Poland 1 --- AHL Playoffs Division Semifinals Milwaukee 5 Texas 3 (Milwaukee wins best-of-five series 3-2) --- NBA Playoffs Se
EDMONTON — Brock Boeser had two goals and an assist, and the Vancouver Canucks hung on for a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series. The Canucks now lead the best-of-seven matchup 2-1, with Game 4 set for Tuesday in Edmonton. Elias Lindholm also scored twice for Vancouver, while Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller each contributed a pair of assists. The Oilers used their league-leading power play to secure goals from Mattias Ekholm and Leon Draisaitl
BOSTON (AP) — One game after Sam Bennett punched Brad Marchand out of the playoffs, the Panthers forward sent the rest of the Bruins to the brink of elimination with an equally controversial shove to Charlie Coyle's back. Already drawing boos in the Garden because of a hit on Marchand that the Bruins are calling a sucker punch, Bennett scored the game-tying goal in Game 4 on Sunday night after sending Coyle tumbling into Boston goalie Jeremy Swayman. The goal was upheld by the NHL replay centre