• The Canadian Press

    Miller scores late, Canucks grind out 3-2 win over Oilers in Game 5

    VANCOUVER — Rick Tocchet challenged his Vancouver Canucks to up their game. The team responded to the head coach in a big way Thursday, coming back from an early deficit to grind out a crucial 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series. Tocchet wasn't surprised his players answered the call. “The bounce back or whatever you want to call it, it's been all year," he said. "I mean, it happened a few times this year where we didn't like our effort and we dealt wi

  • The Canadian Press

    Rangers reach Eastern Conference Final with 5-3 win over Hurricanes in Game 6

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Chris Kreider had a third-period hat trick to help the New York Rangers erase a two-goal deficit and beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 in Game 6 on Thursday night to advance to the Eastern Conference Final. Kreider single-handedly erased the Hurricanes’ 3-1 lead entering the final period. The go-ahead score came when he got position on Jalen Chatfield at the top of the crease and tipped in Ryan Lindgren’s pass to make it 4-3 at the 15:41 mark. That finally allowed the Preside

  • The Canadian Press

    J.T. Miller's late goal lifts Canucks past Oilers to take a 3-2 series lead

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — J.T. Miller scored with 33 seconds remaining to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night that put them a win away from the Western Conference Final. Carson Soucy and Phillip Di Giuseppe both scored in their returns to the lineup for Vancouver, which will try to wrap up the series in Game 6 on Saturday in Edmonton. Rookie Arturs Silovs made 21 saves for the Canucks. With the game tied at 2, Vancouver's Pius Suter fir

  • The Canadian Press

    Sports scoreboard for Thursday, May 16, 2024

    Thursday's Scoreboard NHL Playoffs Second Round Vancouver 3 Edmonton 2 (Canucks lead best-of-seven series 3-2) N.Y. Rangers 5 Carolina 3 (Rangers win best-of-seven series 4-2) --- IIHF World Hockey Championship Group Stage At Prague Canada 4 Norway 1 Austria 3 Finland 2 At Ostrava, Czechia Sweden 3 Kazakhstan 1 United States 5 France 0 --- AHL Playoffs Division Finals Cleveland 1 Syracuse 0 (Cleveland leads of best-of-five series 1-0) Hershey 6 Hartford 1 (Hershey leads of best-of-five series 1-