Thatcher Demko was superb in his return from a 14-game absence, making 39 saves as the Vancouver Canucks clinched the Pacific Division title on Tuesday with a convincing 4-1 win over the visiting Calgary Flames. Tuesday marked the final home game of the regular season for the Canucks (50-22-9, 109 points), who needed just one point to be crowned division champs for the first time in 11 years. Vancouver won the Northwest Division back in

Logan Thompson made 22 saves as the Vegas Golden Knights moved into third place in the Pacific Division with a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. Brayden McNabb, Michael Amadio and Nicolas Roy scored for Vegas (45-28-8, 98 points), which moved move one point ahead of the idle Los Angeles Kings (43-27-11, 97 points) into third with one game remaining for both teams. Vegas finishes the regular season on

Connor McDavid returned to action to score a goal and record his 100th assist of the season in the Edmonton Oilers’ 9-2 rout of the visiting San Jose Sharks on Monday. McDavid missed Edmonton’s previous three games with a lower-body injury, but he quickly marked his return by scoring just 53 seconds after the opening whistle on Monday. McDavid later tallied his milestone assist at 15:35 of the second period, setting up Zach Hyman’s 54th

Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist as the Minnesota Wild ended Los Angeles’ eight-game home winning streak by beating the Kings 3-1 on Monday night. Matt Boldy and Ryan Hartman also scored, Marco Rossi had two assists and Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves for Minnesota (39-32-10, 88 points), which was outscored by a combined 13-3 in its previous two meetings with Los Angeles this season. Blake Lizotte scored and Cam Talbot had 26

Nathan Walker had a goal and an assist and Joel Hofer made 19 saves as the St. Louis Blues handled the visiting Seattle Kraken 4-1 Sunday. Jordan Kyrou, Kasperi Kapanen and Brayden Schenn also scored for the Blues (43-33-5, 91 points), who won for the third time in their last four games. Jared McCann scored and Joey Daccord made 25 saves for the Kraken (33-34-13, 79 points). The Kraken took a 1-0 lead with 5:36

Kirill Kaprizov scored two goals and added one assist, and the Minnesota Wild pulled away for a 6-2 win over the host San Jose Sharks on Saturday night. Liam Ohgren added his first career goal and his first career assist for Minnesota (38-33-9, 85 points). Matt Boldy also tallied a goal and an assist, and Declan Chisholm and Marcus Johansson scored one goal apiece. Jan Rutta and Mario Ferraro each scored one goal for San

Casey DeSmith made 32 saves as the visiting Vancouver Canucks moved a step closer toward clinching the Pacific Division title with a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. Sam Lafferty, Pius Suter and Dakota Joshua scored goals for Vancouver (49-22-9, 107 points), which increased its division lead to five points over second-place Edmonton (48-25-6, 102 points). The Oilers still have three games and a possible six points left on their schedule while

Filip Forsberg scored his 10th career hat trick en route to setting the franchise single-season goal-scoring record as the visiting Nashville Predators cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night. Forsberg scored his 44th, 45th and 46th goals to move into sole possession of the franchise single-season scoring mark previously set by Matt Duchene (43) in 2021-22. It was Forsberg’s 43rd career multigoal game, extending his franchise record. Kiefer Sherwood and

Seth Jarvis and Jaccob Slavin each had a goal and an assist for the visiting Carolina Hurricanes in a 5-2 win against the St. Louis Blues on Friday. Jake Guentzel scored a pair of empty-net goals for the Hurricanes (51-22-7, 109 points), who have won four straight and pulled to within a point of the New York Rangers for the Metropolitan Division lead. Frederik Andersen made 29 saves. Zack Bolduc and Jordan Kyrou scored, and