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Cam Ward made 36 saves and the Carolina Hurricanes got their offense going in a 4-0 preseason victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night. Zac Dalpe and Jay Harrison both scored 69 seconds apart in the first period ...

A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed while taking off Wednesday in western Russia, killing at least 43 people and leaving two critically injured, officials said.

Former NHL player Wade Belak hanged himself, according to a person familiar with the case....

San Jose and Minnesota made their second major deal of the offseason with the Sharks sending forward Dany Heatley to the Wild on Sunday for forward Martin Havlat.

The Boston Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 39 years, defeating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 Wednesday night in the seventh and deciding game of the National Hockey League's annual championship.

The Boston Bruins blitzed the Vancouver Canucks for a Stanley Cup finals-record four goals in a four-minute span in the first period, driving goalie Roberto Luongo from the game en route to a 5-2 victory in Game 6 on Monday. Game 7 will take place in Vancouver on Wednesday.

A price of $500 million for Atlanta's Hawks and Thrashers is not out of the question... That is a lot of money for an NBA team and NHL team that are both losing money. But it is not out of the question considering that True North Sports and Entertainment has already offered $170 million ($60 million of which would go to the league as a relocation fee to move the team to Winnipeg) for just the Thrashers and Comcast-Spectacor is close to selling another money-losing NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers, for between $300 million and $330 million.

Maxim Lapierre scored Game 5's lone goal early in the third period as Vancouver defeated Boston 1-0 to take a 3-2 lead in the Stanley Cup finals on Friday.

Shortly after the Boston Bruins lost Nathan Horton to a frightening injury, they found a dazzling offensive rhythm that got them back into the Stanley Cup finals.

Alexandre Burrows, who was at the center of a biting incident in Game 1, scored the decisive goal in overtime as the Canucks took a 2-0 series lead over the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals.