Toronto is just putting the finishing touches on a terrible season, while Montreal is getting ready for a stay at the top of the standings. Brian Wilde has more.
Oliver Kapanen scored his 20th of the season as the Montreal Canadiens held on for a 3-1 win and handed the Toronto Maple Leafs their eighth consecutive loss on Tuesday night.
The Sarnia Legionnaires have been a part of the Greater Ontario Hockey League since it first formed in 2007 and has made the Western Conference playoffs most years.
The reward for the Jets' perseverance is halving what was a double-digit deficit for the No. 2 wild-card berth in the West to five points with 20 games to go entering this week.
It's Natalie Wilkie's fourth career Paralympic gold medal for the Canadian flag-bearer and her ninth Paralympic medal overall. She also won a silver on Saturday.
Nikita Kucherov had three assists in a four-goal first period and added another in the third to give him 100 points on the season as the Tampa Bay Lightning cruised past the listless Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 on Saturday.
The Montreal Canadiens 6-5 shootout loss to the Anaheim Ducks shows that a dominant team on offence can't count on a solid playoff run if its defence is lacking.
Jackson Blake had a pair of goals and K'Andre Miller had three assists as the Eastern Conference-leading Carolina Hurricanes came away with a 6-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday.
"This is going to include the PNE site minus Playland, and so will be also the first large festival to take advantage of the new amphitheatre," Jessie Adcock said.
For fans and media, the NHL trade deadline is a bit of a game, even a competition. But for the teams, the managements, the players, this is serious stuff.
The Jets were able to handle one of the East's top teams with Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor, Morgan Barron and even Gustav Nyquist finding the back of the net.
The World Cup of Hockey is scheduled to be played in February 2028 and will assemble the world's top hockey players under their national banners for a best-on-best tournament.
The Winnipeg Jets began an extended homestand with a nail-biter of a finish against Chicago. But more of the same will be needed over the next seven games at Canada Life Centre.
The first game of the Canadiens' trip to California was a nightmare defensively as the Sharks were able to create plenty of space on offence to outscore Montreal 7-5.