NEWARK, N.J. ― And just like that, Travis Konecny is in the top 10. After Thursday night’s three-assist performance in the Flyers’ 5-3 win against the New York Islanders, the spark plug’s 53 points have him tied with Winnipeg Jets forward Mark Scheifele.

The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame has announced its Athletes of the Year, and the list includes some big names in Denver sports. The list was announced Thursday in a news release.

Canada's letdown at the world juniors has some Canadian fans bitter. And at the NHL's upcoming 4 Nations Face-Off, the pressure on Canada just got higher.

Ovechkin & Co. are back on top according to our voters. And at the midway point of the season, we identify the best fantasy player for all 32 clubs.

Welcome to the NHL On Tap, a daily look at the games on the NHL schedule. There are 13 games on the schedule for Tuesday, including one televised nationally in the United States.

Alex Ovechkin's OT goal was his 874th career goal, putting him 20 away away from tying Wayne Gretzky’s mark of 894.

Dylan Cozens and Tage Thompson also scored and Jason Zucker had two assists for the Sabres, who won for the third time in four games. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 35 saves. Jaccob Slavin and Martin Necas scored and Brent Burns had two assists in the Hurricanes’ second straight loss. Dustin Tokarski made 20 saves.

Connor Hellebuyck will surely start getting some additional rest later in the season, so the race at the top right now is between Nikita Kucherov and Nathan ... C16 50. Travis Konecny ...

We're officially reaching the halfway point of the campaign and it feels like we all better strap in for what could be a wild second act. Ryan Dixon uses this week's Power Rankings to look at the first-half MVP for all 32 teams.

Toews has been one of the great winners in hockey. He captained three Stanley Cup championship team in Chicago. He scored goals in Team Canada gold-medal wins at the Olympics of 2010 and 2014. The bigger the game, it seemed, the better he played. He was the kind of contributor that coaches adore.

Artemi Panarin scored twice, Chris Kreider got the go-ahead goal with 9:38 left and the New York Rangers rallied for a 5-3 victory over the Utah Hockey Club on Thursday night. Reilly Smith tied it 3-all with a short-handed goal 28 seconds into the third period for the Rangers,

Dylan Larkin scored two goals and the surging Detroit Red Wings beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 on Thursday night.