The Avs are one step closer to beginning their quest for another Stanley Cup.

Josh Hart continues to step up as a clutch player for the Knicks, and he is getting his plaudits.

Evgeni Malkin scored as part of his two-point game, Sidney Crosby set up two goals and Kris Letang had an assist as the Pittsburgh Penguins clinched a playoff spot by defeating the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Thursday night. The Penguins are playoff-bound for the first time since 2022, ending a three-year drought that followed a streak of qualifying 16 seasons in a row. Crosby, Malkin and Letang have been around for all of it, including Stanley Cup runs in 2009, ’16 and ’17.

Vitor Matos says his Swansea City side will try and ignore the problems besetting Saturday’s opponents Leicester City when they travel to the King Power Stadium (15:00 BST). The Foxes, Premier League champions in the 2015–16 season, are now staring at relegation from the Championship. This week Leicester lost their appeal against their six-point deduction for breaching English Football League financial rules and are a point adrift of safety with five games remaining.

Nathan MacKinnon scored his career-high 52nd goal of the season into an empty net and had two assists to help the Colorado Avalanche clinch the NHL’s top seed for the postseason with a 3-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night. It’s the fourth time Colorado has won the Presidents’ Trophy for the best record in hockey. With 114 points and four games left, the Avalanche have a shot to earn 120 in a season for the first time in franchise history.

Introduction I struggle with failure. It’s one of many, many, many reasons I was never going to be a professional athlete – particularly a baseball player given the sport’s inherent propensity for failure. No matter how many times someone told me, “Even the best ballplayers fail seven out of ten times” I was always too […]

The Celtics remain one win away from clinching the No. 2 seed in the East playoffs after falling to the Knicks on Thursday.

Dylan Guenther scored his 39th goal of the season, Clayton Keller had three assists to reach 56 and the Utah Mammoth beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory. Utah (42-30-6), which has won seven of 10, can clinch the franchise’s first playoff berth in its second season if the Anaheim Ducks beat the San Jose Sharks later Thursday. The Mammoth sit in the first Western Conference wild card spot with 90 points and have a six-point lead over Nashville.

Brown got real about his MVP chances.

Hapoel Tel Aviv defeated Fenerbahce 95-80 as the Reds closed in on clinching a playoff spot with a record of 22-13. Meanwhile, a crucial contest awaits Maccabi as its aspirations are questioned.