Less than five minutes after Florida Panthers forward Vincent Trocheck scored his team-leading 25th goal of the season, a man twice his age matched him on the power play.
Jaromir Jagr, 44, reached the 25-goal mark for the first time since the 2007-08 season when he played with the New York Rangers, accomplishing the feat Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Czech winger still has a chance at hitting 30 goals before season's end, with seven games remaining. He last accomplished that feat in the 2006-07 campaign.
The ageless wonder has amazed many with his play this season, but his performance Saturday apparently didn't impress Minnesota Twins pitcher and die-hard Lightning fan Phil Hughes:
Jimmy Vesey's future is a hot topic after the Harvard captain's college season came to an end Friday.
The Nashville Predators own Vesey's rights after drafting him in 2012, and plan to sort out his status with the club by next week. The club released the following statement Saturday evening:
Nashville Predators representatives, including general manager David Poile, were in Worcester, Massachusetts last night to watch Harvard's NCAA Tournament game against Boston College. Jimmy Vesey's exceptional college career came to a close as Harvard was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. At some point over the next several days, David and Predators' hockey personnel plan to meet with Jimmy, his family and his representatives to discuss and reinforce his opportunities to begin his NHL career with the Predators in the immediate future.
The Predators want Vesey for their playoff run. "We'll be excited to have him," head coach Peter Laviolette said.
Vesey finished his senior season with 24 goals and 46 points.
The Predators appear to have a wild-card spot all but locked up in the Western Conference, so if Vesey wants to play some more hockey this spring, he'll have an opportunity to do so.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Mattias Janmark returned to the lineup from injury and posted his first career two-goal game and Antti Niemi made 34 saves against his former team as the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Saturday.
Patrick Sharp ...
The Colorado Avalanche prospect will not appear in his 10th game of 2015-16, and, as a result, the club won't be on the hook for the first year of his entry-level contract.
"We're not going to burn a year, first of all. He will start next year," Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic told Mike Chambers of The Denver Post.
Sakic added that a potential expansion draft and the rules about protecting young players are factors in the decision.
"(Expansion rules) can change, it (has) to be negotiated, but in his first two years he would be treated like a junior player. From our understanding, but not 100 percent, the first two years he won't be exposed so you don't have to protect them.
"So you can protect your other guys. If expansion (starts) in another year he would be a one-year pro, not a two. If we have to protect him, that's a guy we'll protect. You only (have) so many players to protect."
Shortly after Sakic's comments, the Avalanche made it official.
UPDATE: The #Avs have reassigned Mikko Rantanen to @sarampage.
Rantanen failed to record a point in nine games with Colorado this season, but racked up 21 goals and 52 points in 44 games with the AHL's San Antonio Rampage.
The Avalanche signed him to a three-year entry-level deal last July after selecting him 10th overall in the 2015 draft.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Jared VanWormer scored at 18 seconds of overtime to give Ferris State a 5-4 victory over St. Cloud State on Saturday in the NCAA West Regional semifinals.
The Bulldogs (20-14-6) will face the Denver-Boston University winner ...
DENVER - Zach Parise scored twice, Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves for his 19th NHL shutout and the surging Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-0 on Saturday in a pivotal game between two teams contending for the final Western Conference pla...
TORONTO - The Toronto Marlies stopped a late push by the St. John's Ice Caps in a 5-3 victory Saturday.
Josh Leivo scored twice, while Colin Smith, TJ Brennan and Brendan Leipsic added one apiece.
Brett Lernout, Bud Holloway, and Charles H...
He became the fifth player in franchise history to accomplish the feat with the club, joining Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio, Steve Yzerman, and Nicklas Lidstrom.