Kristina Rutherford

The New York Rangers were the first team in the NHL to clinch a playoff spot, and they're also the first to advance to the second round.

The Florida Panthers punched their ticket to the second round after taking out the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 on Monday night.

The Dallas Stars won their second straight game on the road at The Fortress in Vegas on Monday night to pull even in their first-round series with the Golden Knights.

The Florida Panthers punched their ticket to the second round after taking out the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 5 on Monday night. Here are our takeaways from Game 5, which saw fans launch celebratory plastic rats all over the ice when it was over.

The Dallas Stars have eliminated the defending Stanley Cup champions, hanging on to win an absolute nail-biter at home in Game 7 with a gutsy 2-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday.

When she picked up her phone to make the call, Taylor Heise had just learned that Toronto had chosen her team as its first-round playoff opponent.

Pumped to play the playoff underdog, Minnesota forward Taylor Heise sounds off on Toronto's "passive-aggressive" announcement of their matchup, her "small hatred" for CWNT players, and her team's confidence level heading into the PWHL semi-finals.

After cashing her team's ticket to the playoffs with an OT winner in the final game of the regular season, PWHL Boston defender and B.C. native Kaleigh Fratkin is primed for a "very physical" series against Montreal.

The New York Rangers took a stranglehold on the Carolina Hurricanes with a 3-0 lead in their second-round series thanks to a 3-2 overtime win on Thursday night.

The Carolina Hurricanes are still alive, and the New York Rangers — who opened this post-season with seven straight wins — now find themselves riding a two-game losing streak.