Hockey headlines for May 24, 2021

Monday, May 24, 2021

Avalanche’s top line all score once apiece to lead Colorado past Blues for series sweep (Denver Post)
Bruins oust Capitals with 3-1 victory (Boston Herald)
Luke Kunin lifts Nashville Predators to 2OT victory, series tied 2-2 (The Tennessean)
Ehlers OT hero in Jets' stunning 5-4 playoff win over Oilers (Winnipeg Free Press)
Golden Knights get chance to clinch series at T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
With second round in reach, Lightning need to remain cool under fire (Tampa Bay Times)
Avalanche’s Nazem Kadri will appeal his eight-game suspension (Denver Post)
Regime changes, impatience impede Sabres' player development efforts (Buffalo News)
From 'suffering' to 'tanking,' Sabres' shifting visions imperiled roster build (Buffalo News)
Will Davidson-Kekalainen reunion work? (Columbus Dispatch)
Capitals drop Game 5 to Bruins, make another first-round exit from the Stanley Cup playoffs (Washington Post)
Catastrophic third-period collapse all but ends Edmonton Oilers' season (Edmonton Sun)
Hurricanes fall to Predators in double overtime of Game 4 (Raleigh News & Observer)
Tarasenko shows his old self with two goals, but it's not enough for the Blues (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Kunin, Saros are clutch when it counts for Preds (The Tennessean)
Nashville Predators keep defying odds in playoffs. Juuse Saros is a big reason why. (The Tennessean)
Tuukka Rask still the clear choice in the Bruins’ net (Boston Globe)
Blues’ Ryan O’Reilly dubs his series “pretty pathetic,” says Avalanche “clearly the better team” (Denver Post)
Jets' fans find way to show support in very pandemic way (Winnipeg Sun)
Scoring futility puts Wild one loss from season's end tonight in Vegas (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Habs 'in a good spot' as playoff series shifts to Montreal, Ducharme says (Montreal Gazette)
Isles plan to use hostile Pittsburgh crowd to their advantage (New York Newsday)
Sidney Crosby’s Penguins, Barry Trotz’s Islanders no strangers to pressure of series tied at 2 (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
From faceoffs to finishing, Wild power play isn't connecting (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Marc-Andre Fleury leaves Wild players shaking their heads again (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Knight time? Panthers’ 20-year-old goalie is ‘an option’ for must-win Game 5 vs. Tampa (Miami Herald)
Islanders have been containing ‘dangerous’ Sidney Crosby (New York Post)
Golden Knights’ stars outshining Wild’s top players in series (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jaccob Slavin’s continuing absence is making things hard on the Hurricanes (Raleigh News & Observer)
The Maple Leafs turn to Nick Foligno with John Tavares down. It worked in Game 2 (Toronto Star)
Brock Nelson’s peskiness quietly helping Islanders in playoffs (New York Post)
Bogosian on Matthews: 'That's huge, when he plays that intense' (Toronto Sun)
Wild veteran Zach Parise: ‘The last thing I want to do is be a distraction’ (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
Barry Trotz: Sidney Crosby ‘the gold standard’ among NHL players (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Even an aging Patrick Kane makes the Chicago Blackhawks dangerous. But how close are they to being a Stanley Cup contender again? (Chicago Tribune)
Quinn Hughes intent on improving defending for next season (Vancouver Province)
The road to the NHL had its bumps, but Josh Norris has served notice he's arrived (Ottawa Sun)
Red Wings excited about Moritz Seider’s progress, eagerly await debut (MLive.com)
Florida Panthers increase attendance capacity again for Game 5 (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)