playoff hockey, early. The red-hot Black Hawks won its fifth straight Friday at Young Arena in front of 2,861, topping an equally hot Sioux Falls Stampede, 5-2, to secure home ice for the playoffs.

Ovechkin has barely slowed down since. Even in his worst full season in 2012-13, he still racked up 32 goals. He’s hit the 50 ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

to stake a claim to the Jersey Cash 5 jackpot. The winners were from Hunterdon, Union and Morris counties. They will each receive $216,822 from the $650,466 jackpot. The jackpot was the 16th hit ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reaching the NHL playoffs is a long shot for the Utah Hockey Club in its inaugural ... For more than a century, Times Union photographers have been documenting the Capital ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

The other two goals were empty-netters in the final two minutes of the game. The Red Wings were all out on the attack in the final two minutes, meaning Talbot was pulled so Detroit could get an ...

When defenseman Albert Johansson’s helmet fell off in the third period against the Montreal Canadiens it was symbolic of the Detroit Red Wings falling out of the Eastern Conference wildcard race. A ...

The Detroit Red Wings' playoff hopes suffered a crushing ... He became a fan of ice hockey after watching NHL fight videos on YouTube, which led to him professionally writing about the sport ...