Author: Mike Brehm, USA TODAY

The Boston Bruins entered the season with concerns about injuries to two star players. They survived that and set the NHL record for wins in a season.

Saturday was already a record day with 16 NHL games for the first time. Several milestones on the ice provided an exclamation point.

The Seattle Kraken bounced back from a last-place finish in their inaugural season to secure a NHL playoff berth in the franchise’s second season.

LSU’s victory against Iowa on ABC Sunday afternoon had a peak of 12.6 million viewers and averaged nearly 10 million, ESPN announced.

Carson Briere, who has been charged in the wheelchair incident at a bar in Erie, Pennsylvania, was dismissed from the Mercyhurst hockey team.

USA TODAY Sports is here with everything you need to know about the NHL playoffs, including potential first-round matchups.

Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Billy Sweezey fought the Boston Bruins’ Jakub Lauko and his parents cheered from the stands at TD Garden.

LIV Golf’s Brooks Koepka was spotted at a Florida Panthers game holding up an orange traffic cone and yelling about defenseman Aaron Ekblad.

Alabama’s Nick Saban says he wasn’t referencing basketball team when he said, “there’s no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”