Author: Mike Brehm, USA TODAY

The Lightning, swept by the Blue Jackets in last season’s NHL playoffs, oust them this time after a Brayden Point OT goal in Game 5.

Colorado Avalanche’s Nathan MacKinnon has two beautiful assists, then tosses around Arizona Coyotes’ Christian Fischer after Cale Makar was boarded.

Washington QB Alex Smith, who suffered a compound fracture in his right leg in 2018, has been activated from the physically unable to perform list.

Andrei Svechnikov left after getting tangled up with Zdeno Chara. Bruins’ Jack Edwards tweets Hurricanes forward “bit off more than he could chew.”

Barry Trotz will face team he led to Stanley Cup, Blue Jackets and Lightning meet again after last season’s upset and last year’s finalists struggle.

The Canadiens and Blackhawks, who wouldn’t have made the playoffs under normal circumstances, knock out Penguins and Oilers in four games.

Minnesota Twins and St. Louis Cardinals stop play at Target Field in fifth inning to pay tribute to George Floyd, who died in police custody in May.

Pittsburgh Penguins say nine players had contact with an “individual who had contact with a person that has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.”

The NHL is hoping the precautions it is taking at training camp and at hub cities in Toronto and Edmonton will allow it to award the Stanley Cup.