This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Play offense and defense today. It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day of these NHL and NBA playoffs,

The NHL regular season wraps up Thursday ... You're thinking about making the playoffs right now. It's not fun when the summer's long. It'll be more fun if I score and we make the playoffs."

The 11 NHL games ... solidify the playoff picture, as three teams (the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers and New York Islanders) have been officially eliminated from the race. Now it's just ...

The All-Star break is over and the stakes are going to start to ramp up from now until the end of the season. It’s the stretch drive with eight playoff ... Conference right now: nine teams ...

The Montreal Canadiens made the latest move in the NHL's Eastern Conference wild-card ... However, it's hard to judge which team will get hot because, right now, all of them are struggling to ...

Welcome to the NHL Playoff Buzz. The postseason is underway ... 20 and has skated with the team the past three days. “He's right there,” Carbery said. “He's full practice.

Now, they’ll do it again in the playoffs, meeting in an Eastern Conference second-round series that will begin in Washington, just as it did in 2019. The NHL has ... my feeling right now is ...

Arturs Silovs has always had a flair for the dramatic, and his performance in a 1-0 blanking of the Nashville Predators last May sent the Vancouver Canucks to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.