Author: Mike Brehm, USA TODAY

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.

ESPN said ratings for the LSU-Virginia Tech early game was up 57% from last year, and Iowa-South Carolina was up 72%.

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.”

Mercyhurst hockey player Carson Briere and lacrosse player Patrick Carrozzi were charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.

The end of the NHL regular season is rapidly approaching. Here are key questions about playoff races and the best odds to win the draft lottery.