DENVER -- Vegas forward Jack Eichel remains day-to-day with an upper-body injury after being a scratch from the Golden Knights' 3-2 shootout loss to Colorado on Tuesday night.

Coach Bruce Cassidy had no further updates on Eichel, the team's leading scorer with 93 points.

"We'll see where he's at when we get back home," Cassidy said after a game in which the Golden Knights were outshot 36-21.

The Golden Knights also scratched defensemen Nicolas Hague and Alex Pietrangelo due to an illness.

"A couple other guys were sick, but they played -- almost because we had to. (It's) going through the room, a little bit," Cassidy explained. "Hopefully we get back home, get away from the rink, guys could take care of that, get some rest and be good to go Thursday."

The team remains in firm control of the Pacific Division with the regular season coming to a close next week. Vegas has a six-point lead over the Los Angeles Kings after earning a point in the shootout loss. By picking up a point against Colorado, the Golden Knights secured home ice for a first-round playoff series.

Vegas is starting to round back into health. Forward Tomas Hertl has returned to practice after missing several games with an upper-body injury. Backup goalie Ilya Samsonov has been practicing with the Henderson Silver Knights, the team's AHL affiliate and may be back soon. He hasn't played for Vegas since March 23.

Eichel has struggled over his last four games, with no goals or assists. His next score will be his 100th with Vegas. He's trying to join Jonathan Marchessault (192), William Karlsson (160), Reilly Smith (127) and Mark Stone (108) as players who've notched 100 or more goals in a Vegas sweater.

DALLAS -- Kiefer Sherwood scored with 1:16 left in overtime after Pius Suter scored two of Vancouver's three 6-on-5 goals in the final minute of regulation, and the Canucks made NHL history by stunning the Dallas Stars 6-5 on Tuesday night.

Suter's second goal tied the score 5-5 with 5.2 seconds remaining and sent Vancouver into the record books. According to ESPN Research, the Canucks are the first team in NHL history to overcome a three-goal deficit in the final minute of regulation.

"It was not easy, but we stuck with it," Suter said in his postgame interview for Vancouver's official website. "We had a couple of nice power-play goals, and then at the end, we were just battling and believing until the end."

Aatu Raty began the late rally by scoring with exactly a minute left in the third period, while Jake DeBrusk and Victor Mancini scored power-play goals early in the third for the Canucks, who preserved their slim playoff hopes. Thatcher Demko made 23 saves for Vancouver.

"Obviously, it was a fun game for us," Suter said. "There's a lot of excitement, and we're just glad to get one of those, especially because that was a really good team over there."

Sherwood concurred.

"Says a lot about the group," Sherwood said in the Canucks locker room. "When adversity hits, we just dig in. Guys were able to execute and make stuff happen."

With the win, Vancouver is six points behind the Minnesota Wild for the Western Conference's No. 2 wild-card slot.

Mikko Rantanen, Mason Marchment and Matt Duchene scored power-play goals for the Stars during the first two periods, while Mavrik Bourque and Mikael Granlund scored in the final three minutes. Casey DeSmith stopped 26 shots for Dallas, which is four points behind first-place Winnipeg in the Central Division and will host the Jets on Thursday.

Granlund, whose goal was an empty-netter, also had two assists for the Stars. Duchene became Dallas' fourth 30-goal scorer; the Stars and the Tampa Bay Lightning are the only NHL clubs in that category this season.

But the home team wasn't in the mood to talk about statistics after this one.

"I've won and lost a lot of games in this league," Stars coach Peter DeBoer said. "I don't think I've ever lost one in that fashion before."

Stars captain Jamie Benn, who grew up about 70 miles west of Vancouver, in Victoria, British Columbia, called the loss "unacceptable."

"That game should have been wrapped up," Benn said. "We should have found a way to get it done there."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Sabres were officially eliminated from Stanley Cup playoff contention for the 14th straight season Tuesday night.

The Sabres extended their playoff drought, which is the longest in NHL history and ties them with the NFL's New York Jets for the longest current run of seasons since qualifying for the postseason.

Buffalo initially set the record after the 2021-22 season when they missed the postseason for the 11th straight time.

"We know where we're at," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "I'm disappointed where we're at and we can't do anything with that, but we can work on our game and we're going to continue to work on our game until it's over."

Ruff is in his second stint as coach of the Sabres. He was hired in May to replace Don Granato. Ruff was the last person to coach Buffalo to the playoffs in 2011 before he was fired in 2013.

The Sabres beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 on Tuesday night to keep a shred of hope alive, but the Montreal Canadiens' 4-1 win at home against the Detroit Red Wings left Buffalo 11 points behind with five games remaining.

"It's mixed emotions, for sure," Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin said. "I mean, (ticked) that we started to play good now. It's too late. But also, it's good we can see that we can play good hockey, and we can beat any team in this league."

The Sabres were able to stave off elimination until their 77th game thanks to winning 10 of their last 13 games, including five straight. However, a staggering 13-game losing streak in November and December in which they went 0-10-3 doomed the season.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Amanda Gutierres came off the bench to score in stoppage time and Brazil defeated the United States 2-1 on Tuesday night.

It was the second of two exhibition matches against the Brazilians, who the U.S. defeated to win the gold medal at last summer's Paris Olympics. Brazil had not defeated the Americans since December 14, 2014.

Catarina Macario put the U.S. in front just 34 seconds into the match. After Alyssa Thompson raced the ball down the left side, Macario picked it up and got around Brazil goalkeeper Natascha, who was making just her fourth start. It was Macario's 10th goal.

Brazil drew even with Kerolin's goal from distance in the 24th minute that U.S. goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn couldn't reach. It was just the ninth goal that the United States allowed since Emma Hayes took over as coach last May.

Gutierres scored off a cross from Luany deep into stoppage time. It was the first victory for a CONMEBOL team over the Americans on U.S. soil.

McGlynn was making her third start for the national team. Hayes started Phallon Tullis-Joyce in the first match against Brazil, as she evaluates goalkeepers following the retirement of Alyssa Naeher.

Trinity Rodman, who scored in Saturday's 2-0 win at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, did not dress for the match at San Jose's PayPal Park as a precaution after returning from a back injury.

Rodman was part of the team's formidable front trio nicknamed "Triple Espresso" at the Olympics. Sophia Smith, who now goes by her married name Wilson, is on maternity leave and Mallory Swanson is not with the team for personal reasons.

Alyssa and Gisele Thompson started together for the second time. They are the first sisters to start for the United States since Sam and Kristie Mewis in July 2021.

Hayes made seven changes to her lineup from Saturday's match. The U.S. starters averaged 17.9 appearances with the national team, fewest for any starting group in 24 years.

The national team's next two games are against China on May 31 in St. Paul, Minnesota and June 3 in St. Louis.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Memphis Grizzlies starting guard Jaylen Wells broke his right wrist on a hard fall on his arm and head from a midair collision at the end of a fast-break dunk during a 124-100 victory over Charlotte on Tuesday, probably ending the rookie's season right before the Grizzlies begin the playoffs.

Wells was down for eight minutes before being lifted by medical personnel onto a stretcher with his head immobilized. He was taken to a hospital, where he had movement in all of his extremities, interim coach Tuomas Iisalo said.

"It puts everything into perspective seeing that situation and to see Jaylen there," Iisalo said. "He's an incredibly tough kid and had a great season."

The rookie's father, Fred Wells, told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that his son was alert enough to ask what the score of the game was. Jaylen Wells had pain in his face, jaw and back, his father said.

Wells caught an outlet pass from Ja Morant and went up to dunk the ball, when the Hornets' KJ Simpson inadvertently undercut him after trying to catch up to the play. The contact caused Wells to lose his balance while in the air and land awkwardly on his side as his head slammed against the court near the baseline.

"It's tough. I threw the pass and turned around and was doing our little touchdown celebration. When I got there, the first thing I saw was blood, and I've got a weak stomach," Morant said. "We've just got to stay with him and keep praying for him. It's next man up. Obviously that hurts. Guys will just have to be ready."

The game was delayed 23 minutes, including warmup time for both teams. After a replay review, officials called a flagrant foul 2 on Simpson for unnecessary contact, which comes with an automatic ejection. After the play, Simpson immediately bent down to check on Wells and was visibly distraught while Wells was being tended to in the silent arena.

A 2024 second-round draft pick out of Washington State, Wells has yet to miss a game for Memphis while starting 74 of 79 games. The 6-foot-7 Wells entered Tuesday's game with averages of 10.5 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists. With the win, the Grizzlies moved into a tie for fourth place in the crowded Western Conference race, but they could still drop as low as eighth.

NEW YORK -- The Knicks were seemingly seconds away Tuesday night from finally knocking off the defending champion Boston Celtics, who had thoroughly dominated them in three prior meetings this regular season.

Instead, those final 12 seconds of the fourth quarter turned out to be the beginning of a painful 119-117 overtime loss for the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, allowing the Celtics to complete a four-game regular-season sweep of a club they could meet in the postseason's second round.

After wing Josh Hart scored on a layup to push New York ahead by three points, 107-104, with 11.9 seconds left in regulation, Boston coach Joe Mazzulla wisely elected not to call a timeout, creating a more chaotic atmosphere -- one where the defense couldn't get set -- on the ensuing sequence. Celtics star Jayson Tatum dribbled down the floor and shook OG Anunoby for a nasty step-back 3-pointer to knot the score and stun the Garden crowd with 2.9 ticks left.

On the Boston side, Kristaps Porzingis, who had a huge game with 34 points -- including a 30-foot, go-ahead trey in the final minute of overtime -- suggested that he expected the Knicks to foul before Tatum could get up a potential tying shot.

"They could have [fouled]. They took a gamble. They took a gamble, and Jayson hit a big shot," Porzingis said of Tatum, who finished with 32 points, seven boards and five assists.

Anunoby, one of the league's best defenders, said as much. "I should've fouled. I should've known to foul," Anunoby said, acknowledging that it was an obvious mistake in hindsight.

Hart misfired on a 3 during the final play of regulation, and after Porzingis hit the 3 with 40 seconds left in overtime to give the Celtics a 115-112 advantage, Knicks wing Mikal Bridges bobbled a pass out of bounds that practically secured the victory for Boston (59-20).

It was a much better showing from New York (50-29), which had lost all three of its previous games to Boston by double digits. The Knicks changed a handful of things strategically, including shaking up a handful of defensive matchups. Coach Tom Thibodeau elected to start Anunoby on Tatum, Hart on Jaylen Brown and Bridges on Derrick White. And having backup center Mitchell Robinson seemed to make a difference, too, as his ability to play higher up defensively against screen and rolls was a boost, particularly with Porzingis spacing the floor.

While the atmosphere in the arena was lively, with countless celebrities in the New York crowd and a nationally televised audience, the outcome seemed to matter far more to the Knicks, who were led by Karl-Anthony Towns' 34 points and 14 boards.

Brown logged just 22 minutes and didn't reenter the game after subbing out with 2:46 left in the third period. Similarly, Porzingis didn't initially start the overtime period and only subbed in midway through it despite the game hanging in the balance.

Nonetheless, the Knicks -- who will almost certainly face the Celtics in the conference semifinals if both teams win their first-round playoff series -- liked that they were closer to winning this time after losing by 23, 27 and 13 points in the first three outings. But they made clear that Tuesday wasn't enough to feel good about -- not for a 50-win club that doesn't believe in moral victories and that's now 0-9 against the teams with the three best records in the NBA.

"I think it's something we can build off of. There's a lot of positives we can take from this game, and there's some negatives we can take," said New York captain Jalen Brunson, who finished with 27 points and 10 assists in his second game back after missing nearly a month with an ankle injury. "But yeah: It's a little disappointing, knowing that we fought back and had a chance [to win]."

ESPN's Tim Bontemps contributed to this report.

CLEVELAND -- Kenny Atkinson thought during training camp that realistic goals for the Cleveland Cavaliers would be 50 wins and a top-three seed in the Eastern Conference.

The Cavaliers surpassed those goals a while ago, with Atkinson now planning for a possible championship run.

Cleveland wrapped up the top seed in the East with its 135-113 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday night. It is the fourth time in franchise history the Cavaliers will go into the playoffs with the conference's best record. The last time was 2016, when the Cavaliers won their first NBA title and delivered Cleveland its first professional sports championship in 52 years.

"Yeah, I mean I think you celebrate these moments," Atkinson said. "You know, we'll talk about going forward, what that looks like, but today, tonight we celebrate. And, you know, I think the guys are super happy in that locker room."

Cleveland went 48-34 last season and advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals before losing to eventual NBA champion Boston in five games. The Cavaliers fired J.B. Bickerstaff at the end of the season and replaced him with Atkinson.

With a new coach in charge, Cleveland got off to a fast start, becoming the fourth team in NBA history to win at least its first 15 games. It is the third team in league history to have at least three streaks of 12 wins in a season, including a 16-game run from Feb. 3 to March 14.

The Cavs lost four straight, though, after their franchise-record win streak, but have rebounded to win seven of 10. At 63-16, they need to win their final three games to equal the franchise record for most victories in a season.

"You know, we got out of the gate so quick," Atkinson said. "We got ahead of it early. And then, we had some ups and downs this last month, but really proud of the guys, proud of the organization. It's hard to win 63 games in this league. It's hard to be the first seed. We all know that. So great accomplishment, obviously. We are hungry for more."

Atkinson had some preliminary discussions with his coaching staff about the approach to take during the rest of the regular season once the top seed was secured, but those plans can ramp up with three games remaining until the playoffs.

Cleveland has road games against Indiana and New York on Thursday and Friday, respectively, before hosting the Pacers on Sunday.

With the Cavaliers not likely to have their first playoff game until April 20, there is the fine balance between making sure players are peaking going into the postseason while also trying to get some rest with their seed locked in.

"I think there are various options on the table. It's going to be a collaborative thing and the players are part of it," Atkinson said. "What is their feel on rhythm? We can do intrasquad scrimmages to prepare. We can do a lot of things to get ready."

Guard Ty Jerome noted that the Cavaliers are in the same boat as a lot of teams going into the playoffs, with the extended rest before the first round starts.

"You use that week to get your body right, get an extra lift, and get some good practices in that we haven't been able to have," he said. "Since the All-Star break you don't really have time to practice much."

One player Atkinson would like to rest the remainder of the regular season is Donovan Mitchell. The star guard missed Tuesday's game due to a sprained left ankle he suffered during last Sunday's loss to Sacramento.

Mitchell, who is averaging a team-leading 24 points, will have some input into the decision about the final three games, but Atkinson said he would prefer Mitchell rest up.

With Mitchell out of the lineup, Darius Garland broke out of his shooting slump with 28 points against the Bulls. The sixth-year guard was 34 of 90 from the field and 15 of 43 on 3-pointers in his past six games leading up to Tuesday, but was 10 of 17 and 6 of 10 from beyond the arc vs. Chicago.

"It was good to see something go through the net," he said. "My teammates were on me to be myself. It was good to have one of these games for sure."

Garland also knows that expectations for the Cavaliers will be extremely high after earning the top seed.

"It's different because we're the hunted now," he said. "So we always have to play our best, it doesn't matter who it is or who it's against. So I think that turns us up a notch."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

MILWAUKEE -- Regular-season defeats don't get much more brutal than the one the Minnesota Timberwolves suffered Tuesday.

The wide-open nature of the Western Conference playoff race doesn't give them much time to stew over what went wrong.

Minnesota blew a 24-point lead by getting outscored 39-8 in the final 10 minutes of a stunning 110-103 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks that ended a five-game winning streak.

The Timberwolves, who started the game in a four-way tie for fifth place in the West, are now alone in eighth.

"I have every confidence that we'll be able to bounce back," Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said. "We've got good guys. They'll shake it off. We've had some tough losses before in the season. We didn't expect to go undefeated over our last 10 games."

But they sure didn't expect to lose this one after leading 95-71 in the fourth quarter.

According to Sportradar, this marked only the fifth time that a team has won a game it trailed by at least 24 points in the fourth quarter since 1996-97, which is when the NBA started tracking play-by-play data. It was only the third time that one of those comebacks didn't require overtime.

It has happened one other time this season, and Minnesota was on the other end of it, rallying to win 131-128 at Oklahoma City in overtime after trailing 106-81 with 10:33 left in the fourth quarter.

"We played great basketball for three quarters," guard Donte DiVincenzo said. "We have to acknowledge what happened, but you don't let the world blow up just because of this."

The Timberwolves had no trouble explaining their collapse. The Bucks went to a zone in the fourth quarter, and the Timberwolves couldn't solve it.

They shot 4-of-20 overall and 2-of-12 from 3-point range in the fourth quarter while committing eight turnovers.

"It was hard for every last one of us to get a look when they were in the zone," All-Star guard Anthony Edwards said. "It messed us up."

Minnesota forward Julius Randle noted that the Timberwolves have fared well against zones in the past. They just didn't do it Tuesday.

He was asked whether he expected other teams to start using zones against them.

"If teams are smart, probably," Randle said. "I ain't going to give them the blueprint."

Minnesota still has reason to believe it can work its way out of the play-in tournament, in which the teams that finish seventh through 10th compete for the West's final two playoff berths.

In fact, the Timberwolves are only a game out of fourth place, which would give them home-court advantage in the opening round. They have the best cumulative record against the pack of teams they're fighting with to avoid the play-in games and a better overall Western Conference record than the LA Clippers, Memphis Grizzlies, Denver Nuggets and Golden State Warriors.

The Timberwolves finish a five-game trip Thursday at Memphis. The Grizzlies just lost starting guard Jaylen Wells to a broken wrist from a scary fall in the game at Charlotte on Tuesday.

Then the regular season wraps up for Minnesota with home games against lottery-bound Brooklyn and Utah on Friday and Sunday, when the Warriors face the Clippers in a game that will guarantee a loss for one of the competitors. The Grizzlies also host the Nuggets on Friday, ensuring another loss for one of them.

So the Timberwolves still have time to improve their playoff position. It starts by bouncing back and winning Thursday.

"The next game," Edwards said, "is the biggest game of the season."

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Luka Doncic said he was trash-talking with a courtside fan in the fourth quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' 136-120 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday when an official thought Doncic's ire was directed at him, leading to an ejection for the Lakers guard.

"I never got a fan ejected," Doncic said, explaining how he will often engage with opposing fans without asking arena security to intervene. "Never. But if [the fan is] going to talk, I'm going to talk back, like always. That had nothing to do with the ref. So, I didn't really understand."

L.A. led 108-107 with 7:40 left when Doncic was whistled for a technical foul by referee J.T. Orr, his second of the game. Orr also gave Doncic a tech in the third quarter, when Doncic argued that a foul call was missed when Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt was hit on the previous possession.

The Thunder finished the game on a 29-12 run to rout the Lakers.

"He thought I got fouled, which I did get fouled, I got slapped across the head," Vanderbilt said of Doncic. "He was just telling the ref that that's what happened. And the ref was just like ... 'I'll talk to anybody but you, Luka.' So, it seemed a little personal at that point."

Crew chief Tony Brothers was asked about both technical fouls during a pool report after the game.

For the first, which came with 4:02 remaining in the third quarter, Brothers said Doncic, "directed profanity at a game official." For the second, Brothers said Doncic, "looked directly at an official and used vulgar language."

The fan, Jeremy Price, who referred to himself as "The Courtside Tattoo Dude," told ESPN that Doncic was shouting at him and not the referee.

"During the game within the game, I mentioned that he was short [on his shot] and he missed it, and he turned around and he shot an explicative back and J.T. happened to see it and at that point, T'd him up," Price said.

Price, who said he also jawed with Doncic last year during the Thunder's playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, said Orr "possibly" could have been mistaken as to whom Doncic was addressing.

"That's probably why he picked up that technical, to be quite honest," Price said.

The ejection changed the course of an ultracompetitive game between the Lakers, ranked No. 3 in the Western Conference, and Oklahoma City, which boasts the No. 1 overall record in the league at 65-14.

"Both teams knew that this was going to be a playoff-type atmosphere, playoff-type competition, playoff-type feeling and it just got weird," Lakers forward LeBron James said. "The game got weird after that."

Added Lakers coach JJ Redick: "It was a great game that unfortunately didn't get to finish out the way that I think every basketball fan would want because of some decision-making on some individuals' parts."

With the missed opportunity in Oklahoma City behind them, the Lakers turned their focus to Wednesday's game in Dallas. As important as the game is for playoff seeding, the contest will take on a much larger meaning with Doncic's return to Dallas since the Mavericks included him as part of a three-team trade with the Lakers and Utah Jazz, acquiring Anthony Davis and Max Christie on Feb. 2.

"There's going to be a lot of emotion for me," Doncic said. "I don't really know what to expect. I don't know how I'm going to feel, honestly. I'm looking forward to being back in Dallas, obviously, with the fans, seeing my teammates -- ex-teammates. It's going to be very emotional for me, for sure."

James, who anticipated a warm reception from the Mavericks fans who rooted for Doncic during the first seven seasons of his NBA career, said the Lakers would make sure Doncic felt their support no matter what the environment was like.

"I think it's very important," James said. "I mean, it's camaraderie. It's holding each other down whenever we face anything. And I think tomorrow's going to be a lot of emotions going through Luka, both the interior and then exterior. And it's our job just to do our job. If we do our job on the floor, then we'll help him tremendously."

And, in the process, help out their playoff positioning with a win with only three games left in the regular season.

"We need two out of the three to lock in the third spot," Lakers guard Austin Reaves said. "We're going to go compete and play like we have the last couple games, because we want to stay where we're at [in the standings]."

Paul Skenes might still be relatively new in the major leagues, but the Pittsburgh Pirates star isn't new to baseball and he won't be sweating a shaky start Tuesday night in which he gave up a career-worst five runs to the St. Louis Cardinals.

The 22-year-old has been pitching for a while. He knows that some days -- hopefully most of them -- he's going to have dominant stuff that bends pitches to his will and leaves bats flailing in pursuit.