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Ice Breaker: Kaprizov and Hughes run the Sharks out of St. Paul
Four points from Kaprizov, 31 minutes from Hughes, a Ducks comeback in Calgary and a Sabres rout on a three-game Friday.
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NHL·
Ice Breaker: Mintyukov's Gordie Howe beats McDavid's four points
Anaheim survives Edmonton's 46 penalty minutes, Cooley's hat trick goes to waste in Montreal, and St. Louis nearly steals one in Newark.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Vilmanis goes for four, Kempe and Panarin carve up San Jose
Florida survives a messy third against Chicago, the Kings put seven on the Sharks, and Seattle wins in overtime in 55 seconds.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
Florida Panthers·
The Panthers beat everybody except the teams they have to pass
Florida is 0-3-0 in the Atlantic and 8-2-2 against everyone else, and the top pair is where the gap shows.
Pabs · 3 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Winnipeg erases 4-0 in two minutes, Robertson hat trick
The Jets score four times in 2:06 and win in overtime in Montreal, Dallas holds off Washington, and Anaheim and Vancouver fight five times.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
Minors·
Martin Chromiak waited 276 AHL games, and the Kings handed him 17 minutes
The 2020 fifth-rounder spent six seasons in Ontario before his NHL debut, and Los Angeles put him straight on the power play.
Tommy Kessler · 3 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Kucherov asks out, then Stamkos gets the last word
Stamkos ties it late and wins the shootout against his old team, Makar sets up four, and McDavid makes it 14 for 14.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Anton Lundell picks a good night to wake up
Lundell's hat trick sinks the skidding Jets, Coronato gets four points in Calgary, and Gritsyuk and Jack Hughes split four goals in Vegas.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Detroit wins night one of the Larkin standoff
Arvidsson scores three the night the Wings suspend Larkin, Tage Thompson gets five points and Buffalo barely survives Anaheim.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: McDavid sets an assist record, Seattle stuns the Leafs late
Jarry blanks Calgary, Gavin McKenna scores twice in a loss, Colorado buries the Devils and Washington handles Philadelphia.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Hellebuyck wins in Dallas, Florida puts five on Winnipeg
Fowler stops all 46 in St. Louis, the Canucks erase a 5-2 hole in Anaheim, and Matthew Tkachuk piles up four assists.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: McDavid makes it 12 for 12, Detroit wins anyway
Lucas Raymond wins a shootout in Edmonton, Doughty runs the Garden for the Kings, and Calgary beats Bobrovsky for a fourth straight win.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
Gord's Notebook: Hughes stays, Nikishin signs, and Edmonton's net is next
Minnesota's extension is a press release away, Carolina won the staredown at $3 million, and the Flames keep winning their way out of a sell-off.
Gord Tremblay · 6 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Leafs drop seven on Edmonton, Batherson buries New York
Twelve games, three overtime winners, a Kochetkov shutout and a Utah comeback that left Tampa staring at a blown two-goal lead.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Carolina keeps calling on Hellebuyck as Winnipeg's clock hits Friday
Connor Hellebuyck's suspension is expected to end Friday, and the Hurricanes are the one bidder with steady offers on the table.
Gord Tremblay · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Ottawa wins the Brady grudge match, Knuble doubles up
Florida takes 44 penalty minutes and loses 5-1 in Ottawa, Cole Knuble scores twice in Buffalo, and the Panthers turn around in Pittsburgh.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Rantanen beats the Bruins alone, Celebrini wins in Montreal
A hat trick with an overtime winner in Dallas, another OT power-play winner for Celebrini, and Tampa takes Vegas apart on 21 shots.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Gord's Notebook: Hellebuyck's Friday, Larkin's clock, and Pittsburgh starts selling
Friedman's four Hellebuyck teams, a studio clock on Larkin, the Leafs shopping with premium assets, and why Norris's minutes are the real Buffalo rumor.
Gord Tremblay · 6 min read
Florida Panthers·
The Ferda Room: Four hat tricks in Sunrise, and Detroit can't decide
Pabs leads the Room on Florida's hat-trick week, Marcus prices Simon Edvinsson, and the locks scoreboard has Kessler and Meg eating one.
Ferda Desk · 9 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Two hat tricks in Sunrise, and McDavid keeps counting
Verhaeghe and Bennett each scored three in an 8-3 rout of Seattle, McDavid had five points, and Carolina won its seventh straight.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Hot Sauce: Brady Tkachuk is top five alive, and Vancouver is lost
Six goals in two nights, a 96 percent penalty kill that lost anyway, and a .786 save percentage walking around in the wild.
Sully · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Brady Tkachuk does it again, and Boldy joins the hat-trick club
Tkachuk scored all three Panthers goals in an overtime win over Vancouver, one of three hat tricks on an 11-game night.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Buffalo's goalies keep raising Connor Hellebuyck's price
The Sabres' crease is running at .850 while Winnipeg wins without him, and the trade leverage has flipped since June.
Gord Tremblay · 3 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: The Tkachuks torch Columbus, MacKinnon drops the gloves
Brady's natural hat trick and Matthew's five assists fed a 7-3 Panthers win, and Colorado and Dallas fought their way into tonight's rematch.
Ferda Desk · 6 min read
NHL·
Penguins plug a hole with Ryan Johnson, and Buffalo buys a long shot
Pittsburgh lands a former first-round defenseman for Caleb Jones and Wisconsin product Daniel Laatsch a day after losing van Riemsdyk.
Ferda Desk · 3 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Buffalo burns the Panthers, Ullmark stays perfect
Reinhart's power-play double wasn't enough in Buffalo, Ottawa's goalie moved to 5-0, and Quinn Hughes kept his streak alive in Minnesota.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
Florida Panthers·
Reinhart's power-play double can't save Panthers in 5-3 Buffalo loss
Florida tied it three times, then took one penalty too many as Ostlund and Thompson finished it in the third.
Pabs · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
The State of Hockey: Tampa owns the week, and the cats' power play owes one
Pabs on the week in Florida hockey: a 3-0 Lightning, a Panthers power play at 1 for 28, an Everblades tune-up and a UCF team that still hasn't lost.
Pabs · 6 min read
Florida Panthers·
Tkachuk brothers and Bennett carry the Panthers into Buffalo
With Barkov and Marchand out and a power play at 1-for-28, Florida leans on one big line in a Monday matinee.
Pabs · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Carolina won't lose, and the Rangers' new net holds
Sebastian Aho stretches his point streak to six, Tye Kartye scores twice for New York and Seattle wins late in Washington.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
The Flames are 0-5, and the kept-off-the-sheet list starts there
Calgary is minus-19 after five games, Timo Meier has 22 shots and no goals, and Sully hands out the first fake trophy of the season.
Sully · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
The Panthers power play is 1-for-28, and the fix is structural
Reinhart and Brady Tkachuk carry about $16.8 million in cap hits and zero points so far, and the deployment, not the talent, is why.
Marcus Lind · 4 min read
Florida Panthers·
Aaron Ekblad passed Barkov the quiet way, and that fits him
Game 807 made Ekblad the Panthers' all-time games leader on a 4-1 night, and his return already reshaped the blue line.
Pabs · 2 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Kaprizov crashes Sunrise, Nylander lights up Denver
Florida's power play goes 0-for-5 in the home opener, Hagel takes a hat trick off the Islanders and Montreal wins a 1-0 shootout.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Hot Sauce: Mark Stone fought, and Buffalo's power play didn't
Stone's Gordie Howe hat trick, Detroit's 133 shots for one win, Vancouver's screen-door penalty kill, and a Panthers call Sully hates making.
Sully · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Leafs blow 3-0 in Vegas, Stankoven completes the set
Vegas erases a three-goal hole and wins the shootout, Stankoven scores at every strength, and Colorado drops seven on Calgary.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Panthers win ugly in L.A., Matthews erases a 3-0 hole
Florida wins in regulation without a power-play goal, Toronto rallies past Nashville, and Lafrenière's hat trick leans on two empty nets.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Montreal's four-goal comeback still loses in Pittsburgh
Tommy Novak ends a wild one in overtime, Ilya Sorokin blanks the Devils, and Connor McDavid adds the league's fastest skate to his point streak.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Shesterkin scores, McDavid hits five, and Barkov's knee
A Rangers goalie scores for the first time ever, Edmonton outlasts Vancouver 9-7, and Florida loses in San Jose with its captain hurt.
Ferda Desk · 5 min read
NHL·
Anaheim paid Luneau for a projection, Buffalo paid Crevier for a receipt
Two young defensemen signed on the same day: six years at $7.2 million after 14 NHL games, and four at $4 million after 78.
Marcus Lind · 4 min read
Sabres stats
League stats →2026–27 · Regular season · Summary · 24 players
| #Player | Team | Pos | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Tage Thompson | BUF | C | 16 | 10 | 9 | 19 | +8 | 6 | 1.19 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 14.7 | 19:25 | 44.0 |
2 Jack Quinn | BUF | RW | 16 | 9 | 7 | 16 | +5 | 11 | 1.00 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 20.5 | 19:14 | 66.7 |
3 Zach Benson | BUF | LW | 16 | 2 | 13 | 15 | +13 | 14 | 0.94 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 5.1 | 20:07 | 30.8 |
4 Owen Power | BUF | D | 16 | 2 | 12 | 14 | +7 | 8 | 0.88 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 9.1 | 26:14 | -- |
5 Noah Ostlund | BUF | C | 16 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +4 | 6 | 0.63 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 10.0 | 18:58 | 36.2 |
6 Rasmus Dahlin | BUF | D | 13 | 3 | 7 | 10 | +5 | 8 | 0.77 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 7.7 | 24:32 | -- |
7 Mattias Samuelsson | BUF | D | 16 | 2 | 7 | 9 | +3 | 25 | 0.56 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 9.1 | 23:42 | -- |
8 Peyton Krebs | BUF | C | 16 | 1 | 8 | 9 | +4 | 11 | 0.56 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 | 13:48 | 46.3 |
9 Olen Zellweger | BUF | D | 15 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 0.40 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 10.7 | 19:57 | -- |
10 Josh Norris | BUF | C | 16 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -3 | 6 | 0.31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 21.1 | 14:10 | 49.7 |
11 Josh Doan | BUF | RW | 16 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 15:15 | 40.0 |
12 Jiri Kulich | BUF | C | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 0 | 0.33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7.7 | 13:09 | 47.5 |
13 Konsta Helenius | BUF | C | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -2 | 2 | 0.27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8.3 | 13:00 | 12.5 |
14 Ryan McLeod | BUF | C | 15 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -7 | 4 | 0.20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7.7 | 14:56 | 51.0 |
15 Beck Malenstyn | BUF | LW | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 4 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 11:12 | 57.1 |
16 Dennis Gilbert | BUF | D | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 0.40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 9:55 | -- |
17 Zach Metsa | BUF | D | 14 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 5 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 12:18 | -- |
18 Conor Timmins | BUF | D | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 15:18 | -- |
19 Jason Zucker | BUF | LW | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 2 | 0.14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7.1 | 12:10 | -- |
20 Louis Crevier | BUF | D | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -4 | 8 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 12:52 | -- |
21 Sam Carrick | BUF | C | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 4 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 8:16 | 54.5 |
22 Tyson Kozak | BUF | C | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 4 | 0.13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50.0 | 11:09 | 40.0 |
23 Justin Danforth | BUF | RW | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 9:09 | 50.0 |
24 Matt Grzelcyk | BUF | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 14:27 | -- |
Source: NHL.com stats · Photo: NHL
