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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.
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NHL·
The Blackhawks are minus-27, and Blashill picked 'urgency' from the thesaurus
Chicago lost 5-3 in Sunrise, Bedard defended his coach, and the road trip to Tampa and Carolina now reads like a job review.
Sully · 2 min read
Florida Panthers·
Lars Eller hit 1,200 games on the minimum, and his minutes keep climbing
The first Dane to 1,200 NHL games is playing 17 minutes a night on Florida's third line, up from under 13 in the first week.
Pabs · 2 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·
Vilmanis goes for four as Panthers hold off Blackhawks 5-3
Sandis Vilmanis had two goals and two assists, and Florida survived a shaky third after Chicago cut a 3-0 lead to one twice.
Pabs · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
Markstrom keeps the net as Bedard brings a hot streak to Sunrise
Chicago arrives without a road win, and the Bennett line has one job: keep Connor Bedard quiet on Wednesday night.
Pabs · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
Chicago is still paying for Seth Jones's best month in Florida
Jones set a Panthers record for a defenseman with 18 October points, and the Blackhawks cover $2.5 million of every season.
Marcus Lind · 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
Florida Panthers·
The hat tricks cooled off, and Brady Tkachuk got more useful
Fifteen points in nine games, 58 hits and shrinking power-play minutes: Florida's newer Tkachuk is doing the work and has earned the net front back.
Pabs · 3 min read
NHL·
The Contract Board: Kucherov's $20 million ask, and Detroit's four weeks
Marcus Lind's November board grades his DeBrincat miss, reprices Kucherov for the open market, and puts two Lightning contracts on the worst-five list.
Marcus Lind · 8 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: Detroit spoils the new sweaters, Marner makes it 10 straight
The Red Wings score twice in 45 seconds to beat Florida 5-3, Colorado erases a 2-0 hole in Chicago, and Pastrnak ends it in Boston.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
Florida Panthers·
The State of Hockey: Sunrise scores ten, Tampa loses Kucherov's signature
The Panthers swept Winnipeg with a power play that finally works, Kucherov asked out across the bay, and the Everblades' perfect start ended with a shutout.
Pabs · 6 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: McDavid makes it 15 for 15, and Gauthier answers a 3-0 hole
Anaheim scores six straight on Ottawa, Kochetkov goes to 10-0-0 in a 7-0 rout of Winnipeg, and the Panthers host Detroit tonight.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
The Ferda Room: Kucherov asks out, Larkin walks out, Florida wins out
Tampa's MVP wants a trade and the room splits on when BriseBois should deal him, while the Panthers sweep a 13-goal week and Gord stays perfect.
Ferda Desk · 9 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
Florida Panthers·
The Panthers' power play was 1-for-28. Now it wins games
Since Oct. 12 Florida has scored on 15 of 38 power plays, and all six of Sam Reinhart's power-play goals came in that stretch.
Pabs · 3 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·
Larkin sitting out hands Minnesota the leverage Detroit wanted
Larkin's camp says he won't play until he's dealt, the Wings may suspend him, and the Wild are still the team to beat.
Gord Tremblay · 3 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·
André Lacroix, WHA's scoring king, dies at 81
He set pro hockey's single-season assist record with San Diego and scored Canada's only win over the Soviets in 1974.
Ferda Desk · 4 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·
Ice Breaker: Eller ends the skid, Fowler steals the Heritage Classic
Florida kills seven Chicago power plays, Nashville scores four of its own, and Montreal wins outdoors in Winnipeg behind a 33-save night.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
Florida Panthers·
Lars Eller's late winner snaps the skid in a 3-2 win at Chicago
Vilmanis and Eller score their first goals of the season, and a perfect penalty kill covers for seven Florida penalties.
Pabs · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
Panthers bring a 9-1 hangover into a Sunday fix in Chicago
Akira Schmid starts, Sandis Vilmanis moves up with Sam Reinhart, and Carter Verhaeghe plays his 500th game against a slumping Blackhawks team.
Pabs · 3 min read
NHL·
The Ferda Room: Hellebuyck is a Devil, and Florida forgot the puck
New Jersey won the two-month goalie auction, the Panthers were outscored 9-1 on the road, and last week's locks went 2-4.
Ferda Desk · 9 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
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Ice Breaker: MacKinnon piles on Tampa, Evans sinks Chicago
Nathan MacKinnon has four points as Colorado beats Tampa Bay 6-3, and Jake Evans scores twice in Montreal's 4-1 win in Chicago.
Ferda Desk · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
Maurice called it arrogance and softness. The puck only says arrogance
Florida threw more hits in two blowout losses than in three straight wins, but 23 giveaways in Pittsburgh tell the real story.
Pabs · 3 min read
Florida Panthers·
The Panthers are the NHL's most shorthanded team, and it's costing them
Florida has been shorthanded 46 times in 11 games, the most in the league by our count, with Chicago and Winnipeg next on the trip.
Pabs · 3 min read
NHL·
Ice Breaker: McDavid makes it 10 for 10, Florida gets blanked
Connor McDavid runs his point streak to 10 games in a shootout win over Carolina, Pittsburgh shuts out the Panthers, and Toronto steals one late.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
NHL·
Bedard's return just changed Anton Frondell's Calder race
Frondell's power-play time has dropped from about two and a half minutes a night to under half a minute since Bedard came back.
Tommy Kessler · 2 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·
Patrick Kane passes Housley, and he did it on Bedard's goal
Kane's 895th assist made him the top American-born passer in NHL history, 119 games faster than Phil Housley got to 894.
Ferda Desk · 2 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·
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·
Bedard is back, and Chicago's power play needs him yesterday
Connor Bedard is trending toward his season debut against Pittsburgh, his first game as captain and his first beside Patrick Kane.
Sully · 3 min read
NHL·
The Ferda Room: Shesterkin is done, and the Rangers need a net
Six writers on New York's lost season in goal, Zary's price, Quinn Hughes's rising bill, Toronto's seesaw week and the second round of graded locks.
Ferda Desk · 9 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·
Frank Nazar gets two games, and the 1-4 Blackhawks get thinner
A head shot on Bo Horvat costs Nazar $68,041.14 and costs Chicago its 19-minute forward against Carolina and the game after.
Sully · 3 min read
Blackhawks stats
League stats →2026–27 · Regular season · Summary · 24 players
| #Player | Team | Pos | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Connor Bedard | CHI | C | 11 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 10 | 1.09 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 11.1 | 20:32 | 44.7 |
2 Roman Kantserov | CHI | RW | 17 | 8 | 2 | 10 | -10 | 6 | 0.59 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 27.6 | 18:33 | 43.6 |
3 Patrick Kane | CHI | RW | 15 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -15 | 14 | 0.60 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4.0 | 18:02 | -- |
4 Anton Frondell | CHI | C | 17 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 0 | 0.47 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 8.8 | 17:00 | 41.1 |
5 Frank Nazar | CHI | C | 15 | 5 | 2 | 7 | -11 | 19 | 0.47 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 19.2 | 17:30 | 42.1 |
6 Teuvo Teravainen | CHI | C | 14 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 4 | 0.43 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 20.0 | 14:37 | 0.0 |
7 Tyler Bertuzzi | CHI | LW | 17 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -8 | 12 | 0.35 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 11.8 | 17:15 | -- |
8 Wyatt Kaiser | CHI | D | 17 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -11 | 8 | 0.35 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 14.3 | 19:50 | -- |
9 Ryan Donato | CHI | C | 17 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -6 | 5 | 0.29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 11.1 | 12:09 | 38.9 |
10 Sam Rinzel | CHI | D | 16 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -5 | 10 | 0.31 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4.8 | 17:00 | -- |
11 Ryan Greene | CHI | C | 17 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 4 | 0.24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 13.3 | 14:29 | 41.1 |
12 Artyom Levshunov | CHI | D | 17 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -6 | 10 | 0.18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 4.3 | 20:37 | -- |
13 Cole Smith | CHI | RW | 17 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 8 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 5.0 | 13:35 | 0.0 |
14 Ethan Del Mastro | CHI | D | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -3 | 6 | 0.38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 13:05 | -- |
15 Oliver Moore | CHI | C | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 10 | 0.19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 | 12:02 | 45.8 |
16 Alex Vlasic | CHI | D | 17 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 10 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.0 | 20:52 | -- |
17 Andrew Mangiapane | CHI | LW | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 9:59 | 0.0 |
18 Nick Lardis | CHI | LW | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -6 | 0 | 0.33 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 10:57 | -- |
19 Bowen Byram | CHI | D | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -7 | 4 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 24:42 | -- |
20 Jordan Greenway | CHI | LW | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 2 | 0.07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5.6 | 13:29 | 11.1 |
21 Kevin Korchinski | CHI | D | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 11:30 | -- |
22 Dillon Boucher | CHI | LW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 8:11 | -- |
23 Dominic Toninato | CHI | C | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 8:52 | 55.6 |
24 Ian Cole | CHI | D | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 6 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 | 18:09 | -- |
Source: NHL.com stats · Photo: NHL
