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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
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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
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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
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Austin found an expansion site, and it helps Houston most
Friedkin's group has a 128-acre Austin site in view, but Houston still leads the NHL's Texas race heading into a year-end decision.
Gord Tremblay · 3 min read
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Hot Sauce: Winnipeg sold the goalie, and Detroit won the breakup
Five takes from a week where a teenager played 30 minutes, Boston outshot everybody and lost, and the Leafs did Leafs things.
Sully · 4 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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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Hot Sauce: The Devils got Hellebuyck, and Ottawa threw its jerseys
Five takes from a week in which New Jersey won a two-month auction, the Panthers got outscored 9-1, and McDavid kept counting.
Sully · 4 min read
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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
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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
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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
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Kucherov is four points from Stamkos, and 195 games ahead of him
The Lightning's all-time scoring record is in reach tonight in Vegas, and his shot totals say he's chasing it.
Ferda Desk · 3 min read
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Ice Breaker: Matthews drives the Leafs, Zegras feeds Michkov twice
Toronto's power play scored twice to beat Askarov, Zegras assisted on every Flyers goal, and Utah held off a late Pittsburgh push.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
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The NHL's empty seats are a price problem, not a hockey problem
Vegas lost its first sellout and Edmonton left 2,000 seats empty for McDavid, and both teams are winning. The bill is the issue.
Ferda Desk · 3 min read
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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
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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
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Ice Breaker: MacKinnon goes for four, and Boston’s power play bails it out
MacKinnon had a goal and three assists as Colorado erased a 2-0 hole, and the Bruins scored on three straight power plays in Anaheim.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Montreal sold Jayden Struble at the right time, for the right price
A 2027 second-rounder for an eighth defenseman whose minutes were falling, while Nashville gets a cheap left shot and his RFA rights.
Marcus Lind · 3 min read
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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
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Colorado is scoring like it's 1993, and Calgary is paying for it
Twenty-three goals in four games for the Avalanche, six for the Flames, and Sully grades the first ten days of overreactions.
Sully · 4 min read
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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
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The NHL's scoring surge is a goalie story, not a camp story
Goals are up to 6.25 a game, but the rusty preseason scored less, the power play isn't driving it and save percentage sits at .890.
Marcus Lind · 3 min read
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Ice Breaker: Draisaitl's four helpers sink the Ducks, Jets steal one late
Edmonton scores five straight in the second at Anaheim, Kyle Connor beats Colorado with a minute left, and Tom Wilson runs Washington past Pittsburgh.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
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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
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Hot for Hockey got pulled faster than a Leafs lead
The NHL's romance audio shorts lasted one week and 2.4 stars on Spotify, while its six leading men put up 28 points.
Sully · 3 min read
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Ice Breaker: Stützle sinks the Bruins, Oettinger takes a paid nap
Ottawa wins in Boston, Tampa smothers Philadelphia, Winnipeg answers in nine seconds and Dallas blanks San Jose on 13 shots.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
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Ice Breaker: Ducks' power play sinks the cats, Marchand returns
Anaheim went 3 for 4 with the man advantage, Winnipeg did the same in Detroit, and Seattle buried Calgary 6-1.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
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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
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Ice Breaker: three fights, two shutouts and a Bruins comeback
Boston steals one in Winnipeg, Joel Hofer and Dylan Garand post shutouts, and Alex Tuch scores twice before Carolina wakes up.
Ferda Desk · 4 min read
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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
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Vegas gave Karlsson a raise that's really a pay cut
William Karlsson's two-year, $6.75 million extension takes a smaller slice of the cap than his current deal, and the short term limits the injury risk.
Marcus Lind · 3 min read
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PWHL Las Vegas builds a staff that reads like a scouting department
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PWHL Las Vegas builds a staff that reads like a scouting department
Four hires in one release, and the goaltending and video jobs are the ones that say what kind of franchise this is trying to be.
Meg Halloran · 2 min read
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Colorado got swept and kept Bednar anyway, and Sakic got it right
Four more years through 2030-31 for the coach who has made the playoffs nine straight times, signed hours before the Avalanche open against Los Angeles.
Gord Tremblay · 2 min read
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Golden Knights stats
League stats →2026–27 · Regular season · Summary · 23 players
| #Player | Team | Pos | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Jack Eichel | VGK | C | 18 | 7 | 16 | 23 | +7 | 2 | 1.28 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 15.9 | 20:10 | 46.0 |
2 Mark Stone | VGK | RW | 18 | 10 | 9 | 19 | +7 | 11 | 1.06 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 28.6 | 18:37 | 0.0 |
3 Mitch Marner | VGK | RW | 16 | 2 | 16 | 18 | -2 | 6 | 1.13 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 5.3 | 20:21 | -- |
4 Tomas Hertl | VGK | C | 18 | 7 | 5 | 12 | +3 | 2 | 0.67 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 15.9 | 15:27 | 57.3 |
5 Trevor Connelly | VGK | LW | 18 | 7 | 5 | 12 | +2 | 2 | 0.67 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 21.2 | 14:13 | 0.0 |
6 Ivan Barbashev | VGK | LW | 18 | 2 | 9 | 11 | +6 | 6 | 0.61 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 8.3 | 15:46 | 22.2 |
7 Brayden McNabb | VGK | D | 18 | 0 | 8 | 8 | +14 | 8 | 0.44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0.0 | 19:40 | -- |
8 Brett Howden | VGK | C | 18 | 5 | 3 | 8 | +1 | 14 | 0.44 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 20.0 | 15:32 | 53.8 |
9 Braeden Bowman | VGK | RW | 18 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 17 | 0.39 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 18.2 | 13:08 | 0.0 |
10 Noah Hanifin | VGK | D | 18 | 2 | 4 | 6 | +1 | 6 | 0.33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 7.4 | 20:36 | -- |
11 Rasmus Andersson | VGK | D | 18 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 8 | 0.33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 5.7 | 19:25 | -- |
12 Victor Olofsson | VGK | LW | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | +2 | 0 | 1.20 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 33.3 | 13:20 | 60.0 |
13 William Karlsson | VGK | C | 18 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 0 | 0.33 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 11.1 | 17:35 | 57.1 |
14 Shea Theodore | VGK | D | 18 | 2 | 3 | 5 | +9 | 2 | 0.28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5.4 | 21:53 | -- |
15 Nic Dowd | VGK | C | 18 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -5 | 13 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 11:35 | 43.3 |
16 Raphael Lavoie | VGK | C | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 10 | 0.27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 | 10:37 | 80.0 |
17 Marc Gatcomb | VGK | C | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -5 | 9 | 0.11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 3.8 | 10:36 | 30.0 |
18 Alexander Holtz | VGK | RW | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 11:47 | -- |
19 Dylan Coghlan | VGK | D | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 4 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.0 | 14:28 | -- |
20 Jeremy Lauzon | VGK | D | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 30 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0.0 | 17:11 | -- |
21 Ville Heinola | VGK | D | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 13:29 | -- |
22 Jonas Rondbjerg | VGK | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 11:42 | -- |
| 23Parker Wotherspoon | VGK | D | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 18:16 | -- |
Source: NHL.com stats · Photo: NHL
