National Hockey League

National Hockey League

It's pretty cool. It's hard to realize it's happened. I try not to think about it too much, and not worry about it, and then all of a sudden it's there. I'll enjoy this for sure.

A few leftovers from Saturday night's loss in Tampa. [Rink, RMNB, Lightning] The Washington Capitals announced yesterday that Pierre-Luc Dubois will miss 3-4 months after undergoing surgery to repair two muscle injuries. [WaPo ($), NHL, AP, SI, THN, RMNB, DCB] With PLD out for an extended period of time, what are the Caps' options at center? [THN] Washington prospect Alex Suzdalev scored his first AHL goal yesterday in the Hershey Bears' win over the Rochester Americans.

Hartford is struggling mainly due to their inability to start games off on the right foot or finish them out. The Wolf Pack have been outscored 11-8 in the first period, and 10-4 in the third period. They are only managing to outscore opponents 15-10 in the second period, with 8 of those 15 goals coming in their three wins so far this season.

Eklund was the Sharks' second-leading scorer through the first 12 games of the season but had been bothered by an injury for about a week before he finally had to sit out the team's game against the Detroit Red Wings on Nov. 2. Eklund had to miss the last four games in total and was placed on injured reserve on Friday, but he is eligible to return to face the Wild as San Jose looks to extend their winning streak to four games.

I was kind of a Caps fan ever since. I just love the colors, love the eagle, everything about it. And I even remember back in 2018 when they won the Cup, I was overjoyed. And I was super happy to see them get one.

Suzdalev fired Hershey into a 2-1 lead with 13:03 remaining in the third period. Suzdalev picked up the puck after receiving an indirect pass off the boards from Ryan Chelsey that sprung him and Bogdan Trineyev on a 2-on-1 rush. The Russian-born, Swedish-raised winger looked shot the whole way and fired a wicked wrister past Americans goaltender Topias Leinonen. The goal is Suzdalev's third point of the season (1g, 2a) for the Bears in five games.

While the Boston Bruins won five straight entering this game, they were without Elias Lindholm and Charlie McAvoy, and they still managed to claw out a 5-3 win over the Maple Leafs. A lot happened over the 60 minutes, but the underlying story is that an undermanned Bruins team outworked a fairly healthy Leafs team, costing Toronto two points. The Leafs have been searching for better starts, and at the very start of this game, they momentarily found one.

"I gotta bear down and make a save," Stolarz said referring to his start. "Giving up the first two shots, not a good way to start the game. I liked our compete, guys came out after that and responded well, and we put a lot of pressure on them. But, you know, you give a team like that a couple freebies, it's going to be difficult to come back."

"I certainly thought about it for a while and then I really started to think about it when (Boston College coaching legend Jerry York) went in (in 2019). Jerry absolutely deserved to be in but Jack should be in, too," said Corbett. "I gave it a lot of thought and I knew of Jim Rice and (late statistician) Dick Bresciani of the Red Sox and he was really the driving force to get Jim Rice's candidacy heard and eventually got him into Cooperstown."

The Blues seem to look towards Kyrou as a scapegoat at times, and when things aren't going the way they need them to, Kyrou sits. It is common for teams to sit a top player to send a message, especially when the team is second-last in the NHL with a 5-8-2 record. Kyrou hasn't been playing too poorly this season, scoring eight points in 14 games, though the Blues would like to see a bit more.

Noah Laba scored in his home town in front of dozens of friends and family. Jaroslav Chmelar made a good impression in his debut with 6:27 TOI, winning a fight, and looking pretty good overall. Artemi Panarin had a multi point game after shaving his head. And the powerplay actually scored a goal. Everything came up Milhouse for the Rangers last night, but now they travel back to the World's Most Haunting Arena,

The most important piece of data, at any given second, is "Where is the puck?" If the puck is a hundred feet away from your team's net, there is realistically no chance that you will be giving up a goal within the next couple of seconds, and if it's that far from the other team's net, there is no way you're going to score.

I have a few thank yous I want to make sure I say, mainly to the Leafs organization, starting with Brad and working all the way down, for all of the support they've given me and my family for the last little bit. I have really been blown away by how much support I've received, and with that, a big thank you to my teammates as well. I have expressed that to them, for all of the support they've given.