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  • November 10th, 2018 — News and Notes

    Today is Saturday, November 10th, 2018, and these are your news and notes

    There were six contests last night.

     

    TORONTO 6, New Jersey 1

    In the annual Hockey Hall of Fame game, the Toronto Maple Leafs would go on to rout the New Jersey Devils 6-1, thanks to a four-goal burst in the second period.

    Toronto’s Patrick Marleau would record his 600th career assist and Morgan Rielly would be the sixth defenceman in team history to have at least seven goals in the team’s first 16 games.

    TXHT’s Toronto Maple Leafs contributor Steve Gardiner has his recap of the contest at the following page.

    New Jersey @ Toronto – 09/11/2018 – Game Preview and Recap
    Columbus 2, WASHINGTON 1

    This contest featured a re-match of last year’s Eastern Conference First Round match-up between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Washington Capitals.

    The three goals scored in this contest were all power-play goals, with the final goal being scored by Anthony Duclair, his seventh of the season.  With Duclair’s goal, he became the fourth player in franchise history to have seven goals in 16 games played.

    November 9th, 2018 — Columbus Blue Jackets at Washington Capitals Full Gameday Preview and Coverage
    DETROIT 3, NY Rangers 2 (OT)

    The Detroit Red Wings won their fifth contest in six games after being down by two going into the third period.

    Dylan Larkin would score the game-winner with five seconds left in the overtime frame.


    ST. LOUIS 4, San Jose 0

    Ryan O’Reilly is the first player in St. Louis history to have a nine game point streak since the 2014-15 season when David Backes and Alexander Steen accomplished the same feat.


    WINNIPEG 5, Colorado 2

    Blake Wheeler had a five point contest in the Winnipeg Jets 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche.


    Minnesota 5, ANAHEIM 1

    The Minnesota Wild would win their fourth contest on their current road trip for the third time in franchise history as they would defeat the Anaheim Ducks 5-1.

    There are 11 contests on today’s slate…

    This week’s NHL European Game of the Week:

     

    In NHL news…

    The Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2018 participated in the ceremonial puck drop before the contest between the Toronto Maple Leafs and New Jersey Devils.

    -In the Washington Capitals Hockey Fight Cancer Awareness night, Capitals commentator, Craig Laughlin and his wife, Linda, participated in the ceremonial puck-drop.

     

  • November 7th, 2018 — News and Notes

    Today is Wednesday, November 7th, and these are your news and notes…

    There were nine league contests last night.

     

    The Maple Leafs won their 10th game of the season out of 15 games for the 11th time in franchise history and the first since the 2013-14 season when they won 10 games out of the first 14.

     

     

    Rangers G Henrik Lundqvist won his 436th career game and is now one win shy of tying Jacques Plante for seventh place all time.

     

     

    Max Domi would score all three of Montreal’s goals in the contest to give him a goal-scoring streak of four contests and has 16 points on the season, including nine goals thus far.

     

     

    TXHT and Last Word on Sports Armand Kilsvitch has his recap of the contest here.

     

     

    The Columbus Blue Jackets have defeated the Dallas Stars for the sixth consecutive time.

     

     

    Ottawa’s Mark Stone had a five-point game to lift Ottawa to the win over New Jersey. Stone is the fifth player in Senators’ history to have multiple five point games in the regular season.

     

     

    Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson would score yet again and continues to lead all rookies in goals and points but would still fall to the Detroit Red Wings in a shootout.

     

    Pettersson has scored 10 goals in 10 games played. He is the fifth player outside of the League’s first season to score 10+ goals through their first 10 NHL games.

     

     

    In Tampa Bay’s Hockey Fights Cancer Awareness night, Tampa Bay would get the win in the contest over the Edmonton Oilers and move to a record of 11-3-1 and into first place in the NHL standings.

     

     

    St. Louis F Ryan O’Reilly registered a hat-trick and would extend his point streak to eight games in the contest against the Hurricanes. O’Reilly also had an eight-game point streak during the 2015-16 season.

     

     

    In this match-up, Ilya Kovalchuk had one goal and two assists in the first game for new Kings head coach, Willie Desjardins.

     

     

     

    San Jose’s Joe Thornton played in his 1499th NHL contest last night and tied Mike Modano for 19th all time.

     

     

    With his next game, Thornton will become the first overall pick in the history of the NHL Draft to reach the 1500 game milestone.

     

    As a note from the contests yesterday, this would only be the fifth time in League history where the home teams swept a schedule of 9+ games.

     

     

    Today’s slate of games…

     

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    For other news, notes, and stats…

     

     

    Today in NHL News…

     

    -Edmonton Oilers Milan Lucic will have a hearing today for roughing Tampa Bay’s Mathieu Joseph in last night’s contest.

     

     

    The NHL’s Department of Player Safety in accordance to the hearing announced that Lucic has been fined $10,000, the maximum allowed under the CBA, for roughing Mathieu Joseph.

     

     

    -Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada’s Elliotte Friedman released his “31 Thoughts” article yesterday. The topic revolves around the Ottawa Senators Uber video and the fallout.

     

     

    -The Los Angeles Kings announced that Adam Oates has joined the team in a consulting role.

     

     

     

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  • The Blues need to hire Joel Quenneville

    The Blues need to hire Joel Quenneville

    Let me restate that for the Twitter generation: the #stlblues need to bring #QTOTHELOU.

     

    Let me start be saying that I recognize having a knee-jerk reaction to the Blues’ lackluster start and calling for a new coach without digging deeper is not the way to run a successful organization, so let’s evaluate how current coach Mike Yeo has performed this season, then get to the merits of hiring Quenneville. The Blues stumbled out of the gate, winning just one of their first five games, but since then have performed semi-respectably, beating teams like Toronto and Vegas rather easily. Unfortunately, when they played the heavy-hitters of the Central, they came back down to earth, blowing a 3-1 third period lead to Winnipeg, and having one of their most embarrassing performances of recent memory in a 5-1 loss to Minnesota, being outshot 45-16. Is this all Mike Yeo’s fault? No. Has Mike Yeo done even one thing to make this team better? It does not seem like this. 

     

    Egregious infraction 1: the constant, and quite frankly baffling, use of Jay Bouwmeester. The Blues are in a precarious position with Robert Bortuzzo being injured and, up until recently, Carl Gunnarsson recovering from an ACL tear, so the Blues were forced into playing Bouwmeester. They were not, however, fired into playing him more than 19 minutes in 8 of the 11 games he has played in, or keeping him on the ice in critical late game situations. Would this be any different under Coach Q? We don’t really know, but looking at Brent Seabrook’s average time on ice, it has fallen about 2 minutes since 2015-2016. While he still gets about 20 minutes of ice time (according to hockey reference), the Blackhawks’ defense is much worse than the that of the Blues, and Seabrook is still capable of generating much more offense than Bouwmeester. If we say an n of 1 is significant (somewhere a statistician’s head just exploded), it stands to reason that Quenneville does not simply look at pedigree and contract value when determining whether to keeping playing an aging veteran exactly as he did in his prime. 

     

    Egregious infraction 2: inability to use young players properly. The Blues have a wealth of young players, including Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou – neither of which has been used well. Thomas, a highly-touted prospect, played the first five games, but was then benched for almost two weeks. Yeo’s rationale was that he was trying to find his confidence: 

     

     

    Nothing does more for a young player’s confidence than a benching 5 games into a 9-game trial. Within those first 5 games, that the Blues were losing all but 1, Thomas saw more than 10 minutes of ice time just twice. This does not help develop young players, and it does not help the current team win. Kyrou faired better under Yeo, slightly, but after not putting up many points in the first few games, he has been relegated to fewer than 10 minutes of ice time in each of his last three games (and has not played in the last 3). This type of player mismanagement makes me nostalgic for Mike Matheny, who once stated that coaches are not in the business of player development. 

     

    Now, would this change under Quenneville? That’s questionable. According to BlackhawkUp, one of Quenneville’s biggest critiques was that he would not trust younger players. However, the Blackhawks, at the time, were a dynasty in the making, with players like Toews and Kane (themselves fairly young), so it is understandable to trust these guys more. His development of Patrick Kane alone is enough to show how strong he is in the player development department. 

     

    This list can go on, but in the end, the Blues need to realize that Quenneville is an all-time great coach, while Yeo has not done anything in his career to prove he can ever reach that level. They are not playing well this year, an Q can help turn that around. It’s far from a given that a reunion is imminent, but the Blues would be foolish not to explore the possibility.

     

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  • News and Notes: October 23rd, 2018

    These are your news and notes for Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018.

    There were four contests in the NHL yesterday…

      • The Washington Capitals took on the Vancouver Canucks and would go on to win the contest by a score of 5-2.John Carlson, Alex Ovechkin, and Nicklas Backstrom would all find the scoresheet and Backstrom would hit the 600 career assist milestone marker.

        Carlson would register his fifth multi-point game on the season and the second game with at least three points. Carlson has started the season by becoming the 10th defenceman with five multi-point games in his first eight games on the season.

        Alex Ovechkin also netted his 25th games where he registered at least four points in a contest as well as having his 123rd multi-goal game of his career and the third on the season.

        In addition to the previously mentioned feat, Ovechkin also netted his 103rd game-winning goals which would be his 233rd power-play goal and moved him past Dino Ciccarelli for sole possession of ninth place on the all-time list for power-play goals.

        TXHT has your recap of the contest between the Washington Capitals and Vancouver Canucks here.

      • The Colorado Avalanche trio of Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Gabriel Landeskog all made the scoresheet once again, combining for the Avalanche’s first goal of the game in Colorado’s 4-1 rout of the Philadelphia Flyers.Colorado finished their road trip 3-0-1 and moved them to a record of 6-1-2 on the season.Rantanen and MacKinnon became the first teammates in franchise history to begin the season with point streaks of nine games.

        Rantanen would also move into a first place tie with Auston Matthews for most points on the season with 16.

      • Carolina Hurricanes Sebastian Aho collected an assist when Micheal Ferland scored to extend Aho’s season-opening point streak to nice games and inching closer to the franchise record of 11 set by Ron Francis during the 1984-85 season.

        Carolina would go on to defeat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 at Little Caesears Arena.

        Justin Faulk opened the scoring for Carolina and eclipsed Glen Wesley for second place on the Hurricanes/Whalers list for career points by a defenceman.

    • The Winnipeg Jets went on to defeat the St. Louis Blues 5-4 in overtime.

      Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele would score twice in the third period, as the Jets overcame two different deficits. Scheifele would register an assist on Jacob Trouba’s game-winner as Winnipeg improved to a record of 14-0-1 in regular season contests since March 2.

      Monday’s contest marked the sixth occurrence in Thrashers/Jets history that the club has overcome multiple deficits in the third period and to win the contest. This has occurred on two other times since the club relocated to Winnipeg and the first occurrence since the 2016-2017 season.

      There have been 16 contests this season when a team has comeback to win after having multiple deficits.

    Yesterday’s results (home team in CAPS):

    • Colorado 4, PHILADELPHIA 1
    • Carolina 3, DETROIT 1
    • WINNIPEG 5, St. Louis 4 (OT)
    • Washington 5, VANCOUVER 2

    Tonight’s games:

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    Image courtesy of NHL and NHL Public Relations

     

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  • 10/20/2018 – St.Louis Blues vs Toronto Maple Leafs

     

    St. Louis Blues (1-3-2 6pts) v. Toronto Maple Leafs (6-2-0 12pts)

     

    Lineups:

    Toronto Maple Leafs:

    Kasperi Kapanen – Auston Matthews – Patrick Marleau

    Mitch Marner – John Tavares– Zach Hyman

    Pars Lindholm – Nazem Kadri – Connor Brown

    Andreas Johnsson – Frederik Gauthier – Josh Leivo

     

    Morgan Rielly  – Ron Hainsey

    Jake Gardiner – Nikita Zaitsev

    Travis Dermott – Igor Ozhiganov

     

    Frederik Andersen

    Garrett Sparks

    Scratched: Tyler Ennis, Justin Holl & Martin Marincin

    Injuries: Nathan Horton (Back)

    Suspension: None

     

    St. Louis Blues:

    Jaden Schwartz – Brayden Schenn – Vladimir Tarsenko

    Zachary Sanford – Ryan O’Rielly– David Perron

    Patrick Maroon– Tyler Bozak – Alex Steen

    Samuel Blais – Ivan Barbashev – Jordan Kyrou

     

    Vince Dunn – Alex Pietrangelo

    Joel Edmundson – Robert Bortuzzo

    Colton Parayko – Jordan Schmaltz

     

    Jake Allen

    Chad Johnson

    Scratched: None

    Injuries: Carl Gunnarsson (Torn ACL), Robby Fabbri (Groin)

    Suspension: None

     

    First Period:

    Leafs Penalty – 17:13 – Ron Hainsey, 2 mins for Tripping

     

    End of 1st – TML – 0         STL – 0

    Shots              4                     6

    Faceoffs     8/17               9/17

    Hits               6                     8

    PP                 0/0                   0/1

     

    Toronto Maple Leafs: 

    Analysis:

    Leafs didn’t get any offence going and looked liked they were just floating around. Morgan Rielly was noticeably bad in that first period, trying to be too fancy rather then getting the offence up the ice.

    Need to Do:

    Get the offence flowing. Stop Standing still.

     

    St. Louis Blues:

    Analysis:

    Blues had a lot of defensive lapses and although Toronto was held to relatively few shots, there were a lot of high quality chances.

     

    Second Period:

    Blues Penalty – 01:22 – Brayden Schenn, 2 mins for Interference

    Blues Goal– 4:45 – Robert Bortuzzo (1), from David Perron (2)

    Blues Goal– 13:05 – Zach Sanford (1), from David Perron (3) and Alex Pietrangelo (1)

    Leafs Penalty – 14:33 – Nazem Kadri, 2 mins for Tripping

    Blues Goal– 16:37 – Ryan O’Reilly (1), from Vladimir Tarasenko (4) and Patrick Maroon (4)

    Blues Penalty – 19:31 – Alexander Steen, 2 mins for Hooking

     

    End of 2nd – TML – 0          STL – 3

    Shots              9                    13

    Faceoffs       16/34             18/34

    Hits               15                     25

    PP                 0/2                    0/2

     

    Toronto Maple Leafs:

    Analysis:

    Leafs looked sluggish and lack and offensive flair. This is looking to be a long game for Leafs are the Blues dominated the whole period. Once again the defence looking really bad, but give credit to the blues on being aggressive on the defence.

    Need to Do:

    Get the puck out of the zone quick and up the ice. Prolonged puck control in the zone and big guns needs to show up.

     

    St. Louis Blues:

    Analysis:

    Blues really clamped down defensively and did not make any unnecessary pinches in their offensive zone. This safe play led to lock down defense and some goal scoring

     

    Third Period:

    Leafs Goal – 04:22– Morgan Rielly (4) from Mitch Marner (8)  and Jake Gardiner (6)

    Leafs Penalty – 9:03 – Par Lindholm, 2 mins for Holding

    Blues Penalty – 12:41 – Brayden Schenn, 2 mins for Tripping

    Leafs Penalty – 14:34 – Andreas Johnsson, 2 mins for Holding the Stick

    Blues Penalty – 16:55 – Jaden Schwartz, 2 mins for Hooking

    Blues SHG EN Goal – 18:17– Ivan Barbashev (1) from Ryan O’Reilly (6)

     

    End of 3rd – TML – 1         STL – 4

    Shots              23                   25

    Faceoffs     28/60                32/60

    Hits               22                     33

    PP                 0/4                    0/4

     

    Toronto:

    Analysis:

    Terrible game from the Leafs, no urgency to their game. Matthews was a ghost, along with Taveras and Marner until the 3rd period. Andersen held them close with some great saves. But in the end Jake Allen held the fort and blues played a perfect game.

     

    St. Louis:

    Analysis:

    Jake Allen really stood on his head. While the blues played well defensively, Toronto really showed their firepower, controlling possession and getting some great scoring chances.

    Ultimately this was the blues best game of the season against a top team. The key in the future will be keeping up this level of discipline and focus

     

    Next Up:

    Toronto (6-3-0 12pts) at Winnipeg (5-2-1 11pts)

    St.Louis (2-3-2 6pts) at Winnipeg (5-2-1 11pts)

     

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  • Gameday Preview: St. Louis Blues vs Toronto Maple Leafs

    Gameday Preview: St. Louis Blues vs Toronto Maple Leafs

     

    Time: Saturday, October 20th 2018
    Toronto: 6-2-0 for 12 points
    St.Louis: 1-3-2 for 4 points
    The Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues meet on Saturday for a match of two teams going in totally different directions. The Leafs are coming off only their 2nd loss of the season in a game that if Matt Murray didn’t play so well the outcome could have been different. While the Blues have only amount 1 win so far this year and have not played very well despite probably having one of the better defence cores in the league.
    This will be a pivotal game for the Leafs, The Blues will not be underestimated so expect this to be a game from the beginning.
    Top Scorers/Goalie Matchup
    Auston Matthews – 14 points (10 goals 6 assists) 53% on Face-offs
    Morgan Rielly – 13 points (3 goals 10 assists)
    John Tavares – 11 points (6 goals 5 assists) 49% on face-offs
    Mitch Marner – 11 points (4 goals 7 assists)
    Brayden Schenn –6 points (3 goals 3 assists)
    David Perron– 5 points (4 goals 1 assist)
    Alex Steen– 5 points (2 goals 3 assist)
    Vladimir Tarsenko– 5points (2 goals 3 assists)
    Ryan O’Rielly – 5 points (5 assists)
    Frederik Andersen 4-2-0 2.70GAA .914SV%
    Jake Allen 1-2-2 3.91GAA .877SV%
    Lineups & Injuries
    Toronto Maple Leafs:
    Kasperi Kapanen – Auston Matthews – Patrick Marleau
    Mitch Marner – John Tavares– Zach Hyman
    Pars Lindholm – Nazem Kadri – Connor Brown
    Andreas Johnsson – Frederik Gauthier – Josh Leivo

    Morgan Rielly – Ron Hainsey
    Jake Gardiner – Nikita Zaitsev
    Travis Dermott – Igor Ozhiganov

    Frederik Andersen
    Garrett Sparks

    Scratched: Tyler Ennis, Justin Holl & Martin Marincin

    Injuries: Nathan Horton (Back)

    Suspension: None

     

    St. Louis Blues:
    Jaden Schwartz – Brayden Schenn – Vladimir Tarsenko
    Zachary Sanford – Ryan O’Rielly– David Perron
    Patrick Maroon– Tyler Bozak – Alex Steen
    Samuel Blais – Ivan Barbashev – Jordan Kyrou

    Vince Dunn – Alex Pietrangelo
    Joel Edmundson – Robert Bortuzzo
    Colton Parayko – Jordan Schmaltz

    Jake Allen
    Chad Johnson

    Scratched: None

    Injuries: Carl Gunnarsson (Torn ACL), Robby Fabbri (Groin)

    Suspension: None

     

    3 Keys to Winning against St. Louis:

    1. SHOOT
      a. Jake Allen has been horrible all season, just take shots and see what happens.
    2. Cover the points
      a. St. Louis plays a very aggressive puck possession that opens the point men up. They have some big shots from the point.
    3. Force the St.bLouis to take penalties.
      a. St. Louis penalty kill sits at an atrocious 78% on the year. Leafs need to take advantage of that

     

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  • Habs Win Thriller over St.Louis Blues

    Habs Win Thriller over St.Louis Blues

     

    The Montreal Canadiens defeated the St. Louis Blues in a thrilling 3-2 win. Montreal started things off early with a quick goal by Max Domi 20 seconds into the game and ended things will a Brendan Gallagher goal to give the Habs a 3-2 lead with 11 seconds left in the game. Carey Price made 23 saves in the win. With the win, the Habs improve to 4-1-1 on the season.

     

    Things the Habs Did Well:

    – The Habs only gave up 25 shots (22 in the final 2 periods).
    – Jesperi Kotkaniemi drew 2 penalties
    – Tomas Tatar adds another assist for the Habs and continues to look great. My only complaint about the game is the Habs took way too many penalties. Both goals by St. Louis came with the man-advantage. Habs need to clean this up if they are going to be successful all year.

     

    Victor Mete didn’t play tonight due to a minor hand injury but should be back in the line-up on Saturday night.

     

    The Habs ride a three-game winning streak into Ottawa when they face the Senators on Saturday Night.

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  • Montreal Canadiens Game Day Preview

    Montreal Canadiens Game Day Preview

     

    Montreal Canadiens (3-1-1)

    St Louis Blues (1-2-2)

    Puck Drop:7:00

    The Montreal Canadiens come into tonight riding a 2 game winning streak. The Habs will get their star goaltender Carey Price back tonight as he will get his first start since catching the flu. The Habs have not yet announced a line-up but there have been indications that their will be changes due to an illness going around the locker room.

    Keys to the game:
    Carey Price will look to get back to his veznia self tonight after Niemi had two great starts in a row.

    The Habs have found thier scorer in Tomas Tatar who has three goals and four assists for 7 points in 5 games.

    The Defence has played okay but definitely needs to play stronger if that Habs want to be successful this season.

  • News and Notes: October 7th, 2018

     

    These are your news and notes for Sunday, October 7th, 2018.

    There were twelve contests last night in the NHL.

    • The Chicago Blackhawks became third team in NHL history to start the season with consecutive overtime victories. The Blackhawks follow the 1984-85 Toronto Maple Leafs and 2009-10 Montreal Canadiens. Jonathan Toews completed a hat trick to secure a Chicago 5-4 win over the St. Louis Blues in overtime at Enterprise Center. Toews’ hat trick was also the fifth of his career.
      • The New Jersey Devils defeated the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 in the NHL Global Series at Gothenberg, Sweden. This was New Jersey’s first neutral site victory since March 27, 1994 when they defeated the Quebec Nordiques at Target Center in Minneapolis, MN. New Jersey’s Kyle Palmieri became the third player to score the fastest goal in an NHL game outside of North America.
      • Martin Brodeur was on hand for the ceremonial puck drop that included New Jersey’s Marcus Johansson and Edmonton’s Adam Larsson, both of whom were born in Sweden.
      • St. Louis Blues Alexander Steen appeared in his 900th NHL game. His father, Thomas Steen, played in 950 NHL games. The Steens joined only two other father/son duos for more than 900 NHL games played.

    Yesterday’s results:

      • at New Jersey 5, Edmonton 2 (at Gothenburg, Sweden
      • at Dallas 5, Winnipeg 1
      • at Buffalo 3, New York Rangers 1
      • Ottawa 5, at Toronto 3
      • at Tampa Bay 2, Florida 1 (SO)
      • Nashville 4, at New York Islanders 3
      • Montreal 5, at Pittsburgh 1
      • Chicago 5, at St. Louis 4 (OT)
      • Vegas 2, at Minnesota 1 (SO)
      • Anaheim 1, at Arizona 0
      • at Colorado 5, Philadelphia 2
      • at Calgary 7, Vancouver 4

    There are three games on the schedule for today:

    In NHL news…

      • The San Jose Sharks have placed Joe Thornton on Injured Reserve.

    In NWHL news…

      • The Minnesota Whitecaps defeated the Metropolitan Riveters 4-0 at a sold-out TRIA Rink in St. Paul, Minnesota yesterday. Amanda Leveille, former University of Minnesota and Buffalo Beauts goalie, recorded the shutout for the Whitecaps. Katie McGovern would register the first goal for the Minnesota Whitecaps. McGovern’s goal, which was the first in team NWHL history, was registered with 2:24 left in the first period.Hannah Brandt would score the Whitecaps second goal of the contest. Riveters Amanda Kessel attempted to get the team on the board, however Leveille deflected Kessel’s shot midway through the second period. Kessel would later ring a shot off of the crossbar.

        Kate Schipper would make the contest a 3-0 lead for the Whitecaps 3:34 into the third period from a high shot pass from Kendall Coyne Schofield. Coyne Schofield would score the empty-net goal in the final seconds of the contest.

        The Minnesota Whitecaps take on the Metropolitan Riveters again today at TRIA Rink.

        Minnesota Whitecaps win NWHL debut over Metropolitan Riveters

    There are two NWHL games today:

    • Metropolitan Riveters at Minnesota Whitecaps (at TRIA Rink)
    • Buffalo Beauts at Connecticut Whale (at Terry Connors Ice Rink)

     

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  • NHL and NWHL News and Notes: October 1, 2018

     

    Here are your news and notes covering the NHL for Monday, October 1, 2018.

     

    There were four preseason contests that happened yesterday.

      • The Vegas Golden Knights defeated the San Jose Sharks with a 5-3 win at T-Mobile Arena. Tomas Nosek would score two of the Golden Knights three shorthanded goals. Max Pacioretty would also score the other shorthanded goal. Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury registered 33 saves to give Golden Knights six wins out of seven on the preseason campaign. Erik Karlsson scored his first goal for the Sharks, which were 2-for-6 on the power-play. Sharks goalie Martin Jones recorded 27 saves in the contest.
      • The Nashville Predators defeated the Carolina Hurricanes with a 5-4 in overtime at PNC Arena. Nashville’s Ryan Johansen scored the GWG 21 seconds into the overtime frame, his second of the game. Hurricanes goalie Scott Darling recorded 20 saves before leaving the game in the second period with a lower-body injury. Petr Mrazek came in for relief for Carolina and recorded 10 saves. Pekka Rinne and Juuse Saros registered 14 and 16 shots respectively for Nashville.
      • The Washington Capitals defeated the St. Louis Blues with a 5-2 victory at Capital One Arena. Washington Capitals forwards Alex Ovechkin and T.J. Oshie scored goals 49 seconds apart early in the third period. Ovechkin scored his fourth goal of the preseason 38 seconds into the third period to give Washington a 2-1 lead and then Oshie scored at 1:27. Capitals goalie Braden Holtby recorded 21 saves. Tom Wilson was given a match penalty for his hit on Blues F Oskar Sundqvist at 5:22 in the second period. There is more to come on that later.
      • The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Dallas Stars in a 6-5 victory at American Airlines Center. Colorado’s Nathan Landeskog had two goals and assist in this contest. Mikko Rantanen registered one goal and two assists, Tyson Jost and Matt Calvert each had two assists, and Colorado goalie Seymon Varlamov recorded 32 saves.

     

    There is one preseason contest today…

      • New Jersey Devils vs. Bern SC in the NHL Global Series Challenge in Switzerland

     

    Here are your news and notes covering the NHL…

    • As discussed yesterday, Washington Capitals F Tom Wilson will have an in-person hearing for his hit on Oskar Sundqvist yesterday. For our coverage, please go here and here.
    • NHL rosters for opening night on Wednesday must be submitted by 5 p.m. ET tomorrow (October 2nd).
    • The Edmonton Oilers traded Jakub Jerabek to the St. Louis Blues for a sixth-round draft pick in 2020

     

     

    • Scott Hartnell announced his retirement today from the NHL. Hartnell played 17 seasons and registered 707 points in 1,249 games with three teams.

     

     

    • Shea Weber was announced as the 30th captain in Montreal Canadiens team history today. Paul Byron and Brendan Gallagher were also announced as the alternate captains.

     

     

    • The Toronto Maple Leafs finalized their 23-man roster (13 forwards, eight defenceman and two goalies) today.

     

     

    • 19 years ago today, the Edmonton Oilers officially retired Wayne Gretzky’s number.

     

     

    • The New York Islanders unveiled their new third jerseys today. These thirds are identical to the last few third jerseys they have had over the past few seasons.

     

    Additional looks at the Islanders third jersey

     

    • The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded Connor Carrick to the Dallas Stars for a conditional seventh-round draft pick which will turn into sixth rounder if Carrick plays at least 50 games.

     

     

    • Radim Vrbata announced his retirement today from the NHL.

     

     

    • The Montreal Canadiens acquired Brett Kulak from the Calgary Flames, who will report to the Laval Rocket of the AHL. In return, the Calgary Flames, will get Matt Taormina and Rinat Valiev.

     

     

    In the NWHL, the Connecticut Whale announced that they have signed Meeri Räisänen. Räisänen, a Finnish goalie, joins Russian national team goalie Maria Sorokina to give the Whale a strong and talented goaltending tandem.

     

     

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