The Toronto Maple Leafs are paying homage to their roots.

When the Leafs host the Chicago Blackhawks on March 18, they'll don Toronto St. Pats jerseys, honoring the franchise's 1919-27 moniker.

Here's a look at the full getup, which ties into Toronto's year-long centennial celebration:

Pretty spiffy.

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Cold sweat in dry equipment isn't a scenario most netminders dream up in their NHL debuts, but Marek Langhamer of the Arizona Coyotes made the most of his regardless.

Just a few days after being summoned to replace injured backup Louis Domingue, Langhamer was brought in off the bench to protect a two-goal lead versus the Anaheim Ducks when starter Mike Smith was forced to exit the game.

Langhamer only saw eight shots in his 15 minutes of work, allowing one goal. But he was responsible for preserving the victory for Smith and the Coyotes with a ridiculous post-to-post stop on Sami Vatanen just before time expired.

The save was spectacular, and so is the story. Langhamer, 22, has been between minor-league levels this season before being thrust into a hurried debut Monday night.

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This five-game road trip will go down in Florida Panthers history.

The Panthers completed a five-game road sweeping versus quality Western Conference competition with a Hail Mary winner off the stick of Vincent Trocheck on Monday night.

With under five ticks remaining on the game clock, and well after both teams had appeared to tacitly agree on overtime, Trocheck snapped a quick shot toward goal that Blues netminder Jake Allen didn't see through a crowd of bodies.

It marked the first time the Panthers have ever completed a five-game road trip with a perfect record.

Beating the Predators, Sharks, Ducks, Kings, and Blues in their own barns in the space of nine nights, the Panthers have now moved into third in the Atlantic standings, and sit four points back of the Montreal Canadiens for tops in the division.

The Panthers won four times in regulation, and outscored the competition 22-13 on the trip.

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Vladimir Tarasenko and the St. Louis Blues surprised Arianna Dougan, a young fan undergoing cancer treatment, with a surprise of a lifetime for her 11th birthday.

Tarasenko secured the winning bid for a trip for two on the Blues' charter to attend a two-game road trip through Arizona and Colorado in an auction at the team's Casino Night last week.

Cameras were rolling when he presented the trip as a gift to Arianna.

After she was given the gift, and Tarasenko had announced that it was for her birthday, the Blues' locker room broke into a special rendition of "Happy Birthday."

Arianna was diagnosed with a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma at 3 years old. She has relapsed four times, but the treatment she's receiving now is working and her mom believes she's close to being cancer-free.

You can read more about Arianna on the team's official website.

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Despite the market accommodating the sellers, the Calgary Flames don't think they overpaid for Michael Stone - the blue-liner obtained Monday from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for a third-round draft selection and a conditional fifth-round pick.

General manager Brad Treliving said that the versatile right-shot defender fits the billing of a relatively low-cost addition to the back end who can have an impact down the stretch.

"(Stone) can do a lot of things. If you look at his history, he's been able to log a lot of minutes. He can play on both sides of special teams," Treliving told reporters, adding that Stone possesses a big shot.

With the trade market at a standstill, Treliving said the Flames were happy to have addressed a need without having to outbid another interested party with still more than a week before the deadline.

"Hopefully he can come in here and play well for us."

Stone will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. Arizona agreed to shoulder half of his $4-million salary to facilitate the move.

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BROSSARD, Quebec - The Montreal Canadiens skated hard, battled and worked, and that's just how new coach Claude Julien wants the practices to be.

Julien finally got to put the Canadiens through a full workout with no distractions on Monday. It was aimed mostly at convincing his struggling team that tighter defense will lead to more scoring chances on attack.

''He wanted it to be 40 minutes of high pace, high intensity, so when it comes to game time it's second nature,'' said defenseman Jeff Petry.

Julien, who replaced Michel Therrien last week, will be seeking his first victory since returning to Montreal when the Canadiens face the Rangers in New York on Tuesday night.

His debut saw the club fall 3-1 at home to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

He had only one practice with the team before his first game and it was something of a circus, with fans jammed into the viewing areas at the team's suburban training center and two all-sports TV stations covering the event live.

Another practice Sunday at the Bell Centre was a promotional event in front of 10,000 shrieking kids.

It added to the challenge for Julien to put into effect the changes he hopes will snap the Canadiens out of a 1-6-1 slump in which they have scored only 10 goals, four of them by captain Max Pacioretty and another two from his linemate Alexander Radulov.

Julien wants his team to spend less time in its own zone and more time harrying opposition goaltenders. That starts with getting the puck more quickly on defense and holding onto it longer in the opponent's end.

''What we want to try to do, and what we did today, is to try to be better defensively for goals against and chances against,'' he said. ''But more than that, if we're better defensively we can (get) the puck quickly.

''I want us to play with the puck, not without it. I'm looking for puck possession time. It's not necessarily about analytics, it's that if we have the puck more, our chances are much better of winning.''

It's a formula that worked for most of the 10 seasons Julien spent with the Boston Bruins before he was replaced by Bruce Cassidy two weeks ago.

Boston won a Stanley Cup and reached another final during his time there, although they fell short of the playoffs the past two seasons.

The Canadiens started the season 13-1-1 and maintained a decent record despite a run of injuries through December and January, but they've hit a wall of late.

That prompted general manager Marc Bergevin to fire fifth-year coach Therrien and bring in Julien, whose first NHL coaching job was with the Canadiens from 2003 to 2006.

There is much that needs fixing. The Canadiens have got no goals and not even many scoring chances or sustained offensive zone pressure from their second, third or fourth lines in the past eight games.

They've also been lax defensively and at times had spotty goaltending, although Carey Price was sharp against the Jets.

''We've got enough skill here, (the offense) will come back,'' said Julien. ''I'm not worried about it.

''We have enough players on this team that can score goals, but we've got to start in the right place and that's when we get the puck back quickly. It remains to be seen, but that's my belief.''

What he hasn't had enough time for yet is to work on line combinations.

Mostly, he has used the units Therrien had in place. He moved Alex Galchenyuk to center on the first line to start against Winnipeg, but had Phillip Danault back in that spot by the third period.

Now Galchenyuk is back to the second line with Brendan Gallagher and Paul Byron.

''I know he's a very talented player; my job is to make him better,'' Julien said of Galchenyuk. ''Now I want to work with him on the little aspects of the game that will make him even better.''

The slump has narrowed the Canadiens' lead in the Atlantic Division to only two points ahead of Ottawa, which has two games in hand.

''It's what happens when you don't win games,'' said Gallagher. ''Everyone else in the league seems to be winning except for us and they're gaining ground.

''If we get back to playing winning hockey, playing our style and doing all the little things Claude and his staff are trying to get across, then we'll be where we want to be.''

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Nikita Zadorov's breakthrough season is done.

The Colorado Avalanche third-year defenseman fractured his ankle after falling during a 1-on-1 drill with Mikko Rantanen at practice Monday, and will miss the remainder of this season, the team announced.

Zadorov's injury happened in the first practice back for fellow defenseman Erik Johnson, who hasn't played since early December with a broken leg.

A key piece in the return for Ryan O'Reilly, Zadorov - a restricted free agent at the end of the season - has been a bright spot in an otherwise lost season for the Avs. He's seen a significant uptick in minutes over the last several weeks, and added an imposing physical aspect to his game.

With Johnson and Francois Beauchemin holding immunity thanks to their no-trade protection, the Avalanche must choose to protect four defenders to preserve two foundational pieces in the emergent Zadorov and veteran Tyson Barrie in the expansion draft.

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Brooks Laich wants back in the NHL, whether it's with the Toronto Maple Leafs or elsewhere.

The veteran forward, left to ride buses with the Toronto Marlies while the Maple Leafs carry a heavy complement of rookie forwards, indicated Sunday that he would like to be dealt before the March 1 trade deadline if Lou Lamoriello and Mike Babcock don't intend to call him up.

"My focus is still in this organization and playing for the Maple Leafs," Laich told Joshua Kloke of The Athletic. "The decision is up to them, but if they don't see me in their plans going forward towards the playoffs then I would like the opportunity to chase a Stanley Cup with another organization."

Laich was dealt to the Maple Leafs before the deadline last season in the trade that brought Connor Carrick to Toronto. He appeared in 21 games, transitioning from the President's Trophy-winning Washington Capitals to a team that earned the most tickets at the draft lottery with its last-place finish.

Exceeded by top pick Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, and the former Marlies that brought so much success to the minor-league outfit last season, Laich has not been with the Maple Leafs since training camp.

He's been limited to 22 games after missing two months with an undisclosed injury.

Laich is in the final season of a contract that pays him $4.5 million annually.

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