The Vegas Golden Knights came out on the losing end of yesterday's afternoon affair against the Buffalo Sabres, but seek redemption today against the Detroit Red Wings. 

The Golden Knights were thoroughly outplayed by the Sabres. After the final buzzer and overtime, the Sabres held a 37-19 shot advantage. Despite that, the Golden Knights likely felt they should have left with a win. 

Jack Eichel scored the go-ahead goal with just over two minutes remaining before Tomas Hertl had the chance to ice the game with an empty net tally. He attempted to be unselfish and looked to pass to Eichel but the pass was broken up. The Sabres would tie the game with 14 seconds remaining, sending the game to overtime. Nothing was solved there, and in the shootout, former Golden Knight Alex Tuch would score the winner.

Now playing in the second half of a back-to-back against the Red Wings, the Golden Knights will be taking on another team trending in the wrong direction. The Eastern Conference wild card race is as fascinating as ever. The Red Wings sit four points back of the second spot but once held the position. 

A recent 3-7-0 stretch has seen them falter. With 16 games remaining, they still have time to make up the ground but every game is vital for them. Their sense of urgency should be high, and if the Golden Knights are unable to match it, they could be heading back to Vegas with just one win out of four. 

Adin Hill was stellar in goal against the Sabres and will get the day off today, allowing Ilya Samsonov to make his 27th start of the season. Cam Talbot is the expected starter for the Red Wings today. 

Puck drop is at 10:00 AM PST at Little Caesars Arena.

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Last night's game was one to remember for Scott Morrow, as the Carolina Hurricanes rookie defenseman registered his first career NHL goal in the team's 5-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.

The 2021 second-round pick has been playing in place of Dmitry Orlov, who's out of the lineup due to injury, and you could see his game building to this moment.

In four games, Morrow has managed to turn out a positive CF (51.97%) and xGF (55.55%) while the team has outscored opponents 6-1 at 5v5 in his ice time.

While the UMass alum struggled in his first few appearances in the NHL, he's been looking more and more comfortable and Saturday's game in Philadelphia showed just that.

With less than a minute to go in regulation, Morrow jumped in on the rush and cleaned up a rebound in front from Logan Stankoven, fluttering a backhander into the open cage.

"It was really cool," Morrow said. "I was a Flyers fan growing up — my dad was drafted here — so I wanted to get it tonight. Even though it wasn't a real important goal for the game — it was already sealed — it's still a big moment for me and my family and it's a really cool feeling."

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Immediately you could see how excited his teammates were for him and Shayne Gostisbehere made the beeline for the puck so that Morrow could have it forever.

"That's special and the guys know it," Brind'Amour said. "They've all been there. Scotty's come in and done a nice job for us. Those are little, special moments that I think, as a group, they like to share together because they know how important it is."

"I think all five guys on the ice were jumping up and down, the whole bench was going nuts," said Mark Jankowski. "Anytime you can see someone get their first goal, you kind of take it back to your first goal and how excited you were so I can just imagine the feelings he's going through. Probably a million text messages on his phone right now. It's such a special time and I'm just so happy for him to be able to get that first goal out of the way."

Morrow's definitely been sheltered in terms of deployment, with nearly 65% of his starts being offensive-zone starts, but his offensive ability should definitely be causing some tough discussions to be had.

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EAST MEADOW, NY -- Defenseman Mike Reilly will play in his first game since Nov. 1 on Sunday night when the New York Islanders host the Florida Panthers at 7:30 PM ET. 

It's been a long-time coming for the 31-year-old, who had to patiently wait to get back in after undergoing a heart procedure on Nov. 19. 

He gets back in the lineup alongside Scott Mayfield, with defenseman Adam Pelech day-to-day with a lower-body injury after blocking a shot in their 2-1 overtime loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Friday. 

“I'm so excited. It's been a long, long time,” Reilly said. “A lot of work was put into it, with the hope of coming back this season. So, I’m excited just to be back with the guys here and ready to go tonight."

Reilly said he found out Sunday morning that he was coming back in and also said some of his teammates found out on the ice during morning skate. 

“Resilient is a good choice of word,” Islanders head coach Patrick Roy said. “It would be easy for anyone to give up and then he wants to continue to play, and he wants to do well. I’m happy for him."

Roy said he wants Reilly to keep things simple out there in his first game back. 

"He's a good puck mover. He skates well with the puck. So these are the things I want to see him to do," Roy said. "I mean, it's been a while, so might be a little rusty at the start, but I mean, sometimes, if you keep things simple and you're excited about playing, it makes up for it."

It's fitting that Reilly returns against the Panthers, the team that waived him last season before the Islanders scooped him up. 

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It's never fun for a team to go through a rebuild and lose a ton of games year after year, but sometimes it really pays off. The Chicago Blackhawks haven't been a threat for a number of years and have collected draft picks, finished low in the standings, and drafted very well.

Even if half of their higher draft picks don't hit, the ones who have been performing and the sheer number of prospects with high expectations is undeniable and will push the Blackhawks to many successful years.

The last five drafts cover the span of 2020 to 2024 and there are many talented young players already on the Blackhawks with a lot of highly talented players on their way.

Current NHLers that fill the roster include Lukas Reichel, Landon Slaggert, Wyatt Kaiser, Louis Crevier, Colton Dach, Ethan Del Mastro, Frank Nazar, Connor Bedard, and Artyom Levshunov. But on top of that, Kevin Korchinski, Nolan Allan, and Drew Commesso have all played games this season for Chicago.

It is definitely a battle for playing time amongst the young defenders and not all of these d-men who have been fighting to prove themselves and stick in the NHL will with the Blackhawks, but all of the ones mentioned will be NHLers for at least a handful of years. Eventually the Blackhawks will have to make decisions on who to trade, and it's not going to be Levshunov.

The amount of prospects doing well in other leagues is very encouraging for the Blackhawks, even though a good amount likely won't make the NHL and many won't play for Chicago for very long, if at all. Of the top tier prospects that have been proving themselves, I want to point out Nick Lardis, Roman Kantserov, Oliver Moore, Sam Rinzel, Sacha Boisvert, and Marek Vanacker.

The next tier of players, give or take one or two that may be able to move up to the top group, include Aidan Thompson, A.J. Spellacy, Adam Gajan, Victor Soderstrom, Antti Saarela, Dominic James, Jack Pridham, Ryan Greene, Ilya Safonov, Alex Pharand, and Martin Misiak.

Now that's a lot of names, but to break it down easier, these are all players who haven't played in the NHL yet (other than Soderstrom) that have impressed this season and taken steps forward in the OHL, NCAA, or overseas like the KHL or SHL.

There are a lot to choose from and some could be used as trade bait, some could burst into the NHL and be impact players, and some could fizzle out and not be able to transfer over their game.

It's hard to look at many other organizations and see this much talent. The rebuild has been tough on Bedard and company so far, but the Blackhawks are ramping up to be a threat for many years because of the great drafting and sheer number of talented players on their way.

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Another night, another milestone for Montreal Canadiens rookie blueliner Lane Hutson. On Saturday night, when he got the primary assist on Patrik Laine’s power play goal, Hutson got the 50th assist of his career, a total he took 68 games to reach.

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He became the second-fastest player to reach the milestone with the Canadiens behind Vincent Damphousse, who did it in 66 games back in 1992-93. However, he was 25 when he accomplished the feat and was already on his third team. Meanwhile, Hutson was still only 21 years old.

Even more impressive, he’s the fourth-fastest defenseman in NHL history to do it. Larry Murphy did it in 62 games with the Los Angeles Kings in 1980-81, Mark Howe in 65 games with the Hartford Whalers in 1979-80, and Stefan Persson in 66 games with the New York Islanders in 1977-78.

They were 19, 24 and 23 respectively. By the time he entered the NHL, Howe had played six seasons in the WHA, and, with Persson being Swedish, it took him a bit longer to get drafted and cross the ocean. All three went on to have great careers in the NHL.

For Comparison, New York Rangers blueliners Brian Leetch did it in 69 games, Colorado Avalanche quarterback Cale Makar did it in 71, Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes in 74 games, and former Montreal captain Chris Chelios did it in 74 games.

This is yet another category in which Hutson is in elite company. With 66 games played and 16 games left to improve his totals, the Montreal fan favourite still leads the rookie scoring race with 52 points, two ahead of San Jose SharksMacklin Celebrini and five points ahead of Philadelphia Flyers Matvei Michkov.

Hutson is currently on pace for 65 points. To put this number in perspective, back in 2015-16, Max Paccioretty led the Canadiens in points with 64. Something special is happening in Montreal. For years, we’ve been saying that the future was bright, and slowly but surely, the future is becoming the present and Hutson is hushering it in.

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Better late than never.

Former Detroit Red Wings forward David Perron is heating up lately. Unfortunately, the season as a whole hasn’t been going his way.

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Perron has played 28 games this season. During his first 12 games, he didn’t record a single point. He has been dealing with a few injuries this season and health concerns surrounding his newest child, born at the end of October 2024.

Things are going great for Perron now, particularly on the ice. 

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Over his last six games, he has one of the best stat lines on the Ottawa Senators. Perron has recorded three goals and two assists, for five points. He’s also recorded 11 hits while averaging 14:40 of ice time per game.

The only Senators with more points in that time are Jake Sanderson, Drake Batherson, and Brady Tkachuk. 

In Saturday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, he skated on a line with Dylan Cousins and Batherson. Perron scored his fifth goal of the season at 12:16 of the second period to tie the game 2-2.

The Senators defeated the Maple Leafs 4-2. Perron had one goal, two shots, and two hits in 14:04. He now has 10 points this season, averaging 13:38 of ice time.

Perron is heating up at the right time, which should make Senators fans happy. The Senators hold the top Wild Card position. With the regulation win over Toronto, they are only four points behind them in the standings.

This has made the Wild Card picture more competitive in the Eastern Conference. With the Senators pulling ahead, it’s a dogfight for the final playoff position. The Red Wings are behind the New York Rangers by four points but also have a game in hand.

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ST. PAUL - Despite losing seven of its last ten games, the Earth isn't falling in the eyes of the Minnesota Wild. Even after one of the most sluggish games of the year, the Wild have to flush a 5-1 loss on home ice to the St. Louis Blues and move on. 

It is a quick turnaround with the Los Angeles Kings in town on Monday and you know that Kevin Fiala will be hungry to pounce on the Wild right now, like Jordan Kyrou did on Saturday night. 

"You gotta take the lessons quick out of it," Wild head coach John Hynes said. "You gotta get ready for the next game and get going. We got another, a day of rest tomorrow and then we got another big week coming. So, it’s a great time of year. It’s a highly competitive time of year. You can’t get too low when you lose, you can’t get too high when you win. And I think that’s the most important thing.

"Even for you. I think it’s ones where, we don’t, we lose a game and it’s like the earth’s not falling apart. Like we got a really good team. Tonight, we didn’t play our best. There’s a couple areas we could be better at. We will be better, and then we got another swing of games coming up this week. So, we’re excited for that."

One bad game happens. A stretch of two, three, or maybe four bad games happens. But in this current stretch for the Wild, it seems like it's just going to keep happening.

In their first four games of a seven game homestand, the Wild have scored a total of five goals. Two of them have been at 5-on-5 and one of the two was on the heels of the Blues' goaltender Joel Hofer making a poor decision behind the net.

“They scored goals. We don’t. Simple as that," Mats Zuccarello said. "That’s no secret that we’re struggling to score goals as of late. We got a find a way to do it. They score on their chances, and we don’t. They also pinned us in a couple times in our own zone, but I think we had some really good O-zone time, had some great chances, but that’s the difference. They score and we don’t.

"I mean, I can stand here and tell you but at the end of the day if we lose 5-1 at home, it’s not acceptable. Everyone in here knows it’s embarrassing for us to play like that, but what are we going to say? You gotta take it on the chin right now and it’s not good enough. There’s a hungry team coming in here Monday. We gotta be ready to compete and win hockey games.”

The Wild spent most of the first period in their own zone. They allowed chance after chance and were being dominated on possession time, it seemed.

Any chance the Wild would get in the offensive zone, they would fire it over the net. The Wild's fourth line created the most chances in the first period. They had four shot attempts and missed the net on every single one. 

Yakov Trenin made two great moves to get to the net in the first period and missed twice. Deadline acquisition Justin Brazeau had a point-blank chance in the slot with no one on him and he fired it 10 feet to the right of Hofer. 

To put salt in the wound, Marat Khusnutdinov, who the Wild traded for Brazeau, scored his second goal in as many games with the Boston Bruins. 

The tide shifted in the second period though. Or so it seemed. Jake Neighbours opened the scoring in the second and Kyrou scored his first of three goals just over two minutes after Neighbours scored his 17th of the season. 

"We just had more, you know? I think that goes back to us reacting like I said. It's like we were just kind of waiting for it and then in the second period, we took it to them and played our game," Jake Middleton said. "Even their goals. It wasn't like we were playing bad. Their goals were, they got lucky bounces. We didn't and that's just the way it's going. We definitely need more jam in our game, especially at this time of year. We were just kind of waiting, I thought."

Middleton got the Wild's lone goal thanks to a mistake by Hofer and the Blues. Kyrou then scored the next two goals to end it for the Wild. 

The process to score a goal right now feels like a daunting task. With no Kirill Kaprizov or Joel Eriksson Ek, the Wild simply can't put the puck in the back of the net. It is an exhausting process.

"It's almost like, I agree with you, but it's almost like we're waiting for it. We're waiting for the next guy to do it, the guy beside you," Middleton said. "When we're not scoring as a team we all got to do it together, right? And that was kind of tonight. In recent games, the work ethic is there. But we gotta start stepping up as a team here and put the puck in the back of the net and just (start) playing harder."

In a time where the Wild are, and will continue to be, without Kaprizov and Eriksson Ek, they need guys to step up. 

So that being said, it's not a good time for a guy like Matt Boldy to go into a slump. The 23-year-old forward has zero goals in his last ten games. He had three goals in two games before his ten game drought but also went scoreless in nine-straight before the two-game goal streak. 

Marco Rossi hasn't scored in nine games. Gustav Nyquist, the Wild's other trade deadline acquisition, has zero goals in seven games with the Wild and zero in his last 17 games with the Nashville Predators and Wild. He has not scored since Jan 25. 

He has one 5v5 goal in his last 55 games with six goals in that span. One of them was on the power play and four of them were empty net goals. His last 5v5 goal was Jan 25. His one before that was Oct 28. 

Zuccarello has three goals in his last 18 games, Marcus Johansson has one goal in his last 18 games and Ryan Hartman has one goal in his last 14 games. 

To Middleton's point, it seems like every Wild player is just sitting on the bench and looking at the guy beside them and hoping they will be the one to score. 

That can't keep happening. It isn't like the Wild are a lock for the playoffs. They just dropped a game to the Blues who now entered the wildcard picture, and the schedule the rest of the month for the Wild doesn't get easier. 

Minnesota plays the New Jersey Devils twice, the Dallas Stars, Vegas Golden Knights, Washington Capitals, and the Kings to end the month. They have a game against the Buffalo Sabres and Seattle Kraken who both aren't in playoff spots, but neither were the Pittsburgh Penguins or the Blues at the time and the Wild still dropped those.

Nonetheless, the concern level has to be a little bit high. But as Hynes said, the earth isn't falling apart. They still are a good hockey team. This is still the same team that started the season 18-4-4 and was the best team in the league.

They had proven to be the best team in the league at times and stats back that up.

But it is also the team that is 11-14-1 since Jan 8. Which is 29th in the NHL. It's the same team that has scored the fewest goals in the NHL since Jan 8 but also the same team that allowed the fewest goals per game in the NHL through the first 28 games. 

It's just a matter of what team will show up for the final 15 games of the season. 

“Honestly, everyone wants to go and score goals and win hockey games. No difference in here," Zuccarello said. "Right now the puck doesn’t go in and it’s not a lack of trying or whatever but maybe when you get in a situation a little bit extra poise that you usually have when things go well is not there. Yeah, I don’t know. It’s frustrating for you guys to watch but imagine being out there and feeling the same way and you want to do but it’s no excuses. It’s not good enough. Next game we gotta compete and we gotta show up and be hungry. We gotta bounce back after this.”