The Florida Panthers faithful forced their team down a man not once, but twice in Thursday's 3-2 win over the New Jersey Devils. Despite being warned on multiple occasions, flinging rats - especially commemorative ones handed out at the door - is what one does when celebrating goals in Sunrise.
It was the first (and second) time a delay of game penalty was issued for the "Rat Trick," and something the marketing department should've probably anticipated. Rubber rats poured onto the ice without relent in response to goals during the club's run to the Stanley Cup Final in 1996.
Quinton Howden served the first penalty, and will be the answer to a trivia question one day.
After picking up a victory over Nashville on Thursday, Fleury is now the fourth goalie in NHL history to have seven 35-win seasons, according to the Penguins.
Marc-Andre Fleury now has 7 seasons of 35+ wins, tying Ed Belfour and Miikka Kiprusoff for second all-time. Brodeur accomplished feat 12x.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Cal O'Reilly and Johan Larsson each scored twice and the Buffalo Sabres extended their home dominance over the Toronto Maple Leafs with a 4-1 victory Thursday night.
Buffalo built a 3-0 lead and Larsson capped Buffalo's sevent...
RALEIGH, N.C. - Victor Rask scored the go-ahead goal with 10:54 left, and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to beat the New York Rangers 4-3 on Thursday night in former captain Eric Staal's return to his old home arena.
Jeff Skinner, Patrick Br...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - John Tavares scored twice and Anders Lee got a power-play goal 5:23 into the third period to lift the New York Islanders over the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 Thursday night.
Thomas Hickey also scored for New York, which improve...
Co-owner Douglas Cifu confirmed what most pundits deduced in their unpacking of the oddly modest sixth-round pick the Panthers accepted in return from the Anaheim Ducks for the former 22-goal scorer. Cifu told the Sun Sentinal's Harvey Fialkov on Thursday that once the club decided Pirri wasn't going to be a top-six contributor moving forward, it chose to avoid having an arbitrator-awarded salary on its books.
Pirri likely won't hit the 20-goal threshold for the second time, but with three goals and five points in eight games since joining Anaheim, he's established a new career high in points.
Rick Nash looked like his often dominant self again Thursday when he harnessed his lethal combination of speed and power to score a tremendous go-ahead marker versus the Carolina Hurricanes.
That's 15 goals on the season - and three in the past five games - for the New York Rangers' 42-goal man from a season ago.
And that's Brett Pesce he dropped like a backpack.
It appeared as though Hamonic took the blunt force of Hartnell's knee to the side of his right knee or lower thigh. That the team ruled him out almost immediately after the collision suggests the injury might be more severe than a simple contusion or Charley horse, though he was able to battle through the rest of his shift.
Hamonic has anchored the Islanders' blue line, averaging more than 24 minutes in 71 appearances.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Michigan freshman forward Kyle Connor, Boston College junior goalie Thatcher Demko and Harvard senior forward Jimmy Vesey are this season's finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as college hockey's top player.
The Hob...