NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – October 26, 2024
Recaps of Friday’s games, the Rangers sign Alexis Lafreniere to a contract extension, and more in today’s NHL Morning Coffee Headlines.
GAME RECAPS
NHL.COM: The Vegas Golden Knights overcame a 4-3 deficit with three unanswered third-period goals to defeat the Ottawa Senators 6-4. Keegan Kolesar scored the winning goal, Ivan Barbashev tallied twice and Alex Pietrangelo collected three assists for the Golden Knights. Adam Gaudette scored two goals and Drake Batherson and Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist for the Senators.
Vegas Golden Knights forward Ivan Barbashev (NHL Images).
SPECTOR’S NOTE: Barbashev is having a terrific start for the Golden Knights. He’s 10th in the NHL points race with 11 while his seven goals put him among the top five.
The Golden Knights could have a key player back for Saturday’s game against the San Jose Sharks. William Karlsson is expected to make his season debut after being sidelined by an undisclosed injury.
Linus Ullmark returned to the Senators net after being sidelined by a muscle strain for nearly two weeks, giving up five goals on 27 shots. He blamed himself for allowing the Golden Knights’ tying and winning goals.
An overtime goal by Bo Horvat lifted the New York Islanders to a 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils. Brock Nelson and Kyle Palmieri each had a goal and an assist and Ilya Sorokin stopped 32 shots for the Islanders. Jesper Bratt had a goal and an assist for the Devils, who have dropped four games in a row.
The Nashville Predators overcame a 2-0 deficit to nip the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2. Filip Forsberg, Gustav Nyquist and Brady Skjei scored for the Predators. Craig Smith and Connor Bedard tallied for the Blackhawks.
Edmonton Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner stopped 27 shots to shut out the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-0. Evan Bouchard and Mattias Ekholm each had two points and Viktor Arvidsson collected three assists for the Oilers. Joel Blomqvist kicked out 46 shots for the Penguins, who’ve lost four in a row.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: The score would’ve been more lopsided in Edmonton’s favor if not for Blomqvist, who was let down by his teammates’ porous defensive game. The Oilers outshot the Penguins 19-5 in the first period and 20-12 in the second but only had a 2-0 lead heading into the third before Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Ekholm put this game away.
HEADLINES
NEW YORK POST: The Rangers signed right winger Alexis Lafreniere to a seven-year, $52.15 million contract extension with an average annual value of $7.45 million.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: Lafreniere, 23, is in the final season of a two-year bridge contract worth an AAV of $2.325 million. PuckPedia has the full breakdown of the deal, including an eight-team no-trade list starting in the third season for the remainder of the contract.
Lafreniere had a breakout performance last season with 28 goals and 57 points in 82 games. He’s started this season at a point-per-game pace.
The Rangers have locked up a young core player for the prime of his career to a contract that could become a steal for them over the long term.
DAILY FACEOFF: Utah Hockey Club winger Kailer Yamamoto and Boston Bruins forward Riley Tufte were placed on waivers Friday.
CALGARY SUN: The Flames sent forward Matt Coronato to their AHL affiliate as they prepare for the return of sidelined forwards Sam Honzek and Yegor Sharangovich.
YAHOO SPORTS: Defenseman Calen Addison signed an AHL contract with the Henderson Silver Knights, the farm team of the Vegas Golden Knights. Addison, 24, has 50 points in 152 NHL games with the Minnesota Wild and San Jose Sharks.
Read yesterday’s posts just now
From yesterday’s posts:
Yogi: “Marner for a bag of pucks”
We accept
Here is our bag of pucks in return:
Accari, Gryzlyk, Hayes, Lizotte; Nietto
Very very close to cap neutral.
Oh, by the way, I might be in search of a new team to follow. Anybody know of a good Double A Tiddlywinks team?
Last night was abysmal
I wonder if Crosby is second guessing his contract now?
There is no “wonder if”
He’s definitely second guessing it
Just a reminder, Crosby publicly stated that Dubas (just prior to him re-upping) committed (to him) to making team better
If I was Dubas alone in a room with Crosby; I’d be wearing armor
So, you’re with your team 100% – win or tie?
Yea,aren t you?After the 4 nations tournament a lot of these guys are going to reevaluate where they play and who they play with!How did Linus play last night?
We’d love another tie now
Of course I will still be s fan
Just not a very happy one
Atta go Dubas for ruining the last years of Crosby’s NHL career
Once again Sr you assume every comment is directed at you. I was jokingly referring to 8787’s
” Oh, by the way, I might be in search of a new team to follow …” – nothing you said.
As for your Ullmark comment, he played – that’s all they were hoping for after two weeks + missing from a “strain.” Get into game action and survive. He accomplished both.
I’m waiting to see black’ngold’s revised assessment and guarantee that they’re a playoff threat.
Right now Crosby is ruining the last bit of Crosby career. He’s playing terrible hockey. So is rust. Some of the best players on the pens right now are the ones 8787 keeps wanting to trade.
@8787 I realize that you`re very limited in your hockey knowledge from all your comments, but a puck is a little round object, flat on opposite sides. Usually made of vulcanized rubber about 3″ in diameter and 1″ thick. You seem to be mistaken the difference is between a bag of pucks and a bag of garbage
Nope
“vulcanized rubber about 3″ in diameter and 1″ thick.” describes them adequately
In this case “bag of pucks” and “bag of garbage” are absolutely interchangeable
Just for one game I’d love to see Accari, Hayes and Grzylyk sit and put in two of Katchouk OR Mcgroarty OR Poulin and one of Clurman OR Pickering
Not a chance the team is worse off with that switch
Only in your mind maybe, in the real world there is a difference
Boston – Toronto should be a good game tonight! Both teams have underperformed so far this year! If Boston s forwards don’t start scoring Tyler Johnson could be signed! Brings speed and an offensive extincts to a group in need of it!Toronto coming off a bad and embarrassing loss to Berube s former team! Should be one of the better early season games!
Last season, as of October 26, Boston had played 8 games with a 6 – 0 – 1 – 13 pts and 22gf 11ga +11.
This year they have played 8, going 3 – 4 – 1 – 7pts, scoring 23 while giving up 29 for a -6.
So, their offense doesn’t seem to be so much the issue – it’s their defense/goaltending.
Correction: “Last season, as of October 26, Boston had played 7 game …”
We won against a weak Pittsburgh team. Trade for Blomquist. It took 34 shots before one went in.
Edmonton has nothing to be proud about.
Lafreniere saving the Rangers lots of cash by not getting 15-25 additional points on the powerplay
Ullmark strongly pointed the finger at himself for the 6-4 loss to Vegas (one empty-netter) in a game where Ottawa held the edge in play throughout what was a very good game.
But, while the tying (in a questionable pp with 5 minutes to go) and winning (5th) goals were perhaps stoppable by a # 1 goalie who has been into the swing of things, the underlying factor here was, he’s been dealing with that strain for a couple of weeks and the team had to get him back into action at the first opportunity. That just so happened to be in a tough building to win.
In that regard it was similar to Toronto’s putting Woll in against Dallas the other night. Your best netminders need to be in game shape as soon as possible into a season and that won’t happen sitting on their butts on the bench.
In the long run, the decisions will hopefully pay off.
That s why Swayman played game 2 after missing all of training camp!
Of course.
Sen’s
last night getting beat 6-4, they played very well through the 1st 2 periods… with 3.5 minute to go
in the 3rd they let in 3 goals!! they should have won that game
LU stood there and took the blame, but it was the rest of the team that played poor in the 3rd period
they need to stop that … shades of last year🤔
Bill Hay, another key member of that strong early 1960s Chicago Blackhawks team, has passed away at age 88. R.I.P. Mr, Hay,
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