NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – November 14, 2026
The Predators pick up their seventh straight win, the Rangers down the Canucks, injury updates, and more in today’s NHL Morning Coffee Headlines.
NHL.COM: The Nashville Predators extended their win streak to seven games by nipping the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on a shootout goal by team captain Roman Josi. Ryan O’Reilly scored twice, and Juuse Saros kicked out 40 shots for the red-hot Predators, who improved to 11-4-5. Victor Olofsson and Rasmus Andersson replied for the 13-5-3 Golden Knights.
Nashville Predators center Ryan O’Reilly (NHL Images).
SPECTOR’S NOTE: General manager Chris MacFarland’s roster additions since the summer have played a significant role in their early-season performance. Mavrik Bourque, Shane Wright, Ross Colton, Jack Drury, and Nils Hoglander have brought invaluable depth throughout their forward lines that was missing over the past two years.
A four-goal second period lifted the New York Rangers over the Vancouver Canucks 5-1. Forward Glenn Gawdin tallied twice; J.T. Miller, Alexis Lafreniere, and Gabe Perreault each had two points, and Dylan Garand stopped 27 shots for the 12-8-1 Rangers. Elias Pettersson scored for the Canucks (3-17-1) as their losing skid reached seven games.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: Canucks center Filip Chytil returned to action after being sidelined with a shoulder injury since Oct. 29. Defenseman Guillaume Brisebois was placed on injured reserve with an undisclosed injury.
SPORTSNET: The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ground all flights nationwide for several hours on Friday left the NHL, NBA, and several college teams scrambling to reach their destinations for this weekend’s games.
The NHL has 14 games scheduled for Saturday. Most teams made it to their destinations before the flight stoppage, but the San Jose Sharks were grounded for several hours before finally arriving in Utah on Friday night.
SPECTOR’S NOTE: The FAA eventually lifted the grounding, and all teams are believed to have arrived for their Saturday games. However, Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun reported possible difficulties for NHL officials arriving on time.
Unlike the teams that take chartered flights, NHL officials fly commercial. Garrioch noted that as of Friday evening, it was unknown whether any of them were caught up in that grounding.
DAILY FACEOFF: The Columbus Blue Jackets placed forward Conor Garland (upper body) on injured reserve. Center Sean Monahan (upper body) is listed as day-to-day.
NEW JERSEY HOCKEY NOW: The Devils placed defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic (ankle) on IR and recalled blueliner Anton Silaev from the Utica Comets.
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS: Stars defenseman Lian Bichsel is expected to be sidelined for two weeks with a lower-body injury.
Good for Nashville, shows how making the right moves can pay off, if you are willing to make them.
Not just willing to make them, Toronto St Pats, but able to do so without being overly encumbered by NMC/NTC and huge AAVs … in addition to MacFarland knowing HOW to go about depth acquisition trades, unlike his predecessor.
For Bourque (and Lybushkin) he gave up a 2027 2nd and 2028 3rd
For Wight it cost him Matthew Wood
For Colton (and Isak Pasch_he sent Magnus Chrona, a 2026 3rd and 2027 3rd
For Drury (and Chase Bradley) he gave up a 2029 3rd, Zachary L’Heureux & Fedor Scechkov
For Nils Hoglander it cost a 2029 3rd.
Looks like the Hellybuck trade has been good for both parties. NJ is 6-0 in his starts and the Peg has a young top 6 forward with offensive potential. NOw if the Larkin and Edvinsson trades get settled we can move on!
Sr, Edvinsson’s situation will be sorted by 5 pm ET on Dec. 1 one way or another. That’s the deadline for signing this year’s restricted free agents. My guess is the Red Wings will trade him before then.
If that is indeed the way it goes, Lyle, and Edvinsson sticks to his guns about not wanting to play for Detroit again, probably the most likely move will be a sign-and-trade. Then the guessing becomes, what team and for how much and how long, in addition to what Detroit gets in return.
Then there’s the Darren Dreger thinking that Horcoff is serious about wanting to re-sign him and so will allow it to go right to the wire as Dubas did with Nylander in the hope that the two sides can still comes to some sort of mutual agreement.
Stay tuned for two more weeks Sr. 🙂
Conor Garland goes on the IR what will we do now?
That takes away the 1 assist he had poured in this year. We are a mess again. I’m still a faithful but it is getting hard to be
Michkov for Edvinsson. Do it.
if the Refs can’t make it to the games, use AI to manage the games. WHAT CAN DO WRONG ?