The 2026 NHL Season Is Getting Silly…

The 2026 NHL Season Is Getting Silly…

It is week seven and the 2026 NHL season is officially getting silly here. We got the benches clearing at the end of the game. Coaches absolutely losing it on opposing players. The youth of the league is still putting on a show while making history. Meanwhile, some teams look unstoppable while others are causing their fan bases to have a meltdown. It’s fantastic and it’s hockey. So, let’s cover what really happened in week seven of the NHL season. We start the week off in Sweden for the Global Series. It seemed like only about 15 people knew about these games, but don’t worry, that’s what we’re here for. Nashville took game one, but Sid didn’t go halfway across the world just to lose in back-to-back games. He buries in the second game, but Penguins score three goals in the first 10 minutes and end up shutting out Nashville four to nothing. Now, two teams whose hospital bill is starting to match the salary cap are the Canucks and Lightning. Vancouver, though, gets back Quinn Hughes, and they’re thanking the hockey gods for that. The Canucks score five unanswered goals in the third. Hughes had four assists in this game. Anytime he’s in the lineup, the Conucks are just a completely different team. The fact that they’re even 500 with all their injuries this year is incredible. And it certainly does give Conucks fans hope that maybe this team could actually sneak into the dance. Either way, big win for them in a 6-2 victory. Then we go to Vegas in Minnesota. Another game going into OT, but the Wild going the peeper. And who calls game? It’s going to be the Curillionaire himself, Carill Capri. One knee, one-timer. That’s going on the hockey card. Vegas loses again in OT, by the way. They have a wonky 84 and6 record. That’s below 500. However, the pity points are keeping them in the mix. So, we can thank Gary for that. Bad news for Rangers fans tonight. They have to play a game at home, which means they’re going to lose. It’s pretty much a lock at this point. This was tied 1-1 late. And then Lucas Raymond, patience of a monk around the net. Waits, takes, buries. Everybody loves Raymond except for New York. Right now, the Rangers pull the goalie late. And as the buzzer goes to end the game, Mason Appleton fires it into the empty net. Okay, let’s go home. Wait, no. Jonathan Quick says, “Come here, you little You think you can shoot it into our empty net 1 second after the game is over. Who the hell do you think you are? All hell breaks loose. Got to be one of the best looking scrums I’ve ever seen between the blue and red jerseys. Just easy on the eyes.” But this was a Gen Z bench brawl if I’ve ever seen one. I don’t know if there was any punches thrown. We don’t do that nowadays. Everyone just grabs a guy and says, “Okay, we’re we’re done here.” Yeah, we’re done. We’re done. Let’s go home. Rangers lose another one at MSG. Finally, we finish the night with the two hottest teams as of late in the ABS and Islanders. Both Tendies and Sroen and Wedgewood were absolutely humming in this game. They both made a save that will have shooters whimpering in their sleep. The ABS though, they just seem like they can’t be stopped. They win four to one with Dwayne the Brock Nelson tipping one home late to add insult to injury with 15 seconds left against this former team. The ABS have now won six in a row and have had a 10game point streak. Right now, it’s not even close. They are the best team in the league. Now on to Monday where the Canucks are in back-to-back action with the back-to-back champs. Yuri Patera starts for Vancouver and is feeling global here. Oh, look at this save. Pure leather flasher while on the ice. Unbelievable. But the poor guy got absolutely lit up in this one. 41 shots against, eight goals by the champs. Florida starting to feel it a little bit here, which sucks for absolutely everyone. Side note, Sergey Babroski moves into ninth all time in wins, jumping over Jacqu Plant. As if back-to-back Cups weren’t enough, you’re back on the case there, Babski. Now, the Oilers on the other hand, they’re still in limbo. Playing Buffalo should be a scheduled W for Edmonton this season, but it ain’t. Watch this ref here try and break up the fight for way too long. Finally, he says, “Screw it. I don’t get paid enough for this.” And all of a sudden, Pog Coulson starts chucking him with Krebs. That’s about as much fight as the Oilers showed in this one. Sabres score four unanswered and win 5 to1. Big signing news for the Kings as they’ve locked up the underrated superstar and Adrien Kempe for eight years. LA after a slow start is humming. They visit Obie on the road and they aren’t going to keep winning games if they leave the only man in the history of the universe with over 900 goals alone right in front. Obie burries the game winner and the Caps win 2 to1. Carolina also continues to roll by beating the Atlantic leading Boston Bruins. I bet you Bruins fans would have thought there was no way they’d hear that sentence at the beginning of the season. Gochekov though for Carolina was incredible. He stopped 29 of 30, a perfect 4-0 on the season. The Hurricanes are hoping to God that he’s the answer in net. Now for the Monday night Bezos special, we got Montreal and Columbus Jackets look like they’re going to get this one in the bag with a twogoal lead heading into the third. But these are the cardiac kids. They get one halfway through the third. And then Lane Hudson, that slippery devil, rips one with the goalie pulled to tie the game. in force OT. But the Jackets avoid the collapse to win in a shootout. The Habs have now lost four in a row and the youngest team in the league is starting to show their age just a tiny bit right now. They had redhot goalending to start the season, but lately it’s been no bueno. We finished the night with Utah and Anaheim. Two young squads ready for a track meet, but instead we get an oldfashioned heavyweight tilt here between O’Brien and Johnston. Bombs away in this one. That’s how you do it, fellas. Sit in the box or wherever you need to sit for five minutes. It’s the Mammoth. We’re 4 seconds away from holding on to the 2-1 lead to bring her home, but Troy Terry taps in the loose puck to tie it in the dying seconds. These kids are dramatic and they’re liars, too. Look at Becket Senki. He fools the hell out of everyone with this hesitation and then he dishes it off. That deceiving son of a gun. Sets up Zelwig. Valka gets caught out to lunch and that’s all she wrote. The Ducks seal a huge comeback win to snap their mini schnide and stay on top of the Pacific. Now, Tuesday I said screw it. I’m getting in on the action myself and the best way to do that is through SegeGeek. So, of course, it’s only fitting that we start off with the Leafs and Blues as we were at this game thanks to Segeek. Yep. Live at the Scotia Bank Library in the Suits. Didn’t even notice that Willie put this one in his own net here to start the game. That’s just the way she’s going right now for Toronto. But despite being banged up, they still took St. Louis to OT. Yeah, what a feat. But look at this. John Tvarz, the man that left the island, stripped of the sea and then took a pay cut, is now holding off three grown men like it’s his annoying little cousins at a birthday party. He kicks it out over to Riley who feeds Knander and Seek Geek goal of the week loading here ladies and gents. Backhand Towi. Bennington gets lost at sea. Willie tucks it in, points to a lady in the crowd. Parade is back on. No one cares that they beat one of the four teams below him in the standings. That was sick. And the bonafide seeek goal of the week so far, guys. Segeek is easily the best app for finding great deals on tickets like I did for this game. Every ticket on Segeek is graded on a scale from 1 to 10, so you instantly know if you’re getting a steal. If it’s red, stay away. If it’s green, that’s a gem and you should be all over it. They hooked us up with code hockey 2025 for 10% off your next tickets at Segeek. That’s any tickets anytime, anywhere. Just hit the link in the description to download the app and it’ll automatically apply the code to your account so you’re ready the next time you find a deal. Once again, big thanks to Segeek for sponsoring these weekly recaps and getting us to the game. Then we go to Tampa where Devils fans are still shell shocked from missing Jack Hughes for eight weeks due to a freak accident with a knife. You mix in a Jake Gensel hattick. Tampa takes full advantage in a 5-1 dub. The Devils fans, they can’t catch a break. I also got to admit, I don’t know if the Red Wings are wagons or not. They still got this habit of going on runs where they look like world beaters and then have others where they look like they ain’t even sniffing the dance. Right now though, they’re in the hot phase. Two points for Everybody Loves Raymond. 4-2 dub for them. Detroit is first in the Atlantic division after that win. Would you look at that? Another team getting their mojo lately is the Jets. Mark Schiffley continues to be criminally underrated. Three assist game yet again for him. They’ve now won three of their last four. Then we got some craziness in Dallas. Right down to the wire. It’s three to one Islanders with two minutes left. But Robertson scores his second of the game. That’s now eight goals in his last four. Then trying to tie the game, the moose, Miko Rantin sees the numbers, shoves Romanov going into the boards and he’s hurt bad. Ref says, “You can’t do that, son. You’re out of here.” He gets five in a game. And on the way out, Patrick Wah was giving it to Rantinon. Apparently, he was telling Rantinon that the next time they play, there is no way he’s finishing that game. The man was fired up, and I love it. The coach is willing to go through the wall for the players and in return, you bet your ass his players will be willing to do the same. The best part though is the madness doesn’t even end there. Dallas seems to score at the buzzer to tie the game with less than a second left. But no call Gary. This is goalender interference. You can’t touch 1800 big save Dave like that and not expect to get called for interfering with the tendy. The Islanders end up holding on and now have possession of the first wildard spot in the East. Now for the other New York team in the Rangers, they’re on the road, which usually means a guaranteed dub, but not on Vegas’s watch. They squeak out a 3-2 when the talk for the Rangers has once again become JT Miller’s body language on the first goal against There you go. That didn’t take long for Rangers fans to get sick of their new captain. I don’t see a problem here. I do this all the time in beer league with that effort, and I still get rewarded with a cold beer. Rangers lose, and Miller is in the crosshairs with the fan base. Then the NHL script writers kept on cooking. Connor Baddard is fully living up to the hype. He gets his second hatt-trick of the season. This kid’s release is sickening. And on top of that, he’s dunking empty netters from 175 ft out like it’s nothing in his last 10 games. He’s got 11 tucks, 10 assists, two hat-ticks, and most importantly, the Hawks are 62 and two. He jumps to third in points. And the Magic didn’t stop there. Mlin Celibbrini says, “All right, watch this. Two goals in the first six minutes against Utah. Then an OT, he rips a top bunk for the Hattie of his own. The only two players in the NHL this season with hat-ticks are Conor Badard and Mlin Celbrini. You can’t make this up. These kids are insane. Celbrini joins Gretzky, Lemieux, and Crosby as the only teenagers in NHL history to hit 30 points in 20 games. I think that’s good, fellas. Get these guys on team Canada. Let’s move on to Wednesday. And another Canadian team in the dumps right now is the Oilers. Yet everyone outside of Edmonton is shrugging it off saying they do this every season. But if you watch the games and look at the underlying numbers, it’s bad. They got the caps and there’s Obie. Goal number 9004. Just like that, he’s got goals in three straight. Don’t let him get hot. Defense and goalending has been the biggest problem for Edmonton. They give up seven goals in this one. Two empty netters, but Skinner still allowed five of them on 19 shots. McDavid must just be sick to his stomach seeing all the money he left on the table for this. Although maybe I’m sure they’ll still figure it out. Now, toilet bowl game of the night is Sabers and Flames. Calgary is getting used to these toilet bowl games, so they shine in these ones. Four goal third period. Rasmus Anderson three-point night to help with that trade value. And Calgary takes it six-2. Now, let’s talk about the Minnesota Wild here for a second. Despite the curillion putting up his points for 17 sheets a year, the Wild struggled out of the gate, but they got back the man who stirs the pot over there and Matts the Rat Zukarelloo. Little controller disconnected action on the B-way, but then rips it. He and the goalender Jesper Walte have revived the Wild here as of late. He stops a career-high 42 shots, including the last one in the shootout. The Wild have won three in a row and seven of their last 10. Finally, we got the Bruins and Ducks. Racko Gudas catches Eimon with a little bit of a knee, which means we’re chucking them right away. Gudas is the captain, by the way. Bet you didn’t know that. He was on fire tonight. Got himself a goal, too. setting the tone for the Ducks. This was tied late, but a little floater from Ian Moore finds a way. Sometimes less is more. Ducks win again and Lucas Dol was lights out. He stopped 36 shots as Anaheim wins their sixth straight on home ice. Let’s go to Thursday where the Blues and Flyers are setting the tone. Here’s a clip that should give you a nightmare. Kknney wide open cage absolutely biffs it. Waking up with a cold sweat to that one. Usually that would mean that it ain’t your night, but the Blues are so ass that they stumble into losing games. Philly ends up taking it an OT. As for the Leafs, we’re at Scotia Bank Library yet again, and one of the only things holding up this team right now is John Tavvarz. He gets another goal and an assist to tie it up after being down by two. But Adam Fanill owns the Leafs. He bears the OT winner to send the Yach club home with no deals and no win. Now, the last time the Red Wings played the Islanders, it was a disastrous 7-2 loss. How about a little deja vu? Horvat joins the four-way scoring race with his 14th of the year already. He’s on the Olympic radar for team Canada with this start so far. It’s a five nothing beatd down on the wings and suddenly the Islanders are sixth in the league. Meanwhile, we go to the Bell Center and Josh Anderson wants to go Oie, the 40-year-old man. He may not be a spring chicken anymore, but I’ve seen Obie one punch a dude. Not sure if you want the smoke there, but you woke up the rushing machine anyways. How about a hat-tick? Vintage Obie. There he goes getting hot again. Seven goals in his last four games. The guy is built in a lab. The Havs, on the other hand, are miserable lately. They’ve now allowed 23 goals in their last four games and have lost five in a row. No surprise here. The Florida teams keep on humming. Samson Reinhardt, lone goal for the Panthers. Nice little one- nothing win for the coaches. All while Tampa keeps the storm brewing for Edmonton. Jake Gensel continues to have himself a weak OT winner. The Oilers have now lost three in a row. Here’s also a quick reminder not to hurt a ref’s feelings. Bdard home alone on the Bway with under five to go. He gets a little bit of a hook in the hands and there’s no call so he lets the ref hear it. Probably stares him right down and says, “Are you kidding me?” Stripes ref goes, “What did you just say? Get in the box, pal. That’s an unsportsmanlike.” And then Seattle goes on to bury on the ensuing power play to win the game. There you go. I’m sure that didn’t piss off anyone in Chicago. Now, the Golden Knights haven’t had a winning streak in exactly a month. Yeah, October 20th was their last one, but luckily for them, the Mammoth are absolute ass right now. They may have honestly been the early season fugazi so far. Eel puts up a pair. Vegas wins four to one and Utah has now lost seven of their last eight. If they reach 10 losses in a row, send them back to Arizona. Good news for Rangers fans though, they’re on the road again. Bad news, they got the ABS. JT Miller heard all the criticism and decided to bury a couple goals in this one to shut everyone up, but it doesn’t matter against the AS at this point. This team is just a wagon. McKinnon, Mar and Nas all put up three points. Hell, even Wedgewood got in on the action with an apple. The ABS look unstoppable right now. They take this one. Can you imagine if that team still had Rantin? This guy’s over here in Dallas activating the twinkle toes. Little spin cycle backhand. Roof Daddyo Jr. Thanks for coming out. That’s how you get a game winner. Anger was six, stopping 34 of 36 saves. The Stars keep on rolling. Out west, the Suns are visiting the Ducks. And Anaheim has been one of the best teams in the league at home this year. And this one comes down to the wire under two to go. Bed Bath and Beyond with the tip on the doorstep says, “Keep the change. Start the bus. We’re leaving here with a W.” That is a big win for the Sens. Finally, we got the Sharks and Kings. And how about Philip Kurish at being a sneaky good pickup for San Jose. First, he shows enough patience here to watch all three of the Lord of the Rings movies. Gets everyone to bite. then tucks a low cheeky bastard. Then he steps up and buries the lone shootout goal to win it. San Jose gets their 10th win of the season, but the story is still Yarus Lavascarov. He is having an unbelievable November. He’s now 6-1 on the month. Then we go to Friday where it’s blowout city. It starts with the Wild shutting out the Penguins. This time it was Philip Gustoson instead of Walsteed, but these guys look like a completely different team from the start of the season. The Wild have three shutouts in their last six games and they’re eight and one in November. The boys are feeling it there. Then in Buffalo, the Sabres get in on the action. Usually they’re on the other end of these things, but they lay an absolute smackdown on the Blackhawks. 9 to3. Holy, that is so bad. We almost got to start calling them the Bards again. Even though Bard himself still picked up two points. Over in Winnipeg, Nikolai Eers makes his return as a hurricane. He gets a standing out. But the bigger news out of Winnipeg prior to the game was Connor Halabuk, last year’s MVP, had to get knee surgery. He’ll be out four to six weeks. That is no bueno for the Jets. and they feel it right away as Carolina holds on to the late lead 4 to3 to move into first in the Metro. Now, there’s been a lot of surprises this season, but one of the bigger ones has been the Geek squad over in Boston. Morgan Geeky steals the show in LA. He’s already got one tuck on the night, then he rips it shelf in OT. This guy’s got 16 goals on the year. He’s tied with Nathan McKinnon for the league lead. I don’t know if anyone expected that going into the season. I certainly didn’t, but the Bruins fans will take it. Keer Salty tries to stick out a leg to trip past it, but they don’t care. The Bruins take the win and leave LA on a high note. Finally, we go to Saturday and we’re starting with the Wings and Jackets. Columbus is up 3 to one with 10 minutes left, but Detroit pulls a little rope a dope. Two quick goals from the back end from Sherrod and Cider ties it. Then we go to Otin. De Brink tells Jack Graves to buy a protractor. Short side, sharp angle. How are you? Red Wings complete the comeback. Now, there’s been a lot of chatter about what the hell team can is going to do with their goalending situation at the Olympics, but if Bennington plays like he did against the Islanders tonight, he’s probably going to start for them yet again. He makes 30 of 31 saves, shuts the door to snap the four-game losing streak for the Blues. That’s the Jordan Bennington that helped team Canada win gold at four nations and the one that the Blues need desperately here if they want to save their season. Then we had our Stanley Cup finals rematch. Yeah, the Oilers and the Panthers. And as expected, we got a Ro Shambo here to start. AJ Greer goes for the fullon UFC takedown. These two teams hate each other. Now, this game is big for Edmonton. There’s been a lot of noise around the Oilers this week, especially defense and goalending, but they’re able to quiet it all down a little bit with a solid performance. Jack Rosik, another two goals. What a pickup he’s been. And how about this reaction? Florida pulls the goalie. Terasov sees McDavid just burn everyone up the ice as soon as he gets to the bench and he’s like, “Ah, shit.” That is the game. 6-3 win. Great job, Edmonton. Where the hell was that in game six last season? Bad blood kept going from there, too. We jump right into Ryan Reeves. Absolutely feeding Hayden Hodgson, but he’s eating so many rights. He’s begging for a left. The Suns, though, I’ve said it all year. I think they’re a legit team. No Brady Kachchuck, and they’re still finding ways to win games. Woo! Woo! Timmy Stew pokes one home for the gamewinner as the sends win their second in a row. We also get a little bit more history as well. And of course, it’s Sid, the middle-aged man. Two points for him against Seattle means he becomes the sixth player in NHL history to record 500 multi-point games. What an absolute legend. But it’s still not enough to help Pittsburgh win it. Brandon Mour wires home the OT winner and Seattle stays quietly right in the mix with their second win in a row. We also got the Leafs and Halves on a Saturday night. What’s better than this? Both teams have been riding the struggle bus lately, but Leaf fans better saddle up for a longer ride. Noah Dobson double dips the chip for Montreal. Two goals for him. They could have easily won this game 7 to2 if it wasn’t for Joseph Wall who then had to get the mercy pull in this game. Montreal had the Bash brothers out there too with the Jack eyes both dressed. The youngest one made his NHL debut, dropped the gloves and fired up the crowd. The Bell Center was electric and bumping after the Habs win and the nightmare season for Toronto continues. If you want to see exactly why things have gone to for the Leafs this season, you can check out the breakdown we did on them this past week after this video. Meanwhile, Tampa is still rounding into form here as of late. Typical Lightning game where Cutrov’s in his rocking chair setting up goals, scoring them. Casual three-point night for him. They beat the Caps 5 to3, which is actually music to Phillies years. Philadelphia has the Devils, who have been just spiraling since the Jack Hughes knifegate incident. The bad news is that the surprises keep on coming. The Flyers score three goals in 26 seconds, fastest in franchise history. New Jersey looks like a team that is completely bamboozled right now. That’s their third loss in a row. While Zegris is still lighting it up for Philly. Lock of the night was PRS versus ABS. Get the Army paint for PRs fans and hop on the tank while you can. They outshot Colorado 35 to26, but Colorado is straight up a wagon. Blackwood gets the shut out and McKinnon buries the empty netter to take back the league lead in goals. Then we got the ass off. Yes, both the Mammoth and the Rangers have been stinky as of late, but Utah gets it together in this one and narrowly beat New York 3 to2 and the Rangers have lost four in a row now. It’s looking more and more every day that they may not just be a good team regardless of where the hell they play. Let’s go to Anaheim where we’re in OT. Vegas possession of Mitch Mner. Whoops. Who ordered a pizza freshly tossed right up the middle to cutter Goier? He rips it right away for the gamewinner. There you go, Leaf fans. parades back on after that. Marner wants that one back. Vegas is 1 and7 this year. No te just racking up those pity points. Finally, it’s Dallas and Calgary and Miko Ranton and is becoming public enemy number one this week. He fullon makes Matt Coronado eat the boards here. That is a bad hit from behind. You can’t do that, pal. Hit the showers. He gets five in a game. Coronado shows us what a hockey player looks like. Look at that mug. Couple of stitches and you get back out there. kind of resembles the Flames all game really. They had a gutsy five on three kill near the end of the third to push to OT and then in the shootout Nasam Cadri. Oh the patience that is lovely and the winner Flames end the week on a twogame heater. So what did you think of week seven? Who surprised you? Who pissed you off? Let us know in the comments down below. 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We break down everything that happened in week 7 of the 2025/2026 NHL Season