Jeff Garlin of Curb Your Enthusiasm talks with Moritz Seider after late-game scuffle in New York.
Jeff Garlin of Curb Your Enthusiasm talks with Moritz Seider after late-game scuffle in New York.
Ann Arbor’s Jeff Petry of the Florida Panthers skated in his 1,000th NHL regular season game in an 8-5 victory against the Vancouver Canucks on Monday at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Fla.
The Panthers will honor Petry’s milestone in a pregame ceremony on Nov. 20 prior to Florida’s home game against the New Jersey Devils.
Petry, 37, became the 409th skater in NHL history and 28th U.S.-born defenseman to achieve the milestone of 1,000 games.
Since his first NHL season in 2010-11, Petry has 96 goals, 294 assists and 390 points in 1,000 NHL games between the Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings (2023-25) and Panthers.
Originally selected by the Oilers in the second round of the 2006 NHL draft, the 6-foot-3, 208-pound defenseman has recorded at least 40 points in four seasons and logged at least 24 points in nine of his 15 seasons.
In Monday’s victory, Sam Bennett scored the tiebreaking goal at 4:02 of the third period, Seth Jones had two goals, and Luke Kunin, Evan Rodrigues, Anton Lundell, A.J. Greer and Brad Marchand also scored for the two-time defending champion Panthers.
Elias Pettersson had two goals, and Drew O’Connor and Jake DeBrusk also scored for Vancouver, which has lost four of five (1-2-2). Quinn Hughes had three assists and Kiefer Sherwood and Evander Kane each added two, and Jiri Patera finished with 33 saves.
More Monday NHL
(At) Washington 2, L.A. Kings 1: Alex Ovechkin scored his 903rd career NHL goal and Washington beat Los Angeles.
Matt Roy also scored for the Capitals, who ended a two-game losing skid to gain some traction in the standings.
Anze Kopitar scored for lone goal for the Kings, who had won four straight. It was just their second regulation road loss of the season.
Carolina 3, (at) Boston 1: Jordan Staal outmuscled a Boston defenseman for a goal with one arm, Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 29 shots and Carolina cooled off the hot Bruins for a victory.
Former Bruin Taylor Hall and Mark Jankowski also scored for the Hurricanes, who won for the sixth time in eight games and evened the season-series after losing the first meeting on Nov. 1.
Riley Tufte spoiled the shutout with 10 seconds left and Jeremy Swayman made 29 saves for the Bruins, who had a six-game home-winning streak halted and lost for just the second time in 10 games overall.
(At) Buffalo 5, Edmonton 1: Rookie center Noah Ostlund scored twice for his first multigoal game in the NHL, and Buffalo beat Edmonton.
Bowen Byram, Beck Malenstyn and Tage Thompson also scored for Buffalo, which has won two straight after an 0-4-1 skid. Rookie goalie Colten Ellis made 32 saves.
Jack Roslovic scored for Edmonton, and Stuart Skinner stopped 23 shots. The Oilers have lost two of three and are 2-2-0 on their eight-game trip.
(At) Columbus 4, Montreal 3 (SO): Kirill Marchenko scored the deciding goal of the shootout, and Columbus beat Montreal.
Zach Werenski and Dmitri Voronkov had a goal and an assist, and Adam Fantilli also scored in regulation as Columbus extended its point streak to five games (3-0-2). Jet Greaves finished with 29 saves.
Lane Hutson had a goal and an assist, and Josh Anderson and Oliver Kapanen also scored for Montreal, which has lost four straight (0-3-1) and six of seven (1-3-3). Jakub Dobes had 20 saves.
Michigan State ranked No. 1 again
Michigan State is the unanimous No. 1 college hockey team in the country in this week’s USCHO.com poll.
The Spartans received all 50 first-place votes to remain the No. 1 team in the country and the unanimous top-ranked team for the second straight week.
Michigan completed a road sweep of Notre Dame with 4-1 and 3-1 victories this past weekend. They’ll face off this weekend against No. 7 Wisconsin in Madison.
Michigan was ranked No. 2 and Penn State rounded out the Big Ten’s showing in the polls at No. 5. Western Michigan moved up a spot to No. 7 from No. 8.
Devils move on without Hughes
Newark, N.J. – Jack Hughes is a big reason the New Jersey Devils are atop the Eastern Conference and one of the best teams in the NHL six weeks into the season, and now they’ll have to endure the next two months without their best player.
Hughes is out long term after undergoing surgery to repair a non-hockey-related finger injury, and his teammates are faced with the challenge of filling the void left by the absence of the face of the franchise. They’ve been here before, forced to play the final two months of last regular season and the playoffs after Hughes had shoulder surgery, and with an upgraded roster might be even better equipped this time around to handle it.
“You’ve got to now just dig in for it,” captain Nico Hischier said after practice Monday. “Obviously he’s a game-changer type of guy that can decide games for us. We’ve still got enough skill in here, but we’ve got to be even more glued together, stick together and keep working on our process that we believe can have us being a successful hockey team.”
There has been a lot of success early for New Jersey, which won 13 of 17 games with Hughes leading the way with 10 goals and 20 points. Beating Washington on Saturday night without him ensured first place in the East at least into the start of an upcoming road trip.
First-line winger Timo Meier said the Devils have not been beating themselves and know they cannot rest on what has worked in the past, given it’s a long season.
“We’re giving ourselves a chance every night to win the game, and we have high expectations on ourselves,” Meier said. “We’ve got to continue and raise that level every day.”
They are playing at a high level despite a bevy of injuries. Defensemen Brett Pesce and Dougie Hamilton, forwards Connor Brown, Cody Glass and Evgenii Dadonov and No. 1 goaltender Jacob Markstrom have all missed time.
Hamilton, Brown and Dadonov all could return this week, though no one around the team wants to use being banged up as an excuse.
“We’ve got to play with those guys that are available,” Hischier said. “Nobody wants to be out. Obviously it’s great to have Dougie back and Brownie, as well, and we move on from here.”
Winger Jesper Bratt, who leads the Devils with 12 assists, pointed out that Hughes is a particularly hard player to replace. Hughes has big roles at even strength and on the power play and also gets some penalty-killing time as part of his 21 minutes a night.
When Hughes was sidelined in March, brother Jack, Hischier and Bratt were all point-a-game producers down the stretch.
“You never want to be used to it or anything, but there was definitely a situation that we got known for a little bit from last year: losing him in the end of the season through the playoffs, new guys stepping up and taking on bigger rules and stuff like that,” Bratt said. “From that standpoint I think that we, as a group, just got to move forward.”
Sheldon Keefe, in his second season as New Jersey’s coach, is counting on defending to carry his team through to sometime in January when Hughes is ready to return.
“Even with Jack, producing offense was a challenge for us, so not having him and the number of others we’ve been missing, the expectation is offense is going to be harder to come by, so let’s not give them any freebies,” Keefe said. “We’ve got to be smart and we’ve got to protect our goaltender: reduce the amount of shots and high-quality chances so that we can keep the goals against down.”
Missing Hughes, Keefe knows he cannot ask more out of Hischier but will lean on the likes of Ondrej Palat, Stefan Noesen and rookie Arseni Gritsyuk and others to pick up some more slack. Getting other reinforcements back should also help.
“You manage it as best you can,” Keefe said. “And you hope that along the way here, we can stay healthy and get some people back and then that can make it a lot easier.”
November schedules
Tuesday
▶ Kraken at Red Wings, 7
Wednesday
▶ Grand Rapids at Rockford, 8
Thursday
▶ Islanders at Red Wings, 7
Friday
▶ Charlotte at Grand Rapids, 7
▶ Ohio State at Michigan, 7
▶ Wisconsin at Michigan State, 8:30
▶ Western Michigan at Nebraska at Omaha, 8
▶ Michigan Tech at Minnesota State, 8
▶ Northern Michigan at Bemidji State, 8
▶ NTDP U18 at North Dakota, 8
▶ Madison at NTDP U17, 7
Saturday
▶ Blue Jackets at Red Wings, 1
▶ Charlotte at Grand Rapids, 7
▶ Ohio State at Michigan, 7
▶ Wisconsin at Michigan State, TBA
▶ Western Michigan at Nebraska at Omaha, 8
▶ Michigan Tech at Minnesota State, 7
▶ Northern Michigan at Bemidji State, 7
▶ Madison at NTDP U17, 7
Monday, Nov. 24
▶ Red Wings at Devils, 7
Tuesday, Nov. 25
▶ Grand Rapids at Texas, 8
Wednesday, Nov. 26
▶ Predators at Red Wings, 7
▶ Grand Rapids at Texas, 8
▶ Colgate at Michigan State, TBA
▶ Muskegon at NTDP U17, 5
Friday, Nov. 28
▶ Lightning at Red Wings, noon
▶ Iowa at Grand Rapids, 7
▶ Michigan at Harvard, 7
▶ Colgate at Michigan State, TBA
▶ St. Thomas at Michigan Tech, 7
▶ Minnesota State at Northern Michigan, 7
▶ NTDP U17 at Sioux Falls, 4
Saturday, Nov. 29
▶ Red Wings at Boston, 7
▶ Michigan at Harvard, 7
▶ St. Thomas at Michigan Tech, 6
▶ Minnesota State at Northern Michigan, 6
▶ NTDP U17 at Sioux Falls, 7
Sunday, Nov. 30
▶ Iowa at Grand Rapids, 4
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