Category: Hockey History 1917-2023

Pickard Prevents Penalty Shot

Edmonton 3 Chicago 0  The Edmonton Oilers have won their fifteenth consecutive game last night at home against a Blackhawks team that was on the backend of a back-to-back and who were able to play the Oilers even up in a tight game.

Towards the end of the first period with no score a questionable call gives the Oilers the opportunity to score near the end of the games only power play a minute and a half into the second period to take a 1-0 lead.

After Edmonton defenseman Mr. Desharnais blatantly mauled Chicago’s winger Mr. Entwistle on the way to the net the Blackhawks were awarded a penalty shot with 1:36 minutes remaining in the second period resulting in an excellent save by the Edmonton goaltender.

The dagger in this game came approximately six and a half minutes into the third period when Connor McDavid (44) and Leon Draisaitl (31) set up Mr. Hyman beautifully for a tip in score to give Edmonton the dreaded two goal lead.

Chicago valiantly endeavored to score with the extra attacker less than two minutes remaining but to no avail as the offensively potent Oilers scored a happy net goal to seal the win extending their current streak of victories that brings them within two of the NHL record.

Dreaded two-goal lead evaporates on Kings

The Sabres spoiled the hometown’s pregame celebration of Anze Kopitar by coming from behind down two goals to win by two goals in a game where Buffalo goaltender Mr. Levi earned a .925 save percentage as the Kings unleashed 40 shots.

The Sabres duo of “JJ” & “Q” each produced three points as Mr. Peterka scored twice and Mr. Quinn dished off two assists with the first one a herculean diving effort to get the puck up to Mr. Peterka.

The Sabres Misters Tuch (13) and Cozens (9) scored in the third period to seal the 5-3 come from behind road victory over the Los Angeles Kings late last night, the final game of this three game road trip is Saturday afternoon versus San Jose.

In the two game season series between two offensive minded teams in Winnipeg and Toronto they played to a 0-0 regulation tie last night forcing OT where Awesome Matthews scored in just over four minutes into the extra frame, they face off again in just two days.

Anaheim benefits from happy net goal

The Buffalo Sabres scored two goals while the goaltender was pulled with just over five minutes remaining in the game but the third one proved to be elusive as Anaheim gets an empty netter to escape losing to Buffalo with a 4-2 score.

The Sabres on a West Coast three game road trip continues tonight versus the Los Angeles Kings the number one wild card seeding in the Western Conference boasting an 8-8-6 home record that the Sabres can ruin before heading to San Jose Saturday afternoon.

The Oilers continue to win as they inch ever closer to the NHL record of consecutive wins of 17 games set by the Pittsburgh Penguins with victory number 14 and goaltender Mr. Skinner posted a .964 save percentage as the  Columbus Blue Jackets fell 4-1 to Edmonton last night.

Reduced to playing the spoiler, Buffalo Winter has earned the third highest point total for the week thus far, endeavoring to win out and give each opponent a run for their money.

A city in France or an own goal

During last night’s game between Pittsburgh and Arizona with the Penguins having an advantage with the delayed penalty and pulled goaltender scored on themselves when Mr. Letang attempted a pass that Mr. Malkin could not handle and watched helplessly as the puck went into their own net.

Limoges a city located in the southwestern part of France and is home to fine china porcelain products which may explain why Canadiens probably in New Brunswick around 1970 began calling own goals limoges because of the fragility of the team that scored on itself.

Approximately thirty years ago Toronto residents also began using the term limoges in referring to own goals, and the NHL does not record own goal statistics with some websites only highlighting the team and how many delayed penalties they took and if they were scored upon.

Hockey players similar to everyone else can and do make mistakes, scoring on your own team is embarrassing and disastrous, as the Penguins experienced last night as they endeavored to tie the game at three went down 4-2 then eventually lost the road game 5-2 to the Coyotes.

Coaching the Islanders to a OT win in first outing

It was 10 seasons ago when first time Head Coach Patrick Roy took the reign of an NHL team that he played eight seasons for and that won only 16 games the year before Colorado hired Mr. Roy to be Head Coach for the 2013-14 season.

While coaching centers 18 years old Nathan MacKinnon and 22 years old Ryan O’Reilly, along with 25 years old goaltender Semyon Varlamov HC Roy won 52 regular season games and the Jack Adams Award.

But unable to repeat this feat over the next two seasons sent HC Roy back to the QMHL to head coach his Quebec Remparts where he was Owner/GM and coached for eight seasons prior to the Avalanche.

After winning the QMHL Championship last season HC Roy has now been given an opportunity from the New York Islanders to once again be a Head Coach in the NHL and making an early supposition, it seems like a good fit.