🎯12-game slate to go over today w/@AndyFrancess presented by @Novig Here is my breakdown of the slate for today's show for @Covers. 🧃⛽️See the Pumpers in the Chat LIVE at 11am 🏒 NHL GAME DAY THREAD 12 games on the slate. Matchup notes, trends, injuries, and numbers worth knowing 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1/ 🦆 ANA @ NJD 😈 🥅 Dostal vs. Allen • NJ ranks 4th in xGF/60 and 7th in xGA/60. • Devils lead the NHL in SAT%. • Anaheim has lost four straight, scoring exactly two goals in each. • NJ outshot Colorado 32-13 through two periods Tuesday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2/ 🟡 NSH @ BOS 🐻 🥅 Saros vs. Swayman • Nashville owns the NHL's 3rd-ranked PP. • Boston has collected 11 of a possible 12 points over its last six games. • Bruins return home after a four-game road trip. • Fraser Minten is averaging 18:21 TOI over his last four games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3/ 🗽 NYR @ TOR 🍁 🥅 Garand vs. Bobrovsky • Rangers rank 9th in xGF/60 and 10th in xGA/60. • Toronto is playing its third game in four nights. • Dylan Garand has allowed two or fewer goals in six of seven appearances (1.85 GAA, .929 SV%). • Toronto owns the NHL's No. 1 PK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4/ 🐆 FLA @ PIT 🐧 🥅 Cooper Black vs. Murashov • Florida is on the second half of a back-to-back after an emotional game in Ottawa. • At 6-foot-8, Black could become the tallest starting goalie in NHL history. • Pittsburgh ranks 28th in xGA/60. • Ben Kindel is out, while Bryan Rust is questionable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5/ 🦈 SJ @ OTT 🔴 🥅 Askarov vs. Ersson • Both teams face difficult scheduling spots: Ottawa played Florida last night, while SJ is playing its third game in four nights. • Sharks rank 30th in xGA/60. • Ottawa ranks 8th defensively but just 28th in xGF/60. • Alex Wennberg missed SJ's previous game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6/ 👑 LAK @ NYI 🏝️ 🥅 Forsberg vs. Sorokin • Two struggling offensive profiles: LA ranks 29th in xGF/60; NYI ranks 22nd. • Kings own the 31st-ranked PK. • Islanders counter with the NHL's 5th-ranked PK. • Quinton Byfield is questionable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7/ ⚔️ VGK @ STL 🎵 🥅 Hill vs. Hofer • Vegas ranks 7th in xGF/60 and 5th in xGA/60. • The two teams have combined for a 14-6 Over record. • VGK is looking to rebound from an ugly 6-2 home loss to Tampa Bay. • Mitch Marner has recorded an assist in seven straight games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8/ ✈️ WPG @ DAL ⭐ 🥅 Skinner vs. Oettinger • Dallas ranks 2nd in xGA/60 and owns a league-best 1.56 GAA. • Stars are a perfect 9-0 to the Under this season. • Winnipeg has lost three straight and is 6-2 to the Under over its last eight. • Josh Morrissey is on IR; Esa Lindell is also expected to miss the game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9/ 🌲 MIN @ CGY 🔥 🥅 Wallstedt vs. Cooley • Minnesota ranks 3rd in xGF/60 and 4th on the PP. • Calgary ranks 24th in xGA/60. • The Flames own the NHL's second-worst GAA (4.63). • Quinn Hughes played 31:18 last game and has recorded a point in nine of 10 games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10/ 🌀 CAR @ EDM 🛢️ 🥅 Bussi vs. Levi • Carolina leads the NHL in both xGF/60 AND xGA/60. • Edmonton owns the league's 2nd-ranked PP. • Connor McDavid is averaging an absurd 2.89 points per game, with multi-point efforts in seven of nine. • Ryan Nugent-Hopkins could make his season debut. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 11/ 🐙 DET @ VAN 🐋 🥅 Gibson vs. Lankinen • Vancouver ranks dead last in both xGF/60 and xGA/60. • Canucks also own the NHL's 32nd-ranked PK. • Detroit's PP ranks 12th. • Emmitt Finnie played a massive 23:20 last game. • Vancouver has scored at least twice in five straight. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12/ 🏔️ UTA @ SEA 🦑 🥅 Vejmelka vs. Daccord • Utah ranks 5th in xGF/60 and 3rd in xGA/60. • Utah also owns the NHL's No. 1 power play. • Seattle ranks 25th on the PK and 22nd in xGA/60. • The Kraken rank 24th in offensive expected goals. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 All rankings are per 60 minutes at all strength

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This is pretty insane. A nearly identical push-off into the far post at MSG ended Richter’s year (and career).

Pierre LeBrun TSN said that Brad Marchand’s lower body injury that he suffered on Tuesday in LA is not season-ending. We don’t know the results of the MRI that he had this morning, but LeBrun said that early indications says that he’ll be out “weeks, not months.” #FLAPanthers