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Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Sergei Murashov has started in two games since coming up from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Nov. 4.

Murashov was recalled from WBS after the Penguins announced that Tristan Jarry would be out for at least three weeks with the injury. Murashov had been lighting up the AHL to start the season, compiling a 5-2-0 record, a 1.73 goals-against average, and a .931 save percentage. One of his wins also resulted in a shutout, and he was named the AHL's Goaltender of the Month for October.

He made his first NHL start against the Los Angeles Kings on Nov. 9 and looked the part. He made an outstanding save on Quinton Byfield in the second period, showcasing his agility in the crease. Murashov kept the Penguins in that game and helped them take a lead into the third period before the rest of the team ran out of gas. He gave up two goals in the third period, including the game-winner to Kevin Fiala, and the Penguins lost 3-2.

Despite the loss, it was still a solid debut. None of the goals he gave up were bad. The first one came off a bad bounce, the second one was a blistering shot from Corey Perry, and the game-winner was a great move from Kevin Fiala. 

Murashov made his second start on Sunday against the Nashville Predators, a game the Penguins had to have, and he was excellent. Was he tested a lot? No, but when he needed to be called upon, he answered the bell. He recorded a 21-save shutout and became only the second goaltender in franchise history to record a shutout in his first win. Jeff Zatkoff was the first to accomplish that feat in 2013. 

One of Murashov's best saves came in the third period off a one-timer from Matthew Wood. Murashov showcased his agility and made the save look super easy. 

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Sunday's game was a perfect example of why so many people around the Penguins are super high on Murashov. He looked so calm and composed in goal. His positioning was also exquisite. His rebound control, which has been a knock on him at times, was also totally fine.

Yes, the Predators aren't good this year, but they still have some good goal-scorers, including Filip Forsberg, Ryan O'Reilly, and Matthew Wood. Even Steven Samkos, who only has four goals in 20 games this season, can strike at any time, and the Penguins found that out the hard way on Friday. 

The Penguins will now have five days off before playing again on Friday against the Minnesota Wild. They'll fly home from Sweden and practice on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday before Friday's game. After Friday's game, they'll play again on Saturday against the Seattle Kraken.

At the very least, Murashov will get one of those starts before the Penguins host the Buffalo Sabres in their annual "Thanksgiving Eve" game on Nov. 26. He deserves to keep getting some reps in the goalie rotation with Arturs Silovs before Jarry returns.

It's still early, but Murashov has been as advertised, and that should have fans excited. There's a real chance he could be the starting goaltender as early as next season. 

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By the time the Ottawa Senators leave on their seven-game road trip, which begins this Thursday in Anaheim, there's a good chance they may have a new defenseman along for the ride.

If Thomas Chabot is still out with his upper-body injury, the Senators will need another defenseman for the trip. Postmedia's Bruce Garrioch reported this week that Chabot may be lost for two weeks or more. If so, that would mean the Sens veteran won't be available to play for at least the first few games of the road trip.

The Senators' longest-serving player was hurt in Tuesday's loss to the Dallas Stars. The injury appeared to occur when Colin Blackwell took him hard into the boards at the Stars' bench. Chabot's lower back or rib area seemed to collide with the hard edge at the top of the boards. He played one more shift after that, then couldn't continue.

So the club will need a seventh defenseman for the trip in case someone gets injured during a game-day practice or wakes up from their pre-game nap with the flu. That could be accomplished by bringing up a defenseman from Belleville.

But Chabot's injury, combined with losing Donovan Sebrango on waivers, has highlighted the Sens need for more depth on the left side. Right now, if you add up all the healthy, left-shot defencemen who have NHL experience, you're left with two players – Jake Sanderson and Tyler Kleven.

The Senators could bring a right-shot defenseman, but leaving town with five righties and two lefties wouldn't be ideal.

Jorian Donovan, Scott Harrington and Tomas Hamara are the regular left side options in Belleville. Hamara probably wouldn't be considered at this point. He doesn't even have many AHL miles on him yet, much less NHL experience. Donovan is in his second AHL season, but he's still only 21 and as a fifth-rounder, he's probably not NHL-ready. What's more, the Sens would prefer their young guys to keep playing, not be probable spectators for a week or two.

That brings us to Harrington, a 32-year-old with 255 NHL games under his belt, mostly with the Columbus Blue Jackets. He's on an AHL deal and would first need to be signed to an NHL contract, which the Senators have plenty of room to do.

But if they went that direction, could Harrington be more than just an emergency option for this road trip? With his NHL experience, could he be a better fill-in option for Ottawa than their current usage of righty Nikolas Matinpalo playing on his wrong side?

This is an organization that prefers its defenseman to be on their natural side. That was apparent last month when Kleven got injured and the Sens chose the left-shot Sebrango to play. They could have gone with righty Jordan Spence, the newcomer everyone was so excited about, but instead they made him a healthy scratch.

Knowing that, the Sens probably aren't in love with continuing to use Matinpalo on his wrong side, especially when he only has 56 career NHL games under his belt.

Harrington's last NHL season was 2022-23, when he got some looks as Erik Karlsson's D partner in San Jose before being included in the blockbuster Timo Meier trade that season with the New Jersey Devils. The Devils waived Harrington the day after the trade, and Anaheim claimed him for 17 games.

In 2023, Harrington tried his hand in Switzerland. He was injured for much of that season but returned with Zurich for the 2024 playoffs and won a championship. Harrington also played for Canada at two World Junior tournaments and won back-to-back OHL titles with the London Knights, where he served as captain in 2012–13.

As for how he's looked in Belleville this season, his game was described by a source close to the team as "steady."

The Sens' decision makers obviously like Harrington's game, or they wouldn't have brought him in last month. To sign him shortly after the season had started would seem to suggest they fully recognized how thin they were organizationally at left D. And that was five days before they lost Sebrango to Florida.

So Harrington is a player to keep an eye on as a possible solution, but if they don't think he's up to the task, then there's no getting around it. Expect Staios to go shopping to acquire a left-side NHL depth player, a role they had hoped Sebrango would fill this season.

Steve Warne
The Hockey News Ottawa

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The Detroit Red Wings bounced back from their disappointing overtime loss against the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday evening, defeating the New York Rangers by a 2-1 final score just 24 hours later. 

Red Wings forward Lucas Raymond scored the game winning goal for Detroit late in regulation, breaking the 1-1 tie and giving him his second point of the evening. 

With the loss, the Rangers remain the NHL’s worst club on home ice.

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There was also a scrum involving players from both sides after the game ended, as the Rangers took exception to Mason Appleton shooting the puck into the open net a split second after the final horn sounded.

Alex DeBrincat remained hot for the Red Wings, scoring a power-play goal midway through the second period. But the Rangers would knot the score at 1-1 after a controversial delay of game penalty assessed to Moritz Seider.

Detroit is now within a point of the lead spot in the Atlantic Division. 

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lucas Raymond scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period and the Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Sunday night.

Alex DeBrincat also scored and Cam Talbot had 18 saves as Detroit rebounded from a 5-4 overtime loss to Buffalo at home on Saturday.

Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers, who snapped a three-game winning streak and fell to 1-7-1 at home to go along with their league-best 9-1-1 road mark. Jonathan Quick finished with 40 saves.

Raymond scored his fifth of the season with 3:47 remaining as he brought the puck into the offensive zone up the right side, skated around the back of the net and beat Quick from between the circles.

DeBrincat opened the scoring with his ninth on the power play at 9:30 of the second. Raymond and Patrick Kane had assists on the play, with Kane getting his 1,352nd point — one behind Guy Lafleur for 30th place on the all-time scoring list.

Zibanjead tied it with his seventh on the power play with 8:01 remaining in the middle period. Artemi Panarin had an assist on the play, giving him 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his last six games.

New York, which beat Nashville last Monday for its lone home win, has been shut out five times and scored once in two other losses at Madison Square Garden.

Before the game, the Rangers honored Hall of Fame journalist Larry Brooks, who passed away on Nov. 13 at 75. Brooks primarily covered the Rangers for the New York Post in a career spanning five decades.

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Red Wings: Host Seattle on Tuesday night to start a three-game homestand.

Rangers: At Vegas on Tuesday night to begin a three-game trip.

In a stunning turn of events, the Vancouver Canucks piled five goals on the Tampa Bay Lightning to ultimately take a 6-2 victory today. Jake DeBrusk, Kiefer Sherwood, MacKenzie MacEachern (2), Drew O'Connor, and Marcus Pettersson scored for the Canucks, while Kevin Lankinen locked things down by making 28 saves on 30 shots against. 

Both Vancouver and Tampa Bay welcomed players back from injury during today’s match, as Quinn Hughes returned for the Canucks and Brandon Hagel skated for the first time since Wednesday for the Lightning. However, in typical Canucks fashion, Vancouver found themselves down a player yet again during the game as Conor Garland left the game and did not return after Tampa Bay’s second goal of the game. The Lightning also faced concerns with Erik Cernak, who left the game at the end of the second period but returned for the third period.  

Speaking of Hughes, he was one of the biggest stories in tonight’s game, as he registered four points tonight and was noticeable throughout the game. Despite sitting out for a game on a day-to-day basis, the defenceman logged the most minutes played on his team with 23:48 as well as the most shots with four. 

“Quinn’s a very special player,” MacEachern said post-game of the star defenceman. “I’ve obviously played against him, seen him a lot, but to be able to see him every day is pretty cool. It’s good to have a guy like that in your lineup. He changes the game, you can see that. I think on the fifth goal, he carries it in, takes it around, kind of sets up that whole play. So he kind of drives our offence when he’s going like that.” 

Vancouver shook up their lines for today’s game, with Max Sasson being promoted to a line with Brock Boeser and Kiefer Sherwood and Lukas Reichel ending up on the fourth line alongside MacKenzie MacEachern and Linus Karlsson. With David Kämpf expected to join the team for their match against the Florida Panthers tomorrow and Garland’s status unknown, these lines likely won’t stick past today’s game. 

It felt as though Vancouver had virtually nothing going for them within the first half of the first period, as they only registered one shot in this span of time while Tampa Bay put up eight. The positive from this was that Lankinen looked sharp off the bat, stopping all eight of these Lightning shots. The Canucks’ lone chance was a shot fired by Boeser from the faceoff dot. It took Tampa Bay just under a whole period and 12 shots to finally find the back of the net — by that time, the Canucks had still only registered one. 

Vancouver’s power play came up massively for the Canucks. During their first opportunity, Vancouver was unable to get set up properly and only managed one shot on goal from a bit of a distance, but their second man-advantage managed to cash-in thanks to DeBrusk. The forward potted yet another in-tight rebound after Elias Pettersson carried the puck into Tampa Bay’s zone past two Lightning players. On their third, it was Sherwood who flung the puck on the net, grabbing his 12th goal of the season after it bounced off Lightning player J.J. Moser. 

Vancouver’s penalty kill has been a big story for the team throughout the 2025–26 season, but today, the Canucks managed to build off an offensively-inclined showing from their previous game by generating a near shorthanded chance in their second penalty kill of the match. They finished the game with two penalties killed, during which they limited the Lightning to two scoring chances. 

Despite the first-period thumping, it was the Canucks who put their best foot forward in the third period, scoring three goals in less than two minutes to take a commanding 4–2 lead. This was undoubtedly their best period of the game, as Vancouver managed to put 11 shots up on Lightning goaltender Jonas Johansson throughout this stretch. 

Vancouver also had a very timely coach’s challenge today, with Head Coach Adam Foote challenging a potential missed whistle on a high-stick that occurred slightly before Tampa Bay’s potential third goal of the game. The challenge was deemed successful, bringing the score back to 4–2 for the Canucks with less than 10 minutes to go in the third period. 

Stats and Facts: 

• Evander Kane plays in his 950th career NHL game 
• Conor Garland gets into the Canucks’ third fight this season, first by a forward 
• Quinn Hughes passes Tony Tanti, taking sole possession of fifth in career power play points by a Canuck with 186  
• Vancouver becomes the last team in the NHL to score an empty net goal during the 2025–26 season 

Scoring Summary: 

1st Period: 

19:25 - TBL: Nikita Kucherov (8) from Darren Raddysh and Brayden Point 

2nd Period: 

4:25 - TBL: Jake Guentzel (8) from Erik Cernak and Brandon Hagel 

9:26 - VAN: Jake DeBrusk (7) from Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes (PPG)

3rd Period: 

4:11 - VAN: Kiefer Sherwood (12) from Brock Boeser and Quinn Hughes (PPG) 

4:54 - VAN: MacKenzie MacEachern (1) 

5:51 - VAN: Drew O’Connor (5) from Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek 

13:52 - VAN: MacKenzie MacEachern (2) from Filip Hronek and Quinn Hughes 

16:57 - VAN: Marcus Pettersson (1) from Elias Pettersson and Tyler Myers (ENG) 

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The Canucks will take on Tampa Bay’s state rival, the Panthers, in the second-half of their back-to-back tomorrow. Newly-signed center Kämpf is expected to make his Canucks debut in this game, meaning Vancouver will have to make a roster move sometime before then in order to fit him into the lineup. Puck drop is scheduled for 4:00 pm PT. 

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The Detroit Red Wings managed to make history last month, pulling off a historic comeback victory over the St. Louis Blues and marking just the fifth time in their history that they won a game in which they initially trailed by four goals. 

While they didn’t make history on Saturday evening when a nearly identical situation happened to them in reverse, it still stirred familiar feelings about what has gone wrong for the franchise throughout its lengthy postseason drought.

The Red Wings had a 4-1 lead over the Buffalo Sabres at the midway point of the second period on Saturday evening, only to eventually blow the lead and lose in overtime by a 5-4 final score. 

Not only did the Red Wings fail to convert on two key power-play opportunities in the game's final frame, but they also surrendered a shorthanded breakaway goal that knotted the score. 

Head coach Todd McLellan, who was hired nearly 11 months ago to help bring a new level of accountability to the franchise, stated the facts as plainly as he could afterward on what needs to happen in order for Detroit to get over the hump. 

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“I’ll take you all the way back to Traverse City -- on the first day (of Training Camp) we talked about game management and learning how to play certain situations,” McLellan said. “Clearly, we haven’t learned that yet. I don’t know if you could write a script like that. We’re short-handed, trying to score and creating turnovers."

"Until this group figures out what’s important at certain times of the game, we’re going to have those nights," he continued. "Simple as that."

During the setback, the Red Wings once again surrendered multiple odd-man rushes against the Sabres, who have now won both matchups against Detroit so far this season. 

Perhaps even more frustrating for Detroit is that dropping points against a team like the Sabres—who sit in last place in the Eastern Conference, could ultimately be the difference between making or missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs in such a tightly packed race.

Detroit can't afford to allow points to slip away like that, especially in games where they had a multi-goal lead. But if they can't figure out the kind of game management skills that McLellan routinely refers to, it could be deja vu again. 

"Until we value it and figure it out, I'll be talking about this again," McLellan said. 

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