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The Boston Bruins’ seven-game winning streak started after a 7-2 loss in Ottawa on October 27th and that's where it went to die as well. The Senators once again blew an early 2-0 lead, but this time, thanks to a pair of late goals from Tim Stützle, they recovered to defeat the Bruins 5-3 at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday night.

With the victory, the Senators improved their record to 9-5-4, good for a three-way tie for top spot in the Atlantic with Boston and Montreal. The Canadiens were clobbered by Dallas on Thursday night 7-0 but still hold the edge by virtue of playing one fewer game than the Senators.

To recap, for all the anxiety and so-called troubling moments in the first month, no one in the Atlantic Division has more points than the Ottawa Senators. Stützle ended the night with two goals and an assist, Leevi Meriläinen made 18 saves for the Senators, and Michael Amadio extended his points streak to six games.

Claude Giroux got the game started with a power play goal less than 2 minutes into the game. The Senators created some space for themselves with some excellent passing just prior to the goal. Finally, Giroux one-timed a cross-ice pass from Stutzle to give the Senators a 1-0 lead.

Dylan Cozens made it 2-0 at the end of the period with another one-timer. Fabian Zetterlund outmuscled his man behind the Boston net and hit Cozens all alone in the high slot area.

Boston pushed back in the second on Morgan Geekie’s 12th goal of the season, which would be the only goal of the second period.

Just over a minute into the third, Shane Pinto scored his ninth goal of the season. On the day of his new four-year extension, Pinto ends his nine-game goalless drought.

After starting the year going scoreless in the team’s first seven games, Amadio has now put up a point in nine of his 11 games since. His assist tonight was a perfect saucer pass to Shane Pinto, who redirected it into the net. It was a fine gift to Pinto for signing his new four-year extension earlier in the day.

The Senators seemed to be in good shape at that point at 3-1, but their lead would last barely four minutes. With the Bruins on the power play, David Pastrnak appeared to cut into the lead with his 11th goal of the year, but it was overturned on an offside challenge. On the same power play, though, Pastrnak got one that counted to cut the lead to 3-2.

Less than 2 minutes later, former Senator Mark Kastelic tied the game, chipping a puck past Meriläinen.

That's when Stützle went to work. His hard wrist shot on a perfect pass from Drake Batherson gave Ottawa a 4-3 lead with under 6 minutes to play, and then Stützle put the contest to bed with an empty-net goal. As with the Pastrnak situation, Stützle had a chance at a do-over: Stützle hit the post on an empty-net try but then scored for real to ice the game.

The Sens limp out of this one with more injury concerns on the blue line. Already without Thomas Chabot, Jake Sanderson played the second half of the game with a sore hand after blocking a shot. And Nick Jensen, who's barely a month into his comeback from hip resurfacing surgery, hobbled off the ice at the end of the second and did not return.

Head coach Travis Green had no update on Jensen's status. If Jensen and Chabot both can't go on Saturday, this may create an opportunity for top prospect Carter Yakemchuk.

The Senators have now only lost once in regulation in their last 12 games, but their schedule now gets a bit quirky. The Sens have only one game in the next week and it happens on Saturday at home against the Los Angeles Kings. Then the club is off until next Thursday when they begin a long seven-game road trip. Saturday's game against the Kings will be their last home game until December 4th.

Steve Warne
The Hockey News/Ottawa

On Friday, the 2025-26 NHL Global Series kicks off. 

And so will a key stretch of games for the Pittsburgh Penguins. 

The team is currently 9-5-3 with 21 points, which is good enough for third in the Metropolitan Division standings and sixth in the Eastern Conference. Other teams in the division and in the conference have finally caught up to the Penguins in games played, and it seems everyone is one a somewhat level playing field.

And that's part of what makes this upcoming stretch of games for the Penguins so important. 

The Penguins will play two games against the Nashville Predators in Sweden on Friday and Sunday before they come home to face off against the Minnesota Wild on Nov. 21 in the first of a back-to-back. They play the Seattle Kraken - who have enjoyed a surprising start to the season at 8-4-5 - before playing games in succession against the Buffalo Sabres, Columbus Blue Jackets, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers, and Tampa Bay Lightning, all teams outside of the current playoff picture. 

But, from there, the gauntlet starts - and it doesn't really get any easier for the rest of the season since the schedule is more condensed because of the Olympic break. Starting Dec. 7 until the holiday break beginning on Dec. 24, the Penguins play 10 games in 17 days, and seven of those teams are in the playoff picture. One of the teams that isn't, too, is the Edmonton Oilers, who the Penguins have struggled mightily against in the last several seasons.

Suffice to say, banking points in this stretch is critical for the Penguins - and they understand that the Global Series isn't just a nice week-and-a-half vacation for them. It's stretches like this that a team looks back on at the end of the season - playoffs or not - and realizes the importance of the points they did or didn't accrue.

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"At the end of the day, we're here for two games, four big points," forward Kevin Hayes said. "No matter where you're playing, you want to set yourself up for later down the line this season. Starting this morning - starting last night - it's kind of back to business, and when the puck drops, you're going for two points."

With eight of the next nine opponents outside of the playoff picture, it's easy to simply expect results, too. But given their most recent five-game set - when they lost four out of five games despite outplaying opponents for most of that stretch - they still need to play a full 60 minutes of hockey in each of these games to bank the points and give themselves some padding heading into a really tough stretch of the season. 

And that stretch doesn't get any easier after the holidays, either. Pittsburgh will play 20 games in 40 days, and - just like everyone else - they return from the near-three-week Olympic break in February to a crazy schedule ending the season, which involves 19 games in 34 days by the end of March. 

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If the Penguins can manage at least three points in Sweden and approximately 12 of 18 possible points in these nine games, that's a win. They need to keep pace with a Metropolitan Division that has struggled a bit in the earlygoing but is beginning to pick up some steam - especially in the wild card picture, where three Metro teams in the New York Rangers, Flyers, and Blue Jackets are within one point of a playoff spot and have been playing some good hockey as of late. 

Last year, a 1-3-1 stretch coming into this road trip may have left the team disheartened. But, this year, things are different - and there is a belief in the locker room that the group can keep this thing going in a positive direction and steer toward its first playoff berth in four years. 

"Last year, I felt like goals would go in, and we were like, 'Oh no, here we go, not again.' And, this year, I feel like whether we're winning or losing, it's the same belief until the final second of the game," Hayes said. "I've only been in two games. But just watching from up top and seeing the vibe in the locker room, that's what it kind of feels like."

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LAS VEGAS --New York Islanders No. 1 overall pick Matthew Schaefer scored at 17:59 of the first period on the power play to give his team a 2-0 lead. His sixth goal of the season has him tied with Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar for the league lead in goals among defensemen.

 

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Through his first 17 career games -- with two periods to go in Game No. 17 -- Schaefer has 13 points, with six goals and seven assists. 

Of Schaefer's six goals, four have come on the power play, as he's been instrumental in the club's improved power play. 

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Schaefer is now tied with Montreal Canadiens forward Ivan Demidov for most points by a rookie this season. His four power-play goals through his first 17 NHL games tie Bryan Trottier as the only players in franchise history to accomplish that feat. 

His four power-play goals also doubles Noah Dobson's power-play production from 2023-2025. 

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Coming into Thursday evening's game against the Anaheim Ducks, the Detroit Red Wings had scored a combined two goals in their last three games, all regulation losses. 

There was no better opportunity to break out of their funk against a high-flying opponent, and they made the most of it by finding the back of the net six times as part of their 6-3 victory at Little Caesars Arena. 

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Perhaps just as significant was the Red Wings breaking out of their special teams woes, scoring twice with the man advantage while also keeping the Ducks off the scoresheet while they were shorthanded.

With the win, the Red Wings improved their record to 10-7 and moved back to within two points for top spot in the Atlantic Division. 

Following a scoreless opening 20 minutes of play, the Red Wings struck first after defenseman Moritz Seider beat goaltender Lukas Dostal with a seeing-eye shot from the point. 

Both teams would go back and forth from that point on, as the Ducks knotted the score thanks to a goal from Cutter Gauthier.

Detroit's Michael Rasmussen, who has been a healthy scratch on multiple occasions this season, scored a highlight-worthy goal as he fired a blistering shot past Dostal, only to have Chris Kreider respond for the Ducks soon afterward. 

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Not even 60 seconds later, rookie defenseman Axel Sandin-Pellikka restored the lead with his second goal of the season. 

Just 50 seconds into the third period, Alex DeBrincat deflected a Seider shot past Dostal on the power-play, giving Detroit their first two-goal lead of the evening.

While the Ducks managed to make things close thanks to a deflection tally from Mikael Granlund, Detroit once again went up by two after Dylan Larkin converted on a two-on-none rush with Lucas Raymond. 

DeBrincat then added an empty net goal for his second tally of the game, sealing the victory. 

Red Wings goaltender John Gibson, who was making his second start of the season against his former Ducks teammates, made several key saves in the first period during the scoreless tie.

After making 15 saves, Gibson was replaced by Cam Talbot for the third period. He had been hit in the mask twice by shots and also fell to the ice late in the second period after being sideswiped by a Ducks player.

There was no official explanation for Gibson's departure, but head coach Todd McLellan confirmed following the game that it was an upper-body issue; he didn't elaborate further. 

The Red Wings will be back on home ice on Saturday evening for a tilt against the Buffalo Sabres, who had beaten them in regulation last month. 

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The Pittsburgh Penguins had their final practice on Thursday before playing the Nashville Predators in the NHL's Global Series in Sweden on Friday.

This will be the first of two meetings against the Predators in Sweden before the teams play again for the second and final time on Sunday. 

Here were a look at the lines: 

Kindel-Crosby-Rust

Novak-Malkin-Mantha

Dewar-Lizotte-Koppanen

Koivunen-Hayes-Tomasino/Heinen

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Wotherspoon-Karlsson

Shea-Letang

Clifton-Brunicke

Dumba-Graves

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Heinen appears to be the odd-man out at forward, meaning that Philip Tomasino would get the spot on the fourth line. It's put up or shut up time for him since he has really struggled to open the season. 

Brunicke has been scratched for three games in a row, but if he returns on Friday, his entry-level contract would kick in since it would be his 10th NHL game. 

All three goaltenders (Arturs Silovs, Sergei Murashov, and Filip Larsson) got work during practice, but if head coach Dan Muse keeps up the rotation, Silovs would start on Friday. Larsson is up as a third goaltender for this trip after Murashov made his NHL debut last Sunday. 

A win would get the Penguins to 10-5-3 and snap a two-game losing streak.

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The Florida Panthers played their first home game in nearly three weeks on Thursday night when they welcomed the Washington Capitals to Sunrise.

Florida fell behind early but were quick to battle back, defeating the Capitals 6-3 at Amerant Bank Arena.

Washington took a 1-0 lead on a nice deflection by Brandon Duhaime that came on the heels of several great saves by Daniil Tarasov at the 8:25 mark of the first period.

Exactly 27 seconds later, Evan Rodrigues pounced on a Niko Mikkola rebound in the slot and beat Logan Thompson to quickly tie the game at one.

Florida would then take their first lead of the night early in the second period.

Just after the Capitals killed off a Tom Wilson holding penalty, Cole Schwindt deflected a point shot by Gus Forsling that eluded Thompson to give Florida a 2-1 edge at the 3:05 mark of the middle frame.

The Panthers doubled their lead later in the period, and this time they did it while on the power play.

A long shot by Carter Verhaeghe was stopped by Thompson, but Sam Reinhart was right there to backhand the rebound into the net to give the Cats a 3-1 lead with 5:22 to go in the second period.

It didn’t take long once the final period began for Washington to cut into Florida’s lead.

Former Panthers draft pick Justin Sourdif scored a tap-in goal off a great feed from Jakob Chychrun less than a minute into the third.

Florida reclaimed their two-goal lead a few minutes later, when Anton Lundell fed a wide-open Reinhart in the slot and his shot sailed past the flailing glove of Thompson to make it 4-2 Panthers.

With Nick Dowd serving a double-minor for hooking and unsportsmanlike conduct, Florida added a fifth goal on a shot by Seth Jones that at first appeared to hit off the crossbar, but replay showed it quickly went in and out of the top of the net.

Caps defenseman Rasmus Sandin got a long shot past Tarasov with 7:20 to go, cutting the Cats lead back down to two, but that would be as close as they would get.

Eetu Luostarinen scored from just inside Florida’s blue line with 90 seconds to go, giving Florida a 6-3 lead.

Assisting on the goal was Brad Marchand, his second point of the game, giving him 1,000 points in his NHL career.

On to the Lightning.

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Photo caption: Nov 13, 2025; Sunrise, Florida, USA; Florida Panthers center Sam Reinhart (13) scores against the Washington Capitals during the second period at Amerant Bank Arena. (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)