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Islanders Matthew Schaefer Scores First NHL Goal vs. Capitals
ELMONT, NY -- During the New York Islanders’ home opener on Saturday, 2025 first-overall pick Matthew Schaefer scored his first NHL goal, adding to his early milestones.
Down 4-1 to the Washington Capitals, the Islanders went to the power play at 16:41 of the third period, needing a spark.
After Kyle Palmieri was robbed at the doorstep, a scramble ensued, and the loose puck went to Schaefer. The 18-year-old defenseman chopped it by Capitals goalie Logan Thompson to cut the deficit to 4-2 and add to his early accomplishments:
Schaefer has done it. What a moment. #Islespic.twitter.com/esAuoAzd10
— The Elmonters (@TheElmonters) October 12, 2025
Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery challenged for a hand pass following a timeout, but the goal stood after a lengthy review, much to the delight of a roaring UBS Arena.
Schaefer scored his first assist and point in the Islanders’ first game of the season against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.
This stor will be updated.
Kai Russell wrote this story.
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Steven Lorentz Exits Maple Leafs Game Against Red Wings With Upper-Body Injury
DETROIT — The Toronto Maple Leafs may be without the services of another one of their depth forwards in the near future.
Steven Lorentz left midway through the first period of the club's game against the Detroit Red Wings after he was hit up high in the middle of the ice by Detroit defenseman Ben Chiarot.
another angle of the Chiarot hit on Lorentz pic.twitter.com/np9AwwfC8B
— Omar (@TicTacTOmar) October 12, 2025
The departure of Lorentz in the game forced the Leafs to shuffle up their fourth line, which had scored twice in the first period, once with William Nylander substituting for the injured forward.
The Leafs confirmed Lorentz sustained an upper-body injury and would not return.
Maple Leafs F Steven Lorentz will not return to tonight’s game (upper body).
— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) October 12, 2025
. Toronto is already without Scott Laughton, who blocked a shot against the same Red Wings team in the pre-season game on Oct. 2.
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Before that contest, Easton Cowan had been affixed to a line with Lorentz and Laughton. If Lorentz is out for any extended period of time, that could make way for Cowan to finally make his NHL debut on Monday against the Red Wings at Scotiabank Arena.
Lorentz is still out of the game
— Omar (@TicTacTOmar) October 12, 2025
he took this hit from Chiarot in the first pic.twitter.com/3tAdh7btiN
Lorentz picked up two assists in Toronto's season-opening 5-2 victory against the Montreal Canadiens.
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Penguins' Top Forward Prospect Ben Kindel Records First Career NHL Goal
Just one game after Pittsburgh Penguins' 19-year-old defensive prospect Harrison Brunicke tallied his first goal in the National Hockey League on a beauty of a wrist shot off the rush, the other teenager on the Penguins' roster did the same thing.
In the second period of Saturday's game against the New York Rangers, top forward prospect Ben Kindel took a puck in the neutral zone down to the right circle, where he sniped a long-range wrist shot past Rangers' netminder Igor Shesterkin - one of the league's best goaltenders - for his first career NHL goal.
Kindel, 18, was selected by the Penguins in the first round (11th overall) of the 2025 NHL Netry Draft. The 5-foot-11 forward made himself stand out more and more as the pre-season went on, and as a result - along with Brunicke - he made the NHL roster out of training camp.
During Tuesday's season-opening 3-0 win over the Rangers in New York, Kindel and Brunicke became the first pair of teenagers to debut together for the Penguins since Kris Letang and Jordan Staal in 2006. They are both eligible to be sent back to their respective junior teams this season, and year one of their entry-level contracts would kick in should they remain in Pittsburgh for more than nine games.
Kindel was one of three first-round selections by the Penguins this summer, with the others being Bill Zonnon (22nd overall) and Will Horcoff (24th overall). In 65 games for the Calgary Hitmen last season, Kindel recorded 35 goals and 99 points.
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Injury-Plagued Sabres Having Worst-Case-Scenario Start To Season
The news from Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff was about as bad as it can get for a hockey team -- Buffalo's first-line center, Josh Norris, will be on the sidelines for the foreseeable future after being injured in the Sabres' first game of the season Thursday.
“(Norris is) going to miss a significant amount of time," Ruff told media Saturday, adding "I don’t know what that amount is for sure...It’s an upper-body (injury), it’s not related to anything he has had in the past.”
With the injury to Norris -- and the injury to presumptive first-line left winger Zach Benson, the Sabres' first line is now star right winger Tage Thompson and...21-year-old center Jiri Kulich, and left winger Jason Zucker. Kulich has 64 games of NHL experience under his belt, while Zucker is 33 years old, and he's a clearly not-ideal top-line talent.
So let's run that by you again: Kulich, centering Zucker and Thompson. Does that sound like a line you'd expect to see on a top NHL team? Does that sound like a line to rival that of a true Stanley Cup frontrunner? To ask those questions is to answer them. There's really no comparing the Sabres as-currently-is to a real playoff contender.
It all feels like the worst-case scenario arrived in Buffalo, and it arrived far sooner than even the most cynical may have expected. And now, unless the Sabres' vast collection of young players steps up, Buffalo's playoff aspirations could go up in smoke in a hurry.
Norris Out Long-Term After Being Injured In OpenerOne of the things that the Buffalo Sabres needed to make a legitimate run at the Stanley Cup Playoffs was a healthy Josh Norris playing on the top line as a #1 center, setting up sniper Tage Thompson.That hope lasted just one game, as Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff announced on Saturday that Norris will be out a “significant period of time” after being injured in the club’s 4-0 loss to the New York Rangers on Thursday.
This isn't to say the Sabres can't overcome adversity. That does happen, now and again, at the NHL level. There are always teams that face adversity and find a way to do great things in spite of it. But the point is that people's suspicions in any one team are valid until such time as the team proves they're worthy of respect. And that just hasn't happened with Buffalo in the past 14 years.
Maybe there's a world in which Kulich steps up and finds a great fit alongside Thompson. Maybe Zucker plays younger than his age and scores between 25-30 goals. Maybe Thompson puts the team on his back in a way he hasn't before.
That's all within the realm of possibility. But the realm of probability is something altogether different. And without Norris in the lineup night-in and night-out, the probability the Sabres can string together enough wins to stay in playoff contention long enough until such time as Norris returns to action is not something that shoul encourage Buffalo fans to be optimistic.
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The truth is that the Sabres have absorbed a massive blow to their playoff hopes, literaqlly in the first game of the season. It really feels like things couldn't have gone worrse for Buffalo. And in the immediate days and weeks ahead, the Sabres will either demonstrate why they're a different (read: better) team than the ones they've been in their playoff drought, or whether they're the same franchise that has come to be known as perennial disappointments.
Can Shohei Ohtani find it at the plate for NLCS? 'At-bat quality needs to get better'
When Shohei Ohtani was asked about his woeful performance at the plate in the Dodgers’ National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies last week, he first gave credit to the opposition.
Then, after a series that saw the Phillies counter him with one left-handed pitcher after the next, he was also quick to point out that he wasn’t alone.
“It was pretty difficult for left-handed hitters,” Ohtani said in Japanese amid the Dodgers’ clubhouse celebration following their Game 4 victory. “This was also the case for Freddie [Freeman].”
The Phillies did indeed make life tough on the Dodgers’ best lefty bats.
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Freeman was only three for 15 in the series, albeit with a key Game 2 double and a .294 on-base-percentage.
Max Muncy was four for nine in the series, but spent most of it waiting on the bench, not getting a start in any of the three contests the Phillies had a southpaw on the mound.
And as a team, the Dodgers hit just .199 with 41 strikeouts in the four-game series.
However, no one’s struggles were as pronounced as Ohtani’s — the soon-to-be four-time MVP winner, who in the NLDS looked like anything but.
Ohtani struck out in each of his first four at-bats in Game 1. He didn’t get his first hit until grounding an RBI single through the infield in the seventh inning of Game 2.
After that, Ohtani’s only other time reaching base safely was when the Phillies intentionally walked him in the seventh inning of Game 4.
His final stat line from the series: One for 18, nine strikeouts and a whole lot of questions about what went wrong.
Ohtani, who was coming off a three-hit, two-homer wild-card round, did acknowledge Thursday night that “there were at-bats that didn’t go the way I thought they would.”
But, he quickly added: “The opposing pitchers didn’t make many mistakes. They pitched wonderfully, in a way that’s worthy for the postseason. There were a lot of games like that for both teams.”
The real question coming out of the series was about the root cause of Ohtani’s unexpected struggles.
Was it simply because of the tough pitching matchups, having faced a lefty in 12 of his 20 trips to the plate? Or had his faltering approach created more legitimate concerns, the kind that could threaten to continue into the NL Championship Series?
“I think a lot of it actually was driven by the left-handed pitching,” manager Dave Roberts said Saturday, as the Dodgers awaited to face either the Chicago Cubs or Milwaukee Brewers in an NLCS that will begin on Monday.
However, the manager also put the onus on his $700-million superstar to be better.
“Hoping that he can do a little self-reflecting on that series, and how aggressive he was outside of the strike zone, passive in the zone,” Roberts said. “The at-bat quality needs to get better.”
For the Dodgers, the implications are stark.
“We’re not gonna win the World Series with that sort of performance,” Roberts continued. “So we’re counting on a recalibration, getting back into the strike zone.”
From the very first at-bat of Game 1 — when he was also the starting pitcher in his first career playoff game as a two-way player — Ohtani struggled to make the right swing decisions.
He chased three pitches off the inside of the plate from Phillies lefty Cristopher Sánchez, which Roberts felt “kinda set the tone” for his series-long struggles, then took a called third strike the next two times he faced him.
From there, the 31-year-old slugger could never seem to dial back into his approach.
He went down looking again in Game 1 against left-handed reliever Matt Strahm. He led off Game 2 with another strikeout against another lefty in Jesús Luzardo. On and on it went, with Ohtani continuing to chase inside junk, flailing at pitches that darted off the plate the other way, and finding his only reprieve in a rematch with Strahm in Game 2 when he got just enough on an inside sinker.
Roberts’ hope was that, moving forward, Ohtani would be able to learn and adjust.
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“Understanding when he faces left-handed pitching, what they’re gonna try to do: Crowd him in, off, spin him away,” Roberts said. “He’s just gotta be better at managing the hitting zone. I’m counting on it. We’re all counting on it.”
Roberts also conceded that Ohtani’s at-bats on the day he pitched in Game 1 seemed to be especially rushed.
“[When] he’s pitching, he’s probably trying to conserve energy, not trying to get into at-bats,” Roberts said. “It hasn’t been good when he’s pitched. I do think that’s part of it. We’ve got to think through this and come up with a better game plan.”
After all, while Ohtani might not have been the only struggling hitter in the NLDS, his importance to the lineup is greater than anyone’s. The Dodgers can only endure without him for so long.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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Brady Martin scores first NHL point in Nashville Predators game against Utah Mammoth
Brady Martin is officially on an NHL scoresheet, recording an assist on Filip Forsberg's goal in the first period of the Nashville Predators game against the Utah Mammoth on Thursday.
The goal tied the game, 1-1.
Martin poked the puck off of defenseman John Marino's stick up the right boards, which Forsberg picked up. He was able to maneuver around Marino on the right boards before firing a shot that beat goalie Karel Vejmelka blocker side.
This is just Martin's second NHL game, as he made his debut in the Predators' 2-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday. He is still centering the Predators' first line with Ryan O'Reilly and Forsberg on the wings.
FIRST OF THE SEASON FOR FIL 💥 pic.twitter.com/TZtZ6E5cdO
— Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) October 12, 2025
Additionally, everyone on that first line has recorded a point this season. Forsberg and O'Reilly combined for the game winning goal on the power play on Thursday.
Martin debuted with the Predators at 18 years, 208 days old, making him the second youngest player in Predators franchise history to make their NHL debut.
He follows Scott Harnell, who was 18 years, 171 days when he played his first NHL game on Oct. 6, 2000, against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Marting was drafted by the Predators fifth overall out of Sault St. Marie (OHL) in June. This is Nashville's highest draft pick since 2013, when it drafted defenseman Seth Jones with the fourth overall pick.
Blackhawks: Sam Rinzel Has His First Career NHL Goal
Not long after Cole Caufield had a Montreal Canadiens goal stand after being reviewed for a high stick, the Blackhawks tied the game thanks to a goal scored by Sam Rinzel.
In his 12th NHL game, Rinzel's goal is the first of his National Hockey League career. It couldn't have been a better-looking snipe for his first.
Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) on Xlet's hear it for Sam Rinzel!🗣️Frank Nazar won the faceoff back to Teuvo Teravainen, who slid it to Rinzel before he ripped it home. The goal tied the game for the Blackhawks at the time.
The Blackhawks are hoping that this is the first of many for Rinzel, who now has six points over his first 12 career games. That kind of pace would make him the clear-cut number one defenseman on the team, especially if he keeps up his very good defensive play.
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Tiger Woods comeback in doubt after seventh back surgery for collapsed disc
Woods has lumbar disc replaced in New York
15-time major winner calls operation successful
No timetable set for 49-year-old’s golf return
Tiger Woods has announced that he underwent back surgery on Friday to address a collapsed disc in his spine.
The 15-time major winner had lumbar disk replacement surgery after he experienced pain in his lower back and said on social media that the operation was deemed successful, although it is unknown when the 49-year-old will return to golf.
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