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History was made on Thursday night as the Vancouver Canucks surrendered two goals to Detroit Red Wings forward, Patrick Kane, who scored career goal number 500 to become the 50th NHL player to achieve the feat. Vancouver dropped the game by a score of 5–1, with Jake DeBrusk being the lone Canuck to score. In net, Kevin Lankinen stopped 20 of 24 shots faced. 

Continuing their run of domination throughout 2026, the Canucks’ power play scored yet again tonight, doing-so for their fourth straight game. While they didn’t convert on their first opportunity, which was given to them only 20 seconds into the game after Simon Edvinsson hooked DeBrusk, Vancouver managed to turn the man-advantage into a good chunk of productive O-zone time. It was DeBrusk who capitalized on the Canucks’ second power play of the game, scoring his third power play goal in Vancouver’s past four matches. 

Vancouver’s jump at the start of the game was something the team desperately needed after admitting that their opening effort was less-than-ideal last game. However, after spending over half of the first period with momentum, the Canucks took a total of three penalties — two near the same time, putting Detroit on a 5-on-3 power play — to neutralize whatever possession time they’d had. After nearly one period of hard work, and a scrambly three-man penalty kill, untimely penalties resulted in the Red Wings escaping with the lead. 

Nils Höglander has been a player on many peoples’ radar as of late, as the forward still has yet to register his first point of the 2025–26 season. He began the game with Aatu Räty and Drew O’Connor and was playing noticeably well, making skilled offensive plays and attempting to bring the puck into the O-zone with his speed. His efforts earned him a look on Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser’s line, on which he was able to help generate five scoring chances-for in only 1:30 minutes at 5-on-5. The forward has been playing well as of late; if he continues playing the way he has been, he should get his first point of 2025-26 in no time.  

In Höglander’s place came Evander Kane, who joined Räty and O’Connor for part of the second period and the entire third. This line didn’t fare too poorly for Vancouver, generating six chances during their 7:22 5-on-5 minutes spent together. O’Connor in particular had a fair bit of jump for this line and throughout the game, putting up three shots on goal.  

At the end of the day, the Canucks got their chances throughout all three periods, but were unable to convert on enough of them to earn the win. It’s a storyline that has followed Vancouver throughout virtually the entire season. With four more games on the docket for their current road trip, Vancouver will want to scrape together at least one win before heading back to Rogers Arena.  

Stats and Facts: 

• With his seventh and eighth goals of the season tonight, Patrick Kane becomes the 50th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals 
• Vancouver has yet to go a game without scoring a power play goal in 2026 
• Jake DeBrusk scores his 11th power play goal of the season, ties Leon Draisaitl for second-most in the NHL 
• John Gibson registers his 15th career win against the Canucks 

Scoring Summary: 

1st Period: 

19:31 - DET: Patrick Kane (7) from Lucas Raymond and Dylan Larkin (PPG) 

2nd Period: 

5:09 - DET: Axel Sandin-Pellikka (5) from James Van Riemsdyk and J.T. Compher 

7:03 - VAN: Jake DeBrusk (12) from Kiefer Sherwood and Brock Boeser (PPG) 

10:10 - DET: J.T. Compher (5) from James Van Riemsdyk and Axel Sandin-Pellikka 

3rd Period: 

16:07 - DET: Patrick Kane (8) from Andrew Copp (ENG) 

18:10 - DET: Lucas Raymond (13) 

Up Next: 

Vancouver’s next stop on their current road trip takes them back into Canada, where they’ll face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. This will be the first of two times that they face the Maple Leafs this January, as Toronto will also make the trip out to Vancouver on January 31. Puck drop for Saturday’s game is scheduled for 4:00 pm PT. 

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It’s been a rough start to the Florida Panthers’ season-long road trip.

After falling 4-1 on Tuesday in Toronto, the Panthers again fell behind and couldn’t come back Thursday night in Montreal, losing to the Canadiens 6-2.

It didn’t take long for Montreal to get on the scoreboard and get their fans buzzing.

Directly off a faceoff in Florida’s end, Oliver Kapanen won the puck back to Mike Matheson, and he set up Noah Dobson for a booming one-timer that went bar-down on Sergei Bobrovsky to give the Canadiens a 1-0 lead just 2:59 into the game.

Later in the period, Kapanen scored one of his own to double Montreal’s lead heading into the intermission.

A loose puck in the corner was kicked to the slot by Juraj Slafkovský, and Kapanen backhanded a fluttering shot over Bobrovsky’s blocker to make it 2-0 for the home side.

Florida finally got themselves on the board during the opening minutes of the second period thanks to a bad misplay by Montreal’s goaltender.

After A.J. Greer dumped the puck into the Habs’ zone and behind their net, Samuel Montembeault came out make a play behind the net.

He was quickly pressured by Carter Verhaeghe and sent a blind backhand toward the corner, where a defenseman was waiting, but the pass went above the goal line where Sam Bennett was waiting to one-time the puck into an empty net.

Alex Texier made it 3-1 Montreal with 6:19 to go in the period, getting his stick on a backdoor deflection after a great feed by Alex Carrier.

With 12:34 to go in the third period, Texier picked up another goal to extend the Habs lead to 4-1.

Perhaps taking a cue from Texier, Bennett picked up his second goal of the game about four minutes later. He slammed home an Evan Rodrigues rebound with 8:37 to go, breathing a little life into the Cats.

An empty-net goal by Slafkovský with 2:01 to go followed by a hat-trick tally by Texier in the final minute sealed the deal for the Canadiens and sent Florida to their fourth loss in five games.

On to Ottawa.

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Photo caption: Jan 8, 2026; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens goalie Samuel Montembeault (35) makes a save against Florida Panthers left wing A.J. Greer (10) during the second period at Bell Centre. (David Kirouac-Imagn Images)

The Buffalo Sabres has served as host of the annual NHL Draft Combine for over a decade and has hosted three NHL Drafts in the last 35 years. According to a report from Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News, the club is putting in a bid to host the draft again. 

The Sabres last hosted the NHL Draft in 2016, when the Toronto Maple Leafs selected Auston Matthews with the first overall selection, and hosted the annual event twice in the 90’s; at the Marine Midland Arena (KeyBank Center) in 1998, and at the Memorial Auditorium in 1991, when Hall-of-Famer Eric Lindros was selected by the Quebec Nordiques and refused to put on their jersey.

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 The decentralized 2025 Draft last June in Los Angeles was widely considered a fiasco by fans, media, and reportedly by some in the NHL hierarchy, but National Hockey League GM’s pushed back on the criticism and doubled-down on the format that has team representatives staying at their home cities– similar to the structure of the NBA and NFL – instead of the 32 clubs sending their management to the host city to serve as a yearly convention. 

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported last month that a host city, which is normally announced right after the previous draft, had yet to be decided, but that three or four cities were in the mix, including Montreal, which hosted every draft from 1963 to 1984, and five times from 1986 to 2022. 

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Flyers fall to Leafs in OT, lose Konecny to upper-body injury originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

The Flyers lost Travis Konecny for the third period Thursday night and then lost their lead as they fell to the Maple Leafs, 2-1, in overtime at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

Old friend Scott Laughton was fired up after he tied the game for Toronto at 1-1 in the final stanza with a shorthanded goal.

The Flyers came up empty on back-to-back power play opportunities, a golden chance to cushion their advantage and pretty much put the Maple Leafs away.

“That’s the biggest thing right now, is just execution,” Travis Sanheim said. “I think we’ll start to get better if we can continue to get working on it.”

Easton Cowan won the game for Toronto in OT after Matvei Michkov hit the post at the other end.

“Who converts wins,” Rick Tocchet said. “We had, what, three or four chances, we didn’t convert. They had the one, they score. That’s it.”

Konecny provided the Flyers’ lone goal. The Flyers dropped to 7-4-8 in games decided by one goal.

“Could have gone either way,” Owen Tippett said. “I think we’ve just got to capitalize a bit more on our chances.”

The Flyers (22-12-8) missed out on a chance to win their third straight. But Tocchet’s club has earned at least a point in 23 of its last 30 games (16-7-7).

The Flyers are 0-1-1 against the Maple Leafs (21-15-7) this season with one more matchup to go March 2 in Toronto.

• Konecny missed the final 20 minutes because of an upper-body injury.

The 28-year-old alternate captain was on the ice when the second period ended and appeared to be fine.

“Something was bugging him, I guess, early on, I think he fell or something,” Tocchet said. “I don’t know the whole details.”

The Flyers really can’t afford to lose Konecny for any period of time. He’s too important for them.

• Dan Vladar dropped to 16-6-4. The 28-year-old made 21 saves on 23 shots.

The Flyers did a good job killing off back-to-back penalties in the second period to maintain their 1-0 lead.

But no Konecny hurt in the third period and Laughton jumped on the opportunity to tie it against his former club.

Maple Leafs netminder Dennis Hildeby stopped 22 of the Flyers’ 23 shots. He denied a Trevor Zegras breakaway in overtime.

• With an assist on Konecny’s 14th goal of the season, Christian Dvorak picked up his 27th point (nine goals, 18 assists).

The 29-year-old center came in on pace for 52 points, which would have him blow past his career high of 38.

“I’ve just loved my time being here,” Dvorak said this week after signing a five-year contract extension. “It’s a great group of guys, we have a lot of fun and it has been a good fit for me. I just like where the team’s headed, we’ve been playing some good hockey this year and I think we’re headed in a good direction here. That’s really important to me.”

• The Flyers were without Bobby Brink and Jamie Drysdale after they each took a big hit in the Flyers’ 5-2 win Tuesday night over the Ducks.

There hasn’t been an update on the timeline for their upper-body injuries.

Michkov was Brink’s replacement. The 21-year-old winger was back in the lineup after missing his first game of the season because of a foot injury.

Noah Juulsen entered the lineup for Drysdale and gave the Flyers solid third-pair minutes.

“T.K. going down, we had a short bench, Brinker out, Drysy out, I think you’ve got to give guys credit,” Tocchet said. “They hung in there. I will take the positive of that, for sure.”

• Laughton played his first game in Philadelphia as a visiting player. Not only did he score the game-tying goal with 5:56 minutes to go, but he also won 19 of his 20 faceoffs.

The 31-year-old was dealt to Toronto at last season’s trade deadline after spending 12 years with the Flyers. He was heavily involved in the community here and developed into one of the Flyers’ leaders.

“I’ve got some people coming to the game from some of the charities that I worked with, got some family here in town,” Laughton said after the Maple Leafs’ morning skate. “Just some relationships that I built throughout the years here, those people are coming down. It’ll be nice to see the crowd again and be a part of it.”

• The Flyers are back in action Saturday when they host the Lightning (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP).

Former Edmonton Oilers goalie Laurent Brossoit is on the move. 

The Chicago Blackhawks have announced that they have traded Brossoit, Nolan Allan, and a 2028 seventh-round pick to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Jake Furlong, a 2028 fourth-round pick, and Ryan Ellis' contract. 

Seeing Brossoit get traded is not surprising. With the Blackhawks having goaltenders Spencer Knight and Arvid Soderblom on their NHL roster, it was known that the Original Six club was looking to find Brossoit a new home. Now, he has gotten just that and will give the Sharks another veteran goalie. 

The Sharks currently have Yaroslav Askarov and Alex Nedeljkovic as their two NHL goaltenders. While this is the case, having a goalie with good experience like Brossoit for insurance is certainly not a bad thing for a Sharks club that is right in the playoff race. 

Brossoit played in six games for the Blackhawks' AHL affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs, this season, where he had a 3-3-0 record, a .901 save percentage, and a 3.38 goals-against average. This was his first action since the 2023-24 season, as he missed all of this past season due to injury. 

Brossoit played his first four NHL seasons with the Oilers from 2014-15 to 2017-18. In 28 games with the Oilers over that span, he had a 7-13-2 record, a .897 save percentage, and a 2.98 goals-against average.