Simon Nemec became the youngest defenseman in NHL history with a hat trick and overtime goal in the same game as the Devils rallied past the Blackhawks.
* Artemi Panarin assisted on four of the Rangers’ season-high seven goals to help New York record its best start through 10 road games in franchise history.
* Thursday’s star-studded slate features several streaks on the line as well as the Blue Jackets and Oilers renewing acquaintances on ESPN+ and Hulu.
Nemec notches first career hat trick with overtime winner
Simon Nemec completed his first career hat trick with the overtime winner as the Devils rallied from three separate one-goal deficits to beat the Blackhawks. Nemec became the third defenseman in franchise history to score a hat trick and second to do so at age 21 or younger, following Colorado Rockies blueliner Barry Beck on Dec. 17, 1977.
* Nemec is set to play at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 with Team Slovakia, which unveiled its uniforms for the tournament Wednesday. The Devils and Lightning share the League lead with five players named to preliminary rosters.
PANARIN POTS FOUR POINTS AS RANGERS POST FRANCHISE’S BEST ROAD START
The Rangers led the Lightning by a 4-3 margin after the opening frame – the first seven-goal first period in the NHL since March 16, 2023 – and scored three more times en route to their NHL best eighth road win of the season. New York has won five straight games as visitors – the longest road winning streak in the NHL this season – and own the best road record in the League (8-1-1, 17 points), their best at this stage across their 99 seasons.
* The Rangers (3) and Lightning (1) also combined for four goals in the opening 7:08, marking the fastest four goals from the start of a game this season. The previous mark was 10:02 between the Capitals (2) and Sabres (2) on Nov. 1.
* Artemi Panarin (0-4—4) recorded his 25th career game with four-plus points, tied for the fifth most since 2015-16 when he entered the NHL. It also was his sixth game with four-plus assists, matching Nikita Kucherov for third among all players in that same span (behind Connor McDavid: 11 and Leon Draisaitl: 9).
Roslovic records second straight overtime GOAL as Oilers foil Flyers
Jack Roslovic registered an overtime goal for the second time in as many contests (also Nov. 10) as Edmonton opened its season-high seven-game road trip with a victory in Philadelphia.
* Roslovic became the second player in franchise history with an overtime goal in consecutive team contests, following Andrew Cogliano (3 GP from March 7-11, 2008) whose three-game streak is the longest in NHL history. Roslovic had three overtime goals through his first 540 career games before Monday and could tie a League benchmark during a national telecast tonight in his hometown (and against his former club).
Bedard, Schmaltz reaching 10-goal mark featured in #NHLStats: Live Updates
Wednesday’s edition of #NHLStats: Live Updates featured more notes from the four-game slate, including Connor Bedard and Nick Schmaltz (1-1—2) becoming the League’s 19th and 20th 10-goal scorers this season. Bedard reached 26 points on the season to tie Leo Carlsson and Macklin Celebrini for second place in the League’s scoring race.
* Facing his former team for the second time, JJ Peterka scored to tie the game and then assisted on the go-ahead goal to help Utah erase a 2-0 deficit and claim the second multi-goal comeback win in franchise history. It came in the 99th game in franchise history, with Utah (48-38-13, 109 points all time) securing that it will rank fourth and sixth, respectively, in terms of points and wins by a club through its first 100 regular-season games.
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* #NHLStats Pack: 2025 NHL Global Series Sweden presented by Fastenal
STARS WILL BE ON FULL DISPLAY DURING THURSDAY’S SLATE
There will be plenty of star power throughout the 10 games on tap Thursday, including a rematch from three days ago between the Oilers and Blue Jackets on ESPN+ and Hulu. Meanwhile, the Bruins, Avalanche and Sharks will look to extend team and player streaks, with the latter doing so on Sportsnet.
* The Blue Jackets seek a win against the Oilers, who mounted a multi-goal, third-period comeback win Nov. 10, and look to do so with the services of their leading scorer Kirill Marchenko (8-10—18 in 16 GP). Marchenko, who has found the score sheet in all but two games this season, is riding a nine-game point streak and can become the fifth player in franchise history to push that stretch to double digits; Ryan Johansen (2x; longest: 13 GP in 2014-15), Cam Atkinson (12 GP in 2018-19), Patrik Laine (11 GP in 2021-22) and R.J. Umberger (10 GP in 2010-11) are the only ones to do so to date.
* David Pastrnak hit the 400-goal milestone his last time out and can continue to climb the Bruins’ all-time goals list as his club eyes an eighth straight win – Pastrnak enters one goal back of tying Rick Middleton (402) for the fifth most in franchise history. Boston can tie New Jersey (8 GP from Oct. 11-26) for the longest winning streak by a team this season.
* Nathan MacKinnon (14-18—32 in 17 GP) – the League’s leading scorer in 2025-26 – has led the Avalanche to four straight wins thanks in part to a total of 4-8—12 in his past three games. He can become just the third player in the past 25 years to post three consecutive three-assist games (Cale Makar: 3 GP in 2023-24 & Roman Josi: 3 GP in 2021-22). The forward also needs two assists and one point to tie Peter Stastny for second place on the franchise’s all-time lists, which are both topped by Joe Sakic.
* Macklin Celebrini (10-16—26 in 17 GP) has his sights on lifting San Jose to its first five-game winning streak since 2019-20 (6 GP) and sits tied for second in scoring this season after strings of strong performances on the road (7-10—17 in 7 GP). His three three-point road games in 2025-26 are tied with Connor Bedard and Artemi Panarin for the most among all players and another such performance would make the 19-year-old Sharks forward the first player since Jaromir Jagr and Mario Lemieux (both 8 GP in 1995-96) to reach 20 road points in a season in eight or fewer games.
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