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- **clears throat** ANDREI SVECHNIKOV HAS AN NHL POINT!
FIRST CAREER POINT FOR SVECH #TakeWarning pic.twitter.com/6ZoZyeuR0l
— FOX Sports South (@FOXSportsSouth) October 5, 2018
- Curtis McElhinney’s spectacular split easily made the NHL highlight reel.
This just in from @McElhinney_C30... ♂️. #NHLFaceoff pic.twitter.com/tw4hs5HXlH
— NHL (@NHL) October 6, 2018
- And Sebastian Aho hits the net in Game 2. That’s gotta be good!
First-line center Sebastian Aho gives the Hurricanes another lead. His first of the year on the feed from Michael Ferland. It took Aho 15 games to score his first goal last season. It took him less than 4.5 periods this year. pic.twitter.com/W19OIJgnCz
— Brett Finger (@brett_finger) October 6, 2018
- And never forget the Blue Jackets Delay of 2018 — the 13 minutes of “The Boys Are Back in Town,” “Machinehead,” etc. as the lights crew tried to sort things out.
— Carolina Hurricanes (@NHLCanes) October 5, 2018
(Maybe we should delay puck drop Sunday ... ya know, if you’re superstitious?)
- ICYMI, the new Canes writer for the Athletic, Sara Civian, posted her first game analysis after the Opening Night overtime loss. More Carolina coverage is better Carolina coverage. [The Athletic $]
- The “new-look” Hurricanes were featured in NHL’s Friday Four. [NHL]
- Another “freak accident” happened to a Metro team, but still not as odd as Victor Rask’s cutting catastrophe. [NHL]
- The Kings fell in OT, but Ilya Kovalchuk appears to be happy to be back in the NHL:
Kovalchuk on playing in Staples Center in the preseason: "After the rinks in the KHL, it felt like I was playing in a football stadium."
— Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) October 5, 2018
- For those who loves the sound of the crossbar clinking as the puck gets buried, here’s the first installment of Saturday Snipes:
Another game, another beauty by @evanderkane_9! #SJSharks up 2-0. pic.twitter.com/z8a1mJAw0Q
— Brodie Brazil (@BrodieNBCS) October 6, 2018
- And finally, Opening Night in Ottawa was about more than just hockey.
A special moment before tonight’s game as Jonathan Pitre’s mother Tina Boileau drops the puck at the #Sens home opener. pic.twitter.com/nBGDhSKMUQ
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) October 5, 2018
- The origin story of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim is just as bonkers as you’d expect for a team that was founded in large part because of a movie. [The Athletic $]