Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov suffered a lower-body injury during practice yesterday. With just eleven days until the season-opener against the Chicago Blackhawks, hopefully it’s not too serious. We should know more later today.
Linus Eriksson picked up his first point of the season in Timra IK’s 4-3 win against HV71 in SHL action. Eriksson drew the secondary assist on Albin Sundin’s first period goal. He finished the game with two shots and won four of eight faceoffs.
Denis Gabdrakhmanov backstopped Rubin Tyumen to 3-2 victory over HK Norilsk in action from Russia’s VHL. Gabdrakhmanov is now 3-1 on the season. He sports a 1.25 GAA and .951 save percentage.
Stepan Gorbunov played defense and had two shots, two hits and two blocks in Traktor Chelyabinsk’s 6-2 win over Avangard Omsk in action from the KHL.
Stepan Zvyagin was held off the score sheet in Dinamo-Molodechno’s 4-1 victory over Novopolotsk in action from Belarus’ BETERA Extraleague.
NHL preseason results (Thursday)
- Detroit 5, Buffalo 2
- Toronto 7, Montreal 2
- Islanders 5, Rangers 4
- Washington 5, Philadelphia 1
- Dallas 5, Minnesota 2
- Vegas 3, Utah 2 (OT)