NHL Public Relations October 29, 2021

* Brett Hull (741-650—1,391 in 1,269 GP), who Alex Ovechkin (738-595—1,333 in 1,204 GP) trails by three on the League’s all-time regular-season goals list, skated with the Coyotes in 2005-06 (0-1—1 in 5 GP). Hull’s father Bobby also played for the original Winnipeg Jets during its inaugural season in 1979-80 (4-6—10 in 18 GP), which was about 16 years before the franchise relocated to Phoenix. 



* Alex Ovechkin (738-595—1,333 in 1,204 GP) needs three regular-season goals to tie Brett Hull (741-650—1,391 in 1,269 GP) for fourth place on the League’s all-time list. Hull skated with the Coyotes in 2005-06 (0-1—1 in 5 GP), which marked the final season of his NHL career. 

* John Carlson scored the 31st power-play goal his NHL career and moved into a tie with Larry Murphy for sixth place on the franchise’s all-time list among defensemen. 

* Alex Ovechkin assisted on the Capitals’ 1-0 goal to extend his season-opening point streak to eight games (8-6—14) and match the longest such runs in franchise history, a mark he set in 2005-06 and Alexander Semin equaled in 2006-07.

* Alex Ovechkin (1-1—2) recorded his 378th career multi-point game in the regular season to move past Luc Robitaille (377) and tie Denis Savard for 24th place on the NHL’s all-time list. 

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* The Panthers opened the scoring for the sixth time this season, tying the Flames for the most game-opening goals in the NHL. 

 
* Markus Nutivaaraand Brandon Montour assisted on Florida’s 1-0 goal. Panthers defensemen have combined for 26 points this season (4-22—26 in 8 GP), the highest such total in the NHL. 

* Anthony Duclair assisted on Aleksander Barkov’s 2-0 goal to record the 200th point of his NHL career (94-106—200 in 404 GP).

* Aleksander Barkov scored the overtime winner as the Panthers quelled the Red Wings’ comeback attempt. Barkov (7-10—17) surpassed Olli Jokinen (10-6—16) for the most regular-season overtime points in franchise history.

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* Alexis Lafrenière opened the scoring with his third goal of the season. Six of his 15 career goals have been scored at home (40%). 

* Artemi Panarin (0-3—3) factored on three of the Rangers’ four goals to record his 49th career three-point outing. Only two players have recorded more since Panarin entered the NHL in 2015-16: Connor McDavid (75) and Leon Draisaitl (51). 

* Igor Shesterkin turned aside all 31 shots he faced to earn his fourth win of the season and the 30th of his career (30-17-4). Shesterkin (53 GP) required the fourth-fewest appearances to reach the 30-career win mark among goaltenders to debut with the Rangers (all w/ NYR), trailing only Henrik Lundqvist (51 GP), Jim Henry (51 GP), Cam Talbot (52 GP) and Lorne Chabot (52 GP).  

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* The Hurricanes scored four goals in the opening 20 minutes of a game for the first time since Oct. 8, 2019. 

* Sebastian Aho (1-1—2) and Andrei Svechnikov (1-0—1) have each found the score sheet. Aho (5-5—10 in 7 GP) and Svechnikov (7-4—11 in 7 GP) are the second set of Hurricanes/Whalers teammates to simultaneously open a campaign with at least one point in each of the club’s first seven games, joining Ron Francis (6-8—14 in 11 GP) and Risto Siltanen (2-8—10 in 7 GP) in 1984-85 (w/ HFD).

* Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov are also the first set of NHL teammates to record concurrent season-opening point streaks of seven or more games since Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon (8-7—15 in 9 GP) and Mikko Rantanen (4-12—16 in 9 GP) in 2018-19. 

* Carolina extended its franchise-record season-opening winning streak to seven games. There have been only instances in NHL history of a team recording a longer such run to start a season, including Florida in 2021-22 (8-0-0). 

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* Ryan Getzlaf (279-708—987 in 1,109 GP) needs one regular-season point to tie Teemu Selanne (457-531—988 in 966 GP) for the most in franchise history. Selanne has held the outright lead since Feb. 17, 2008, when he recorded his 670th point with Anaheim and passed Paul Kariya (300-369—669 in 606 GP). 

* John Gibson made 20 saves in the first period. The franchise record for most in a regular-season game is 51, achieved by Gibson, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Jonas Hiller and Mikhail Shtalenkov.

* Ryan Getzlaf (279-709—988 in 1,110 GP) assisted on a third-period goal to record the 988th regular-season point of his NHL career and tie former teammate Teemu Selanne (457-531—988 in 966 GP) atop the franchise’s all-time list. 

* The Ducks overcame a three-goal deficit to tie a game for the second time in as many days. Anaheim pulled even after falling behind 3-0 Thursday before Buffalo forward Rasmus Asplund scored the overtime winner to quell the Ducks’ comeback attempt.



* The Golden Knights own an all-time record of 1-2-0 in games taking place on Nevada Day. Vegas vanquished Chicago in 2017 (7-0 W), but fell to Tampa Bay (3-2 L) and Colorado (6-1 L) in 2018 and 2019, respectively. 

* The Golden Knights forged a 21-8 edge in shots through 20 minutes. Vegas’ most shots on goal on a regular-season game is 54, achieved on Oct. 17, 2019. 

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* Brady Tkachuk scored his first goal of 2021-22 and became the seventh different Senators skater with at least one goal this season. 
 
* Josh Norris pocketed his second goal of the night, marking the first multi-goal game of his NHL career. 

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