#goaltending

#goaltending

Vancouver Canucks GM Patrik Allvin announced on Tuesday that goaltender Thatcher Demko will undergo hip surgery and be out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season. Demko last played on January 10 and is expected to be ready for training camp. Demko is done for the season Demko's last action was in a 5-0 loss against the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 10, allowing three goals on six shots.

They continue to be road warriors as they are 14-7-4 on the road but just 11-7-7 at home. One of the reasons for their success this season is deeper scoring. While they are not an elite offense, they have received more contributions throughout the lineup than they did last season. Forwards Anthony Mantha and Justin Brazzeau have provided that secondary scoring, adding a combined 60 points and both have been a breath of fresh air.

Entering Monday's NHL action, the Los Angeles Kings were fourth in the NHL in goals against per game (2.74), tied for eighth in save percentage (.904), ninth in shots against (1,356), and third in goals against (137). While the Kings are struggling to score goals (Los Angeles is 28th in goals for per game), they are getting good performances from their goaltending and their defence.

We had a couple of bad breaks go off our guys, but at the end of the first period, we turned the puck over, and they scored. At the end of the second period, it is a shot from the point, but we don't have our guys in front of the net, and they score. That is the difference in the game for me.

For two periods this afternoon, the Capitals actually hung with the league-leading Avalanche - largely thanks to a stand-up performance by Charlie Lindgren. That was the case really until Artturi Lehkonen's goal late in the third, when it became clear that the Caps just didn't have the firepower to match Colorado punch for punch. Plus: They won a goalie interference challenge for the first time since color TV was invented.

Nylander suffered a lower-body injury during the first period of Thursday's game against the Vegas Golden Knights. Toronto's star forward registered a goal and an assist before leaving the contest. After the game, Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube revealed that Nylander aggravated an existing lower-body injury. Nylander previously missed six games due to the injury, and returned to the lineup on January 10 against the Vancouver Canucks.

Hall was born in HUmboldt, Canada, on October 3, 1931. He began skating at a young age when he became obsessed with the game. At the age of 20, he began playing pro hockey with the Indianapolis Capitals of the American Hockey League. He played well enough to sign with the Detroit Red Wings in 1951-52 and his careeer in the NHL had begun. He would remain with the Red Wings until the 1956-57 season when he was traded to the Chicago BlackHawks.

After that shorthanded goal, we just seemed to not be able to recover, for whatever reason. We started pressing. We are not the type of team that can press like that. That's not how we have success, and it just got away from us. The one thing is that when things didn't go our way, we kind of stopped playing. We let guys beat us up ice, and that stuff just shouldn't happen.

Gamzin, 22, a fourth-round pick by the Islanders in 2024, has been lights out this season, sporting a league-best 1.80 GAA, with a .929 SV%, and recorded his third shutout of the season on Sunday in a 1-0 SO loss. The Islanders' current starting netminder, Ilya Sorokin, was groomed within the CSKA organization, and Gamzin is beginning to draw comparisons to the former Gamzin Cup winner.

After thirty-one regular season games, the Brantford Bulldogs find themselves atop the Eastern Conference standings with fifty-one points and a 23-3-4-1 record (wins, losses, overtime losses, shootout losses). Their most recent result was a 2-0 home win over the London Knights. That game would see goals scored by Cooper Dennis on a first-period penalty kill and then by Philip Govedaris; his goal would also serve as his first of the season.