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Ducks extend win streak to 5 with stars 7-5 comeback over Stars | IHM News

Ducks extend win streak to 5 with 7-5 comeback over Stars | IHM News

Date: November 7, 2025 | Author: IHM News

Ducks extend winning streak to 5 with 7-5 comeback in Dallas

Anaheim erases early 2-0 deficit, scores four straight, and survives special-teams chaos to beat Stars in a 12-goal thriller

Ducks extend win streak to 5 with stars 7-5 comeback over Stars | IHM News

DALLAS – The Anaheim Ducks are officially one of the hottest teams in the NHL.
Not with luck, not with overtime squeaks – but with identity, structure, and relentless pace.

On Thursday night at American Airlines Center, Anaheim stormed back from a 2-0 first-period deficit and powered through a chaotic, penalty-filled game to defeat the Dallas Stars 7-5, stretching their winning streak to five games and improving to 9-3-1.

Dallas got goals from Wyatt Johnston (2), Tyler Seguin, Mikko Rantanen, Roope Hintz, but defensive breakdowns and turnovers buried them. Jake Oettinger finished with 17 saves.

Anaheim answered with scoring from everywhere:
Chris Kreider, Ian Moore, Cutter Gauthier, Olen Zellweger, Leo Carlsson, Mason McTavish, and a second one from Kreider. Lukas Dostal stopped 21 of 26.

🚨 Stars jump early – Johnston takes over the first period

Dallas opened the game with clean execution on back-to-back power plays.

At 12:48, Wyatt Johnston ripped home a mid-slot one-timer off a pass from Mikko Rantanen for 1-0.
He doubled the lead at 16:18, barely tipping a Miro Heiskanen point shot for his ninth of the year.

Through 20 minutes, Dallas led 2-0 and looked in full control.

They would not look that way again.

🔥 Anaheim erupts – four goals in 13 minutes flip the game

The Ducks opened the second period like a team shot out of a cannon.

Just 76 seconds in, Chris Kreider sprinted down the left side and snapped a blocker-side laser to cut it to 2-1.

92 seconds later, rookie defenseman Ian Moore scored his first NHL goal, hammering in a perfect crease-level pass from Ryan Poehling to tie it 2-2.

Dallas briefly regained the lead when Tyler Seguin beat Dostal on a breakaway, but Anaheim again answered instantly:

Cutter Gauthier: turnover forced by Killorn → right-circle shot → 3-3

Olen Zellweger: power-play finish after a wild cross-ice misdirection → 4-3

Entering the third period, Anaheim had completely flipped the script.

⚡ Third-period storm – Ducks pull away again

Just 16 seconds into the final frame, Kreider tipped in a point shot from Drew Helleson for 5-3.

Mikko Rantanen struck back on the power play at 1:50 (5-4), but Anaheim responded with the dagger – a shorthanded strike:

Leo Carlsson, reading the play perfectly, jumped on a loose puck during a broken rush and buried it for 6-4.

Roope Hintz deflected a Rantanen shot at 16:39 to make it 6-5, but the Ducks iced it when Mason McTavish hit the empty net at 18:07.

📊 Key numbers

Shots: Dallas 25 – Anaheim 24

Power play: Stars 3/5 – Ducks 2/5

Special-teams goals: 6 total

Scorers: 12 different goal scorers combined

Coach Mark comment
Anaheim is playing with tempo and layers. Their middle-lane drive is elite right now, and their weak-side activation creates constant second-wave threats. This comeback wasn’t luck – it was structural pressure. Dallas lost its gap discipline in the neutral zone and never recovered. The Ducks look like a team trending toward real contention if this pace continues.

Celebrini leads Sharks past Kraken 6-1 with 3-point night | IHM News
Celebrini leads Sharks past Kraken 6-1 with 3-point night | IHM News

Celebrini leads Sharks past Kraken 6-1 with 3-point night | IHM News

Date: November 6, 2025 | Author: IHM News

Celebrini dominates again as Sharks crush Kraken 6-1 in Seattle

Rookie phenom posts 3 points, Askarov locks down the crease, San Jose keeps rolling with 4th win in 6

SEATTLE – The youth movement in San Jose isn’t just alive – it’s accelerating. Macklin Celebrini delivered another breakout performance with three points (1G, 2A) as the San Jose Sharks dismantled the Seattle Kraken 6-1 at Climate Pledge Arena on Wednesday night.

San Jose is now 4-1-1 in its last six, showing structure, tempo, and confidence that wasn’t evident in October. Rookie goaltender Yaroslav Askarov added to that tone with a composed 28-save performance.

Celebrini leads Sharks past Kraken 6-1 with 3-point night | IHM News

Celebrini sets the tone early
At 1:08 of the first, Celebrini slipped into the slot, took a feed from Tyler Toffoli, and snapped a blocker-side wrister past Joey Daccord for 1-0.

Seattle briefly equalized on Ryan Winterton’s first NHL goal at 16:30, but that was the final high point for the Kraken.

Sharks take over
Ethan Cardwell restored the lead at 18:42 after a perfect cross-ice pass from Alexander Wennberg (2-1). John Klingberg hammered a power-play one-timer at 11:21 of the second (3-1). Will Smith scored early in the third with a wrister from the right wing (4-1). Ty Dellandrea buried a short-handed rebound at 3:24 (5-1). Tyler Toffoli finished a breakaway moments later (6-1).

Six goals, six momentum swings – all controlled by San Jose.

Kraken struggle on home ice
Daccord allowed four goals before giving way to Matt Murray in the third. Seattle finished its five-game homestand 2-1-2 and struggled to keep pace.

“Our structure wasn’t good enough,” Kraken coach Lane Lambert said. “San Jose was quicker than us.”

Coach Mark comment
Celebrini reads layers like a veteran – timing, spacing, anticipation. San Jose is playing fast through the middle and recovering pucks with purpose. Askarov gave them the calm anchor they needed. Seattle’s gaps were too loose, and San Jose exploited every seam. This is the best stretch of hockey the Sharks have played all year.

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Alex Ovechkin scores his 900th NHL goal with the Washington Capitals | IHM News

Alex Ovechkin scores his 900th NHL goal with the Washington Capitals | IHM News

By IHM Team | IHM News | November 6, 2025

Capitals captain hits landmark No. 900 in 6-1 win vs Blues, extends an untouchable record

Alex Ovechkin scores his 900th NHL goal with the Washington Capitals | IHM News

WASHINGTON – The NHL has a new club and it has a membership of one. Alex Ovechkin reached 900 career goals on Wednesday night at Capital One Arena, scoring 2:39 into the second period of the Washington Capitals’ 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues and pushing his all-time record to a tier no player had ever touched.

The 40-year-old captain found the moment in classic predator mode. Stationed low on the right circle after Washington’s initial thrust, Ovechkin reacted first to a rebound from Jakob Chychrun’s shot and shoveled a backhand past a sliding Jordan Binnington, who could not recover across his crease. The Capitals bench emptied for a quick on-ice celebration as the building erupted. Binnington secured the milestone puck – a souvenir soon to be headed for Ovechkin’s personal vault.

Ovechkin spoke afterward about the scale of the number and the relief of delivering it in front of home fans and family. Teammates called the goal inevitable. Defenseman John Carlson said the milestone should spark another wave of momentum, echoing a familiar theme over two decades: doubts surface, and Ovechkin erases them.

This latest summit comes months after he passed Wayne Gretzky with No. 895 in April, establishing the new NHL record that only he continues to elevate. He needed three more to hit 900. After opening the season with four outings without a goal, he ended that mini-drought with a third-period strike against Minnesota on Oct. 17 and added No. 899 a week later versus Columbus before planting the flag tonight.

Washington is still built around the pressure Ovechkin creates on entries and on the power-play flank, but the 900th came from second-chance instinct, not the trademark one-timer. It fit the wider picture of late-career adaptation: different routes to the same destination.

Ovechkin is in the final season of his contract. Whether he chooses another chase – toward the round figure of 1,000 – can wait. For now, the league’s ledger shows a category with a single name. Nine hundred.

Around the milestone

  • Second-period time of goal: 2:39.
  • Opposing goalie: Jordan Binnington (STL).
  • Teammate setup: rebound of Jakob Chychrun shot.
  • Game result: Capitals 6, Blues 1.

What they said

  • Ovechkin called it a special moment and appreciated delivering it at home with family in the building.
  • T.J. Oshie recently dismissed doubts about another 30-goal season for Ovechkin, citing a career of proving people wrong.
  • Logan Thompson joked about Binnington tucking the puck away to ensure it found the right hands.

The NHL’s most prolific goal scorer has authored another chapter. The number is new; the feeling in Washington is familiar.

Coach Mark comment
Ovechkin again showed elite read on second pucks and interior positioning. This was not a set-piece one-timer but a veteran goal built on timing and anticipation. The larger point is consistency under pressure and the ability to adapt his routes to the net. History continues because details remain sharp.

Golden Knights 1-0 Red Wings: Schmid earns first Vegas shutout, Barbashev breaks through | IHM News
Golden Knights 1-0 Red Wings: Schmid earns first Vegas shutout, Barbashev breaks through | IHM News

Golden Knights 1-0 Red Wings: Schmid earns first Vegas shutout, Barbashev breaks through | IHM News

By IHM Team | IHM News | November 5, 2025

Schmid makes 24 saves as Golden Knights shut out Red Wings

Golden Knights 1-0 Red Wings: Schmid earns first Vegas shutout, Barbashev breaks through | IHM News

Barbashev provides the lone strike, Vegas grinds out a 1-0 win behind structure and goaltending

LAS VEGAS – In a game decided on inches and rebounds, the Vegas Golden Knights leaned on calm goaltending and a layered defensive template. Akira Schmid turned away 24 shots for his first shutout with Vegas – the second of his NHL career – and Ivan Barbashev supplied the only goal in a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday.

Both netminders were outstanding. John Gibson stopped 33 for Detroit and kept the score within one through multiple Vegas pushes, including a late sequence where he denied two heavy looks from Brandon Saad at 17:25 of the third. Vegas head coach Bruce Cassidy summed it up postgame: the goalies matched each other all night and Schmid was “one shot better.”

How the goal arrived

The breakthrough came at 13:45 of the second period. Saad snapped a shot that forced Gibson into a block, the rebound kicked into traffic, and Barbashev elevated it from in tight for 1-0. Saad finished with a team-high seven shots on goal in 16:53, repeatedly attacking the middle lane and generating second-chance looks.

Third-period hinge: Schmid vs. DeBrincat

Detroit’s best window arrived early in the third when Alex DeBrincat produced back-to-back Grade-A chances at 3:03. Schmid caught the first with the glove and, as the puck popped free, reacted with a swat to deny the rebound. The sequence preserved the one-goal edge and tilted momentum back toward Vegas.

Goal erased on offside

With 4:54 remaining, the Golden Knights briefly celebrated what looked like Jeremy Lauzon’s first goal for the club, but Detroit challenged. Video review determined Brett Howden had lost control on the zone entry and was offside, overturning the tally. Cassidy applauded Lauzon’s night regardless, noting the physicality and discipline in his shifts.

Returns and context

Vegas welcomed Noah Hanifin back after a 10-game absence (undisclosed). The defenseman logged 22:40, posted three shots, and looked comfortable in rotation. The Golden Knights moved to 7-2-3 and have won two of their last three. Detroit slipped to 9-5-0 despite Gibson’s performance. Red Wings coach Todd McLellan acknowledged the effort in net and lamented the lack of finish, saying they need to “get him a win” and that does not happen without a goal.

What they said

  • Akira Schmid: tight 1-0 games are fun for goalies, the pressure sharpens focus; on the DeBrincat sequence he “threw the hand up” and got the second stop.
  • Brandon Saad: success came from finding middle ice and putting pucks into dangerous areas for bounces and rebounds.
  • John Gibson: credited Vegas’ defensive layers and shot blocking; called it a hard-fought game decided by a single look.

Team stats snapshot

  • Shots on goal: DET 24, VGK 34
  • Goaltenders: Schmid 24/24 SO – Gibson 33/34
  • Game-deciding sequence: Barbashev rebound at 13:45 of 2nd; offside challenge takes a late VGK goal off the board

Coach Mark comment
Vegas won the middle. Schmid held calm hands and managed depth, which stabilized their breakouts. Saad and Barbashev repeatedly attacked seams and created second pucks. Detroit generated pockets of pressure but did not own the blue paint consistently enough. That is the playoff template for a 1-0 result.

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