An amazing story out of Detroit, the Sharks break out against Boston and Vancouvers depth pays off in Pittsburgh; lineup news an

An amazing story out of Detroit, the Sharks break out against Boston and Vancouvers depth pays off in Pittsburgh; lineup news and more in Scott Cullens Statistically Speaking. Jaydon Mickens Jersey . HEROES Stephen Weiss - In a highly-improbably turn of events, the Red Wings centre is becoming a major contributor. He scored a goal and added two assists in a 5-2 win over Dallas, and it gives Weiss nine points (4 G, 5 A) in seven games. He had eight points (3 G, 5 A) in 43 games over the previous two injury-marred seasons combined. Joe Pavelski - The Sharks winger scored twice and added an assist, with 11 shot attempts (9 SOG), in a 7-4 win over Boston. He also had strong possession numbers (20 shot attempts for, 6 against, 76.9%) along with linemates Joe Thornton (80.8%) and Tomas Hertl (83.3%), the trio dominating in their head-to-head matchup with Bostons Milan Lucic, Carl Soderberg and Loui Eriksson. Brad Richardson, Shawn Matthias - Richardson, the Canucks centre, picked up two goals and an assist in a 3-0 win at Pittsburgh. He has six points (3 G, 3 A) in the past four games. His left winger, Matthias, is also having a good run, and with a goal and an assist against the Penguins, now has six points (4 G, 2 A) in the past five games. Both had at least 80% possession against Pittsburgh, with Richardson leading the way (15 shot attempts for, 3 against, 83.3%), despite starting more shifts in the defensive zone. ZEROES Sidney Crosby - The Penguins superstar failed to register a shot attempt, while playing 20:24, in a 3-0 loss to Vancouver. Hes been held of the scoresheet, with only three shots on goal, in the past three games. Tyson Strachan - The Sabres blueliner was on the ice for four even-strength goals against in a 5-0 loss to Tampa Bay. Goalies Tuukka Rask - Bostons goaltender was under siege at times in San Jose, but the end result wasnt pretty: seven goals on 44 shots. (San Joses Antti Niemi wasnt necessarily better, allowing four goals on 24 shots.) Jonathan Bernier - The Maple Leafs No. 1 goaltender allowed five goals on 26 shots against New Jersey, dropping his save percentageto .912 for the season. LINEUP NEED TO KNOW Patric Hornqvist - Departed early from Pittsburghs 3-0 loss to Vancouver, with an apparent upper-body injury. Injuries are really taking hold in Pittsburgh now. If Hornqvist is going to miss time, the Penguins will have Nick Spaling, Steve Downie, Blake Comeau and Jayson Megna playing wing on their top two lines. Semyon Varlamov - Returned to the Avalanche lineup for the first time in nearly three weeks, and stopped 21 of 25 shots in a 4-3 overtime loss to Calgary. Michael Grabner - The speedy winger made his season debut for the New York Islanders, playing 13:11 at Ottawa. Marc Methot - The veteran defensive defenceman played 17:12 for Ottawa against the Islanders in his first game of the season. Josh Gorges - The Sabres defenceman returned to the lineup for the first time in three weeks, and played 22:42 against Tampa Bay. Griffin Reinhart - With the Islanders missing Lubomir Visnovsky, Travis Hamonic and Johnny Boychuk due to injuries, they recalled their 2012 first-round pick from Bridgeport of the AHL, where he had eight points (2 G, 6 A) and a minus-8 rating in 15 games. Reinhart played 14:09 at Ottawa, while Thomas Hickey led the Isles defence with 24:30 time on ice. Mike Sislo - With the Devils missing RW Jaromir Jagr (illness) and LW Patrik Elias (groin), Sislo was recalled from Albany, where the 26-year-old winger had 10 points (6 G, 4 A) and was plus-3 in 20 games. Brian Dumoulin - With Robert Bortuzzo suspended two games, Dumoulin saw his first action of the season for the Penguins, playing 15:08 against Vancouver. He had 10 points (2 G, 8 A) and was plus-16 in 22 AHL games before getting called up. Jussi Rynnas - Playing in his first NHL game since February of 2013, Rynnas gave up five goals on 29 shots at Detroit. Martin Brodeur - It wasnt all bad, considering it was the 42-year-olds first game of the season, but Brodeur did allow four goals on 24 shots in a 4-3 loss at Nashville. SHORT SHIFTS Flames LW Curtis Glencross picked up a pair of assists in a 4-3 overtime win against Colorado. Glencross has eight points (2 G, 6 A) in the past seven games…Flames D Dennis Wideman scored two goals, giving him eight points (5 G, 3 A) in his past eight games. Wideman, quite amazingly, has 10 goals on 55 shots (18.2%) this season. Here are the best defence shooting percentages for single season (minimum 10 goals): SH% LEADERS - DEFENCE DEFENCEMAN TEAM YEAR G SH% Ron Greschner N.Y. Rangers 1984-85 16 18.2% Sandis Ozolinsh San Jose 1993-94 26 16.6% Paul Coffey Edmonton 1985-86 48 15.6% Paul Coffey Edmonton 1983-84 40 15.5% Marty McSorley Edmonton 1985-86 11 15.3% Red Wings C Pavel Datsyuk had a goal and an assist in Detroits 5-2 win over Dallas, and now has eight points (6 G, 2 A) in five games since returning from his latest injury…Red Wings LW Darren Helm scored a pair of goals against Dallas, giving him six points (2 G, 4 A) in the past six games…Red Wings C Riley Sheahan chipped in a couple assists and had dominant possession (13 shot attempts for, 2 against, 86.7%), giving him nine points (4 G, 5 A) in the past 10 games…Red Wings LW Tomas Tatar added a pair of assists, giving him 12 points (6 G, 6 A) in the past 11 games… Lightning C Steven Stamkos picked up three points (1 G, 2 A) in a 5-0 win at Buffalo, giving him 24 points (10 G, 14 A) in the past 18 games…Avalanche LW Ryan OReilly had a couple assists in a 4-3 overtime loss at Calgary, and now has five points (2 G, 3 A) in the past five games… Kings LW Dustin Brown scored twice and added an assist in a 4-0 win over Arizona. Brown has eight points (4 G, 4 A) in the past eight games…Kings D Alec Martinez contributed a goal and an assist and has seven points (1 G, 6 A) in his last five games…Kings C Jarret Stoll also had a goal and an assist and has eight points (3 G, 5 A) in his past nine games, after starting the season with one point in his first 17 games. Devils D Marek Zidlicky registered a pair of assists and team-best possession (19 shot attempts for, 7 against, 73.1%) in a 5-3 win at Toronto, giving him five assists in the past six games…Maple Leafs RW Mike Santorelli, one of the great bargain signings of the offseason, had a goal and an assist in Torontos 5-3 loss to New Jersey. During a five-game point streak, Santorelli has nine points (1 G, 8 A)…Sharks RW Tommy Wingels scored a pair of goals in a 7-4 win against Boston, giving him eight points (4 G, 4 A) in the past five games…Predators C Mike Ribeiro had a goal and two assists in Nashvilles 4-3 win over St. Louis. Ribeiro now has 22 points in 25 games, his 0.88 points per game rates as his second-best in the past six seasons, surpassed only by 1.02 points per game in lockout-shortened 2012-13…Bruins RW Reilly Smith scored a pair of goals in a 7-4 loss at San Jose, ending a 10-game point drought. Sharks LW Patrick Marleau picked up a pair of assists in a 7-4 win over Boston, giving him seven points (1 G, 6 A) in the past six games…Hurricanes LW Nathan Gerbe delivered a strong possession game (27 shot attempts for, 8 against, 77.1%) in a 2-1 loss to Washington…Maple Leafs D Stephane Robidas had a solid possession night (15 shot attempts for, 3 against, 83.3%), while starting one-third of his shifts in the offensive zone, in a 5-3 loss to New Jersey…Stars RW Ales Hemsky was pinned in the defensive zone (4 shot attempts for, 14 against, 18.2%) against Detroit…Panthers D Aaron Ekblad had an assist and 13 shot attempts (6 SOG) while playing a career-high 25:49 in the 4-3 shootout loss to Columbus…14 of 18 Panthers had better than two-thirds of even-strength shot attempts against Columbus, led by C Vincent Trocheck (25 shot attempts for, 6 against, 80.7%)…The Blue Jackets defence pairing of David Savard and Jordan Leopold were buried. Savard was on for seven shot attempts for and 35 against (16.7%); Leopold was slightly better (7 for, 30 against, 18.9%)…The Kings line of Dwight King, Mike Richards and Tyler Toffoli carried better than 79% of the play against Arizona, led by Toffoli (17 shot attempts for, 4 against, 81.0%), making the most of a head-to-head matchup with Lauri Korpikoski, Sam Gagner and Shane Doan. Hurricanes RW Alexander Semin scored his first goal of the season, against Washington. Now that Semin has scored (and New Jerseys Stephen Gionta and Dallas Colton Sceviour too) here are the forwards with the most shots on goal that are still looking for their first goal of the season: STILL LOOKING FOR A GOAL FORWARD TEAM SHOTS ON GOAL Tomas Kopecky Florida 39 Rene Bourque Anaheim 29 Curtis Lazar Ottawa 28 Jeremy Morin Chicago 28 Joakim Andersson Detroit 27 Blue Jackets G Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 52 of 55 shots in a 4-3 shootout win over Florida…Kings G Martin Jones stopped all 26 shots he faced in a 4-0 win at Arizona…Lightning G Ben Bishop had a grand total of 13 saves in a shutout win over Buffalo…Canucks G Eddie Lack recorded a 21-save shutout in Vancouvers 3-0 win at Pittsburgh…Capitals G Braden Holtby stopped 29 of 30 shots to earn a 2-1 win over Carolina…Islanders G Jaroslav Halak turned aside 20 of 21 shots for a 2-1 win at Ottawa. 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Woods birdied the par-5 15th to open a two-stroke lead, hitting a wedge from about 120 yards to 4 feet.BOSTON - Now in his 10th NHL season, Chris Kelly doesnt get goose bumps the way he used to.But the Boston Bruins forward confessed to a bit of insomnia as he prepared for opening night against the Philadelphia Flyers.The home opener is always enjoyable, Kelly said after scoring the game-winner in Bostons 2-1 victory over the Flyers on Wednesday night. I didnt get any sleep. I was excited. It felt good, especially for the first home game.Kelly scored the tiebreaker with 1:51 left in the third period, and Tuukka Rask made 21 saves to help the Bruins win their third consecutive season opener. Reilly Smith also scored for Boston, which finished with the best record in the NHL last season but couldnt get past the second round of the playoffs.Sean Couturier scored for Philadelphia, and Steve Mason stopped 31 shots.It was 1-all when Mason deflected Adam McQuaids slap shot from the blue line into the air. The puck came down in the crease, and Kelly swiped it in while Bostons Loui Eriksson also had a shot at it.I just wanted to go out there and feel good and enjoy it, said Kelly, who missed the playoffs last year with a herniated disk. Last year was taken away from me and made me realize how much I missed the game and want to be out there playing. I just tried to enjoy the whole night and tried to play my game. For sure, theres no better feeling.Another sellout, the 214th in a row, filled the TD Garden. But the crowd seemed to be still getting over last seasons playoff loss to the rival Montreal Canadiens by a Boston team that had reached the Stanley Cup finals in 2013 and then totalled 114 points in 2013-14.During the off-season, the Bruins lost Jarome Iginla a€” their leading goal-scorer from last season a€” and Shawn Thornton, and last week defenceman Johnny Boychuk was traded to the New York Islanders.The Flyers are in their 40th season since back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 19974 and 75. Jarrod Wilson Jersey. hey always have a solid team. No matter who is in their lineup, they play the exact same way, said Philadelphia forward Wayne Simmonds. We were a little bit jittery for probably the first period and a half, and it cost us.The Bruins scored on a power play at 10:39 of the first when Carl Soderberg muscled around the back of the net and then passed across to Smith.It stayed 1-0 until 4 minutes into the third, when the Flyers put some pressure on Rask and finally beat him. Jakub Voracek came out from behind the net and whipped the puck across to Couturier, who deflected it in.Bostons Bobby Robins, 32, played in his first NHL game. He had played 499 games in the U.S. minor leagues and in Europe after going to college at UMass-Lowell.It was awesome, said Robins, whose wife and 11-month-old daughter, Libby, were in the stands. After nine years to have that happen was a dream come true, and to play here at the Garden ... it was a very special feeling; Ill never forget it.He also got into his first fight, tangling with Luke Schenn in the second period.I know the brand of hockey these Boston fans like, and I just hope to be able to provide that. And to get that kind of reception was a great feeling, said Robins, who chatted with Schenn in the penalty box. He was asking if it was my first NHL game. So, I said, Yeah. He just said, Good fight a€” the normal stuff guys say after a fight.NOTES: Philadelphia captain Claude Giroux, who returned earlier than expected from an unspecified training camp injury, played the most shifts and the most ice time of any Flyers forward. He was 4 for 21 on faceoffs, including 2 for 12 against Patrice Bergeron. ... The game ended with the Bruins due to be assessed a penalty. Brad Marchand elbowed Schenn, but the Flyers never gave up the puck before the horn. ... 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