Most of the news is bad for the Sabres. Going without a shot during a period where you’re trailing has to sting. Rust or not, and as hot as the Islanders have been lately, you’d think a fresh Sabres team would be able to get more done as this game went along.

"I obviously did not expect to have kind of the perfect record we had in the bubble [last summer]. We were introducing a lot more risk and certainly there's a lot more interactions going on," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN on Monday. "Quite frankly, we have a lot of players involved, right? We have a lot more than the NBA -- around 725 players on active rosters plus taxi squad players plus AHL players. There are just a lot of players around."

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Ultimately, MacKinnon made the difference as the Avalanche beat the Golden Knights 3-2 at Lake Tahoe. Read more about that here. (There are pretty pictures.)

The Blackhawks demonstrated how converting on a power play is done, at 12:03 of the second period, scoring with 10 seconds to go on a penalty to Valtteri Filppula. Duncan Keith passed to Philipp Kurashev in the neutral zone. He strode up the middle, split Merrill and Troy Stecher deking to his forehand to slip the puck beneath Bernier’s pads. That was Chicago’s 18th power-play goal on 53 opportunities. عذراً, يجب أن تسجل من هنا لترى الرابط إذا كنت عضواً, فقط قم بتسجيل الدخول

عذراً, يجب أن تسجل من هنا لترى الرابط إذا كنت عضواً, فقط قم بتسجيل الدخول

But the ice was in good shape and the scenic setting that brought the NHL to the shores of Lake Tahoe to host games on a makeshift rink on a golf course was in full bloom. The sun began setting late in the first period over the Sierra Nevada for a breathtaking scene. عذراً, يجب أن تسجل من هنا لترى الرابط إذا كنت عضواً, فقط قم بتسجيل الدخول

عذراً, يجب أن تسجل من هنا لترى الرابط إذا كنت عضواً, فقط قم بتسجيل الدخول

Editor’s Note: The Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers face off Wednesday on NBCSN starting at 10:00 pm ET. Livestream all the action here. عذراً, يجب أن تسجل من هنا لترى الرابط إذا كنت عضواً, فقط قم بتسجيل الدخول

Not just play, but keep doing the things — in both ways and small — that have been the hallmark of a career defined by a mix of success, humility and a seemingly unmatched esilience. عذراً, يجب أن تسجل من هنا لترى الرابط إذا كنت عضواً, فقط قم بتسجيل الدخول