NHL Review Saturday January 6 2018

SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Home Team in Caps
PHILADELPHIA 6, St. Louis 3
DALLAS 5, Edmonton 1
BOSTON 7, Carolina 1
TORONTO 3, Vancouver 2 (SO)
OTTAWA 6, Tampa Bay 3
NY Rangers 2, ARIZONA 1 (SO)
COLORADO 7, Minnesota 2
CALGARY 3, Anaheim 2
Nashville 4, LOS ANGELES 3

BERGERON HAS FOUR GOALS, FIVE POINTS AS BRUINS EXTEND POINT STREAK 
Patrice Bergeron (4-1—5) established and matched single-game career highs for goals and points, respectively, and Brad Marchand (0-4—4) recorded a career-high four assists to help the Bruins extend their point streak to 10 contests (8-0-2).

LUNDQVIST PASSES ESPOSITO FOR EIGHTH ON ALL-TIME WINS LIST
Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist made 38 saves through 65 minutes and turned aside three shootout attempts to earn his 424th career win and pass Tony Esposito (423) for sole possession of eighth place on the NHL’s all-time list.

2017-18 SEASON SURPASSES HALFWAY MARK. . .
The 2017-18 season eclipsed the halfway point during Saturday’s nine-game slate. A look through the first 640 games of the campaign.

With 28 victories through 40 games, Vegas has already matched the third-highest win total by an NHL club in its inaugural season. Only four franchises finished their first campaign with more victories: the Florida Panthers and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim each posted 33 wins in 1993-94, while the Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers had 31 victories apiece in 1967-68 when their entire division was comprised of expansion clubs.

TRENDING TOWARD MORE PLAYOFF TURNOVER
Eight teams – including three division leaders (TBL, VGK, WPG) – who were not part of the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs currently hold a postseason position (Eastern Conference: Lightning, Devils and Hurricanes; Western Conference: Golden Knights, Jets, Kings, Stars and Avalanche).

ROOKIES ON THE RISE
The rookie scoring race is led by three players who each have reached the 30-point mark this season – Brock Boeser of the Canucks (22-17—39 in 38 GP), Mathew Barzal of the Islanders (13-24—37 in 42 GP) and Clayton Keller of the Coyotes (14-18—32 in 43 GP).

Boeser, who shares fourth in the NHL with 22 goals in 2017-18, sits eight goals shy of joining Pavel Bure (34 in 1991-92) and Trevor Linden (30 in 1988-89) as the only Canucks rookies to score 30 goals in a season. Bure (34-26—60) and Ivan Hlinka (23-37—60 in 1981-82) share the single-season franchise record for points by a rookie.

Four rookies hit the 60-point mark in 2016-17, including Calder Trophy winner Auston Matthews who led all first-year players in goals and points (40-29—69 in 82 GP). It marked the 14th time in League history – and first since 1992-93 – that at least four rookies each recorded 60+ points in a season.

NHL Schedule for Sunday Jan 7 2018

Matchup	Time
New Jersey@ NY Islanders	1:00 PM ET
Buffalo@ Philadelphia	1:00 PM ET
Edmonton@ Chicago	3:00 PM ET
San Jose@ Winnipeg	3:00 PM ET
St. Louis@ Washington	3:00 PM ET
Florida@ Columbus	5:00 PM ET
Vancouver@ Montréal	7:00 PM ET
Tampa Bay@ Detroit	7:00 PM ET
Boston@ Pittsburgh	7:30 PM ET
NY Rangers@ Vegas	9:30 PM ET