Rob & Rex Ryan are here again supporting the hometown team. #OneBuffalo pic.twitter.com/uGjJ9gXaLB

— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) March 2, 2016

After the Buffalo Bills elected to franchise tag Cordy Glenn, members of their coaching staff took the night off to take in another sport.

Bills head coach Rex Ryan, assistant head coach Rob Ryan, and assistant defensive backs coach Ed Reed went to support the Buffalo Sabres as they hosted the Edmonton Oilers.

With Oilers center Connor McDavid and Sabres forward Jack Eichel representing the future of the NHL, perhaps the Bills' personnel wanted to get a look at some true prodigious talent.

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Ovi/Oshie collision pic.twitter.com/0GYsTmK1ro

— StopThrowingHats (@stopthehats) March 2, 2016

Washington Capitals teammates Alex Ovechkin and T.J. Oshie each made a huge check Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins - on each other.

The two forwards collided in the neutral zone, leading to a great scoring chance for the Penguins that was stopped by Braden Holtby.

Luckily, they were able to laugh about it on the bench afterwards.

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BOSTON - Patrice Bergeron scored a tiebreaking goal with 3:24 left in the third period and the Boston Bruins beat the Calgary Flames 2-1 on Tuesday night. Landon Ferraro also scored for Boston and Tuukka Rask stopped 24 of 25 shots as the Bru...

NEWARK, N.J. - Joakim Nordstrom scored on a rebound with 1:29 left and the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the New Jersey Devils 3-1 Tuesday night in a game between teams fading from playoff contention. Derek Ryan, playing his first NHL game at ...

The St. Louis Blues have a special player in Vladimir Tarasenko.

With this snipe Tuesday in Ottawa, the 24-year-old's 30th goal of the season, Tarasenko became the youngest Blues player with back-to-back 30-goal campaigns since Brendan Shanahan in 1992-93 and 1993-94.

Episode #30 of the Tarasenkshow. #STLvsOTThttps://t.co/oJIz8zxAIP

— NHL (@NHL) March 2, 2016

Shanahan reached 51 and 52 goals at ages 24 and 25, respectively, while Tarasenko's career high to date is 37. Unlike Shanahan, however, Tarasenko will likely be in St. Louis for the majority of his career.

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Will the Colorado Avalanche defense please stand up?

The Minnesota Wild's third line of Nino Niederreiter, Jason Pominville, and Erik Haula stayed hot Tuesday, as all three scored on first-period breakaways.

After Haula's marker - which gave his team a 3-1 lead - he made some friends by sticking out his tongue while skating by the Avs' bench.

Haula lookin like an emoji 😝😝😝 pic.twitter.com/NoRvXqwGQu

— Devan Dubnyk (@ThatDudeDubnyk) March 2, 2016

Interestingly for the Avalanche, their deadline-day, blue-line acquisition Eric Gelinas wasn't on the ice for any of Minnesota's early goals.

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[HIGHLIGHT] @DerekAllenRyan scores a PPG in his first @NHL game! #Redvolution #CARvsNJD https://t.co/POGyaUpA8X

— Carolina Hurricanes (@NHLCanes) March 2, 2016

Derek Ryan, at 29 years old, became the oldest player to make his NHL debut in Carolina Hurricanes history Tuesday against the , and he didn't take long to make an impact at the game's highest level.

Ryan found the back of the net during a second-period power play, wristing a shot past New Jersey Devils netminder Cory Schneider, tying the game at one.

What a nice story @DerekAllenRyan is. Four years CIS. Three in Austria. One in Sweden. Gets first NHL goal in first NHL game at age 29!

— James Mirtle (@mirtle) March 2, 2016

It's surely a special moment for the forward, as his father and sister flew in from Spokane, Wash. to watch him play in Newark. Ryan played for the WHL's Spokane Chiefs for three seasons where he was coached by none other than current Hurricanes coach Bill Peters.

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Welp, it took McDavid 22 seconds to find the net. #EDMvsBUFhttps://t.co/Fx33wigCnd

— NHL (@NHL) March 2, 2016

They say second place is the first loser.

Connor McDavid briefly had Buffalo feeling that way, as the Edmonton Oilers rookie phenom - drafted first overall ahead of Jack Eichel - needed only 22 seconds to open the scoring against the Sabres on Tuesday.

The goal was McDavid's 11th in 28 games, while Eichel came into the night sitting at 17 through 63 contests.

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After Boston Bruins general manager Don Sweeney decided to hold on to winger Loui Eriksson at the NHL trade deadline, the two sides are in a position - at least in theory - to negotiate a long-term agreement to keep the nine-year veteran with the organization.

Eriksson said Tuesday he's happy to still be with the Bruins and that a contract extension is certainly possible.

"It's definitely nice to be still here," Eriksson said, according to Matt Kalman of NHL.com. "It was kind of a stressful day (Monday) and not really knowing what's going to happen. I'm just happy to be here. It's a lot easier for me and my family to stay here and finish the season and try to make this team make the (Stanley Cup) playoffs and be a good team. So I'm really happy to be still here."

Added Eriksson, "Now we have some more time to negotiate and maybe get something done and like I said, all I can do now is just to play games and try to win games and help this team."

The 30-year-old is in the midst of a productive season for the Bruins, with 23 goals and 28 points through 63 games. Those numbers, however, are boosting his bid to secure a big-money contract, something the Bruins seem unwilling to commit to at this point.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Forward Shawn Horcoff has returned to practice with the Anaheim Ducks while serving his 20-game suspension for violating the terms of the NHL's performance-enhancing substances program. Horcoff practiced on Tuesday, the firs...