Thomas Hickey's shootout goal wasn't the winner in Tuesday's marathon shootout victory by the New York Islanders, but the Anaheim Ducks couldn't help but question it after the game.

Two rounds before Nick Leddy's 14th-round snipe ended the longest shootout of the young season, Hickey beat Ducks goaltender Jonathan Bernier by nudging the puck in and appearing to push the netminder's pad.

"I think it was pretty obvious," Bernier told reporters postgame. "I made the save, my skate was going right to the post where I wanted it to be, and he pushed me in."

The play was called a goal on the ice, and the NHL's hockey operations department then conducted a review, as it is required to do in overtime and the shootout. The league deemed no goaltender interference occurred before the puck crossed the goal line.

"I was (of) the understanding that you cannot score a goal in the NHL today by pushing a goaltender's pad with the puck underneath it over the line," Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle told reporters.

"But I guess I was (proven) wrong again tonight and to much of our surprise, the explanation I was given was (that) they (had) called it a goal on the ice, so they couldn't determine that the puck wasn't in the net under his pad and it was inconclusive, that they couldn't tell if the puck was in the net or not."

Even Anaheim's social media staff weighed in.

The Islanders snapped a four-game losing skid with the victory, while the Ducks suffered their third loss in the last five games.

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The identity of the NHL's newest franchise was revealed Tuesday night, but not without a significant hiccup.

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Owner Bill Foley quickly got on the mic and promised the team would do better on the ice, continuing his run of pledges that included expecting a Stanley Cup championship within six years.

The big moment didn't exactly go off without a hitch, but at least the logo looks good.

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Unlucky at 13.

Auston Matthews' much-publicized scoring outage reached 13 games Tuesday night, as the Toronto Maple Leafs fell by a score of 2-1 for a second consecutive game, this time at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Matthews directed four shots on goal with seven attempts, boosting a shot total surpassed only by Brent Burns, Vladmir Tarasenko, and Alex Ovechkin. But because Cam Ward put padding on each, the No. 1 draft pick has now gone four weeks without scoring.

In the locker room afterward, and sticking with the theme of the ill-fated No. 13, Matthews was asked if he needed to change his own luck.

"I'm not crazy like that I guess. Not too superstitious," Matthews told Jonas Siegel of the Canadian Press. "I have my own things that I do, that I've done since I was younger and I kind of just stick with it. It's worked for me until this point so why change."

Though his shooting percentage dropped another couple decimal points to 8.5 percent, Matthews' performance continues to support the underlying data that he recently admitted to paying attention to. Matthews finished at almost 60 percent possession - best among Maple Leafs.

These signs and more continue to point to Matthews breaking out sooner than later. But his teammates don't seem to need revealing data to pick up on that.

"I'm sure he's going to crack this very soon," Mitch Marner told TSN's Mark Masters. "And when that happens it's going to be scary."

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The Montreal Canadiens had some good news to report after a loss on home ice to the Ottawa Senators Tuesday night.

Defenseman Nathan Beaulieu was taken to hospital during the contest after taking a puck to the neck or throat, but Michel Therrien was able offer a encouraging update.

Beaulieu's status will likely be updated prior to Montreal's game Thursday against Carolina.

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MONTREAL - Mark Stone and Erik Karlsson scored 2:24 apart in the third period, helping Ottawa Senators rally to beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Tuesday night.

Stone tied it at 3 early in the third from the slot after three Canadiens players got caught behind their own net.

Karlsson then scored at 5:37, the visitors' first lead of the evening, on a fluke no-look shot from the blue line after a bad giveaway by Jeff Petry.

Mike Hoffman and Derick Brassard also scored and Craig Anderson made 36 saves for Ottawa.

Shea Weber, Alexander Radulov and Alex Galchenyuk scored for Montreal. Andrei Markov had three assists, and Carey Price stopped 19 of 23 shots.

The Sens scored more than two goals in regulation for the first time in 12 matches.

Montreal played with five defensemen in the third after Nathan Beaulieu left at the end of the second. Beaulieu took a shot from Brassard to his neck and went straight to the dressing room.

The Canadiens later confirmed Beaulieu was taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons.

With Beaulieu's absence came extended ice times for Weber and Markov, Montreal's veteran blue liners.

After a sloppy first period by both teams, the goals came in quick succession in the second.

Weber got the Habs on the board 56 seconds into the period on the power play. Hoffman took a penalty late in the first period for closing his hand on the puck, and Weber made him pay after the intermission with a thunderous slap shot from the point.

Seven of Weber's eight goals this season have been scored with the man advantage. Weber also has seven of Montreal's 15 power-play goals.

Hoffman got his redemption five minutes later. With Ottawa on the power play, the wing beat Price above the shoulder from an extremely tight angle to make it 1-1.

The Canadiens regained the lead at 7:29 when Radulov scored after an impressive effort. The Russian dangled around Hoffman along the boards, cut to the net, shot on Anderson once then scored on his own rebound while falling to the ice.

Brassard tied things 2-2 late in the second before Galchenyuk answered back at 2:08 of the third.

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Philadelphia Flyers center Sean Couturier suffered a potential serious left knee injury in Tuesday's win over the Florida Panthers.

Couturier will leave the club, which is halfway through its mid-week two-game road swing through Florida, in order to undergo examination Wednesday in Philadelphia, according to Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

It will be determined then if Couturier will require surgery on the injury CSN's Tim Panaccio reports is an MCL sprain.

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Mike Babcock is expecting his team to bounce back with haste.

Following Tuesday's loss on home ice to the Carolina Hurricanes, the Toronto Maple Leafs head coach believes his team has to beat the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday.

"I expect us to find a way to win (Wednesday). The bottom line is we have to," Babcock said. "I think we have 19 points if I'm not mistaken and you've got to keep yourself in the hunt, or else you get in trouble fast in this league. It's important to bounce back. We haven't won on a back-to-back this year, it's time we win in a back-to-back and go from there."

Through 19 games, the Maple Leafs have indeed amassed 19 points by posting a record of 8-8-3. It's still early, but Toronto sits four points behind Ottawa for third place in the Atlantic Division, and three points behind Boston in the race for the second wild-card spot.

A mid-week loss to the Devils on the second half of a back-to-back in November would not be disastrous, per se, but Babcock is correct in asserting every point matters.

His plan?

"We'll get on the plane and we'll watch the game. We'll get up tomorrow and get ready for the next game. Where we play next or any of that doesn't concern me much. It's how we play and how we prepare and so we'll have to flush this and get ready for tomorrow."

Wednesday will be Toronto's first game against New Jersey this season; the Devils have two more points than the Maple Leafs with one fewer game played.

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Unfortunately, technical problems prevented the NHL's incoming Vegas Golden Knights from revealing their identity in the manner they had hoped. But through the power of the Internet, we have that hype video now.

Bill Foley and George McPhee provided the rationale behind the name, and the work that went into the design of the Golden Knights logo.

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