Five players have reached double-digit goals this season. One of those players is Michael Grabner.

Scoring a pair of goals versus the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday, Grabner picked up his ninth and tenth markers of the season. He now stands among Patrik Laine, Mark Scheifele, David Pastrnak, and Sidney Crosby as players who have found the back of the net 10 or more times this season.

One of these players is not like the others.

What's more? All 10 of Grabner's goals have come at even strength. He leads the NHL in that category. This isn't a player with inflated production thanks to a strong power play.

Grabner is perhaps best known for his blazing speed - in 2011, a time of 14.061 seconds won the fastest skater challenge at the NHL skills competition.

The knock on Grabner has been that his hands don't match his feet; he hasn't been able to put it all together.

A former first round pick of the Vancouver Canucks, Grabner was later flipped to the Florida Panthers before being claimed on waivers by the New York Islanders in 2010. He had a breakout season that year, scoring a team-leading 34 goals. League wide, just seven players outscored the Austrian winger.

But it wasn't sustainable. Through his next three seasons on Long Island, Grabner's totals fell from 20 to 16 to 12 tallies. Then, in 2014-15, he appeared in just 34 games and his production fell to eight goals.

It was time for new surroundings, as Grabner moved on to the Toronto Maple Leafs, a rebuilding team who hoped to recreate the one-time scorer into a trade-worthy asset. But it never happened, as Grabner finished last season with just nine goals.

He's already surpassed that number this year, and he's on pace for a career-high 51 goals. Of course, it's early, and, with a shooting percentage of nearly 28 percent, things are likely to take a dip. Still, Grabner and fans of the Broadway Blueshirts will enjoy the ride while it lasts.

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Hockey fans got a look into the past Sunday, as the iconic Legion of Doom line that terrorized opponents of the Philadelphia Flyers was together again as part of the Hall of Fame Legends Classic match.

The trio of Eric Lindros, John Leclair, and Mikael Renberg were a force to be reckoned with during the 1990s, combining for 255 points during the 1995-96 season, with Lindros leading the way with an astonishing 115 points in just 73 games.

Lindros' scoring prowess was on display again Sunday, as the dominant center potted the shootout winner past netminder Jean-Sebastien Giguere.

Lindros was a dominant presence during his eight seasons with the Flyers. He was named league MVP in 1994-95 and, two years later, led his club to the Stanley Cup Finals.

A historic career that also included stops with the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Dallas Stars, Lindros will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame this year alongside Sergei Makarov, Rogie Vachon, and Pat Quinn.

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Hasn't Al Montoya been through enough?

Patrick Kane scored another highlight-reel goal Sunday night, stickhandling around Jeff Petry and firing a wrist shot past the Montreal Canadiens goaltender while falling down to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 3-2 lead late in the second period.

Kane's memorable marker was his sixth of the season and third in his last five games.

Montoya allowed 10 goals in a shutout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets earlier this month.

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Bryan Bickell's health is suddenly his foremost concern, but he appears determined to make a return to hockey.

The Carolina Hurricanes forward admitted he doesn't know what his future holds after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

"I'm just uncertain," Bickell told the Chicago Tribune's Chris Hine on Saturday. "Knowing what's next is the biggest thing. Hopefully I can get on the ice and help my team and be safe and do my job. … Hopefully my career goes longer if I play the cards right."

The Hurricanes revealed Bickell's diagnosis on Friday, and the veteran winger said in a statement that day that he's been physically affected by the symptoms since the 2015 playoffs.

"You're just scared for the other stage where I've been playing hockey for so long and this definitely could be it," he told Hine on Saturday. "There are roads in life and this could take me down a different road."

Bickell described feeling "just a little numb" one recent morning, when he awoke with a shooting pain in his shoulder, adding that he initially thought it was a pinched nerve before realizing it was something more serious.

"Everybody knows your (own) body and what's normal, what's not normal," he said. "This was definitely not normal."

Bickell said doctors told him they identified the disease in an early stage and should be able to treat it to the point that would allow him to play hockey again.

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, for which there is no cure.

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Michal Neuvirth will be out of action for at least a month with what the Philadelphia Flyers are calling a "lower-body injury."

The Flyers' backup goaltender was injured Saturday night in Philadelphia's victory over the Minnesota Wild.

He was forced to leave the contest after the opening period with what CSN Philadelphia's Tim Panaccio reported as a sprained knee and not a groin injury.

Steve Mason will take on a heavier workload in Neuvirth's absence. Mason stopped 19 of 20 shots in relief Saturday, one night after allowing six goals in a loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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It was a scary sight early in Sunday's matinee between the Winnipeg Jets and the Los Angeles Kings.

With the Kings already up 1-0, Kings forward Kyle Clifford crunched Jets forward Kyle Connor into the end boards with a punishing hit.

The impact left Connor motionless on the ice for several seconds before he was able to get up and head to the dressing room under his own power. Clifford received a five-minute major for boarding, a penalty the Jets would take advantage of by scoring twice to take a 2-1 lead.

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It's no coincidence that the Nashville Predators seem to have started turning a corner at the beginning of November.

On that night, goaltender Pekka Rinne stopped 28 of 29 shots fired by the Colorado Avalanche, beginning a run of strong play that has helped the club pick up at least a point in each of the six games played this month.

Rinne's latest feat was a 27-save shutout against the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday, and the 10 points earned so far in November have put the Predators within two points of the St. Louis Blues for second in the Central Division, with two fewer games played.

The strong goaltending has proven to be an anchor as of late, giving the rest of the team a chance to catch up after an unexpectedly slow start.

"Every year, the seats get rearranged a little bit on the boat," Predators coach Peter Laviolette said, per Adam Vingan of The Tennessean. You've got to figure out where your seat is and what's expected of you. There's definitely a little transition that we went through. I wish we handled it a little bit better and didn't get into that spot.

"I think guys are scoring goals too now, and they're getting a little bit more confident on the ice, so I think it's a combination of both things."

Knowing things are locked down in the defensive zone allows the rest of the team to focus more on moving the puck up the ice, the coach added.

Four of the past six games have been at home, and the Predators will now head out on a three-game road trip beginning Tuesday in Toronto.

Asking Rinne to maintain his .930 save percentage to date this season is a bit much, but a final number closer to his career average of .918 than last year's .908 would be a boon to Nashville's chances of success this campaign.

To return to Laviolette's boat analogy, it's not smooth sailing quite yet for the Predators, but the clouds have parted a bit, at least.

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Sidney Crosby has never started a season like this.

The Pittsburgh Penguins star missed the first five games of the season with a concussion, but has been basically unstoppable since making his season debut on Oct. 25.

Crosby has scored at least a goal in eight of 10 games played, with three two-goal games to his credit. Meanwhile, the Penguins have lost only twice since his return, and one of those came in overtime.

Crosby has also added three assists, putting him atop the NHL leaderboard with an average of 1.44 points per game.

Sure, Crosby is unlikely to maintain a 28.6 percent shooting percentage, and his success rate will eventually revert closer to his career average of 14.6. No one's expecting him to maintain an 84-goal pace.

If he remains healthy, however, it seems very possible that he'll score 50 for only the second time in his career.

Remember, this time last year, we were asking if he was on the decline.

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