Ottawa Senators forward Matt Duchene faced the music for the first time since a video showing him and six of his teammates in an Uber in Phoenix mocking assistant coach Martin Raymond went viral Monday.

Following the Senators 7-3 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, Duchene spoke to reporters apologizing profusely to Raymond for the team's remarks.

"I can only say what I'm about to say on the matter, I want to take this opportunity to extend my absolutely sincerest apologies to Marty Raymond," Duchene said, according Murray Pam of Sporting News Canada. "He's a heck of a person, a coach, and he did not deserve what we said."

None of the seven players featured in the video (Duchene, Thomas Chabot, Chris Wideman, Colin White, Chris Tierney, Alex Formenton, and Dylan DeMelo) spoke earlier Tuesday during the team's morning skate and none were expected to speak following Tuesday's contest.

Mark Stone spoke to reporters Tuesday morning, where he noted that the team had already addressed the situation and were looking to move past it.

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Ottawa Senators forward Matt Duchene faced the music for the first time since a video showing him and six of his teammates in an Uber in Phoenix mocking assistant coach Martin Raymond went viral Monday.

Following the Senators 7-3 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday, Duchene spoke to reporters apologizing profusely to Raymond for the team's remarks.

"I can only say what I'm about to say on the matter, I want to take this opportunity to extend my absolutely sincerest apologies to Marty Raymond," Duchene said, according Murray Pam of Sporting News Canada. "He's a heck of a person, a coach, and he did not deserve what we said."

None of the seven players featured in the video (Duchene, Thomas Chabot, Chris Wideman, Colin White, Chris Tierney, Alex Formenton, and Dylan DeMelo) spoke earlier Tuesday during the team's morning skate and none were expected to speak following Tuesday's contest.

Mark Stone spoke to reporters Tuesday morning, where he noted that the team had already addressed the situation and were looking to move past it.

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Vegas Golden Knights forward Erik Haula had to be stretchered off the ice midway through the third period of Tuesday night's game against the Toronto Maple Leafs after falling awkwardly on his right leg following a hit from Patrick Marleau.

Play was immediately halted as Haula was in considerable pain.

The 27-year-old is coming off a career-best 2017-18 season that saw him finish with 29 goals and 55 points. This year, he's posted two goals and seven points through 15 games.

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The 2018-19 season has not kicked off the way the St. Louis Blues envisioned it.

After making a splash this offseason, bringing in the likes of Ryan O'Reilly, Tyler Bozak, and David Perron, the club seemed destined for greatness. However, 12 games through the regular season, the club finds itself two points out of last place in the Western Conference.

"Unfortunately, we're at the bottom here," Jake Allen said Monday, according to Tom Timmermann of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Rock bottom probably basically for us in the last ... ever since I’ve been here. We’ve got to dig deep to find our way out."

The Blues have lost three of their last five games including Saturday night where they were shelled 5-1 by the Minnesota Wild.

"We've just got to be more consistent in our game," Allen said. "We got down a couple goals there last game and we sort of just took our foot off the gas. I thought we had two great games before that, building something here, building some positivity, some fun, a great environment. And we let the wheels fall off there last game.

"Last game shouldn't be something we’re proud of. Obviously it's a disappointing effort for us, especially at home. We’ve got to find it here. There's really no more answers, and no more questions, and no more talking."

The club's biggest crutch has been their inability to keep the puck out of their net. The Blues are averaging 3.92 goals-against, second-last in the league, despite the fact they sit in the middle of the pack in shots against per game. Surprisingly, their offense has been the fourth-most productive unit in the league, scoring an average of 3.5 goals per game.

As for what the Blues do to get themselves back in the hunt, Allen insists it will be a grind.

"It’s going to be a process," Allen said. "It really is. We put ourselves in a spot where we're really going to have to grind and find a way to get points. … It's going be a really complicated math problem and we've just got to find a way to study and get into it and get out of it."

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The Ottawa Senators say the organization was aware of the video that surfaced Monday prior to it being made public.

The video was recorded during Ottawa's recent road trip through Arizona, and included players taking numerous jabs at assistant coach Martin Raymond about his special teams and video session methods.

In the aftermath of its release, the players involved in the video (Matt Duchene, Chris Wideman, Alex Formenton, Thomas Chabot, Dylan DeMelo, Colin White, and Chris Tierney) weren't made available for comment, but members of the team's leadership group addressed the topic and shed light on how the organization handled the situation.

"We dealt with this long before this video was released," assistant captain Mark Stone told reporters, according to TSN. "As a coaching staff, as management, and as players, it was dealt with internally and the way it should be. We're going to move forward and grow with it.

"We don't want negative stuff surrounding our team," Stone said. "This is a hiccup, but I think guys have made a great effort to repair relationships. This is only going to make our team stronger moving forward."

The Senators are 5-6-3 on the season, good for sixth place in the Atlantic Division.

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Vegas Golden Knights forward Max Pacioretty is expected to return to the club's lineup Tuesday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs, head coach Gerard Gallant announced.

Pacioretty's been day to day since suffering an upper-body injury on Oct. 26 versus the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Through his first 10 games with Vegas, Pacioretty's notched just two goals, but perhaps the trip to Toronto will help. He's scored 19 career goals versus the Maple Leafs - the most against any opponent.

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The Chicago Blackhawks have fired head coach Joel Quenneville after 10 seasons, the team announced Tuesday.

Jeremy Colliton, formerly the head coach of the AHL's Rockford IceHogs, has been named his replacement. The 33-year-old is now the youngest coach in the NHL, while Quenneville's run as the league's longest-tenured bench boss has come to an abrupt end.

Along with Quenneville, assistants Kevin Dineen and Ulf Samuelsson were also fired.

The Blackhawks have gone 3-6-1 in their last 10 games and currently sit two points out of a wildcard spot in the Western Conference. Their latest loss came Saturday evening, when the Calgary Flames scored four unanswered goals to erase Chicago's 3-1 lead.

Quenneville turned the Blackhawks into a dynasty after being hired in 2008, winning three Stanley Cups from 2010 to 2015 along with three Central Division titles and a Presidents' Trophy in 2013. His overall record with the club was 446-243-93.

He signed a three-year extension with the Blackhawks in 2016 and is owed the remainder of this year's salary as well as $6 million for next season, according to TSN's Pierre LeBrun.

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Welcome to Puck Pursuit, a weekly NHL podcast hosted by John Matisz, theScore's national hockey writer.

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This week, Postmedia national hockey writer Michael Traikos and Cory Conacher of the Tampa Bay Lightning join John for a pair of segments. First, Michael serves up his October disappointments and surprises. Then, Cory sheds light on his difficult journey to the NHL, his favorite coaches along the way, and what it's like to play for Julien BriseBois.

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