Mattias Samuelsson is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury and coach Lindy Ruff called the severity of the injury “pretty strong.”

The Winnipeg Jets are the first NHL team to earn 15 wins in their first 16 games, as their focused group continues to preach a “one game at a time” mantra.

Washington sent a 2025 fifth-round pick and a 2027 third-round pick to Pittsburgh on Tuesday for Eller.

Shea Weber headlined the 2024 Hockey Hall of Fame class inducted Monday night, joining Pavel Datsyuk, Jeremy Roenick, Natalie Darwitz and Krissy Wendell in the player category. David Poile and Colin Campbell entered as builders.

Jeannot was given a match penalty and ejected from the teams’ game Thursday night in L.A. for the right-shoulder-to-head hit that injured Boeser.

Signing three of the top players available made NHL free agency look like a big win for the Nashville Predators. They haven’t had many since.

When Marc-Andre Fleury made his NHL debut in 2003, Macklin Celebrini was nearly three years away from being born.

Ovechkin beat Juuse Saros with 9:35 left in regulation for his eighth goal of the season, tying Connor McMichael for the team lead.

“You knew it was coming,” said Predators coach Andrew Brunette, whose final seven seasons as a player overlapped with Alex Ovechkin’s first seven in the NHL.

Ovechkin has five goals in his past four games to get on pace to catch and pass Wayne Gretzky for the NHL career goals mark before the end of the season — and Washington has won eight of 11.