The Bruins are back at TD Garden tonight to finish off a two-game homestand, and they’ll do it against a Vegas team that’s been a familiar mirror image in recent meetings. Boston enters Monday at 10-4-1, sitting atop the Atlantic Division after a strong October, while the Golden Knights are 9-5-1 and trail the Oilers by five points in the Pacific.
This is the first of two matchups between the Bruins and Golden Knights this season, and last year’s series was split right down the middle. In both games, the home team came away with the win.
Boston also had to deal with a league ruling before getting back on the ice. The NHL Department of Player Safety fined Nikita Zadorov $5,000 for roughing Chicago’s Alex Vlasic on Saturday. The play came during a second-period scrum after Vlasic took down Casey Mittelstadt behind the play, and Zadorov was assessed a four-minute double minor along with a 10-minute misconduct.
The Bruins are set for a morning skate at TD Garden at 10:30 AM, then will continue their week with practices on Tuesday at 11:00 AM and Wednesday at 10:30 AM at Warrior Ice Arena in Brighton.
Around the league, the day brought a flurry of movement. Shane Wright is headed to Nashville, while Matthew Wood is going to Seattle in a one-for-one trade.
Wright, the No. 4 pick in 2022, has 82 points (39-43-82) in 183 NHL games. Wood put up 17 goals and 30 points last season and has three points (1-2-3) in 14 games this season.
The Devils also made a move, sending goaltender Remi Poirier to the Washington Capitals for a seventh-round pick in the 2027 draft. New Jersey had claimed Poirier off waivers on Sept. 27, but he never appeared in a game for the club.
There’s more noise out of Detroit, too. Dylan Larkin has not had on-ice activity with the Red Wings in a week, and Elliotte Friedman said the list may begin to change soon, pointing to the next 24-48 hours. Bob Duff has more on the trade chatter there.
And Connor McDavid added another line to the record book. He had two points (1-1-2) in Edmonton’s 4-1 win over the NY Rangers, and in the process became the fastest player ever to reach 30 assists in a single season. He did it in game No. 15, beating Wayne Gretzky’s mark of 16 games.
Elsewhere, the Hurricanes rolled past the Jets 7-0 in Raleigh, with Pyotr Kochetkov becoming just the third goalie in NHL history to start a season 10-0-0. Carolina has now won four straight, while Winnipeg is winless in its last nine.
The Flyers also got back on track, ending a three-game skid with a 6-3 win over the Utah Mammoth. Travis Konecny returned to the lineup, and with him came what made Philadelphia so successful in 2025-26.
And in another big-picture note, Sportsnet reported that the Lightning and Wild have major decisions looming on Nikita Kucherov and Quinn Hughes, with Michael Amato writing that they can’t risk losing their stars for nothing.
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