Hockey headlines for November 18, 2021

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Ilya Samsonov, Garnet Hathaway do the heavy lifting as Capitals rebound with shutout of Kings (Washington Post)
Chicago Blackhawks kick off their road trip with a 4-2 win against the Seattle Kraken, extending their winning streak to 4 games (Chicago Tribune)
3rd Golden Knights forward this week enters COVID protocol (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Red Wings await further word as Dylan Larkin sits in COVID-19 protocol (Detroit News)
Blackhawks hire Rob Cookson, Jared Nightingale to flesh out coaching staffs (Chicago Sun-Times)
Ready or not, UBS Arena will be set for Isles' opener on Saturday (New York Newsday)
NHL touts ‘greener rinks’ while promoting powerful pollutants, advocates say (Washington Post)
When is Wayne Gretzky returning to ‘NHL on TNT’? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
John Henry, billionaire behind Fenway Sports Group, turns teams he owns into champions (Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Penguins are focused on business as usual with sale pending (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Avalanche scores three power-play goals in win over Canucks (Denver Post)
Playing another team with a spotty record doesn’t help Kraken as they lose fifth straight (Seattle Times)
A stronger backbone, but more penalty-kill daggers (Vancouver Province)
British Columbia flooding hits close to home for the Avalanche’s Devon Toews (Denver Post)
Vancouver-area native Bo Byram traveling with Avalanche: “He’s feeling a little bit better” (Denver Post)
Edmonton Oilers' record is admirable but have underlying concerns (Edmonton Journal)
Jets' season-long homestand an unmitigated success (Winnipeg Sun)
Buffalo Sabres need to beef up punchless power play (Buffalo News)
Believe it or not, stats say the Penguins' power play is ready to explode (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Alain Vigneault tinkers with power play again at practice (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Isles' Pulock out 4-6 weeks with lower-body injury (New York Newsday)
Ducks’ Rickard Rakell rejoins teammates for part of practice (Orange County Register)
Blue Jackets' Domi recharged after COVID-19 bout (Columbus Dispatch)
Modest Kreider is having a season to boast about for Rangers (New York Newsday)
Rangers need Filip Chytil to be solution now and in future (New York Post)
Hard on himself, Wild defenseman Dumba has energy to spare (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Lightning’s Taylor Raddysh, Boris Katchouk earning expanded roles (Tampa Bay Times)
Special K: David Kämpf and Ondrej Kaše are giving the Leafs bang for the buck (Toronto Star)
Perunovich has found a mentor in Blues teammate Faulk (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Rangers see Nils Lundkvist’s dwindling minutes better spent in NHL (New York Post)
Mattias Norlinder ready to make his NHL debut with Canadiens (Montreal Gazette)
Kevin Hayes' teammates helping him through the pain after brother's tragic death (Philadelphia Inquirer)