Hockey headlines for December 6, 2021

Monday, December 6, 2021

A house cleaning as Green, Benning fired; Boudreau to run bench (Vancouver Province)
Golden Knights knock off first-place Flames (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Adrian Kempe’s two goals help put Kings over Oilers (Los Angeles Daily News)
Jets defeat Leafs in chippy, fist-filled affair (Winnipeg Sun)
Flyers drop eighth straight, lose 7-1 to Lightning (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Islanders lose to Chicago in a shootout as skid extends to 11 (New York Newsday)
Golden Knights goaltender won’t play in Winter Olympics (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Rangers’ Artemi Panarin could tally 500th point against first NHL team (New York Post)
Chicago Blackhawks squander a lead in the closing seconds but salvage a 3-2 shootout win against the New York Islanders (Chicago Tribune)
Win over Sharks snaps Blue Jackets' losing streak (Columbus Dispatch)
‘Moose’ answers call for Lightning in rout of Flyers (Tampa Bay Times)
Sharks end trip with bitter loss to Blue Jackets: ‘We sort of went brain dead’ (San Jose Mercury News)
'Gong show': Revenge-seeking Maple Leafs lose bitter battle to Jets (Toronto Sun)
McDavid kicked out, Edmonton Oilers just plain kicked by L.A. Kings (Edmonton Sun)
Varlamov gets the start, and a chance to build his game (New York Newsday)
Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane enjoying plentiful ice time while waiting for scoring burst (Chicago Sun-Times)
Stastny happy to be the one celebrating someone else's 1,000th game (Winnipeg Sun)
Great night for captain Wheeler (Winnipeg Free Press)
Chicago interim coach King happy to see UBS Arena (New York Newsday)
Sharks’ Cogliano returns after ‘a couple tough days’ with hospitalized daughter (San Jose Mercury News)
Overtime losses mar Capitals’ first-place record (Washington Times)
The Panthers keep finding out-of-nowhere contributors. Lucas Carlsson is the latest (Miami Herald)
Kraken are handling the third period differently, and it’s helped them during recent stretch of success (Seattle Times)
Ducks getting much-needed offensive boost from their defensemen (Orange County Register)
As Stars flirt with tying their longest win streak, the common cold has emerged as an opponent (Dallas Morning News)
Blues learning to live with 11 forwards, seven defensemen (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Gerard Gallant: Maintaining leads key to Rangers’ late-game success (New York Post)
Lightning’s Erik Cernak again sidelined with injury from blocked shot (Tampa Bay Times)
Petr Mrázek working his way back after rocky start to Leafs tenure (Toronto Star)
Wild lean hard on ‘security blanket’ line: ‘I wish they never got tired’ (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
Evan Rodrigues making most of his opportunities with the Penguins (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Rookie Moritz Seider, Red Wings developing swagger as wins pile up (Detroit News)
For Penguins forward Jake Guentzel, 'the bounces are going my way' (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Clayton Keller becoming a more complete player for Coyotes, draws praise from coach (Arizona Republic)
Cale Makar on pace to become first NHL defenseman in 15 years to reach 30 goals. And 40 isn’t absurd to suggest (Denver Post)
Sabres prospect Devon Levi's hot streak continues with record-setting weekend (Buffalo News)