Shesterkin Out for the Season: What It Means for Garand and the Rangers’ Crease

AHLCallum Tung blanks Providence for his first AHL shutout

Rangers prospect Callum Tung stopped all 28 shots he faced in Providence on Friday, his first shutout in the AHL, as Hartford won 2-0 for its third straight win to open the season. Glenn Gawdin’s goal in the first period held up, with Tung making 12 saves in the second and seven more in the third. He is 2-0-0. (Wolf Pack)

With Shesterkin out, the Rangers need a second healthy goalie. Spencer Martin missed Friday’s game in Hartford with a lower-body injury but has been cleared to return, Rangers reporter Vince Z. Mercogliano reported, which puts him in line for the call-up. (Pro Hockey Rumors)

Tung, 22, is from Port Moody, B.C., and was never drafted. He turned pro with the Rangers out of UConn in April 2025 (UConn). Hartford is where Dylan Garand was playing until the Rangers called him up on Oct. 1. (Wolf Pack)

On InGoal: InGoal Radio Episode 361: Callum Tung, From Undrafted to the New York Rangers.

NHLTalbot becomes the first goalie to win for nine NHL franchises

No goalie in NHL history had won a game for nine different franchises until Cam Talbot did it on Friday, in his first game for Columbus. The Blue Jackets beat Pittsburgh 3-2 in a shootout, with Talbot making 20 saves through overtime and then denying all three Penguins shooters, Rickard Rakell, Egor Chinakhov, and Ben Kindel, while Kent Johnson scored the only goal of the shootout. (Blue Jackets)

Only three other goalies have won for as many as eight franchises: Sean Burke, Ron Tugnutt, and Curtis McElhinney. Burke played for nine NHL teams but only eight franchises, since he played for both Hartford and Carolina, the same franchise after the Whalers moved (Hockey-Reference). At 39 years and 96 days, Talbot also passed Fredrik Norrena as the oldest goalie with a win for Columbus. (Blue Jackets)

With Columbus outshooting Pittsburgh 45-22, Talbot saw only three shots in the first period, so staying sharp was half the job. “I just tried to keep focus, talk a lot, play the puck whenever I could, and just focus on whatever shots were coming my way,” he said. Coach Rick Bowness put it down to experience: “He knows how to keep himself in the game, right? He’s been around.” Talbot signed a one-year deal with the Blue Jackets on Sept. 14, after two seasons with the Red Wings. (Blue Jackets)

On InGoal: Cam Talbot’s Pro Reads, including his breakaway keys, and the record in the making in the Oct. 7 Goalie News.

NHLMurashov makes 43 saves to earn the Penguins a point in Columbus

At the other end of Talbot’s debut, Sergei Murashov faced 45 shots and stopped 43, 23 of them in the second period alone. (NHL.com) Brandon Karafilis of the Penguins’ site picked out two: a blocker save on Matthew Knies and, even better, a stop on Zach Werenski with 18 seconds to go in overtime. “He was awesome. Just really steady and made some big saves for us,” Sidney Crosby said, and coach Dan Muse added: “He played really well. I mean, some huge saves. He did his part.” (Penguins)

Murashov gave the credit to the skaters who fought back from 2-0 down, and he had his own way of describing the extra time. Overtime, he said, “is always different,” with “a different vibration and different energy.” His approach, he said, was “just one shot at a time.” (Penguins)

Murashov is fast becoming one of our favorite interviews, and the clip below has more from him after the game. For how he spent his summer, from guitar lessons to a rock festival in Cleveland, see yesterday’s Goalie News.

NHLAround the league

• Detroit put eight shots on Philipp Grubauer in the first seven minutes on Friday (AP via Yahoo Sports), and the Red Wings still led 16-3 in shots when Seattle tied it 1-1 at 14:52 of the first period. The Kraken went on to win 6-3, with Grubauer making 37 saves. Coach Lane Lambert said his team “weathered the storm, because our goaltender was really good.” (NHL.com)
• The Wild put Filip Gustavsson on long-term injured reserve on Friday as he recovers from hip surgery in the off-season. In May, general manager Bill Guerin said the operation was for general wear and tear rather than one injury. The team has given no date for his return. Jesper Wallstedt has started all four of Minnesota’s games, with Calvin Pickard as his backup. (TSN)

On InGoal: Philipp Grubauer’s Pro Reads and InGoal Radio with Filip Gustavsson.

CollegeAssumption freshman Taylor Thompson's first NCAA win is a shutout, RPI's Krawchuk stops 36 against Ohio State

Taylor Thompson’s first college win came with a shutout attached. The Assumption freshman made 32 saves on Friday as the Greyhounds beat Sacred Heart 2-0 in NEWHA play. Both goals came in the first period, which left her 40 minutes to protect the lead: 12 saves in the second and 17 in the third, some of them while Assumption killed off an extended Sacred Heart 5-on-3. (Assumption Athletics)

RPI opened its season at Houston Field House with a 3-0 win over Ohio State, and Nate Krawchuk turned away all 36 shots in his first start of the year. Seven of them came while RPI killed a five-minute major in the second period, and he finished the job after the Buckeyes pulled their goalie with a little over two minutes to go. (RPI Athletics) Ohio State outshot RPI 36-20. (College Hockey News)

InternationalLatvia's Mareks Mitens signs with KAC, Jonas Neffin's third shutout in four games for Berlin

EC-KAC, the Klagenfurt club in Austria’s ICE Hockey League, has signed Latvian national-team goalie Mareks Mitens, 28, to work alongside Florian Vorauer while Sebastian Dahm is out injured. Mitens had no club this season, and the deal runs to the November international break for now. “Our goaltending coach took a very close look at around 30 available goalies and analyzed them,” general manager Oliver Pilloni said (translated from German). (KAC)

Mitens left Latvia for the United States at 18 and played a season in the NAHL, then four years at Lake Superior State. He got into his first AHL game with the Binghamton Devils in April 2021 and split the next season between Utica and the ECHL’s Adirondack Thunderbirds. Since 2023 he has played in Europe, for Kladno in Czechia and then Spišská Nová Ves and Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. Latvia took him to the 2025 World Championship, and at this spring’s tournament he made his first appearance, against Finland, who went on to win it. (KAC) Latvian reporter Rems Ratņikovs also reported the signing. (X)

Around Europe

• Jonas Neffin needed only 18 saves as Eisbären Berlin beat the Grizzlys Wolfsburg 5-0 on Friday, but it was his third shutout in four games, and the win put Berlin top of Germany’s DEL. “It’s really going right now, and I’m very, very happy about it,” he said, and he credited the skaters in front of him for his confidence (translated from German). (DEL, MagentaSport)
• Also in the DEL on Friday, Tobias Ancicka stopped all 28 shots from the Pinguins Bremerhaven in a 3-0 win, his first shutout for the Augsburger Panther. (DEL)
• In Switzerland’s National League, Luca Boltshauser stopped every shot the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers sent his way in the SCL Tigers’ 3-0 win in Langnau on Friday, his first shutout of the season. Langnau has won four straight and sits second. (Radio Central)
• In the SHL on Thursday, Marcus Högberg made 25 saves in Linköping’s 3-0 win in Växjö, a shutout that ended a four-game losing streak. (Hockeysverige)
• Timrå has signed Jonas Gunnarsson, 34, on a short-term deal while Frederik Dichow is out with an upper-body injury from practice. Gunnarsson has played more than 200 SHL games for HV71 and Malmö and comes from AIK in HockeyAllsvenskan. Jacob Johansson made 24 saves in Timrå’s 4-1 win over Frölunda on Thursday. (Hockeysverige)

Junior20-year-old Précourt stops 48 for Chicoutimi, Tkach-Tkachenko blanks Oshawa

Cape Breton outshot Chicoutimi 50-20 on Friday and still lost 4-2, because Raphaël Précourt, 20, turned away 48 of those shots, 20 of them in the third period. He was named the game’s first star. (QMJHL game report)

In the OHL, 19-year-old Ivan Tkach-Tkachenko made 35 saves as Sarnia shut out Oshawa 4-0, and he was also the first star. (OHL game report)

Birthdays

Happy birthday to former Columbus Blue Jackets and HC Sparta Praha goalie Tomas Popperle (42).

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