Price and Rinne Enter the Hall Tonight, Hellebuyck Gets His 350th Win in the Hall of Fame Game

NHLHellebuyck’s 350th win is a shutout in the Hall of Fame Game

Connor Hellebuyck picked a good stage for a milestone. He stopped all 23 shots he faced in New Jersey’s 4-0 win over Toronto in Sunday’s Hall of Fame Game, his first shutout as a Devil and the 46th of his career. It was also his 350th NHL win, on the day Price and Rinne received their jackets on that ice before the game. By InGoal’s count from the NHL’s career stats, he is the 27th goalie to reach 350 wins. That leaves him 11 behind Price’s 361 and 19 behind Rinne’s 369 (NHL.com game page).

NHL.com’s Nicholas J. Cotsonika notes that Hellebuyck is the first goalie to win his first five games with the Devils. “Feeling good in the net, and the way the guys have been playing in front of me has just been awesome,” Hellebuyck said. Timo Meier said his goalie gives the team a sense of calm (NHL.com).

The Devils also announced Sunday that Hellebuyck won’t start Tuesday in Winnipeg, his first game there since the Oct. 23 trade, and Jake Allen is expected to play. Coach Sheldon Keefe pointed to three starts in six nights and two games against Washington coming up (NHL.com).

On InGoal: 30 fewer goals? What Clear Sight Analytics says about Hellebuyck’s fit in New Jersey.

NHLMurashov talks Cooley, and Cooley answers

Sergei Murashov made 26 saves as the Penguins won 5-2 in Los Angeles on Saturday, his first win of the season (NHL.com). After the game he used his media session to send a message to Calgary’s Devin Cooley. Most goalies go through what Cooley has been talking about, Murashov said, but not many say it out loud. “Thank you to him for what he’s saying. And it helps,” he said. It had helped him a little too, he added, but “it’s not the key to the universe. There is a lot of work ahead” (first post below).

Cooley made 32 saves on Sunday as the Flames beat Philadelphia 4-3 in overtime. It was his first start since Oct. 28, after a lower-body injury had kept him out of four games (NHL.com). He hadn’t seen Murashov’s clip, but several people had told him about it, and other players around the league have reached out to him too. “I’m glad I can do something instead of just play a sport, because that doesn’t really make a huge impact on humanity,” Cooley said (second post below).

On InGoal: Why Devin Cooley’s Viral “Nothing Matters” Mindset Actually Works for Goalies, and Devin Cooley’s Pro Reads.

NHLAround the league

• Jeremy Swayman made a season-high 40 saves as Boston beat Florida 4-1 on Sunday, the Bruins’ fourth win in a row. “I just focus on one shot at a time, what comes my way whenever it comes and try to get in front of it,” he said (NHL.com).

On InGoal: Swayman on InGoal Radio Episode 189.

InternationalDenmark’s Nordstrom was ‘born a goalie,’ and Maurer holds off Czechia at the Women’s Worlds

The IIHF’s Risto Pakarinen has a fun profile of Emma-Sofie Nordstrom, who faced 91 shots in Denmark’s first two games, the second a 3-2 shootout win over Japan on Saturday. Her mother, Birgitte, was a goalie and played a game knowing she was pregnant with her. After the win, she told her teammates they “got away with a too many players on the ice penalty,” then explained that “there had been two people in the net.” That’s why Nordstrom says her first game came before she was born. Her uncle Ernst Andersen, a former Denmark goalie who has also coached its women’s goalies, is Frederik Andersen’s father (IIHF; IIHF, 2018), which makes the Oilers goalie her cousin. Her goalie parents didn’t want her in net at first, because the position is so hard mentally. She wanted it anyway, and asked her coach to let her play there. In June she became the first Dane drafted into the PWHL, by Hamilton in the fifth round. Her pads are Lego-themed, and, as she points out, Lego’s name comes from the Danish “leg godt,” play well (LEGO). “I thought it was fitting,” she said. As for goalies in the family: “Everyone in my family plays hockey. I’m serious” (IIHF).

In Esbjerg on Sunday, Saskia Maurer stopped 33 of 34 shots through regulation, 20 of 21 in a second period that Czechia controlled, and Alina Muller scored 1:39 into overtime for a 2-1 Swiss win. “Saskia was just amazing tonight,” defender Nicole Vallario said (IIHF).

Around the Women’s Worlds

• Gwyneth Philips needed 13 saves for the shutout as the United States beat Germany 5-0. At the other end, Sandra Abstreiter made 33 saves on 38 shots and was named Germany’s best player (IIHF).
• Minnesota Duluth’s Ève Gascon needed 14 saves for her shutout as Canada beat Japan 9-0. At the other end, Riko Kawaguchi made 50 saves on 59 shots (IIHF).
• Sweden’s Ebba Svensson Traff made 26 saves in a 4-1 win over Finland, and Sanni Ahola made 28 for the Finns (IIHF).

Save totals are from the IIHF’s official game summaries.

On InGoal: Philips on InGoal Radio Episode 316, and Abstreiter on InGoal Radio Episode 327.

InternationalMason Martin’s 30-save shutout wins U17 gold for the U.S.

Goalie Mason Martin, from Byron Center, Mich., stopped all 30 shots as the United States beat Czechia 3-0 in the final of the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge on Saturday in Oakville, Ont. USA Hockey says he is the first American goalie to post a shutout in the championship game since Michael Lackey in 2014 (USA Hockey NTDP).

AHL and ECHLOilers goalie prospects Eemil Vinni and Nathaniel Day stop 69 of 71

Two of the Oilers’ goalie prospects had big weekends in the minors. In the ECHL on Sunday, 20-year-old Eemil Vinni made 37 saves on 38 shots and was the first star as Fort Wayne won 3-1 in Kalamazoo (ECHL game sheet). One of them, a sprawling post-to-post stop on a breakaway, made the rounds on social media, and the Edmonton Journal notes he is playing some of his best hockey after a few hard years with a back injury (Edmonton Journal).

In the AHL on Saturday, Nathaniel Day, 21, stopped 32 of 33 shots and was the game’s third star in Bakersfield’s 1-0 loss in San Jose (AHL game sheet).

Edmonton has taken a goalie in each of the last five drafts: Samuel Jonsson in 2022, Day in 2023, Vinni in 2024, Daniel Salonen in 2025 and Ryan Cameron in 2026. Salonen has a .928 save percentage in 14 games in Finland’s top league, and Cameron is the No. 1 goalie for Sioux Falls in the USHL (Edmonton Journal).

CollegeFrozen Four MVP Johnny Hicks wins a 1-0 NCAA overtime duel, and Egypt’s Danna Ramadan revives a team at Rutgers

Denver’s Johnny Hicks and Arizona State’s Samuel Urban gave up nothing through 60 minutes on Sunday in Tempe. Daxon Rudolph finally beat Urban 1:27 into overtime for a 1-0 Pioneers win. Hicks made 28 saves for the shutout. Urban stopped 40, 19 of them in the third period (College Hockey News).

NHL.com’s William Douglas has a profile of Danna Ramadan, a 19-year-old goalie from Somerset, N.J., who plays for Egypt’s women’s national team. At Rutgers, she brought back the women’s club team, which hadn’t played since 2019, and she is its president. Her father, Sameh, helped start Egypt’s men’s and women’s programs. “I see him as a mentor and inspiration,” she said (NHL.com).

On InGoal: Johnny Hicks: From the Bench to NCAA Champion and Frozen Four MVP (Ep. 365).

U SPORTSMcGill’s Nicolas Ruccia makes 48 saves at Queen’s

McGill’s Nicolas Ruccia faced 53 shots at Queen’s on Saturday and stopped 48 of them. Three of the Gaels’ goals came on the power play, and Sebbie Johnson won it for Queen’s 5-4 at 2:17 of overtime (box score).

JuniorSarnia’s Kale Osipenko is ready when called, and Morgan Blackwood stops 43 in Rimouski

Kale Osipenko, 18, has started only five games for Sarnia this season, behind Utah Mammoth prospect Ivan Tkach-Tkachenko, but he works through practices and warmups to be ready when the call comes. It came Sunday, with Tkach-Tkachenko out after being bowled over on Friday, and Osipenko made a season-high 32 saves in a 4-2 win over London, his first win in more than six weeks. The Knights scored 50 seconds in, and nothing else beat him until an extra-attacker goal at 17:29 of the third. “There’s always going to be goals that go in. Just forget it and move on,” he said. “The boys played unreal in front of me. A lot of blocked shots, a lot of second efforts cutting off passes” (Mark Malone, Sarnia Observer).

In the QMJHL, Rimouski’s Morgan Blackwood, 18, a cousin of Avalanche goalie Mackenzie Blackwood, made 43 saves on 46 shots and was the first star in a 3-2 overtime loss to Québec on Sunday (QMJHL game report).

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