Montreal Gives Price a Four-Minute Ovation, Saros Blanks the Kings the Night After Rinne’s Induction

NHLSaros blanks the Kings a night after watching Rinne go into the Hall

Juuse Saros was in Toronto on Monday to see Pekka Rinne, his Nashville partner for six seasons, inducted into the Hall of Fame. On Tuesday in Los Angeles he stopped all 30 shots in a 3-0 Predators win. “Obviously special couple days, and, yeah, I think we got a little bit of his luck to go from Toronto here,” Saros said. Coach Andrew Brunette called the shutout “probably a tribute to Pekka,” adding, “Obviously means a lot to Juuse, and I thought he was outstanding tonight” (Dan Greenspan, NHL.com).

It was the 28th shutout of Saros’s career, which ties him with Niklas Backstrom for sixth among Finnish goalies. The leader is Rinne, with 60. Anton Forsberg made 27 saves for the Kings (NHL.com).

On InGoal: Rinne on InGoal Radio Episode 154, and Pro Gear: Juuse Saros Explains His Three “Batting Gloves”.

NHLWallstedt and Fowler trade saves on Price night

The game after the ceremony was a goalie’s game. Minnesota’s Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves and was the first star, and Montreal’s Jacob Fowler made 22. Nick Suzuki tied it late in the third period, and Kirill Kaprizov won it 2-1 with a power-play one-timer 21 seconds into overtime. “But us goalies, we love these games. Those are the best,” Wallstedt said. Fowler gave the credit to the other end: “They’ve got one of the best goalies in the League and he played like it tonight” (Sean Farrell, NHL.com).

On InGoal: Wallstedt and Fowler: Watch the Shooters, Not Just the Goalies, Wallstedt on InGoal Radio Episode 129, and Fowler on InGoal Radio Episode 339.

NHLJackson Parsons gets his first call-up, to his hometown Senators

The Senators recalled Jackson Parsons from Belleville on Tuesday, his first NHL call-up. He grew up in Embrun, Ont., just outside Ottawa, and backed up Samuel Ersson against Washington while the team holds off on Linus Ullmark’s return (Steve Warne, The Hockey News via Yahoo Sports).

Parsons turned pro after a big final junior season in Kitchener. In 2024-25 he led the CHL with 37 wins, set a Rangers record with a 2.24 goals-against average, and became the first Kitchener goalie named CHL Goaltender of the Year, as voted by NHL Central Scouting (Kitchener Rangers).

AHLJake Sibell earns an AHL contract with San Diego, and Rittich blanks Wilkes-Barre/Scranton

Tulsa’s Jake Sibell, the ECHL’s goalie of the month for October (from our Nov. 3 edition), signed a one-year AHL contract with the San Diego Gulls on Tuesday. The 26-year-old from Isanti, Minn., is 5-1-0 in the ECHL this season with a .955 save percentage and two shutouts. He played college hockey at Niagara and St. Thomas, and in 2020-21 he was USA Hockey’s junior goalie of the year and the NAHL’s MVP with Aberdeen, setting league records for wins, goals-against average and save percentage (San Diego Gulls).

In Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday, David Rittich, 34, stopped all 25 shots and was the first star in Utica’s 4-0 win, the Comets’ fifth in a row. The veteran has played for six NHL teams (AHL game report).

InternationalAerin Frankel’s winning run reaches 10 straight for Team USA, and Abstreiter wins a seven-round shootout

Aerin Frankel has won 10 games in a row in goal for the United States, a streak that began at the 2025 Women’s Worlds and ran through the Olympic gold in Milan into this tournament in Denmark. Over those 10 games she has given up seven goals and posted five shutouts. Asked when she last lost for her country, she had to think: “It’s been a while. Maybe in Utica in 2024, when we lost the final against Canada?” She put the run down to the group in front of her: “We trust each other so much” (Michael Søvsø, IIHF).

In Esbjerg on Tuesday, Germany’s Sandra Abstreiter and Czechia’s Klara Peslarova were tied 1-1 after overtime, and the shootout went to a seventh round before Lilli Welcke won it for Germany. Abstreiter’s big stops in regulation came on Barbora Bartokova, alone out of the penalty box, and on Katerina Mrazova on a two-on-one (IIHF).

On InGoal: No Weird Tricks Required: Aerin Frankel and the Power of Goalie Basics, and Abstreiter on InGoal Radio Episode 327.

Goalies of the weekCalgary’s Eric Tu earns WHL goalie of the week with a shutout in Swift Current

• WHL: Calgary’s Eric Tu, 18, from White Rock, B.C., won both his road starts with a .981 save percentage: 29 saves on 30 shots in Prince Albert on Nov. 4, then his first shutout of the season, 5-0 in Swift Current on Nov. 7, with all four Broncos power plays killed (WHL).

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