Fleury Heads Into the Penguins Hall of Fame, Garand Wins in Vancouver With 50 Family and Friends Watching
Plus: Daccord and Bussi catch up over coffee in Helsinki, three shutouts in the Women’s Worlds quarterfinals, Dartmouth’s Janie McGawn makes 50 saves for an NCAA overtime win, Trey Augustine’s first pro shutout, and to close, the night the Blues used three goalies and the start of Gerry Cheevers’ 32-game unbeaten run.
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In this edition 14 stories
NHL
- Fleury goes into the Penguins Hall of Fame on Saturday
- Garand wins in Vancouver with about 50 family and friends in the stands
- Daccord and Bussi, old Stop It training partners, meet for coffee in Helsinki
- Saros makes 40 saves as the Predators win a seventh straight
- Around the league: Wallstedt’s numbers, and the Sabres’ EBUG
U SPORTS
International
At the end: this day in goalie history
Goalies in this edition 30 goalies
Every goalie named in this edition, from the NHL to junior and college.
NHL: Marc-Andre Fleury (Pittsburgh Penguins), Dylan Garand (New York Rangers), Joey Daccord (Seattle Kraken), Brandon Bussi (Carolina Hurricanes), Juuse Saros (Nashville Predators), Jesper Wallstedt (Minnesota Wild), Jack McNaughton (Buffalo Sabres)
AHL: Trey Augustine (Grand Rapids Griffins)
College: Janie McGawn (Dartmouth), Rylee Eno (Franklin Pierce), Taylor Belchetz (UConn), Carl Axelsson (Minnesota Duluth), Oceanne Thiffault (RIT)
U SPORTS: Olivia Tran (York), Brayden Peters (Acadia), Jakob Robillard (UPEI)
International: Ebba Svensson Traff (Sweden), Saskia Maurer (Switzerland), Gwyneth Philips (USA), Emma-Sofie Nordstrom (Denmark), Ludovic Waeber (Fribourg-Gottéron), Oskari Salminen (JYP)
Junior: Yegor Rybkin (Moncton Wildcats), Xavier Wendt (Tri-City Americans)
+6 more, including Sanni Ahola and Klara Peslarova
NHLFleury goes into the Penguins Hall of Fame on Saturday
Marc-Andre Fleury is inducted into the Pittsburgh Penguins Hall of Fame on Saturday, with an on-ice ceremony before the home game against the Ottawa Senators. He goes in alongside Larry Murphy, Jim Rutherford, and Jack McGregor. The voting committee picked Fleury unanimously in his first year of eligibility, and no other player from the post-2005 era has made the Penguins Hall that way. Pittsburgh traded up to take him first overall in 2003, and he left with three Stanley Cups (2009, 2016, and 2017) and the franchise records for regular-season games (691), wins (375), and shutouts (44), plus the best goals-against average among Penguins with at least 50 games (2.58). He also holds the club’s playoff marks for games (115), wins (62), and shutouts (10) (Penguins). “Pittsburgh will always be a special place,” Fleury told team reporter Michelle Crechiolo (Penguins.com).
On InGoal: InGoal Radio Episode 300 with Marc-Andre Fleury, Lessons from Fleury’s Career as it Ends Where it Started, and Shane Clifford: What a Goalie Coach Learned From Fleury, Irbe and Wolf (Ep. 373).
NHLGarand wins in Vancouver with about 50 family and friends in the stands
Dylan Garand grew up in Victoria and played his junior hockey in Kamloops, but Friday was the first time most of the people behind him had seen him play as a pro. About 50 family members and friends were in Vancouver as he made 27 saves in a 5-1 Rangers win over the Canucks. “It’s pretty special,” Garand said. “I haven’t played here since I was 19 and my whole pro career, a lot of people that support me have never seen me play” (Kevin Woodley, InGoal co-founder, NHL.com). The Rangers have now alternated Garand and Joonas Korpisalo for four straight games, the tandem we wrote about in yesterday’s edition.
On InGoal: Dylan Garand’s Pro Reads, and Dylan Garand’s Carey Price-Inspired Key to Crease Movement.
NHLDaccord and Bussi, old Stop It training partners, meet for coffee in Helsinki
Seattle’s Joey Daccord and Carolina’s Brandon Bussi sat down for coffee in Helsinki this week, between the two Global Series games, and NHL Studios filmed the 40-minute talk. Their friendship goes back to 2018, when Bussi left Long Island to train at Stop It Goaltending, the Massachusetts school run by Daccord’s father, Brian, and coached its campers while he was there. Calgary’s Devin Cooley was one of the goalies living there at the same time. Neither took a straight road: Daccord was a seventh-round pick who went from Arizona State through the AHL to Seattle in the expansion draft, and Bussi went undrafted, played at Western Michigan, spent three seasons in Providence, and won the Stanley Cup with Carolina in June after taking over in the Final. Both said they spent years feeling that one bad game could be their last chance. “It would feel like if you lost or didn’t play well, it was like you’re never going to get another chance again,” Daccord said. Bussi beat Seattle 4-1 in Thursday’s opener with Daccord backing up, and the two could meet in Saturday’s game (Shawn P. Roarke, NHL.com).
Brian Daccord joined Joey on InGoal Radio last year to talk about how Stop It shaped him, in InGoal Radio Episode 318 with Joey and Brian Daccord.
On InGoal: Brandon Bussi’s Advice for Goalie Parents Starts With a Notebook, and Joey Daccord’s 5 Tips for Goalie Parents.
NHLSaros makes 40 saves as the Predators win a seventh straight
Juuse Saros kept Nashville in Friday’s game in Las Vegas through a hard first half, finished with 40 saves, and then held Vegas off in the shootout, where Filip Forsberg and Roman Josi scored for a 3-2 Predators win. It was Nashville’s seventh win in a row, matching Carolina for the longest streak in the NHL this season. “Saros was unbelievable,” Forsberg said. Adin Hill made 30 saves for Vegas (Paul Delos Santos, NHL.com).
On InGoal: Pro Gear: Juuse Saros Explains His Three “Batting Gloves”.
NHLAround the league: Wallstedt’s numbers, and the Sabres’ EBUG
- NHL.com went through the NHL EDGE data behind Jesper Wallstedt’s season in Minnesota, where he turns 24 on Saturday. He is 13-2-3 and leads the NHL in wins and quality starts (14). Among goalies with at least 10 games, his .961 save percentage at 5-on-5 in close games is the best in the league, and his plus-16.02 saves above projected is the highest among goalies who have faced 200 shots (NHL.com).
- Buffalo’s emergency backup, Jack McNaughton, is also a goaltending scout for the Sabres. The 25-year-old from Calgary played for the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen and won 20 games over four seasons at Western before graduating this year. The Sabres often carry three goalies, and when they do, McNaughton doesn’t travel with the team. With Alex Lyon hurt they had only two, so he spent weeks at practices and on road trips, staying out after practice to work with goalie coach Mike Bales. His mask says “Bugzy.” “Obviously, nobody wants to see me on the ice, preferably,” he said. “That means everything’s going right, everybody’s healthy” (Justin Alpert, Sabres.com).
On InGoal: Wallstedt on InGoal Radio Episode 129.
AHLTrey Augustine gets his first pro shutout
Rookie Trey Augustine stopped all 31 shots for his first professional shutout on Friday as the Grand Rapids Griffins won 3-0 in Iowa. His busiest stretch came late in the second period, with five saves on an Iowa power play to protect a 2-0 lead. He has a point in six straight starts (5-0-1) and was named the game’s second star (Grand Rapids Griffins).
The 21-year-old from South Lyon, Mich., was Detroit’s second-round pick (41st overall) in 2023. He went 66-25-7 with nine shutouts in three seasons at Michigan State, was twice named the Big Ten’s goaltender of the year, was a Hobey Baker finalist last season, and won two World Junior gold medals with the U.S. (Detroit Red Wings).
On InGoal: InGoal Radio Episode 241 with Trey Augustine.
CollegeDartmouth’s Janie McGawn makes 50 saves in an NCAA overtime win
Colgate outshot Dartmouth 53-18 on Friday, 24-3 in the first period alone, and still lost. Janie McGawn stopped 50 shots to get the game to overtime, and Miami Jones won it for Dartmouth 4-3 just 20 seconds into 3-on-3 play. Brooke Davis made 14 saves for Colgate (College Hockey News box score).
Around the NCAA
- Franklin Pierce’s Rylee Eno stopped all 32 shots in a 3-0 NEWHA win over Assumption.
- UConn’s Taylor Belchetz made 26 saves to blank Providence 3-0, while Bianca Birrittieri stopped 43 at the other end. Belchetz’s first NCAA shutout led our Oct. 5 edition.
- Minnesota Duluth freshman Carl Axelsson made 28 saves in a 4-0 win at St. Cloud State to open an NCHC series.
- RIT freshman Oceanne Thiffault got her first career shutout, 15 saves in a 4-0 win over Lindenwood (RIT Athletics).
The other game details in this list come from College Hockey News box scores.
U SPORTSYork’s Olivia Tran stops 46 at Toronto, Acadia’s Brayden Peters makes 38 in a win at Dalhousie
- York’s Olivia Tran faced 51 shots at Toronto on Friday and stopped 46 of them; the Varsity Blues outshot the Lions 51-11 and won 5-0 (box score).
- Acadia’s Brayden Peters made 38 saves on 40 shots in a 3-2 AUS win at Dalhousie, holding on after Madden MacDougall cut the lead to one with under two minutes left (box score).
- UPEI’s Jakob Robillard stopped 39 of 43 in a 5-4 win over UNB (box score).
- In the OUA, Ottawa’s Zach Dietz (5-1 over Queen’s) and Concordia’s Brady James (5-1 at Nipissing) each made 35 saves on 36 shots (Ottawa box score, Concordia box score).
InternationalSvensson Traff, Philips, and Ahola post Women’s Worlds quarterfinal shutouts, Peslarova stops 38
Three of Friday’s four quarterfinals at the Women’s World Championship in Denmark ended in shutouts. In Esbjerg, Sweden’s Ebba Svensson Traff made nine saves in a 1-0 win over Switzerland, her second straight shutout of the tournament (Corren), and the win puts Sweden in a Worlds semifinal for the first time since 2009 (Hockeysverige). Switzerland’s Saskia Maurer stopped 24 of 25, beaten only by Sara Hjalmarsson midway through the second period (watson). “Saskia kept us in the game and gave us a chance to come back,” Swiss captain Alina Müller said (Michael Søvsø, IIHF).
In Herning, Gwyneth Philips needed eight saves in the USA’s 14-0 win over Denmark, one of them a glove stop on Nicoline Jensen’s penalty shot with 1:56 left to keep the shutout. The Americans put 85 shots on goal, a U.S. record for one game, three more than the 82 they fired at Sweden in 1997. Denmark’s Emma-Sofie Nordstrom made 51 saves over the first two periods, and Caroline Bjergstad stopped 20 in the third (Risto Pakarinen, IIHF). Finland’s Sanni Ahola had a quiet night in a 6-0 win over Germany, with Sandra Abstreiter in the German net (Ilkka-Pohjalainen).
Canada needed a third-period goal from Renata Fast, a point shot through Klara Peslarova’s legs, to beat Czechia 3-2. Peslarova made 38 saves (Risto Pakarinen, IIHF), and Eve Gascon stopped 14 of 16 for Canada (Team Canada). Sunday’s semifinals in Herning are Canada against Sweden and the USA against Finland.
On InGoal: Gwyneth Philips’ offseason reset.
InternationalWaeber stops 53 for Fribourg-Gottéron in Bern
Around the world
- Fribourg-Gottéron’s Ludovic Waeber faced 56 shots at SC Bern on Friday in Switzerland’s National League and stopped 53, pushing the game to overtime before Bern won 4-3. Connor Hughes made 27 saves for Bern (National League game statistics).
- In Finland’s Liiga, JYP’s Oskari Salminen made 28 saves in a 1-0 win at KooKoo (Liiga game statistics).
- In Leh, high in the Himalayas in India’s Ladakh region, Royal Enfield’s ice hockey development program opened its fourth season with its first camp built only for goalies, Nov. 9-13, led by goaltending coach Matt Darlow, for goalies from Ladakh and Spiti (myKhel).
JuniorMoncton’s Yegor Rybkin stops 46, and 16-year-old Dylan Mingo makes 37 in an overtime win for Moose Jaw
Notable performances in the CHL
- QMJHL: Moncton’s Yegor Rybkin, 18, made 46 saves on 50 shots, 24 of them in the third period, as the Wildcats beat Saint John 5-4 in a shootout. He was the first star.
- WHL: Moose Jaw’s Dylan Mingo, 16, stopped 37 of 39 at Penticton, and the Warriors won 3-2 on Rasmus Kamarainen’s goal 51 seconds into overtime. Mingo was the first star.
- QMJHL: Cape Breton’s Lucas Beckman, 19, stopped all 34 shots in a 4-0 win over Newfoundland.
- OHL: Flint’s Trenten Bennett, 20, made 29 saves to blank Ottawa 4-0.
- WHL: Tri-City’s Xavier Wendt, 18, stopped all 29 in a 3-0 win over Seattle.
Game details come from the official game reports of the QMJHL, WHL, and OHL.
This Day in Goalie History
November 14
HistoryOne we missed, the night the Blues used three goalies
This one belonged in yesterday’s edition. On Nov. 13, 1968, the St. Louis Blues won 3-1 at Madison Square Garden and needed three goalies to do it, two of them future Hall of Famers. Teammate Red Berenson had finally talked Glenn Hall into a mask, and that night in New York was the first time he wore one in a game. Vic Hadfield beat him early on a long, dipping shot, and when referee Vern Buffey then called the Blues for delay of game, Hall came out of his crease to argue and jabbed Buffey in the chest with his catching glove. It was 2:01 into the game, and it got Hall the one game misconduct of his NHL career (Stan Fischler, NHL.com; Dave Stubbs, NHL.com). After the game he joked to a teammate, “Every time I wear a mask, I get thrown out” (Fischler).
That put Robbie Irons, a 22-year-old rookie, in goal. Defenceman Doug Harvey skated over with word from coach Scotty Bowman to fake an injury, Irons said, and the stall gave Jacques Plante time to leave the press box, where he had been eating hot dogs, and get dressed. “I made one save, grabbed the puck and got a whistle,” Irons recalled. He was done after 2:59, and it was the only NHL game he ever played. Plante went the rest of the way and didn’t allow a goal on 21 shots (Stubbs; box score).
The Rangers protested, and the NHL responded with a change people came to call the Robbie Irons rule: for a time, a team had to finish a regular-season game with the two goalies it had dressed, and if neither could go, a skater took over (Fischler). Irons spent the next 11 seasons in Fort Wayne. In 523 games for the IHL’s Komets he won the 1973 Turner Cup and the James Norris Memorial Trophy, the league’s top-goalie award. When he stopped playing in 1981, the Komets retired his No. 30, and he moved to their broadcast booth as the analyst for about 40 years (Stubbs).
Thanks to Vintage Hockey Showcase on X, whose post reminded us of the anniversary.
On InGoal: InGoal Radio Episode 29: Mr. Goalie Glenn Hall, and InGoal Radio Episode 336, celebrating the life of Glenn Hall.
HistoryGerry Cheevers starts his record-setting 32-game unbeaten run, 55 years ago today
On this day in 1971, Gerry Cheevers made 29 saves in a Boston win at home over Los Angeles, and it was the first of 32 straight regular-season games without a loss, through March 25, 1972. He went 24-0-8 in that stretch, still the longest unbeaten run by a goalie in one NHL season, by the NHL’s game data (NHL.com). It is the mark Pete Peeters came within one game of in 1982-83, as we wrote in yesterday’s edition, and both runs came in a Bruins sweater.
Also on Nov. 14
- 1936Turk Broda won his first NHL game, for Toronto at home against Chicago.
- 1943Bill Durnan got his first NHL shutout, for Montreal in Detroit.
- 1959Terry Sawchuk marked his 600th regular-season game, the third goalie to reach 600 by the NHL’s current totals, with a 50-save shutout for Detroit in New York.
- 1964Johnny Bower played his 400th regular-season game, for Toronto against Boston.
- 1965Bernie Parent, then a Bruins rookie, made 30 saves against Toronto for his first NHL shutout.
- 1992Mike Vernon made 29 saves in Tampa Bay for his 200th regular-season win, with Calgary.
- 1996Ron Hextall played his 500th regular-season game, for Philadelphia against Washington.
- 2018Tristan Jarry was credited with a goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in the AHL, the first goalie goal in that club’s history, according to Wikipedia’s list of goalie goals.
- 2024Carter George caught a dump-in and fired it the length of the ice into the empty net for Owen Sound against Peterborough, the first goalie goal in Attack history and the 11th by a goalie in the OHL, according to the Los Angeles Kings. Read more on our goalie goals page.
- 2024Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 of 24 against Winnipeg for his 300th regular-season win, the 40th goalie to get there.
The NHL game details in this list come from the NHL’s game records at NHL Records.
On InGoal: InGoal Radio with Bernie Parent.
Born on Nov. 14Wallstedt
Happy birthday to Minnesota Wild goalie Jesper Wallstedt (24).
End of this day in goalie history
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