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Write about Goalies and the Golden Knights for The Athletic.
Braeden Bowman is the first player in Golden Knights franchise history with 3 goals in his first five career NHL games.
21.11.2025 04:15 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jack Eichel has been brilliant with the puck tonight.
That pass was ridiculous. All Bowman had to do was put his stick on the ice, for his third goal in 5 NHL games.
4-1 Vegas
Jack Eichel dekes to the backhand and scores to make it 3-1.
Second goal of the night for Eichel. It was a nice stretch pass by Bowman to set it up, his first NHL assist.
Schmidt beats Schmid
2-1
Ben Hutton went 609 days in between goals, and now scores in back to back games.
21.11.2025 03:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jack Eichel ends his 9-game scoring drought with a rebound on the doorstep.
1-0 Vegas
Guess which team is already cooked!
Pleasant surprises at the quarter mark!
PWHL Power Rankings - there are games tomorrow!
New TAHS with @jessegranger.bsky.social and @haileysalvian.bsky.social. It's good show.
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🎙️ New Episode of The Athletic Hockey Show is up! 🎙️
@seangentille.bsky.social and I discuss the most surprising starts in the NHL
• Ducks (Gauthier)
• Red Wings
• Blackhawks (Knight)
• Bruins (Geekie & Swayman)
Plus, @haileysalvian.bsky.social talks PWHL
Still a ways to go, but he may be carving out a spot in this roster.
19.11.2025 06:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Braeden Bowman has two goals in his first 4 NHL games, and has looked good all over the ice.
More importantly for him, Bruce Cassidy seems to love his game. He just heaped praise on his play on the boards, puck management, all the things you usually worry about with young players.
Final- Golden Knights 3, Rangers 2
It got a little dicey at the end, but Schmid made the saves and Vegas gets the win.
Sullivan pulls the goalie for the extra attacker and the Rangers score on a deflection in front.
3-2 Vegas with 2:43 to play
New York made it 3-2, but this one is coming back.
Cassidy is challenging for offside, and it definitely was.
Schmid hasn't been busy tonight, but that backdoor stop on Wil Cuylle on the shorthanded 2-on-1 was an absolutely massive save.
That would've tied it 2-2. Instead Vegas takes a 3-1 lead later in that shift.
Shea Theodore makes it 3-1 with a shot from distance that went through a bunch of traffic.
19.11.2025 05:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Schmid's mask got knocked off by either Hanifin or JT Miller as they wrestled for positioning in front of the net.
It was very similar to the thing that happened to Jeremy Swayman the other night, other than there wasn't a shot right at his head immediately after.
Here’s Igor Shesterkin’s highway robbery on Jack Eichel
I like how quick his eyes/head snap to the puck when Saad made the pass to the middle. Helps Igor track the puck, and he has as quick of a glove as anyone on earth.
Golden Knights lead the Rangers 2-1 after two periods.
Vegas has been the better team for the vast majority of the 40 minutes.
Lots of Rangers fans in the house tonight, and they're chanting "Igor! Igor!" after that save.
19.11.2025 04:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sweet jesus what a glove save by Shesterkin
19.11.2025 04:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've lost track of how many times the puck has hit the netting and the officials haven't blown the play dead.
I don't ever remember it happening in a game this season prior to tonight, but it just keeps happening. Weird.
Shesterkin is a total psycho playing the puck and it's great.
He tries passes most goalies wouldn't even consider.
Jonny Brodzinski gets the Rangers on the board with a rebound on an odd-man rush.
Barbashev lost the puck at the offensive blue line, springing a 3-on-1 for the Rangers. Schmid made the initial save, but Brodzinski jammed the second chance in.
The Golden Knights have done a great job of keeping the Rangers to the outside. Lately it has felt like NY has just accepted it can't get to the slot, and is firing everything from distance.
19.11.2025 04:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Incredible save by Shesterkin on a 2-on-0.
Probably should've been a penalty on Howden for kneeing him in the back of the head, but it was a crazy play.
Ben Hutton dives into the o-zone, Pavel Dorofeyev finds him with a pass, and the shot barely trickles through Shesterkin.
2-0 Vegas
Hutton's first of the season
That was an excellent period for the Golden Knights defensively.
They only allowed five shots on goal, and only one was really dangerous, and Schmid handled the redirect nicely.
Braedan Bowman scores another!
His second of his NHL career, on the power play again. He was in the right spot for a rebound, and roofed it before Shesterkin could get across.
1-0 Vegas
Igor Shesterkin and Akira Schmid lead their teams onto the ice for warm ups in Las Vegas.
19.11.2025 02:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
