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Flynn’s Daily: Landeskog Scores AHL Goal; Panthers Tie Lightning with SO Win; Vegas Secures Pacific Division
Colorado’s captain, Gabriel Landeskog, scored his first professional goal with the Colorado Eagles since the 2022 playoffs. The Avs, however, lost by one to the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday night.
The Florida Panthers beat the Buffalo Sabres in overtime to advance in the Atlantic Division race, and the Kings’ win over the Avs secured their first-round matchup with the Edmonton Oilers.
The Vegas Golden Knights’ win over the Nashville Predators secured their reign of the Pacific Division and more around the NHL in the April 13 edition of Flynn’s Daily.
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Landeskog played his second consecutive game with the Eagles at Blue Arena in Loveland, earning two points in the matchup against the Henderson Silver Knights.
Gabe gets it done. pic.twitter.com/KZqlER5NhD
— x – Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 13, 2025
“Obviously, it’s very exciting to get on the score sheet, and scoring a goal is a good feeling, no doubt, especially in a tight game like this. But I don’t think I’ve ever really tried to evaluate my game, good or bad, whether I score goals or get assists or whatever,” Landeskog said. “There are other things that I evaluate my game based off of, but no doubt it’s exciting to contribute, and I know as a player that my job is to help the team offensively, and it’s fun doing that.”
Brock Nelson scored his career 300th goal, Valeri Nichushkin earned two points, and Sam Malinski led the team in shots on goal and netted one in the 5-4 regulation loss to the Kings.
Around the NHL
Florida Hockey Now: Anton Lundell scored the game-winner for the Florida Panthers in the shootout win over the Buffalo Sabres. Carter Verhaeghe was the only Panthers player to have a multi-point game, and the Cats edged closer to the Tampa Bay Lightning for the No. 2 spot in the Atlantic Division.
ย Vegas Hockey Now:ย Vegas beat the Nashville Predators 5-3 on fan appreciation night in their last regular-season game at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights secured the top spot in the Pacific Division with the victory.
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Do you dress the Captain for the first playoff game against Dallas? If so, what do the lines look like?
I could not be more proud of Landy. To skate b2b AHL games is an achievement, given that injury and process. If he does nothing else, he has done so much. The AHL does not approximate NHL games. And it certainly does not approximate NHL playoff games. I would think he would need to participate in a couple practices before they even think of activating him. If he can play at playoff level — still an if — I would think 4th line with pk and maybe second pp assignments? Keeping in mind, post deadline, the pp and pk are… Read more »
Heโs back and heโs pissed, ready to clean stuff up. Just like Trump.