Key Highlights
- 19) in the 2025 NHL Draft. The forward had just gone goalless for four straight games for the second time this season.
- The past time it happened, he ripped off 12 goals in scoring in nine of 12 games. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThis time, how about a pair of hat tricks ...
- back-to-back hat tricks. Carbonneau scored three times and had an assist on Friday for Blainville-Boisbriand of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League in a 7-1 win over Rimouski:He then followed it up with another hat trick on Sunday in a 7-4 loss to Charlottetown:That's seven points the past two games and eight points (six goals, two assists) in a three-game point streak, which now gives Carbonneau 48 goals and 73 points in 52 games on the season.
- The back-to-back hat tricks give Carbonneau 12 multi-goal games on the season, or 21 percent of the games he's played. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement* Adam Jiricek ended a goal drought at 17 games when he scored twice, including the tying goal in the third period, and had an assist in a 5-4 win for Brantford of the Ontario Hockey League over Brampton on Wednesday. His first gave the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead:And his second of the game tied the score 4-4 and tied a Bulldogs record for most goals by a defenseman in a season:The game gave Jiricek a three-game point streak (two goals, four assists) before coming up empty on Friday in a 7-3 win over Oshawa. The 2024 first-round pick is now up to 49 points (15 goals, 34 assists) in 47 games this season and will break the franchise record for goals in a season by a defenseman with his next one. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement* Colin Ralph (Colin Ralph?) was in the spotlight for top-ranked Michigan State on Saturday to help the Spartans salvage a weekend split with Ohio State. After falling 5-1 on Friday, the Spartans came back with a 13-round shootout win, 4-3, and the Blues' 2024 second-round pick scored the deciding goal in the 13th round:Here's what Spartans coach Adam Nightingale had to say about using Ralph at that critical junture:* Otto Stenberg (2025, first round) was back in action for Springfield of the American Hockey League after missing 13 days with a knee injury; he had two assists for the Thunderbirds in a 5-1 win over Charlotte on Saturday, including this beauty setting up Aleksanteri Kaskimaki (2022, third round) for this breakaway goal:I would suspect that once rosters can expand following the trade deadline on Friday that we see Stenberg back in St.
- Louis, as long as the Blues remain cap compliant. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement* Matvei Korotky (2024, seventh round) was at it again, scoring twice in three games for SKA St.