Hockey headlines for December 16, 2019

Monday, December 16, 2019

Patrick Kane’s 6th regular-season hat trick lifts the Blackhawks to a 5-3 victory over the Wild (Chicago Inquirer)
Golden Knights ride dominant 2nd period to victory over Canucks (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Jets crush Flyers after four-goal second-period explosion (Winnipeg Sun)
Leafs send Sandin to WJC (Toronto Sun)
Maple Leafs return home with brighter outlook after encouraging road trip (Globe & Mail)
Faulk doesn't dispute allegations against Peters in Carolina (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Battered Flyers lose to Jets, 7-3, after Joel Farabee’s penalty leads to two goals and breaks open close game (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Detroit Red Wings take a step back in 4-2 loss to Western Conference-worst Kings (Detroit Free Press)
Leaving Las Vegas empty-handed (Vancouver Province)
Filip Zadina stars, but Red Wings regress in loss to Kings: 'I didn't see this coming' (Detroit Free Press)
Big-league goal a boost for Shaw (Winnipeg Free Press)
Blackhawks’ Adam Boqvist plays in 10th NHL game, officially starting the clock on his entry-level contract (Chicago Sun-Times)
Red Wings must make sure poor effort doesn’t snowball (MLive.com)
Good things come in threes for Leafs (Toronto Sun)
Columbus Blue Jackets’ growing pains really do hurt (Columbus Dispatch)
Panthers in a three-game funk: ‘It’s unacceptable,’ coach Joel Quenneville said. (Miami Herald)
Edmonton Oilers killing it on power play but struggling at even strength (Edmonton Journal)
Quinn disappointed in Rangers' penalty-killing unit (New York Newsday)
How Nikita Kucherov’s injury could affect the Lightning (Tampa Bay Times)
Return to action is near for Wild's Koivu, Spurgeon (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Avalanche travels without defensemen Cale Makar and Erik Johnson (Denver Post)
Isles' Eberle heating up after slow start (New York Newsday)
Jack Johnson becoming a leader off the ice, while 'playing his best hockey' as a Penguin (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Game-winner against Blackhawks gives Blues' Faulk chance to exhale (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Charlie Coyle on the wing may be Bruins’ solution, for now (Boston Herald)
Casey Mittelstadt sent to Rochester after playing 114 games with Sabres (Buffalo News)
As Flyers’ injury list grows, Carsen Twarynski, Nic Aube-Kubel are recalled from Phantoms (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Anthony Duclair shines with proud Dad along for the ride (Ottawa Citizen)
Hockey to the Browns: Like father, like sons (Ottawa Citizen)
For Kris Versteeg, the end of his NHL career is now a reality: ‘It’s almost like breaking up with a girlfriend when you don’t want to break up’ (Chicago Inquirer)
Logan Pyett overcame a sarcoma diagnosis and is now rooting for Oskar Lindblom (South Jersey Courier-Post)