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Montreal beat Vancouver in an NHL match, Demidov scored an assist hat-trick for the first time this season

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2 weeks ago

January 13, 2026

Jon

Montreal beat Vancouver in an NHL match, Demidov scored an assist hat-trick for the first time this season

Montreal Canadiens hockey players / Photo: © Minas Panagiotakis / Stringer / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru

The Montreal Canadiens beat the Vancouver Canucks in a home match of the NHL regular season.

The meeting in Montreal ended with a score of 6:3. Alexandre Carrier scored a double for Montreal, and Noah Dobson, Mike Matheson, Juraj Slafkovskiy and Oliver Kapanen scored once each. Elias Petterson, Evander Kane and Max Sasson scored goals for Vancouver.

Montreal’s Russian forward Ivan Demidov made three assists in one game for the first time this season and was recognized as the third star of the match. Demidov has 39 points (10+29) this season.

Montreal scored 58 points and moved up to fourth place in the Eastern Conference. Vancouver lost its seventh match in a row and is in last 16th place in the West with 37 points.

In another match of the day, Detroit defeated Carolina at home (4:3 OT).

NHL. Regular season

Montreal Canadiens (Montreal) – Vancouver Canucks (Vancouver) – 6:3 (1:1, 2:2, 3:0)

Goals: Dobson, 18:13 (bol.). Carrier, 24:31, 24:51. Matheson 40:29. Slafkovsky, 41:07. Kapanen, 46:05. — Pettersson, 11:53. Kane, 21:50. Sasson, 29:42.

Detroit Red Wings (Detroit) – Carolina Hurricanes (Raleigh) – 4:3 OT (1:0, 2:0, 0:3, 1:0)

Goals: Van Riemsdyk, 1:32 (bol.). Debrincat, 21:28. Johansson, 24:54. Kopp, 63:27. – Blake, 44:44 (bol.). Jarvis, 47:56 (men.). Gostisbeer, 56:59 (bol.).

Source: Sportbox

Jon

I’m a sports enthusiast and journalist who has worked in the news industry for over 8 years. I currently work as an author at Sportish and my work focuses mainly on sports news.

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NHL. Hat trick with overtime goal, wins for Florida, Colorado and Anaheim

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2 hours ago

January 26, 2026

Robert

NHL. Hat trick with overtime goal, wins for Florida, Colorado and Anaheim

Defending champion Florida beat Chicago 5-1 in NHL regular season play, capturing its sixth win in its last eight games.

The Panthers sit sixth in the Atlantic Division, four points behind the top 3.

Among other results, we note foreign player Ottawa’s unexpected victory over Vegas with a score of 7:1, Colorado’s 4:1 win over Toronto with a hat-trick from Brock Nelson, and Anaheim’s 4:3 win in overtime against Calgary.

Junior forward Beckett Sennekke had a hat trick for the Ducks, his first three-goal game in the NHL.

Anaheim is in the top 3 in its league and aims to return to the play-offs.

Regular season in NHL

Toronto – colorado 1:4

Seattle – New Jersey 4:2

Ottawa -Vegas 7:1

Vancouver – pittsburgh 2:3

Chicago – Florida1:5

Calgary – anaheim 3:4 in overtime

Source: Sport UA

Robert

I have been working as a sports journalist for about 6 years now. I currently work as an author at Sportish, which is a sports news website. I mainly cover sports news and I love writing about all aspects of the sport. I also have experience working as a broadcast journalist, so I have some great insights into how sport is reported and presented.

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No feeling today. Sokol won and became the leader of the Ukrainian championship

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18 hours ago

January 25, 2026

Robert

No feeling today. Sokol won and became the leader of the Ukrainian championship

The Ukrainian hockey championship match between Sokol and Storm took place.

If yesterday the current champion Kremenchuk sensationally conceded 9 goals and lost to the Odessa region, Sokol returned to first place by easily beating Storm 8:1.

Having defeated Kremenchug twice recently, the Kiev team took the lead in the championship, three points ahead of its main rival.

Ukrainian Hockey Championship

Hawk – Storm 8:1 (1:0, 2:0, 5:1)

Discs: 18:00 Attic (Tishchenko) – 1:0, 28:33 Tishchenko – 2:0, 31:14 Tsyura – 3:0, 42:50 Attic (Oleynik, Rymar) – 4:0, 44:36 Tsyura – 5:0, 44:46 Oleynik (Ceiling) – 6:0, 46:59 Tsyura (yanishevsky) – 7:0, 49:38 Ratushny (Aleksyuk) – 7:1, 51:38 Tolstushko (Tsyura, Zakharov) – 8:1

Source: Sport UA

Robert

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Hat-trick and 6 points for a defenseman in the NHL, Buffalo’s breakthrough, Florida’s victory

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22 hours ago

January 25, 2026

Robert

Hat-trick and 6 points for a defenseman in the NHL, Buffalo’s breakthrough, Florida’s victory

In the NHL East, the leaders remain Detroit and Carolina, who won today and share first place with 69 points. The top 3 was completed by Tampa Bay, which unexpectedly conceded 8 goals from Columbus.

Buffalo is sensationally in the top 4 of the conference. The team, which has missed the play-offs for 13 consecutive seasons, has won 18 of the last 22 games and aims to make a quick entry into the post-regular season.

Florida won an important victory. The Panthers beat Minnesota on Brad Marchand’s double and hope to avoid missing the playoffs. The league champion is in the 6th place, 6 points behind the top 3.

In the West, Edmonton gave the super game and defeated Washington 6:5 with a hat-trick in overtime and got 6 points from defender Evan Bouchard. This was the first hat-trick in the player’s career.