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Defenseman Mike Matheson will be back in the lineup on Saturday night when the Florida Panthers play host to the Detroit Red Wings.Matheson missed the past two games after he was suspended by the NHL for his check on Vancouver Canucks rookie Elias Pettersson Dallas Stars Hats Authentic , who suffered a concussion on the play.“It was an unfortunate sequence of events,” Matheson said. “The first thing I thought of after the game was if he was OK. That was my main concern, and it still is, but it sounds like he is doing better. That’s great to hear.”Article continues below ...Matheson said he and Pettersson exchanged text messages. Matheson, who had never previously been suspended by the NHL, said he apologized to Pettersson.“As a player, you don’t go around trying to injure guys,” Matheson said. “That’s not part of my game.”Matheson will return Saturday to a joyous team as the Panthers (1-2-2) came up with a huge road win on Friday night, beating the reigning Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals 6-5 in a four-round shootout.It was Florida’s first win of the season.Meanwhile, the Red Wings (0-5-2), who have won 11 Stanley Cup titles — more than any other U.S.-based team — are off to a dreadful start. They have been outscored 33-15 in seven games.Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, who stopped 28 of 30 shots against Tampa Bay on Thursday Custom Dallas Stars Jerseys , including all nine on the power play, is the likely starter on Saturday.Howard, a 34-year-old who is in the final year of his contract, was probably Detroit’s best player last season, posting a 2.85 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage.This season, Howard has a 3.57 goals-against average and an .893 save percentage, but the Wings are off to one of the worst starts in franchise history, similar to 0-8-1 in 1985-86.“It’s not fun, that’s for sure,” Howard told NHL.com. “But we’ve got to keep moving along. We’ve had a better effort the past couple of games.”Wings coach Jeff Blashill agreed with Howard that progress is being made.“But I still think we are passing up chances to shoot the puck,” said Blashill, who is in the final season of a four-year contract. “We have to get that figured out.”The Wings www.officialredwings.com , who last season missed the playoffs for the second year in a row — the first time that has happened to Detroit since 1983 — are short of quality, proven defensemen.Center Dylan Larkin, 22, is the team’s biggest rising star. He is a huge part of Detroit’s future, along with other under-25 forwards (Tyler Bertuzzi, Andreas Athanasiou, Anthony Mantha, Christoffer Ehn and Michael Rasmussen).In addition, three of Detroit’s top six defensemen are rookies: Filip Hronek, Joe Hicketts and Dennis Cholowski.Those rookies will face a high-flying Panthers offense that has averaged exactly four goals for the past four games. That includes a game against the Philadelphia Flyers in which Florida fell behind 5-2 but rallied to force overtime before losing 6-5 in a shootout. NEW YORK (AP) Artemi Panarin and Sergei Bobrovsky have the surging Columbus Blue Jackets in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race.Panarin had three goals and an assist, Bobrovsky made 29 saves and the Blue Jackets extended their winning streak to nine games with a 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.”Obviously, you want to limit the penalties in the third period and the stretch run Detroit Red Wings T-Shirts Authentic , but Bob (Bobrovsky) played great and saved us, and Bread (Panarin) was able to seal the deal,” Columbus defenseman Ian Cole said.The Blue Jackets are tied for second place in the Metropolitan Division with the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins at 87 points. Both teams trail Washington by four.It is Columbus’ longest winning streak since its 16-game run last season from Nov. 29, 2016, to Jan. 3, 2017.It was Panarin’s second career hat trick and first with the Blue Jackets. Coincidentally, his other hat trick also came against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 17, 2016, with Chicago.This season, Panarin has 22 points in the past 16 games (10 goals, 12 assists).”We played such a good game until we ended up giving up back-to-back power plays and that kind of changes the landscape of the game,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said.”I guess he scored three Detroit Red Wings Hoodies Authentic , and you know how those guys are – he has that net staring at him with that goalie pulled and he wants to get back out there, and I’m glad it happened for him.”Markus Nutivaara and Alexander Wennberg also scored for the Blue Jackets.Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad scored power-play goals and Kevin Hayes had a short-handed goal for the Rangers.Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves in his first start since March 10 against Florida. Lundqvist was briefly shaken up when Matt Calvert upended him and knocked his helmet off with five minutes remaining.”I was just more surprised. I thought both of them saw me, but I guess not,” Lundqvist said. ”It hurt pretty much everywhere – my foot, my back, my neck. We’ll see how it feels tomorrow. It happens.”With Columbus leading 3-2 in the third period, Cam Atkinson drove toward the net and Lundqvist made the initial save, but Panarin poked the puck free and in for his 24th goal at 11:19.”I was mad at Cam that he’s shooting for once,” Panarin joked through a translator. ”And then I’m grateful the referee probably didn’t see the moment he was behind the goalie and that helped us.”Kreider scored his 14th with 1:52 remaining to get the Rangers to 4-3.Panarin added an empty-netter for the hat trick and his 25th of the season.Earlier, Panarin made it 2-0 in the second. Cole, acquired at the trade deadline, sent a pass to Panarin Detroit Red Wings Hats Authentic , who wristed it past Lundqvist at 9:28.”He’s special,” Cole said of Panarin. ”He’s certainly a player you look for. Anytime you see him with space, you want to give him the puck. It’s something that tends to work out well for us.”Hayes then had three impressive scoring chances in the second half of the second period.Bobrovsky stopped him on a short-handed breakaway with about nine minutes remaining. A few minutes later, with the Rangers again short-handed, Jesper Fast grabbed a deflected pass and sent Hayes in on another breakaway and this time he beat Bobrovsky to make it 2-1 with his 21st goal of the season at 13:44. Hayes also hit the post in the final minute of the second.Nutivaara made it 3-1 in the third with his fifth of the season at 4:05. Panarin had the primary assist.Zibanejad got the Rangers closer at 3-2 with his 25th goal of the season at 7:16. He has nine points (six goals, three assists) in a five-game point streak.Thomas Vanek, another trade-deadline acquisition, helped the Blue Jackets open the scoring. He sent a backhand pass from behind the net to Wennberg in the slot and he wristed the puck past Lundqvist at 14:05 of the first period for his eighth goal.Lundqvist briefly kept it a one-goal deficit when he stopped Vanek as the Blue Jackets came in on a 2-on-0 break less than four minutes into the second.NOTES: Defenseman Seth Jones has missed the past two games and is day to day with an upper-body injury. … Former Rangers forward Brandon Dubinsky was a healthy scratch for Columbus. … Zibanejad played in his 400th game. … The Rangers are 5-3-2 since the trade deadline.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Host the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.Rangers: At the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.—

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