Devils Beat Vegas 5-2, Lundell Hat Trick Lifts Panthers 5-2

Update: The late final is now confirmed. The Calgary Flames beat the Seattle Kraken 6-2 at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary on Friday, October 30, 2026, completing the night's roundup.

Three finals ran Friday night in the NHL: New Jersey Devils 5, Vegas Golden Knights 2 in Las Vegas, Florida Panthers 5, Winnipeg Jets 2 in Sunrise, and Calgary Flames 6, Seattle Kraken 2 in Calgary.

Devils 5, Golden Knights 2

Arseny Gritsyuk and Jack Hughes each scored twice as New Jersey won at T-Mobile Arena, Reuters reported. Luke Hughes opened the scoring with a slap shot that slipped under Adin Hill's glove. Mark Stone and Ivan Barbashev scored in a 90-second span late in the first period to put Vegas ahead, and Gritsyuk tied it 54 seconds after the Barbashev goal. Jack Hughes put New Jersey back in front 3:49 into the second period, stealing the puck from Jack Eichel in the neutral zone, according to the AP report carried by The Score. Gritsyuk made it 4-2 late in the second, and Jack Hughes closed it with an empty-net goal with 2:51 left, his sixth goal of the season. Gritsyuk has a team-high eight goals.

Connor Hellebuyck made 19 saves and improved to 2-0-0 for New Jersey since the Devils acquired him from Winnipeg on October 23. Hill recorded 27 saves for Vegas. New Jersey finished a three-game Western road trip at 2-1-0 and has won five of six. Vegas has lost four of five.

Panthers 5, Jets 2

Anton Lundell scored his first career hat trick in his 373rd regular-season game, and Florida beat Winnipeg for the second time in two days, Reuters and TSN reported. Lundell entered the night with one goal this season. Sam Reinhart opened the scoring on a power play with 1:45 left in the first period. Lundell made it 2-0 at 2:38 of the second. Kyle Connor scored his team-best 11th goal for Winnipeg, Seth Jones restored the two-goal lead, and Morgan Barron cut it to 3-2 in the third. Lundell then scored twice in the final seven minutes, a rebound tap-in with 6:27 left and an empty-net goal with 1:39 left.

Jones finished with a goal and two assists and ended October with 18 points, a Florida record for a defenseman in any month, TSN reported. Akira Schmid made 22 saves for Florida, which has won three straight and six of eight. Nico Daws, in his first start for Winnipeg, stopped 33 of 37 shots. The Jets have lost eight straight, at 0-6-2 in that span, and the franchise record is 10 straight losses.

Flames 6, Kraken 2

Matt Coronato had the first four-point game of his career, with one goal and three assists for Calgary, NHL.com reported. His goal came 39 seconds into the third period and restored Calgary's three-goal lead at 5-2. Joel Farabee had a goal and two assists. Morgan Frost and Matvei Gridin each had a goal and an assist, and Dustin Wolf made 21 saves. Aydar Suniev and Ryan Strome also scored for Calgary, with Strome closing the scoring at 18:14 of the third period.

Frost opened the scoring with a Calgary power-play goal in the first period. Frederick Gaudreau tied it for Seattle with his team-leading seventh goal of the season. Suniev scored in the second period, Gridin made it 3-1 with a power-play goal at 8:43 of the second, his shot deflecting in off Seattle defenseman Ryker Evans, and Farabee made it 4-1 at 10:40 of the second. Mackie Samoskevich cut it to 4-2 on a power play at 18:15 of the second and finished with a goal and an assist for Seattle.

Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer allowed four goals on 14 shots and was pulled midway through the game, replaced by Joey Daccord. Mikael Backlund's assist on Farabee's goal gave Backlund 610 career points, TSN reported. Calgary finished with a 27-22 shots advantage, won its fifth straight game at the Saddledome, and has won five of six overall. Calgary is 6-7-0 and Seattle is 8-5-1 after the game. Seattle had beaten Calgary twice in the opening week of the season, both times by 6-1 scores.

What happens next

Winnipeg plays at Carolina on Sunday, and Florida hosts Detroit on Monday night, according to the AP schedule. The contrast is the story of the night: Hellebuyck winning in his new team's net in Las Vegas while the team that traded him lost its eighth in a row in Florida.