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The Hawks were just a sideshow Tuesday in Vancouver for Rick Tocchet’s first game as Canucks coach — the end result of a coaching change handled with embarrassing sloppiness.

WARNING GRUESOME IMAGES: Brock Nelson lost a tooth on Monday night after being slammed in the face with a stick, and he became his own dentist while sitting on the bench as he refused treatment

DALLAS — You could almost forgive the Dallas Stars.

NEW YORK — Gerard Gallant gets questioned a lot about how often he changes up his team’s forward lines, but the Rangers coach switched the lines again for Monday night’s game at Madison Square Garden against the Florida Panthers, and everything seemed to work out perfectly for the Blueshirts.

TORONTO — Key contributors Adam Pelech and Kyle Palmieri finally returned to the Islanders’ lineup on Monday night after long injury absences. Whether it’s in time to save this spiraling season is questionable.

On Sunday, Mitchell was given an opportunity and connected for his first goal of the season in what ended up a 2-1 loss to the Kings. The third-period score is what coach Luke Richardson wants to see from Mitchell: a strong and accurate right-handed shot that exhibited his offensive ability.

Left wing Clayton Keller recorded his second career hat trick, and the Arizona Coyotes defeated the Golden Knights 4-1 at Mullett Arena on Sunday.

BOSTON — Beating the Boston Bruins has not only proven to be extremely difficult for the rest of National Hockey League this season, doing so apparently makes the B’s very angry.

PHILADELPHIA — The Flyers needed goalie Felix Sandström to give them one more save against the Winnipeg Jets, rising to the challenge coach John Tortorella issued pregame. Instead, he allowed another goal.