NHL Thursday: Divisional rivalries highlight 10 game schedule

There’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen the highlights of Thursday’s incredible comeback win by Edmonton over Los Angeles. Heck, you may have even seen the game live, assuming you don’t have a 4:30 a.m. alarm to deal with. If that’s the case, maybe you made an adult decision and figured you could catch the highlights later.

Either way, if you haven’t seen it, here is the video in question. Please watch before reading further.

For more on the ailing Caps, check in with Japers’ Rink.

Or, as ESPN’s John Buccigross so eloquently put it, that Mitchell “had to fight a hyena in the Avs’ dressing room.”

“I could see out of both eyes. I knew I was cut, obviously, but I could see,” Mitchell said. “It’s always nice when you have a significant injury, you get stitched up and you come back. I just wanted to come back and try and help the team out any way I could. Scoring a goal is obviously a bonus.”

Nail Yakupov was getting the business from Edmonton media before he even arrived for his first game as an Oiler, and if there’s any way to a) shut them up and b) collectively make the rest of North America and really, the hockey world love you, it’s doing what he did right there.

Not only did Yakupov score one of the best hockey goals of the season -- the hand-eye, my God -- in perhaps the most timely spot imaginable, his goal celebration was as good as it gets. If this is Nail Yakupov on the ice as an NHL player, hockey just got a whole lot more exciting.

San Jose will be entering the game looking for their third consecutive win, while Phoenix will look to win their second straight.

If San Jose is able to replicate their offensive potency on Thursday night, it could prove problematic for the Coyotes.

When they last met on Monday night, the Blues managed to tie the game at three with a little under eight minutes remaining in regulation. Following a scoreless overtime, St. Louis managed to earn the win by way of a shootout.

Thursday’s game is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m., ET and will be televised on Fox Sports Tennessee and Fox Sports Midwest

This will mark Philadelphia’s fourth game in six nights, with three of those contests coming against Atlantic Division opponents.

Thursday’s game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., ET and will be broadcast in the United States on NHL Network, CSN Philly and MSG.