NHL Thursday: Tomas Hertl shut out in encore, but Sharks win

And that is the first week of the Rangers’ season in a nutshell.

• 43-year-old Sergei Federov comes out of retirement

What was a little different about this hat trick for Stamkos is that he did it by scoring three goals, three different ways, netting a shorthanded goal in the first period, an even-strength goal in the second period, and then completing the trick with a power play goal at the 12:25 mark of the third period.

The third goal was a vintage Stamkos goal, blasting a one-timer from the top of the circle.

Good news for Phoenix. Bad news for Detroit.

(Gif via The Pens Blog)

Unfortunately for the Red Wings Justin Abdelkader’s shot off of that play was stopped by Mike Smith. Doesn’t take away from the move, though.

• 43-year-old Sergei Federov comes out of retirement

Here’s a quick example as to how things are going for him right now.

Columbus scored three goals in the first period of Thursday’s game, and Myers was on the ice for all of them. Even worse, through the first 13 periods of the 2013-14 season the Sabres had allowed 11 even-strength goals (excluding empty-nets and penalty shots), Myers was on the ice for seven of them.