NHL Thursday: Bruins, Sharks meet in Boston

And then this happened to force overtime.

That’s just ... wow.

• Pekka Rinne will miss four weeks

• John Scott gets match penalty, NHL hearing for hit on Loui Erikssonl

Talbot fell awkwardly into the boards, with his neck bending in ways the human neck is not supposed to bend. He had to be helped off the ice and was taken to the locker room.

The NHL has had to deal with quite a few hits from behind over the past couple of weeks, with Colorado’s Cody McLeod and St. Louis’ Maxim Lapierre receiving five-game suspensions for their hits. It should be interesting to see how the league views this one.

Peters allowed goals on the first two shots he faced.

Ward had stopped all five shots he faced before leaving just 4:07 into the game.

Sometimes any shot is a good shot.

While that’s a good break for Richards and the Rangers, that’s also the type of season that it’s been in the early going for the Flyers.

In recent years that would be a perfectly reasonable sequence. This season, not so much. Because Schneider and Kesler no longer play on the same team.

So that probably could have gone better for the Devils.

3. How will Schneider v. Luongo Part II play out?

• Pekka Rinne will miss four weeks

Lundqvist has appeared in all seven of the Rangers games this season. He has registered an .890 save percentage and 3.45 goals against average over that span.

Thursday’s contest will pit two underachieving teams, as New York and Philadelphia have struggled to collect points in the early goings of this season. Both clubs have recorded a league-low 11 goals for this season and are dwelling in the cellar of the Metropolitan Division.