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The Los Angeles Kings will face the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, October 20, 2024 (10/20/24) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.

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Here’s what you need to know:

What: NHL regular season

WHO: Kings versus Ducks

When: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024

Time: 8 p.m. ET

Where: Honda Center

TV: NHL Network

Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV stream (free trial)

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Here’s a recent hockey story from the Associated Press:

Johnny Gaudreau’s Columbus teammates were given some opportunities to deal with their emotions during the Blue Jackets’ home opener.

If you want to cry, cry.

If you want to laugh, laugh.

The only rules: Play the game the way “Johnny Hockey” would, and remember him.

Emotions ran high in Columbus on Tuesday night as the Blue Jackets paid tribute to their star and his late brother Matthew at their home game against the Florida Panthers. Highlights included: A banner was hoisted from the rafters in memory of Gaudreau while both teams tapped the ice with sticks in the traditional hockey salute and his family watched with folded arms.

At game time, The teams remained standing for 13 seconds – Johnny Gaudreau’s number – ran around the clock and with his position on the left wing vacant, the Blue Jackets put four skaters on the ice instead of the usual five. The puck dropped and Sean Monahan of the Blue Jackets passed it to Sam Bennett of Florida.

Monahan and Bennett were teammates with Johnny Gaudreau in Calgary. It couldn’t have been more fitting.

“I don’t want anyone to be sad,” Meredith Gaudreau, Johnny’s wife, said in a recorded message played shortly before the faceoff. “I want you all to be inspired by the life John led. That means you love your family first and foremost, and when it’s time to drop the puck, let’s love the game that John loved.”

Johnny Gaudreau, the Blue Jackets star who would have been starting his third season with the club and 11th NHL season overall, and his brother Matthew Gaudreau were killed Aug. 29 when police said they were in the process of being shot by a suspect Hit by Drunk Driver They were riding their bikes on a country road in New Jersey on the eve of their sister Katie’s wedding.

“It’s such an unprecedented thing and something that obviously none of us wanted to go through and no one ever wants to go through,” Blue Jackets coach Dean Evason said. “But we have to.”

The 31-year-old Gaudreau wore the Blue Jackets’ No. 13 jersey. Matthew Gaudreau – who was 29 years old and played five professional seasons in the American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League and Sweden – wore jersey number 21. All 32 NHL teams wear stickers with 13, 21 and the letter G on their helmets their helmets by October 24th. USA Hockey has a similar tribute to its teams at every level this year.

On Tuesday, “13” tributes were everywhere. Both the Blue Jackets and Panthers took to the ice to warm up wearing jerseys with the Gaudreau name and jersey number 13; These sweaters will be auctioned off and raffled off to benefit the John and Matthew Gaudreau Foundation. “13” is written on the ice behind the goals. All fans in attendance received a “13” patch that Blue Jackets players will wear on their jerseys this season.

“It’s an emotional evening for the hockey world,” said Bennett. “I’m glad I can be here and honor his legacy in some way.”

Gaudreau was absolutely beloved by the players, whether they were ever his teammate or not. Florida star Matthew Tkachuk, who missed the game due to illness, knows about Gaudreau’s love of purple Gatorade and lots of Skittles. So every Panthers player got off the bus in Columbus on Tuesday with Gatorade and Skittles in hand.

“Johnny was a big part of the hockey community, but to me he was much more than that,” Tkachuk said. “A great friend, teammate and family man.”

The Blue Jackets placed a replica of Gaudreau’s locker in the arena for fans to view. Many fans read some of the signs left outside Nationwide Arena in the hours and days after the accident that killed the brothers. They hugged, took photos, wiped away tears and reminisced.

Kristen and Katie, Johnny and Matthew’s sisters, visited the memorial during the game. Kristen wore a Columbus jersey No. 13 in home blue, while Katie wore a leather jacket with her brothers’ numbers 21 and 13 on the front and stacked on the back as well as “Gaudreau.”

Johnny Gaudreau – 5-foot-10 and 175 pounds – was a star at Boston College before making it to the NHL. He made his debut in the final of the 2013/14 season in Calgary. He scored his first goal with the first shot in his first game, and from then on his star shone brighter and brighter.

The player who fished the puck out of the net after Gaudreau’s first goal was Monahan.

“He had an impact on so many people,” Monahan said.

Monahan never had any aspirations to become a jackass. Moving forward, the Blue Jackets will strive to become one.

Johnny Gaudreau used that term – “donkey” – affectionately when dealing with friends and teammates. For about a decade, the Blue Jackets held a celebration in which the player of the game got to wear a Civil War-style kepi hat, the recipient chosen by the previous one. The Kepi is retired. The player of the game now receives a donkey hat. Monahan was the first to receive it.

“I’m really glad we kind of did it differently,” Blue Jackets defenseman Erik Gudbranson said. “I think it suits us. It was a great idea. And you know, we wish the little guy was still here calling us that, but Monny is definitely the one to understand it the first time.”

The honors aren’t over yet. They will continue for many years to come. Guy Gaudreau, the late brothers’ father and longtime coach, was on the ice with the Blue Jackets for practice in Columbus on Monday and returned for the morning skate on Tuesday. And the banner with Johnny’s name was raised, fans chanted “Johnny Hockey” while his family couldn’t help but smile.

Afterwards there was a game. It seemed secondary.

“The first part,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said, “is clearly the most important part of tonight’s event.”

(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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