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  "angle": "Saturday's NHL was a night of milestones and blowouts: Crosby passed Dionne, Benn neared 1,000, Carolina won 9-2.",
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          "markdown": "Sidney Crosby passed Marcel Dionne for the sixth-most points in NHL history during the Penguins' 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings, and he did it with a two-goal night. Milestones usually arrive quietly, as a footnote to a win. This one arrived as the story of the game."
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          "markdown": "Jamie Benn came one point short of a round number of his own. He reached 999 career points as the Stars beat the Sharks 4-3, with Thomas Harley contributing a goal and two assists. One more point takes Benn to 1,000. The claim stops at 999, and so does this story."
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          "markdown": "Carolina supplied the night's loudest scoreline, beating the Blackhawks 9-2 on Saturday. It was the Hurricanes' second straight seven-goal margin of victory at Lenovo Center, and Pyotr Kochetkov's season record improved to 11-1-0. Two seven-goal wins in a row at home is a building becoming a hard place to visit."
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          "markdown": "Colorado's win was quieter but just as complete. The Avalanche beat the Red Wings 4-0 behind Mackenzie Blackwood's 27 saves, and the power play scored three times. A shutout plus three power-play goals is a team winning in every phase at once."
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          "markdown": "Tampa Bay needed overtime to beat the Wild 4-3. Brayden Point reached 700 career points with an assist, and Kucherov's 20 shot attempts tied the franchise record since tracking began in 2009-10. A 700-point night and a franchise shot-attempt record in the same game is the kind of night that fills a highlight reel."
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          "markdown": "The goaltenders told the night's other story. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped all 27 shots he faced in Colorado's 4-0 win, the cleanest line of the night. At the other end of the scale, Ilya Sorokin faced a career-high 50 shots in the Islanders' 5-4 overtime loss — a night where the goaltender did his job and the result still went the other way."
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          "markdown": "Pyotr Kochetkov sits between the two extremes. His season record improved to 11-1-0 behind Carolina's 9-2 win, which is to say he has barely lost all season while his team keeps scoring in bunches. A goaltender's record is a team stat dressed as an individual one, and Kochetkov's is the clearest example of that on this slate."
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