Lane Hutson is going all out on offense in 2025 and now he has just obtained an assist in a ninth straight game.
The young Montreal Canadiens player thus equaled the all-time record for a rookie defender. He now shares this record with Shayne Gostisbehere, whose first season dates back to 2015-2016.
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-Hutson was complicit in Juraj Slafkovsky’s power play success in the second period of Tuesday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. It was his 36th pass of the campaign.
Jude Drouin (14 games) and Alexei Zhamnov (10), two forwards, are the only ones ahead of the little American for the greatest number of consecutive games with an assist for a rookie.
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