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Welcome to Wrestling Inc.’s live coverage for AEW Fright Night “Dynamite” on October 29, 2025, coming to you live from the Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, Texas!

The AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship Tournament will be kicking off tonight, as Sisters of Sin’s Julia Hart and Skye Blue go head-to-head with Jamie Hayter and Queen Aminata in a quarterfinals match. Not only will the winners face either Babes Of Wrath (Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron) or TBS Champion Mercedes Mone and Ring of Honor Women’s World Champion Athena in the semifinals, but Hayter and Aminata selected Sisters of Sin to face in the quarterfinals last Wednesday after they earned the right to do so by emerging victorious in a Four-Way Tag Team Match.

One third of the reigning AEW World Trios Champions Samoa Joe, HOOK, Ricochet of The Demand, and The Hurt Syndicate’s Bobby Lashley will be squaring off with one another in a Fright Night Four-Way Fight to determine who will be challenging “Hangman” Adam Page for the AEW World Championship at AEW Full Gear on November 22. While Lashley, Ricochet, and HOOK all have yet to challenge Page for his title during his current reign, Joe was unsuccessful in dethroning Page as AEW World Champion at AEW WrestleDream on October 18.

Similar to Page, Brody King and Bandido will be finding out who will be challenging them for the AEW World Tag Team Championship at Full Gear when Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson of The Young Bucks, JetSpeed’s Kevin Knight and “Speedball” Mike Bailey, FTR’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, and Jack Perry and Luchasaurus of Jurassic Express all square off with one another in a Fright Night Four-Way Fight. King and Bandido’s most recent defense of their title came at WrestleDream when they retained against AEW Continental Champion Kazuchika Okada and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Konosuke Takeshita of The Don Callis Family.

Additionally, following the rising tensions between them, Takeshita and Okada will be appearing on tonight’s show when Don Callis hosts a summit for The Don Callis Family.

We are live! Excalibur and Bryan Danielson greet audiences at home as Orange Cassidy and Darby Allin make their way to the ring. Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta follow.

Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta vs. Orange Cassidy and Darby Allin in a Trick Or Treat Tornado Tag Team Match

The bell rings and Allin whips Cassidy into Garcia in one of the corners. Garcia and Yuta use their shirts to choke Cassidy and Allin, and Yuta delivers a stomp to Allin. Allin and Cassidy catch Garcia and Yuta with double back body drops, but Yuta sends Allin crashing into one of the barricades on the outside. Allin cracks a chair across Yuta’s spine, then sits him on the chair and flies through the middle rope to level him on the outside.

Yuta runs over Cassidy as the action spills into the crowd. Garcia and Yuta then rain down right hands on Cassidy, but Allin delivers a Coffin Drop to both men off the top of one of the balconies. Garcia dumps Allin into the crowd as Cassidy and Yuta climb up the ring steps. Allin then delivers a dropkick to Garcia back in the ringside area.

Back from the break, Cassidy looks to land a Stun Dog Millionaire on Garcia. Garcia sees him coming and cinches in a front face lock on Cassidy before he lays him on top of a table. Yuta ascends to the top rope and lands a crossbody on Cassidy that sends him crashing through the table.

Allin rolls his skateboard over to Garcia and invites him to hit him with it. Cassidy and Yuta teeter on the ropes, but Allin low blows Yuta and Cassidy follows it up with a Tornado DDT to him. Allin then connects with a Coffin Drop on Yuta and goes for a pin, but Garcia breaks the fall. Cassidy connects with a Sole Food on Yuta, then flies out of the ring to send Garcia crashing through a table. Allin cinches in a Scorpion Death Lock on Yuta, and Yuta taps out.

Winners: Orange Cassidy and Darby Allin

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Tonightâ€s AEW Fright Night Dynamite airing October 29, 2025, promises an action-packed night live from the Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, Texas. The show sees The Opps†AEW World Trios Champion Samoa Joe, “The Cold-Hearted Handsome Devil†HOOK, The Hurt Syndicateâ€s “The All Mighty†Bobby Lashley and The Demandâ€s Ricochet face each other in an AEW World Championship Full Gear #1 Contenderâ€s Fright Night 4-Way Fight. Plus, The Conglomerationâ€s “Freshly Squeezed†Orange Cassidy and Darby Allin will take on The Death Riders (Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia) in a Trick Or Treat Tornado Tag Team Match.

The show kicks off at 8:00 PM ET on TBS and is available for international fans on streaming platforms like Max. Ringside News will provide live, match-by-match updates and highlights throughout the night. Stay tuned to this page, refresh for the latest results as the action unfolds, and join the conversation in the comments below!

AEW Fright Night Dynamite Results (10/29/2025): Live Match Updates and Highlights

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Matches & Key Moments Scheduled for AEW Fright Night Dynamite on October 29, 2025

• AEW World Championship Full Gear #1 Contenderâ€s Fright Night 4-Way Fight: The Opps†AEW World Trios Champion Samoa Joe vs. “The Cold-Hearted Handsome Devil†HOOK vs. The Hurt Syndicateâ€s “The All Mighty†Bobby Lashley vs. The Demandâ€s Ricochet
• AEW World Tag Team Championship Full Gear #1 Contenderâ€s Fright Night 4-Way Fight: The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax “The Axe†Harwood) vs. Jurassic Express (“Jungle Boy†Jack Perry and Luchasaurus) vs. JetSpeed (“The Jet†Kevin Knight and “Speedball†Mike Bailey)
• Singles Match: The Death Riders†Jon Moxley vs. The Conglomerationâ€s Kyle Oâ€Reilly
• Trick Or Treat Tornado Tag Team Match: The Conglomerationâ€s “Freshly Squeezed†Orange Cassidy and Darby Allin vs. The Death Riders (Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia)
• AEW Womenâ€s World Tag Team Championship Tournament Quarterfinal Match: Queen Aminata and Jamie Hayter vs. Sisters of Sin (Julia Hart and Skye Blue)
• Don Callis Family Summit

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R-Truth has announced a major appearance in New York City next month.

The WWE Superstar will be in NYC for a one-night-only show at SOBâ€s on Sunday, November 16. While the announcement does not detail the specifics, the venue is primarily known for hosting music events.

Tickets for R-Truthâ€s one-night-only NYC show will go on sale at 10 a.m. EST on Thursday, October 30.

“First time EVER!!! Tickets go on sale tomorrow!!! #TheWhiteAlbum #WWE #WWERaw #SmackDown #twa #NYC #WWENXT,†Truth posted.

R-Truth dropped his new music project, The White Album, in August. The project landed near the top of the Billboard Country charts. A new video of him performing his song “When It All Adds Up†was recently posted on social media by On The Radar.

R-Truth has not competed on WWE television since the July 11 episode of SmackDown, when he defeated Aleister Black in singles action. His last match was a dark bout against Black in August.

Truth was released by WWE earlier this year but returned in the lead-up to Saturday Nightâ€s Main Event in May. The television special saw John Cena defeat Truth in under five minutes. Truth dropped his serious gimmick in the following weeks and returned to his comedic persona.

READ MORE: R-Truth Reveals He And John Cena Recorded A Rap Song Together

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The Super Junior Tag League continued on Wednesday with a show in Niigata.

The penultimate night of B Block round-robin action took place, and the route to the finals couldnâ€t be more clear for the three of six teams still in contention.

Robbie Eagles and Kosei Fujita defeated Tiger Mask & YAMATO after Eagles hit YAMATO with the Ron Miller Special. Eagles and Fujita are now 4-0 and need only a win or a draw against Taiji Ishimori and Robbie X in their final match on Friday to advance.

Ishimori and X were also victorious, defeating KUUKAI and El Desperado in the main event when X hit KUUKAI with the X Express. They need to defeat Eagles and Fujita on Friday but also need a bit of help to advance.

The third team still in contention from B Block is KUSHIDA and Yuki Yoshioka, who are 3-1 after defeating Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Dick Togo. They defeated Ishimori and Robbie X earlier in the tournament, so they would advance on a tiebreaker with a win and if Ishimori and X beat Eagles and Fujita.

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 night six results

• Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai defeated Zane Jay & Tatsuya Matsumoto
• Jakob Austin Young, Templar & Callum Newman defeated Masatora Yasuda, Shoma Kato, & Boltin Oleg
• OSKAR, Yuto-Ice, Gedo & Hiromu Takahashi defeated Katsuya Murashima, Toru Yano, Dragon Dia & Ryusuke Taguchi
• Hiroshi Tanahashi, Master Wato, & YOH defeated Yujiro Takahashi, SHO, & DOUKI
• B Block: KUSHIDA & Yuki Yoshioka (3-1): 6 points defeated Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo (1-3): 2 points
• B Block: Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita (4-0): 8 points defeated Tiger Mask & YAMATO (0-4): 0 points
• B Block: Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X (3-1): 6 points defeated El Desperado & KUUKAI (1-3): 2 points

NJPW Super Junior Tag League 2025 standings —

A Block:

• DOUKI & SHO (4-0): 8 points
• YOH & Master Wato (4-0): 8 points
• Ryusuke Taguchi & Dragon Dia (2-2): 4 points
• Hiromu Takahashi & Gedo (1-3): 2 points
• Templario & Jakob Austin Young (1-3): 2 points
• Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai (0-4): 0 points

B Block:

• Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita (4-0): 8 points
• KUSHIDA & Yuki Yoshioka (3-1): 6 points
• Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X (3-1): 6 points
• Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo (1-3): 2 points
• El Desperado & KUUKAI (1-3): 2 points
• Tiger Mask & YAMATO (0-4): 0 points

NJPW Super Junior Tag League Upcoming Schedule

Thursday, October 30, in Fukui:

• A Block: DOUKI & SHO (4-0): 8 points vs. YOH & Master Wato (4-0): 8 points
• A Block: Ryusuke Taguchi & Dragon Dia (2-2): 4 points vs. Hiromu Takahashi & Gedo (1-3): 2 points
• A Block: Clark Connors & Daiki Nagai (0-4): 0 points vs. Templario & Jakob Austin Young (1-3): 2 points

Friday, October 31, in Osaka:

• B Block: KUSHIDA & Yuki Yoshioka (3-1): 6 points vs. El Desperado & KUUKAI (1-3): 2 points
• B Block: Tiger Mask & YAMATO (0-4): 0 points vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Dick Togo (1-3): 2 points
• B Block: Taiji Ishimori & Robbie X (3-1): 6 points vs. Robbie Eagles & Kosei Fujita (4-0): 8 points

Hiroshi Tananhashi Final Homecoming on Sunday, November 2 in Gifu:

• Finals: A Block Winner vs. B Block Winner

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Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. – The first time that Leo Balcazar played in a big league Spring Training game, he was still just 17 years old. Set to make his stateside debut in the Rookie-level Arizona Complex League later that summer, the Venezuelan shortstop was drawn to another player also getting Cactus League reps for the first time in 2022.

“I really loved it,†said Balcazar of the experience. “To see how heâ€s playing right now in the big leagues, one of the best players in the world, I want to be like him. I want to play with him [in the Majors].â€

Having steadily matriculated through the Reds†system since then, the latest stop on Balcazarâ€s path to playing alongside the All-Star has been the Arizona Fall League. He became the first player in the AFL to reach the 20-hit plateau during the 2025 campaign with a four-hit night for Peoria in its 11-2 win over Glendale at Camelback Ranch on Saturday night.

An infield single in the second. A pullside double in the fourth. A line-drive RBI base hit in the fifth. An RBI knock in the sixth. To boot, he notched the achievement by facing four different pitchers.

With 20 hits in 13 games, Balcazar has four more than the next closest hitter. Heâ€s slashing .385/.439/.462 with nine RBIs and three stolen bases, collecting at least one knock in 12 of his outings.

Fall League rosters are always stacked but usually especially so at shortstop. Thatâ€s meant that Balcazar, who has made 224 starts at short in the Minors (more than three times the amount of any other position), has had to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. The first day the Reds†No. 23 prospect arrived in Arizona, he was told heâ€d get plenty of reps at the hot corner, a spot he last played in 2023 with Single-A Daytona for a total of 35 innings. Heâ€s seen time there and at his usual home of short and second base through the first three weeks.

“Honestly, I just wanna do my job,†said Balcazar. “Just trying to catch everything and play [well].â€

The Reds have long believed in Balcazarâ€s potential. Itâ€s why he received a six-figure signing bonus to join the organization when he signed in January 2021 and has been a member of the clubâ€s Top 30 Prospects list since ‘23. He began this year repeating High-A before earning a bump to Double-A Chattanooga in mid-July. All told, he hit .263 with a .720 OPS across both levels but collected 129 hits in 126 games.

While Balcazar has steadily climbed the Reds†Minor League ladder, itâ€s worth keeping in perspective that heâ€s still just 21 years old. He wonâ€t turn 22 until midway through next season, all but assuring heâ€ll again be one of the youngest hitters in the Double-A Southern League (where he was more than two-and-a-half years younger than the average player in 2025).

He spent this past season facing a pitcher older than him in 95.9 percent of his plate appearances, experience that has steeled him heading into the Fall League where velocity and above-average offspeed offerings are the norm.

That makes it nice to have a teammate whoâ€s going through a similar circumstance and not one you just met a month ago. Balcazar has teamed up with Cam Collier (CIN No. 6/MLB No. 94) not only during their time in Peoria, but for going on four-plus years since they formed a tandem during the Arizona Complex League.

“Cam is my guy,†laughed Balcazar. “Weâ€re always having fun during the game and I just really love how he plays. Heâ€s a really good guy and a really good teammate.â€

No Reds player has ever collected the most hits in a single Fall League campaign, dating back to the leagueâ€s inaugural year in 1993. Itâ€s a six-week sample size but also an indication of the work that Balcazar has put in to get to this stage, especially after appearing in a full slate of regular season games. And itâ€s put him one step closer to his dream:

Reaching the big leagues and playing alongside his buddy Elly.

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  Tim MacMahonOct 22, 2025, 01:24 AM ET

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OKLAHOMA CITY — The symbolism didn’t strike Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the moment as the clock ticked down in the second overtime of Tuesday night’s season opener against the Rockets.

His sole focus was on trying to figure out a way to score the winning points, not on the fact Kevin Durant was defending him. The superstar matchup in the deciding moments of a thrilling season opener probably wasn’t lost on the Paycom Center sellout crowd, which spent the night booing Durant and celebrating Gilgeous-Alexander and his Thunder teammates after finally watching a championship banner raised to the rafters.

“Just trying to get to a shot I’m comfortable shooting in those moments,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “My brain is so in the moment that all those things I don’t even realize.”

Instead of creating a clean look, Gilgeous-Alexander got Durant to bite on a pump fake and foul him. The reigning MVP sank both free throws with 2.3 seconds left, capping a 35-point performance to lift the defending champions to a 125-124 win. Gilgeous-Alexander spoiled Durant’s debut with the Rockets, his fourth team since his free agency departure from the Thunder that is still a sore subject in Oklahoma City more than nine years later.

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Gilgeous-Alexander described the pregame ceremony to celebrate last season’s championship as “surreal.” Durant and the Rockets retreated to the visitors locker room as the Thunder received their championship rings — featuring more than 800 custom-cut, hand-set diamonds and gemstones — before raising the championship banner alongside the center scoreboard.

“It felt like it was going up for 10 minutes,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “It was an amazing moment. I’ll remember it for the rest of my life.”

It took Gilgeous-Alexander most of the game to find a rhythm against the supersized Rockets’ swarming, physical defense, which prioritized forcing the ball out of his hands as much as possible while his All-NBA co-star, Jalen Williams, watched from the bench as he recovers from offseason wrist surgery.

Houston held Gilgeous-Alexander to five points in the first half, fewer than any of his halftime totals from last season, when he led the league with 32.7 points per game. Power forward/center Chet Holmgren scored 18 of his 28 points in the first half to keep the Thunder within striking distance despite Gilgeous-Alexander’s uncharacteristically quiet start.

Gilgeous-Alexander managed only five shots from the field in the first two quarters, committing three turnovers and dishing out only one assist despite repeatedly passing out of double-teams.

“He just stays in the game,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “It wasn’t a perfect night for him, but he just stays in it. He understands the 48-minute nature. He understands the 82-game nature. It’s not always going to be perfect. And tonight wasn’t perfect for us collectively. And the guys just kind of played the next play, never lost our focus or resolve.”

It wasn’t until the fourth quarter — after Oklahoma City trailed by as many as 12 points — that Gilgeous-Alexander found any sort of groove. He had 12 points in that quarter, one more than he had in the first three quarters combined, highlighted by a tough midrange pull-up jumper over a tight contest by All-Defensive stopper Amen Thompson to tie the score with three seconds remaining.

“As the game went on, naturally the coverages got looser,” said Gilgeous-Alexander, who was 12-of-26 from the field but only 1-of-9 from 3-point range. “I was able to get downhill and to my spots a little bit.”

Gilgeous-Alexander added 12 points in the two overtime periods. He had a chance to win it on the final possession of the first overtime, but Houston’s Tari Eason got a piece of the ball on his baseline jumper. Gilgeous-Alexander scored five points in the final minute as Oklahoma City came back and closed the door.

“You can’t hold down great players all game,” Oklahoma City forward Alex Caruso said. “You can do a job for a while. I think he still ended up with 35, and he had a slow night. That’s just him.”

According to ESPN Research, Gilgeous-Alexander became only the third reigning MVP to record at least 35 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in a season opener, joining Stephen Curry in 2015 and Shaquille O’Neal in 2000. Gilgeous-Alexander also had two blocks and two steals, making multiple clutch defensive plays.

“I need to be better,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “We need to be better than what we just did. We’re going to be a better team in a few months, but I fully believe this team will use tonight as a learning experience. … It was ugly tonight, but I’d rather it be ugly in a win than a loss for sure.”

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When Bron Breakker stepped through the curtain at the top of WWE Raw, he looked the part of a Superstar ready to ascend to the top of the card and become the main event attraction he has been pushed to be since he first arrived in NXT.

Confident and befitting the World Heavyweight Championship draped over his shoulder, he looked like the unstoppable badass poised to take over the main event scene on Raw amid an injury to Seth Rollins that will keep him sidelined for an untold period of time.

Breakker demanded Raw general manager Adam Pearce say “please” in return for the title belt and was the standout of the show-opening segment. When it was announced that there would be a Battle Royal to determine who would face CM Punk at Saturday Night’s Main Event on November 1 for the world championship, it was a foregone conclusion it would be The Badass.

Then, he was pulled from the match by Pearce in retaliation and told by Paul Heyman that he needs to listen to him. In one short vignette, everything that looked possible at the start of the show was gone.

Breakker was, for the lack of a better term, neutered.

Worse yet, he never did pop back up. There was no post-match attack on Punk and Battle Royal winner Jey Uso. He did not seek revenge or reassert his dominance. He simply took the condescending pep talk from Heyman and called it a night.

It was a major fumble from WWE creatively, a missed opportunity to seize the momentum Breakker’s spear and attack on Rollins created last week and launch him into stardom. It is something the company has been hellbent on doing since the second-generation star debuted as the new face of NXT in 2022.

Instead, the company extinguished the all-important aura he walked into Monday’s show with courtesy of a single booking decision, opting instead to go with the Uso win to set up the Punk main event and keep the Bloodline saga at the forefront.

While there is no denying how excellent Uso’s work has been of late, or how hugely important the epic Bloodline story has been to the success of WWE since 2022, the chance to create a new legitimate main event star was right therefor the company, and it whiffed harder than Aaron Judge in the MLB playoffs.

Breakker will win the title eventually, probably right on schedule because if there is one thing we have learned about Triple H as WWE chief content officer, it’s that he does not love going off-schedule when it comes to milestone creative decisions.

There are probably huge plans for Breakker’s eventual coronation, but there are only so many missed opportunities one can have before it bites back. And WWE had one staring it in the face Monday, but the company missed the mark and failed the 27-year-old.

Listening to Heyman may fit what Triple H and Co. want to accomplish, but Breakker’s attack on Rollins was clearly not something The Oracle orchestrated.

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Allowing The Badass to be a step ahead of the Hall of Famer and prove he has the intelligence and instinct to not need Heyman’s cunning would have been a nice change of pace and elevated him to the level of a Rollins or Reigns, both of whom needed The Oracle’s advice and strategy.

Instead, Breakker is like everyone else and will need to be heated back up after a week that saw him inexplicably cooled off by those who should have been jumping to present him not as the next big thing, but the big thing now.

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Recruiting more college athletes into NXT has significantly improved WWE’s developmental program, Shawn Michaels believes.

The past few years have seen WWE focus more on bringing college athletes into NXT and the Performance Center. In accordance to that, the company has held athlete-specific tryouts and launched its Next In Line program — where athletes can partner with WWE while still in college and create a potential pathway to signing with NXT later.

Michaels, who oversees NXT in his WWE executive role, told the Dallas Morning News that the recruiting strategy has made a “night and day difference” in WWE developmental. He says the college athletes he’s worked with have been able to adapt to pro wrestling quickly.

“When the WWE started recruiting from that incredibly huge pool of athletes, itâ€s just been, to me, a night and day difference in our developmental program here in Florida,†Michaels said.

“They are already athletes that are 100 percent laser focused on achieving goals. Theyâ€re already in phenomenal shape. Theyâ€re already disciplined in so many different ways. So they come in kind of built-in, ready to go, and they just are so focused on learning and achieving whatever it is you put in front of them, that as we began to train them in professional wrestling, they just take to it like ducks to water.â€

Since its introduction in 2021, former NXT Champion Oba Femi has been the biggest NIL program success. He was a shot putter at the University of Alabama and was signed to the first-ever WWE NIL class.

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The Vegas Golden Knights absolutely demolished the Calgary Flames 6-1 in Sin City on Saturday night NHL action.

The Flames have now lost five in a row and are dead last in the overall NHL rankings for the season.

Here are the takeaways:

What’s Going on with Dustin Wolf

As of the end of this game, Wolf has given up 15 goals in five games in even-strength hockey and has an Expected Goals Against (xGA) value of 8.33. That is below expected by 6.67, the BIGGEST in the league.

Safe to say he is in a sophomore slump, but it’s still early in the season to pick it up.

Second Period Slump

You could make the argument the Flames just got unlucky in the first period. The first shot of the game ended up being a Mitch Marner goal. After that shot, until the 11:25 mark of the first period, the Flames and Knights were even at 5-5 in shots on goal, including trading PP goals, that put the Knights up 2-1.

Calgary then outshot Vegas 8-1 until the second-last minute. Unfortunately, that lone Knights shot found the back of the Flames net, putting them up 3-1 at the first intermission.

That’s pretty unlucky.

But there was no excuse for the nightmare that was the second period.

Forget about the shot count: The Golden Knights had 15 scoring opportunities while the Flames had two. In terms of high-danger scoring opportunities, Vegas had five, including a shorthanded attempt. Two of those ended up being goals.

Calgary had zero high-danger scoring opportunities. They were no threat for Vegas goalie Adin Hill. The second period was basically a walk in the park for him.

The Flames would stage a comeback in the third period, but could not produce any goals.

Poor Penalty-Kill

The Flames went 0-for-3 on the penalty-kill. You cannot expect to put on a respectable season record if the penalty-kill is zero on the dot.

Bottom Line

As for as what I liked with the Flames, Nazem Kadri was 11-of-15 (73.3%) on the face-off.

That’s about it.

The Flames will now come back home to take on the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.

To know how bad the Calgary offense was going into this game, check out this to see who had the most individual total shots for the team all season.

HINT: It’s a defenceman…

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  Dave McMenaminOct 18, 2025, 02:43 AM ET

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LOS ANGELES — Using Friday’s preseason finale as a “dress rehearsal” for next week’s regular-season opener, Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick put Gabe Vincent in the starting lineup to fill in for the injured LeBron James.

Vincent capped a strong individual training camp with 14 points on 5-for-6 shooting (4-for-5 from 3), but the Lakers lost 117-116 to the Sacramento Kings to finish the preseason 1-5.

The regular season starts Tuesday night when L.A. hosts the Golden State Warriors. Though the Vincent decision was made, there is plenty more for the Lakers to figure out in the next few days.

“We have two more practices, so we need to clean up some things,” said Luka Doncic, who scored a game-high 31 points to go with nine assists in 33 minutes.

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Vincent said the coaching staff informed him about the lineup change Friday morning. If the staff was uncertain about the choice, Vincent helped his cause in the Lakers’ preseason game against the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday when he scored 18 points in the first four minutes, going 5-for-5 from 3.

“I think I just bring what I’ve been doing since I’ve been here,” Vincent said when asked about his fit with the starters. “Just defending, try to defend at a high level. Playmake when I have opportunities, space the floor while Luka and [Austin Reaves] are creating themselves.”

James is not expected to return to the lineup until mid-November, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania, as he continues to recover from sciatica affecting the right side of his body.

Though Vincent will join Doncic, Reaves, Deandre Ayton and Rui Hachimura on the court to tip off the 2025-26 season, Redick made it clear that the current starters are not permanent.

“I don’t know anything about who I’m going to be starting the rest of the season because, again, there’s injuries, and there’s things that happen throughout a year,” Redick said. “I have a pretty good idea who’s going to start Game 1, after that, I don’t know. But I do think in that lineup there’s lot of shooting around Luka and DA, and Gabe is another ball handler, another tough defender.

“I think he fits in well, but you have to take a look at every matchup we play against and have to make a decision there.”

Redick has downplayed the magnitude of his starting lineup decision repeatedly during training camp, pointing out that he used 25 different starting lineups last season.

Redick and his team sounded far more concerned about their defense after allowing 59 second-half points to a Kings team that shot 54.7% overall and 44.8% from 3.

“I think in practice we were more physical,” Doncic said. “We need to work on our physicality.”

The Lakers were without one of their more physical defenders in center Jaxson Hayes for the second half Friday. He left the game because of a right wrist contusion after finishing a lob dunk in the first quarter. Redick said X-rays on Hayes’ wrist were negative, and the Lakers will have a further update on Hayes when they practice Sunday.

Former Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Smart, who had 14 points and four steals off the bench against Sacramento, vowed to help with the physicality in the meantime.

“Just follow my lead,” Smart said. “That’s really it. I’m going to try to set the tone each and every night. And just kind of piggyback off me.”

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