If you look at the goal-scoring leaders in the NHL through the first two months of the 2025-26 season you will see a lot of names who make sense there. Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon is at the top. Pittsburgh Penguins superstar and future Hall of Famer Sidney Crosby is high on the list. In-their-prime stars like Kirill Kaprizov (Minnesota Wild) and Jason Robertson (Dallas Stars) are in the top five. Connor Bedard (Chicago Blackhawks), one of the best young players in the world, is also lurking just outside of the top five. Then you see one name who might make you do a double-take, and one name who does not seem like it would belong. That name is Boston Bruins forward Morgan Geekie. With his goal on Thursday night in the Bruins’ 5-2 win over the St. Louis Blues, he is now up to 21 goals on the season and has been one of the league’s best goal-scorers going back to the second half of the 2024-25 season. It is totally unexpected and a very pleasant development for the Bruins. What makes it so
