NHL Monday: Four Games Tonight, From the Garden to Salt Lake City

Monday night in the NHL is a compact, four-game card, and it is a good one: two 7 p.m. Eastern starts in New York and Philadelphia, a 7:30 start in Toronto, and a 9 p.m. nightcap in Salt Lake City. Sportradar's schedule listing and the NHL Fantasy Hub schedule both confirm the same four-game slate for Monday, October 19 — Anaheim Ducks at New York Rangers, Colorado Avalanche at Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks at Toronto Maple Leafs, and Pittsburgh Penguins at Utah Mammoth — and all four games are available on ESPN+ as part of the NHL Power Play package. Here is the full rundown, game by game.

Anaheim Ducks at New York Rangers — 7 p.m. ET, Madison Square Garden

The night starts at the Garden, where the Rangers (6-3-1) host the Ducks (4-3-0) in the first meeting of the season between the two. New York has been one of the steadier home teams of the young season, and it gets a Ducks team that has played winning hockey of its own through its first seven games. AccuScore's Monday board lists Anaheim at 4-3 and New York at 6-3 entering the night, a matchup of two clubs that have banked points early and want to keep October from turning into a grind. For Anaheim, this is the kind of eastern test that tells a young, improving team where it actually stands; for the Rangers, it is a game a contender is supposed to take care of at home before the schedule thickens. Boston Hockey Now's daily roundup listed Ducks at Rangers as one of the two 7 p.m. starts headlining Monday's schedule across the league.

Colorado Avalanche at Philadelphia Flyers — 7 p.m. ET, Xfinity Mobile Arena

On paper, this is the mismatch of the night. Colorado arrives in Philadelphia at 5-2-1, while the Flyers have stumbled to 1-6-3 through ten games — the widest records gap on Monday's board, and AccuScore's simulation numbers reflect it, favoring the Avalanche decisively on the road. The human story runs the other way: Philadelphia is banged up. Philly Hockey Now reported Sunday, in coverage rounded up by Boston Hockey Now, that the Flyers were already without Cam York, Rasmus Ristolainen, Travis Konecny and Owen Tippett, and that Tyson Foerster and Sean Couturier were also absent from Sunday's practice. Against a Colorado team built to punish mistakes in transition, a short-handed Flyers lineup has almost no margin — but a Monday crowd in Philadelphia, and a team with its back against the wall ten games in, has a way of making favorites work for it. Sportradar lists the puck drop at Xfinity Mobile Arena for 7 p.m. Eastern.

San Jose Sharks at Toronto Maple Leafs — 7:30 p.m. ET, Scotiabank Arena

The middle game of the night pairs two teams hovering around .500 with very different kinds of pressure. San Jose (4-3-1) has been one of the early season's pleasant stories, playing competitive hockey on the road; Toronto (3-4-2) has spent the month searching for the level its roster promises. The Maple Leafs will be without former captain John Tavares, whom Heavy reported is designated week to week after he was helped off the ice during Thursday's game against Buffalo — an absence that reshapes Toronto's center depth and its power play for the Sharks' visit and beyond. Toronto also comes in off a 4-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Saturday, which Heavy described as likely the team's worst game of the season so far. San Jose, with nothing to lose and points in hand, gets a wounded favorite in its own building. Canadian viewers can find the game on Sportsnet+, per Boston Hockey Now's schedule listing, with ESPN+ carrying it in the United States.

Pittsburgh Penguins at Utah Mammoth — 9 p.m. ET, Delta Center

The nightcap sends Pittsburgh (3-5-1) west to face a Utah team that has been one of the strongest home stories of the young season at 6-3-0. The Mammoth's Delta Center crowds have quickly become a genuine home-ice factor, and a Penguins team that has dropped more than it has won through nine games walks into the loudest building on Monday's slate for the 9 p.m. Eastern start. For Utah, this is about defending a strong start in front of its own fans; for Pittsburgh, every road point matters while it tries to steady a season that has wobbled early. It is the only Western game of the night and the natural last click of the evening for anyone riding the full four-game card on ESPN+.

How to watch, and what else is on

All four games stream on ESPN+ in the United States as part of NHL Power Play, with the Sharks-Maple Leafs game also on Sportsnet+ in Canada. Puck drops are staggered — 7 p.m. in New York and Philadelphia, 7:30 in Toronto, 9 p.m. in Salt Lake City — so a single screen can follow the whole night without missing an opening faceoff. Monday is a stacked sports night beyond the ice as well: Previously is tracking the NFL's Monday night matchup in its Commanders-49ers preview, and the weekend's hockey is already in the books, including the Flames' 3-2 win over the Hurricanes that snapped Carolina's winning streak. Scores and wraps from all four NHL games will be on Previously's Sports front as they go final tonight.