NY Islanders @ Carolina 5-3 - (Friday October 10) - After a slow start to the first period, the Islanders needed 13 seconds of a 44-second, two-man advantage to open the scoring. Kyle Okposo fed a pass to Boychuk, who connected on a one-timer at 17:06. Boychuk was acquired in a trade from the Boston Bruins last Saturday. New York scored again one second after the expiration of the second penalty when Tavares laced a backdoor pass through the legs of defenseman Justin Faulk to Nelson, who sent a wrist shot over the glove of Carolina goaltender Cam Ward. New York extended their lead to 3-0 on Nelson's second goal at 7:38 of the second period. With Tim Gleason off for roughing, Boychuk's shot deflected off Nelson, who was skating through the slot. Halak was sharp in the second period, finding Brad Malone's hard shot through traffic from the top of the right circle. The goaltender's best save came late in the period when he slid to the left post to stop Andrej Sekera's redirect.
Carolina forward Nathan Gerbe scored a power-play goal on a deflection off his skate 1:25 into the third period, but the Islanders countered with two more.
Grabovski, signed as a free agent, pushed the lead to 4-1 after Ryan Strome won a battle along the end wall and fed the puck to the front of the net, where Grabovski lifted a shot to the far post at 5:11. Travis Hamonic made it 5-1 at 12:19, taking a pass from Nelson and beating Ward to the far post. Hurricanes forward Chris Terry scored on a one-timer from the right circle at 14:20, and Eric Staal found the top shelf on a power play with 1:34 remaining.
Washington @ Boston 4-0 - Alex Ovechkin opened the scoring during a power play after Bruins forward Bobby Robins was called for a kneeing penalty on the forecheck. The puck made its way back to defenseman John Carlson at the blue line off the faceoff, and Carlson set up Ovechkin for a one-timer from the left faceoff dot that reached the back of the net at 11:26. With 1:21 left in the first, Ovechkin doubled the lead, this time at even strength. Backstrom ended up with the puck on his stick in the left corner and found Ovechkin cutting toward the net with a backhand pass. Ovechkin’s wrist shot from below the left dot beat Rask for a 2-0 lead. Green extended Washington’s lead to 3-0 at 10:34 of the second period with a one-timer from above the left dot. Rookie center Evgeny Kuznetsov made a cross-ice pass to set up Green. Ward tipped in Carlson’s shot at 18:46 of the third period for the final margin.
Anaheim @ Detroit 3-2 - Ryan Getzlaf's second goal of the game, with 24 seconds left in the third period, gave the Sucks a 3-2 win against the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena on Saturday. Getzlaf took the puck away from Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall, skated out in front and put a backhand shot under the crossbar past goalie Jimmy Howard. Nyquist gave the Red Wings a 2-1 lead 1:57 into the third period on a wrist shot from the left circle after faking a slap shot. But Beleskey, who is from Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit River from Detroit, tied the game 1:21 later when he beat Howard with a one-timer from the slot after a turnover by Detroit defenseman Brendan Smith behind the net.
Getzlaf scored the game's first goal, his first of the season, 1:13 into the second period. He put in a loose puck from the slot after Howard lost it to Sucks forward Patrick Maroon behind the net. Corey Perry couldn't get a hold of the puck when it first popped out in front, but Getzlaf raced in to rip a one-timer past Howard, who had gotten back in the crease but was not set.
Glendening tied it 1-1 with 4:27 left in the second. He scored on a backhand shot off the rush from the bottom of the left circle. He beat Andersen to the short side; the shot went in off the Anaheim goaltender. Maroon tipped a shot off the goal post 5:19 into the game during a power play with Red Wings defenseman Jonathan Ericsson off for interference. Detroit forward Tomas Tatar hit the crossbar with 7:13 left in the opening period during a power play with the Ducks' Sami Vatanen in the penalty box for interference.
Ottawa @ Tampa Bay 3-2 OT - Zibanejad's shootout goal gave the Senators a 2-1 advantage after Nikita Kucherov scored for the Lightning. Steven Stamkos failed to get off a shot in the final round. Lehner, making his first start of the season, came up with big saves in the second period with the Lightning holding a 1-0 lead. His biggest stop came late in the period when Alex Killorn had a shot from short range after taking a pass from Stamkos, who was behind the net. He also made a save on a wrist shot by Valterri Filppula during a 2-on-1 chance. Erik Karlsson and Mark Stone scored less than two minutes apart for the Senators midway through the third period. Karlsson's goal came on a 2-on-1 break; Alex Chiasson sent a pass to him in the slot and he forced Bishop to commit to the ice before sending a short shot over his glove at 7:34. Stone scored the go-ahead goal at 9:10 remaining when he took a pass from Turris in front of the net and sent Bishop the wrong way on a deke. Karlsson had a chance to win the game with less than 20 seconds remaining in overtime, but his shot hit the crossbar. The Lightning failed to record a shot on goal in overtime. The Lightning tied the game with 7:26 remaining in the third when Brett Connolly sent a wrist shot past Lehner from the right circle. Tampa Bay took a 1-0 lead 15:42 into the first period on a power-play goal by Victor Hedman. He took a pass from Stamkos at the point and sent a long slap shot over Lehner's shoulder.
New Jersey @ Florida 5-1 - Luongo was pulled after giving up Clowe's goal at 2:54 of the second period. Luongo allowed five goals on 14 shots. Derek MacKenzie scored a power-play goal for the Panthers, who had a four-game winning streak in home openers snapped. All of New Jersey's goals in the first period came off long shots, starting with Gelinas' goal 2:37 into the game. Gelinas took a low wrist shot from the left point that went through traffic and found its way to the far side. Havlat and Cammalleri followed with power-play goals at 8:46 and 13:13. Havlat deflected Gelinas' shot from the right point and Cammalleri deflected Marek Zidlicky's one-timer from the top of the left circle. Severson scored his first NHL goal with 27.8 seconds left in the first period when his harmless-looking wrist shot from the right point beat Luongo to the short side with Jaromir Jagr skating in front of him. New Jersey took a 3-0 lead against Philadelphia but the Flyers tied the game before the Devils pulled away in the third period. This time, they maintained a comfortable margin throughout. Clowe made it 5-0 when he redirected Michael Ryder's backhand pass to the front of the net, which brought in backup goalie Al Montoya for his first action with the Panthers. Montoya, one of six free agents signed by Florida on July 1, stopped all 10 shots he faced. MacKenzie scored when he redirected Scottie Upshall's pass from the side of the net at 16:31 of the second period.
Carolina @ NY Islanders 3-4 - Nelson assisted on John Tavares' first-period power-play goal and scored his third goal in two games when Johnny Boychuk's second-period power-play blast hit him and went past goaltender Anton Khudobin, breaking a 2-2 tie. With Nathan Gerbe off for slashing, Tavares took a pass from Nelson, moved into the left circle and blew a slap shot past Khudobin at 3:50. Johnson had the packed house chanting his name a few minutes later when he went left-to-right and robbed Tlusty on a 2-on-1 break. But Tlusty got his revenge at 14:13 when he whipped a power-play wrist shot from the slot past a helpless Johnson for his first goal of the season. The Islanders regained the lead 31 seconds later after the Hurricanes got sloppy in their own zone. Khudobin casually knocked aside Kyle Okposo's long wrist shot, but Tavares raced past the defense, grabbed the rebound and slid a pass across the slot to Conacher, who put the puck into an open net for his first goal with the Islanders. The Hurricanes got even again with 17 seconds left in the period when Tlusty tapped Eric Staal's cross-crease feed into a wide-open net, capping a power play that saw Carolina control the puck for nearly a minute before scoring. New York went ahead for the third time at 6:47 of the second period with its second power-play goal. After Alexander Semin's offensive-zone high-sticking penalty put the Islanders up a man, Nelson got a piece of Boychuk's straightaway 50-foot slap shot and deflected it past Khudobin for his third of the season. Bailey finished off a perfect backhand pass from Frans Nielsen with 3.5 seconds left in the period to make it 4-2 after 40 minutes. Carolina made it a one-goal game when Johnson poked a loose puck onto Tlusty's stick for an easy put-away at 14:01.
Montreal @ Philadelphia 4-3 SO - Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau scored in the fourth round of the shootout to cap the Canadiens' 4-3 win. He came down the middle and beat Flyers goalie Ray Emery to cap the Habs' rally from a 3-0 deficit. Raffl's goal 3:39 into the game gave the Flyers their first lead of the season, and Simmonds made it 2-0 just 18 seconds later. Simmonds' second of the game at 55 seconds of the second period made it 3-0. Markov scored the first one on a floater through traffic at 7:05, and then Plekanec pounced on a Parenteau shot that fell out of Emery's glove next to the net at 9:12.
The Canadiens tied the game on a play by Plekanec that was similar to the one on which he scored his game-winning goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday. Taking a pass from Markov on the right side, Plekanec threw the puck into traffic near the net, and Galchenyuk, camped in front of Flyers goalie Ray Emery, tipped it in for his first of the season. The Flyers survived the onslaught to get the game to overtime and had a chance to win when Canadiens center Lars Eller was called for tripping at 2:23, but they managed only one shot on the power play. The shootout saw Emery, who made 35 saves in regulation and overtime, stop Galchenyuk, David Desharnais and Brendan Gallagher, but he couldn't deny Parenteau.
NY Rangers @ Columbus 2-5 - Slovakian rookie Marko Dano scored his first NHL goal and assist to as the Blue Jackets got goals from all four lines. The top line of Cam Atkinson (two goals), Nick Foligno (goal and an assist) and Ryan Johansen (two assists) combined for six points. Blue Jackets forward Scott Hartnell had his second and third assists of the season, and Artem Anisimov scored his second goal of the season early in the first to give the Blue Jackets a 1-0 lead. Nash scored 32 seconds later in his second appearance in Columbus since being traded in July 2012 to cut the deficit to 4-2. But Atkinson scored his third goal of the season into an empty net with 1:21 left in the third period to back the 24 saves of Sergei Bobrovsky, who had made a 3-1 lead stand late in the second when he slid right to-left across the crease for a point-blank, left-pad stop on Martin St. Louis after the center took a pass from the right edge by Nash. Columbus didn't waste time before a sellout crowd of 18,922 to jump on the Rangers when Anisimov and Foligno helped the Blue Jackets take a 2-0 lead in the first period. Stempniak countered early in the second. Anisimov, a former Rangers forward, scored his second of the season and like his first goal Thursday at Buffalo, Hartnell assisted. The play developed in the left corner where Dano muscled the puck away from two Rangers. Hartnell picked it up and sent a pass out to Anisimov beyond the left circle for a one-timer that blew past the left glove of backup goaltender Cam Talbot (19 saves). Lee Stempniak took a charge against Anisimov into the boards at the Rangers bench. Anisimov went to the dressing room briefly before returning. Stempniak got the Rangers within a goal at 5:43 of the second with a wrist shot that squeezed between Bobrovsky and the right post to make it 2-1. Duclair (No. 80 at the 2013 draft) fed Stempniak for his first NHL point. Columbus took a 3-1 lead at 9:49 when Atkinson scored his second of the season. Johansen had his third assist of the season by firing a shot from the left point that Foligno tipped across the crease to an open Atkinson.
Calgary @ St Louis 1-4 - Joakim Lindstrom scored his first NHL goal since 2011, and David Backes scored a first-period power play goal to start the Blues toward a 4-1 win against the Flames at Scottrade Center. Paul Stastny continued his mastery of the Flames with three assists, giving him 49 points in 41 games against Calgary. Kevin Shattenkirk had three assists, and Brian Elliott stopped 23 shots for St. Louis. Vladimir Tarasenko and Alex Pietrangelo scored for the Blues, who are 7-1-1 in their past nine games against the Flames and have defeated Calgary five straight times on home ice, outscoring the Flames 18-6. In the Blues' 3-2 season-opening loss to the New York Rangers on Thursday, they lamented their start to the game. They trailed 1-0 and allowed 16 shots in the first period. On Saturday, despite a marginal 9-8 shots advantage, the Blues played the style they needed to. The Blues scored twice on the power play, they played in straight lines and they got pucks behind the Flames and forced Calgary to play in its zone must of the game. The Flames, who played their third game in four nights to begin the season, got a power-play goal from Curtis Glencross. Jonas Hiller stopped 35 shots. Lindstrom scored 48 seconds into the game, his first goal since Oct. 13, 2011 when he played for the Colorado Avalanche. He finished a tic-tac-toe play in front after getting a clever pass from Stastny in tight. Lindstrom redirected the puck past Hiller into the open side. With Calgary's Matt Stajan off for tripping, Backes redirected Shattenkirk's shot from the blue line past a screened Hiller 8:44 into the first for a 2-0 lead. The Blues were aggressive, assertive and played the puck in Calgary's zone for much of the first 10 minutes. Pietrangelo's first goal gave the Blues two power-play goals in two tries; he collected a shot from Shattenkirk off the end boards around to the right circle. Pietrangelo wasted little time blasting a one-timer past Hiller 3:12 into the second period to make it 3-0. Tarasenko made it 4-0 at 7:10 of the second when he one-timed a shot from the low slot after Jaden Schwartz dug a puck out from behind the net and flipped it in front. Hiller, who allowed four goals on the first 15 shots, kept the game 4-0 with several strong saves as the second period progressed. He faced 19 shots in the period. Glencross broke up Elliott's shutout when he deflected Mark Giordano's wrist shot from the blue line at 15:47 of the third. The assist was Giordano's 200th NHL point.
Buffalo @ Chicago 2-6 - Patrick Kane scored the game-deciding goal early in the third period and assisted on another in the Blackhawks' 6-2 win over his childhood team. Kane has five goals and four assists in nine games against his hometown Sabres (0-2-0), who've dropped six straight games against the Blackhawks dating back to the 2009-10 season. Kane's linemates, center Andrew Shaw (goal and assist) and left wing Brandon Saad (three assists), had big games in the continuation of a line combination that's paid dividends stretching back to the Western Conference Final against the Los Angeles Kings last spring. The Blackhawks made a lot happen in the first 10 minutes of the game and the final 20, when they scored four times on 19 shots and only let goalie Corey Crawford (21 saves) see four shots. There was a little letdown in the latter half of the first, when the Sabres tied it 2-2 on goals by Zemgus Girgensons and Tyler Ennis. In the third, Chicago got goals from Kane, Marian Hossa, Patrick Sharp and Daniel Carcillo to break the 2-2 tie and earn their second straight win. Shaw and defenseman Duncan Keith scored in the first, forging a 2-0 lead less than three minutes into the game. Crawford, who wasn't nearly as busy as he was in Dallas, made 21 saves for his second straight win. Chicago got things going quickly after the opening puck drop. Shaw made it 1-0 by tipping a point shot from Niklas Hjalmarsson past Enroth, and Keith made it 2-0 at 2:52 with his second goal in as many games. It appeared to be a rout in the making, but Girgensons stemmed the tide with his second goal in as many games, making it 2-1 at 7:17 of the first by flipping a shot past Crawford off a rebound of a long wrist shot by defenseman Andrej Meszaros Ennis tied it 2-2 with 1:20 left in the first on a pretty shorthanded goal. After Ennis deflected a pass by Brad Richards to cause a turnover, forward Drew Stafford collected it and earned his second assist of the game by sending a quick pass to Ennis for a breakaway. His wrist beat Crawford to the stick side after a quick backhand-forehand deke. In the second, Hossa nearly put the Blackhawks back in front during a goal-mouth scramble. Instead, a video review upheld the initial ruling of no goal by showing he used a kicking motion to send the puck over the goal line. Buffalo had a great scoring chance thwarted at 15:13 of the second, when forward Nicholas Deslauriers scooped a puck that hopped over the stick of defenseman David Rundblad at the Sabres blue line and turned it into a breakaway. This time, Crawford made a pad save to keep the game tied. It was all Blackhawks from there. Kane's goal at 5:58 of the third started a landslide that included Hossa's 30th career shorthanded goal, a category he leads among active players. Sharp then added his second power-play goal in as many games and Carcillo scored his first goal of the season to cap the scoring.
Minnesota @ Colorado 3-0 - Darcy Kuemper made 30 saves as the Wild beat the Avs once again. The Avalanche went on a 6-on-4 skating advantage with 2:33 remaining in the third period when Wild forward Matt Cooke was penalized for interference shortly after goalie Semyon Varlamov (31 saves) went to the bench for an extra attacker. But Colorado couldn't score and Zach Parise, who had 10 shots, scored into the empty net with 3.3 seconds left. Colorado coach Patrick Roy shook up all four line combinations and they played with a lot more energy than Thursday when the Wild enjoyed a 48-16 advantage in shots, but the outcome was the same. The Wild took a 2-0 lead at 11:50 of the second period on a goal by Jason Zucker, who accepted a pass from Thomas Vanek near the left hash marks and beat Varlamov with a one-timer over the goalie's left shoulder. The Avalanche lost defenseman Erik Johnson for the balance of the game at 2:23 of the period when he was assessed a five-minute major and game misconduct for elbowing Wild center Erik Haula into the boards while helping to kill off a slashing penalty to Matt Duchene. Though shaken, Haula was able to get to his feet and remain in the game. An apparent goal by Charlie Coyle, who scored in the first period, was waved off at 7:18 because Varlamov was knocked down before the puck entered the net. The call was confirmed following a video replay. Kuemper made 11 saves in the period. His best stop came with 8.4 seconds remaining when he snared Maxime Talbot's shot from the slot with his glove. The Wild took a 1-0 lead in the first period on Coyle's goal at 1:51. Ryan Suter took a shot from the left point and Coyle deflected the puck in. Varlamov kept the Avalanche within striking distance by making eight saves during a Wild power play that started at 15:14 when Johnson went off for holding. The Wild retained possession in the Avalanche end for the first 1:20 of the power play before Colorado finally managed to clear the zone.
Los Angeles @ Phoenix 2-3 OT - A surprise starter in place of Mike Smith, Devon Dubnyk came up big in his Coyotes debut, stopping the final 18 shots he saw after a rocky start to allow them to rally from an early deficit to beat the Kings 3-2 in overtime. Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored the game-winner on the power play with 14 seconds left in the extra session. The Coyotes put 40 shots on Kings goalie Jonathan Quick and needed every one to bounce back from a season-opening 6-2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday with a hard-fought win against the defending Stanley Cup champions. Quick made 37 saves for the Kings. Dubnyk finished with 24 saves. Dubnyk allowed goals to Tanner Pearson and Jeff Carter in the first 12:57 of the game, but he settled in, making big one-on-one saves on Carter in the first period and Tyler Toffoli with 11 second left in regulation to get the Coyotes to overtime. Toffoli's hooking penalty with 1:19 left in overtime set the stage for Arizona, and Antoine Vermette set up Ekman-Larsson, who used a Shane Doan screen and picked out the top corner over Quick's glove for the winner. Ekman-Larsson finished with a career-high eight shots in 28:10 of ice time. Keith Yandle, who had an assist on all three Arizona goals, said the team didn't panic after the Kings jumped out to the early lead. The Kings managed five shots during a 27-minute span following Carter's goal and are now 0-1-1 to start the season. The Coyotes rallied to tie the game when Vermette tipped home a Yandle shot on a power play in the final minute of the first period, and Mikkel Boedker scored on a breakaway set up by Yandle midway through the second. The Coyotes appeared to take the lead with 2:47 left in regulation when a scramble for a Boedker rebound in front of the crease wound up in the net. But Doan was penalized for interference against Carter, negating the goal. The Kings came hard on the ensuing power play, but Dubnyk stood tall and then stoned Toffoli on the backhand with 11 seconds left to force overtime. Dubnyk got the start after Smith allowed six goals on 27 shots to the Jets, four of them in the first 14 minutes.
Edmonton @ Vancouver 4-5 SO - Ryan Miller was beaten four times on the first 15 shots. But he stopped the final 14, including a sprawling left-pad save on Taylor Hall with nine minutes left, before shutting the door in the shootout. Chris Higgins scored the only shootout goal for Vancouver, sneaking a wrist shot in off the glove of Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth. Vancouver overcame three two-goal deficits and tied the game when Linden Vey scored his first NHL goal on a power play 7:06 into the third period. Outshot 10-5 in the first period and trailing 4-2 midway through the second, the Canucks stormed back with help from seven straight power plays and finished with a 43-29 edge in shots on goal. Radim Vrbata made it 4-3 with a power-play goal midway through the second period and assisted on Vey's power-play goal that tied it in the third. The Oilers jumped out to a 2-0 lead when Teddy Purcell and Perron set up goals by defenseman Brad Hunt on a power play, and Mark Arcobello in the first period. Despite being outplayed for long stretches, Vancouver pulled within a goal when Henrik Sedin scored with 9.9 seconds left in the first period. The Oilers regained momentum early in the second period when Yakupov restored the two-goal lead at 2:22. Yakupov skated down the left wing and cut behind Canucks defenseman Luca Sbisa before snapping a quick shot under the pads of Miller. The Canucks cut into the lead again two minutes later. Alexandre Burrows jumped to hold in an Oilers clearing attempt at the blue line and the puck went off his glove to Dan Hamuis, whose quick shot was deflected down off the ice in the slot by Bonino and bounced up and over Fasth's glove. The Oilers argued it should have been whistled down for a glove pass, but the goal counted and the Canucks had a great chance to tie it when Hall received a double-minor for high sticking Hamhuis on the next shift. Instead, Edmonton restored their two-goal lead when Joensuu converted a shorthanded breakaway, but Vrbata scored before the power play ended, easily finishing off a blind spinning backhand pass from Daniel Sedin. Vancouver outshot the Oilers 21-8 in the second period thanks to four straight power plays and three more early in the third. The Canucks finally tied the game when Vey converted the third chance. The goal came shortly after Nugent-Hopkins had his first NHL fight after taking an exception to a big hit from Hamhuis.
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