* Tampa Bay @ Buffalo 4-1 - Erik Condra gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead 8:14 into the second period. Condra took a pass from Victor Hedman and skated the puck around the outside of the faceoff circle where he took a wrist shot that got past Sabres goalie Chad Johnson over his right shoulder. After Nicolas Deslauriers made 1-1 with 6:05 left in the second period, the Lightning got the lead for good when Nikita Kucherov scored with 26 seconds left in the period.
Kucherov received a pass across the attack zone from Tyler Johnson and took a wrist shot from the right faceoff circle that beat Johnson to his glove side. Kucherov's goal came as a too many men on the ice penalty to the Sabres expired. Steven Stamkos made it 3-1 with 11:07 left in the third period when he took a pass out of the corner off the side of the net from Ryan Callahan and shot it past Johnson. J.T. Brown made it 4-1 with 7:19 left in the third period after he deflected a shot from the blue line from defenseman Jason Garrison.
* Montreal @ Boston 4-2 - Lars Eller, Alex Galchenyuk and Alexander Semin forged their chemistry right from the start of training camp. Their camaraderie is paying off early in the regular season. Eller scored two goals, Galchenyuk had three assists and Semin had two assists in the Canadiens' 4-2 win against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. The Canadiens also got a goal from Galchenyuk with his line on the ice in their season-opening win against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Eller scored the first of his two goals at 2:15 of the second period to give Montreal a 2-0 lead. Eller's shot from the left hash mark eluded Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask after a give-and-go with Semin. Eller then gave the Canadiens a 3-0 lead at 7:47 of the second with a goal from the right circle after a feed by Galchenyuk. David Desharnais and Tomas Plekanec (empty net) also scored for the Canadiens and goaltender Carey Price had 19 saves on 21 shots. It took the Canadiens 1:25 to score first. During a power play, defenseman Andrei Markov found Desharnais uncovered in front of the Boston net. Rask (34 saves) stopped Desharnais' first shot, but the Canadiens forward buried his second effort for a 1-0 lead. Boston's best chance to score came with David Pastrnak alone in front, but Price poke-checked Pastrnak's first effort and then made two saves before a whistle with 11:14 remaining.
Trailing 2-0 in the second period, the Bruins thought they scored their first goal at 6:30 when Loui Eriksson picked up a loose puck in the slot and beat Price with a backhand shot, but the goal was waved off because of goaltender interference. Bruins coach Claude Julien challenged the call, but it was confirmed after replays concluded Boston center Patrice Bergeron "made incidental contact" with Price, according to the NHL Situation Room. The Bruins cut the lead to 3-1 at 14:26 of the second period when Matt Beleskey scored his first goal with Boston. Beleskey's pass attempt from the goal line to the front went off Montreal defenseman Jeff Petry and past Price. Plekanec extended the lead to 4-1 with an empty-net goal with 53.2 seconds left. After a Torrey Mitchell match penalty, Bergeron scored a power-play goal to pull the Bruins back within 4-2. But their inability to contain Eller, Galchenyuk and Semin cost them.* Ottawa @ Toronto 5-4 SO - Mike Hoffman said he knew right away he was going to shoot high on Maple Leafs goaltender James Reimer; he beat him with a snap shot to the glove side for the first shootout goal of his NHL career, in the third round. The Maple Leafs rallied from deficits of 3-0 and 4-3 and were happy to get a point in a game that ended with the first shootout of the season. After a scoreless first period in which the Maple Leafs outshot the Senators 16-10, Ottawa scored three power-play goals before the second period was five minutes old. Kyle Turris put Ottawa ahead 46 seconds into the period with his third goal of the season. He was unguarded in the high slot when he took a pass from Erik Karlsson and drilled a snap shot off the post and past Reimer. Alex Chiasson made it 2-0 at 3:38 when he stepped out of the penalty box, took a breakaway pass from Mika Zibanejad and beat Reimer with a high backhand shot. Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau was penalized for an illegal hit to the head at 4:04, and Ottawa capitalized again when Milan Michalek snapped a rebound past Reimer from close range at 4:56. Joffrey Lupul got Toronto on the board at 7:05 when he picked up an errant puck in right circle and caught the far corner from a bad angle for his first of the season. The Maple Leafs made it 3-2 when center Tyler Bozak took a stretch pass from Phaneuf and skated in alone, beating Anderson with a shot between the legs at 14;33. Toronto tied it 3-3 with a power-play goal at 3:18 of the third period. Ten seconds after Ottawa's Marc Methot was sent off for tripping, center Peter Holland flipped a high backhand shot high past Anderson from in tight. The Senators regained the lead at 8:59 when Mark Stone tipped a shot from the point by Hoffman between Reimer's legs for his first goal of the season. But the Maple Leafs tied it at 16:12 on a goal that had to be confirmed by video review. With each team playing a man short, Daniel Winnik took a backhand shot that hit the netcam and bounced back out. Action continued for 37 seconds until the buzzer sounded to halt play. Replay showed the puck had entered the net, tying the game. Toronto dominated the 3-on-3 overtime but missed on a breakaway, failed to convert on a 2-on-1 and came up empty on a power play.* Philadelphia @ Florida 1-7 (SEVEN)! - The Panthers set an NHL modern-day record for the fastest four goals to start a season on their way to a 7-1 victory against the Flyers in front of a sellout crowd at BB&T Center. Vincent Trocheck, Nick Bjugstad, Reilly Smith and Jussi Jokinen each scored in the game's first 6:46 to give Florida a 4-0 lead. It was also the fastest four goals to start a game in Panthers history, besting the mark of 9:35 on Oct. 30, 2000, in a 6-5 overtime loss against the New Jersey Devils. Jaromir Jagr and Smith each had two goals in their first season opener with the Panthers. Jagr has 724 career goals, seven behind Marcel Dionne for fourth place on the NHL's all-time list. Jagr, who has 47 goals in 94 career games against the Flyers, is the NHL's all-time scoring leader in openers with 39 points in 22 games. Trocheck, who opened the scoring at 1:23 with the fastest Panthers goal to start a season, had three assists to set a new career high with four points.
Aleksander Barkov and Brandon Pirri each had two assists; Pirri matched his assist total from last season when he had 22 goals in 49 games. Florida recorded its largest margin of victory in a season opener, besting an 8-3 victory against the Boston Bruins on Oct. 6, 2006. Defenseman Mark Streit scored for the Flyers. Steve Mason started in net for the Flyers but was pulled after giving up four goals on eight shots. He came in with a 7-2-1 record, a 1.48 goals-against-average and a .953 save percentage in 10 career games against the Panthers.
Trocheck got things going for the Panthers after Jokinen took a shot on goal from the neutral zone. Trocheck beat Flyers defenseman Evgeny Medvedev to the long rebound before slipping a backhand between Mason's legs. Bjugstad, who led the Panthers with 24 goals last season despite missing the last 10 games because of a back injury, made it 2-0 at 4:55. He scored on the power play with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle. Smith, who was acquired in a trade with the Boston Bruins on July 1, scored another power-play goal at 5:46 with a nifty move down low. After taking a pass behind the goal line, Smith quickly moved the puck to the front before slipping it past Mason on the far side. Jokinen closed out the first-period scoring after Mason misplayed a dump-in by the Panthers. After Trocheck intercepted Mason's pass from behind the net, his quick shot on net hit the post, and Jokinen was right there to tap in the easy rebound. Jagr scored 33 seconds into the second period when he took a centering pass from Barkov and fired a quick wrist shot past backup goalie Michal Neuvirth, who made 19 saves on 22 shots. Jagr scored again in the first minute of the third period to make it 6-1 when he put home a rebound after Neuvirth stopped a Brian Campbell wrist shot.* Columbus @ NY Rangers 2-5 - Henrik Lundqvist's is a big reason why the Rangers are perfect through three games to start this season. He made 37 saves and New York got two more goals from rookie forward Oscar Lindberg.
The Rangers scored three goals in the first 5:48 of the game. Lundqvist raised his save percentage to .943 (six goals on 106 shots) and shed the slow-starter label that has been attached to him since 2010. He posted a sub-.900 save percentage in his first three starts four times in the previous five seasons, including .815 (14 goals on 76 shots) last season. Lindberg is the first rookie in Rangers history to score a goal in each of their first three games of a season. He is also the first Rangers player to score a goal in each of the first three games of his rookie season since Steven King scored in four straight in 1992-93 (Dec. 6-13). Lindberg scored his two goals from the slot, one on a rebound at 1:20 and the other off his skate from a centering pass by forward J.T. Miller at 5:12.
Dominic Moore also scored in the first period to make it 3-0. Derick Brassard scored a power-play goal late in the second period, and Derek Stepan scored early in the third. Blue Jackets forwards Ryan Johansen and Boone Jenner scored in the third period, but not before the Rangers built a 5-0 lead. Sergei Bobrovsky stayed in after giving up the three early goals and settled down despite not getting much help from his skaters. He turned aside a wide-open shot from the slot by Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh, and denied two shorthanded breakaways and a Rick Nash penalty shot during a Blue Jackets power play late in the first period. Lundqvist made 14 saves in the first period and 12 more in the second, none better than his stick save on Johansen at 18:42 of the second period. Columbus gained the zone by getting the puck into the corner, but it hit the boards and angled back to the front of the net as Lundqvist was going behind to play it as if it was going to rim around. Lundqvist raced back, stuck out his stick, and used it to block Johansen's wrist shot. Brassard scored his power-play goal 30 seconds later to make it 4-0. It was the last shot Bobrovsky faced; he was replaced by Curtis McElhinney to start the third period, when Stepan scored against him at 1:26.* New Jersey @ Washington 3-5 - Alex Ovechkin scored to break a third-period tie and help the Capitals to a 5-3 win at Verizon Center. The Capitals allowed the Devils to score two goals in less than three minutes and tie the game 2-2 in the first period. Ovechkin scored at 6:33 of the third period to give Washington a 3-2 lead. Jason Chimera scored a shorthanded goal at 12:04 of the first period to make it 1-0. Justin Williams entered the Devils zone and fed a drop pass to Chimera, who scored from the point with a wrist shot deflected by Jordin Tootoo. Brooks Orpik gave the Capitals a 2-0 lead at 14:32 with a snap shot from the slot off a pass from Tom Wilson that beat Kinkaid on his blocker side. The goal was Orpik's first with Washington and his first in 91 NHL games. Twenty-two seconds after Orpik's goal, Adam Henrique scored to cut the lead to 2-1. He skated into the zone unchallenged and scored on Holtby off a pass from Jiri Tlusty. Eric Gelinas scored on a power play at 17:40 to tie the game at 2-2. Lee Stempniak passed to Gelinas, who beat Holtby on his blocker side with a slap shot from the point. Ovechkin skated into the Devils zone past John Moore and roofed a tight-angle wrist shot past Kinkaid to break the tie. Marcus Johansson gave the Capitals a 4-2 lead with a power-play goal at 12:44 off an Ovechkin rebound. With Kinkaid pulled, Matt Niskanen scored an empty-net goal at 17:07. Mike Cammalleri made it 5-3 with an unassisted goal at 18:39. Washington defenseman Dmitry Orlov had an assist in his first NHL game since April 13, 2014.* Detroit @ Carolina 4-3 - While the Red Wings labored through the first half of the game, the Hurricanes threw everything they had at Petr Mrazek.
Mrazek weathered the Hurricanes' 34-8 advantage in shots through two periods before Teemu Pulkkinen scored the tying and go-ahead goals early in the third, helping the Red Wings to a 4-3 victory that spoiled the Hurricanes' home opener at PNC Arena. Detroit got in penalty trouble early in the game, including 46 seconds of a 5-on-3 when the Hurricanes brought their best. But Mrazek stopped a heavy shot from Justin Faulk and a rebound bid from Eric Staal. Jonathan Ericsson also cleared a loose puck at the top of the crease to keep the Hurricanes off the scoreboard.
After being outshot 18-2 in the first period, the Red Wings found their skating legs in the second when Henrik Zetterberg scored his first of the season at 11:33 for a 1-0 lead. He took a pass from rookie forward Dylan Larkin and skated below the goal line, shook off Jordan Staal and wrapped the puck around a sprawling Cam Ward, who made 15 saves. The 35-year-old had a goal and an assist, giving him five points in two games while skating with Larkin and Justin Abdelkader. Carolina answered at 15:12 when Victor Rask batted a puck out of the air and past Mrazek. Rask was at the left post when he connected with a rebound off the glass from a shot by rookie defenseman Noah Hanifin.
Carolina took their first lead of the season on their next shot when Nathan Gerbe redirected Ryan Murphy's sharp pass from the right-side boards past Mrazek with 56 seconds remaining in the period. But the Red Wings came to life in the third period, capitalizing on defensive mistakes by Carolina. Pulkkinen tied the game 4:39 into the third period with an unassisted goal. Ron Hainsey tried to clear the puck from a scrum in the corner, but his pass wound up on the tape of Pulkkinen, who snuck a shot between Ward's pad and the right post.
Pulkkinen gave Detroit a 3-2 lead when he redirected Tomas Tatar's wrist shot from inside the blue line past Ward at 6:36. Abdelkader made it 4-2 on a one-timer in the slot at 16:25. After a lengthy individual display of puckhandling behind the net, Zetterberg found him alone in the slot for a one-timer. Faulk completed the scoring by scoring a power-play goal with three seconds remaining.
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