New Jersey @ Washington 2-6 - Rookie Damon Severson scored twice for the Devils, who had their three-game winning streak broken in the final game of a season-opening four-game road trip. Cory Schneider stopped 21 shots before he was pulled in the third period. Scott Clemmensen made six saves in relief. Thirty-four seconds into the game, Ovechkin scored his fifth goal of the season. Schneider stopped Troy Brouwer's wrist shot on the rush, but the rebound caromed to Ovechkin in the high slot. Ovechkin settled the puck and cut to his right before beating Schneider. It was the sixth-fastest goal of his career and the first first-period goal allowed by New Jersey this season. Severson tied the game midway through the period. After Capitals goalie Braden Holtby thwarted Mike Cammalleri's chance from in tight, Travis Zajac slid the rebound to the Severson near the point. With traffic in front, the defenseman's slap shot eluded Holtby at 10:15. Less than a minute later, Chris Brown gave the Capitals a 2-1 lead on a sharp-angle slap shot at 11:02. Severson tied the game for the second time in the period at 16:36, the result of another slap shot through heavy traffic. The Devils had several quality scoring changes in the period, including two by Cammalleri that Holtby snagged with his glove. Later, Holtby slid across the crease to make a save with his left arm on Jaromir Jagr during a New Jersey power play. Marcus Johansson gave the Capitals a 3-2 second-period lead at 6:18. Brooks Laich won a battle along the left-wing boards, finding Johansson in open space near the high slot. It was a rare even-strength goal for the 24-year-old, who scored two in 80 games last season. Devils forward Martin Havlat left the game late in the second period after absorbing a Jason Chimera check and colliding face-first with referee Darcy Burchell. Havlat, who was led off the ice with a towel covering his face, did not return and no official update was provided. Backstrom and Joel Ward scored about three minutes apart in the third period. Backstrom deflected Matt Niskanen's point shot past Schneider at 0:56, then Ward took advantage of a fortuitous bounce as his wide shot attempt caromed off the end boards, struck Schneider and trickled into the net at 3:25.
Carolina @ NY Rangers 1-2 SO - Derick Brassard tied the game at 9:40 of the third period, and Rick Nash scored the shootout winner. Goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who allowed six goals in each of the past two games, made 29 saves in regulation and overtime before stopping three shots in the shootout to help the Rangers snap their three-game losing streak. The Rangers picked up the extra point when Nash beat Hurricanes goalie Anton Khudobin with a forehanded shot on the stick side in the third round of the shootout. Nash was the only shooter to score in the shootout. Forward Chris Terry gave the Carolina a 1-0 lead with 3:07 remaining in the second period on a shot that deflected into the net off of New York defenseman Kevin Klein, but the Rangers felt good about how they played in the second and better about how they responded in the third and overtime. Brassard's third goal of the season gave the Rangers a chance at the win. It was a double deflection goal on which Brassard got his stick down to redirect defenseman Dan Girardi's shot from the right point after it was initially tipped by forward Mats Zuccarello.
Boston @ Montreal 4-6 - Jiri Sekac and PA Parenteau scored on consecutive shots 1:25 apart late in the second period. Brendan Gallagher had two goals and an assist for the Canadiens. Montreal also got a goal and two assists from Max Pacioretty to win its home opener for the first time in six seasons.
Parenteau scored his second goal of the game into an empty net with 19.4 seconds remaining. David Desharnais, Tomas Plekanec and Alexei Emelin each had two assists for the Canadiens. Sekac scored his first NHL goal at 18:11 of the second to tie the game at 3-3. Parenteau scored his first goal in five games with the Canadiens with 23.2 seconds left in the period to give Montreal its second lead of the period. Parenteau's second goal was the Canadiens' second in three power-play opportunities in the game. It came after Boston's Milan Lucic was called for boarding at 18:40 for his hit on Emelin. Lucic, who gave the Montreal defenseman an earful in the handshake line at the end of Game 7, was given a misconduct penalty after Parenteau's second goal. Simon Gagne, who signed a one-year contract with Boston on Monday, drew the Bruins to within one at 14:11 of the third with his first NHL goal since April 23, 2013. Zdeno Chara, Carl Soderberg and Loui Eriksson also scored for Boston, which fell to 2-4-0. Gallagher gave Montreal its first lead at 2-1 with his second goal of the season at 7:43 of the second. Soderberg tied it with his first goal on a shot from the slot at 8:34. Eriksson's goal restored Boston's lead at 11:31. He made it 3-2 when he deflected Torey Krug's pass from the left side past Price. Chara scored his first goal of the season on a power play midway through the first period. The Bruins captain deflected David Krejci's one-timer from the point past Price at 9:30 on Boston's second power play. Chara, Krejci and Lucic each recorded their first point in six games on the goal. Pacioretty scored his second goal at 11:33 of the first period to tie the game at 1-1. It was the Canadiens' first power-play goal in 15 opportunities this season. Referee Graham Skilliter immediately waved off an apparent goal by Montreal at 7:20 of the second. Skilliter ruled that Canadiens center Lars Eller had both interfered with Rask and pushed the puck into the net with his glove.
Colorado @ Ottawa 3-5 - Avalanche goaltender Calvin Pickard was forced to make his NHL debut after Reto Berra was injured 2:47 into the game. Colorado's No. 1 goalie, Semyon Varlamov received treatment for a sore groin Wednesday and was placed on injured reserve Thursday. Pickard was called up by the Avalanche from the Lake Erie Monsters of the AHL to back up Berra, who was injured when Senators center Kyle Turris collided with him after Turris was pushed by Colorado center John Mitchell. The Avalanche, who had four goals in their first four games, took a 3-1 lead in the first period. Alex Tanguay, Mitchell with a shorthanded goal, and Gabriel Landeskog on the power play, each scored his first goal of the season for the lead. Zack Smith had Ottawa's only goal of the first period, knocking in a loose puck off a shot from Senators rookie Curtis Lazar at 11:01 to make it 2-1. The assist was Lazar's first NHL point. The Senators scored the only goal of the second period when Pickard mishandled a shot by Ottawa defenseman Erik Karlsson with his glove hand, giving up a big rebound to forward David Legwand as the Senators power play scored at 6:11. Ryan beat Pickard with a shot along the ice from the left circle at 8:39 to tie the game 3-3 after a rush by Ottawa defenseman Cody Ceci off an Avalanche turnover in the neutral zone. MacArthur scored the winner at 11:43 from the right circle after taking a pass from Matt Stone, who did a good job gaining the Colorado zone on the right wing, before Ottawa's resident goon Chris Neil scored into the empty net.
St Louis @ Los Angeles 0-1 SO - Jonathan Quick made 43 saves in regulation and overtime before stopping the Blues’ T.J. Oshie, Alexander Steen and Vladimir Tarasenko in the shootout to lead the Kings to a 1-0 win. Jeff Carter scored the deciding goal on St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott in the shootout to lift Los Angeles to its third straight win, all at home. Quick perhaps made his finest stop with a glove save on Jay Bouwmeester late in the third to help get the game to overtime. Elliott made glove saves on Jordan Nolan and Drew Doughty early in the third period and had 18 saves for the game. He was beaten in the shootout by Carter’s wrist shot. Oshie nearly won it in overtime, but his shot rang off the right post. He was also stopped as the Blues’ first shooter in the shootout, but he attributed the game’s result more to the Blues’ failure to finish on their chances than Quick’s performance. At even strength, they had two great chances late in the second, but Carter couldn’t convert and Dwight King opted not to shoot when he got the puck deep on the right side. Kings coach Darryl Sutter and Blues coach Ken Hitchcock shook up their lines during the game. Notably, Sutter broke up the highly effective line of Carter, Tanner Pearson and Tyler Toffoli and mixed up all four lines by the third. Hitchcock swapped right wings Tarasenko and Joakim Lindstrom on his second and third lines. St. Louis defensemen were involved in two key plays in the second. Ian Cole beat Quick but his shot hit the crossbar, and partner Alex Pietrangelo prevented an Anze Kopitar breakaway.
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