BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored 3:07 into overtime, and the Boston Bruins beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Saturday.
It was Pastrnak’s third goal in Boston’s first three games. He had 47 goals in 82 games for the Bruins last season.
Elias Lindholm also scored for Boston, and Jeremy Swayman had 33 saves.
It was Los Angeles’ first loss of the season. The Kings opened with a 3-1 victory at Buffalo on Thursday.
SABRES 5, PANTHERS 2
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jordan Greenway and Tage Thompson scored 41 seconds apart in the first period, and Buffalo ended a season-opening three-game skid with a win over Florida.
Henri Jokiharju, Mattias Samuelsson and Alex Tuch, with an empty-netter, also scored for the Sabres, who combined for three goals in their first three outings. Lindy Ruff won his first game in his second stint as Sabres coach, 4,257 days after his last victory with Buffalo — a 4-2 decision over Boston on Feb. 15, 2013.
Sam Bennett and Nate Schmidt scored for the Panthers, who have lost two straight since a season-opening win over Boston.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, PENGUINS 2
TORONTO (AP) — Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist, and Toronto beat Pittsburgh in the Maple Leafs’ home opener.
William Nylander had two goals for Toronto, including an empty-netter. Matthew Knies also scored, Max Domi had two assists and Anthony Stolarz made 21 saves.
It was the home debut for Toronto coach Craig Berube, who was hired in May. The Maple Leafs split their first two games of the season on the road.
Kris Letang and Rickard Rakell scored for Pittsburgh. Joel Blomqvist stopped 29 shots in his second NHL start after picking up his first victory Thursday in Detroit. Evgeni Malkin had two assists to give him 1,300 points for his career.
CANADIENS 4, SENATORS 1
MONTREAL (AP) — Emil Heineman and Cole Caufield scored first-period goals and Montreal went on to beat Ottawa.
After Alex Newhook boosted the Canadiens’ lead to 3-0 early in the third period, Tim Stutzle ended Sam Montembeault’s bid for a second consecutive shutout. Montembeault, who made 48 saves in a season-opening win over Toronto, made 24 saves against Ottawa.
Caufield completed the scoring with his second goal of the game and fourth of the season in the third period.
Montreal defenseman Mike Matheson was awarded a penalty shot when he was upended by Jake Sanderson on a rush to the net during a third-period power play. Linus Ullmark, who finished the game with 22 saves, got a piece of the shot which hit the post and went wide.
RED WINGS 3, PREDATORS 0
DETROIT (AP) — Cam Talbot stopped 41 shots for his 32nd career shutout in his first start for Detroit and the Red Wings beat Nashville.
J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp and Dylan Larkin scored for Detroit, which lost its season opener, 6-3 to Pittsburgh on Thursday.
Juuse Saros, who missed the Predators’ season-opening loss to Dallas, finished with 22 saves.
Nashville forward Filip Forsberg played in his 700th career game.
Talbot, signed to a two-year contract as a free agent during the offseason, had 16 saves in the first period, 12 in the second and 13 in the third.
UTAH 6, RANGERS 5, OT
NEW YORK (AP) — Clayton Keller scored his second goal of the game at 4:05 of overtime, and Utah beat New York for their third win in three games.
Barret Hayton, Jack McBain, Kevin Stenlund and Dylan Guenther also scored for Utah. Connor Ingram made 29 saves.
Hayton has scored in each of Utah’s three games, and Guenther has five goals.
Artemi Panarin, who led New York with 49 goals and 120 points last season, scored twice. K’Andre Miller, Braden Schneider and Will Cuylle also scored for the Rangers. Adam Fox had three assists and Igor Shesterkin finished with 19 saves.
DEVILS 5, CAPITALS 3
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Cotter scored twice, giving him four goals through four games this season, and New Jersey defeated Washington.
Capitals star Alex Ovechkin was held without a shot for only the 23rd time in his distinguished career, though he did have an assist and six hits. Washington’s captain started his 20th season 42 goals from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record of 894.
Seamus Casey, Tomas Tatar and Dawson Mercer also scored for New Jersey. Erik Haula and Stefan Noesen each had three assists, and Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves.
The Devils (3-1-0) took the white-knuckle route to protecting a two-goal lead entering the third, as the Capitals (0-1-0) scored 95 seconds into the period on Tom Wilson’s slap shot.
Washington had opportunities to tie the game on a power play midway through the period, but Mercer put in an empty-netter with eight seconds left, securing the victory.
STARS 3, ISLANDERS 0
DALLAS (AP) — Tyler Seguin scored twice, Jake Oettinger made 33 saves in his 11th career regular-season shutout and Dallas beat New York.
Seguin shot a wrister from the high slot over Semyon Varlamov’s glove at 7:59 of the first period on a feed from behind the goal line by Mason Marchment.
Jamie Benn doubled Dallas’ lead midway through the second period, collecting a loose puck between the circles when neither Kyle Palmieri nor rookie Maxim Tsyplakov could maintain control and lifted it high into the net.
Seguin added an empty-net goal in the final minute.
KRAKEN 5, WILD 4, SO
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jordan Eberle had two goals in regulation and scored the winner in the shootout as Seattle rallied to beat Minnesota.
Tye Kartye and Jared McCann also scored in regulation for Seattle. Andre Burakovsky had two assists. Joey Daccord stopped 34 shots in his first start since signing a five-contract extension Wednesday.
Minnesota’s Mats Zuccarello and Seattle’s Oliver Bjorkstrand scored in the first round of the shootout. After the Wild’s Kirill Kaprizov missed, Eberle scored. Daccord stuffed Matt Boldy to seal the win.
Kaprizov had a goal and two assists for the Wild. Zuccarello and Boldy scored for the second straight game, and Ryan Hartman added a goal. Marc-Andre Fleury made 30 saves in his first start of the season.
BLUE JACKETS 6, AVALANCHE 4
DENVER (AP) — Kirill Marchenko and Yegor Chinakhov scored in a three-goal second period for Columbus, and the Blue Jackets beat Colorado.
Marchenko and Chinakhov both had two assists. Sean Monahan also had a goal and two assists.
Zach Werenski, Kent Johnson and Adam Fantilli also scored for Columbus.
Nathan MacKinnon, Miles Wood, Casey Mittelstadt and Ross Colton had goals for the Avalanche, but Alexandar Georgiev gave up three goals on nine shots.
Justus Annunen replaced Georgiev after Fantilli’s goal 1:56 into the second period gave the Blue Jackets a 3-1 lead. Wood and Mittelstadt beat Daniil Tarasov just 1:31 apart to tie it before Marchenko’s go-ahead goal at 4:33.
FLAMES 6, FLYERS 3
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Jonathan Huberdeau had two goals and two assists and Calgary beat Philadelphia to win their home-opener.
Nazem Kadri scored twice, including an empty-netter, and MacKenzie Weegar and Mikael Backlund also scored to hlep Calgary improve to 2-0-0. Dustin Wolf stopped 37 shots in his season debut.
Travis Konecny had two goals and Joel Farabee also scored for Philadelphia. Ivan Fedotov made 27 saves in his first start of the season.
The Flyers played their second road game in two nights to start their season after a 3-2 shootout win over the Canucks in Vancouver.
BLACKHAWKS 5, OILERS 2
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Teuvo Teravainen had two goals and two assists and Connor Bedard had a goal and two assists as Chicago beat Edmonton.
Seth Jones also had a goal and two assists in his 800th career NHL game and Philipp Kurashev scored the other goal to help the Blackhawks improved to 1-1-1 on the season. Petr Mrazek stopped 35 shots.
Corey Perry and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who fell to 0-2 to start the season after reaching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final last season before losing out to the Florida Panthers. Edmonton has been outscored 11-2 in its first two games.
Calvin Pickard finished with 15 saves for the Oilers.
DUCKS 2, SHARKS 0
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Isac Lundestrom’s goal midway through the third period broke a scoreless tie and sent Anaheim on their way to a season-opening victory over San Jose.
Lundestrom connected on a wrist shot from the slot after taking a centering pass from Brock McGinn with nine minutes remaining.
Trevor Zegras added an empty-net goal with 1:35 left to seal the win.
Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal made 30 saves for the shutout, and Sharks goalie Vitek Vanecek turned back 28 shots.
Boston Bruins' Jeremy Swayman (1) deflects a shot by Los Angeles Kings' Kevin Fiala (22) as Pavel Zacha (18) defends in overtime during an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
