By Field Level Media
Oct 07 (Field Level Media) – Auston Matthews scored with 14 seconds remaining in overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to defeat visiting Nashville Predators 5-4 on Tuesday night.
Matthews, who also had three assists, passed Bill Guerin (429) into ninth place for most goals by United States-born skaters. Gavin McKenna, the first overall pick of the 2026 NHL Draft, scored his first career goal and also had his first assist for Toronto in the 18-year-old’s first multi-point game in four outings.
William Nylander scored a goal and had two assists, Jack Roslovic had a goal and an assist, and John Tavares also scored for the Maple Leafs. Anthony Stolarz made 21 saves.
Steven Stamkos and Nils Hoglander each scored two goals, Ryan O’Reilly picked up his 900th career point with an assist, and Filip Forsberg added two assists for Nashville. Juuse Saros finished with 32 saves for the Predators.
Red Wings 5, Senators 3
Embattled Dylan Larkin turned boos into cheers from the home crowd with a goal and an assist in his season debut as Detroit notched its first win of the season by topping Ottawa.
Larkin, the team’s former captain who has requested a trade, missed Detroit’s first two games due to an upper-body injury. Alex DeBrincat had two goals and an assist and Viktor Arvidsson contributed a goal and an assist. Justin Faulk also scored, Lucas Raymond contributed three assists and John Gibson made 22 saves.
Tim Stutzle, Drake Batherson and William Eklund each had a goal and an assist for the Senators. Samuel Ersson made 31 saves.
Mammoth 5, Devils 3
Nick Schmaltz scored the go-ahead goal to highlight a three-goal second period for visiting Utah, which downed New Jersey in Newark.
Clayton Keller, MacKenzie Weegar, Lawson Crouse and Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Mammoth, who are 3-1-0 through four games for the second time in three seasons since the franchise relocated from Arizona. Mikhail Sergachev collected three assists and goalie Karel Vejmelka made 30 saves.
Luke Evangelista scored twice while Jesper Boqvist added a goal for the Devils, who have lost two straight. Goalie Jake Allen recorded 26 saves.
Sabres 3, Wild 2 (OT)
Owen Power scored with 37.4 seconds remaining in overtime to lift Buffalo to a comeback victory over visiting Minnesota. Trailing 2-0 after two periods, the Sabres tallied the game’s final three goals.
Noah Ostlund and Tage Thompson also scored one goal apiece for Buffalo. Power, a defenseman, finished with a goal and an assist. Goaltender Colten Ellis stopped 18 of 20 shots to earn the victory.
Danila Yurov and Maxim Shabanov scored one goal apiece for the Wild, while goaltender Jesper Wallstedt allowed three goals on 28 shots.
Rangers 5, Islanders 2
Alexis Lafreniere finished off his third career hat trick by scoring twice into an empty net and added an assist as the host Rangers pulled away from the Islanders.
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored a pair of goals and his tiebreaking power-play goal with 2:53 left in the second gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead. Mika Zibanejad contributed two assists and goalie Igor Shesterkin made 17 saves.
Bo Horvat scored a power-play goal and Calum Ritchie tallied a score nearly two minutes later to knot the score at 2-all in the second period. Semyon Varlamov stopped 19 shots in his first action since Nov. 29, 2024.
Hurricanes 6, Canadiens 4
Taylor Hall scored twice, while Sebastian Aho had a goal with two assists, as Carolina topped host Montreal to snap a four-game regular-season losing streak to the Canadiens.
Mark Jankowski and Eric Robinson each recorded a goal with an assist, and Jaccob Slavin added two helpers for the Hurricanes, who won their second straight game on the young season. Brandon Bussi stopped 16 of 20 shots.
Zack Bolduc had two goals and Nick Suzuki notched a goal and an assist for Montreal, which dropped its home opener to the team that eliminated them in last season’s Eastern Conference finals. Jakub Dobes made 28 saves on 33 shots.
Blackhawks 4, Blues 2
Sam Rinzel and Anton Frondell scored two minutes apart in the second period to back a 26-save effort from Spencer Knight as Chicago edged visiting St. Louis to snap a season-opening three-game losing streak.
The Blackhawks prevailed despite being outshot 28-21, sending the Blues home with successive losses after a shutout victory in Dallas in their season opener.
Goaltender Joel Hofer (17 saves) started in that game and returned to the net Tuesday. He stopped each of the seven first-period shots he faced, helping to keep a 1-0 lead intact after Mason McTavish scored off a Chicago turnover at 15:38 of the first. But the Blackhawks reclaimed the advantage early in the second period on goals from Rinzel and Frondell.
Golden Knights 6, Kraken 2
Tomas Hertl scored two goals and had two assists and Jack Eichel added a goal and three assists as visiting Vegas cruised to a victory over Seattle.
Victor Olofsson also scored two goals before leaving in the third period with an apparent left leg injury, while Mark Stone recorded a short-handed goal and an assist for the Golden Knights. Carter Hart made 25 saves for Vegas, which completed a sweep of a two-game Pacific Northwest road trip that began with a 3-2 victory at Vancouver on Sunday.
Shane Wright and Jared McCann scored goals and Kaapo Kakko had two assists for the Kraken. Joey Daccord, who entered the game having stopped 56 of 58 shots in two wins, allowed five goals on 21 shots before being pulled after two periods. Philipp Grubauer finished up and made six saves, allowing one score.
Panthers 2, Kings 1
Matthew Tkachuk gave Florida its first lead in regulation this season when he scored at 11:20 of the third period and it held on to edge host Los Angeles.
Sam Bennett passed to Tkachuk trailing on a rush following a turnover in the neutral zone and he squeezed the puck between the pads of Darcy Kuemper from the left faceoff circle for a 2-1 lead. Seth Jones also scored and Jacob Markstrom made 19 saves for the Panthers in the finale of their season-opening four-game road trip.
Alex Laferriere scored and Kuemper made 26 saves for the Kings, who are still winless on the season.
(–Field Level Media)
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