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One night after raising the 2021-22 Stanley Cup banner before a
home win, the Avalanche were rudely greeted by the Flames, who
scored five straight goals on the way to winning their season
opener.
It was career win No. 700 for Flames coach Darryl Sutter.
Brett Ritchie, Dillon Dube, Tyler Toffoli and Elias Lindholm
also scored for Calgary. Jacob Markstrom made 22 saves. Valeri
Nichushkin scored his third goal in two games for Colorado.
Nathan MacKinnon tallied a goal and an assist, Bowen Byram also
scored and Pavel Francouz made 22 saves.
Kraken 4, Kings 1
Martin Jones made 26 saves to win his Seattle debut in Los
Angeles.
Jaden Schwartz, Brandon Tanev, Alex Wennberg and Adam Larsson
scored for the Kraken, who took three of four points on their
season-opening trip to Southern California. Jones improved to
20-7-3 in 30 career decisions against the Kings, the team he
broke into the NHL with in 2013-14.
Alex Iafallo scored for Los Angeles, and Jonathan Quick stopped
18 of 21 shots.
Golden Knights 1, Blackhawks 0
Logan Thompson turned away 27 shots for his second career
shutout as host Vegas beat Chicago.
Paul Cotter scored for Vegas, which improved to 2-0 to start a
season for the fourth time in the franchise's six seasons.
Alex Stalock finished with 36 saves for Chicago, which lost to
defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado on Wednesday in Denver.
The 35-year-old Stalock, who missed the entire 2021 season with
myocarditis -- an inflammation of a heart muscle -- was playing
in just his second NHL game since the 2019-20 season.
Maple Leafs 3, Capitals 2
Auston Matthews scored the go-ahead goal in the third period on
a deflection as Toronto defeated visiting Washington.
John Tavares and Calle Jarnkrok also scored, and Morgan Rielly
added two assists for the Maple Leafs in their home opener.
Former Capitals goaltender Ilya Samsonov stopped 24 shots in his
Maple Leafs debut.
Nic Dowd and Marcus Johansson scored for the Capitals. Charlie
Lindgren made 36 stops in his Capitals debut.
Penguins 6, Coyotes 2
Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists as host Pittsburgh beat
Arizona for the ninth straight time in the teams'
curtain-lifter.
The 35-year-old Crosby is playing in his 18th season, passing
Mario Lemieux's 17 for the most in Penguins history. Crosby's
teammates Evgeni Malkin, 36, and Kris Letang, 35, are in their
17th seasons with the club.
Jake Guentzel, Bryan Rust and Jason Zucker each had a goal and
an assist, Malkin and Kasperi Kapanen also scored, and Letang
and Danton Heinen each added two assists for the Penguins.
Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry made 26 saves.
Stars 4, Predators 1
Mason Marchment scored twice in the first period and Tyler
Seguin recorded three assists as Dallas opened its season with a
road victory over Nashville.
Joe Pavelski also scored and 19-year-old Wyatt Johnston
registered a goal in his NHL debut for the Stars, who got 30
saves from Jake Oettinger in new coach Peter DeBoer's debut.
Marchment scored 2:31 into the game and with 1:04 left in the
first to help Dallas halt an 0-1-3 rut at Nashville.
Down 4-0, the Predators' Ryan Johansen deflected in Eeli
Tolvanen's shot at 4:53 into the third period. Goalie Juuse
Saros stopped 25 shots. Nashville failed to score on all five of
its power plays.
Panthers 3, Islanders 1
Patric Hornqvist scored the tiebreaking goal less than four
minutes into the third period as visiting Florida beat New York.
Eetu Luostarinen scored in the second period and Matthew Tkachuk
added an empty-netter with 1:15 left for the Panthers, who won
their fourth straight opener to improve to 14-9-1-3
(wins-losses-ties-OT losses) all-time in their first game of the
season. Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves.
Noah Dobson tied the score just prior to Hornqvist's goal as the
Islanders fell to 13-26-11 in season openers. Goalie Ilya
Sorokin recorded 26 saves.
Flyers 5, Devils 2
Travis Konecny and Morgan Frost each scored two goals to lift
host Philadelphia past New Jersey in the season opener for both
teams.
Wade Allison added one goal for the Flyers, who were victorious
in coach John Tortorella's debut. Ivan Provorov, Tony DeAngelo
and Kevin Hayes each contributed two assists. Flyers goaltender
Carter Hart, who sat out the entire preseason, made 34 saves.
Alexander Holtz and Damon Severson scored one goal apiece for
the Devils, who played without injured captain Nico Hischier.
Jesper Bratt had two assists. Mackenzie Blackwood made 20 saves.
Sabers 4, Senators 1
Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin scored the go-ahead goal in the second
period to lift host Buffalo past Ottawa in the season opener for
both teams.
Craig Anderson made 35 saves to improve to 6-2-0 against his
former team. Anderson, 41, is the Senators' all-time leader in
wins (202) and games played (435) by a goaltender.
Buffalo's JJ Peterka scored his first goal while playing in his
third career NHL game. Victor Olofsson sealed the victory by
adding a pair of empty-net goals 15 seconds apart late in the
third period.
Rangers 7, Wild 3
Artemi Panarin posted a goal and three assists as New York
secured its second consecutive victory, a win over host
Minnesota.
Panarin's linemates, Vincent Trocheck (one goal, one assist) and
Alexis Lafreniere (two assists), each chipped in a pair of
points in helping the Blueshirts earn their first road win.
Chris Kreider, who finished third in the race for the Rocket
Richard trophy last season with 52 goals, notched a pair of
goals.
Wild netminder Marc-Andre Fleury took the loss, making 28 saves
in a disappointing season opener.
--Field Level Media
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