NHL Roundup: Hurricanes beat Flyers in OT for his or her first win as Aho scores twice

PHILADELPHIA — Sebastian Aho scored a pair of targets and assisted on Shayne Gostisbehere’s additional time winner because the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Saturday night time.

Gostisbehere, a former Flyer, scored on the ability play, firing a slap shot previous Philadelphia goalie Joseph Woll 2:51 into the additional interval.

Aho scored 10 seconds into the sport on a move from behind the online by William Carrier. He tied the rating 2-2 within the third interval with a power-play objective on a one-timer from Nikolai Ehlers. Pyotr Kochetkov had 16 saves.

The win was the Hurricanes’ first of the season after the Stanley Cup champions opened with a pair of losses, however it additionally matched an NHL document. It was the ninth consecutive season the Hurricanes have received their highway opener, tying a mark set by the Flyers from 1980 by way of 1988. Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour grew to become the primary coach to win 9 consecutive highway openers.

SENATORS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2

TORONTO — Stephen Halliday broke a tie at 9:46 of the third interval, Linus Ullmark made 27 saves and the Ottawa Senators opened the season with a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night time.

Thomas Chabot had a objective and an help in his first sport as captain, and Michael Amadio offered the remainder of the offence for Ottawa. Claude Giroux added two assists.

Auston Matthews and Kirill Marchenko scored for Toronto, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 26 pictures. The Maple Leafs are 1-2.

Chabot opened the scoring with 1:08 left within the first interval. The Ottawa defenceman joined the push and fired a rebound previous Bobrovsky.

TAMPA, Fla. — Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves, Charle-Edouard D’Astous and Conor Geekie scored within the first interval and the Tampa Bay Lightning received their dwelling opener with a 3-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night time.

Brandon Hagel had two assists for the Lightning, and Jake Guentzel scored into an empty internet and had an help. Tampa Bay opened play Thursday night time in New York with a 5-1 loss to the Rangers.

Charlie Lindgren completed with 27 saves for Washington. Justin Sourdif scored for the Capitals.

D’Astous put Tampa Bay up 1-0 at 2:26 of the opening interval as he reduce down from the purpose into the center slot to take a move from Brandon Hagel and zipped a wrist shot previous Lindgren.

The Lightning completed off the interval with a objective from Geekie, who was off the proper wing facet to take a move from Hagel for a fast shot to the within of the publish with 3:30 to go for a 2-0 lead.

PENGUINS 6, CANADIENS 5, OT

PITTSBURGH — Tommy Novak scored his second objective of the sport in additional time to provide the Pittsburgh Penguins a 6-5 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night time.

Novak transformed a 2-on-1 from Evgeni Malkin at 1:33 of additional time, as Pittsburgh recovered after permitting a four-goal lead within the second interval slip away.

Malkin scored a power-play objective and had two assists. He recorded his 1,411th level, passing Dale Hawerchuk for twenty second place in NHL historical past.

Ben Kindel was activated from injured reserve and scored a power-play objective, whereas Sam Girard and Declan Carlile additionally scored for Pittsburgh.

Sidney Crosby had an help, the 1,109th of his profession, which tied Hall of Fame ahead Joe Thornton for seventh-most in NHL historical past.

Arturs Silovs stopped 20 pictures.

MAMMOTH 4, BLUE JACKETS 1

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nick Schmaltz had two targets and the Utah Mammoth scored 3 times on the ability play to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Saturday night time for its second straight victory to open the season.

Mikhail Sergachev and Dylan Guenther every scored power-play targets. Sergachev added an help and Guenther and Logan Cooley every had two assists. Sebastian Cossa stopped 15 pictures in his Utah debut.

Clayton Keller had two assists to achieve 600 NHL profession factors. He has two targets and 15 assists for 17 factors in 17 profession video games towards the Blue Jackets and 4 assists this season.

Kent Johnson scored for Columbus, and Jet Greaves stopped 21 pictures. Matthew Knies had an help, giving him 4 factors in his first two video games with the Blue Jackets.

EDMONTON — Connor McDavid had a objective and an help to provide him 9 factors by way of three video games because the Edmonton Oilers received their second sport in a row, defeating the Seattle Kraken 3-1 on Saturday.

Owen Michaels and Leon Draisaitl additionally scored for the Oilers (2-0-1). 

Devon Levi made 19 stops to earn the win within the Oilers’ internet.

Bobby McMann replied for the Kraken (1-1-0) who continued to battle in Edmonton. Philipp Grubauer recorded 22 saves for Seattle.

After McMann made it a 1-1 sport 9:06 into the second interval, it was Draisaitl who finally broke the impasse.

Draisaitl scored with 2:27 left in regulation, with McDavid including an empty-netter with 1:05 remaining.

BUFFALO, N.Y.— Jiri Kulich scored with 6:40 left and the Sabres overcame a two-goal deficit to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 in Buffalo’s home-opener on Saturday night time.

For Kulich, the objective was his first in almost a calendar 12 months, and after the 22-year-old missed the ultimate 70 video games of final season because of blood clot points. Rasmus Dahlin tied the sport 6:10 into the third interval, and Jack Quinn and Tage Thompson additionally scored for Buffalo. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 12 saves.

Oliver Moore, Ryan Donato and Tyler Bertuzzi scored for the Blackhawks, who dropped to 0-3 following highway losses at Vegas and Utah. Spencer Knight stopped 24 pictures. Chicago squandered a 2-0 first-period lead and a 3-2 lead getting into the third.

Kulich’s objective got here after he missed the online on an opportunity from in shut. Thompson recovered the puck behind the online and fed Owen Power in the proper circle. Power then arrange Kulich to the left of the online, from the place he beat Knight.

NEW YORK — Ilya Sorokin made 36 saves for his thirtieth profession shutout in a 6-0 win over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.

Simon Holmstrom, Brayden Schenn, Bo Horvat, Viktor Eklund, Ondrej Palat and Casey Cizikas scored for the Islanders, who received their dwelling opener after dropping in Toronto towards the Maple Leafs on Wednesday. Matthew Schaefer, named the youngest assistant captain in Islanders historical past on Tuesday, had two assists.

Nico Daws made 26 saves for New Jersey, which misplaced for the primary time this season after beating the Philadelphia Flyers in its opener.

Holmstrom and Schenn scored 1:28 aside to provide the Islanders a 2-0 lead 5 minutes into the second interval. Jean-Gabriel Pageau slid the puck previous Jonas Siegenthaler’s outstretched persist with arrange Holmstrom.

Schaefer arrange Horvat on the ability play to cap the Islanders’ three-goal second interval. Horvat was named the sixteenth captain in franchise historical past on Sept. 14.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Kirill Kaprizov scored twice, Jesper Wallstedt made 26 saves, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Saturday night time.

Quinn Hughes had a objective and help, and Jared Spurgeon additionally scored.

With the win, Minnesota improved to 18-4-4 in dwelling openers and its .769 factors share in these video games is second-best within the NHL to Vegas, which is at .850 whereas going 8-1-1.

Tanner Jeannot scored for Boston, which received 4-3 in additional time at Winnipeg Friday, and allowed simply three targets in successful its first two video games.

Michael DiPietro made 26 saves for the Bruins in his third profession begin and first since Jan. 23, 2022, with Vancouver. The 2025-26 American Hockey League MVP with Providence, he led the league with 34 wins, a 1.91 goals-against common and .930 save share.

Eight totally different Wild gamers had factors on Saturday after 9 did so in Thursday’s 3-1 season-opening win at Nashville.

DENVER — Nicolas Roy and Martin Necas scored 23 seconds aside in a four-goal second interval, and the Colorado A-Z Eventz beat the St. Louis Blues 6-1 on Saturday night time.

Necas, who completed with two targets and an help, is off to a quick begin with two targets and two assists after notching the primary 100-point season of his profession in 2025-26.

Nathan MacKinnon continued his sizzling begin with three assists and has 5 factors within the first two video games, each blowouts by Colorado. MacKinnon, final 12 months’s Rocket Richard winner with 53 targets, scored two targets within the 8-4 win over Los Angeles on Wednesday night time.

Necas and Cale Makar, who signed an eight-year, $163.2 million extension that kicks in subsequent season, scored within the first interval and the Avs blew it open within the second.

Josh Manson scored at 5:38, Artturi Lehkonen stole St. Louis goaltender Jordan Binnington’s clearing move and knocked it into the empty internet six minutes later, after which Roy and Necas put it away with targets within the last 1:58.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Igor Chernyshov scored his second objective of the sport with 1:42 remaining in additional time and the San Jose Sharks beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-4 on Saturday night time for his or her second straight win to open the season.

The Kings rallied from two targets down within the third to tie the sport and managed play for many of the additional time. But San Jose got here out on prime when Chernyshov beat Anton Forsberg on a one-timer off a move from Macklin Celebrini, who has 5 assists in two video games.

After not getting a win within the first 5 video games the previous 4 seasons, the Sharks have back-to-back additional time wins to start this season after beating Florida 4-3 within the opener Thursday night time.

Tyler Toffoli, Kiefer Sherwood and Nolan Allan additionally scored for San Jose. Yaroslav Askarov made 31 saves.

Adrian Kempe, Quinton Byfield, Erik Haula and Anteri Panarin scored for Los Angeles however it wasn’t sufficient to maintain the Kings from falling to 0-2 on the season. Forsberg made 20 saves.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Leevi Merilainen made 23 saves in his first begin for Vancouver and the Canucks had a four-goal third interval in a 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday night time.

Liam Ohgren celebrated his a centesimal NHL sport by scoring a objective and aiding on defenseman Elias Pettersson’s winner.

Drew O’Connor and Aatu Raty additionally scored, and defenseman Tom Willander and heart Linus Karlsson every had two assists.

Matt Coronato had a power-play objective for Calgary, and Devin Cooley made 22 saves. The Flames are 0-2.

Pettersson made it 2-1 at 9:04 of the third interval. He took a move from Ohgren and lifted a backhander previous Cooley’s glove.