NHL roundup: Sabres beat Wild in extra time after two-goal comeback

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Owen Power scored 4:22 into extra time and the Buffalo Sabres rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on Tuesday night time.

Tage Thompson and Noah Ostlund tied the NHL contest by scoring six minutes aside within the third interval. Colten Ellis stopped 18 pictures, together with three in extra time, and Buffalo (2-1) gained its second straight recreation when trailing coming into the third.

The Sabres overcame a 3-2 deficit in a 4-3 home-opening win over Chicago on Saturday night time.

Danila Yurov and Maxim Shabanov scored 1:45 aside to stake Minnesota to a 2-0 lead with 4:22 left within the second interval. Jesper Wallstedt stopped 25 pictures, together with his glove save off Thompson’s shot from the slot with 3:28 left in regulation.

Power’s objective got here after Thompson shot vast on a drive to the web. Jiri Kulich, who scored the decisive objective towards Chicago, collected the puck and fed Power, who snapped within the puck contained in the left put up.

Minnesota blew a chance to open a season 3-0 for the primary time since 2021-22 and sixth time in franchise historical past.

Thompson’s objective was additionally his four-hundredth profession level with Buffalo. He turned considered one of 9 Sabres and the primary since Thomas Vanek to succeed in the 400-point plateau in 491 or fewer video games.

Ellis, Buffalo’s third-string goalie, made his season debut, with co-starter Alex Lyon nonetheless recovering from a shoulder harm.

Elsewhere within the NHL on Tuesday:

DETROIT — Dylan Larkin scored in his first recreation since asking for a commerce, serving to Detroit to a 5-3 win over Ottawa.

Larkin was initially booed by the house crowd when he touched the puck on his first shift. The boos turned to cheers when he scored within the thirteenth minute, giving Detroit a lead it by no means relinquished.

Alex DeBrincat scored twice and Justin Faulk and Viktor Arvidsson added targets for Detroit. John Gibson made 22 saves.

Drake Batherson, Tim Stutzle and William Eklund scored for the Senators, who had gained their first two video games. Samuel Ersson had 31 saves.

DeBrincat opened his scoring within the first with a wrist shot 3:16 into the interval, assisted by Nate Danielson and Carter Mazur. He added a power-play empty-netter with 50 seconds remaining within the third. DeBrincat additionally had an help.

Larkin stays in limbo a number of months after his commerce request turned public. He was stripped of the captaincy, reported to coaching camp regardless of being injured, missed the beginning of the season due to harm and obtained a frosty response from dwelling followers throughout introductions previous to their first recreation final week.

NEWARK, N.J. — Nick Schmaltz scored his NHL-best fifth objective of the season, and Utah relied on its proficient energy play to beat New Jersey 5-3.

Clayton Keller, MacKenzie Weegar, Lawson Crouse and Vincent Trocheck additionally scored for the Mammoth, and Mikhail Sergachev had three assists to surpass 300 for his profession earlier than leaving the sport when he took a puck to the again of the helmet late within the second interval.

Utah went 2-for-4 on the facility play and has scored on eight of 13 alternatives this season with the person benefit, together with Keller’s objective within the first interval and Schmaltz’s go-ahead tally halfway by means of the second that made it 3-2.

Luke Evangelista scored twice for New Jersey and Jesper Boqvist had the opposite objective.

The Mammoth beat the Devils for the primary time, having gone 0-4 within the franchise’s earlier two seasons.

Karel Vejmelka stopped 30 pictures for Utah, and New Jersey’s Jake Allen made 26 saves.

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TORONTO — Auston Matthews scored with 14 seconds left in extra time and had three assists in regulation and Toronto erased a three-goal deficit in a 5-4 win over Nashville.

William Nylander, No. 1 general decide Gavin McKenna — together with his first as an expert — John Tavares and Jack Roslovic had the opposite targets for Toronto, which bought 21 saves from Anthony Stolarz.

McKenna additionally picked up an help on Tavares’ objective for his first NHL level. Nylander chipped in two assists and Roslovic added one.

Steven Stamkos scored twice for Nashville to maneuver into seventeenth place on the NHL’s profession targets record, whereas Nils Hoglander additionally scored twice. Filip Forsberg had two assists and Juuse Saros made 33 stops.

Stamkos opened the scoring at 7:13 of the primary interval on an influence play. Nashville doubled its lead at 9:08 when Hoglander collected a rebound off the tip boards and slotted it dwelling earlier than making it 3-0 at 3:03 of the second on one other tap-in.

Tavares bought Toronto going off the frenzy at 4:56 of the center interval and Nylander related on a person benefit at 6:58 to make it 3-2. Stamkos scored his second to revive a two-goal lead at 13:30, however McKenna scored his first NHL objective 61 seconds later.

Roslovic tied issues at 8:54 of the third.

Stamkos broke a tie with Joe Sakic and Jarome Iginla on the league’s profession scoring record together with his first-period objective — the 626th of his profession — earlier than including one other within the second. Dave Andreychuk is sixteenth in NHL historical past with 640 profession targets.

NEW YORK — Alexis Lafrenière recorded a hat trick, with two targets into an empty internet, and had an help because the New York Rangers prolonged their successful streak to 4 by defeating the crosstown rival Islanders 5-2.

The Rangers are unbeaten since getting shut out of their opener every week in the past at Boston. They’re 3-0 at dwelling, a yr since dropping their first seven video games at Madison Square Garden final season.

Oliver Bjorkstrand scored twice, and Mika Zibanejad completed with three assists. Igor Shesterkin made 17 saves for the victory however had his level streak from an help Sunday and his goalie objective Thursday finish at two.

The Rangers didn’t get a shot till 6:40 in, however Bjorkstrand scored on it for his first objective together with his new crew. He and Lafrenière took benefit of the Islanders’ Semyon Varlamov exhibiting some rust in his first recreation in 676 days.

Varlamov was taking part in within the NHL for the primary time since Nov. 29, 2024, finishing his comeback from present process double partial knee alternative surgical procedures. He allowed three targets on 22 pictures.

Captain Bo Horvat and younger ahead Calum Ritchie scored for the Islanders, whereas reigning rookie-of-the-year defenceman Matthew Schaefer hit the put up twice amongst his 12 shot makes an attempt.

MONTREAL — Taylor Hall scored twice as Carolina beat Montreal in its dwelling opener.

Sebastian Aho added a objective and two assists, whereas Eric Robinson and Mark Jankowski had a objective and an help every.

Andrei Svechnikov added an empty-net objective and Brandon Bussi stopped 16 pictures within the rematch of final season’s Eastern Conference ultimate.

Zachary Bolduc scored twice, Nick Suzuki had a objective and an help, and Juraj Slafkovsky additionally scored for Montreal. Alexandre Texier and Chris Krieder had two assists apiece, whereas Jakub Dobes made 28 saves.

The Canadiens returned to the Bell Centre for his or her first regular-season dwelling recreation since falling to the Hurricanes within the third spherical. Carolina eradicated Montreal in 5 video games earlier than happening to win the Stanley Cup over the Vegas Golden Knights.

The groups mixed for 5 targets within the opening 13 minutes. Hall opened the scoring 2:25 into the primary interval, deflecting Jackson Blake’s shot after Slafkovsky turned the puck over in entrance of his personal internet

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SEATTLE — Victor Olofsson and Tomas Hertl scored two targets apiece and Vegas beat Seattle 6-2.

Mark Stone had a objective and an help to turn into the third Vegas participant to succeed in 400 factors with the crew. Jack Eichel scored a objective and had three assists for the Knights, who have been up 5-0 after two durations. Hertl had two assists.

Shane Wright and Jared McCann scored third-period targets for the Kraken. Kaapo Kakko assisted on each targets.

Olofsson ripped a shot from simply contained in the blue line on the best wing aspect to open the scoring with 6:58 left within the first interval. He made it 4-0 with 6:53 remaining within the second.

Hertl scored a power-play objective with 4:02 left within the first interval to make it 2-0, with Stone getting the first help.

With Vegas short-handed early within the second interval, Seattle’s Brandon Montour broke his stick on a tough shot from the blue line. Eichel picked up the free puck, crossing it to Stone coming down the left aspect. Stone drilled it into the again proper nook previous Kraken goalie Joey Daccord at 1:43.

Stone joined Jonathan Marchessault (417, now with Nashville) and present teammate William Karlsson (403) with 400 factors for Vegas.

Carter Hart made 25 saves for the Golden Knights.

LOS ANGELES — Matthew Tkachuk scored within the third interval to provide Florida a win over Los Angeles regardless of dropping Brad Marchand to a left leg harm.

Marchand was damage after taking a follow the face from Kings defenceman Brandt Clarke with 52.6 seconds remaining. The high-stick induced Marchand to twist round and collide with the best put up earlier than his left leg bent again in a clumsy approach.

Sam Bennett discovered a trailing Tkachuk within the left circle with 8:40 remaining to settle issues in regulation after their first three video games of the season all went to extra time. Bennett had an help for the third straight recreation, and Tkachuk has two targets and an help in the identical span.

Seth Jones additionally scored and Jacob Markstrom made 19 saves for Florida.

Alex Laferriere scored, Darcy Kuemper made 26 saves, and the Kings dropped their dwelling opener to stay winless by means of three video games.