Artemi Panarin scored twice, Alexis Lafreniere finished with a goal and two assists and the New York Rangers ended their season-opening seven-game home winless streak by pulling away for a 6-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Monday night.
The Rangers, who went 0-6-1 in their first seven home games, never trailed against Nashville.
Vladislav Gavrikov had a goal and an assist while Will Cuylle and Mika Zibanejad also scored for New York. Vincent Trocheck collected two assists in his return from a 14-game absence caused by an upper-body injury. New York goalie Igor Shesterkin made 27 saves.
Matthew Wood finished with a hat trick for the Predators, who lost their fifth straight game (0-3-2). Nashville’s Juuse Saros allowed five goals on 12 shots before being pulled for Justus Annunen, who saved five of the six shots he faced.
Islanders 3, Devils 2 (OT)
Mathew Barzal scored 1:17 into overtime in Newark, N.J., and New York, after blowing a late lead, regrouped to hand New Jersey its first home loss of the season.
The Devils forced OT with 4.7 seconds remaining in regulation when Simon Nemec’s shot from the point appeared to redirect off an Islander in traffic and by Ilya Sorokin, who was otherwise stout in making 33 saves.
Bo Horvat and Kyle Palmieri each had a goal and an assist for the Islanders. New Jersey’s Jacob Markstrom stopped 22 shots. Timo Meier also scored for the Devils, who had won seven consecutive home games to open the season.
Oilers 5, Blue Jackets 4 (OT)
Connor McDavid and Jake Walman each had two goals and Jack Roslovic scored 56 seconds into overtime to help Edmonton rally for a win over visiting Columbus.
Walman and Roslovic each added an assist for the Oilers, who snapped a three-game losing streak (0-2-1). Stuart Skinner made 15 saves.
Adam Fantilli and Boone Jenner each had a goal and an assist and Greaves made 19 saves for the Blue Jackets, who have lost four straight (0-3-1). Columbus’ Sean Monahan and Ivan Provorov also scored.
Panthers 3, Golden Knights 2
Brad Marchand extended his goal streak to five games and also had an assist as Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves in Florida’s victory at Las Vegas.
Jesper Boqvist and Sam Reinhart also scored goals and Donovan Sebrango picked up the first two assists of his NHL career for the Panthers, who completed a sweep of the two-game regular-season series with the Golden Knights.
Tomas Hertl and Ivan Barbashev scored goals and Carl Lindbom finished with 17 saves for Vegas, which lost its third straight home game and fell to 2-4-2 over its past eight games.
–Field Level Media
