Voracek powers Philly over Ottawa
Brady Tkachuk scored his first NHL goal, finishing with two goals and an assist, but the Ottawa Senators fell to the Philadelphia Flyers 7-4 on Wednesday.
Jakub Voracek and Scott Laughton led the way for the Flyers (2-2-0) with two goals each, while Sean Couturier, Robert Hagg and Claude Giroux also scored. Calvin Pickard made 31 saves for the win.
Maxime Lajoie also had two goals and an assist for the Senators (1-2-1), who were playing the first of a five-game home stand. Craig Anderson stopped 37 shots.
A five-goal outburst saw the Flyers jump out to a 4-3 lead after the second.
Tkachuk, making his home debut with the Senators, was thrilled to notch his first career goal as he redirected a Chris Tierney shot off his skate on the power play to give Ottawa a 1-0 lead.
With the marker, he also earned the bragging rights as the fastest Tkachuk to score in the NHL. It took his father Keith Tkachuk five games and his brother Matthew Tkachuk, who plays for the Calgary Flames, four games.
WASHINGTON 5, VEGAS 2
WASHINGTON — Evgeny Kuznetsov continued his dominance against the Vegas Golden Knights, scoring a goal and assisting on three more as part of a 5-2 Washington Capitals victory Wednesday night in a rematch of last season’s Stanley Cup Final.
Kuznetsov assisted on two goals by Alex Ovechkin and one by Nicklas Backstrom and scored his own on the power play. The leading scorer in the Cup Final with eight points in five games, Kuznetsov has seven points through the defending champions’ first three games of the regular season.