Quick strike gives Vegas overtime victory over Anaheim
LAS VEGAS: Max Pacioretty scored seven seconds into overtime as the Vegas Golden Knights completed a sweep of their season-opening twogame series with the Anaheim Ducks with a 2-1 come-from-behind victory on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
Pacioretty’s one-timer from the bottom of the right circle into the top right corner came at the end of a twoon-one break with Mark Stone, who scooped up a loose puck on the opening face-off of overtime and then broke into the Anaheim zone.
It was the fastest goal to start a period in Vegas team history and came just 89 seconds after teammate William Karlsson had scored to tie the game.
Marc-Andre Fleury had 21 saves for the Golden Knights, who won for the 12th time in 14 games in team history against the Ducks. Max Comtois scored the lone goal for Anaheim, while John Gibson finished with 31 saves.
Egor Sharangovich scored his first NHL goal with 1.7 seconds left in overtime as New Jersey edged Boston 2-1 at Newark, New Jersey.
The teams appeared headed for a shoot-out for the second straight game — the Bruins won the season opener 3-2 on Thursday — before Damon Severson corralled the puck near centre ice and sent a no-look backhand pass towards a streaking Sharangovich. The 22-year-old, who made his NHL debut on Thursday, bore in alone on Jaroslav Halak and fired a shot under his stick hand.
Miles Wood scored the Devils’ first goal and continued to rankle the Bruins with his edgy play. Goalie Mackenzie Blackwood made 27 saves. Patrice Bergeron scored a short-handed goal in the second period for the Bruins. Halak recorded 29 saves.
Phil Kessel scored two goals and Oliver Ekman-Larsson added three assists to lead Arizona over San Jose 5-3 at Glendale, Arizona.
Barrett Hayton, Jakob Chychrun and Clayton Keller all notched goals for the Coyotes, and goaltender Antti Raanta stopped 31 of 34 shots faced.
Ryan Donato, Timo Meier and Tomas Hertl found the net for the Sharks. Goalie Martin Jones (19 saves) was lifted after allowing all five goals, and substitute Devan Dubnyk stopped both shots he faced.
Jeff Petry and Tomas Tatar scored two goals each while Jake Evans added a goal as Montreal used a second-period onslaught to defeat hosts Edmonton 5-1.
The Canadiens scored three times in the opening 9:17 minutes of the second period and also killed off three Oilers power plays in the second. Montreal goaltender Carey Price had 34 saves, losing his shut-out at 12:59 minutes of the third period when Slater Koekkoek scored his first of the season for the Oilers off the rebound of his own shot.
The Oilers fell for the second time in three games as Connor McDavid was held to an assist one game after he delivered the NHL’s first hat trick of the season in a victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
Pavel Buchnevich and Artemi Panarin each scored two goals to lead the New York Rangers past the visiting New York Islanders 5-0.
The Rangers also received a goal from 19-year-old Kaapo Kakko.
RESULTS
Golden Knights 2 Ducks 1; Devils 2, Bruins 1 (OT); Coyotes 5, Sharks 3; Canadiens 5, Oilers 1; Rangers 5, Islanders 0; Red Wings 4, Hurricanes 2; Maple Leafs 3, Senators 2; Predators 5, Blue Jackets 2; Wild 4, Kings 3 (OT); Flames 3, Canucks 0