Tavares, Islanders score win
John Tavares kept up his scoring surge with two more goals and the Islanders handed the expansion Vegas Golden Knights their second loss of the season, 6-3, last night in New York.
Andrew Ladd, Mathew Barzal, Cal Clutterbuck and Nikolay Kulemin also scored, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 31 shots to help New York win for the fifth time in six games. Tavares has eight goals in the last four games.
William Karlsson, Alex Tuch and Colin Miller scored for Vegas, which snapped a five-game winning streak and lost another goalie to an injury. With starter Marc-Andre Fleury and backup Malcolm Subban already sidelined, Oscar Dansk left after Tavares scored the tying goal late in the second period with an apparent leg injury.
Dansk, who came in 3-0 with an NHL-best 1.34 goalsagainst average, made 17 saves. Maxime Lagace, the fourth goalie Vegas has used in its inaugural season, came on for his NHL debut and gave up four goals on 11 shots.
Lightning 8, Panthers 5 — In Sunrise, Fla., Andrei Vasilevskiy won his ninth straight start and Steven Stamkos scored twice to lift visiting Tampa Bay past Florida.
Vasilevskiy made 18 saves and shares the longest win streak by a goalie in franchise history with John Grahame, who won nine in a row from Nov. 14 to Dec. 10, 2005.
Blues 4, Kings 2 — Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz each had a goal and an assist to lead host St. Louis past Los Angeles in a matchup between two of the NHL’s top teams.
Carl Gunnarsson scored the game-winner and Vladimir Sobotka added an empty-netter for the Blues, who improved to 10-2-1 to match the franchise’s best start set in 1997. Jake Allen made 26 saves as St. Louis remained the only unbeaten team on home ice this season (5-0).
Canadiens 8, Senators 3 — Charles Hudon scored his first two career goals and had an assist, helping visiting Montreal roll to the rout of Ottawa.
Artturi Lehkonen also scored twice for the Canadiens, and Shea Weber had three assists.
Al Montoya stopped 25 shots in his first victory. Coyotes 4, Flyers 3 — Arizona scored its first win of the season, beating host Philadelphia on Alex Goligoski’s overtime goal after blowing a two-goal lead in the final minute of regulation.
Goligoski scored with 14.4 seconds left on the clock in OT and Arizona (1-10-1) avoided setting an NHL record for most consecutive losses to start a season. Jordan Martinook, Christian Dvorak and Brandon Perlini also scored for the Coyotes.
Sean Couturier scored twice and Ivan Provorov had three assists for the Flyers.
Stars 2, Canucks 1 — Alexander Radulov scored 2:28 into overtime and visiting Dallas defeated Vancouver.
Ben Bishop made 38 saves and Tyler Seguin had a second-period goal for Dallas, which improved to 3-1 on a five-game road trip that concludes Thursday in Winnipeg.
Sharks 3, Maple Leafs 2 — Tim Heed scored the goahead goal, Joel Ward added an empty-netter and San Jose foiled the return of the franchise’s all-time leading scorer Patrick Marleau in holding off Toronto.