Devils clip Stars, still unbeaten
Kyle Palmieri scored his seventh goal in four games, Keith Kinkaid stopped 24 shots for his second shutout and the New Jersey Devils continued their perfect start, beating the Dallas Stars, 3-0, last night in Newark, N.J.
Late pickup Jean-Sebastien Dea tallied for the third straight game and Blake Coleman added a goal as the Devils (4-0-0) remained the NHL’s only unbeaten team. The start is their best since 1995-96.
Palmieri also became the first player in NHL history to score his team’s opening goal in four consecutive games to begin a season, the league said.
Anton Khudobin made 31 saves as Dallas lost for the second time in as many nights. It marked the first time it had been shut out.
Canucks 3, Penguins 2 — Brock Boeser fired a wrist shot past Casey DeSmith 34 seconds into overtime to lift Vancouver over host Pittsburgh.
The Penguins tied it late in regulation when Carl Hagelin took a perfect pass from Phil Kessel and slipped it past Anders Nilsson with 3:14 to go.
Ben Hutton and Brandon Sutter also scored for the Canucks. Nilsson finished with 26 saves. The Canucks played without 19-year-old rookie Elias Pettersson, who was diagnosed with a concussion after getting slammed to the ice in a game against Florida on Saturday.
Lightning 4, Hurricanes 2 — In Tampa, Fla., Tyler Johnson had three goals, Yanni Gourde scored on a goahead power play goal in the third period and Tampa Bay beat Carolina.
Johnson scored in all three periods, completing the hat trick on an empty-netter with 1:56 remaining.
Lightning backup Louis Domingue stopped 38 shots in his first start of the season.
Rangers 3, Avalanche 2 — Kevin Shattenkirk scored the deciding goal in a shootout to lift host New York over Colorado.
Mats Zuccarello scored for the Rangers in the first round of the tiebreaker, and Mikko Rantanen tied it in the second. Shattenkirk then beat Semyon Varlamov in the third round. Henrik Lundqvist denied Gabriel Landeskog to secure New York’s second win in six games.
Flyers 6, Panthers 5 — Jordan Weal scored in the shootout to lift host Philadelphia over Florida. Weal had a goal and an assist, and Jakub Voracek also scored in the shootout for the Flyers.
Wild 2, Coyotes 1 — In
St. Paul, Minn., Eric Staal and Mikael Grandlund scored and Devan Dubnyk stopped 27 shots as
Minnesota beat Arizona.
Elsewhere in the NHL —
Red Wings forward Evgeny Svechnikov is expected to miss 5-6 months after having surgery on the ACL in his right knee. Svechnikov injured the knee in the preseason finale on Sept.29.