Panthers beat Detroit, extend win streak to 8
Aleksander Barkov scored in overtime and the Florida Panthers — playing a day after coach Joe Quenneville resigned amid a sex abuse scandal — beat Detroit 3-2 on Friday to run their season-opening winning streak to eight.
Quenneville, the secondwinningest coach in NHL history, resigned Thursday, two days after being among those implicated for not responding swiftly to allegations by former Chicago player Kyle Beach of being sexually assaulted by thenBlackhawks assistant Brad Aldrich during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Andrew Brunette, an assistant under Quenneville, directed the Panthers as interim coach.
HURRICANES 6, BLACKHAWKS 3 >> Antti Raanta made 23 saves and was a winner in his Carolina debut as the Hurricanes scored four goals in the first period and added to the best start in franchise history by beating winless Chicago.
Tony DeAngelo, Jordan Staal, Derek Stepan, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov scored as Carolina scored four goals on 18 shots in the first period and improved to 7-0-0. DeAngelo and Vincent Trocheck each had two assists.
RANGERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 0
>> Chris Kreider scored two power-play goals, Igor Shesterkin stopped 31 shots for his third career shutout and first this season, and New York beat Columbus for its first home win of the season.
Ryan Strome and Alexis Lafrenière also scored, and Adam Fox and Artemi Panarin each had three assists to help New York get its fifth win in six games. Shesterkin had 12 saves in the first period, seven in the second and 12 in the third to improve to 4-1-1 with a 1.81 goals-against average.
CAPITALS 2, COYOTES 0 >> John Carlson scored a long-awaited power-play goal, Alex Ovechkin added an empty-netter and Washington handed Arizona its eighth consecutive loss to start the season.
Carlson’s goal with 7:58 left in the third period was Washington’s third in 25 opportunities on the power play dating to opening night. The Capitals came up empty on their first five power-play chances against Arizona before breaking through.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, DUCKS 4 (SO) >> Nic Roy and Evgenii Dadonov scored in the shootout and Vegas beat Anaheim.
The Golden Knights survived a scare after Anaheim erased a three-goal deficit in the second half of the third period to force overtime. It was Vegas’ third straight win.
SENATORS 4, STARS 1 >> Josh Norris score two goals in his U.S. NHL debut, and the Ottawa Senators snapped a three-game losing streak with a win over Dallas.
Brady Tkachuk and Connor Brown also scored for Ottawa. Filip Gustavsson made 35 saves in his 12th NHL game.
BLACKHAWKS WANT ALDRICH OFF CUP >> Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz has asked the Hockey Hall of Fame to write X’s over the name of former video coach, Brad Aldrich, on the Stanley Cup.
In a letter addressed to the Hall of Fame’s chairman, Lanny McDonald, Wirtz requests “x-ing out” Aldrich’s name, which was engraved in the section for the Blackhawks’ winning team in 2010.
Earlier this week, the NHL fined the Blackhawks $2 million for what the league described as “the organization’s inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response” relating to the team’s handling of alleged incidents of sexual misconduct involving Aldrich in 2010.