Smith shuts out Predators

NASHVILLE Mike Smith made 43 saves and Sean Monahan scored twice to lead the Calgary Flames to a 3-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.

Elias Lindholm scored and Johnny Gaudreau had three assists for Calgary, winners of two of three.

Smith was stellar, especially in the second period when he turned aside 21 shots. Nashville had a two-man advantage for a full 2 minutes in the period. Smith’s best save came with 12:29 remaining in the second, when he gloved Ryan Hartman’s wrist shot from the left side at the conclusion of a 2-on-1 rush.

The loss was Nashville’s first after a pair of road wins to open the season.

Lindholm scored the game’s first goal with just under four minutes remaining in the opening period.

With Calgary on a power play, Gaudreau carried the puck through the slot and found Lindholm on the right side, where he beat Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot on the glove side for his third goal of the season. Rinne finished with 24 saves.

The Flames doubled their lead at 5:22 of the second on a power-play goal from Monahan.

Early in the third, Monahan carried the puck into the Nashville zone on the left side on a 2-on-1 with Mattias Ekholm defending. With Ekholm splayed on the ice, Monahan’s shot hit the Swedish defenceman’s left skate and slid between Rinne’s pads.

SHARKS 8, FLYERS 2

PHILADELPHIA — Joe Pavelski scored two of San Jose’s four first-period goals, and Evander Kane also scored twice to spark the Sharks against the Philadelphia Flyers.

3 JETS 2, KINGS 1

WINNIPEG — Kyle Connor scored for a third straight game and Winnipeg overcame Ilya Kovalchuk’s first NHL goal in five years to beat Los Angeles.

Mark Scheifele also scored and Connor Hellebuyck made 16 saves for the Jets, who outshot the Kings 39-17.

HURRICANES 5, CANUCKS

RALEIGH, N.C. — Sebastian Aho had a goal and an assist, and Carolina beat Vancouver for its third straight win.

BLUE JACKETS 5, AVALANCHE 2

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nick Foligno had two goals and an assist and Sergei Bobrovsky made 25 saves to get his first win of the season as Columbus beat Colorado.

MAPLE LEAFS 7, STARS 4

DALLAS — Auston Matthews and John Tavares each had two goals, and highscoring Toronto beat Dallas.

Toronto defenceman Morgan Rielly had a careerhigh four assists after he scored the winning goal in Sunday night’s 7-6 overtime win at Chicago. Mitchell Marner had a goal and three assists as the Maple Leafs improved to 2-0 on a four-game trip.

Tyler Seguin had a goal and three assists for Dallas, and Alexander Radulov finished with a goal and two assists.