Habs roll over Flames

MONTREAL

Brendan Gallagher, Shea Weber, Josh Anderson and Tyler Toffoli scored as Montreal defeated the Calgary Flames 4-2 in the Canadiens’ home opener at Bell Centre on Thursday night.

Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Jonathan Drouin had two assists apiece as the Canadiens (5-0-2) remained unbeaten in regulation time this season.

Sam Bennett ended Carey Price’s shutout bid with 78 seconds left in the third period. Rasmus Andersson added a second power-play goal for Calgary with 22.7 seconds to play.

BRUINS 4, PENGUINS 1

BOSTON — Anders Bjork’s pass deflected off a defender’s rear end and Sean

Kuraly’s leg to break a second-period tie and help Boston win a fourth straight game, over

Pittsburgh.

HURRICANES 1, LIGHTNING 0

RALEIGH, N.C. —

Martin Necas beat Andrei Vasilevskiy at 1:12 of overtime to help Carolina beat Tampa

Bay in the Hurricanes’ return

CAPITALS 6, ISLANDERS 3

WASHINGTON — Zdeno Chara scored for the first time with his new team to cap a five-goal second period, and Washington came back to stun New York.

FLYERS 3, DEVILS 1

NEWARK, N.J. — Carter Hart made 33 saves and fourth-line forward Michael Raffl scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period in the Philadelphia’s win over New Jersey.

CP PHOTO PAUL CHIASSON Calgary Flames’ Mark Giordano is checked into the boards by Montreal Canadiens’ Joel Edmundson during first period NHL hockey action in Montreal on Thursday.