NHL ROUNDUP

Capitals 6, Canucks 4: Alex Ovechkin scored twice, and host Washington rallied past old coach Bruce Boudreau and the Vancouver Canucks 6-4 on Monday night for their second consecutive victory.

Ovechkin’s first two goals of the season, 56 seconds in and with 2:58 left in regulation, bookended the Capitals blowing a lead and coming back. Dylan Strome got the comeback started with a power-play goal early in the third, continuing his strong start with his new team, before John Carlson tied it and Conor Sheary put the Capitals ahead.

Winger Connor Brown, a newcomer like Strome, exited with an apparent right leg injury after going into the boards awkwardly early in the third. The team said Brown had a lower-body injury.

The Capitals spoiled Boudreau’s latest chance to reach 600 career regular-season NHL wins. Despite a goal and two assists from Elias Pettersson, the Canucks blew a two-goal advantage for a third consecutive game, all losses, to start the season 0-3-0.

Lars Eller also scored for Washington, taking advantage of a big bounce off the end boards 8 seconds into the second.

Ovechkin’s goal was the 11th of his career in the opening minute of regulation. Only Sidney Crosby and Mark Messier with 13 and Dave Taylor, Phil Esposito and Gordie Howe with 12 have more.

Rangers 6, Ducks 4: Mika Zibanejad had two goals and two assists, Artemi Panarin had a goal and three assists, and host New York beat Anaheim.

Vincent Trochek had a goal and an assist, Kaapo Kakko and Alexis Lafrenière also scored, and Adam Fox had three assists to help the Rangers win for the third time in four games this season. Igor Shesterkin had 18 saves to improve to 3-0-0.

Kakko’s second goal of the season snapped a 2-2 tie at 9:54 of the second.

Bruins 5, Panthers 3: Jake DeBrusk scored 21 seconds into the game and added an emptynetter as host Boston beat Florida.

Canadiens 3, Penguins 2 (OT): Kirby Dach scored 3:09 into overtime, lifting host Montreal over Pittsburgh .