Top seed Vegas goes down
Adam Lowry scored two goals and Blake Wheeler had a goal and two assists Tuesday night as the Winnipeg Jets beat the host Vegas Golden Knights 5-1 in Game 1 of their first-round series..
Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and assist, Kyle Connor also scored, and Nino Niederreiter had two assists for the Jets. Connor Hellebuyck made 16 saves on a night in which the Jets’ defense allowed him to have a fairly stress-free game.
William Karlsson scored for the Golden Knights, who suffered their first regulation loss in nine games. It also was the first regulation loss for Vegas goalie Laurent Brossoit, who went 7-0-3 in the regular season. He stopped 26 shots.
Vegas entered the game as the top seed in the Western Conference, and the Jets were the last team in the conference to get in the playoffs. But Winnipeg is 6-2 in its past eight games and continued the momentum.
Seattle 3, Colorado 1: Eeli Tolvanen, Alexander Wennberg and Morgan Geekie scored goals and Philipp Grubauer stopped 34 shots as the Kraken, only in their second season as a franchise, won on the road against the defending Stanley Cup champion Avalanche.
Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 3: Brayden Point scored twice and the Lightning routed the host Maple Leafs. Nikita Kucherov and Corey Perry each had a goal and two assists, and Anthony Cirelli and Ross Colton finished with a goal and an assist for Tampa Bay. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare also scored for the Lightning, who scored four goals on the power play. Toronto winger Michael Bunting was whistled for a match penalty and game misconduct for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak. Cernak, who did not have the puck, fell backward to the ice and went to the locker room.
N.Y. Rangers 5, New Jersey 1: Igor Shesterkin made 27 saves, Chris Kreider scored two power-play goals and the York Rangers stunned the host Devils. The Devils, who set franchise records with 112 points and 52 wins in the regular season and beat New York three times in four games, never got their rush game going. When they did threaten, they either missed the net or Shesterkin denied them.