Hall’s OT goal lifts Bruins over Wild; Blues stay perfect

Taylor Hall scored a power-play goal 4:49 into overtime, and the host Boston Bruins beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 on Saturday.

Hall, who also had two assists, took a crossing pass from David Pastrnak and one-timed a shot past Marc-Andre Fleury.

Pastrnak scored his fourth goal of the season and Nick Foligno and Hampus Lindholm also scored for the Bruins, who improved to 5-1-0 under new coach Jim Montgomery and remained unbeaten at home.

Fleury stopped 39 shots for the Wild, keeping Minnesota close through a lopsided second period and giving the Wild a chance in the third, when Jared Spurgeon tied it at 3 with 4:31 left on a shot from the slot through traffic.

Brandon Duhaime and Matt Boldy also scored for the Wild, and Mats Zuccarello had two assists.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

• Devils 2, Sharks 1: Yegor Sharangovich and Dawson Mercer scored in the second period, and host New Jersey earned its third straight win.

Mackenzie Blackwood made 21 saves for the Devils, who dropped their first two games of the season.

Kevin Labanc scored for San Jose, and Kaapo Kahkonen made 34 saves. The Sharks dropped to 1-6-0.

• Senators 6, Coyotes 2: Brady Tkachuk scored twice and host Ottawa beat Arizona its third straight win.

Tyler Motte and Shane Pinto each had a goal and an assist, and Mark Kastelic and Josh Norris also scored for the Senators, who have won three in a row at home after starting with two road losses. Drake Batherson, Jake Sanderson and Tim Stutzle each had two assists and Anton Forsberg stopped 20 shots.

Dylan Guenther and Clayton Keller scored for the Coyotes, who have lost four of five this season. Karel Vejmelka finished with 26 saves.

Kastelic and Motte scored 47 seconds apart in the third period to push the Senators’ lead to 5-2. Kastelic had a couple of whacks at the side of the goal before knocking the puck past Vejmelka at 6:15. On the next shift, Batherson took a shot that Vejmelka thought he had trapped, but the puck fell into the crease where Motte was able to push it into the empty net.

Tkachuk scored on a breakaway with 7:52 left to close the scoring.

Blues 2, Oilers 0: Jordan Binnington made 23 saves for the shutout as St. Louis remained perfect on the season with a 2-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.

Torey Krug and Justin Faulk scored for the Blues (3-0-0), who have had plenty of practice time with a light schedule to start the season.

The Oilers dropped to 2-3-0 on their seasonstarting six-game homestand.

Oilers goalie Jack Campbell had 21 saves.

St. Louis started the scoring on the power play five minutes into the opening period as Krug beat Campbell with a long blast from the point. It could have been worse, but Campbell made a big glove save to stop a breakaway by Jordan Kyrou. The goalie then in the second period stopped a point-blank shot from Brett Kulak.

Edmonton pressed in the third but couldn’t score on Binnington.

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