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Wednesday 16 OctOber 2019
Isles rally past Blues in OT; Bruins' Pastrnak scores 4

By The Associated Press AVALANCHE 6, CAPITALS 3
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — WASHINGTON (AP) — Na-
Devon Toews scored at zem Kadri and Mikko Ran-
1:13 of overtime to com- tanen each had a goal
plete a stunning late- and two assists to help the
game comeback by the Colorado improve to 5-0-0.
New York Islanders as they Erik Johnson, Nikita Zado-
downed the St. Louis Blues rov and Matt Nieto also
3-2 on Monday. scored for Colorado. Na-
The Blues seemed to have than MacKinnon added an
the game well in hand in empty-net goal and had
the closing minutes before an assist for the Avalanche,
Brock Nelson put the home who scored on their first
team on the board with his three shots of the game.
third goal of the season at Philipp Grubauer stopped
14:29 of the third. Mathew 29 shots against his former
Barzal then tied the game team to pick up the win,
at 19:33 off a scramble in and Andre Burakovsky
front with Islanders goalie picked up an assist in his
Thomas Greiss pulled for an return to Washington as a
extra attacker. visiting player.
That set the stage for Toews' Colorado's start is tied for
goal. Barzel and Nelson the second-longest with-
had the assists. That sent out a loss since the team
what had been a mostly moved to Colorado and
silent crowd at Nassau Coli- tied for their fourth-longest
seum into a frenzy as the in franchise history.
defending champion Blues Alex Ovechkin, Lars Eller
skated off toward their Boston Bruins right wing David Pastrnak (88) scores a goal against Anaheim Ducks goaltender and T.J. Oshie scored for
John Gibson (36) as Ducks defenseman Hampus Lindholm (47) tries to defend in the third period
locker room. Griess made of an NHL hockey game, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Boston. Washington and Evgeny
21 saves for the win. Associated Press Kuznetsov had two assists.
Goals from Brayden Schenn Braden Holtby gave up the
and Vladimir Tarasenko hats on the ice. losses (0-4-3). ie forward Victor Olofsson three early goals on three
had given the Blues at 2-0 The 23-year-old forward WILD 2, SENATORS 0 set an NHL record by be- shots and was pulled after
lead. scored 2:14 later off a nice OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — coming the first player to Kadri's goal 7:54 into the
BRUINS 4, DUCKS 2 feed from Marchand. Alex Stalock stopped all 26 score his first seven career game for the earliest re-
BOSTON (AP) — David Pas- PANTHERS 6, DEVILS 4 shots he faced and Minne- goals on the power play, moval of his career. Rookie
trnak scored a career-high NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mack- sota picked up its first win of Carter Hutton made 25 Ilya Samsonov came on
four goals for his fifth career enzie Weegar scored the the season. saves to earn his first shut- and finished with 19 saves
hat trick, leading Boston tying goal and set up Noel Victor Rask and Zach Parise out of the season, and Buf- on 21 shots.
over Anaheim. Acciari for the go-ahead scored third-period goals falo kept up its strong start. BLACKHAWKS 3, OILERS 1
Jaroslav Halak stopped 30 tally and Florida rallied from for the Wild (1-4-0). Sam Reinhart, Jeff Skinner CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick
shots and Brad Marchand a three-goal deficit to beat Stalock, in his first start of and Marcus Johansson Kane and Alexander Nyl-
added two assists for the winless New Jersey. the season, earned his sixth had the other goals and ander scored, Corey Craw-
Bruins, the Stanley Cup run- Brett Connolly scored career shutout. Jack Eichel recorded two ford stopped 27 shots, and
ner-up off to a 5-1 start. twice, Jonathan Huber- Craig Anderson stopped 33 assists for the Sabres. Olofs- Chicago got its first win of
Rickard Rakell and Adam deau and Evgenii Dan- shots for the Senators (1-4- son also had an assist. the season.
Henrique scored for the donov also had goals as 0), who wrapped up a four- Buffalo has earned a point Brandon Saad added an
Ducks, and John Gibson the Panthers snapped a game homestand with a in its first six games (5-0-1) empty-netter with 32.7 sec-
made 19 saves. Anaheim three-game losing streak. 1-3-0 record. for the first time since going onds left to seal the win for
has lost two of three after Sergei Bobrovsky stopped After two scoreless periods, 6-0-2 through its first eight Chicago, which went 0-2-
winning its first three games 17 shots as he improved the Wild opened the scor- games of the 2008-09 sea- 1 in its first three games.
this season. his career mark against the ing midway through the son. The Sabres' 4-0 start Crawford lost a bid for his
Pastrnak completed his Devils to 17-5-1. third. at home is their best since 26th career shutout when
hat trick with an unassisted Pavel Zacha, Taylor Hall, Rask had a great takeaway 2006-07. James Neal scored his NHL-
goal off a faceoff. He stole Jesper Bratt and Will Butch- on Jean-Gabriel Pageau Dallas opened a four- leading eighth goal on a
the puck from defenseman er scored for the Devils, and then beat Anderson game road trip with a third power-play with 2:11 re-
Josh Mason and slipped a who fell to 0-4-2. Cory Sch- short-side. straight loss. maining.
wrist shot between John neider made 28 saves. Parise added an empty- Ben Bishop stopped 18 Mike Smith finished with 32
Gibson's pads 2:20 into the It is the Devils' worst start to net goal to seal the win. shots for the Stars. Bishop saves for Edmonton, which
third period to make it 3-1, a season since beginning SABRES 4, STARS 0 entered the game with a had opened the season
prompting fans to throw 2013-14 with seven straight BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Rook- 12-0-1 record and consec- with five wins.
utive shutouts against the Crawford came through
Sabres. with big saves, thwarted
Olofsson set his record on a Edmonton's Connor Mc-
one-timer off Rasmus Dah- David and Leon Draisaitl —
lin's pass from the right cir- who entered as the NHL's
cle to open the scoring 6:27 top two scorers — on sev-
into the second period. A eral prime chances. McDa-
delay of game penalty on vid, who has 12 points, was
the Stars' bench put the Sa- kept off the scoresheet for
bres on the power play. the first time this season.q