Preseason roundup: O’Reilly gets 1st goal with Predators

Ryan O'Reilly scored his first goal for the Nashville Predators and had three assists in a 5-1 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Thursday.

O’Reilly, who signed a four-year, $18 million contract ($4.4 million average annual value) with Nashville on July 1, tied the game 1-1 when he redirected a shot from Jeremy Lauzon at 4:15 of the first period.

Gustav Nyquist also scored his first with the Predators, Filip Forsberg had a goal and an assist, and Juuse Saros made 40 saves. Roman Josi had two assists.

Ryan Suzuki scored for the Hurricanes. Antti Raanta allowed five goals on 26 shots before being replaced by Pyotr Kochetkov to begin the third period. Kochetkov stopped all 13 shots he faced.

Suzuki gave Carolina a 1-0 lead at 3:37 of the first period, scoring on a wrist shot, before O’Reilly tied it.

Forsberg put the Predators ahead 2-1 at 8:49 with a power-play goal. Kiefer Sherwood extended the lead to 3-1 at 18:57 on a wrist shot.

Nyquist, who signed a two-year contract with Nashville on July 1, pushed it to 4-1 at 13:22 of the second period.

Fagemo scored on a backhand at 19:34 for the 5-1 final.

Maple Leafs 4, Red Wings 3 (OT): William Nylander scored twice, including at 1:34 of overtime, to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs to a win against the Detroit Red Wings at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. 

Nylander won it with a wrist shot from the high slot past Detroit goalie Alex Lyon.

Auston Matthews had a goal and an assist, and Mitchell Marner had two assists for the Maple Leafs. Ilya Samsonov made 20 saves.

Nate Danielson, Jonatan Berggren and Dominik Shine scored, and Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists for the Red Wings. Lyon made 34 saves.

Nylander gave Toronto a 1-0 lead during a 4-on-4 situation at 3:24 of the first period, but Danielson quickly tied it 1-1 on a deflection at 5:46.

Berggren gave Detroit a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 11:15.

Matthews answered with a power-play goal of his own, finishing off a tic-tac-toe passing play to tie it 2-2 at 19:52.

Tyler Bertuzzi scored his first of the preseason to give the Maple Leafs a 3-2 lead at 8:12 of the second period.

Shine tied it 3-3 at 18:25 after Samsonov turned the puck over behind the net.

Panthers 6, Lightning 3: Kevin Stenlund scored two goals for the Florida Panthers in their win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena in Tampa.

Ryan Lomberg, Nick Cousins and Justin Sourdif each had a goal and an assist, and Eetu Luostarinen scored for the Panthers. Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Anton Lundell each had two assists, and Anthony Stolarz made 17 saves.

Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist, and Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman scored for the Lightning. Matt Tomkins made 46 saves.

Hedman gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 2:54 of the first period on a slap shot, but Stenlund tied it 1-1 at 5:04 with a wrist shot.

Kucherov put the Lightning back ahead 2-1 at 1:16 of the second period on a wrist shot.

Luostarinen tied it 2-2 at 10:59 on the power play, scoring on a rebound.

Stamkos gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead at 13:01 with his own power-play goal, but Cousins tied it 3-3 at 14:17.

Sourdif put Florida in front 4-3 at 10:07 of the third period on a rebound.

Lomberg pushed it to 5-3 at 11:38 before Stenlund scored an empty-net goal at 19:18 for the 6-3 final.

Flyers 5, Islanders 2: Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist for the Philadelphia Flyers in their preseason finale against the New York Islanders at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

Nicolas Deslauriers, Noah Cates, Owen Tippett and Cam Atkinson also scored for the Flyers, who finished the preseason 3-2-1. Carter Hart made 14 saves.

Karson Kuhlman and Brian Pinho scored, and Semyon Varlamov made 26 saves for the Islanders.

Kuhlman gave New York a 1-0 lead at 9:53 of the first period.

Philadelphia responded with goals 1:09 apart later in the first from Deslauriers (15:15) and Cates (16:24) to take a 2-1 lead.

Tippett made it 3-1 when he scored on his own rebound for a short-handed goal at 8:14 of the second period.

Konecny one-timed a feed from Sean Couturier on a power play at 18:45 to make it 4-1.

Pinho cut it to 4-2 at 5:45 of the third period off a feed from Oliver Wahlstrom, but Atkinson responded at 7:39 for the 5-2 final.

Capitals 4, Blue Jackets 2: Riley Sutter scored a short-handed goal and had an assist for the Washington Capitals in their win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena in Columbus.

Beck Malenstyn, Aliaksei Protas, and Hendrix Lapierre also scored for the Capitals. Charlie Lindgren made 20 saves.

Brendan Gaunce and Marcus Bjork scored for the Blue Jackets. Spencer Martin made 35 saves in his Columbus debut after he was claimed off waivers from the Vancouver Canucks on Sept. 29.

Malenstyn scored at 8:14 of the first period to give Washington a 1-0 lead, and Protas tapped in a rebound of Chase Priskie’s shot at 12:04 to make it 2-0.

Gaunce forced the puck over the goal line to cut it to 2-1 at 1:25 of the second period.

Sutter scored short-handed at 14:55 of the third period to make it 3-1, and Lapierre shot into an empty net to give the Capitals a 4-1 lead at 17:51.

Bjork scored at 18:51 for the 4-2 final.

Bruins 3, Rangers 1: Matthew Poitras scored the go-ahead goal 1:13 into the third period to help the Boston Bruins defeat the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden in New York in the preseason finale for each team.

Poitras, a 19-year-old forward, gave Boston a 2-1 lead with his third goal of the preseason, scoring off a pass from Trent Frederic from behind the net.

Charlie Coyle scored, and Jeremy Swayman made 22 saves for the Bruins, who finished the preseason 2-2-2

Kaapo Kakko scored for the Rangers, who were 1-5-0 in the preseason. Igor Shesterkin made 12 saves.

Kakko scored from the slot at 10:14 of the first period to give New York a 1-0 lead.

Coyle tied it 1-1 on a power play at 11:13 of the second period.

A.J. Greer scored an empty-net goal with 22 seconds left in the third for the 3-1 final.

Blues 4, Stars 0: Jordan Binnington made 24 saves, and Robert Thomas scored twice for the St. Louis Blues in their win against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center in Dallas. 

Justin Faulk and Jake Neighbours also scored for the Blues, and Torey Krug had two assists. 

Jake Oettinger made 24 saves for the Stars. 

Faulk gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead with a wrist shot from the right circle at 5:39 of the first period. 

Thomas made it 2-0 when his shot banked off Thomas Harley’s skate and past Oettinger at 1:41 of the third period, then scored on a power play at 18:16 to give the Blues a 3-0 lead. 

Neighbours also scored a power-play goal at 19:29 for the 4-0 final.

Senators 3, Jets 0: Anton Forsberg made 21 saves for the Ottawa Senators, who shut out the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg.

Jakob Chychrun and Josh Bailey each had a goal and an assist for the Senators.

Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for the Jets, who finished the preseason 2-3-1.

Claude Giroux gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead on a breakaway at 16:58 of the first period.

Bailey, who is with the Senators on a professional tryout agreement, scored off a rebound in the slot at 17:26 of the second period to make it 2-0.

Chychrun scored a power-play goal at 10:28 of the third period for the 3-0 final.

Winnipeg defenseman Ville Heinola (lower-body injury) left the game in the first period after colliding with Ottawa defenseman Erik Brannstrom.

Wild 3, Blackhawks 2 (SO): Pat Maroon scored in the third period, helping the Minnesota Wild rally for a shootout win against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center in Chicago.

Maroon, who was acquired in a trade with the Lightning on July 2, tied it 2-2 at 13:59.

Marcus Foligno also scored, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 27 saves for the Wild.

Mats Zuccarello scored the lone goal in the shootout for Minnesota.

Nick Foligno and Taylor Hall scored, and Arvid Soderblom made 25 saves for Chicago.

Connor Bedard, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, had two shots on goal in 23:16 of ice time for the Blackhawks. He was unable to get a shot off in the first round of the shootout.

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead when Foligno scored at 2:28 of the first period, but Chicago’s Foligno tied it 1-1 at 9:14.

Hall gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead when he scored on a breakaway at 9:01 of the second period after a feed from Ryan Donato.

Kings 4, Sharks 3 (OT): Pierre-Luc Dubois scored his first goal with the Los Angeles Kings, and Adrian Kempe’s fifth of the preseason won it against the San Jose Sharks at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dubois, acquired in a trade with the Winnipeg Jets on June 27, scored on a one-timer from the right circle 8:27 into the first period to give the Kings a 1-0 lead.

Kempe scored 17 seconds into overtime. Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist, and Pheonix Copley made 24 saves.

Mike Hoffman scored his first goal for the Sharks, who finished the preseason 2-2-2. Mackenzie Blackwood made 33 saves.

Alexander Barabanov deflected Mikael Granlund’s point shot on a power play to tie it 1-1 at 17:39.

Kopitar gave the Kings a 2-1 lead at 8:16 of the second period after a steal and pass by Drew Doughty.

Hoffman tied it 2-2 for the Sharks at 14:45 with his first goal with San Jose, putting in a rebound. The forward was traded from the Montreal Canadiens as part of the three-team deal that sent Erik Karlsson from the Sharks to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Aug. 6.

Trevor Moore gave Los Angeles a 3-2 lead at 3:28 of the third period on a one-timer from the slot.

Thomas Bordeleau tied it 3-3 at 14:15.

Coyotes 4, Ducks 2: Logan Cooley scored twice for the Arizona Coyotes in their win against the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center in Anaheim.

Cooley, the No. 3 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, has three goals in four preseason games.

Alex Kerfoot and Matias Maccelli also scored for the Coyotes. Connor Ingram made 33 saves.

Sam Carrick and Zack Kassian scored for the Ducks.

John Gibson allowed four goals on 17 shots before exiting midway through the third period with an apparent hand injury. He was replaced by Alex Stalock, who did not face a shot in 7:20.

Cooley scored at 2:35 of the second period to give the Coyotes a 1-0 lead, and Kerfoot made it 2-0 3:40 on a one-timer from Travis Boyd. It was Kerfoot’s first goal for Arizona after signing as an unrestricted free agent July 1.

Cooley gave the Coyotes a 3-0 lead when he scored on a penalty shot at 3:39 of the third period.

Maccelli’s power-play goal at 9:04 made it 4-0.

Carrick cut it to 4-1 at 16:26 before Kassian scored a power-play goal at 18:16 for the 4-2 final.

Golden Knights 4, Avalanche 3: Paul Cotter scored the last of four straight goals with 1:17 remaining in the third period for the Vegas Golden Knights, who rallied to defeat the Colorado Avalanche at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Cotter gave the Golden Knights a 4-3 lead on a snap shot after they trailed 3-0 in the second period.

Jonathan Marchessault, Nicolas Roy and Pavel Dorofeyev also scored, and Alex Pietrangelo had two assists for the Golden Knights. Logan Thompson made 31 saves.

Nathan MacKinnon, Ryan Johansen and Valeri Nichushkin scored for the Avalanche, who finished the preseason 2-4-0. Alexandar Georgiev made 22 saves, and Cale Makar and Jonathan Drouin each had two assists.

MacKinnon gave Colorado a 3-0 lead on the power play at 7:04 of the second, but Roy cut it to 3-1 at 8:48.

Dorofeyev made it 3-2 at 5:58 of the third on a wrist shot before Marchessault tied it 3-3 at 12:03.

Johansen put the Avalanche ahead 1-0 at 1:57 of the first period, scoring a power-play goal on a rebound.

Nichushkin extended it 2-0 at 10:51.