Sept. 25: NHL Preseason Roundup

Brock Faber left the Minnesota Wild's 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars after the second period after getting hit in the head with a puck at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday.

A shot from the point hit Faber with 9:36 left in the second period. He was down on the ice briefly before skating to the bench under his own power. He returned for the next shift and played in the rest of the period. 

“Some of it was precautionary,” Wild coach John Hynes said. “It’s always a concern when you have a guy that you have to keep him out for precautionary reasons. But as I said, we don’t know if it’s anything major or not.”

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Tyler Seguin played 13:57 in his preseason debut for the Stars. The forward hadn't played since Dec. 2, when he tore the ACL in his right knee during a 3-2 overtime loss at the New York Rangers.

"It's great. Feels like your first game all over again," Seguin said. "In one way it’s nice to get that out of the way, in another way it was just so much fun."

Thomas Harley and Radek Faksa scored for the Stars. Casey DeSmith made 26 saves.

Joel Eriksson Ek scored, and Jesper Wallstedt made 16 saves for the Wild. 

It was the preseason finale for each team. Dallas opens the regular season Oct. 2 at home against the St. Louis Blues. Minnesota starts its season on Thursday at the Nashville Predators.

Faksa scored on a wrist shot from above the left circle at 9:18 of the first period to give the Stars a 1-0 lead.

Eriksson Ek tied it 1-1 for Minnesota at 1:54 of the second period, jamming in a loose puck in front as he was being taken down to the ice.

Harley gave Dallas a 2-1 lead at 18:38 when his point shot went off Jared Spurgeon’s skate and past Wallstedt.

NHL.com independent correspondent Heather Rule contributed to this report.

Capitals 3, Bruins 2: Jordan Kyrou scored on the power play 11 seconds into overtime to give the Washington Capitals the win against the Boston Bruins at Capital One Arena in Washington.

Kyrou won it from the top of the left circle with his first goal since being traded to the Capitals from the St. Louis Blues on June 23.

Dylan Strome and Tom Wilson each had a goal and an assist, and Pierre-Luc Dubois had two assists for Washington (2-0-1). Logan Thompson made 20 saves.

David Pastrnak and Morgan Geekie scored for Boston (2-2-0) in its preseason finale. Jeremy Swayman made 32 saves.

The Bruins open the regular season at home against the New York Rangers on Tuesday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN).

Strome scored on the power play at 18:04 of the first period to give Washington a 1-0 lead, putting in a rebound of a Wilson shot.

Wilson made it 2-0 at 1:39 of the second period on the power play when he backhanded the puck into the net after Strome’s pass in front went off the skate of Dubois.

Geekie pulled Boston to within 2-1 at 3:40 of the third period, one-timing a bouncing pass from Pavel Zacha past Thompson.

Pastrnak tied it 2-2 with power-play goal at 5:56, scoring on a one-timer from the left circle.

Avalanche 5, Jets 2: T.J. Hughes had a hat trick and an assist for the Colorado Avalanche in their victory against the Winnipeg Jets at Ball Arena in Denver.

Jaden Schwartz had a goal and two assists, and Cale Makar also scored for the Avalanche (2-1-0). Nazem Kadri had two assists, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 24 saves.

Nino Niederreiter and Vladislav Namestnikov each had a goal and an assist for the Jets (1-2-1), who were playing their preseason finale. Stuart Skinner made 28 saves.

Niederreiter’s power-play goal gave Winnipeg a 1-0 lead at 6:15 of the first period, scoring five-hole on a rebound of Neal Pionk’s slap shot.

Schwartz tied it 1-1 at 6:07 of the second period after redirecting Hughes’ pass down low.

Namestnikov put Winnipeg back ahead 2-1 at 7:36, beating Blackwood stick side off a backhand feed by Niederreiter.

Hughes tied it 2-2 at 18:28 before giving Colorado a 3-2 lead at 19:49 with his second goal, backhanding a shot while skating through the bottom of the left circle.

Makar extended it to 4-2 at 15:25 of the third period, and Hughes completed the hat trick with an empty-net goal at 19:38 for the 5-2 final.

Rangers 6, Islanders 1: Mika Zibanejad and J.T. Miller each had a goal and an assist for the New York Rangers in their win against the New York Islanders at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.

Adam Fox had three assists, and Oliver Bjorkstrand and Tye Kartye also scored for the Rangers (2-2-0), who were playing their preseason finale. Pavel Dorofeyev had two assists, and Igor Shesterkin made 15 saves.

Pierre Engvall scored for the Islanders (1-2-0). Semyon Varlamov allowed six goals on 27 shots.

Bjorkstrand gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead at 3:48 of the first period after knocking in Dorofeyev’s centering pass from the goal line.

Miller’s power-play goal 55 seconds later extended it to 2-0, beating Varlamov short side at the left post.

Kartye stretched it to 3-0 at 3:27 of the second period when he roofed a wrist shot from the left circle.

Gabe Perreault made it 4-0 at 13:12 with a netfront deflection of Vladislav Gavrikov’s point shot, and Will Cuylle extended it to 5-0 at 17:04.

Zibanejad made it 6-0 on the power play at 1:23 of the third period, and Engvall scored at 11:22 to cut it to 6-1.