Sept. 29: NHL Preseason Roundup

Sergei Bobrovsky allowed five goals on 28 shots for the Florida Panthers in a 5-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida, on Thursday.

Sam Bennett and Brandon Montour scored for the Panthers.
Derek Stepan scored a short-handed goal, and Antti Raanta made 20 saves on 21 shots in two periods for the Hurricanes. Each was playing his first game of the preseason.
Zach Sawchenko made eight saves in the third.
Stefan Noesen gave Carolina a 1-0 lead on the power play at 12:15 of the first period, and Stepan made it 2-0 at 15:50. Stepan, a 32-year-old forward, is in training camp on a professional tryout contract.
Justin Robidas extended the lead to 3-0 at 2:32 of the second period before Bennett cut it to 3-1 at 3:25.
Vasily Ponomarev made it 4-1 on the power play at 6:08.
Jack Drury pushed it to 5-1 on a redirection at 8:25 of the third period.
Montour scored on a backhand around Sawchenko at 11:27 for the 5-2 final.
Predators 2, Lightning 0:Kevin Lankinen made 30 saves for the Nashville Predators in a 2-0 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
Lankinen, who is expected to back up Juuse Saros after signing a one-year contract on July 14, also stopped all 13 shots he faced in 29:56 against the Florida Panthers on Monday.
The game was originally supposed to be played at Amalie Arena in Tampa, but the Lightning announced on Monday that they were postponing the game and temporarily moving their training camp to Tennessee because of the potential effects of Hurricane Ian.
Nino Niederreiter and John Leonard scored for Nashville.
Brian Elliott made 29 saves for Tampa Bay.
Niederreiter, who signed a two-year, $8 million contract with Nashville on July 21, made it 1-0 at 16:15 of the first period off a pass from Ryan Johansen.
Leonard, who signed a one-year, two-way contract on July 18, made it 2-0 at 17:22 of the third period.
Devils 5, Rangers 2:Dougie Hamilton had a goal and two assists for the New Jersey Devils in a 5-2 win against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Nathan Bastian had a goal and an assist, and Vitek Vanecek made 15 saves for New Jersey.
Chris Kreider and Alexis Lafreniere each scored short-handed, and Igor Shesterkin allowed three goals on 25 shots in two periods for New York. Olof Lindbom made nine saves in the third.
Kreider gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead at 5:46 of the first period on a 2-on-1 with Adam Fox.
Miles Wood tied it 1-1 at 16:01 after receiving a stretch pass by Hamilton, who scored 41 seconds later to make it 2-1.
Bastian pushed the lead to 3-1 at 14:56 of the second period before Tomas Tatar made it 4-1 at 6:02 of the third on a backhand from the right circle.
Lafreniere brought the Rangers to within 4-2 at 13:08, but Erik Haula scored into an empty net at 17:11 for the 5-2 final.
Sammy Blais had four hits in 13:31 in his first game this preseason for the Rangers. The forward, who was acquired in a trade with the St. Louis Blues for forward Pavel Buchnevich on July 23, 2021, played 14 games last season before tearing his ACL in his right knee on Nov. 14.

Jets 4, Canadiens 3: Brad Lambert and Nate Schmidt scored late in the third period to give the Winnipeg Jets a 4-3 win against the Montreal Canadiens at Bell Centre in Montreal.
Lambert, who was selected in the first round (No. 30) of the 2022 NHL Draft, tied it 3-3 with 3:29 left, and Schmidt scored the game-winner with 18 seconds remaining.
Evan Polei and Cole Maier scored, and David Rittich allowed one goal on 10 shots in two periods for Winnipeg. Arvid Holm came on in the third period and made 13 saves.
Brendan Gallagher and Cole Caufield each had a goal and an assist, and Christian Dvorak had two assists for Montreal. Jake Allen started and allowed one goal on 11 shots in 30:24 before being replaced by Cayden Primeau (11 saves).
Kaiden Guhle, who was selected in the first round (No. 16) of the 2020 NHL Draft, gave the Canadiens a 1-0 lead at 5:15 of the first period.
Polei tied it 1-1 at 11:05, and Maier put the Jets in front 2-1 at 14:26 of the second period.
Gallagher tied it 2-2 on the power play at 10:08 of the third, and Caufield scored on the man-advantage to make it 3-2 at 11:48.

Blues 4, Blue Jackets 2:Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist for the St. Louis Blues in a 4-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Enterprise Center in St. Louis.
Robert Bortuzzo also scored, Vladimir Tarasenko had an assist, and Tyler Pitlick had two assists for the Blues, who are 4-0 in the preseason.
Buchnevich, Bortuzzo and Tarasenko were each playing his first game of the preseason. Pitlick, who is in training camp on a professional tryout contract, has four assists in three preseason games.
Thomas Greiss made 23 saves on 25 shots in two periods before being replaced by Colten Ellis, who made 10 saves in the third.
Yegor Chinakhov scored twice, and Nolan Lalonde made nine saves in 29:34 for the Blue Jackets. Pavel Cajan allowed four goals on 12 shots in relief.
Chinakhov gave Columbus a 1-0 lead at 3:50 of the first period, scoring from the point on a delayed penalty. He then extended it to 2-0 at 11:07 of the second period when he skated down the left side and beat Greiss five-hole.
Buchnevich cut the lead to 2-1 at 12:19, scoring from the slot on the power play.
Bortuzzo scored 28 seconds later on a slap shot from the point to tie it 2-2.
Hugh McGing gave St. Louis a 3-2 lead at 18:40, scoring with a backhand as he crashed the net off a pass from below the goal line by Pitlick.
Niko Mikkola scored at 13:10 of the third period for the 4-2 final.
Wild 5, Stars 2:Marco Rossi had a goal and an assist for the Minnesota Wild in a 5-2 win against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Jonas Brodin also had a goal and an assist, Tyson Jost had three assists, and Mason Shaw had two assists for the Wild. Jesper Wallstedt made 33 saves.
Ty Dellandrea and Nils Lundkvist scored, and Anton Khudobin made 23 saves for the Stars.
Rossi scored a short-handed goal to put Minnesota in front 1-0 at 9:01 of the first period, but Dellandrea scored his own short-handed goal to tie it 1-1 at 13:35.
Mats Zuccarello gave the Wild a 2-1 lead at 15:57 with a power-play goal.
Brodin pushed the lead to 3-1 at 14:03 of the second period, and Jared Spurgeon scored 2:39 into the third period to make it 4-1.
Lundkvist cut it to 4-2 with a power-play goal at 8:33.
Sam Steel scored at 12:51 for the 5-2 final.

Kraken 4, Canucks 3 (OT):Ryan Donato scored with 41 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Seattle Kraken a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena in Vancouver
Donato skated in on a breakaway and deked Arturs Silovs before roofing a backhand.
Kole Lind and John Hayden scored in the third period, and Will Borgen had two assists for Seattle. Joey Daccord allowed three goals on 21 shots in 30:19 before being replaced by Martin Jones, who stopped all 15 shots he faced.
Andrei Kuzmenko had two goals and an assist, Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller each had two assists, and Thatcher Demko allowed one goal on 18 shots in two periods for Vancouver. Silovs made eight saves in relief.
Kuzmenko, who signed a one-year, entry-level contract on July 13, gave the Canucks a 1-0 lead at 2:51 of the first period before extending it to 2-0 with a power-play goal at 9:56.
Tye Kartye scored a power-play goal to cut it to 2-1 at 12:44, but Tanner Pearson responded with his own goal on the man-advantage to restore Vancouver's two-goal lead at 16:55.
Lind cut it to 3-2 at 4:02 of the third period, and Hayden tied it 3-3 at 12:33.