Overview
- Carolina beat Boston 3-1 at TD Garden as Jordan Staal, Mark Jankowski and Taylor Hall scored and Pyotr Kochetkov made 29 saves to improve to 4-0-0.
- Boston navigated the loss with a thinned lineup after placing Viktor Arvidsson and Casey Mittelstadt on injured reserve and Jordan Harris on long-term injured reserve, recalling Matej Blumel and Riley Tufte.
- Florida topped Vancouver 8-5 with Sam Bennett’s third-period deflection the winner and a franchise-record 16 Panthers, including goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, recording at least one point.
- Bobrovsky logged his 438th career win to pass Jacques Plante for ninth on the NHL’s all-time list, and Brad Marchand extended his point streak to 11 games.
- Anaheim snapped a three-game skid with a 3-2 overtime win over Utah on Olen Zellweger’s winner, and Winnipeg loaned Nikita Chibrikov, Brad Lambert and Parker Ford to the AHL’s Manitoba Moose.