Overview
- Will Smith scored 1:38 into overtime to cap San Jose’s 6-5 win at Madison Square Garden, snapping the Sharks’ season-opening six-game winless run.
- Nineteen-year-old Macklin Celebrini had a five-point night with his second career hat trick and two assists, joining a short list of teenagers with multiple NHL hat tricks.
- New York fell to 0-4-1 at home, matching a franchise-worst start in their first five Garden games, as Adam Fox labeled the effort “pretty piss poor.”
- Edmonton rallied from 5-3 down to beat Montreal 6-5 on Vasily Podkolzin’s goal with 1:09 left, and Canadiens scorer Cole Caufield later criticized the late-game officiating consistency.
- Ottawa edged Philadelphia 2-1 on Olle Lycksell’s go-ahead finish as Linus Ullmark made 22 saves for the Senators.