NHL Roundup: Bergy Leads B’s in Return

Boston — Patrice Bergeron had a goal and three assists in his season debut, moving up to seventh on Boston’s career scoring list as the Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks, 6-3, on Thursday night.

Anders Bjork scored twice for Boston, Brad Marchand had a goal and two assists and David Pastrnak added a goal and an assist for the Bruins, who scored five straight goals after falling behind 1-0 early in the first period.

Anton Khudobin made 26 saves for Boston while starting in place of Tuukka Rask, who is out indefinitely with a concussion he suffered in practice Wednesday.

Derek Dorsett, Bo Horvat and Thomas Vanek scored for the Canucks, and Michael Del Zotto had two assists.

The Bruins scored three power-play goals in the first after Erik Gudbranson was called for a boarding major for a hit from behind on Frank Vatrano 6:13 into the game. Gudbranson also received a game misconduct and a fighting major when Tim Schaller stepped in for his fallen teammate.

Pastrnak gave Boston its first lead when he took the puck end-to-end and split a pair of Vancouver defenders in front of the net and beat Jacob Markstrom 9:03 into the first. Just after the faceoff, Boston was right back in the Canucks zone and Bjork scored his second of the game on a snap shot from the circle at 9:26 of the first off a setup from Krejci.

Still on the major power play, the Bruins scored again 1:24 later when a long rebound off a shot by Bergeron bounced right to Krejci at the left circle and he knocked in the puck for his first goal of the season.

Bergeron, who missed Boston’s first five games while recovering from offseason surgery for a sports hernia, got his second assist of the night on Krejci’s goal and added a third at 10:05 of the second period when Marchand’s wrist shot from the right circle beat Anders Nilsson, who replaced Markstrom after the first.

Bergeron also assisted on Bjork’s first goal, which tied it at 1-all 3:29 into the game, and added his first goal of the season with a one-timer from in front at 11:53 of the third to put Boston up 6-3. Pastrnak and Marchand assisted on the goal, which moved Bergeron past Ken Hodge to No. 7 on the Bruins’ scoring list with 674 points.

Nilsson finished with 16 saves on 18 shots. Markstrom was pulled after allowing four goals on 17 shots in the first.

Islanders 4, Rangers 3 (so)

New York — John Tavares scored in the shootout to lift the Islanders over the Rangers for their eighth win in the last nine games against their struggling crosstown rivals.

Anders Lee, Brock Nelson and Mathew Barzal scored in regulation, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 38 shots to help the Islanders recover after blowing a two-goal lead in the third to finish 2-2-0 on a four-game trip.

Lightning 2, Blue Jackets 0

Columbus, Ohio — Mikhail Sergachev scored his first two NHL goals and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 43 saves for his fifth career shutout in the Lightning’s victory over Columbus.

Nikita Kucherov assisted on both goals to push his NHL-leading points total to 14. His goals streak was stopped at seven games.

Predators 1, Flyers 0

Philadelphia — Pekka Rinne stopped 28 shots, Colton Sissons scored in the third period and Nashville beat Philadelphia.

Sissons got his second goal of the season early in the third, giving the Western Conference champions their fourth win in five games.

Rinne was strong in his 44th career shutout and first of the season.

The Flyers had combined for 13 goals in their first two home games and scored 26 overall in their first six games.