UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Devon Toews scored at 1:13 of overtime to complete a stunning late-game comeback by the New York Islanders as they downed the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Monday.
The Blues seemed to have the game well in hand in the closing minutes before Brock Nelson put the home team on the board with his third goal of the season at 14:29 of the third. Mathew Barzal then tied the game at 19:33 off a scramble in front with Islanders netminder Thomas Greiss pulled for an extra attacker.
That set the stage for Toews’ goal. Barzel and Nelson had the assists. That sent what had been a mostly silent crowd at Nassau Coliseum into a frenzy as the defending champion Blues skated off toward their locker room. Griess made 21 saves for the win.
Goals from Brayden Schenn and Vladimir Tarasenko had given the Blues at 2-0 lead.
NEWARK, N.J. — Mackenzie Weegar scored the tying goal and set up Noel Acciari for the go-ahead tally and Florida rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat winless New Jersey.
Brett Connolly scored twice, Jonathan Huberdeau and Evgenii Dandonov also had goals as the Panthers snapped a 3-game losing streak. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 17 shots as he improved his career mark against the Devils to 17-5-1.
Pavel Zacha, Taylor Hall, Jesper Bratt and Will Butcher scored for the Devils, who fell to 0-4-2. Cory Schneider made 28 saves.
It is the Devils’ worst start to a season since beginning 2013-14 with seven straight losses (0-4-3).
OTTAWA, Ontario — Alex Stalock stopped all 26 shots he faced and Minnesota picked up its first win of the season.
Victor Rask and Zach Parise scored third-period goals for the Wild (1-4-0).
Stalock, in his first start of the season, earned his sixth career shutout.
Craig Anderson stopped 33 shots for the Senators (1-4-0), who wrapped up a four-game homestand with a 1-3-0 record.
After two scoreless periods, the Wild opened the scoring midway through the third. Rask had a great takeaway on Jean-Gabriel Pageau and then beat Anderson short-side.
Parise added an empty-net goal to seal the win.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Victor Olofsson and the Buffalo Sabres are building confidence from a strong start to the season.
The Sabres’ rookie forward set an NHL record by becoming the first player to score his first seven career goals on the power play during a 4-0 win over the Dallas Stars on Monday.
“It’s obviously fun to have some kind of record,” said Olofsson, who also had an assist in the win. “I want to get that five-on-five goal.”
Carter Hutton made 25 saves to earn his first shutout of the season, Sam Reinhart, Jeff Skinner and Marcus Johansson had the other goals, and Jack Eichel recorded two assists as the Sabres remained unbeaten under first-year coach Ralph Krueger.
WASHINGTON — Nazem Kadri and Mikko Rantanen each had a goal and two assists to help the Colorado Avalanche beat the Washington Capitals 6-3 on Monday night.
Erik Johnson, Nikita Zadorov and Matt Nieto also scored as Colorado improved to 5-0-0.
Nathan MacKinnon added an empty-net goal and had an assist for the Avalanche, who scored on their first three shots of the game.
Philipp Grubauer stopped 29 shots against his former team to pick up the win, and Andre Burakovsky picked up an assist in his return to Washington as a visiting player.
Colorado’s start is tied for the second-longest without a loss since the team moved to Colorado and tied for their fourth-longest in franchise history.
Alex Ovechkin, Lars Eller and T.J. Oshie scored for Washington and Evgeny Kuznetsov had two assists.