2013-09-22

Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer made 38 saves then went 15-for-15 in the shootout for a 3-2 preseason win against the Buffalo Sabres at First Niagara Center.

Jay McClement, on the 30th attempt, scored the only shootout goal after he had tied the game with 4:37 left in the third period.

Jhonas Enroth made 32 saves for the Sabres before stopping the first 14 shootout attempts he faced.

Toronto's Jamie Devan scored a third-period goal for the Maple Leafs, who trailed 2-0. Buffalo defenseman Mark Pysyk had a goal and an assist, and Marcus Foligno scored for the Sabres.

Reimer's final save in game action was on a Jamie McBain breakaway right before the overtime buzzer.

The longest regular-season shootout is 15 rounds between the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals, won by a goal, the seventh of that tiebreaker, from New York's Marek Malik on Nov. 26, 2005.

Carolina Hurricanes 3, Montreal Canadiens 1: Carolina's 5-foot-5 forward Nathan Gerbe got into a fight and scored a power-play goal at Bell Centre.

Gerbe fought 5-foot-9 Brendan Gallagher in the first period before Drayson Bowman and Jeff Skinner scored for the Hurricanes. Gerbe got his goal with 2:21 remaining in the second period to make it 3-0.

Eric Staal had two assists. Montreal's Michael Bournival scored with 8:02 remaining to spoil the shutout for Anton Khudobin, who made 40 saves.

Montreal defeated Carolina 6-0 Friday in Quebec.

New Jersey Devils 3, New York Islanders 0: Cory Schneider made 26 saves in the first NHL game played at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Jacob Josefson scored the first goal in the arena's history, and Patrik Elias and Steve Bernier added one each for the Devils, who were the visiting team.

Minnesota Wild 4, Winnipeg Jets 3 (SO): Wild defenseman Ryan Suter, making his 2013 preseason debut, scored with 8:19 remaining in the third period, and Jason Pominville had the only shootout goal at Xcel Energy Center.

With Suter, Pominville, Mikko Koivu and Zach Parise in the lineup, Carson McMillan and Charlie Coyle scored first-period goals to give the Wild a 2-0 lead.

The Jets took a 3-2 lead on second-period goals by Eric O'Dell, Patric Cormier and Paul Postma.

Parise and Koivu assisted on Suter's goal. Nicklas Backstrom stopped 28 shots through overtime, then three shootout attempts.

St. Louis Blues 3, Dallas Stars 2 (OT): Patrik Berglund scored 2:07 into overtime at Scottrade Center. Alex Pietrangelo scored a power-play goal for St. Louis with 4:41 remaining in the third period to tie the game 2-2.

Tyler Ennis had two assists, on goals by Alex Chiasson and Jamie Benn, for Dallas. Kari Lehtonen made 33 saves.

Jaden Schwartz had a first-period goal for the Blues, who lost 4-3 at home to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday. Dallas had defeated the Florida Panthers 4-1.

Tampa Bay Lightning 5, Florida Panthers 4 (SO): Florida's Bobby Butler scored twice in the third period, with the tying goal at 58 seconds left, but Tampa Bay rookie Jonathan Drouin scored the only goal in the shootout at Tampa Bay Times Forum.

Steven Stamkos gave Tampa Bay a 4-3 lead with 7:25 remaining in regulation, and had two first-period assists to help the Lightning to a 2-0 edge.

Panthers defenseman Dmitry Kulikov had a goal and two assists, defenseman Erik Gudbranson had a goal and an assist, and Tomas Kopecky had two assists.

Ryan Malone, Martin St. Louis and J.T. Brown scored for Tampa Bay.

Boston Bruins 2, Detroit Red Wings 0: Carl Soderberg scored twice, and Chad Johnson made 18 saves for Boston at Joe Louis Arena.

Soderberg's goals came in 1:45 spanning the second and third periods. He got his first with 1:04 remaining in the second then added the other 41 seconds into the third.

The Red Wings played without Daniel Alfredsson, Pavel Datsyuk, Niklas Kronwall and Henrik Zetterberg.

Columbus Blue Jackets 5, Pittsburgh Penguins 3: Penguins forward Jussi Jokinen scored a natural hat trick in the second period, but Boone Jenner's second goal of the game helped the Blue Jackets win at Consol Energy Center.

After the Penguins fell behind 3-0, Jokinen scored three times in 8:28 of the second period to tie the game. Jenner's goal 7:21 into the third period put Columbus ahead 4-3.

The teams' starting goaltenders -- Sergei Bobrovsky for Columbus and Marc-Andre Fleury for Pittsburgh -- each played the full game. Bobrovsky made 38 saves; Fleury stopped 19 shots.

The Penguins announced after the game that goalie Tomas Vokoun underwent a procedure to dissolve a blood clot Saturday and is out indefinitely.



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