SAN JOSE, Calif. — Isac Lundestrom´s goal midway through the third period broke a scoreless tie and sent the Anaheim Ducks on their way to a 2-0 season-opening victory over the San Jose Sharks.
David Pastrnak, also, scored 3:07 into overtime, and the Boston Bruins beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1.
Lundestrom connected on a wrist shot from the slot after taking a centering pass from Brock McGinn with nine minutes remaining. Trevor Zegras added an empty-net goal with 1:35 left to seal the win.
Ducks goalie Lukas Dostal made 30 saves for the shutout, and Sharks goalie Vitek Vanecek turned back 28 shots.
The Sharks put persistent pressure on Dostal but were unable to score. They clearly missed touted rookie Macklin Celebrini, the 18-year-old 2024 first overall draft pick who was placed on injured reserve earlier in the day.
The 24-year-old Dostal shined in his first career opening-night start.
It was Pastrnak´s third goal in Boston´s first three games. He had 47 goals in 82 games for the Bruins last season.
Elias Lindholm also scored for Boston, and Jeremy Swayman had 33 saves, AP reported.
It was Los Angeles´ first loss of the season. The Kings opened with a 3-1 victory at Buffalo on Thursday.
Teuvo Teravainen had two goals and two assists and Connor Bedard had a goal and two assists as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2.
Seth Jones also had a goal and two assists in his 800th career NHL game and Philipp Kurashev scored the other goal to help the Blackhawks improved to 1-1-1 on the season. Petr Mrazek stopped 35 shots.
Corey Perry and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who fell to 0-2 to start the season after reaching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final last season before losing out to the Florida Panthers. Edmonton has been outscored 11-2 in its first two games.
Calvin Pickard finished with 15 saves for the Oilers.
Taylor Hall had an assist, giving him eight points (2G, 6A) in 12 career games against Oilers, who drafted him first overall in 2010.
There were four former first overall picks playing in the game in Hall and Bedard for the Blackhawks and Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for Edmonton.
Oilers defenseman Brett Kulak played in his 500th career NHL game. The 30-year-old has been a mainstay since arriving from Montreal at the 2022 NHL trade deadline, playing in all 184 regular season and 53 playoff games that he could.
The Blackhawks took a two-goal lead with six minutes to play in the second period as Bedard fired a shot glove-side past Pickard for his first of the season.
Draisaitl has a 16-game point streak (13 goals, 18 assists) against Chicago dating to Oct. 28, 2018, and passed teammate Connor McDavid (15-game streak against New Jersey) for the NHL´s longest active point streak against one opponent.
Jonathan Huberdeau had two goals and two assists and the Calgary Flames beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 to win their home-opener.
Nazem Kadri scored twice, including an empty-netter, and MacKenzie Weegar and Mikael Backlund also scored to hlep Calgary improve to 2-0-0. Dustin Wolf stopped 37 shots in his season debut.
Travis Konecny had two goals and Joel Farabee also scored for Philadelphia. Ivan Fedotov made 27 saves in his first start of the season.
The Flyers played their second road game in two nights to start their season after a 3-2 shootout win over the Canucks in Vancouver.
The Flames overcame a three-goal deficit to beat the Canucks 6-5 in overtime to start their season Wednesday.
Flyers: After beating Vancouver in shootout on Friday night, the Flyers got off to a slow start but scored twice in the second period and trailed by a goal heading into the third.
Wolf was the difference early stopping all 18 shots he faced in the first period. Calgary´s first goal that deflected off Huberdeau´s shoulder was lucky, but the forward set up Weegar perfectly for a one-timer and a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes.
The Flames converted a 5-on-3 in the second period into Kadri´s power-play goal and a two-goal lead. Wolf reached back into his crease during a scramble to clear the puck and deny Konecny a potential tying goal midway through the third period.
