Auston Matthews scored with 14 seconds left in overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 5-4 win over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night, capping a comeback from a 3-0 deficit.
Matthews’s winner moved him past Bill Guerin (429) for ninth place on the career goals list among U.S.-born skaters, Field Level Media reported. John Tavares, William Nylander, Jack Roslovic and rookie Gavin McKenna also scored for Toronto. McKenna, the first overall pick in the 2026 draft, had a goal and an assist for his first multi-point game in his fourth NHL contest. Anthony Stolarz made 21 saves.
Steven Stamkos and Nils Hoglander each scored twice for Nashville. Stamkos’s two goals were the 626th and 627th of his career, moving him past Joe Sakic and Jarome Iginla (625 each) into 17th on the all-time list. Juuse Saros stopped 32 shots. Nashville won an offside challenge that wiped out what would have been a go-ahead Nylander goal at 11:49 of the third period.
In Buffalo’s 3-2 overtime win over the Minnesota Wild, defenceman Owen Power scored with 37.4 seconds left in the extra period on a pass from Jiri Kulich, according to Field Level Media and ESPN’s game recap. The Sabres trailed 2-0 in the third period before Noah Ostlund and Tage Thompson tied the game.
Danila Yurov and Maxim Shabanov scored for Minnesota. Colten Ellis made 18 saves for Buffalo, which has won two straight, and Jesper Wallstedt stopped 25 shots for the Wild. Field Level Media reported that Minnesota forward Nick Foligno left in the first period with an upper-body injury and did not return.
In Montreal, the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Canadiens 6-4 in the home opener at the Bell Centre, TSN reported. Five goals were scored in the first 13 minutes of the game, a rematch of last season’s Eastern Conference final, which Carolina won in five games.
Taylor Hall scored twice for the Hurricanes. Sebastian Aho, Eric Robinson, Mark Jankowski and Andrei Svechnikov, into an empty net, also scored. Aho now has 14 goals and 33 points in 26 career games against Montreal. Brandon Bussi made 16 saves.
Zachary Bolduc scored twice for the Canadiens, with Nick Suzuki and Juraj Slafkovsky also scoring. Jakub Dobes made 28 saves. Montreal played without forward Ivan Demidov, who is out two to four weeks with a lower-body injury, TSN reported. Carolina improved to 2-1-1 and Montreal fell to 1-1-1.
Scores and details are from Field Level Media, TSN and ESPN.
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