Oct. 2: NHL Preseason Roundup

Jonathan Marchessault scored twice for the Nashville Predators, who scored four first-period goals in their 6-4 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday.

Gustav Nyquist and Juuso Parssinen also scored, and Roman Josi had two assists for the Predators (2-2-0). Scott Wedgewood allowed four goals on 15 shots.

Felix Unger Sorum had a goal and two assists, and Ryan Suzuki also scored for the Hurricanes (3-1-0). Yaniv Perets allowed six goals on 32 shots.

Brady Skjei had one shot on goal in 19:02 of ice time in his Nashville debut. The 30-year-old defenseman signed a seven-year, $49 million contract on July 1 after playing the previous five seasons with Carolina.

The Predators scored four goals in the first to take a 4-1 lead.

Parssinen put Nashville ahead 1-0 at 5:15, scoring on a spinning, sharp-angle shot near the right post.

Nyquist extended it to 2-0 at 6:24 on a one-timer from the slot off Filip Forsberg’s falling pass from the left circle.

Jeremy Lauzon pushed it to 3-0 at 10:07.

Unger Sorum scored 33 seconds later to cut it to 3-1 after skating in below the left circle, but Dante Fabbro made it 4-1 at 13:54.

Suzuki cut it to 4-2 at 14:08 of the second period.

Marchessault extended it to 5-2 at 15:14 on a wrist shot from the right circle off an assist from Steven Stamkos.

Marchessault’s second goal of the game made it 6-2 at 6:58 of the third period.

Brendan Lemieux cut it to 6-3 at 8:07, scoring from the slot.

Bradly Nadeau scored a power-play goal with 1:22 remaining for the 6-4 final.

Panthers 2, Lightning 1 (OT): Sandis Vilmanis scored 13 seconds into overtime, giving the Florida Panthers a 2-1 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena in Tampa.

Vilmanis put a shot through Andrei Vasilevskiy’s legs from the right hash marks after Anton Lundell left the puck for him on a 2-on-2 rush. Lundell started the play by intercepting a Victor Hedman pass in the Florida zone.

Zac Dalpe scored, Vilmanis also had an assist, and Spencer Knight made 26 saves for the Panthers (4-3-0).

Nikita Kucherov scored, and Vasilevskiy made 21 saves for the Lightning (2-3-0) in his preseason debut.

Dalpe gave Florida a 1-0 lead at 3:30 of the second period with a power-play goal, scoring on a wrist shot through traffic.

Kucherov tied it 1-1 at 15:27 of the third period. He scored on a one-timer from the left circle after Brayden Point won a face-off to him.

Jets 5, Flames 2: Nino Niederreiter scored twice, and Gabriel Vilardi had three assists for the Winnipeg Jets in their win against the Calgary Flames at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg.

Nikolaj Ehlers had a goal and an assist, and Mark Scheifele had two assists for Winnipeg (2-2-1). Connor Hellebuyck made 17 saves.

Dustin Wolf made 22 saves for Calgary (5-1-1).

Martin Frk scored at 8:04 of the first period to give the Flames a 1-0 lead.

Ehlers tied it 1-1 on the power play at 10:47. Niederreiter scored at 12:21 to give the Jets a 2-1 lead.

Justin Kirkland tied it 2-2 for Calgary at 17:55.

Niederreiter’s second goal gave Winnipeg a 3-2 lead at 6:28 of the third period. Simon Lundmark made it 4-2 Jets at 14:16. Kyle Connor scored at 16:47 for the 5-2 final.

Kraken 6, Oilers 2: Jared McCann was a late scratch for the Seattle Kraken because of a lower-body injury in their win against the Edmonton Oilers at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

The forward was removed from the lineup after leaving warmups early.

Shane Wright scored twice, Brandon Montour, Brandon Tanev and Will Borgen each had a goal and an assist, and Ryker Evans had two assists for the Kraken (2-3-1). Philipp Grubauer made 28 saves.

Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist for the Oilers (3-4-0). Olivier Rodrigue allowed six goals on 23 shots.

Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse had one shot on goal in 22:17 of ice time in his first game of the preseason. The 29-year-old sustained an undisclosed injury in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers on June 10 and played the remainder of the series, which the Oilers lost in seven games.

Tanev gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 5:52 of the second period, redirecting Evans’ shot from the left point.

Wright made it to 2-0 at 7:47 with a spinning backhand goal in front.

Draisaitl cut it to 2-1 with a power-play goal at 11:15 on a one-timer from the right circle and Travis Dermott scored 1:51 later to tie it 2-2, stuffing in his own rebound.

Montour put the Kraken back ahead 3-2 at 18:34 with a slap shot from the top of the right circle on the rush. The puck hit off Rodrigue and trickled in after he was unable to control it.

Wright extended it to 4-2 with his second goal of the game 35 seconds later from the right circle.

Jaden Schwartz pushed it to 5-2 at 14:48 of the third period with a redirection in front. Borgen scored at 17:08 for the 6-2 final.

Ducks 5, Utah 2: Leo Carlsson had a goal and two assists for the Anaheim Ducks in their win against the Utah Hockey Club at Honda Center in Anaheim.

Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and Brock McGinn, Cutter Gauthier and Robby Fabbri also scored for the Ducks (2-2-1). Lukas Dostal made 35 saves on 37 shots.

Beckett Sennecke, the No. 3 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, made his preseason debut for Anaheim after missing the first four games with a fractured foot. He was minus-2 in 15:34 of ice time.

Kailer Yamamoto and Andrew Agozzino scored for Utah (4-2-0). Karel Vejmelka allowed five goals on 32 shots.

Killorn gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 9:13 of the first period with a power-play goal, redirecting Jackson LaCombe’s shot from the point past Vejmelka.

Yamamoto tied it 1-1 at 14:05 with a redirection in front.

McGinn put the Ducks ahead 2-1 at 2:50 of the second when he redirected a centering pass from Nathan Gaucher.

Gauthier made it 3-1 just 48 seconds into the third period with a one-timer from the right circle off a cross-crease pass from Carlsson.

Fabbri pushed it to 4-1 at 1:38 with a tap in at the left post off a cross-crease pass from Tristan Luneau.

Agozzino put away a rebound to cut it to 4-2 at 4:43, but Carlsson scored with a redirection in front for the 5-2 final at 11:37.