Sept. 30: NHL Preseason Roundup

Tomas Nosek scored two of the Vegas Golden Knights' three shorthanded goals in a 5-2 win against the San Jose Sharks at T-Mobile Arena on Sunday.

Max Pacioretty also scored shorthanded for Vegas, which won six of its seven preseason games. Marc-Andre Fleury made 33 saves.
Erik Karlsson scored his first goal with San Jose, which was 2-for-6 on the power play. Martin Jones allowed five goals on 27 shots.

Nick Holden gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead at 18:44 of the first period.
Karlsson, acquired from the Ottawa Senators on Sept. 13, tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal 5:41 into the second.
Vegas responded with three goals in a span of 7:31, including shorthanded goals from Nosek (9:39) and Pacioretty (17:10). Reilly Smith gave the Golden Knights a 3-1 lead at 11:25.
Nosek made it 5-1 with his second shorthanded goal 1:42 into the third period.
Kevin Labanc got the Sharks within 5-2 with a power-play goal at 16:28 of the third.

Johansen's OT goal lifts Predators past Hurricanes

Ryan Johansen scored his second goal of the game 21 seconds into overtime to give the Nashville Predators a 5-4 win against the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena.
Johansen gave the Predators a 1-0 lead at 4:13 of the first period before Justin Williams tied it 1-1 at 6:58. Kevin Fiala scored to make it 2-1 at 15:36, but Sebastian Aho scored 20 seconds later to tie it 2-2.
Craig Smith scored his first of the game on the power play to give Nashville a 3-2 lead at 10:23 of the second period.
Calvin de Haan tied it 3-3 for the Hurricanes at 2:28 of the third period, but Smith scored a power-play goal 34 seconds later to make it 4-3. Martin Necas scored on the power play at 14:53 to tie it 4-4.
Filip Forsberg had three assists, and Pekka Rinne allowed two goals on 14 shots in 30:23 for the Predators. Juuse Saros made 16 saves.
Hurricanes goalie Scott Darling allowed three goals on 20 shots before leaving the game in the second period because of a lower-body injury. Petr Mrazek made 10 saves.

Ovechkin, Oshie help Capitals top Blues

Alex Ovechkin and T.J. Oshie scored 49 seconds apart early in the third period to help the Washington Capitals to a 5-2 win against the St. Louis Blues at Capital One Arena.
Ovechkin's fourth goal of the preseason gave Washington a 2-1 lead 38 seconds into the third. Oshie then made it 3-1 at 1:27.
Braden Holtby made 21 saves for the Capitals.
Robert Thomas gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead 4:39 into the second period, but Brett Connolly tied it 1-1 at 17:52.
Jordan Schmaltz scored shorthanded for the Blues to make it 3-2 at 10:21 of the third period. Nic Dowd quickly restored the Capitals' two-goal lead at 12:47.
Devante Smith-Pelly made it 5-2 with an empty-net goal at 19:19 of the third.
Blues goalie Chad Johnson allowed four goals on 19 shots in 37:55. Jake Allen made six saves.
Capitals forward Tom Wilson was given a match penalty for his hit on Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist at 5:22 of the second period.
"He has a couple upper-body injuries," Blues coach Mike Yeo said of Sundqvist after the game. "He's in a bad spot right now. I feel bad for him."

Landeskog, Avalanche hold off Stars

Gabriel Landeskog had two goals and an assist for the Colorado Avalanche in a 6-5 win against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center.
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists, Tyson Jost and Matt Calvert each had two assists, and Semyon Varlamov made 32 saves for Colorado.
Tyler Seguin had a goal and an assist, John Klingberg had two assists and Colton Point made 21 saves for Dallas.
Landeskog gave the Avalanche a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 2:49, and Rantanen made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 4:07.
Jason Dickinson cut it to 2-1 at 6:13 before Jamie Benn tied it 2-2 with a power-play goal at 14:21. Tyson Barrie gave Colorado a 3-2 lead at 18:06.
Landeskog scored to make it 4-2 at 4:47 of the second period, but Radek Faksa made it 4-3 at 17:04.
Colin Wilson extended the lead to 5-3 at 18:44, and Sheldon Dries made it 6-3 at 5:15 of the third period. Devin Shore scored to make it 6-4 at 9:28 before Seguin cut it to 6-5 at 19:00.