NHL Three Stars: Sharks open strong at LA Kings

No. 1 Star: Joe Pavelski, San Jose Sharks

The newly minted Sharks captain scored a power-play goal to give the Sharks the lead, assisted on Brent Burns’ second-period goal and picked up another helper on Joonas Donskoi’s third-period tally in the Sharks’ 5-1 rout of the Los Angeles Kings. Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Brent Burns and Joe Thornton had a two-point nights in Peter DeBoer’s debut as coach. 

No. 2 Star: Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens

The reigning MVP and Vezina winner made 36 saves as the Canadiens ruined Mike Babcock’s debut with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Max Pacioretty scored two goals and P.K. Subban had three assists.

No. 3 Star: Daniel Sedin, Vancouver Canucks

Daniel Sedin had a goal and two assists as the Canucks hung 44 shots and five goals on Karri Ramo in a 5-1 victory.

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Honorable Mention: Oscar Lindberg scored his first NHL goal – as did Artemi Panarin of the Chicago Blackhawks – in the New York Rangers’ 3-2 win in Chicago on banner raising night. Henrik Lundqvist was solid with 29 saves. … Martin Jones made 19 saves in his Sharks debut. … J.T. Miller had two assists for the Rangers. … Brandon Sutter scored this beauty against the Flames.

Did You Know? Calgary is 12-20-10-2 all-time in its first game of the season. (NHL.com)

Dishonorable Mention: The Flames and Canucks had two fights in the first 8:02 of their game, including Michael Ferland and Derek Dorsett dropping gloves two seconds into the game. Four players got misconduct penalties in the third period. … Mark Giordano and Mikael Backlund were a minus-3. … Milan Lucic was given a match penalty for charging into Logan Couture late in the third period. … Dustin Brown was inexplicably not penalized after what appeared to be a helmet-first hit into Logan Couture.