NHL Three Stars: Price red hot; Crosby on the scoreboard; Ovechkin hits milestone
No. 1 Star: Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens
Price continued to stake his claim as best goalie on the planet with a sterling 38 save shutout performance over the St. Louis Blues. Price improved to 6-0-0 with a 1.00 goals against average and .966 save percentage. The Canadiens won their seventh-straight to start the year, a franchise record.
No. 2 Star: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins
The Penguins captain scored a goal and added two assists – his first three points of the year, in a 3-2 win overtime win over the Florida Panthers. He had gone pointless in Pittsburgh’s first five games of the 2015-16 season. Crosby also assisted on Evgeni Malkin’s game-winner.
No. 3 Star: Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals
The Caps’ sniper notched his 900th point on the below goal in a 6-2 drubbing over the Calgary Flames. Ovechkin’s 900th point came in his 764th game. He is the fastest player to hit 900 points since Jaromir Jagr in 1999 (681 games) and is just the fourth Russian-born player in NHL history to hit the mark. Ovechkin also added an assist in the win.
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Honorable Mention: Nashville Predators forward James Neal scored two goals and added one assist in a 5-4 shootout win over Tampa … Preds captain Shea Weber scored a goal and added an assist … Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman notched two assists in 23:51 of action after missing one game with a head injury … Montreal’s Alex Semin scored his first goal with the Canadiens … Stars forwards Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn each scored a goal and added an assist … Dallas goaltender Antti Niemi stopped 34 of 35 shots on goal in the win over Philly … Flyers forward Sean Couturier scored a goal … New York Islanders goaltender Jaroslav Halak stopped all 37 Columbus Blue Jackets shots on goal in a 4-0 win … New York forward John Tavares scored a goal and was a plus-2 … Pittsburgh’s Malkin scored a goal (the game-winner) and added an assist … Florida forward Connor Brickley notched two assists in the loss at Pittsburgh. Teammate Quinton Howden scored a goal and added an assist … Washington forward Nicklas Backstrom scored two goals and teammate Evgeny Kuznetsov notched three assists … Arizona Coyotes rookie Anthony Duclair continued his hot start to the season with his fifth goal of the year in a 3-2 overtime loss at the New Jersey Devils … Jersey’s Travis Zajac scored a goal and added an assist … Devils defenseman Adam Larsson scored the game-winner against the Coyotes. Arizona seemed to take exception to the play, believing it involved a penalty on Larsson when he knocked down Martin Hanzal at the blueline.
Did You Know? Arizona captain Shane Doan played in his 1,400th game Tuesday. He is just the eighth player in NHL history to play at least 1,400 games with one team.
Dishonorable Mention: Blues forward Alexander Steen was a minus-3 as was teammate Vladimir Tarasenko … Columbus defenseman Dalton Prout was a minus-3 as was Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno … Columbus had three straight third period power plays in their loss to the Islanders but failed to convert … Calgary defenseman Dougie Hamilton was a minus-3 in the loss as were teammates David Jones and Joe Colborne … Flames starter Karri Ramo was yanked after allowing four goals on 18 shots on goal … Calgary is 0-4-0 at home.
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