NHL Three Stars: Ward and Boedker score three; Price keeps Habs on record pace
No. 1 Star: Joel Ward, San Jose Sharks
Ward was mic’d up for San Jose’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes. Can’t wait to hear that audio. The brawny forward scored a hat trick in San Jose’s 5-2 win over the Hurricanes. The victory broke a three-game losing skid for the Sharks. Ward, who was signed in the offseason by San Jose, has five goals in his first eight games.
No. 2 Star: Mikkel Boedker, Arizona Coyotes
The Coyotes forward scored a hat trick in a 4-1 victory at the Ottawa Senators. The win was the Coyotes first at Ottawa since Dec. 12, 1998. Going into the game, the Coyotes had lost four win a row after winning three straight to start the season.
No. 3 Star: Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens
The reigning league MVP was superb once again stopping 49 of 52 Toronto Maple Leafs shots on goal (final score 5-3) to lead the Canadiens to their ninth-straight regulation win to start the season – an NHL record. Price has a 1.29 goal-against average and .961 save percentage in seven games this season.
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Honorable Mention: Columbus Blue Jackets forward Boone Jenner scored two goals to help the team end its eight-game losing streak in a 4-3 win at the Colorado Avalanche. Teammate Ryan Murray scored a goal and added an assist … Chicago Blackhawks forward Jonathan Toews scored the OT winner in a Stanley Cup Final rematch over the Tampa Bay Lightning … Corey Crawford stopped 21 of 21 Tampa shots on goal … Florida Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr scored a goal and added an assist in a 6-2 win over the Dallas Stars. The 43-year-old has 10 points in his first eight games this season … Florida forward Jonathan Huberdeau notched two assists in the win … Dallas forward Jamie Benn fired his seventh goal of the season … Pittsburgh Penguins forward Phil Kessel scored the overtime winner in a 2-1 win at the Nashville Predators … Pens goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 38 of 39 Preds shots on goal … New York Islanders forward John Tavares scored a goal in a 3-2 OT win at St. Louis … Islanders forward Frans Nielsen notched two assists including one for the OT winner by Mikhail Grabovski … Blues defenseman Colton Parayko scored a goal and added an assist … New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist stopped 46 of 48 shots on goal in a 3-2 shootout loss at the Philadelphia Flyers … Philly goaltender Steve Mason made 37 saves in the win … Arizona goaltender Anders Lindback stopped 35 of 36 Ottawa shots on goal … Coyotes forward Max Domi notched an assist and was a plus-2 … Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban scored a goal and added an assist as did teammate Max Pacioretty … Buffalo Sabres forward Ryan O’Reilly scored one goal, added two assists and won 65 percent of his face offs … New Jersey Devils forward Mike Cammalleri scored one goal and added two assists. Teammate Adam Henrique scored two goals and added an assist … Minnesota Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon notched two assists in a 3-0 win over the Anaheim Ducks. Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk stopped all 15 Anaheim shots on goal … Gustav Nyquist scored the overtime winner for the Detroit Red Wings in a 3-2 win at the Vancouver Canucks. Teammate Tomas Tatar scored a goal and added an assist … Vancouver forward Alex Burrows notched two assists.
Did You Know? The Blackhawks are the third team in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with a shutout and then post a shutout against the same team in their first meeting the following season.
Dishonorable Mention: Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov allowed four goals on 36 shots on goal … The Avs have lost three in a row… Toronto Maple Leafs forward Byron Froese was a minus-3 … O’Reilly was also a minus-3 … The Ducks have scored just six goals in seven games this season. Anaheim is 1-5-1 … Ducks forward Patrick Maroon was a minus-3 … Carolina forward Eric Staal was a minus-3. Teammates Brock McGinn and Justin Faulk were both a minus-4 … Hurricanes goaltender Eddie Lack allowed four goals on 13 shots on goal and was pulled in favor of Cam Ward.
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