Toronto lost in the twelfth minute 0: 2 after killing Kirby Dach and Alex DeBrincat. In the second period, John Tavares reduced and in 52:31 he equaled Kämpf, who signed up for the Canadian club as a free agent in the summer after four years in Chicago. The Czech forward scored the first point in his new job with a backhand from the ring above Kevin Lankinen’s rash.
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Rasmus Sandin passed to Kämpf from the left side, to whom he had previously sent a puck from Kaš’s rear guard. “Kämpf’s goal was great. The whole line worked hard to give it. It was the result of good teamwork,” said Sheldon Keefe, a Toronto coach whose cabin was alive on the first break. “A few players took the floor. It kicked us,” said goalkeeper Jack Campbell.
The extension decided William Nylander to escape and Chicago lost the seventh game of the season. “We still have moments in the game where we don’t play easily, we don’t use our speed and we’re not strong enough to attack. That should be our strength and style of play,” said striker Tyler Johnson. But coach Jeremy Colliton saw a shift. “A lot of things were good, we fought. We just didn’t break the match on our side when we had the chance. And at the beginning of the third period we were stopped several times by the pole,” he said.
Alexandr Ovečkin opened the scoring in Washington and with the 738th goal in his career he approached the fourth Brett Hull in three goals in the historical table of shooters. At the beginning of the middle part, Yevgeny Kuznetsov raised, but Hronek started Detroit’s turn in the middle of the match.
The Czech defender could have shot, but he was not in a hurry, with a clever maneuver he got Vaněček out of the goal area and passed to Adam Erne, who ended up empty. At the beginning of the third period, Robby Fabbri equalized from the finish and Dylan Larkin decided in overtime.
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“We showed the character, Washington is a team that has a lot of talent at its center and we kept that plan, and it paid off in the end,” Red Wings first goal scorer Adam Erne said in a post-match interview about the excellent second half of the match.
“We should have won 2-0 or 2-0,” said Nick Jensen, one of the home team’s defense pillars.
Florida defeated Boston 4: 1 at home and is the fourteenth team in NHL history to start the season with seven wins. The Panthers lost to opponents 31:13 during the series. The main architects of the last victory were goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky, who stopped thirty shots, including six attempts by David Pastrnak, and with three passes Gustav Forsling.
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Edmonton, on the other hand, lost his invincibility when he lost to Philadelphia 3: 5 at home. The Oilers erased the loss of 0: 2 and 2: 3 thanks to Connor McDavid, who also scored at least two points (1 + 1) in the sixth game of the season and leads the productivity of the competition (7 + 8) ahead of Ovečkin (8 + 5). The match was decided by Cam Atkinson, who broke the draw 3 – 3 with his second goal in the match in the 45th minute.
Washington – Detroit 2: 3 in overtime (1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1 – 0: 1)
Goals: 20. Ovečkin, 24. Kuzněcov – 30. Erne (Hronek), 43. Fabbri, 62. D. Larkin. Shots on goal: 28:25. Vítek Vaněček caught the whole match for Washington, collected three goals from 25 shots and had a success rate of 88 percent. Attendance: 18,573. Match stars: 1. D. Larkin, 2. Erne (both Detroit), 3. Kuznetsov (Washington).
Chicago – Toronto 2: 3 in overtime (2: 0, 0: 1, 0: 1 – 0: 1)
Goals: 5. Dach, 12. DeBrincat – 27. Tavares, 53. Kämpf (O. Porridge), 62. W. Nylander. Shots on goal: 29:40. Attendance: 18,616. Match stars: 1. W. Nylander (Toronto), 2. DeBrincat (Chicago), 3. J. Campbell (Toronto).