NHL News Oct 26 – Wings Still Perfect at Home

The Red Wings and Devils each maintained their unblemished home records.

Dylan Larkin (2-0—2) scored his first goals of the season to power Detroit to its fifth consecutive victory and a 4-0-0 record on home ice this season, their final campaign at Joe Louis Arena.

The Devils are also perfect at home, they surrendered a two-goal lead, but Travis Zajac (2-0—2) scored twice in the final 2:01 of regulation to help New Jersey improve to 3-0-0 at Prudential Center. Offseason acquisition Taylor Hall (2-1—3), who has collected each of his six points this season on home ice (5-1—6), posted his first three-point game with the Devils.

NHL MUSINGS

• Maple Leafs rookie Auston Matthews (1-1—2) leads the League with 6-4—10 this season, highlighted by three multi-point efforts
• Lightning teammates Steven Stamkos (2-2—4) and Nikita Kucherov (1-3—4) matched and set career highs for points in a game, respectively
• Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk (27 SV) and Senators goaltender Craig Anderson (22 SV) each posted shutouts
• Flyers captain Claude Giroux extended his point streak to six games with his League-leading eighth assist
• Hurricanes forward Victor Rask (4-3—7) scored to become the first Hurricanes player to start a season with a point in six straight games since 1998-99 (Keith Primeau: 4-4—8 in 7 GP)
• Stars forward Jason Dowling (0-1—1) and Bruins goaltender Zane McIntyre (15 SV) each made their NHL debut
• The Bruins, Kings and Penguins each hosted Hockey Fights Cancer nights
• Jaromir Jagr played in his 1,635th career game to tie Scott Stevens for seventh place in NHL history.
• The Ducks and Oilers each host their Hockey Fights Cancer night tonight.

TUESDAY’S NHL RESULTS
Home Team in Caps
PITTSBURGH 3, Florida 2
Minnesota 5, BOSTON 0
NEW JERSEY 5, Arizona 3
PHILADELPHIA 4, Buffalo 3 (SO)
DETROIT 4, Carolina 2
Tampa Bay 7, TORONTO 3
Calgary 4, ST. LOUIS 1
DALLAS 3, Winnipeg 2
Ottawa 3, VANCOUVER 0
SAN JOSE 2, Anaheim 1 (OT)
LOS ANGELES 3, Columbus 2 (OT)

WEDNESDAY’S NHL ACTION
All Times Eastern
Montreal @ NY Islanders, 7 p.m.
Boston @ NY Rangers, 8 p.m.
Washington @ Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
Nashville @ Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.