PITTSBURGH -- Zach Parise's wrist shot from the left circle sailed past Marc-Andre Fleury's glove with 37.6 seconds left in overtime and the New Jersey Devils, outshooting Pittsburgh by a more than 3-to-1 margin, rallied for a 2-1 victory over the Penguins on Saturday.
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The Penguins were working a 3-on-2 break in overtime when Travis Zajac came up with the puck and made a long lead pass to Parise, who streaked down the left-wing boards to beat Fleury on the only Devils shot of the game to get past him.
The Devils, winning their second in as many nights, finished with a 49-15 edge in shots but trailed 1-0 until tying it when Patrik Elias' seemingly harmless, no-look pass from along the boards deflected off Penguins defenseman Hal Gill's right skate and into the net with 2:29 remaining in the third.
Fleury played an exceptional game, making key save after key save as the Devils held a 20-2 edge in shots in the third period and a 35-6 advantage in the second and third periods.
Despite going long stretches without seeing a shot, Devils goalie Martin Brodeur -- required to make only 15 saves -- got his 540th career victory, 11 short of Patrick Roy's NHL career record.
Parise and Elias also had the only Devils goals in a 2-1 win over the Islanders on Friday night.
The Penguins played their first game at home, and in North America, since opening the season by splitting two games with Ottawa in Stockholm last weekend. There were new banners hanging from Mellon Arena's roof commemorating the division and conference championships they won last season en route to their Stanley Cup Finals loss to Detroit, but there was no pre-game banner raising ceremony. Full story
Canucks 5, Flames 4 (OT)
CALGARY, Alberta -- Pavol Demitra scored with 66 seconds left in overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks to a victory over the Calgary Flames.
After Michael Cammalleri was knocked off the puck deep in the Canucks end, Vancouver broke out on a 3-on-1 rush led by Alex Burrows. Burrows waited patiently before sending the puck across the to Demitra at the edge of the crease and he banged it in the open side for his first goal of the season.
Daniel Sedin had two goals for Vancouver, and Rick Rypien and Ryan Kesler also scored.
Michael Cammalleri, Rene Bourque, Todd Bertuzzi and Andre Roy scored for Calgary.
Hurricanes 4, Lightning 3 (OT)
TAMPA, Fla. -- Eric Staal scored the tying and winning goals to lead the Carolina Hurricanes to an overtime victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Mark Recchi, Janne Niskala and Vinny Lecavalier scored for Tampa, which led 3-0 about nine minutes into the second period. The loss denied new Lightning coach Barry Melrose his first victory since 1995, when he left coaching to join ESPN as an analyst.
Staal tied the score at 9:56 of the third period, prompting Lightning goalie Mike Smith to shatter his stick with two hard slams on the crossbar. Staal then got the game-winner from the left circle with 23.6 seconds remaining in the extra period.
Rod Brind'Amour and Matt Cullen also scored for Carolina.
Predators 3, Stars 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jason Arnott scored two power-play goals and had an assist, and the Nashville Predators beat the Dallas Stars in their home opener.
Shea Weber had a goal, and J.P. Dumont had three assists as the Predators bounced back from an opening 5-2 loss in St. Louis less than 24 hours earlier. They outshot Dallas 32-20, and Sean Avery, the Stars' offseason addition, picked up a game misconduct and a fighting major early in the first period.
Trevor Daley scored the only goal for Dallas. The Stars came in after a 5-4 overtime loss to Columbus in their own home opener in which they had to score twice late to force overtime and at least get a point.
But the Predators came out with much more urgency.
Sharks 3, Kings 1
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Tomas Plihal scored the short-handed go-ahead goal, Evgeni Nabokov had to make just 12 saves and the San Jose Sharks beat the Kings and blemish Los Angeles coach Terry Murray's debut.
Devin Setoguchi and Joe Pavelski also scored as the Sharks handily beat their second straight Pacific Division opponent after opening the season with a 4-1 win over Anaheim on Thursday.
Defenseman Rob Blake had five of San Jose's 41 shots while playing another outstanding game for the Sharks, who signed the longtime Kings star as a free agent during the summer. Blake spent 13½ of his first 18 NHL seasons with Los Angeles, including the past two.
Alexander Frolov scored an early goal and Jason LaBarbera stopped 38 shots for the Kings, who hope to rebuild under Murray's direction after finishing last season tied with Tampa Bay with an NHL-low 71 points.
Islanders 5, Blues 2
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- If the New York Islanders can score four goals in the first period regularly, it won't matter much who is in net behind them.
Mike Comrie, Trent Hunter, Sean Bergenheim and Andy Hilbert all tallied in the first 20 minutes of the home opener, and backup goalie Joey MacDonald made the early offense stand up in the Islanders' victory over the St. Louis Blues.
With No. 1 netminder Rick DiPietro watching from the bench as the backup for the second straight night as he works his way back from offseason knee surgery, MacDonald made 24 saves.
MacDonald was sharp again, as he was in New York's 2-1 loss Friday at New Jersey when he made 27 saves but was outdueled by Martin Brodeur. In just his 19th NHL game, MacDonald made two fine saves against Andy MacDonald and denied Keith Tkachuk's breakaway chance in the second period, eliciting chants of "Jo-ey, Jo-ey."
