Kyle Wellwood scored 8 seconds into the game as the reborn Winnipeg Jets earned their first NHL win of the season by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Monday.
Tanner Glass netted Winnipeg’s other goal and Ondrej Pavelec stopped 28 shots to earn the win for the Jets — formerly the Atlanta Thrashers. Winnipeg lost its original team when it moved to Phoenix in 1996.
Zbynek Michalek had the only goal for Pittsburgh, which got 33 saves from Marc-Andre Fleury.
The Jets were one of three winless NHL teams heading into the game. The other two, the New York Rangers and Columbus Blue Jackets, were idle on Monday.
Pittsburgh, which played without top forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, have lost two in a row.
DUCKS 3, SHARKS 2
In San Jose, California, Teemu Selanne scored a pair of first-period goals as Anaheim held off San Jose to win their fourth straight game.
With a 4-1-0 record, Anaheim are off to their best start since their Stanley Cup-winning season five years ago.
Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks and Dan Ellis made 41 saves.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Brent Burns scored for San Jose, which has lost three straight since a season-opening win.
PANTHERS 7, LIGHTNING 4
In Tampa, Florida, Kris Versteeg and Stephen Weiss each scored two goals as Florida trounced Tampa Bay.
Versteeg put the Panthers up 5-3 with his second power-play goal of the game when he beat goalie Dwayne Roloson from the low right circle 25 seconds into the third period.
The Panthers then went ahead 6-4 when Weiss scored at 15:28 of the third. Jason Garrison added a late power-play goal.
Tomas Kopecky and Sean Bergenheim scored the other goals for the Panthers.
Teddy Purcell, Victor Hedman, Vincent Lecavalier and Steven Stamkos scored for Tampa Bay, which had lost four in a row to finish a season-opening, five-game road trip.
AVALANCHE 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2, OT
In Toronto, David Jones scored 1:11 into to overtime to lift Colorado over Toronto.
Jones buried the rebound of Kyle Quincey’s shot past goalie James Reimer. Daniel Winnik and Milan Hejduk also scored for Colorado, while Phil Kessel and Nikolai Kulemin had goals for the Maple Leafs.
The Avalanche went 5-0 on their longest road trip of the season — Colorado’s first perfect mark in a trip that long.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere started in goal for Colorado against his former team. Giguere, who signed a two-year deal with the Avalanche in the summer, was the Maple Leafs’ opening-night starter last season.
OILERS 3, PREDATORS 1
In Edmonton, Alberta, Ryan Smyth scored the winning goal as Edmonton rallied with three goals in the third period to beat Nashville.
Taylor Hall and Ryan Jones also scored, while Shawn Horcoff had three assists for the Oilers, who are 2-1-1 after finishing last in the NHL for two straight seasons.
Sergei Kostitsyn had the lone goal for the Predators, who have lost three in a row. Nashville recorded only 12 shots and yielded 25 to Edmonton.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, taken No. 1 overall in this year’s NHL draft, scored four goals for Edmonton in his first three games, including a hat-trick on Saturday in a loss to Vancouver. He got his first assist against the Predators.
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