Presidents\u2019 Trophy-winning<\/a> Avalanche.<\/p>\nWedgewood got the nod in net over Mackenzie Blackwood after leading the league in goals-against average and save percentage. Wedgewood made four career playoff appearances in relief before Sunday\u2019s start.<\/p>\n
Game 2 is Tuesday night in Denver.<\/p>\n
Artemi Panarin scored a power-play goal with 2:22 left to make it 2-1. Shortly after, forward Joel Armia was called for high-sticking and the Kings were unable to tie it up.<\/p>\n
Anton Forsberg stopped 28 shots in his NHL postseason debut. <\/p>\n
CANADIENS 4, LIGHTNING 3, OT<\/p>\n
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Juraj Slafkovsky scored his third power-play goal 1:22 into overtime and Montreal beat Tampa Bay in Game 1 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n
Slafkovsky fired a slap shot from the left circle that beat Andrei Vasilevskiy to the far side for the hat trick.<\/p>\n
Game 2 is Tuesday night at Benchmark International Arena, where Tampa Bay has lost eight of its last nine home games in the postseason. <\/p>\n
Josh Anderson also had a goal for Montreal and rookie goalie Jakub Dobes made 20 saves.<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel scored two goals and Darren Raddysh also scored for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
SABRES 4, BRUINS 3<\/p>\n
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the final eight minutes to beat Boston in the Sabres\u2019 first playoff game in 15 years.<\/p>\n
Tage Thompson scored goals 3:42 apart to tie it, and Alex Tuch sealed the victory by scoring into an empty net with 1:12 left in nearly blowing the roof off the arena.<\/p>\n
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 17 shots.<\/p>\n
Buffalo hosts Game 2 of the first-round series Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The playoff win was Buffalo\u2019s first at home \u2014 and first overall \u2014 since a 1-0 victory over Philadelphia in Game 4 of a first-round series April 20, 2011. The Sabres proceeded to lose the series in seven games. The Sabres won their first Atlantic Division this season and snapped an NHL-record 14-season playoff drought.<\/p>\n
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, MAMMOTH 2<\/p>\n
LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Nic Dowd redirected Noah Hanifin\u2019s shot from the point to put Vegas ahead at 7:20 of the third period and the Golden Knights beat Utah in Game 1 of their first-round series.<\/p>\n
Game 2 is Tuesday night in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights, who twice trailed before scoring three third-period goals, have not lost in regulation since John Tortorella (8-0-1) took over as coach.<\/p>\n
The Mammoth lost in the franchise\u2019s first playoff game since 2020. They are in their second season in Utah after leaving Arizona.<\/p>\n
Colton Sissons had a goal and assist for the Golden Knights and Mark Stone and Ivan Barbashev also scored. Carter Hart stopped 32 shots. Hanifin had two assists.<\/p>\n
Logan Cooley and Kevin Stenlund scored for the Mammoth. Karel Vejmelka, playing in his first playoff game after five years in the Utah\/Arizona organization, made 27 saves. Captain Clayton Keller, who closed the regular season with 16 assists over a 10-game streak, failed to record one in this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press DENVER (AP) \u2014 Logan O\u2019Connor scored for the first time in more than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-556581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116436045103359327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}