BOSTON — Steven Stamkos scored his 500th point with a tiebreaking power-play goal that sent the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 6-3 victory over the Bruins Monday.
Stamkos has 278 goals and 222 assists in 495 regular-season games. Brian Boyle scored two goals, and Ondrej Palat, Jonathan Drouin and Valtteri Filppula added goals for the Lightning. Ben Bishop stopped 27 shots. It was Tampa Bay’s first win in Boston since March 25, 2010.
Loui Eriksson had two power-play goals, and David Krejci also had one for Boston. The Bruins have opened with three straight losses for the first time since 1999.
Boston captain Zdeno Chara played his first game after missing most of the preseason with an undisclosed upper-body injury.
Islanders 4, Jets 2: Center John Tavares had a goal and two assists as the New York Islanders earned their first win in Brooklyn by defeating the Winnipeg Jets.
Goaltender Thomas Greiss earned his first win as an Islander by stopping 22 shots.
Ryan Strome, Brock Nelson and Josh Bailey also scored for the Islanders.
Sabres 4, Blue Jackets 2: Jack Eichel scored a highlight-reel goal 9:21 into the third period to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, center Ryan O’Reilly and left winger Matt Moulson also scored for the Sabres.
Eichel’s goal was a one-man effort, when he stole the puck from Columbus center Boone Jenner inside the blue line, raced along the left side of the ice before tucking a high wrist shot from a near-impossible angle past Sergei Bobrovsky.
Left-wingers Brandon Saad and Scott Hartnell scored for the Blue Jackets, while Bobrovsky made 29 saves.
Flyers 1, Panthers 0: The Philadelphia Flyers got some payback on the Florida Panthers with a 1-0 victory, just two days after they suffered a 7-1 drubbing at the hands of the same side.
Center Brayden Schenn scored the only goal of the game in the first period.
Canucks 2, Ducks 1 (SO): Goalie Ryan Miller saved two of the three shots he faced in a shootout as the Vancouver Canucks earned a 2-1 win over Anaheim.
Left-winger Alexandre Burrows scored the decisive shootout goal when Ducks goaltender Frederik Andersen thought he stopped the puck with his stick, but as he moved back, so did the puck.
Radim Vrbata also scored in the shootout for Vancouver, while Jakob Silfverberg beat Miller for Anaheim’s only goal in the shootout.
Ducks defenseman Sami Vatanen opened the scoring early in the second period when he blasted a slap shot past Miller before Vancouver’s Adam Cracknell equalized a little over six minutes later.
