NHL Pre-season Game Results

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

For the fans, the NHL season opened today as the first 2 NHL pre-season games got underway.  The Pittsburgh Penguins hosted the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Ottawa Senators hosted the New York Rangers.

Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2
Goalies:
New York: S. Valiquette (11 Shots, 8 Saves), M. Wilkman (8 Shots, 8 Saves)
Ottawa: M. Gerber (24 Shots, 23 Saves), B. Elliott (12 Shots, 11 Saves)
Period Recap:
1st Period
Ottawa - 2:57, Dany Heatley 1 (Jason Smith, Filip Kuba)
Ottawa - 13:17, Jason Spezza 1 (shorthanded) (unassisted
2nd Period
Ottawa - 2:12, Mike Fisher 1 (Chris Phillips, Christoph Schubert)
NY Rangers - 3:21, Brandon Dubinsky 1 (power play) (Michal Rozsival)
3rd Period
NY Rangers - 15:16, Brandon Dubinsky 2 (shorthanded) (Ryan Callahan)

Tampa Bay 5, Pittsburgh 4, SO
Goalies:
Tampa Bay: K. Ramo (30 Shots, 26 Saves)
Pittsburgh: M. Fleury (30 Shots, 26 Saves)
Period Recap:
1st Period
Pittsburgh - 0:51, Jordan Staal 1 (Evgeni Malkin, Ben Lovejoy)
2nd Period
Tampa Bay - 3:50, Janne Niskala 1 (Brandon Bochenski, Jussi Jokinen)
Tampa Bay - 7:06, Wyatt Smith 1 (Matt Smaby)
Tampa Bay - 8:40, Brandon Bochenski 1 (Radek Smolenak, Jussi Jokinen)
Pittsburgh - 15:18, Petr Sykora 1 (power play) (Miroslav Satan, Jordan Staal)
3rd Period
Pittsburgh - 10:11, Petr Sykora 2 (power play) (Janne Pesonen, Alex Goligoski)
Pittsburgh - 17:07, Sidney Crosby 1 (shorthanded) (unassisted)
Tampa Bay - 18:41, Brandon Bochenski 2 (Janne Niskala)
OT
None
Shootouts
Pittsburgh - Miroslav Satan shootout saved
Tampa Bay - Jussi Jokinen shootout goal
Pittsburgh - Evgeni Malkin shootout miss
Tampa Bay - Steven Stamkos shootout goal