Boston’s Linus Ullmark, voted the NHL’s best goaltender last season, has started this year’s season.
He stopped most things as Boston overturned a deficit in the game against Anaheim and won 3–1 on the road.
Ullmark took 31 of 32 shots and kept a clean sheet until the start of the third period when he was forced to pick the puck out of the box after first making a save and a rebound bounced to Mason McTavish.
Boston is undefeated so far in the season opener and has won five straight.
Ullmark missed a first chance to face Anaheim’s re-signed Swedish newcomer, 18-year-old forward Leo Carlsson. Carlsson has already scored a goal and played two games but was not in the team that ultimately lost 1–3.
In the meeting between Detroit and Calgary, it was a four-goal victory for Detroit with 6–2 and in Detroit former Frölunda forward Lucas Raymond was noted for three assists.
Calgary missed its Swedish, suspended back Rasmus Andersson. He was suspended for tonight’s game, the first of four, after a violent elbow tackle on Columbus’ Finn Patrik Laine in the closing seconds the other night.
However, the NHL’s players’ association has now made it clear that it has filed an appeal against the punishment on Andersson’s behalf. The punishment handed down by the league management means that he is suspended for four games and must be fined $95,000, over one million Swedish kronor to a player’s fund.
TT/Sportsbibeln
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