Five NHL preseason games were played on Tuesday, September 22, with the Boston Bruins, New York Islanders, Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit Red Wings and Buffalo Sabres all picking up wins, according to the NHL.com preseason roundup.
Bruins 5, Flyers 1: Michael Eyssimont scored twice at TD Garden, with Morgan Geekie, Brian Halonen and Elias Lindholm also on the scoresheet. Jeremy Swayman made 20 saves for Boston, and Jacob Gaucher scored for Philadelphia. Flyers goaltender Dan Vladar left at 13:31 of the first period with an upper-body injury after facing six shots; Aleksei Kolosov made 14 saves in relief.
Islanders 4, Rangers 3: The Islanders rallied at Madison Square Garden as Matias Maccelli scored twice and added an assist, and Matthew Schaefer had a goal and two assists. Semyon Varlamov stopped all 10 shots he faced after replacing Ilya Sorokin, in his first game since November 2024. Pavel Dorofeyev scored in his Rangers debut.
Hurricanes 3, Panthers 2 (SO): Bradly Nadeau and Justin Robidas scored for Carolina at Lenovo Center and Cayden Primeau made two shootout saves. Aleksander Barkov scored for Florida, while Brady Tkachuk did not return after the second period, which coach Paul Maurice described as precautionary.
Red Wings 7, Penguins 4 and Sabres 5, Blue Jackets 1: Michael Brandsegg-Nygard scored twice and Anton Johansson had four assists as Detroit pulled away in the third period in Pittsburgh, where Nicholas Robertson scored short-handed in his Penguins debut and twins Liam and Markus Ruck debuted on the same line. In Buffalo, Noah Ostlund scored twice and Tage Thompson had a goal and an assist, while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped all 13 shots he faced.
