NHL-Highlights of Thursday's NHL games

Oct 8 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of National Hockey League games on Thursday: - - - - Lightning 3, Flyers 2 (OT) Defenseman Jason Garrison scored on a breakaway in overtime, his second goal of the game, to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. Garrison scored with 2:43 left, shortly after Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop blocked a penalty shot, in the first three-on-three overtime in the NHL after rule changes earlier this year. - - Jets 6, Bruins 2 The Winnipeg Jets ended the franchise's 13-game losing streak in Boston with a 6-2 victory over the Bruins. The Jets, who last won in Boston as the Atlanta Thrashers on March 31, 2007, scored three goals in the second period and three in the third to clear out the sellout crowd. Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec stopped 29 shots in the win. - - Senators 3, Sabres 1 Center Kyle Turris scored twice to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres in the season opener for both teams. Right winger Curtis Lazar added an empty-net goal late in the third period for Ottawa. Senators' goalie Craig Anderson made 26 saves, while second overall pick Jack Eichel scored in his first game with Buffalo. - - Predators 2, Hurricanes 1 Center Craig Smith scored his team's first goal for the second consecutive home opener to help Nashville to a 2-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. - - Blues 3, Oilers 1 Right winger Robby Fabbri celebrated his first game in the NHL by scoring in the third period to help the St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Fabbri, the Blues' first pick in the 2014 draft, converted a behind-the-back pass from center Jori Lehtera at 9:29 of the period to break a 1-1 tie. He is the first Blues player to score a goal in his NHL debut since right winger Vladimir Tarasenko, who had earlier scored the Blues' first goal. Troy Brouwer added an empty-net goal in the closing seconds for St. Louis. - - Stars 3, Penguins 0 Ales Hemsky had a goal and an assist and Antti Niemi stopped all 37 shots he faced as Dallas defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 in the season opener for both teams. Rookie Mattias Janmark and captain Jamie Benn also scored for Dallas. - - Wild 5, Avalanche 4 Zach Parise scored three goals, two of them in a furious third-period comeback, as the Minnesota Wild rallied for a 5-4 win over the Colorado Avalanche. Nino Niederreiter and Thomas Vanek also scored for the Wild. Goaltender Devan Dubnyk had 19 saves. The Avalanche led 4-1 after the second period on goals from Jarome Iginla, Gabriel Landeskog, John Mitchell and Erik Johnson before Minnesota erased that deficit in a span of five minutes, seven seconds in the third. Parise got the first goal, Niederreiter made it 4-3 just 1:58 later, and Vanek tied it with a shot that went past goalie Semyon Varlamov and rattled off both posts before Parise completed his hat-trick on a power play. - - - - (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury)