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Montreal Canadiens right wing Brendan Gallagher (11) shoots the puck against Ottawa Senators defenseman Chris Wideman (6) and defenseman Johnny Oduya (29) during the second period at Bell Centre.Jean-Yves Ahern

CANADIENS 9, SENATORS 2

At Montreal, Brendan Gallagher and Jacob De La Rose each scored twice, and the Canadiens routed the Senators in the last preseason game for both teams.

Alex Galchenyuk, Andrew Shaw, Shea Weber, Max Pacioretty and Victor Mete also scored for the Canadiens. Jonathan Drouin had three assists, and Carey Price made 15 saves.

Kyle Turris scored for Ottawa in the game's first minute, and Mark Stone added another in the third. Craig Anderson stopped 24 of 30 shots, and Mike Condon had seven saves.

BLUE JACKETS 3, PENGUINS 0

Matt Calvert and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored 68 seconds apart in the first period, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 in a preseason game on Saturday.

Artemi Panarin scored a power-play goal at 10:26 of the third, and Sergei Bobrovsky had 21 saves for Columbus. Panarin was acquired in a multiplayer off-season trade with Chicago that sent Brandon Saad to the Blackhawks.

Penguins goaltender Matt Murray had 25 stops.

WILD 5, STARS 1

In St. Paul, Minnesota, Devan Dubnyk made 27 saves to lead the Wild to the victory.

Eric Staal had two goals and an assist for Minnesota, and Charlie Coyle finished with a goal and an assist. Marcus Foligno and Mikko Koivu also scored.

Jason Spezza scored for Dallas, and Ben Bishop made 19 stops.

LIGHTNING 3, PREDATORS 2, OT

In Nashville, Nikita Kucherov scored 1:02 into overtime to lift Tampa Bay to the win.

Kucherov also assisted on Alex Killorn's two goals. Killorn opened the scoring at 5:49 of the first period, and then added another one at 13:51 of the second.

Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 saves for the Lightning.

Miikka Salomaki and Colton Sissons scored for Nashville, and Pekka Rinne had 32 stops.

RED WINGS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2, SO

At Toronto, Matt Lorito scored the shootout winner, sending Detroit to the victory at Ricoh Coliseum.

Lorito faked to the backhand and beat Curtis McElhinney in the second round of the tiebreaker.

Lorito also scored late in the third period for Detroit. Petr Mrazek made 20 saves before being relieved by Jared Coreau midway through the second period. Coreau stopped 15 shots.

Eric Fehr and Travis Dermott scored for the Maple Leafs (5-2-1), and McElhinney made 24 saves.

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