NHL recap Oct. 11: Rangers Beat Canucks 6-2

This NHL recap opens at Madison Square Garden, where the Rangers beat Vancouver 6-2 in their first game since learning Igor Shesterkin would miss the rest of the season with a lower-body injury. (NHL.com)

Dylan Garand stopped 19 shots, while Tye Kartye and Will Cuylle scored twice apiece to give New York something positive to build on after a difficult weekend. (NHL.com)

Sunday’s three regular-season games also brought a Seattle win despite Alex Ovechkin’s 930th career goal and a fifth straight victory for Carolina. (NHL scores)

For the much busier Saturday slate, read our NHL recap from Oct. 10; more coverage is on Hockey Informers.

Habs watch

Montreal did not play Sunday and is off again Monday; Buffalo visits the Centre Bell on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 6:30 p.m. ET, followed by a trip to Washington on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. (Canadiens schedule)

Rangers 6, Canucks 2

The score looks comfortable; getting there took some work. (NHL.com) Kartye scored just 27 seconds in, but Jake DeBrusk tied it late in the first and Elias Pettersson’s first career short-handed goal erased Cuylle’s second-period strike. (NHL.com) Vancouver was level at 2-2 with 3:04 left in the middle frame. (NHL.com)

Kartye made sure that tie did not survive the intermission, taking a J.T. Miller pass and beating Kevin Lankinen at 18:25 after Vladislav Gavrikov started the breakout. (NHL.com) Just 1:04 into the third, Alexis Lafrenière converted Gabe Perreault’s power-play feed, the two-goal cushion that changed the feel of the game. (NHL.com)

Perreault then redirected Adam Fox’s shot at 5:57, and Cuylle added his second at 15:22. (NHL.com) Lafrenière and Perreault each finished with a goal and an assist, while Miller and Mika Zibanejad each had two assists. (NHL.com) Zibanejad reached 250 power-play points as a Ranger, joining Brian Leetch and Rod Gilbert in that club. (NHL.com)

Garand and Lankinen both made 19 saves, but New York won the third period 3-0 and improved to 5-2-0, including 4-0-0 at home. (NHL.com) Vancouver fell to 2-5-0 with its fourth straight loss; Guillaume Brisebois made his season debut in place of healthy scratch Jamie Oleksiak. (NHL.com) In this NHL recap’s lead game, the Rangers supplied the offence to go with their new starter’s work. (NHL.com)

Highlights: Canucks vs. Rangers | NHL Highlights | Oct 11, 2026

Kraken 5, Capitals 3

Ovechkin got his first goal of the season, but Seattle got the points. (NHL.com) The Washington captain’s 930th career goal put the Capitals ahead 2-1 in the first period, with Aliaksei and Ilya Protas assisting on the play. (NHL.com) Joey Daccord became the 190th different goalie Ovechkin has scored against, extending his NHL record. (NHL.com)

Kaapo Kakko had opened the scoring off a rebound before Jordan Kyrou answered with his first goal as a Capital, set up by Cole Hutson and Ryan Leonard. (NHL.com) Jordan Eberle tied it late in the first, and Frederick Gaudreau restored Seattle’s lead in the second on a Ryan Winterton pass. (NHL.com) Boone Jenner’s unassisted goal 46 seconds into the third pulled Washington even again. (NHL.com)

Jared McCann finally broke the deadlock at 14:33, slipping past Timothy Liljegren and beating Logan Thompson with a low wrist shot. (NHL.com) Winterton added a breakaway goal at 17:20 to put the game away. (NHL.com) Gaudreau and Winterton each had a goal and an assist, and Ben Meyers assisted on both of their goals. (NHL.com)

Daccord made 33 saves, including 17 in the third period, to protect Seattle’s win; Thompson stopped 22. (NHL.com) Seattle, now 4-2-0, has won two straight as it begins a five-game road trip, while Washington slipped to 3-2-0. (NHL.com) Leonard’s assist was his 50th NHL point in 89 games, the quickest first 50 by a Capitals skater since Nicklas Backstrom. (NHL.com)

Highlights: Kraken vs. Capitals | NHL Highlights | Oct 11, 2026

Hurricanes 4, Flyers 1

Carolina did its damage in a burst. (NHL.com) After a scoreless first period, Andrei Svechnikov, Shayne Gostisbehere and Sebastian Aho scored in a 6:38 stretch of the second, with the Aho-Svechnikov-William Carrier line involved in all three goals. (NHL.com) Philadelphia’s Christian Dvorak briefly cut the deficit to 2-1 before Aho restored the two-goal margin just 1:28 later. (NHL.com)

Carrier had two assists, and Aho and Svechnikov each finished with a goal and an assist. (NHL.com) Mark Jankowski found the net at 15:09 of the third for his fourth straight game with a goal, with Jordan Martinook earning his 200th point as a Hurricane on the assist. (NHL.com) Pyotr Kochetkov made 18 saves; Joseph Woll stopped 26 at the other end. (NHL.com)

The win was Carolina’s fifth straight and fourth straight on the road, lifting its record to 5-1-1. (NHL.com) Philadelphia is 0-5-2, its seven consecutive losses to open a season now a franchise record. (NHL.com) The Hurricanes’ quick response to Dvorak’s goal was the turning point of this NHL recap’s final game, and Philadelphia did not score again. (NHL.com)

Both teams were missing important forwards: Carolina captain Jordan Staal sat out with a lower-body injury, and Philadelphia placed Travis Konecny on injured reserve with a lower-body injury Sunday. (NHL.com) Flyers rookie Oliver Bonk was recalled from Lehigh Valley and played 16:28 in his season debut, recording two shots and a minus-3 rating. (NHL.com)

Highlights: Hurricanes vs. Flyers | NHL Highlights | Oct 11, 2026

NHL recap: three stars of the night

Hockey Informers selections:

1. Joey Daccord, Kraken — 33 saves, 17 of them in the third, in the 5-3 win. (NHL.com)
2. Tye Kartye, Rangers — two goals, including the winner late in the second. (NHL.com)
3. Sebastian Aho, Hurricanes — a goal and an assist in Carolina’s fifth straight win. (NHL.com)

Up next

Monday: Florida at Buffalo at 1 p.m. ET, Ottawa at New Jersey at 7 p.m., and Vegas at Minnesota at 8 p.m.; Montreal is off. (NHL schedule)

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