On the road, in a tight Sunday afternoon affair against one of the league's powers, the Columbus Blue Jackets of the past might have been content to play conservatively and escape with a point. These Blue Jackets, however, are a much different team.

Center Elias Lindholm found his scoring touch and it might have seemed like a relief for the Carolina Hurricanes.

Halfway through the game Sunday, the Florida Panthers looked every bit like a team that had played the night before. They were being outshot by a 2-to-1 margin and weren't generating any consistent offense against the New York Rangers.

Centers Vincent Trocheck and Aleksander Barkov scored during a shootout to give the Florida Panthers a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night.

The Calgary Flames got off to a good start on their six-game road trip.

Jeff Carter helped the Los Angeles Kings turn the race for first place in the Pacific Division into something extremely familiar to locals, a rush-hour traffic jam.