Capitals 5-2 Hurricanes
The Washington Capitals played spoiler to the Hurricanes' banner night with an absolutely one-sided affair. Newly acquired forward Alex Tuch posted two goals, while eight total Caps players earned at least one assist on the night.
Dylan Stome (two assists), Jakob Chychrun (one goal, one assist), and Pierre-Luc Dubois (two assists) each finished with two points. Ryan Leonard and Cole Hutson also had one goal each.
Caps goalie Logan Thompson finished with 31 saves, setting a career-high in season openers for one of this year's Vezina Trophy favorites.
The Canes, despite outshooting (33-27) and outhitting (32-19) the Caps, now start the season off with two losses coming off their Stanley Cup win. Sebastian Aho and Logan Stankoven scored the two for Carolina.
Rangers 2-0 Red Wings
It was a brutal home opener for the Red Wings, as the game got off to a rough start when fans booed former team captain Dylan Larkin, as the longstanding member has made it clear he doesn't want to play for the team anymore.
Between [a href="https://x.com/Sportsnet/status/2106162210456355191?s=20" target="_blank"]chants of "Sell the team!"[/a], fans taping over [a href="https://x.com/peterandri/status/2106148955503604201?s=20" target="_blank"]his jersey with 'loser' and 'traitor'[/a], and a scoreless night, the Red Wings open up their 2026-2027 season in the worst way humanly possible.
Sean Durzi scored the only even-strength goal of the night for the Rangers before Eeli Tolvanen sent in the empty-netter for his second of the season. Rookie goaltender Dyland Garand recorded his first career shutout after putting up 22 saves.
New York improved to 2-1-0 on the season.