Erik Karlsson won the individual competition against Anthony Stolarz in their latest meeting, but the Anaheim Ducks ultimately came out on top against the San Jose Sharks.

The Ducks will visit the Sharks again on Saturday night for the second time in five days, and they’ll look for a similar result while also keeping closer tabs on the red-hot Karlsson.

Anaheim beat San Jose 6-5 in a shootout on Tuesday night, despite absorbing the first NHL hat trick by Karlsson, the 32-year-old, two-time Norris Trophy winner.

Karlsson also had an assist against the Ducks and came back with a goal and two assists in a 4-3 shootout loss against the visiting Florida Panthers on Thursday.

Karlsson has 10 goals in his first 13 games, a mark reached in that span by just two other defensemen in NHL history.

Harry Cameron scored 10 goals in seven games for the Toronto Arenas in 1917-18, and King Clancy scored 10 goals in nine games with the Ottawa Senators in 1929-30.

Karlsson wasn’t about to celebrate the accomplishment, especially after failing to convert his opportunities in the past two shootouts.

“When I’m 50 years old, I’ll look back and I’ll be happy,” he said.

San Jose coach David Quinn has also been sitting on 99 NHL victories for the past three games, all at home. San Jose is 1-5-2 at SAP Center.

“We’re playing better hockey,” Quinn said. “We’ve got to cut down on the goals we’re giving up, but I do like the fact that we are scoring more goals.”

Stolarz stopped 39 of 44 shots on Tuesday against the Sharks, as well as the final attempt of the shootout by Karlsson, clinching the win and improving to 6-1-0 in his career against San Jose.

Stolarz will likely go against the Sharks again Saturday with John Gibson facing the visiting Panthers on Sunday.

“I just like this building,” Stolarz said after the win in San Jose on Tuesday. “You play enough games here, it becomes natural. It must be the lighting or something.”

Playing goalie for the Ducks has been a challenge this season.

Anaheim allows the most shots on goal in the NHL (38.7) and has the second worst penalty-kill percentage (61.5).

The Ducks have surrendered at least four goals in nine of 11 games this season.

“We’ve got to do a better job of limiting those grade-A chances,” Anaheim forward Trevor Zegras said.

On the bright side, the Ducks have scored 15 goals in the past three games after combining for 16 goals in the first eight.

Zegras has three goals and two assists in the past three games, and Troy Terry has a goal and five assists in that span.

Adam Henrique ended a scoring slump by scoring his first two goals of the season against the Sharks on Tuesday.

Max Comtois, who led the Ducks in goals (16) during the shortened 2020-21 season before dropping off to six goals last season, has scored in back-to-back games.

Others, like third-line center Isac Lundestrom, who broke out for 16 goals last season, have yet to score through the team’s first 11 games. Neither has Mason McTavish, the No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft who scored in his NHL debut last season.

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When the Nashville Predators and Vancouver Canucks meet up on Saturday night in British Columbia, both teams will be trying to do something they have done only once each in the new season — put together a winning streak.

In its second game in Alberta as part of a five-game road trip through the conference Thursday, Nashville got goals from Mark Jankowski late in the first period, then Filip Forsberg and Roman Josi scored in the second — Josi on the power play — in a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames.

Matt Duchene’s empty-net goal with 14 seconds remaining was the icing on the cake for coach John Hynes’ squad, who won for just the second time in its past nine games (2-6-1).

Backup goalie Kevin Lankinen stopped 29 of 30 shots to move to 2-1-0, and the Predators won the battle of the special teams by going 1-for-4 on the power play and stopping all three Calgary man advantages.

Josi, Nashville’s captain, said the style of play was as encouraging as the two points.

“Obviously the win is important, but at the same time, I think the way we played is almost more important,” said Josi, who has six points over his past four games. “We saw what works. We saw how we have to play to be successful. It was an overall way better game than last game and that’s the most important thing.

“I think we played well right from the (first period). … I thought it was one of our best periods all year.”

Across his past five outings, Forsberg has been hot, notching nine points (two goals, seven assists) and putting him into a tie with Martin Erat — whom he was traded for in 2013 — for third on the Predators’ all-time points list with 481.

Recalled Thursday from the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals, Jankowski scored against his former team in his first start for Nashville. The forward was a 2012 first-round draft pick (21st overall) by the Flames.

After a positive finish to last season under new coach Bruce Boudreau, the new campaign started out nightmarishly for the Canucks. They opened 0-5-2 and didn’t win until a 5-4 victory in Seattle on Oct. 27. Through 11 matches, they have won just three times.

On home ice against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday, Vancouver relied on high-octane in an 8-5 win. Andrei Kuzmenko tallied his first NHL hat trick, Elias Pettersson had a five-point night, and Bo Horvat scored two goals and added an assist in the Canucks’ highest-scoring output this season.

Boudreau stepped behind Vancouver’s bench on Dec. 5 of last season after the Canucks’ front office cleaned house following a dreadful 8-15-2 start under former coach Travis Green.

Through all the losses in a tough October, Horvat said the group rallies behind its coach.

“You want to win for him,” said Horvat, the Canucks’ captain. “You want to play hard for him, and you want to run through a wall for the guy. I think that’s a good quality to have in a coach, and everybody in this room loves him, so we just got to start winning for him.”

Vancouver’s 20th bench boss, the 67-year-old Boudreau recently became the second-fastest coach to reach 600 wins, achieving the milestone in his 1,049th match.

The Canucks have won four of the past six matchups.

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Since reaching the Stanley Cup Final in 2012, playoff appearances and lengthy winning streaks are rare occurrences for the New Jersey Devils.

The Devils are attempting to change the narrative about whether they are a postseason team, and their latest triumph made them realize some of the things it takes to play beyond the regular season.

Coming off an impressive comeback over the Edmonton Oilers, the Devils seek their sixth straight win Saturday night when they visit the Calgary Flames.

New Jersey is on its first five-game winning streak since Dec. 15-27, 2017, which came during its last playoff season. The Devils last won six straight when they ended the 2011-12 season with six consecutive victories before advancing out of the Eastern Conference as a sixth seed.

Coming off lopsided wins over Columbus and Vancouver, the Devils impressively extended their run Thursday night. New Jersey rallied in the third period for a 4-3 victory over Edmonton that also gave them eight wins in their first 11 games and eight in nine games since starting the season with consecutive 5-2 losses.

Miles Wood scored twice and then set up the tying goal by Ryan Graves. Jesper Bratt scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:08 remaining — seven seconds after Graves’ tally — which set a team record for the fastest two goals.

“We all had that feeling: We can turn this around, we can play a lot better,” Bratt said. “And we all said if we want to play playoff hockey and win important games at the end of the year, these are the games you’ve got to turn around.”

New Jersey’s comeback occurred after goalie Mackenzie Blackwood exited in the second with an injury and did not return. The Devils did not immediately announce an update, but it is possible Vitek Vanecek will start Saturday.

Calgary enjoyed a similar stretch as New Jersey when it won five of its first six games after losing star Johnny Gaudreau in free agency. But the Flames head into Saturday on a three-game losing streak, along with four losses in their past six, and are coming off their worst showing of the season.

In one-goal home losses to Edmonton and Seattle, the Flames took leads into the third and allowed a combined five goals in the final periods. In Thursday’s 4-1 loss to visiting Nashville, Calgary allowed the first goal in the final minute of the first period and then two more in the opening 2:27 of the second to fall in too deep a hole. Blake Coleman scored Calgary’s lone goal Thursday.

“It was just unacceptable,” Calgary center Elias Lindholm said. “Three in a row at home here, it’s not good enough. Last game, we were up 4-2 and lose. We’re a veteran group and that shouldn’t happen either. We talked about it. It was unacceptable last game, and tonight might have been worse.”

Especially since Nashville entered 1-6-1 in its past eight games before soundly defeating the Flames.

“That was just unacceptable,” Coleman said. “It was a complete lack of energy. There was just nothing.”

The Flames have won the past eight meetings, including the past four by a combined 25-12 margin.

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Mikko Rantanen had a triumphant return to his home country on Friday, and it will be tough to top Saturday when his Colorado Avalanche and the Columbus Blue Jackets play the second of a two-game NHL Global Series set in Tampere, Finland.

Rantanen had a hat trick and four points in Colorado’s 6-3 win Friday in Finland, where he got a warm reception from the local fans.

“Two points are obviously the biggest thing,” Rantanen said after Friday’s win. “Got some good passes from the guys and was able to score some goals. The crowd chanting was cool, had chills sitting on the bench.”

Both teams would like to clean up some things. They combined for 12 power plays — seven for Columbus — and 75 total shots.

“It was an exciting game for the fans,” Rantanen said. “The coaches would probably disagree.”

The Avalanche ended a two-game skid and avoided blowing a three-goal lead for the second time in three games. Colorado has struggled to find its footing to start the season, due in part to a tough schedule in the first month and in part to the absence of key players.

Captain Gabriel Landeskog has yet to play after having knee surgery. Valeri Nichushkin, who has gotten off to a hot start with seven goals — tied with Rantanen for the team lead — and 12 points, missed his third straight game with a lower-body injury.

He is with the team in Finland, but coach Jared Bednar has not said if Nichushkin will play Saturday.

The defensive struggles continue for the Blue Jackets, who have lost four in a row, are 3-8-0 to start the season and have allowed three or more goals in 10 of 11 games. Elvis Merzlikins gave up five of the six goals in Friday’s game and saw his goals-against average rise to 4.82.

Daniil Tarasov will likely get the start Saturday while Colorado’s Pavel Francouz could be in net for a battle of backups. However, Bednar could opt to use Alexandar Georgiev again after his 36-save performance on Friday.

It was a special night for another Finn, even though it came in a losing effort. Blue Jackets left winger Patrik Laine, whose hometown is listed as Tampere, had a goal and an assist in the loss and recognized Rantanen’s big night.

“It was fun for the fans. Not fun for us right now,” Laine said after the loss. “Obviously as a friend and as a person, happy for him. As a hockey player, not really. … It was fun to play it, but right now it’s not a good feeling.”

Laine registered a point for the first time in four games and is encouraged by how the team is playing despite the losing streak.

“I feel like we had some good looks,” Laine said. “Especially after the stretch we’ve had, we were really happy the way we were moving. We got a lot of chances and could have easily had a couple more, but it wasn’t bouncing our way. We can’t wait and hope for the bounces. We have to create our own luck and work harder and bury next time.”

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The Vegas Golden Knights maintained their winning streak and continued their hot start, but their main theme Thursday was about withstanding a flawed performance.

After surviving the Ottawa Senators, the Golden Knights will seek a seventh straight win Saturday night when they visit the Montreal Canadiens.

The first three wins of the streak saw Vegas outscore Toronto, San Jose and Anaheim by a combined 11-3 margin. Then they scored the tying goal in the third period before getting overtime goals from Jack Eichel and Shea Theodore to beat Winnipeg and Washington.

On Thursday, the Golden Knights held on for a 5-4 victory in Ottawa. Mark Stone, Reilly Smith, Zach Whitecloud, Chandler Stephenson and William Carrier scored as Vegas sped out to a 5-1 lead in the first 30:14. It allowed the next three goals and survived allowing a season-high 46 shots on goal thanks to a 42-save performance by goalie Logan Thompson.

“That was not a perfect game by us by any means,” Stone said after the Golden Knights allowed more than three goals for the first time this season. “Wasn’t close to our standard. Some nights you’re not going to feel great and you’re not going to have that execution as a team, but when you find ways to win, that’s the difference between teams that win and teams on the outside (of the playoffs).”

Being able to win while turning in a flawed showing enabled the Golden Knights to win for the 10th time in 12 games and keep pace with the Boston Bruins in the early President’s Trophy race.

Montreal is hoping it can cause another imperfect showing by Vegas and solve some of its recent scoring woes. Since their 6-2 win over Arizona on Oct. 20, the Canadiens are 2-3-1 in their past six games.

While they scored seven in a three-goal win over St. Louis last Saturday, they have been held to nine goals in their other five games, including Thursday’s 3-2 overtime loss at Winnipeg.

Nick Suzuki scored 6:43 into the first period but less than a minute after Kirby Dach scored in the second, the Canadiens allowed the tying goal, then were held to four shots on goal in the third before succumbing in overtime.

Perhaps the best news was the season debut of defenseman Joel Edmundson after he re-injured his back in a training camp collision with Suzuki. He also missed the first 58 games with the same injury last season when Montreal started 0-5-0 and finished with 22 wins.

“We’re in every game,” Edmundson said. “I couldn’t say the same about last year. But I feel like we’re in every game and we’re battling. We got a really young team. I think the chemistry in the locker room is definitely carrying over onto the ice.

“I think that’s where you need to start with. If you can get the locker room under control, which we’ve done, that’s going to translate on the ice. It’s no surprise and I think it’s a pretty exciting team to watch.”

Montreal has won five of eight all-time regular-season meetings with Vegas, with three of those wins coming beyond regulation. Vegas earned a 5-2 win in Montreal Nov. 6 and Theodore scored the game-winner in overtime of its 4-3 home win Jan. 20.

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It’s been a solid start to the season for the Dallas Stars, one they look to maintain when they visit the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.

Dallas, which sits atop the NHL’s Central Division, has won three of its past four games after a brief two-game skid. The Stars head into the weekend having won each of their past two, outscoring opponents 12-4 and not missing a beat in goal with Scott Wedgewood holding down the fort for the injured Jake Oettinger.

“I think we’re feeling good,” coach Pete DeBoer said. “We’re playing with confidence. Wedgy has stepped in and played really solid, so we should feel good about our goaltending. We have a chance to have a real good road trip here, but obviously the toughest is yet to come.”

The power play has spurred back to life in their past two outings, with the Stars connecting at a 4-for-8 clip after going to 0-for-13 in their previous four contests.

The return of defenseman Miro Heiskanen from a three-game absence due to injury has helped the cause. The Finn, who returned Tuesday, has three assists in his past two games.

“His impact is huge,” DeBoer said. “He gets us out of our end quicker, cleaner, makes so many plays. He’s one of the best in the world for a reason, and when he’s out of the lineup we’re a different team.”

The Oilers will aim to bounce back after a seven-second stumble late in the third period against New Jersey turned a one-goal lead into a one-goal defeat on Thursday. Edmonton held a 3-2 lead with 3:15 remaining in the final frame before two quick strikes by the Devils snapped a five-game winning streak.

“We would like to close it out with a little bit more authority,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said after the game. “We had chances to improve our lead. It didn’t go our way. So we’re going to have to learn from some of the mistakes we made tonight.”

Edmonton had been 5-0-0 when leading after two periods so far this season.

“These are ones you know you don’t want to let slip away,” defenseman Tyson Barrie said. “But it could be a good learning experience for us moving ahead in bigger games and further down the season. This one will stick with us. We won’t let it happen again.”

The Oilers’ powerhouse duo of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl continue to tear it up.

McDavid has 14 points (seven goals, seven assists) in a five-game point streak and is averaging 2.18 points per game. He’s recorded multiple points in each of his past four games and has been held off the scoresheet only twice this season, in consecutive games on Oct. 22 and Oct. 24.

Draisaitl, meanwhile, has put up 14 points (four goals, 10 assists) in a six-game point streak and has 22 points on the season (six goals, 16 assists). Only once through the first 11 games has he gone without a point, back on Oct. 22 in a 2-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues.

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Mikko Rantanen recorded his fourth career hat trick and added an assist in his home country, Cale Makar had a goal and an assist and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-3 in a Global Series meeting on Friday in Tampere, Finland.

Logan O’Connor and J.T. Compher also scored, Nathan MacKinnon had four assists, Devon Toews had two assists and Alexandar Georgiev had 36 saves for the Avalanche.

Patrik Laine, also a Finnish native, had a goal and an assist, Jakub Voracek and Sean Kuraly also scored and Elvis Merzlikins turned away 31 shots for the Blue Jackets.

The teams play again Saturday to complete the two-game set.

Colorado struck 1:36 into the game when O’Connor beat Merzlikins high. It was O’Connor’s second of the season.

The Avalanche went ahead 2-0 on the power play later in the first when Compher tipped Toews’ shot at 12:27, Compher’s first goal of the season.

Rantanen made it 3-0 just 35 seconds into the second period when he beat Merzlikins with a sharp-angle shot.

Columbus started its comeback a minute later when Voracek deflected a shot by Laine for his first goal of the season. It was also the first power-play goal of the season for the Blue Jackets.

Laine cut the deficit to one at 7:16 of the second when he beat Georgiev through the pads from the bottom of the left circle. It was his second goal of the season.

Columbus tied it early in the third period when Kuraly wristed a close-in shot past Georgiev at 2:32, his second goal of the season.

Rantanen put the Avalanche back in front for good when he scored a power-play goal from the right circle at 8:54. Makar then made it a two-goal game when he scored his first of the season, a wrister from the slot at 10:49.

Merzlikins went off for an extra skater with 2:59 left and Rantanen scored his third of the game and seventh of the season into the empty net at 18:56.

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It’s been a week since the Pittsburgh Penguins and Seattle Kraken have met, and things have held steady going into their rematch Saturday.

The venue will change — Seattle won at home 3-1 last Saturday, with the game this weekend in Pittsburgh — but the Kraken have continued to win, while the Penguins have continued to lose.

Seattle, in its second NHL season, has won three in a row dating to the earlier game against Pittsburgh and four of its past five.

Five of Seattle’s six wins have come against teams that made the playoffs last season, and the team has scored three-plus goals in each of its past eight games.

Most recently, the Kraken downed Minnesota 4-0 on Thursday, with goaltender Martin Jones making 22 saves for the fourth shutout in franchise history. Jones has started five of the past six games — he missed one game for personal reasons — since No. 1 goaltender Philipp Grubauer sustained a lower-body injury.

Jones stopped 32 of 33 shots in the win against the Penguins last weekend.

Center Morgan Geekie has scored in three straight games and in four of the past five for Seattle, giving the team a spark from the fourth line.

“We’re having fun,” Geekie said. “It’s way more fun when you’re winning. I think we’re playing hockey at both ends of the rink.”

That line, which also includes former Penguins winger Daniel Sprong and Ryan Donato, has provided some offensive depth for Seattle.

“We all think the game the same way,” Geekie said. “We’re offensive-minded players.”

The Kraken’s Jared McCann, a former Penguins winger, was scratched Thursday and is considered day-to-day because of a lower-body injury.

Pittsburgh, meanwhile, is in a tailspin.

The loss at Seattle came during what has become a six-game losing streak (0-5-1). In both of their games since that loss, the Penguins have blown two-goal leads in the third period and dropped games against Boston, 6-5 in overtime, and at Buffalo, 6-3.

“We haven’t found a way to finish the game off,” Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby said.

“There’s no secret in a situation like this; it just comes down to finding a way, being determined. It’s work and finding a way to get out of it. We can’t sit around and feel sorry for ourselves.”

The Penguins’ skid comes after a 4-0-1 season start during which they scored six goals in each of the wins. The turnaround has been jarring.

“It’s a tough situation, but it’s a long season,” Pittsburgh center Evgeni Malkin said. “We need to control the puck the whole game. It’s not just sit back and wait. It doesn’t matter the score.”

Penguins coach Mike Sullivan hinted that confidence has become an issue.

“We have to find a way to get some swagger back in our game,” Sullivan said. “When you go through struggles like this, we’re all human beings. Everybody cares. Everybody wants to be part of the solution.”

Pittsburgh has been playing without its Nos. 3 and 4 centers, Jeff Carter and Teddy Blueger, who both have upper-body injuries. Carter is considered day to day. Blueger has been practicing and is eligible to come off of long-term injured reserve for Saturday’s game.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs ended a four-game losing streak on Wednesday against the Philadelphia Flyers, but they will face a sterner test Saturday night against the visiting Boston Bruins.

The surging Bruins have won seven straight and lost just once in 11 games this season after defeating the New York Rangers 5-2 on Thursday and are 3-0-0 on a road trip that ends in Toronto.

“We’re playing hard for each other, we’re finding different ways to win, different guys are stepping up every night and that’s the sign of a good team,” said Nick Foligno, who had two assists for the Bruins on Thursday. “We’re really proud of the fact we care about each other in that room. We’ve found that camaraderie, that brotherhood and it’s worked for us.”

They will be difficult opponents for the Maple Leafs, who returned home from a 1-2-2 road trip to defeat the Flyers 5-2 on Wednesday.

“We’ll take the good, take the bad and move on,” said Auston Matthews, who had a goal and an assist on Wednesday. “We definitely want to continue to elevate our pace, elevate our competitiveness. We’re going to continue to need to take steps moving forward.”

JohnTavares, who had three goals and an assist on Wednesday, said he was focused on the next practice, which was Friday. .

“Instead of looking at how many games, how many opponents we have, let’s just focus on Friday and improving what was good (against the Flyers),” the Maple Leafs captain said.

The Bruins had goals from David Pastrnak, Charlie Coyle, Trent Frederic, Jake DeBrusk, and Hampus Lindholm in New York.

Lindholm had a career-best four points with three assists and the overtime winner in a 6-5 comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday.

“He’s a horse out there,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “Every time he’s out there, it’s like, ‘Oh, we’re getting the puck out.’ And good things are happening at the other end.”

Ilya Samsonov will start in goal for the Maple Leafs on Saturday. Erik Kallgren will face the host Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.

Linus Ullmark is expected to start in goal for Boston.

“He was a rock back there (Thursday),” Montgomery said of Ullmark. “Good chemistry in there right now. No sense in making too many changes.”

The Bruins will be without goaltender Jeremy Swayman (lower-body injury) and defenseman Derek Forbort (finger) for a matter of weeks, Montgomery said.

The duo was injured in the game in Pittsburgh.

The Bruins recalled third-string goalie Keith Kinkaid from Providence of the American Hockey League.

“It’s an opportunity I was working for the past two years in New York (with the Rangers), and they never really wanted to give it to me,” Kinkaid said. “It stinks that Sway had to get injured like that. I wish him the best in recovery. I’m going to do my best to fill in for him.”

The Bruins announced Thursday night that Forbort is expected to be sidelined for four to six weeks after undergoing a successful open reduction and internal fixation surgery on his right middle finger. Forbort sustained the injury in the first period on Tuesday.

Maple Leafs defenseman Timothy Liljegren (hernia) is expected to return to the lineup on Saturday.

The Maple Leafs recalled forward Wayne Simmonds from the Toronto Marlies of the AHL and sent defenseman Filip Kral to the Marlies.

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The Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers each got off to surprisingly solid starts this season, but both will be trying to end losing streaks when they meet on Saturday night at Ottawa.

The Senators have lost four in a row to cancel out a four-game winning streak that gave them a 4-2-0 start to the season.

The Flyers have lost three in a row and four of five following a 4-1-0 start.

“We’ve found a way to win some games with some really good goaltending that’s given us an opportunity,” Philadelphia coach John Tortorella said. “But we still have a ton of work to do to be considered a team that’s come together.”

Ottawa center Claude Giroux will face the Flyers for the first time in his career after spending his first 15 NHL seasons with Philadelphia.

The Flyers traded Giroux to the Florida Panthers toward the end of last season. After helping the Panthers reach the Eastern Conference semifinals, he signed a three-year deal with the Senators in the offseason.

Giroux is coming in hot, producing three goals and two assists in a four-game point streak.

Ottawa most recently lost 5-4 to the red-hot Vegas Golden Knights at home Thursday. The Senators staged a late rally after trailing 5-1 midway through the game.

“If you play the way we played in the second and third period, we’re going to win a lot of games,” Ottawa coach D.J. Smith said. “There’s no such thing as moral victories in sports, but you get that effort from the guys that we got (against Vegas) and you’ll start winning a lot of games.”

The Senators should see an improvement in their goaltending.

Cam Talbot is expected to make his first start of the season after missing the first three weeks with a broken rib. Talbot was acquired from the Minnesota Wild on July 12 but was injured during training camp.

He entered the game on Thursday after Anton Forsberg gave up five goals on 19 shots. Talbot stopped all 13 shots in his season debut and came up big in a five-on-three penalty kill.

“Not the ideal situation to get my first action of the year, but that’s what I work towards, to be ready when called upon,” Talbot said.

Talbot made his NHL debut against the Flyers as a member of the New York Rangers at the start of the 2013-14 season and was solid in the 2-1 loss.

He has remained sharp against the Flyers in his career, owning a 5-3-1 record with a 2.11 goals-against average and .932 save percentage. He’s posted three of his 27 NHL shutouts against Philadelphia, including back-to-back shutouts against the Flyers in November 2014.

The Flyers most recently went up against the Toronto Maple Leafs, who were playing their first game at home after losing the final four games of a five-game road trip.

Toronto seemed more determined down the stretch, outscoring Philadelphia 3-1 in the third period to win 5-2.

Tortorella wasn’t happy with the mixed effort levels in his lineup.

“It hasn’t come together. It’s still a ways away, and that’s part of our job as a coaching staff, to bring it together,” Tortorella said. “It’s going to take some time.”

Flyers goalie Carter Hart is 5-0-2 this season with a .943 save percentage and 2.10 goals-against average.

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