Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored with 4:09 remaining in the game and Semyon Varlamov recorded his second shutout of the season to lift the New York Islanders to a 1-0 victory over the Boston Bruins on Monday at Uniondale, N.Y.
Varlamov made 27 saves in his return after being injured in warmups prior to Saturday’s 5-0 setback against the New York Rangers. 
He stopped all 24 shots he faced in a 4-0 win over the Rangers in the season opener on Thursday.
Locked in a defensive struggle, New York made the most of a fortunate carom to deliver the game’s lone goal late in the third period.
Defenseman Adam Pelech’s blast from the point caromed off the blade of the stick of Boston captain Patrice Bergeron, and Pageau alertly batted the puck out of the air and over the right shoulder of Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask. 
The goal was Pageau’s first of the season.
Defenseman Ryan Pulock was also credited with an assist for the Islanders, who snapped a 10-game winless skid at home against the Bruins. New York last registered a home victory over Boston on Nov. 2, 2013.
Rask finished with 16 saves for the Bruins, who are now 9-1-1 in their last 11 encounters with the Islanders. 
Both teams failed to convert their first three power-play opportunities through two periods before New York nearly converted on its fourth early in the third. Mathew Barzal’s bid to open the scoring from in close hit the crossbar, however.
New York kept the pressure on, although Rask denied Anthony Beauvillier on a breakaway midway into the third period.
Boston outshot New York by an 11-3 margin during a fruitless first period and nearly opened the scoring in the second, save for three strong stops from Varlamov. 
The Russian goaltender denied David Krejci and Bergeron from in close and absorbed Nick Ritchie’s one-timer from the right faceoff circle.
Boston defenseman Matt Grzelcyk exited the game early in the third period after he appeared to land awkwardly on his left arm following an exchange with Jordan Eberle. Grzelcyk was playing in his 200th career game.
Blues outlast Sharks behind Jordan Kyrou’s late goal
Jordan Kyrou scored his second game-winning goal of the season, the tiebreaking tally in 
the third period, as the St. Louis Blues outgunned the visiting San Jose Sharks 5-4 Monday night.
Kyrou added an assist in the see-saw game. Justin Faulk scored twice, Brayden Schenn and Mike Hoffman scored once and Colton Parayko earned two assists for the Blues.
Jordan Binnington made 22 saves to earn the victory.
Logan Couture scored twice and added an assist for the Sharks. Brent Burns (goal, two assists), Kevin Labanc (goal, assist) and Tomas Hertl (two assists) also had multi-point games.
Devan Dubnyk stopped 28 of 33 shots in his first start for San Jose. The Sharks struck first when Labanc deflected Burns’ slap shot from the right point past Binnington.
Couture, who didn’t score a power-play goal in 52 games last season, scored one to put the Sharks up 2-0 with 5:42 left in the first period. Hertl slid a deft cross-ice pass to Couture for a one-time shot from the right circle.
Faulk cut the Sharks’ lead to 2-1 at 2:36 of the second period. He jumped from the penalty box, took an outlet pass from Ivan Barbashev and buried a wrist shot.
The Blues tied the game 2-2 just 93 seconds later. Parayko shot from the right point and Hoffman deflected it in for his first goal as a Blue.
The Sharks moved up 3-2 on another power-play goal. Evander Kane fed Burns as he broke unattended to the net, and Burns beat Binnington one-on-one.
That was the eighth power-play goal the Blues allowed in their first eight periods of the season.
However, the Blues tied the game again when Kyrou raced up the right wing for a clean break-in. Dubnyk stopped him, but Schenn converted the rebound at 14:17 of the middle period.
Faulk struck again with one minute left in the second. He broke to the net to redirect David Perron’s pass to put the Blues up 4-3.
Couture scored again to tie the game 4:17 into the third period, banking a shot off Binnington from along the goal line on the left side.
However, Kyrou took a drop pass from Parayko to score the decisive goal from the top of the right circle midway through the period.