STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Tyler Kennedy spoiled Daniel Alfredsson's homecoming.
Kennedy scored his second goal with 25 seconds left in overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the Ottawa Senators, 4-3 in the first NHL regular-season opener in Sweden on Saturday night.
Alfredsson, Ottawa's captain who holds the Senators' career mark in games played (854), goals (331), assists (516) and points (847), was held pointless as he returned to his native Sweden for the first time with his NHL team.
Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza, Alfredsson's linemates, each scored a goal for Ottawa.
Working out hard during the offseason paid off for Kennedy.
"I think I worked hard in the summer and drew confidence out of that," Kennedy said. "So I came into the season with confidence."
Kennedy, who also scored 40 seconds into the first period in front of 13,699 at Stockholm's soldout Globe Arena, beat Ottawa goalie Martin Gerber with a wrister from the left circle.
The goal came after Spezza turned over the puck to Kennedy at the blue line. Kennedy skated in all alone and scored.
"I'm glad to get it off my back for one, and for the second I'm just excited to help the team win and get the season on a roll here," Kennedy said.
"He (Spezza) just kicked the puck up and I just tried to get the puck towards the net and shoot as hard as I can. I try to get as many pucks on the goal as I can, and tonight they went in."
Marc-Andre Fleury made 32 saves for the Penguins. Gerber stopped 26 shots for the Senators.
The teams will meet again on Sunday.
Defenseman Rob Scuderi forced overtime when he beat Gerber with a wrister from the left circle at 3:56 in the third period.
Sidney Crosby, who finished the 2006-07 season as the first teenager in NHL history to win the scoring title, had the assist.
Rangers 2, Lightning 1
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) Markus Naslund and Brandon Dubinsky scored to lift New York.
Naslund scored with 1:52 remaining in the second period on a wrist shot after being fed by Scott Gomez.
Martin St. Louis tied the game 3:57 into the final period after skating past Rangers defenseman Dmitri Kalinin and firing a backhand past goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.
Dubinsky had the winner on a power play with 5:44 left in the game.
Lundqvist made 20 saves and Tampa Bay goalie Mike Smith had 39.
Red Wings 4,
Maple Leafs 3.
TORONTO (AP) Dan Cleary scored his second goal of the game early in the third period to help the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 in exhibition play Saturday night.
Jan Mursak and Nicklas Kronwall also scored for Detroit (5-1-2), a 5-3 winner over the Maple Leafs (2-5-1) on Friday night in Detroit.
Jason Blake had two goals and Mikhail Grabovski also scored for Toronto.
Blake and Grabovski scored early in the third to tie it at 3, but Cleary put the Red Wings back in front at 3:31.
Chris Osgood made 23 saves for Detroit. Curtis Joseph stopped 18 shots for Toronto.
Devils 4, Flyers 3.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Brian Rolston and David Clarkson scored power-play goals in the second period for the New Jersey Devils, who finished their preseason schedule with a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
New Jersey's Bobby Holik and Simon Gagne of the Flyers traded man-advantage goals in the opening period, and Rolston snapped the tie 10:06 into the middle frame with his first tally since rejoining the Devils as a free agent during the summer.
Flyers captain Mike Richards made it 3-2 at 9:06 of the third with a blistering slap shot from above the right circle after Danny Briere got the puck to him off a clean faceoff win 4 seconds into a power play.
John Madden sealed it with a short-handed goal with 6:12 left, scoring into an empty net after goalie Martin Biron was caught way out of position. The game's final two special-teams goals were scored while Holik sat in the box after a pair of penalties.
Briere got the Flyers within a goal again with 3:33 left.
Clarkson, who fought Richards in the first period, made it 3-1 with 3.9 seconds left in the second. Jamie Langenbrunner started the play with a hard drive from inside the blue line that Biron blocked. Clarkson spun at the rebound and swept a shot wide right, and Zach Parise nearly put that rebound in at the left post with a backhander.
Given a second chance at another rebound, Clarkson banged in the rebound to score his first goal in five preseason games for the Devils (4-2-1).
Both teams iced lineups representative of what can be expected once the regular season begins next week for these teams. New Jersey made few changes from its roster Friday night in an overtime loss to the New York Islanders, but No. 1 goalie Martin Brodeur was back in the nets and made 18 saves.
Biron stopped 25 shots for the Flyers, who lost 5-1 at Washington on Friday.
The Flyers (4-4) will play one more exhibition game, Tuesday night at the Spectrum their longtime former home scheduled for demolition next year against their AHL team, the Phantoms. Philadelphia will get going for real next Saturday when they host the New York Rangers.
New Jersey opens the night before at home against the Islanders.
Oddly, the Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins Atlantic Division rivals of both teams already played regular-season games earlier Saturday in Europe and won. So with a week to go before the North American schedule begins, both teams are already two points behind in the division race.
The Rangers will again face the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Czech Republic on Sunday, and the Penguins will finish its two-game set versus the Ottawa Senators in Sweden.
Gagne, a top-line forward limited to 25 games last season due to concussion-related problems, scored his first goal in four preseason games with 3:39 left in the first period.
Holik had given the Devils a 1-0 lead 4:21 earlier when he scored with a second whack at a rebound of Rolston's hard drive during a 5-on-3 power play after screening Biron in the crease.
It was also Holik's first goal in his second stint with the Devils following a five-season absence.
Only 9,558 were in attendance, but that was an improvement over the 8,319 who watched the loss to the Islanders at Prudential Center on Friday.
