Rookie defenseman Zach Werenski had a goal and an assist, and teammates Nick Foligno and William Karlsson picked up their first goals of the season as the Blue Jackets beat the Blackhawks, 3-2, on Friday night in Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus’s Sergei Bobrovsky blocked 32 shots and survived a desperate Chicago power-play rally near the end of the game as the Blue Jackets picked up their first win of the season, avoiding a repeat of last season’s disastrous 0-8 start.

Columbus never trailed in Friday’s game.

Tyler Motte and Richard Panik scored for Chicago, and Corey Crawford had 25 saves.

The Blue Jackets (1-2-0) took the lead when the 19-year-old Werenski netted a wrist shot from the point during a power play at 9:10 in the first period. It was his team-leading second goal of the season, with Alexander Wennberg and Foligno credited with assists.

The Blackhawks tied it up 2:29 into the second period when a shot by Jonathan Toews ricocheted off Bobrovsky’s pad and was put back by Motte, his first goal of the season.

Columbus took advantage of the power play again at 4:36 of the second when Foligno tapped it in from in front of the net, with assists from Werenski and Cam Atkinson.

Islanders 3, Coyotes 2 — Johnny Boychuk’s shorthanded goal — the first of his career — early in the third period lifted host New York.

Dennis Seidenberg and Ryan Strome also scored for New York, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 23 shots for his first win of the season and the Islanders’ second in three home games after opening with two road losses.

Brad Richardson and Radim Vrbata scored 13 seconds apart in the first period to tie the score for the Coyotes. Louis Domingue had 28 saves as Phoenix lost its third straight on the road after two home wins.

The game marked the first NHL meeting between the Strome brothers.

Dylan Strome, 19, was the third overall pick by the Coyotes in the 2015 draft and made his debut earlier this week. Ryan Strome, 23, was the fifth overall pick in the Islanders in the 2011 draft.

Red Wings 5, Predators 3 — Gustav Nyquist had a goal and an assist to help host Detroit win its third straight.

Justin Abdelkader, Drew Miller, Tomas Tatar, and Darren Helm also scored for Detroit, while Petr Mrazek stopped 30 shots.

P.K. Subban, Mike Ribeiro and Mike Fisher scored for Nashville, which has lost three straight.

Pekka Rinne finished with 38 saves.

Fisher’s power-play goal with 4:46 pulled the Predators to 4-3 as he tipped in Roman Josi’s shot from the point. It was Fisher’s third goal, all on the power play.

However, Helm had an empty-net power-play score with 22 seconds left for his fourth goal of the season to seal the win.

Tatar gave the Red Wings a 3-2 lead 1:10 into the third period with a wrist shot from high in the right circle for his first of the season.

Nyquist made it 4-2, with 8:33 left, with his first goal. He scored on a breakaway after a turnover by Nashville’s Filip Forsberg in the Predators’ zone.

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After three straight comeback victories, the surprising Vancouver Canucks showed they can also protect a lead.

Jacob Markstrom made 26 saves and Daniel Sedin scored the winner in the third period Thursday night as host Vancouver downed the Buffalo Sabres, 2-1, a victory that left the Canucks as the NHL’s only undefeated team on the young season.

‘‘Just coming back in games, that was huge early,’’ Sedin said. ‘‘Those first two, three games where we came back from behind, that’s when you realize you can play your system. Keep playing your system, even when you’re down 3-0, it’s going to pay off.

‘‘That’s calmed everyone down and made everyone really believe we can do it.’’

Not expected to do much this season after missing the playoffs two of the last three years, the Canucks (4-0-0) scored a shootout win followed by consecutive overtime victories despite trailing through two periods in each game to become the first team in league history to win its first three outings while never holding a regulation lead in any of those games.

Thursday’s formula was a little different, but the result turned out the same.

‘‘We don’t want to be coming from behind in the third period in every single game,’’ said Jannik Hansen, who scored the 100th goal of his career to open the scoring. ‘‘It’s not something you can do over a long stretch.’’

Brandon Sutter added two assists as Vancouver won for the fourth time in six nights, tying a franchise mark set in 1992-93 for victories to start a season.

‘‘We talked before the game, you can’t get down by a goal or two and wake up,’’ Sutter said. ‘‘We wanted to come out and get that first one and we did. We probably didn’t play as good as we wanted to in the second half, but we will take the points.’’

Nicholas Baptiste scored his first NHL goal in his second game for the Sabres (1-2-1), who got 18 saves from Robin Lehner.

‘‘It’s obviously exciting for me, but we didn’t get the win and that’s unfortunate,’’ Baptiste said. ‘‘I'm happy to get that first one.’’

The Canucks led, 1-0, through two periods and stretched that lead to two at 9:10 of the third when their power play — 0 for 12 up to that point this season — finally connected. Lehner robbed Sutter at the side of the net, but Loui Eriksson fed a nice pass to Sedin, who buried his second.

‘‘It was good to get one,’’ Sedin said. ‘‘I think everyone’s going to relax a little bit and start moving the puck better.’’

The Sabres’ penalty kill had gone a perfect 11 for 11 before Vancouver struck.

‘‘It may be my fault,’’ Buffalo coach Dan Bylsma said. ‘‘I happened to see the number before going out for the third period. They were at zero and we were at 100 percent and they get the power-play goal. I regret that a little bit.’’

But the Sabres kept coming, and after Ryan O'Reilly had a great chance that Alexander Edler swept off the goal line, Baptiste scored a strange one. The rookie forward threw the puck in front and it struck Vancouver’s Jack Skille as he battled with Nicolas Deslauriers. The puck caromed toward Markstrom’s net, off Edler’s stick and in at 11:23.

The Sabres had a couple of looks from there, but a late penalty for too many men on the ice took the wind out of their sails before the Canucks held on with Lehner on the bench for an extra attacker.

Markstrom, 3-0-0 this season, made his second straight start in place of Ryan Miller, who served as the backup after sitting out last game with general tightness.

‘‘I love every second out there,’’ Markstrom said. ‘‘When stuff like this happens you have to be ready to come in and play.’’

Vancouver was just 3-30-1 when trailing after 40 minutes last season, and each victory in 2016-17 before Thursday came after the club trailed through two periods. The Canucks didn’t require a comeback Thursday after Hansen scored at 11:10 of the second, the Canucks’ first lead in 218:22 this season.

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Victor Rask scored his third goal of the season, Jeff Skinner had a goal and an assist, and Noah Hanifin had a career-high three assists to lead the Hurricanes to their first victory of the season, 4-2, in Calgary on Thursday night.

Carolina had started 0-1-2 on a season-opening six-game road trip. In this one, the Hurricanes were up 3-0 before letting the Flames pull within one.

‘‘It’s just part of the process of learning how to win and close out games,’’ Skinner said. ‘‘They get one late in the second. You don’t want to give those up, right when the period ends. They get one there to make it 3-2. We just had to keep our composure and stay tough mentally.’’

Calgary’s comeback attempt hit the wall when penalties to Alex Chiasson and Troy Brouwer in the final three minutes put the Flames down two men and the Hurricanes took advantage on Skinner’s second goal of the season.