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NHL ROUNDUP

From Staff and Wire Reports

St. Louis 5, San Jose 2--Brett Hull had two goals and two assists as Mike Keenan won his coaching debut at San Jose.

Adam Creighton added a goal and three assists for the Blues.

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Pittsburgh 5, Tampa Bay 3--The Penguins gave goalie Ken Wregget an early lead with three goals--one apiece by Larry Murphy, Kevin Stevens and Tomas Sandstrom--and he made it stand up at St. Petersburg, Fla.

Jaromir Jagr and Luc Robitaille added goals for Pittsburgh.

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Detroit 4, Chicago 1--Steve Yzerman scored and declared himself fully recovered from neck surgery in leading the Red Wings to their first opening-game victory in 13 years at Detroit.

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Vyacheslav Kozlov, Paul Coffey and Dino Ciccarelli also scored.

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Winnipeg 3, Calgary 3--Keith Tkachuk scored the tying goal with 1:35 left in the third period and the Jets and Flames deadlocked in a fight-filled game at Winnipeg.

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Dallas 1, Vancouver 1--Mike Peca’s goal with 3:45 left in the third period lifted the Canucks to a tie with the Stars at Vancouver.

Mike Kennedy scored for Dallas.

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