Brandon Hagel scored two goals as the surging Tampa Bay Lightning extended their winning streak to seven games with a 4-1 victory Saturday over the New York Rangers, who continued their home woes.
Hagel scored a goal for the fifth straight game and registered his third multi-goal game in that span as Tampa Bay also improved to 15-3-0 in their past 18 games following a 1-4-2 start. Hagel produced his fourth multi-goal game this season by scoring with 9:07 left in the first and with 11:03 remaining in the second.
Nick Paul scored early in the third as Tampa Bay was on its way to avenging an earlier 7-3 home loss to the Rangers. Jake Guentzel finished it off on an empty-net goal with 17.4 seconds left. Nikita Kucherov collected three assists and extended his points streak to nine games. He has four goals and 14 assists during the streak.
Darren Raddysh had three assists after scoring twice in Friday’s 6-3 win at Detroit. Tampa Bay earned its sixth win of the streak by at least two goals and is outscoring opponents 29-10 during the run of success. Lightning goalie Jonas Johansson stopped 12 shots while Igor Shesterkin made 31 saves for New York, which got its lone goal from J.T. Miller.
Avalanche 7, Canadiens 2
Brock Nelson scored twice and added two assists to eclipse the 600-point mark for his career and stake Colorado to a 4-0 lead in the rout of Montreal in Denver.
Gabriel Landeskog added two goals and an assist, Nathan MacKinnon recorded a goal and two assists, Brent Burns and Devon Toews scored and Martin Necas had three assists for the Avalanche. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 21 shots to earn the win.
Ivan Demidov scored in the second period to snap Blackwood’s shutout streak at 174 minutes, 31 seconds. Lane Hutson also scored while Jakub Dobes posted 29 saves for the Canadiens, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Maple Leafs 7, Penguins 2
Toronto salvaged its Thanksgiving weekend, following a loss Friday with a thumping of host Pittsburgh.
Seven Toronto players registered multiple points as seven different Leafs scored goals. Bobby McMann, Nicolas Roy Auston Matthews and Oliver Ekman-Larsson each tallied a goal and an assist in the win
Toronto’s Dennis Hildeby earned his first win since January, turning away 33 of 35 shots. Arturs Silovs allowed four goals on 10 shots before being replaced by Tristan Jarry, who stopped 10 of 13.
Oilers 4, Kraken 0
Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl each recorded a goal and an assist and Stuart Skinner recorded his second shutout of the season, leading visiting Edmonton to a win over Seattle.
Zach Hyman and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins contributed to the Oilers’ balanced attack, also finishing with a goal and an assist. Skinner, who allowed 16 goals in his last four starts, made 26 saves, including 12 in the first period, helping kill three Kraken power plays.
McDavid, who has 25 assists this season, scored the team’s fourth and final goal midway through the third period. He has 12 multi-point games this season. McDavid recorded at least one point in 12 of the Oilers’ 14 games in November. Joey
Daccord made 21 stops as Seattle lost its third game in a row.
Sabres 3, Wild 2 (SO)
Beck Malenstyn and Josh Doan scored in regulation and Buffalo won in a shootout in Saint Paul, Minn., ending Minnesota’s seven-game winning streak.
Tage Thompson, Jack Quinn and Noah Ostlund scored in the four-round shootout, and Colten Ellis made 22 saves in his sixth NHL start for the Sabres, who had lost two in a row.
Kirill Kaprizov scored for the fifth straight game and Matt Boldy also scored — and both also scored in the shootout — and Filip Gustavsson made 30 saves for the Wild, who were 11-1-1 in their previous 13 games.
Kings 2, Canucks 1 (OT)
Adrian Kempe scored his third overtime goal of the season at 3:58 to lift Los Angeles over visiting Vancouver, giving the Kings a point in nine of their last 10 games.
Quinton Byfield partially whiffed on a shot attempt and the puck went to Kempe at the side of the net. He skated to the inside edge of the right circle and scored with a wrist shot. The referees returned to the ice to review whether Byfield interfered with Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen, but the goal stood.
Anze Kopitar scored in regulation and Anton Forsberg made 19 saves for the Kings, who were coming off a 5-4 shootout loss at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. Evander Kane scored for the Canucks, who have lost five of six (1-4-1).
Bruins 3, Red Wings 2 (SO)
Jeremy Swayman topped off a 24-save effort with three straight stops in a shootout, leading host Boston past Detroit on the front end of the Atlantic Division rivals’ home-and-home series.
Casey Mittelstadt scored a backhander for the lone shootout goal after Morgan Geekie tallied twice in regulation, and Elias Lindholm had two assists for the Bruins. Geekie is tied for the NHL lead with 20 goals this season, including eight in a recent six-game span. Swayman stopped the Red Wings’ Lucas Raymond, Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat in the shootout.
Detroit’s Michael Rasmussen scored with 1:54 left to force overtime, while Raymond also lit the lamp for the Red Wings. Dylan Larkin assisted on both goals. Goalie Cam Talbot made 17 saves.
Flyers 5, Devils 3
Owen Tippett had two goals and an assist and Philadelphia held on to beat New Jersey in Newark, N.J.
Travis Konecny and Trevor Zegras contributed a goal and an assist each and Matvei Michkov also scored for the Flyers, who have won five of their last six games. Defenseman Travis Sanheim had two assists and Dan Vladar made 29 saves.
Dawson Mercer had a goal and an assist and Timo Meier and defenseman Simon Nemec scored for the Devils, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Jesper Bratt had two assists and Jacob Markstrom stopped 27 shots.
Blues 1, Mammoth 0
Joel Hofer made 18 saves for his fourth career shutout as St. Louis blanked visiting Utah in a defensive battle.
Dylan Holloway scored for the Blues, who won consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 11-13. Holloway scored the game’s lone goal with 1:50 left in the second period. Philip Broberg raced up the left wing and dropped a pass to Holloway, who snapped a shot past Vejmelka’s far side.
Karel Vejmelka made 18 saves for the Mammoth, who lost key forward Logan Cooley to a lower-body injury in the third period. Cooley needed help leaving the ice after his knee-on-knee collision with Blues winger Alexey Toropchenko.
Jets 5, Predators 2
Nino Niederreiter scored a pair of goals and Winnipeg jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period and never looked back, defeating host Nashville to end a four-game losing streak.
Gabriel Vilardi, Cole Perfetti and Kyle Connor were the other goal scorers for the Jets, while Dylan Samberg had three assists and fellow defenseman Luke Schenn two more. Eric Comrie made 20 stops to get the win.
Nick Blankenburg and Luke Evangelista scored goals, with Erik Haula assisting on each, as the Predators tried to claw back from a 3-0 hole more than halfway through the game. Justus Annunen turned aside 20 pucks in the loss.
Golden Knights 4, Sharks 3
Tomas Hertl scored two goals and rookie Carl Lindbom made 18 saves to pick up his first NHL win as Vegas snapped a four-game losing streak with a victory over San Jose in Las Vegas.
It was the 36th career multi-goal game of Hertl’s career and the first this season. Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist, and Colton Sissons also scored for Vegas, which scored its ninth consecutive win over San Jose while improving to 29-2-5 all-time against the Sharks.
Will Smith scored two goals and William Eklund also scored for San Jose. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 20 of 24 shots.
