Tomas Hertl scored the game-winning goal on the power play with 1:10 left as the visiting Vegas Golden Knights came back from two two-goal deficits to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Saturday afternoon.
Hertl fired a wrist shot from the left circle past Boston’s Jeremy Swayman to win the game. Earlier in the same power play, Pavel Dorofeyev had a goal taken away due to interference on Swayman.
Mark Stone, Zach Whitecloud, and Dorofeyev also scored, and Shea Theodore had two assists for Vegas, who went 2-for-4 on the power play in their second straight win heading into the 4 Nations Face-Off break.
Boston captain Brad Marchand reached 20 goals for the 14th time in his career, while Nikita Zadorov and Morgan Geekie also scored for Boston.
Rangers 4, Blue Jackets 3
Will Cuylle scored two goals in the third period to help the visiting New York Rangers beat Columbus.
Cuylle intercepted a clearing pass from Columbus defenseman Ivan Provorov and scored the game-winning goal with 1:39 remaining. Mika Zibanejad scored a goal and added an assist, Arthur Kaliyev scored a goal, and Vincent Trocheck had two assists in the win.
Jonathan Quick stopped 22 shots for the Rangers, while Elvis Merzlikins made 36 saves, but it wasn’t enough for Columbus. Kent Johnson, Justin Danforth, and James van Riemsdyk scored for Columbus.
Predators 6, Sabres 4
Filip Forsberg and Brady Skjei each scored twice as Nashville won against visiting Buffalo.
Ryan O’Reilly had four assists, Jonathan Marchessault had a goal and three assists, and Justus Annunen made 25 saves for the Predators, who ended a six-game losing streak.
Alex Tuch scored a goal and added two assists, and Rasmus Dahlin and Bowen Byram each scored a goal and had an assist for Buffalo, who saw their four-game winning streak end. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 17 saves.
Blues 6, Blackhawks 5 (SO)
Radek Faksa scored in the 10th round of the shootout to give St. Louis a victory over visiting Chicago.
The Blues outshot the Blackhawks 40-20 through overtime, but had to win in a long shootout to get just their second victory in eight games (2-5-1). Jordan Binnington made 15 saves during the game and eight more in the shootout for the win.
Ilya Mikheyev had a goal and two assists for the Blackhawks while Arvid Soderblom, who lost the game, made 35 saves during regulation and overtime and eight more in the shootout.
Kraken 3, Flames 2 (OT)
Matty Beniers scored a power-play goal at 2:58 of overtime to give Seattle a win against Calgary.
Shane Wright and Andre Burakovsky scored in the final 6:48 of regulation as Seattle won for the seventh time this season after coming back from multiple goals down. Beniers’ goal, on a wrist shot from the top of the left faceoff circle, came when Calgary’s Morgan Frost was in the penalty box for holding. Goaltender Joey Daccord made 27 saves for the Kraken, ending a three-game winless streak (0-2-1).
Seattle Kraken (NHL)Frost and Nazem Kadri scored for Calgary, who lost their fourth straight at home. Dustin Wolf stopped 25 of 28 shots.
Stars 8, Sharks 3
Matt Duchene scored two goals and added an assist as Dallas crushed host San Jose.
Thomas Harley, Jamie Benn, and Wyatt Johnston each scored and added an assist for Dallas, who won for the sixth time in eight games. Jason Robertson, Mason Marchment, and Mavrik Bourque also scored for Dallas, who ended a two-game losing streak. Mikael Granlund, who was traded to the Stars from the Sharks on Feb. 1, had two assists in his return to the Bay Area. Lian Bichsel had two assists, and Casey DeSmith made 24 saves.
William Eklund, Fabian Zetterlund, and Walker Duehr scored for the Sharks, who have lost 10 of their last 11 games. Vitek Vanecek made 26 saves.
Panthers 5, Senators 1
Matthew Tkachuk scored a goal and had two assists during Florida’s four-goal second period to help the Panthers win against Ottawa in Sunrise, Fla.
Aleksander Barkov, Gustav Forsling, and Sam Bennett also scored during a big second period for Florida, who have won eight of 11 — including five straight at home. Tkachuk extended his goal streak to six games and has 13 points during that stretch.
Matthew’s brother, Brady, scored for Ottawa, who went 0-3-0 at Tampa Bay and Florida after winning five straight. Linus Ullmark made 43 saves for the Senators, who allowed a season-high 48 shots on goal.
Flyers 3, Penguins 2
Travis Konecny scored a goal and added an assist to help Philadelphia beat visiting Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing streak with 31 saves from Samuel Ersson and goals from three players. Scott Laughton and Garnet Hathaway also scored for the Flyers, while Andrei Kuzmenko had an assist in his team debut.
Kevin Hayes and Erik Karlsson scored for Pittsburgh, who played their second straight game without Sidney Crosby (upper-body injury). Joel Blomqvist made 17 saves for Pittsburgh, who had won three of their previous four games.
Lightning 6, Red Wings 3
Brandon Hagel scored two goals and had two assists to help Tampa Bay end Detroit’s seven-game winning streak.
Dylan Duke, who played for the University of Michigan last season, scored in his NHL debut for the Lightning. He was called up from Syracuse of the American Hockey League on Friday.
Erik Cernak had a goal and two assists, and Brayden Point scored his 30th goal of the season for Tampa Bay, who are 4-0-1 in their last five games. Nikita Kucherov had three assists to bring his career points total to 955, passing Martin St. Louis for the second-most in Lightning franchise history, behind Steven Stamkos, who has 1,137 points.
Devils 4, Canadiens 0
Jake Allen made 34 saves, including one on a penalty shot, to help visiting New Jersey beat Montreal.
Jack Hughes and Jesper Bratt each had a goal and an assist for New Jersey, who won at Montreal for the 10th straight time. Montreal had a chance to break the shutout with 15.7 seconds left in the third period when the Canadiens were awarded a penalty shot after Hughes pulled Owen Beck from behind, but Allen stopped Beck’s wrist shot.
New Jersey Devils (NHL)Sam Montembeault made 18 saves for Montreal, who lost for the seventh time in eight games (1-6-1).
Hurricanes 7, Utah Hockey Club 3
Seth Jarvis scored two goals and added two assists as Carolina avoided a season-worst four-game losing streak by defeating Utah in Raleigh, N.C.
Sebastian Aho scored two goals and had an assist, Jalen Chatfield scored a goal and added an assist, Jordan Martinook and Jack Roslovic scored late, and Andrei Svechnikov and Jackson Blake had two assists each for the Hurricanes. Pyotr Kochetkov made 36 saves to earn his 20th victory of the season.
Carolina scored at even strength, on a power play, and short-handed in a four-goal second period, which started with the teams tied at 1 and gave the Hurricanes a big lead.
Clayton Keller scored two goals and Josh Doan had one for Utah, who never led. Karel Vejmelka made 31 saves.
Canucks 2, Maple Leafs 1
Brock Boeser scored the go-ahead goal at 8:56 of the third period to lift host Vancouver over Toronto.
With his team on the power play, Filip Chytil was unmarked as he skated in from the blue line and passed to Boeser in the slot for an easy goal. Filip Hronek had a goal and an assist, and Kevin Lankinen made 21 saves for Vancouver, who have won three in a row.
Defenseman Morgan Rielly scored late in the second period, and Joseph Woll made 23 saves for the Maple Leafs, who saw their three-game winning streak end in the last game of their four-game road trip.
Wild 6, Islanders 3
Matthew Boldy scored two goals and added an assist to help Minnesota defeat New York in St. Paul, Minn.
Marco Rossi, Frederick Gaudreau, Yakov Trenin, and Marcus Foligno also scored for the Wild, who have won seven straight against the Islanders. Jared Spurgeon had two assists and Filip Gustavsson made 31 saves. Minnesota scored three times in the last 6:39 of the second period to take a 4-3 lead and added two more in the third.
Kyle Palmieri and Brock Nelson each had a goal and an assist, and Anders Lee also scored for New York, who played their second game in as many nights. Maxim Tsyplakov had two assists, and Ilya Sorokin made 27 saves.
Ducks 2, Kings 1 (SO)
Lukas Dostal made 43 saves through regulation and overtime, and stopped every shot in the shootout to help visiting Anaheim beat Los Angeles.
Brian Dumoulin scored in regulation, and Trevor Zegras and Leo Carlsson scored in the shootout for the Ducks, who have won six of seven.
Los Angeles’ Adrian Kempe scored the equalizer late, and David Rittich made 25 saves, starting for the second straight night because Darcy Kuemper was unavailable for personal reasons. The Kings had won three in a row after a season-long four-game losing streak.
