The Los Angeles Kings scored the final five goals to break a 2-2 tie and cruised to a 7-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Sunday night.
Seven different players scored for Los Angeles. Drew Doughty’s goal at 8:46 of the second period began the burst. Quinton Byfield and Tanner Jeannot each logged a goal and an assist, while Anze Kopitar, Warren Foegele, Andrei Kuzmenko, and Samuel Helenius also scored for Los Angeles, which is tied with Edmonton for second in the Pacific Division with a third straight win and eighth in the last nine.
Brandt Clarke, Adrian Kempe and Joel Edmundson each dished out two assists, and Darcy Kuemper made 11 saves as the Kings improved to 11-0-3 in their last 14 at home.
Elias Lindholm and Morgan Geekie scored goals while Jeremy Swayman allowed seven goals on 23 shots for Boston, which is on a six-game winless streak (0-5-1).
Sabres 5, Jets 3
Ryan McLeod had a goal and three assists and James Reimer made 33 saves for visiting Buffalo in a win against Winnipeg.
It was McLeod’s first career four-point game. JJ Peterka, Rasmus Dahlin and Tyson Kozak also scored and Jacob Bernard-Docker added two assists for the Sabres, who had lost two straight.
Nino Niederreiter, Colin Miller and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets, who had won four of their past five games. Eric Comrie made 12 saves.
Blackhawks 7, Flyers 4
Ryan Donato scored twice and Tyler Bertuzzi notched a goal and two assists as Chicago snapped a seven-game losing streak with a home victory over Philadelphia.
Connor Bedard, Joe Veleno and Pat Maroon each registered a goal and an assist for Chicago, which had been 0-6-1 in its previous seven games. The Blackhawks had scored only 10 goals during their seven-game slide before torching Flyers goalie Ivan Fedotov for seven goals on 29 shots.
Travis Konecny and Jamie Drysdale each contributed a goal and an assist for Philadelphia, which has lost five games in a row. Travis Sanheim and Bobby Brink also scored against Chicago netminder Spencer Knight, who finished with 24 saves.
Golden Knights 4, Lightning 2
Ilya Samsonov turned away 35 of 37 shots to lead Vegas to its third straight victory, beating the Lightning in Las Vegas.
Jack Eichel, Tomas Hertl, Nicolas Roy and Nicolas Hague scored goals and Alex Pietrangelo had two assists for Vegas, which extended its Pacific Division lead to five points with the victory.
Nick Paul and Nikita Kucherov scored goals and Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 26 saves for Tampa Bay, which fell four points behind first-place Florida in the Atlantic Division.
Blues 4, Predators 1
Justin Faulk picked up a goal and an assist and Robert Thomas earned three assists to lead host St. Louis past Nashville for its sixth straight victory.
Jordan Kyrou, Alexandre Texier and Brayden Schenn added goals for the Blues. Jake Neighbours had two assists and Jordan Binnington made 31 saves. St. Louis has gone 13-2-2 in its last 17 games to climb into the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference playoff race.
Filip Forsberg scored for the Predators, who are 1-4-1 in their last six games. Justus Annunen made 14 saves.
Panthers 4, Penguins 3 (SO)
Aleksander Barkov scored the only goal of the shootout to give Florida a come-from-behind win over Pittsburgh in Sunrise, Fla.
Sam Reinhart scored twice and Anton Lundell got the other marker for the Panthers, who won for only the third time in seven games. Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves.
Bryan Rust had two goals and an assist and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins, who lost for the second time in seven games. Sidney Crosby had two assists to stretch his point streak to seven games (six goals, six assists). Tristan Jarry stopped 27 shots.
Hurricanes 5, Ducks 2
Taylor Hall scored a third-period hat trick and visiting Carolina beat Anaheim.
Mark Jankowski and Jordan Martinook also scored for the Hurricanes, who bounced back after having their eight-game winning streak snapped in Los Angeles on Saturday. Former Ducks player Frederik Andersen made 35 saves, including 19 in the third period, as Carolina extended its lead over third-place New Jersey in the Metropolitan Division to 10 points.
Alex Killorn and Trevor Zegras scored for the Ducks, who have lost three of four, as they try to remain in the Western Conference wild-card race. Lukas Dostal made 32 saves.
–Field Level Media
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