Igor Shesterkin made 27 saves and three more in the shootout as the host New York Rangers earned a crucial 1-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night.
Vincent Trocheck scored in the second round of the shootout for the lone goal of the skills competition as the Rangers improved to 5-0-2 in their past seven games after dropping 15 of 19 (4-15-0).
Shesterkin stopped Kent Johnson in the first round and Adam Fantilli in the second after Trocheck deked Daniil Tarasov and lifted it over the goalie’s stick. After making stick saves on Johnson and Fantilli, Shesterkin finished off his 17th career regular-season shutout with a diving pad save on Kirill Marchenko. It was Shesterkin’s second shutout this season and first since a 6-0 win at Pittsburgh in the season opener.
Tarasov made 26 saves for the Blue Jackets, whose six-game winning streak was halted. Columbus also is 10-2-2 in its past 14 games and took its first loss in five shootouts this season.
Capitals 4, Penguins 1
Aliaksei Protas and Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and an assist each and Logan Thompson made 18 saves in Washington’s win over visiting Pittsburgh.
Defenseman Jakob Chychrun also scored for the Capitals, who won their fourth straight. Brandon Duhaime added an empty-net goal.
Bryan Rust got the Penguins’ goal and Joel Blomqvist stopped 28 shots for the Penguins, who have lost four of their last five. Blomqvist was recalled from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre of the American Hockey League on Thursday.
Flames 3, Jets 1
Dustin Wolf made 38 saves as Calgary ended host Winnipeg’s five-game point streak with a win.
Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists for Calgary, and Matt Coronato and Andrei Kuzmenko also scored.
Adam Lowry was the only Jets player to find the back of the net, and Eric Comrie stopped 19 shots.
Islanders 4, Sharks 1
Brock Nelson scored the go-ahead goal about midway through the second period as New York beat San Jose in Elmont, N.Y.
Mathew Barzal scored earlier in the second while Noah Dobson and Ryan Pulock added goals for the Islanders, who snapped a two-game losing streak but remained in last place in the Metropolitan Division and seven points out of the second wild-card spot. Goalie Marcus Hogberg made 18 saves.
Barclay Goodrow scored to briefly tie the game in the second for the Sharks, who have fallen into last place in the Pacific Division by losing 16 of 20 (4-15-1). Goalie Alexandar Georgiev recorded 27 saves.
Flyers 3, Devils 1
Bobby Brink scored the go-ahead goal with 7:16 left in the third period to help visiting Philadelphia to a win against New Jersey in Newark, N.J.
Matvei Michkov and Travis Konecny each scored a goal and Samuel Ersson made 12 saves for the Flyers, who are 4-0-1 in their past five games.
Defenseman Dougie Hamilton scored a goal and Jake Allen turned aside 15 shots for the Devils, who have lost eight of their past 10 games (2-5-3).
Kraken 4, Kings 2
Jaden Schwartz netted a hat trick and goaltender Joey Daccord staved off a furious third-period push as Seattle started a long home stretch with a victory against visiting Los Angeles.
Chandler Stephenson also tallied and Kaapo Kakko had three assists for the Kraken, who began a run of nine of 10 games on home ice. Daccord made 28 saves, stopping everything he faced in the final period, where Los Angeles had a 17-1 edge in shots.
Adrian Kempe and Jordan Spence scored for the Kings, who went 2-3-0 on a five-game trip. Darcy Kuemper stopped 18 of 21 shots.
Avalanche 6, Stars 3
Cale Makar shook off a puck to the skate to score twice, Artturi Lehkonen had two goals and two assists to tie a career high for points, and Colorado beat Dallas in Denver.
Jonathan Drouin and Casey Mittelstadt each had a goal and two assists, Josh Manson had two assists and Scott Wedgewood turned away 26 shots for Colorado. Makar and Drouin each scored their 100th career goals in the victory.
Jason Robertson had two goals and an assist, Matt Duchene had a goal and an assist, Wyatt Johnson had three assists and Casey DeSmith had 30 saves for Dallas.
Panthers 3, Ducks 0
Backup goalie Spencer Knight made 34 saves to lead host Florida to a shutout win over Anaheim in Sunrise, Fla.
It was Knight’s second shutout this season and fifth of his career. Florida got goals from Jesper Boqvist, Anton Lundell and Gustav Forsling (empty-netter), and the Panthers withstood the first-period ejection of Sam Reinhart, who started the day tied for second in the NHL with 27 goals.
Knight (9-6-1) won his third straight start as he outdueled Anaheim’s John Gibson (42 saves).
Maple Leafs 7, Canadiens 3
Toronto came back from three goals down to top host Montreal.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson tallied a goal and two assists and Joseph Woll made 32 saves for Toronto, which won its second straight game after a three-game losing streak. Bobby McCann had a goal and an assist, and Nicholas Robertson, William Nylander, Auston Matthews, Steven Lorentz and David Kampf all scored a goal apiece.
Patrik Laine had a goal and an assist, Josh Anderson and Kirby Dach also scored, and Sam Montembeault made 27 saves for the Canadiens, who had a two-game winning streak stopped.
Canucks 3, Oilers 2
Quinn Hughes scored twice on the power play and J.T. Miller added a pair of assists as host Vancouver held on to beat Edmonton to end a two-game losing streak.
Danton Heinen also scored and Thatcher Demko stopped 13 of 15 shots for the Canucks, who have won just two of their past eight games.
Leon Draisaitl scored the Oilers’ two goals, both in the second period, and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves. Edmonton had its four-game winning streak snapped as it played its fourth game in six days.
Utah Hockey Club 4, Blues 2
Clayton Keller had a goal and three assists as Utah defeated St. Louis in Salt Lake City to snap a three-game losing streak.
Logan Cooley had a goal and two assists for Utah. Michael Kesselring and Nick Schmaltz also scored for the hosts, and Connor Ingram made 22 saves.
Tyler Tucker and Jake Neighbours scored for the Blues, and Jordan Binnington made 29 saves.
Predators 6, Wild 2
Filip Forsberg’s first four-point game of the season helped Nashville pick up a victory over visiting Minnesota.
One game after netting his 300th goal, Forsberg scored two more and added two assists. He has six goals in his past five games. Colton Sissons, Brady Skjei, Steven Stamkos and Fedor Svechkov also tallied goals for the Predators on Saturday.
Matt Boldy led the Wild, who lost their third game in a row, with a goal and an assist. David Jiricek also scored for Minnesota, earning his first point for the Wild in his fifth game with the team. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 32 Nashville shots.
Senators 6, Bruins 5 (SO)
Ottawa climbed out of a two-goal, third-period deficit with two extra-attacker goals and beat visiting Boston in a shootout.
Josh Norris scored his second goal of the game with 12 seconds left in regulation, and after a scoreless overtime, Tim Stutzle netted the only goal of the shootout to give Ottawa the extra point and climb above Boston in the Eastern Conference wild-card standings. Ottawa goaltender Leevi Merilainen, who had a .971 save percentage across the previous four games, allowed five goals on 28 shots, but stopped all three of Boston’s shootout attempts.
David Pastrnak (one goal, two assists) posted his third straight three-point game to lead the Bruins, who had won their last two games. The Bruins’ Morgan Geekie and Pavel Zacha had one goal and one assist, Mason Lohrei assisted twice and Vinni Lettieri and John Beecher also lit the lamp.
Lightning 5, Red Wings 1
Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist in Tampa Bay’s three-goal, second-period outburst over a 3:42 span as the host Lightning cooled off torrid Detroit.
The right wing added a second assist, the 600th of his career, on a power-play marker by Darren Raddysh, who also had a helper as Tampa Bay scored four times in the frame. Jake Guentzel tallied on the power play and added two assists, while Brayden Point recorded his team-high 27th goal. Mitchell Chaffee also scored as the Lightning moved to 5-1-1 in their past seven matches.
Detroit’s Lucas Raymond hit the net as its power play scored for the 10th time in 11 games under new coach Todd McLellan. Goalie Cam Talbot surrendered five goals on 16 shots over two periods. Alex Lyon relieved to start the third period and stopped six shots.
–Field Level Media
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