Nazem Kadri scored two power-play targets 1:06 aside within the first interval, Nathan MacKinnon scored his NHL-leading forty ninth purpose and added two assists, and the Colorado Avalanche routed the Calgary Flames 9-2 in Denver on Monday night time.
Colorado’s Parker Kelly, Jack Drury and Martin Necas had a purpose and two assists every. Sam Malinski and Artturi Lehkonen had a purpose and an help apiece for the Avalanche, who snapped a four-game dwelling shedding streak (0-3-1). Gabriel Landeskog added a purpose.
Colorado defenseman Cale Makar had three assists however did not play within the third interval attributable to an upper-body damage suffered late within the second. Brock Nelson contributed two helpers and Scott Wedgewood turned away 27 photographs.
Brennan Othmann and Ryan Strome scored for Calgary and Devin Cooley made 28 saves after changing Dustin Wolf halfway by means of the primary interval. The Flames had gained 5 of six.
Sharks 5, Blues 4
Adam Gaudette scored the game-winner with 22 seconds remaining in regulation as San Jose edged visiting St. Louis.
Gaudette put his wrist shot underneath goalie Joel Hofer’s glove for his fifteenth purpose of the season. Macklin Celebrini and Alexander Wennberg every scored twice and added an help for the Sharks. With the second level of his three-point night time, Celebrini turned the sixth teenager in NHL historical past to register 100 factors in a season.
Theo Lindstein, Pavel Buchnevich, Philip Broberg and Cam Fowler tallied for the Blues, who had their four-game profitable streak finish.
Golden Knights 4, Canucks 2
Reilly Smith scored the go-ahead purpose late within the second interval and Adin Hill made 22 saves as Vegas defeated Vancouver in John Tortorella’s Golden Knights teaching debut in Las Vegas.
Rasmus Andersson, Shea Theodore and Cole Smith additionally scored targets for Vegas, which snapped a three-game shedding streak whereas profitable for simply the second time in eight video games. Tortorella took over for Bruce Cassidy, who was fired on Sunday.
Evander Kane, enjoying in his 1,000th NHL sport, and Brock Boeser scored targets for the Canucks, who misplaced their sixth straight sport. Kevin Lankinen completed with 30 saves.
Penguins 8, Islanders 3
Anthony Mantha scored twice and added an help and Pittsburgh produced a five-goal second interval amid seven unanswered targets to assert a comeback victory over New York in Elmont, N.Y.
Rickard Rakell scored twice, Bryan Rust posted one purpose and one help, and Elmer Soderblom, Ryan Shea and Avery Hayes additionally scored for the Penguins, who jumped over the Islanders for second place within the Metropolitan Division. Justin Brazeau notched three assists whereas Sidney Crosby collected two assists in his return after lacking the earlier sport attributable to a lower-body damage.
Mathew Barzal netted one purpose and one help whereas Anders Lee and Brayden Schenn each scored as soon as for the Islanders. Adam Boqvist and Cal Ritchie each collected a pair of assists. New York’s beginning goalie, Ilya Sorokin, surrendered seven targets on 28 photographs earlier than being pulled.
Maple Leafs 5, Geese 4 (OT)
John Tavares capped a two-goal, one-assist night time by scoring with 5 seconds left in additional time as visiting Toronto bested Anaheim in an entertaining although predictably bodily conflict.
Tavares sealed the deal for the Maple Leafs with a tip on the doorstep off a low, fast feed from Morgan Rielly. William Nylander tallied 4 factors on the night time, together with the tying purpose midway by means of the third interval. Rielly had a purpose and an help, Matthew Knies added a purpose and Easton Cowan and Oliver Ekman-Larsson every had two assists.
Leo Carlsson scored twice for Anaheim, which has misplaced two in a row (0-1-1). John Carlson and Cutter Gauthier additionally scored, and Jackson LaCombe logged two assists.
–Area Stage Media
