Steven Stamkos accomplished a hat trick in time beyond regulation to raise the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 win in opposition to the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.
Stamkos fired a one-timer from the left circle at 2:39 of the additional body for his 14th profession hat trick.
Justus Annunen made 17 saves for the Predators, who’ve gained three straight.
Alex Vlasic and Ilya Mikheyev scored for the Blackhawks, who’re 3-0-2 of their previous 5 video games. Arvid Soderblom made 38 saves.
Flames 1, Canadiens 0
Rookie goaltender Dustin Wolf recorded his third shutout of the season and his profession whereas backstopping host Calgary to a shutout victory over Montreal.
Joel Farabee scored the sport’s lone objective for the Flames, who moved again into the Western Convention’s second wild-card place. Wolf made 26 saves in a wonderful goaltending battle to pitch the goose egg in his staff’s first recreation at residence after a six-game street journey. He’s the primary rookie goaltender in franchise historical past to report three shutouts in a season.
Jakub Dobes, one other freshman netminder, stopped 23 photographs for the Canadiens, who had their streak of incomes factors snapped at six video games.
Panthers 4, Sabres 0
Vitek Vanecek made 21 saves in his Panthers debut, and defenseman Nate Schmidt supplied two main assists as Florida defeated visiting Buffalo in Dawn, Fla.
Florida has gained six straight video games, and the Panthers have by no means trailed throughout that span. The Panthers are additionally 19-for-19 on the penalty kill in these six video games. A.J. Greer, Carter Verhaeghe, Anton Lundell and Sam Bennett (empty-netter) scored on Saturday for the Panthers.
Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 32 saves.
Senators 4, Rangers 3 (OT)
Brady Tkachuk scored his second objective of the sport 33 seconds into time beyond regulation as host Ottawa stormed again for a victory over New York to maneuver into the Japanese Convention’s first wild-card spot.
Tkachuk scored Ottawa’s first objective simply over 4 minutes into the second after which capped the comeback with a fast shot from the left circle that sailed by goalie Igor Shesterkin’s stick. Ridly Greig and Michael Amadio scored within the ultimate 9:44 of regulation to assist Ottawa transfer one level forward of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Artemi Panarin gave the Rangers a 3-1 lead by scoring for the fourth straight recreation 7:08 into the third. Carson Soucy scored 8:37 into the primary and Mika Zibanejad scored 3:55 into the second, 11 seconds earlier than Tkachuk’s first objective.
Kings 2, Blues 1 (OT)
Quinton Byfield scored the game-winning objective 27 seconds into time beyond regulation for Los Angeles, which snapped a five-game dropping streak with a win over visiting St. Louis.
Anze Kopitar scored for the Kings off assists from Drew Doughty and Mikey Anderson, whose stickwork prevented the Blues from scoring lower than a minute into the sport. Adrian Kempe assisted on Byfield’s second time beyond regulation objective of the season, and Darcy Kuemper stopped 19 photographs.
Nick Leddy, who missed 45 video games due to a lower-body harm, registered his first objective of the season. Jake Neighbours and Zachary Bolduc earned assists for the Blues. Joel Hofer made 21 saves.
Oilers 5, Stars 4
Zach Hyman had two objectives and an help for Edmonton in a win in opposition to visiting Dallas.
Connor McDavid had a objective and an help, Viktor Arvidsson and Connor Brown additionally scored and Stuart Skinner made 21 saves for Edmonton, which has gained three of 4 following a season-long five-game dropping streak.
Mikko Rantanen had a objective and an help in his first recreation with the Stars, who had their four-game successful streak snapped. Wyatt Johnston, Jamie Benn and Matt Dumba additionally scored and Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for Dallas within the opener of a four-game street journey.
Kraken 4, Flyers 1
Matty Beniers had a objective and an help and goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves for his first victory since Dec. 30 as Seattle defeated host Philadelphia.
Tye Kartye, Chandler Stephenson and Brandon Montour additionally tallied because the Kraken snapped a two-game dropping streak. Kartye and Grubauer had been each making their first NHL appearances in additional than a month after being recalled from Coachella Valley of the American Hockey League.
Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers, who dropped to 0-3-0 on their seven-game homestand. Samuel Ersson stopped 28 of 32 photographs.
Bruins 4, Lightning 0
Goaltender Jeremy Swayman broke a private six-game dropping streak along with his fourth shutout as Boston, depleted by an energetic NHL commerce deadline, blanked host Tampa Bay.
Swayman made 26 saves, together with an unbelievable stick cease on Brandon Hagel in entrance of an open cage with 15:40 left, for his sixteenth profession shutout and first win since Feb. 4 (1-4-2). Boston gained for simply the second time in 10 matches (2-6-2).
Within the Bruins’ first recreation since buying and selling captain Brad Marchand on Friday and enjoying with out injured defensemen Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm, former Lightning ahead Cole Koepke scored twice for his first profession multi-goal recreation and Nikita Zadorov added an empty-net objective. Mark Kastelic scored in his 2 hundredth NHL recreation.
Avalanche 7, Maple Leafs 4
Valeri Nichushkin had three objectives for his first profession regular-season hat trick, Nathan MacKinnon had two objectives to achieve 100 factors for the season, and Colorado rallied with 4 third-period objectives to beat Toronto in Denver.
Joel Kiviranta and Jonathan Drouin additionally had objectives, Ross Colton and Sam Malinski completed with two assists every and Mackenzie Blackwood made 17 saves for Colorado. Nichushkin additionally has a postseason hat trick. He assisted on MacKinnon’s empty-net objective at 19:07, which was his 999th profession level.
Mitch Marner and John Tavares scored two objectives apiece, Auston Matthews had three assists, William Nylander contributed two assists and Anthony Stolarz turned away 27 photographs for the Maple Leafs, who’ve dropped three in a row.
Islanders 4, Sharks 2
Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a objective and two assists for retooled New York, which beat host San Jose within the Islanders’ first recreation with out Brock Nelson, who spent his complete 12-year profession with New York earlier than he was dealt to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.
Anthony Duclair scored within the first interval, and Anders Lee and Adam Boqvist scored within the third for the Islanders, who’ve gained 4 of 5 (4-1-0) to maneuver inside three factors of the second wild-card spot within the Japanese Convention. Goalie Ilya Sorokin made 38 saves.
Nikolai Kovalenko scored within the second and Will Smith had a objective late within the third for the Sharks, who misplaced for the nineteenth time in 23 video games (4-16-3). San Jose has 43 factors, the fewest within the NHL Goalie Alexander Georgiev recorded 24 saves.
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