BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak scored on the opening shift and added two insurance goals late in the third period as the Boston Bruins beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 on Thursday night.
Jake DeBrusk and Jakub Lauko also scored for the Bruins, who won their third straight and improved to 8-1-3 in their last 12 games.
Cale Makar had an assist for the Avalanche but fell one point short of tying Hall of Famer Bobby Orr as the fastest defenseman to reach 300 career points. Orr did it in his 279th game on Dec. 13, 1970. Makar played his 279th game Thursday and now has 299 points.
Nathan MacKinnon and Miles Wood scored for Colorado, which lost for just the fourth time in 14 games.
Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves for Boston. Making his league-leading 37th start, first-time All-Star Alexandar Georgiev stopped 26 shots for the Avalanche.
OILERS 4, KRAKEN 2
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Warren Foegele scored twice, Leon Draisaitl had a goal and three assists, and Edmonton rallied past Seattle to extend its winning streak to a franchise-record 12 games.
Zach Hyman also scored for Edmonton, and Stuart Skinner stopped 25 shots. The Oilers are 20-3-0 in their last 23 games to improve to 25-15-1. They tied the record for the longest winning streak by a Canadian team set by the 1967-68 Montreal Canadiens.
Eeli Tolvanen and Jared McCann scored for Seattle. The Kraken lost their third in a row during the tail end of a six-game trip after a nine-game winning streak.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, RANGERS 1
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ivan Barbashev had his first two-goal game of the season and Logan Thompson made 29 saves as Vegas topped New York.
Barbashev ended his 10-game goal drought, hitting the back of the net for the first time since Dec. 21. Jonathan Marchessault had a goal and an assist, Keegan Kolesar also scored and Brett Howden added an empty-net goal with the Golden Knights short-handed. Mark Stone and Nic Roy each had two assists.
Thompson, who made several sensational saves, has allowed just eight goals over his past five starts for the defending Stanley Cup champions. He has been carrying the load in the crease with Adin Hill out with a lower-body injury.
Mika Zibanejad scored a power-play goal for the Rangers.
CAPITALS 5, BLUES 2
WASHINGTON (AP) — T.J. Oshie had a hat trick against his old team and Washington beat St. Louis for its second consecutive victory.
Oshie’s two goals on the power play and a late empty-netter gave him five goals in his past four games after scoring just two in his first 21 this season. It was Oshie’s sixth career hat trick and first since Oct. 25, 2021.
Dylan Strome also scored his team-leading 16th of the season and had an assist. Alex Ovechkin set up Strome’s goal in his return from a three-game injury absence. Max Pacioretty assisted on Oshie’s first two goals, and Nicolas Aube-Kubel also scored for Washington.
Charlie Lindgren made 18 saves against one of his former teams to improve to 9-4-3 this season.
Nathan Walker had two goals for St. Louis against his old team. The Blues have lost three in a row and four of five.
FLYERS 5, STARS 1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Owen Tippett scored twice, including a highlight-reel goal late in the third period, Scott Laughton converted a penalty shot and streaking Philadelphia defeated Dallas for its fifth straight victory.
Sean Walker and Cam Atkinson also scored for Philadelphia, which outshot Dallas 43-16. Morgan Frost added two assists and Sam Ersson made 15 saves for the Flyers, who snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Stars.
Tyler Seguin scored for Dallas, which lost for just the second time in six games.
LIGHTNING 7, WILD 3
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had three assists to reach 500 for his career, Anthony Cirelli scored twice and Tampa Bay beat Minnesota.
Kucherov, who leads the league with 75 points, had his fourth game this season with three or more assists. He reached the milestone in his 688th game, the third-fewest among active players behind Connor McDavid (527) and Sidney Crosby (554).
Waltteri Merela, Brayden Point, Steven Stamkos and Michael Eyssimont also scored for the Lightning, and Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 30 saves.
Jake Middleton had a goal and two assists for the Wild. Joel Eriksson Ek and Marco Rossi had the other goals for Minnesota, which fell to 2-8-1 in its last 11 games.
CANUCKS 2, COYOTES 1
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Dakota Joshua broke a tie with 58 seconds left in the second period and the NHL-leading Vancouver Canucks beat Arizona for their sixth victory in seven games.
Thatcher Demko stopped 20 shots and Elias Pettersson also scored to help the Canucks improve to 30-11-4, good for a one-point edge over East-leading Boston.
Travis Dermott scored his first goal of the season for the Coyotes, and Connor Ingram made 24 saves.
PREDATORS 2, KINGS 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Reilly had a power-play goal and an assist, Gustav Nyquist also scored and Nashville edged Los Angeles.
Roman Josi had an assist for the fifth straight game and Juuse Saros made 33 saves as the Predators won for the third time in four games.
Drew Doughty scored and David Rittich stopped 31 shots for the Kings, who lost for the 10th time in 11 games.
SABRES 3, BLACKHAWKS 0
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 19 saves for his second consecutive shutout and Buffalo blanked Chicago in a game moved back a day because of snow.
Zemgus Girgensons, JJ Peterka and Rasmus Dahlin scored.
Luukkonen had his third NHL shutout, also beating San Jose 3-0 on Monday. Arvid Soderblom stopped 28 shots for the struggling Blackhawks, who have two wins in their last 11 games.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, FLAMES 3
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Auston Matthews had a hat trick to push his NHL-leading goals total to 37 and added an assist in Toronto's comeback victory over Calgary.
Mitch Marner also scored and Martin Jones made 24 saves to help the Maple Leafs end a four-game skid and improve to 22-13-8. William Nylander and Pontus Holmberg each had two assists.
Yegor Sharangovich, former Toronto forward Nazem Kadri and Andrew Mangiapane scored for the Flames, who had won a season-high four in a row. Dan Vladar stopped 29 shots.
SENATORS 6, CANADIENS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Tim Stutzle had a goal and two assists, Joonas Korpisalo stopped 21 shots and Ottawa beat Montreal.
Brady Tkachuk, Rourke Chartier, Vladimir Tarasenko, Mathieu Joseph and Parker Kelly also scored as the Senators (16-24-0) won for the second time in eight games.
Cole Caufield and Michael Pezzetta scored for the Canadiens (19-19-7), who dropped to 1-8-0 on the tail end of back-to-backs. Cayden Primeau made 32 saves.
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