NHL Roundup: Saturday
Tomas Hertl scored the game-winning goal on Power Play with 1:10 left when the visiting Vegas Golden Knights overcome a couple of two-goal deficits to beat Boston Bruins 4-3 on Saturday afternoon.
Hertl netted a turnaround from the left circle past Boston’s Jeremy Swayman to win the match. Earlier on the same Golden Knight’s man-advantage, Pavel Dorofeyev had a potential goal that was himself turned due to disturbances on Swayman.
Mark Stone, Zach Whitecloud and Dorofeyev also did and Shea Theodore had two assists for Vegas, who went 2-for-4 on Power Play on their way to their second straight victory to enter 4 nation’s facial outages.
Boston captain Brad Marchand reached the 20-goal plateau for the 14th time in his career, while Nikita Zadorov and Morgan Geekie also scored Boston.
Rangers 4, Blue Jackets 3
Will Cualle scored two goals for the third period to lift the visit New York past Columbus.
Cualle removed a clearing attempt from the Columbus defender Ivan Provorov and made the game-winning goal with 1:39. Mika Zibanejad counted a goal and an assist, Arthur Kaliyev scored a goal and Vincent Trocheck raised a couple of assists in the triumphant effort.
Jonathan finished Quick 22 shots for Rangers, while Elvis Merzlikin’s 36-saving night was not enough to secure the home victory. Kent Johnson, Justin Danforth and James van Riemsdyk made for Columbus.
Predators 6, Sabers 4
Filip Forsberg and Brady Skjei each had two goals for Nashville in a victory against visiting Buffalo.
Ryan O’reilly had four assists, Jonathan Marchesault had one goal and three assists, and Justus Annunen made 25 rescues for the predators, who snapped a six-game losing line.
Alex Tuch had a goal and two assists, and Rasmus Dahlin and Bowen Byram each had a goal and an assist for Sabers, whose winning line with four games ended. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 17 rescues.
Blues 6, Blackhawks 5 (SO)
Radek Faksa scored in the 10th round of shootout to lift St. Louis over the visit Chicago.
Blues exceeded Blackhawks 40-20 to overtime, but they needed Marathon Shootout to earn only their second victory in eight matches (2-5-1). Jordan Binnington made 15 rescues during the match and eight more shootout for the victory.
Ilya Mikheyev had one goal and two assists for the Blackhawks while losing goalkeeper Arvid Soderblom made 35 rescues through overtime and eight more in shootout.
The Crake 3, Flames 2 (OT)
Matty Beniers scored a Power-Play goal of 2:58 of overtime when Seattle gathered for a victory against host Calgary.
Shane Wright and Andre Burakovsky scored in the last 6:48 of the regulation that Seattle won for the seventh time this season after releasing several goals. Benier’s winner, on a wrist shot through a screen from the top of the left faceoff circle, came with Calgary’s Morgan Frost in the penalty box to hold. Goalkeeper Joey Daccord made 27 rescues for the Kraken, who snapped a three-game Winless Streak (0-2-1).
Frost and Nazem Kadri scored goals for the flames, which lost their fourth straight to Saddledome. Dustin Wolf stopped 25 out of 28 shots.
Stars 8, sharks 3
Matt Duchene made twice and added an assist that Dallas thumped worth San Jose.
Thomas Harley, Jamie Benn and Wyatt Johnston made each one and added an assist for Dallas, who won for the sixth time in eight games. Jason Robertson, Mason Marchment and Mavrik Bourque also made for the stars, who snapped a two-game skid. Mikael Granlund, acquired by the stars from the sharks on February 1, had two assists in his return to Bay Area. Lian Bichsel also had a couple of helpers, and Casey Desmith made 24 rescues.
William Eklund, Fabian Zetterlund and Walker Duehr accounted for the sharks, who have lost 10 of their last 11 games. Vitek Vanecek stopped 26 shots.
Panthers 5, Senators 1
Matthew Tkachuk scored one goal and had two assists during Florida’s four-goal second period when Panthers cruised past Ottawa in Sunrise, FLA.
Aleksander Barkov, Gustav Forsling and Sam Bennett also scored during an outbreak for Panthers, who have won eight of 11 and five straight at home. Tkachuk extended his goal streak to six matches and has 13 points during that route.
Matthew’s brother, Bray, scored for Ottawa, who went 0-3-0 at Tampa Bay and Florida after winning five straight. Linus Ullmark made 43 rescues for the senators, who allowed a seasonal high 48 shots on goal.
Flyers 3, Penguins 2
Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist when Philadelphia tipped to visit Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing line thanks to 31 rescues from Samuel Esson and goals from three different players. Scott Laughton and the yarn Hathaway also counted for the flyer, while Andrei Kuzmo had an assist in his team debut.
Kevin Hayes and Erik Karlsson scored for Pittsburgh, who played their second straight match without Sidney Crosby (upper body injury). Joel Blomqvist made 17 rescues for Penguins, who had won three of his previous four matches.
Flash 6, Red Wings 3
Brandon Hagel had two goals and two assists when Tampa Bay snapped worth Detroit’s seven-game winning row.
Dylan Duke, who played for the University of Michigan last season, made in his NHL debut for Lightning. He was called from Syracuse from the American Hockey League on Friday.
Erik Cernak had a goal and two assists while Brayden Point scored its 30th goal for the Lightning season, which is 4-0-1 in his last five matches. Nikita Kucherov had three assists to bring their career points a total of 955 and passed Martin St. Louis for the second most in Lightning-franchise history behind Steven Stamkos, which has 1,137 points.
Devils 4, Canadiens 0
Jake Allen made 34 rescues – including one on a penalty shot – to help visit the New Jersey Cruise past Montreal.
Jack Hughes and Jesper Bratt each had a goal and an assist for New Jersey, who won at Montreal for the 10th straight time. Montreal had a chance to break the closure with 15.7 seconds left in the third period when the Canadiens were awarded a penalty shot after Hughes pulled down Owen Beck from behind, but Allen stopped Beck’s wrist shot.
Sam Montembeault finished with 18 rescues for Montreal, who suffered his seventh loss in eight matches (1-6-1).
Hurricanes 7, Utah Hockey Club 3
Seth Jarvis published two goals and two assists when Carolina avoided a seasonal four-game losing line by blowing past Utah in Raleigh, NC
Sebastian Aho had two goals and one assist, Jalen Chatfield noted one goal and one assist, Jordan Martinook and Jack Roslovic added late goals and Andrei Svechnikov and Jackson Blake made two assists each for Hurricanes. Pyotr Kchetkov made 36 rescues to secure his 20th victory during the season. Carolina made a steady strength, on a power play and short hand in a four-goal second period, which started with the team tied at 1 but gave the hurricanes a leading lead.
Clayton Keller scored two goals and Josh Doan had a goal for Utah, which never led. Karel Vejmelka collected 31 rescues.
Canucks 2, Maple Leafs 1
Brock Boeser scored the future goal at 8:56 in the third period to lift the host Vancouver to a victory over Toronto.
With his team on Power Play, Filip Chytil was unmarked when he went in from Blue Line and fed Boeser in the track for a simple conversion. Filip Hronek gathered a goal and an assist and Kevin Lankinen made 21 rescues for Canucks, which has won three games in a row.
Defender Morgan Rielle scored a goal late in the second period and Joseph Woll made 23 saves for Maple Leafs, who saw their three-game winning row stayed in the final in their four games.
Wild 6, Islanders 3
Matthew Boldy counted two goals and one assist to lead Minnesota past New York in St. Paul, Minn.
Marco Rossi, Frederick Gaudreau, Yakov Trenin and Marcus Foligno also scored for The Wild, who have won seven straight against the islanders. Defender Jared Spurgeon had two assists and Filip Gustavsson made 31 rescues. Minnesota did three times during the last 6:39 of the second period to take a lead of 4-3 and added two more in the third.
Kyle Palmieri and Brock Nelson each had a goal and an assist and Anders Lee also scored for New York, who played his second match in as many nights. Maxim Tsyplakov had two assists and Ilya Sorokin stopped 27 shots.
Duck 2, kings 1 (so)
Lukas Dostal made 43 rescues over regulation and overtime and did not allow a goal in shootout to help visit Anaheim beat Los Angeles.
Brian Dumoulin did in regulation and Trevor Zegras and Leo Carlsson scored in the two round for The Ducks, who have won six out of seven.
Los Angeles’ Adrian Kempe made the late equalizer and David Rittich made 25 rescues, started in goal for the second straight night because Darcy Kuemper was not available for personal reasons. The kings had won three in a row after a season-long four-game.
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