Devon Toews scored 48 seconds into extra time, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Buffalo Sabres 6-5 in Denver on Thursday evening and prolong their profitable streak to 6 video games.
Jonathan Drouin despatched the sport into extra time when he scored with 7.7 seconds left. Toews additionally had two assists, Cale Makar scored two targets, Mikko Rantanen and Drouin every had a objective and an help, Ross Colton supplied a objective and Nathan MacKinnon had three assists for Colorado.
The Avalanche prevailed regardless of shedding goaltender Scott Wedgewood to damage. Wedgewood was damage 1:27 into the third interval when Zach Benson was battling with Colorado’s Parker Kelly close to the web and fell into Wedgewood’s proper leg. The goalie went down inside his internet, play continued and Benson scored moments later to present Buffalo a 4-2 lead.
Wedgewood was helped off the ice after making 14 on 18 pictures. He was changed by Mackenzie Blackwood, who turned away two of the three pictures he confronted. Jason Zucker recorded his third profession hat trick and likewise added an help, Benson and Bowen Byram additionally scored, Tage Thompson had three assists and Luukkonen made 23 saves for Buffalo.
Canucks 4, Kraken 3 (SO)
J.T. Miller scored the lone shootout objective as Vancouver defeated host Seattle for simply its second win in its previous seven video games (2-2-3).
Max Sasson, Conor Garland and Tyler Myers scored in regulation for the Canucks, and Thatcher Demko stopped 11 of 12 pictures earlier than leaving within the second interval after sustaining an obvious lower-body damage in a collision with teammate Noah Juulsen. Kevin Lankinen got here on and made 13 saves on 15 pictures.
Matty Beniers and Vince Dunn had a objective and an help apiece and Chandler Stephenson additionally scored for Seattle, which had a two-game profitable streak snapped. Philipp Grubauer, making his third straight begin for the injured Joey Daccord (higher physique), stopped 19 of twenty-two makes an attempt.
Hurricanes 3, Panthers 1
Jaccob Slavin scored with 7:30 remaining to interrupt a tie and carry Carolina over Florida in Dawn, Fla., avenging two disturbing losses from final month.
Brent Burns had the primary Carolina objective and Martin Necas added an empty-netter with 28 seconds to play. The Hurricanes received for under the second time of their previous 10 street video games (2-6-2). Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 25 pictures.
Anton Lundell scored for the Panthers and Sergei Bobrovsky had a splendid effort in Florida’s objective with 37 saves. The Panthers’ back-to-back victories towards the Hurricanes in mid-December got here by a mixed rating of 12-3, together with a 6-0 blanking.
Wild 4, Capitals 3 (SO)
Matt Boldy scored within the second spherical of a shootout to carry visiting Minnesota previous Washington.
Boldy rebounded after hitting the publish late in extra time by wristing a shot previous Charlie Lindgren within the shootout. Marc-Andre Fleury preserved the win by flashing his glove to thwart Alex Ovechkin to finish the sport.
Tom Wilson and Martin Fehervary additionally scored a objective and Lindgren made 30 saves for the Capitals. Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman collected a objective and an help, Marco Rossi and Yakov Trenin additionally tallied, and Fleury turned apart 28 pictures.
Rangers 2, Bruins 1
Jonathan Fast made 32 saves and recorded his 399th profession regular-season victory as host New York snapped a four-game shedding streak by edging Boston.
Elevated to New York’s No. 1 goalie for at the least three video games till Igor Shesterkin returns from an upper-body damage, Fast earned his first win since Nov. 30. He’s one away from becoming a member of Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury and Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky because the third lively goalie to achieve 400 profession wins.
Mika Zibanejad and rookie Brett Berard scored 3:05 aside within the first interval after the Rangers started slowly. Fast was overwhelmed solely by Elias Lindholm 7:57 into the second. Boston goalie Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves.
Geese 4, Jets 3 (OT)
Troy Terry scored his second objective of the sport with 1:26 left in extra time to carry visiting Anaheim over Winnipeg.
Terry additionally had an help, Radko Gudas had a objective and an help, Leo Carlsson additionally scored and John Gibson made 27 saves and picked up an help on the game-winner for the Geese, who matched a season excessive with their third straight win.
Alex Iafallo had a objective and an help, Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry additionally scored, Josh Morrissey had two assists and Connor Hellebuyck made 20 saves for the Jets, who’ve misplaced two in a row (0-1-1).
Maple Leafs 2, Islanders 1
Bobby McMann scored twice, together with the game-winner on the ability play with 2:59 left in regulation, as Toronto defeated New York in Elmont, N.Y.
McMann’s third two-goal sport of the season was all of the help Joseph Woll (32 saves) wanted because the Maple Leafs received for the third time in 4 video games.
Scott Mayfield recorded his second objective of the season for the Islanders, who’ve misplaced three straight. Ilya Sorokin stopped 29 pictures.
Pink Wings 5, Blue Jackets 4
Jonatan Berggren’s breakaway objective with 36 seconds left broke a tie and gave visiting Detroit a win over Columbus.
Alex DeBrincat had a objective and two assists, Dylan Larkin and Patrick Kane every collected a objective and an help, and Erik Gustafsson additionally scored for Detroit, which improved to 3-1-0 beneath new coach Todd McLellan. Cam Talbot stopped 21 pictures.
James van Riemsdyk had two targets and an help, Zach Werenski tallied one objective and two assists and Sean Monahan bought the opposite marker for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins made 21 saves.
Stars 4, Senators 2
Roope Hintz scored twice, together with the tiebreaking objective halfway via the second interval, and stingy Dallas received its third straight sport by doubling up on visiting Ottawa.
With Dallas trailing 2-1, Jamie Benn and Hintz scored in a 1:08 span of the second. Matt Duchene added some third-period insurance coverage with a objective to enhance an earlier help, whereas Jason Robertson and Wyatt Johnston had two helpers apiece for Dallas, which improved to 4-0-1 in its final 5 video games. Jake Oettinger made 11 saves.
Brady Tkachuk scored and assisted on Ridly Greig’s objective for the Senators, who have been held to their second-fewest pictures on objective this season. Leevi Merilainen made 21 saves for Ottawa, which went 0-for-4 on the ability play and opened 2025 on a bitter word after going 9-3-1 in December.
Utah 5, Flames 3
Lawson Crouse scored twice, together with the game-winning tally, and Clayton Keller collected one objective and one help to steer the Utah Hockey Membership to a victory at Calgary.
Logan Cooley and Kevin Stenlund additionally scored targets whereas Olli Maatta notched a pair of assists for Utah, which snapped a five-game shedding streak (0-4-1). Karel Vejmelka made 23 saves.
Blake Coleman replied with one objective and one help, whereas Connor Zary and Brayden Pachal additionally scored for the Flames. Dan Vladar stopped 21 pictures, together with an Alexander Kerfoot penalty shot within the third interval.
Golden Knights 5, Flyers 2
Ilya Samsonov made 23 saves to win his fifth straight begin and Pavel Dorofeyev scored what proved to be the game-winner in a three-goal second interval as Vegas rallied to defeat Philadelphia in Las Vegas.
Mark Stone had a objective and an help, Nicolas Hague, Alexander Holtz and Tanner Pearson additionally scored and Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin every had two assists for Vegas, which improved to 5-0-1 in its previous six conferences with the Flyers.
Tyson Foerster and Travis Konecny scored targets for Philadelphia. Aleksei Kolosov completed with 22 saves.
Sharks 2, Lightning 1
Mario Ferraro produced a struggle and the game-winning objective, Marc-Edouard Vlasic notched some extent in his season debut and San Jose broke an eight-game shedding streak (0-7-1) by edging visiting Tampa Bay.
Ferraro put the house aspect up 2-0 within the second interval after combating with Mitchell Chaffee earlier within the body. Tyler Toffoli additionally scored for San Jose. Vlasic returned after lacking the primary 40 video games of the season as a consequence of an upper-back damage.
In a matchup of Russian goaltenders, San Jose’s Yaroslav Askarov made 24 saves to outduel Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy (23 saves). Anthony Cirelli collected the Lightning’s lone objective.
–Area Degree Media
