Hurricanes rally to beat Rangers 4-3 extending home win streak to nine

Kotkaniemi’s third goal of the season came on a wraparound to tie the score 3-3 at 9:54 of the third. Blake scored on the power play with 7:59 remaining for his seventh goal in his rookie season and third game-winning tally.

Berard, playing in his second NHL game, got his first goal as the Rangers tied the score at 2-2 at 9:13 of the second. Edstrom put New York ahead with 1:11 to go in the middle period.

WILD 1, SABRES 0

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Filip Gustavsson made 39 saves and Kirill Kaprizov scored to give Minnesota a win against Buffalo.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 28 saves for Buffalo, which failed to win four in a row for the third time this season.

The shutout was Gustavsson’s second of the season. Minnesota improved to a league best 10-1-3 on the road this season.

Kaprizov’s 14th goal of the season came 6:55 into the first period on a 4-on-1 rush when he finished off a pass from Joel Eriksson Ek that beat Luukkonen.

BLUES 3, DEVILS 0

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Jordan Binnington stopped 31 shots for the 16th shutout of his career and set the St. Louis franchise record with his 152nd victory as they beat New Jersey.

Binnington’s franchise record win came in the 298th game of his NHL career and moved him past Mike Liut.

Dylan Holloway had two goals and Robert Thomas scored nine seconds into the game for the Blues. Justin Faulk, Pavel Buchnevich, Brandon Saad and Jake Neighbours recorded assists.

St. Louis did all of its scoring in the first period. Entering Wednesday, the Blues had outscored 23-12 in the opening period.

Jacob Markstrom, who was appearing in his 500th career game, stopped 17 shots for New Jersey, which outshot the Blues 32-18.

New Jersey managed just seven shots in three power-play chances.

The Devils were without forward Timo Meier, who was suspended for one game for cross-checking Nashville Predators forward Zachary L’Heureux in the face in Monday’s 5-2 victory.o Meier, who was suspended for one game for cross-checking Nashville Predators forward Zachary L’Heureux in the face in Monday’s 5-2 victory.

PANTHERS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 1

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Aleksander Barkov and Carter Verhaeghe had power-play goals, Sam Reinhart had a short-handed score and Florida beat Toronto for only their second win in eight games.

Mackie Samoskevich also scored for Florida, Sam Bennett got an empty-net goal and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 24 shots for the Panthers. Verhaeghe also had two assists.

Mitch Marner scored for the Maple Leads, who lost for the second time in the last nine games and saw their lead in the Atlantic Division over Florida cut to one point.

Anthony Stolarz stopped 19 shots for Toronto. The Maple Leafs lost forward Bobby McMann in the second period with a lower body injury.

PENGUINS 5, CANUCKS 4

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Rust had two goals and an assist to help Pittsburgh beat Vancouver.

Blake Lizotte scored after missing five games with a concussion, while Kevin Hayes had a power-play goal and Rickard Rakell also scored for Pittsburgh. Erik Karlsson had three assists, while Sidney Crosby had two as the Penguins built a 4-1 lead through one period.

Tristan Jarry stopped 25 shots for the Penguins.

The Canucks trailed 5-2 entering the third period before Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson cut it to a one-goal deficit. Pius Suter and Aatu Raty also scored for the Canucks. Arturs Silovs made 18 saves.

BRUINS 6, ISLANDERS 3

NEW YORK (AP) — Pavel Zacha and Brad Marchand each scored twice and Jonas Korpisalo made 21 saves as Boston defeated New York.

Zacha’s tip-in at 10:48 of the third period snapped a 3-all tie. Zacha scored again, his fifth of the season, at 13:23 to give the Bruins a two-goal lead.

Morgan Geekie and Nikita Zadorov also scored for Boston, which was coming off a 2-0 home loss to Vancouver on Tuesday night. David Pastrnak and Elias Lindholm each had three assists.

Brock Nelson scored twice and added an assist for the Islanders, who lost their second straight. They are 1-4-1 in their last six games. Maxim Tsyplakov also scored for New York.

CAPITALS 5, LIGHTNING 4

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Wilson scored a power-play goal with 3:26 left in regulation to lift Washington to a victory against Tampa Bay.

With Anthony Cirelli in the box for a high-sticking, double-minor penalty with 4:03 left, Wilson tipped a Jakob Chychrun shot for the winning goal.

Aliaksei Protas scored shorthanded while Andrew Mangiapane, Dylan Strome and John Carlson scored for Washington, which has won six straight on the road. Charlie Lindgren finished with 24 saves.

Brayden Point registered his fifth career hat trick for Tampa Bay while Michael Eyssimont also scored for the Lightning. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 27 shots.

Tampa Bay had leads of 2-0, 3-2 and 4-3, with Point’s hat trick goal giving Tampa Bay the lead after Lindgren tried to play the puck behind him but fired it into his own net at 7:25 of the third period. But Carlson pulled the Capitals even again with 9:30 left.

RED WINGS 2, FLAMES 1, OT

DETROIT (AP) — Lucas Raymond scored a power play goal at 3:35 of overtime and Detroit beat Calgary.

Alex DeBrincat scored a first-period power play goal and also assisted on Raymond’s game-winner for Detroit. Cam Talbot made 24 saves in the Red Wings’ third victory in four games.

Connor Zary’s power play goal with 2:48 remaining tied the score and Dan Vladar made 25 saves for Calgary, which has lost two straight following a four-game winning streak.

In the extra period, Raymond skated into the slot and snapped a shot past Vladar as the Red Wings beat the Flames for the fifth straight time.

Detroit forward Patrick Kane missed his second consecutive game with an upper-body injury.

CANADIENS 4, BLUE JACKETS 3, OT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nick Suzuki scored 44 seconds into overtime and Montreal beat Columbus, snapping a two-game skid.

Juraj Slafkovsky had a goal and an assist, Cole Caufield added a power-play goal and Emil Heineman also scored. Cayden Primeau made 21 saves for Montreal (8-11-3).

Mathieu Olivier and Yegor Chinakhov scored for Columbus (9-9-3). Zach Werenski had a Gordie Howe hat trick with a goal, an assist and a fight. Elvis Merzlikins made 19 saves.

FLYERS 3, PREDATORS 2, OT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sean Couturier scored at 2:31 of overtime to give Philadelphia a win over Nashville.

Scott Laughton and Morgan Frost also scored and Aleksei Kolosov made 25 saves for the Flyers, who have won two of three.

Roman Josi and Ryan O’Reilly scored and Juuse Saros made 21 saves for the Predators, who have lost three of four.

Kolosov improved to 2-4-0 on the season.

With the Predators leading 2-1 late in the third, Frost tied it with 11.4 seconds remaining on a redirection to send the game to overtime.

BLACKHAWKS 6, STARS 2

CHICAGO (AP) — Taylor Hall scored his fifth career hat trick, Connor Bedard, Teuvo Teravainen and Louis Crevier also scored, and Chicago beat Dallas for their second win in three games.

Hall’s game-opening goal 17 seconds in set the tone. His shot clipped a defenseman’s stick and tumbled under the glove of Stars goaltender Casey DeSmith. From that point, the Blackhawks could do little wrong, and the Stars took the brunt of it in their second straight loss.

Bedard’s goal was his first in 13 games. After he scored on a wrist shot from the right circle, he lifted his head toward the roof in relief.

Petr Mrazek turned back 25 shots in collecting his seventh win of the season.

Colin Blackwell and Matt Duchene scored for Dallas.

KINGS 4, JETS 1

LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Rittich made 13 saves in his 100th career victory, and captain Anze Kopitar had a goal and an assist in Los Angeles’ victory over NHL-leading Winnipeg.

Phillip Danault and Kevin Fiala also scored, and Adrian Kempe added an empty-net goal for the Kings.

Gabriel Vilardi scored against his former team for the Jets, who have lost four of seven since their 15-1-0 start to the season. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 30 shots in the fourth game on Winnipeg’s six-game trip.

Rittich was Hellebuyck’s backup for the 2022-23 Jets.

SENATORS 4, SHARKS 3

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Adam Gaudette had two goals, including a late go-ahead score, Linus Ullmark made 36 saves and Ottawa beat San Jose with only 11 shots on goal.

Gaudette tipped a hard pass by Stutzle past Sharks goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood with 4:12 left for his fourth goal in as many games. San Jose had tied the game earlier in the period on goals by Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith.

Stutzle’s assist was his third of the game.

Ottawa scored twice on its first three shots to lead 2-0 after one period. Stutzle had assists on both, scored by Gaudette at even strength and Josh Norris on the power play.

Mario Ferraro also scored for San Jose. Tyler Kleven recorded his first NHL goal for the Senators.

AVALANCHE 2, KNIGHTS 1

DENVER (AP) — Valeri Nichushkin scored the only goal in a five-round shootout and also scored Colorado’s only goal in regulation as they beat Vegas.

Alexandar Georgiev made 18 saves through overtime and five more in the shootout as Colorado won for the seventh time in nine games.

Pavel Dorofeyev gave Vegas a 1-0 lead at 13:09 of the second period but Nichushkin tied it 33 seconds later with an unassisted goal.

Adin Hill made 33 saves and three more in the shootout until Nichushkin beat him to end the game.

Neither team was whistled for a penalty until Cale Makar took an interference minor at 3:37 of the third period.

DUCKS 5, KRAKEN 2

SEATTLE (AP) — John Gibson made a season-high 42 saves and Alex Killorn scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the second period as Anaheim defeated Seattle.

Killorn, Cutter Gauthier and Trevor Zegras each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who had dropped eight straight against Seattle. They rebounded from a 3-2 loss to the Kraken at home Monday night.

Frank Vatrano and Brett Leason scored in the first period for Anaheim.

Seattle erased the 2-0 deficit on goals from Eeli Tolvanen at 16:34 of the first and Oliver Bjorkstrand at 8:58 of the second. Joey Daccord stopped 28 shots.

Killorn put the Ducks ahead for good at 10:02 of the second with a wrist shot after Mason McTavish got the puck along the boards and Zegras found an open Killorn.

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