Devon Toews scored 48 seconds into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Buffalo Sabers 6-5 in Denver on Thursday night to extend their winning streak to six games.
Jonathan Drouin scored with 7.7 seconds remaining to send the game into overtime. Toews also had two assists, Calle Makar scored two goals, Mikko Rantanen and Drouin each had a goal and an assist, Ross Colton provided a goal and Nathan MacKinnon had three assists for Colorado.
The Avalanche won despite an injury to goaltender Scott Wedgwood. Wedgwood suffered the injury 1:27 into the third period when Jack Benson tackled Colorado’s Parker Kelly near the net and fell on Wedgwood’s right leg. The goaltender fell into his own net, play continued, and Benson scored moments later to give Buffalo a 4–2 lead.
Wedgwood was forced off the ice after making 14 of 18 shots. He was replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood, who missed two of the three shots he faced. Jason Zucker recorded his third career hat trick and also added an assist, Benson and Bowen Byrum also scored, Tage Thompson had three assists and Luukkonen made 23 saves for Buffalo.
Canucks 4, Kraken 3 (SO)
JT Miller scored the only shootout goal as Vancouver defeated host Seattle for its second win in the last seven games (2-2-3).
Max Sasson, Connor Garland and Tyler Myers scored in regulation for the Canucks, and Thatcher Demko shot 11 of 12 before leaving in the second period after suffering an apparent lower-body injury in a collision with teammate Noah Juulson. Stopped the shots. Kevin Lankinen came in and made 13 saves on 15 shots.
Matty Beniers and Vince Dunn each had a goal and an assist and Chandler Stephenson also scored for Seattle, which snapped a two-game winning streak. Philipp Grubauer, making his third consecutive start for the injured Joey Daccord (upper body), stopped 19 of 22 attempts.
Hurricanes 3, Panthers 1
Jacob Slavin scored with 7:30 remaining to break the tie and lift Carolina over Florida in Sunrise, Florida, avenging two upset losses from the previous month.
Brent Burns had the first Carolina goal and Martin Necas added an empty-netter with 28 seconds to play. The Hurricanes won for only the second time in their last 10 road games (2-6-2). Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 25 shots.
Anton Lundell scored for the Panthers and Sergei Bobrovsky had a stellar effort with 37 saves in the Florida goal. The Panthers’ consecutive wins against the Hurricanes in mid-December came by a combined score of 12–3, including a 6–0 blanking.
Wild 4, Capitals 3 (SO)
Matt Boldy scored in the second round of the shootout to put visiting Minnesota ahead of Washington.
Boldy bounced back in the shootout with a shot past Charlie Lindgren and hitting the post at the end of overtime. Marc-Andre Fleury kept the win by showing his glove and preventing Alex Ovechkin from finishing the game.
Tom Wilson and Martin Fehrvary also scored a goal apiece, and Lindgren made 30 saves for the Capitals. Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman had a goal and an assist, Marco Rossi and Yakov Trenin also scored, and Fleury had 28 shots.
Rangers 2, Bruins 1
Jonathan Quick made 32 saves and recorded his 399th career win in the regular season as host New York defeated Boston to snap a four-game losing streak.
Promoted as New York’s No. 1 goaltender for at least three games until Igor Shesterkin returned from an upper-body injury, Quick earned his first win since November 30. He is one away from joining Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury and Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky. Third active goaltender to reach 400 career wins.
Mika Zibanejad and rookie Brett Berard scored 3:05 apart in the first period after a slow start for the Rangers. Quick was defeated by Elias Lindholm at 7:57 of the second minute. Boston goaltender Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves.
Ducks 4, Jets 3 (OT)
Troy Terry scored his second goal of the game with 1:26 remaining in overtime to put visiting Anaheim over Winnipeg.
Terry also had an assist, Radko Gudas had a goal and an assist, Leo Carlson also scored and John Gibson made 27 saves and got an assist on the game-winner for the Ducks, who finished with their third consecutive win. Equaled the season’s high.
Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist, Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry also scored, Josh Morrissey had two assists and Connor Hellebuyck made 20 saves for the Jets, who have lost two in a row (0-1-1).
Maple Leafs 2, Islanders 1
Bobby McMann scored twice, including the game-winner on the power play with 2:59 remaining in regulation, as Toronto defeated New York in Elmont, NY.
Joseph Woll (32 saves) got full support from McMann in his third two-goal game of the season as the Maple Leafs won for the third time in four games.
Scott Mayfield recorded his second goal of the season for the Islanders, who have lost three in a row. Ilya Sorokin stopped 29 shots.
Red Wings 5, Blue Jackets 4
Jonathan Berggren’s goal with 36 seconds remaining broke the tie and gave visiting Detroit the win over Columbus.
Alex DeBrincat had a goal and two assists, Dylan Larkin and Patrick Kane each had a goal and an assist, and Eric Gustafsson also scored for Detroit, which improved to 3–1–0 under new coach Todd McClellan. Got improved. Cam Talbot stopped 21 shots.
James van Riemsdyk had two goals and an assist, Zack Werenski had a goal and two assists and Sean Monahan got the second marker for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins made 21 saves.
Stars 4, Senators 2
Rupe Hintz scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal midway through the second period, and stingy Dallas won its third consecutive game over visiting Ottawa.
With Dallas trailing 2–1, Jamie Benn and Hintz scored at a span of 1:08 of the second minute. Matt Duchene added some third-period insurance with a goal to make up for the first assist, while Jason Robertson and Wyatt Johnston each had two assists for Dallas, which improved to 4-0-1 in its last five games. . Jake Oettinger made 11 saves.
Brady Tkachuk scored and assisted on Ridley Gregg’s goal for the Senators, who were limited to their second-fewest shots on goal this season. Levi Merilainen made 21 saves for Ottawa, which went 0-4 on the power play and started 2025 on a bad note after going 9-3-1 in December.
Utah 5, Flames 3
Lawson Crouse scored twice, including the game-winning tally, and Clayton Keller collected a goal and an assist to lead the Utah Hockey Club to a win in Calgary.
Logan Cooley and Kevin Stenlund also scored, while Olli Maatta had two assists for Utah, which snapped a five-game losing streak (0-4-1). Karel Vejmelka made 23 saves.
Blake Coleman responded with a goal and an assist, while Connor Zary and Brayden Pachal also scored for the Flames. Dan Vladar stopped 21 shots, including Alexander Kerfoot’s penalty shot in the third period.
Golden Knights 5, Flyers 2
Ilya Samsonov made 23 saves to earn the win in his fifth consecutive start and Pavel Dorofeyev scored the game-winner on a three-goal second period as Vegas rallied to defeat Philadelphia in Las Vegas.
Mark Stone had a goal and an assist, Nicholas Hague, Alexander Holtz and Tanner Pearson also scored and Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin had two assists each for Vegas, who is 5-0 in their last six meetings with the Flyers. Improved to -1.
Tyson Foster and Travis Konecny scored for Philadelphia. Alexei Kolosov finished with 22 saves.
shark 2, lightning 1
Mario Ferraro battled back and scored the game-winning goal, Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored a point in his season debut, and San Jose snapped an eight-game losing streak (0-7-1) by visiting Tampa Bay.
Ferraro put the home team up 2-0 in the second period after fighting off Mitchell Chaffee in the first frame. Tyler Toffoli also scored for San Jose. Vlašić returned after missing the first 40 games of the season due to an upper back injury.
In a matchup of Russian goaltenders, San Jose’s Yaroslav Askarov made 24 saves to edge Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy (23 saves). Anthony Cirelli scored the Lightning’s only goal.
–Field Level Media
