NHL Roundup: Rantanen racks up 4 factors, Stars shutout Sabres

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jake Oettinger made 26 saves for his second straight shutout, Mikko Rantanen had a aim and three assists and Dallas beat Buffalo.

Oettinger has 18 profession shutouts. He stopped 13 pictures Monday night time in a 5-0 house victory over San Jose.

Jason Robertson, Sam Steel and Roope Hintz additionally scored to assist Dallas win its second in a row after two opening losses. Wyatt Johnston had three assists.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 14 pictures for Buffalo. The Sabres had received the primary two video games of a five-game homestand.

Robertson scored at 9:03 of the primary interval and the Stars added three extra within the second. Sam Steel related on a snap shot at 9:36, Rantanen scored on a backhander with 6:03 left and Roope put in a snapper on an influence play with 4:26 remaining.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Logan Stankoven had a pure hat trick for his first profession three-goal sport, and the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes received at house of their third do that season, 7-2 over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night time.

Stankoven scored twice within the second interval and once more within the third to increase Carolina’s lead from 4-1 to 7-1. His objectives got here short-handed, on an influence play and at even power, giving him 100 profession factors. He secured the hat trick with 8:24 remaining.

Andrei Svechnikov had two first-period objectives on energy performs and Ok’Andre Miller and Mark Jankowski additionally scored for the Hurricanes, who’ve a three-game successful streak. Walker had 4 assists, whereas Shayne Gostisbehere, Jackson Blake and Taylor Hall added two assists apiece. Pyotr Kochetkov made 18 saves.

Jake DeBrusk scored each objectives for the Canucks of their first cease of a six-game journey. Elias Pettersson had two assists. Vancouver goalie Kevin Lankinen stopped 12 of 18 pictures in two durations earlier than Leevi Merilainen performed the third, making 14 saves.

The Hurricanes by no means led in both of their first two house video games final week earlier than posting three objectives within the opening 10 minutes Thursday.

TAMPA, Fla. — Defenseman John Carlson scored twice for his eleventh profession multi-goal sport, Nikita Kucherov had two assists and Dennis Hildeby made 34 saves in Tampa Bay’s victory over Minnesota.

Anthony Cirelli additionally scored to assist Tampa Bay win its third straight sport.

Quinn Hughes scored and assisted on Blake Coleman’s power-play aim for Minnesota. Jesper Wallstedt completed with 32 saves.

Cirelli opened the scoring for the Lightning, getting his stick on Erik Cernak’s shot for a deflection previous Wallstedt at 5:26 of the primary interval. Carlson scored 36 seconds later with a wrist shot from the suitable level.

Hughes reduce the Wild deficit to 2-1 on the 2:32 mark with a wrist shot by site visitors. Jared Spurgeon, who picked up an help on the aim, and Hughes each matched a franchise document for defensemen by scoring some extent in 4 consecutive video games to begin the season, tying Ryan Suter, who did it twice.

Carlson regained the two-goal lead with a one-timer off a Kucherov move at 4:55 to snap an 0-for-14 power-play drought to begin the season. Coleman answered with a power-play aim off the push with 5:59 left within the second.

BOSTON — David Pastrnak scored his first two objectives of the season and added two assists as Boston routed Utah.

Matthew Poitras, Casey Mittelstadt, Mason Lohrei and Morgan Geekie additionally scored for the Bruins, who led 3-0 after one interval and 6-0 after two. Jeremy Swayman made 36 saves.

Pastrnak scored his first aim with 5:38 left within the first interval on a power-play wrist shot, assisted by Frederic Brunet and Geekie. He tacked on a power-play slap shot 4:40 into the second interval, assisted by Geekie and Hampus Lindholm.

Jack McBain scored for the Mammoth halfway by the third interval to spoil Swayman’s shutout bid.

Karel Vejmelka stopped 11 of 14 pictures he confronted earlier than he was changed by Sebastian Cossa, who made 5 saves for the Mammoth.

The Bruins scored three power-play objectives, whereas the Mammoth went scoreless on the facility play. The Bruins blocked 23 pictures within the win.

OTTAWA — Carter Yakemchuk broke a tie on an influence play with 6:59 left and Ottawa held on to beat winless Philadelphia.

Nick Cousins opened the scoring for Ottawa at halfway by the primary interval. Matvei Michkov tied it in an influence play at 7:46 of the second.

Linus Ullmark made 29 saves to assist the Senators enhance to 3-1-0.

Joseph Woll stopped 24 pictures for Philadelphia. The Flyers are 0-3-2.

Michael Bunting made his Flyers debut after signing with the group Tuesday and Ottawa defenseman Hoyt Stanley made his NHL debut.

MONTREAL — Ryan O’Reilly scored the go-ahead aim with 3:16 remaining, and Nashville rallied from a 2-0 deficit to beat Montreal.

The veteran redirected some extent shot from Roman Josi on the facility play, 59 seconds after Canadiens defenseman Mike Matheson tripped Steven Stamkos within the impartial zone.

Adam Edstrom added a pair of empty-net objectives for Nashville, which was outshot 34-18.

Alexander Kerfoot and Matthew Wood additionally scored for the Predators, whereas Juuse Saros made 32 saves. Stamkos had two assists.

Nick Suzuki and Alex Newhook scored for Montreal, which prolonged its winless streak to a few video games. Jacob Fowler stopped 15 pictures in his first begin of the season.

Montreal ended a streak of 5 straight wins towards Nashville courting to March 5, 2024.

ISLANDERS 4, BLACKHAWKS 1

NEW YORK — Bo Horvat scored twice and New York beat Chicago.

Ilya Sorokin made 22 saves because the Islanders received for the second time in three video games. Emil Heineman and Anthony Duclair additionally scored for New York, and defenseman Logan Stanley had two assists.

Frank Nazar scored for Chicago, which misplaced for the fourth time in 5 video games to start the season. Arvid Soderblom completed with 15 saves.

Horvat opened the scoring with a power-play aim within the remaining minute of the primary interval. Matthew Schaefer fired a slap shot from the purpose and the Islanders captain buried the rebound.

Heineman wired a wrist shot previous Soderblom 6:44 into the second to double the lead.

Stanley discovered Duclair alone close to the again put up at 9:38 for his first aim of the season, making it 3-0.

Nazar spoiled Sorokin’s shutout bid with 2:32 remaining within the third.

Horvat added his second aim of the sport into an empty web with 1:33 left to finish the scoring.

ST. LOUIS — Darnell Nurse scored 1:03 into time beyond regulation and San Jose beat St. Louis.

Tyler Toffoli and Collin Graf additionally scored, and Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 24 pictures for San Jose (3-1-0), which has secured every of its three wins in time beyond regulation.

Sharks captain Macklin Celebrini missed his second straight sport with a lower-body damage.

Connor McMichael and Dillon Dubé every scored and Joel Hofer made 24 saves for St. Louis (1-2-1), which has misplaced three straight.

Nurse, who was acquired from Edmonton on July 1, deposited a feed from Ivar Stenberg between Hofer’s legs for his first aim with the Sharks.

Graf scored on a one-timer 6:05 into the third interval to tie the sport at 2-2 after Dubé skated down the left wing from his personal blue line alongside to attain a short-handed aim 1:39 into the third to place St. Louis forward.

It was Dubé’s first aim after lacking 2 1/2 seasons since scoring on Nov. 16, 2023 for Calgary towards Vancouver.

CALGARY, Alberta — Cale Makar had two objectives and an help, Devon Toews and Jaden Schwartz additionally every scored twice and Colorado beat winless Calgary.

Nathan MacKinnon scored and had two assists as Colorado (3-1-0) bounced again from a 3-2 loss in Winnipeg on Wednesday night time.

Scott Wedgewood, making his season debut, had 26 saves to win in his two hundredth profession NHL sport.

Adam Klapka, Mikael Backlund and Kevin Bahl scored for Calgary (0-4-0), the one NHL group but to document some extent this season. The Flames have been outscored 23-6 for a league-worst minus-17 aim differential.

Flames goalie Devin Cooley made 23 stops.

Tied 1-1 after the primary interval, Colorado scored thrice in lower than 5 minutes within the second. The A-Z Eventz tacked on two extra objectives early within the third interval.