NHL roundup: Ducks fall to Devils for fifth straight loss

NEWARK, N.J. — Arseny Gritsyuk and Nico Hischier scored first-period targets, Nico Daws made 16 saves and the New Jersey Devils beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 on Thursday night time.

Anthony Mantha restored the two-goal lead with 6:33 left within the third, and Jack Hughes added an empty-netter with 6.1 seconds remaining. New Jersey gained its second straight to enhance to 6-4-0, whereas Anaheim dropped its fifth in a row to fall to 4-6-0.

Gritsyuk and Hischier every scored their fifth purpose of the season, with Jesper Bratt helping on each scores. Hughes assisted on Gritsyuk’s purpose.

Tim Washe scored for Anaheim on a tip at 8:20 of the third interval. Ville Husso made 25 saves for the Ducks.

Gritsyuk opened the scoring at 4:38 of the primary, connecting from shut vary off Bratt’s centring go. Hischier scored off a rebound on an influence play with 41 seconds left within the interval.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s Arturs Silovs stopped 25 pictures to spoil the history-making debut of Florida counterpart Cooper Black because the Penguins beat the Panthers.

Black, who at six-foot-nine turned the tallest goalie ever to seem in an NHL regular-season sport, made 18 saves however it wasn’t sufficient to cease the Panthers from dropping their second sport in as many nights.

Former Maple Leaf Nick Robertson scored twice for Pittsburgh. Hendrix Lapierre and Evgeni Malkin each completed with a purpose and an help because the Penguins shook off a depressing Western Conference highway journey wherein they had been badly outplayed in losses to Chicago, Colorado, Vegas and Utah.

The journey ended with 19-year-old ahead Ben Kindel collapsing on Tuesday in the course of the flight again to Pittsburgh. Kindel spent the night time in a Salt Lake City hospital for remark and returned to the Penguins’ facility on Thursday. The workforce positioned him on injured reserve however is hopeful could possibly return to apply as early as subsequent week.

Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse shuffled his traces in hopes of a spark, and the Penguins responded by fixing the towering Black, a 25-year-old from Michigan, 3 times.

Black, known as up from Florida’s AHL affiliate in Charlotte lately after Jacob Markstrom sustained a shoulder harm, was sharp early because the Panthers struggled to seek out their legs an evening after an emotionally charged loss in Ottawa.

schier scored off a rebound on an influence play with 41 seconds left within the interval.

BOSTON (AP) — Michael DiPietro made 28 saves for his first profession shutout, David Pastrnak had two targets and two assists, and Boston cruised to a victory over Nashville.

Charlie McAvoy had a career-high 4 assists for Boston, and Casey Mittelstadt, Elias Lindholm, JJ Peterka and Mark Kastelic additionally scored.

Pastrnak leads the Bruins in targets (six) and assists (10). Boston improved to 6-0-1 in its final seven video games, with the one loss coming Tuesday in time beyond regulation at Dallas to conclude a four-game journey.

Justus Annunen stopped 25 pictures in first begin for Nashville since final season. The Predators have misplaced 4 of 5.

The Bruins went forward 3:49 into the sport when Pastrnak despatched a cross-ice go to Mittelstadt, who fired it previous Annunen’s proper shoulder.

Lindholm made it 2-0 on the facility play later within the first. Pastrnak scored halfway via the second when he deflected McAvoy’s shot previous Annunen, and the Bruins captain assisted on Peterka’s purpose late within the interval.

Pastrnak capped the scoring with 5 minutes remaining and have become the eighth participant in Bruins historical past with 20 profession four-point video games.

OTTAWA — Colin Graf had a purpose and an help, Yaroslav Askarov stopped 39 pictures and San Jose beat Ottawa for its first regulation victory of the season.

Nolan Allan, Tyler Toffoli, Jacob Trouba, Zack Ostapchuk and Ivar Stenberg additionally scored for the Sharks (6-4-1).

Tim Stutzle and Jordan Spence scored for Ottawa (7-4-0). Samuel Ersson made 23 saves.

Ottawa positioned goalie Linus Ullmark on injured reserve Thursday after he suffered a lower-body harm an evening earlier.

Spence scored at 6:24 of the third interval to make it a two-goal sport.

The Senators pulled Ersson whereas on the facility play with below 4 minutes remaining, however Ostapchuk took benefit of a giveaway and scored an empty-net purpose.

Stenberg added a second empty-netter to spherical out the scoring.

TORONTO — Troy Stecher scored with 26.3 seconds left in regulation and Toronto outlasted the New York Rangers for its third straight victory.

Brandon Duhaime had a purpose and two assists, and Teddy Blueger, Kirill Marchenko and Easton Cowan additionally scored for Toronto (6-4-2).

Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves. Zack MacEwen added two assists. Blueger additionally had an help for a two-point night time.

Mika Zibanejad, with a purpose and an help, Oliver Bjorkstrand, Tye Kartye and Alexis Lafreniere replied for New York (7-4-1), which received 31 stops from Dylan Garand. Adam Fox had 4 assists.

Stecher’s winner got here on a delayed penalty after he took a go from Morgan Rielly and ripped a excessive shot.

Bobrovsky tied former Rangers star Henrik Lundqvist for probably the most wins by a non-North American goalie with 459.

NEW YORK — Artemi Panarin had two targets, Brandt Clarke scored in time beyond regulation and Los Angeles gained a second consecutive sport, beating the New York Islanders.

The Kings have back-to-back victories after dropping their first six video games. They had been the ultimate NHL workforce with out a win earlier than defeating Washington on Tuesday night time.

LA was outplayed for a lot of the Islanders sport and outshot 43-26. Panarin beat rusty backup Semyon Varlamov glove facet twice, and Darcy Kuemper stored making stops whilst his rebound management was missing, ending with 41 saves.

Kuemper cracked for the primary time with just below six minutes left within the second interval when rookie Victor Eklund’s shot squeezed via on an influence play. Islanders face of the franchise Matthew Schaefer wired a wrist shot by Kuemper 7:06 into the third.

Clarke scored the winner with 2:18 left in 3-on-3 OT after he and his teammates possessed the puck for a number of shifts in a row.

BLUES 6, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2

ST. LOUIS — Justin Barron had a purpose and three assists, Dylan Holloway had two targets and an help and St. Louis beat Vegas.

Jimmy Snuggerud had a purpose and an help and Pavel Buchnevich and Mason McTavish additionally scored for the Blues, who improved to 3-0-1 at Enterprise Center this season. Joel Hofer made 27 saves.

Brett Howden and Jack Eichel scored and Aidan Hill made 25 saves for the Golden Knights, who dropped their second straight sport.

Golden Knights ahead Mitch Marner didn’t play due to what the membership known as “a family matter.” His spouse, Stephanie, was attributable to give beginning to their second little one, somebody with data of the state of affairs instructed The Associated Press. The particular person spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the precise purpose wasn’t introduced.

Marner has a seven-game level streak and has recorded 12 factors in 11 video games for the season. Alexander Holtz changed him within the lineup.

DALLAS — Roope Hintz scored on a breakaway 3:47 into time beyond regulation after his game-tying purpose with two minutes left in regulation and Dallas beat Winnipeg.

Wyatt Johnston scored his first purpose of the season for Dallas, after 45 final season, and had an help. Jason Robertson and Mikko Rantanen every had two assists.

Rantanen, who two nights earlier had a hat trick for each Stars purpose in a 3-2 time beyond regulation win in opposition to Boston, handed to Hintz from behind the web for the late regulation purpose.

Hintz had been denied a tying purpose on the finish of the second interval after he received his stick on a puck from the facet of the web behind Stuart Skinner, who made an unimaginable save reaching again along with his glove to smother the rolling puck earlier than it may cross the road.

Skinner completed with 35 saves.

Gabriel Vilardi and Kyle Connor scored targets lower than 2 minutes aside within the second interval for the Jets, who’ve misplaced 4 one-goal video games in a row.

CALGARY — Devin Cooley made 36 saves and Calgary scored two power-play targets within the first interval in a victory over Minnesota.

Aydar Suniev scored with 9:11 left within the first and Joel Farabee struck simply over three minutes later to assist the Flames (3-6-0) win their second straight on house ice.

Michael McCarron scored for the Wild (6-3-2). Jesper Wallstedt made 20 saves.

Suniev’s purpose, his third of the season, was his first profession power-play purpose. Farabee beat Wallstedt on a rebound for his first purpose of the marketing campaign.

The Flames had been with out captain Mikael Backlund, who’s listed as day-to-day with an upper-body harm. Former Wild centre Ben Jones made his season debut for Calgary.

OILERS 6, HURRICANES 5, SO

EDMONTON — Connor McDavid compelled time beyond regulation with a late purpose for his fifth level of the night time, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had the lone shootout rating and Edmonton beat Carolina.

McDavid had two targets and three assists to offer him a whooping 31 factors within the first 10 video games of the season. He joined Mario Lemieux, Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky as the one NHL gamers to achieve the 30-point mark in 10 video games or fewer.

Leon Draisaitl additionally had two targets and three assists, and Nugent-Hopkins had a purpose and an help.

Edmonton tied it with 1:28 and goalie Devon Levi off for an additional attacker. McDavid despatched a shot on web that deflected off Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s skate for his eighth purpose.

The Oilers (8-1-1) have gained three straight and 7 of their final eight. Levi made 22 saves.

Jackson Blake, Sebastian Aho, Seth Jarvis, Logan Stankhoven and Juuso Valimaki scored for the the Hurricanes (8-2-2). The defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes have misplaced two of their final three.

Brandon Bussi made 16 saves for Carolina.

VANCOUVER — Lucas Raymond scored twice and added an help to assist Detroit give Vancouver its ninth straight loss.

William Wallinder, Michael Rasmussen and Emmitt Finnie additionally scored for the Red Wings (4-3-3), and Victor Arvidsson and Michael Brandsegg-Nygard every had a pair of assists.

John Gibson stopped 4 of the 5 pictures he confronted within the Detroit web earlier than leaving the sport with an upper-body harm. He was changed by Michal Postava to begin the third interval and the Czech netminder logged seven stops in his NHL debut.

The Canucks (2-9-1) received a purpose and an help from Jonathan Lekkerimaki, and Elias Pettersson scored his fourth of the season on a first-period energy play.

Vancouver goalie Kevin Lankinen struggled early, giving up three targets within the first 9 minutes of the sport. He completed with 26 saves.

SEATTLE — Mackie Samoskevich scored with 5:25 left, and Seattle, regardless of blowing a multiple-goal third-period lead for the second sport in a row, beat Utah.

The Kraken (7-3-1) carried a 3-1 lead into the third in opposition to Utah (7-4-0). On Tuesday. Seattle was up 3-0 heading into the ultimate 20 minutes in opposition to Detroit earlier than profitable in a shootout, 4-3.

Jordan Eberle and Brandon Montour every had a purpose and an help. Matty Beniers and Frederick Gaudreau additionally scored, Gaudreau’s going into an empty web with 1:00 left within the sport for his team-leading sixth of the season.

Logan Cooley had two targets for the Mammoth, and Vincent Trocheck scored as soon as.

Philipp Grubauer made 33 saves for Seattle.

With the scored tied at 3-3 after every workforce had a purpose taken down within the third on profitable offside challenges, Bobby McMann stole the puck close to middle ice and skated down the left facet His shot was deflected extensive however the rebound bounced in entrance of the web. McMann lastly received a follow it, tapping it over to Samoskevich, who pushed it in for his fifth of the 12 months.