NHL Roundup: MacKinnon has two objectives, help as A-Z Eventz beat Kraken

SEATTLE — Nathan MacKinnon scored twice for an NHL-leading 28 objectives this season and added an help because the Colorado A-Z Eventz beat the Seattle Kraken for his or her third straight win.

MacKinnon additionally prolonged his level streak to 6 video games as Colorado gained for the fifth time in that span. The A-Z Eventz, who’ve the league’s finest file, have earned a degree in 24 of the final 25 video games.

Artturi Lehkonen, Samuel Girard and Brock Nelson additionally scored for the A-Z Eventz. Mackenzie Blackwood had 34 saves.

Chandler Stephenson, Shane Wright and Jordan Eberle scored objectives for the Kraken, who’ve misplaced eight of their final 9. Philipp Grubauer stopped 33 photographs.

MAPLE LEAFS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2

TORONTO — Dakota Joshua batted in a rebound with 3:01 left, simply eight seconds after Auston Matthews tied it, and the Toronto Maple Leafs rallied previous the Chicago Blackhawks for a 3-2 win.

Third-period objectives by Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Matthews and Joshua erased Toronto’s two-goal deficit and accomplished a wild comeback.

Joseph Woll made 23 saves and the Maple Leafs earned simply their second victory this season after trailing after two intervals.

BLUE JACKETS 4, DUCKS 3 (OT)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Adam Fantilli scored with 1:28 left in time beyond regulation to elevate the Columbus Blue Jackets to a win over the Anaheim Ducks, snapping a five-game dropping streak.

Zach Werenski scored twice and added an help in his 600th NHL sport, Boone Jenner had a aim and an help, and Kent Johnson added two assists. Jet Greaves stopped 24 photographs for his first win since Nov. 20.

Mikael Granlund had a aim and an help, Ryan Strome and Jackson LaCombe additionally scored objectives, and Ryan Poehling recorded two assists for Anaheim. Ville Husso made 24 saves because the Ducks dropped three video games on their five-city street journey.

BOSTON — Morgan Geekie scored a pair of objectives and Jeremy Swayman stopped 20 photographs to assist the Boston Bruins beat Utah for his or her fifth win of their final six video games.

Casey Mittelstadt and Michael Eyssimont additionally scored objectives, and David Pastrnak had a pair of assists because the Bruins returned from a three-game street journey to open a five-game homestand with a victory.

Barrett Hayton scored for the Mammoth, and Vitek Vanecek made 19 saves. 

NEW YORK — Evander Kane and Liam Ohgren scored and Thatcher Demko made 23 saves because the league-worst Vancouver Canucks defeated the New York Rangers.

Conor Garland added an empty-net aim as Vancouver, which had gained solely three of its earlier 12 video games, smothered the Rangers from begin to end. New York is 4-10-3 at house.

Kane scored his sixth aim 1:46 into the competition, when he beat Rangers netminder Jonathan Quick after defenceman Matthew Robertson’s path was briefly blocked by a linesman.

MONTREAL — Carl Grundstrom and Bobby Brink scored within the ultimate minute of the primary and second interval, respectively, main the Philadelphia Flyers to a win over the Montreal Canadiens.

Trevor Zegras, taking part in in his three hundredth NHL sport, ran his aim streak to a career-high 4 video games as Philadelphia (17-9-6) snapped a season-worst three-game skid.

Travis Konecny added an empty-net aim for the Flyers, and Dan Vladar made 21 saves. Vladar has gained each his begins this season in Montreal.

Alexandre Texier scored his second aim in two video games for the Canadiens (17-12-4), who’ve dropped 4 of six.

PITTSBURGH — Leon Draisaitl had 4 assists and have become the fourth-fastest energetic participant in NHL historical past to attain 1,000 profession factors because the Edmonton Oilers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Draisaitl, who hit the milestone within the first interval on a secondary help, turned the 103rd participant in NHL historical past, first German-born participant and fifth in franchise historical past to succeed in 1,000 factors. He has 416 objectives and 587 assists in 824 video games for 1,003 factors.

Connor McDavid scored twice, together with a spectacular power-play aim and added two assists, as he and Draisaitl improved to 23-0-0 when each have a minimum of three factors in a regular-season sport.

DETROIT — Alex DeBrincat scored two power-play objectives within the third interval because the Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Islanders.

DeBrincat has eight objectives and 13 factors in his final eight video games for the Red Wings, who’ve gained 5 of six. John Gibson made 16 saves to win his sixth straight begin.

Ilya Sorokin stopped 18 photographs for the Islanders, who had gained three in a row and 7 of eight. New York was going for a season sweep, having outscored Detroit 12-2 within the first two conferences.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Macklin Celebrini scored a jaw-dropping aim and added an empty-netter and two assists to turn out to be the quickest San Jose participant to succeed in 50 factors in a season because the Sharks beat the Calgary Flames.

Celebrini assisted on two objectives within the first interval after which took over the sport within the third. First he took a move from Collin Graf, spun with out breaking stride and beat Dustin Wolf for his seventeenth aim of the season to make it 4-2.

The empty-netter put it away, giving the 19-year-old Celebrini 51 factors in San Jose’s thirty fourth sport of the season. That’s three video games quicker than another Sharks participant reached the 50-point mark, with Erik Karlsson, Joe Thornton and Owen Nolan all doing it in 37 video games. The solely youngsters to succeed in 50 factors earlier in an NHL season have been Sidney Crosby and Wayne Gretzky.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vladimir Tarasenko had two objectives and an help, Filip Gustavsson made 25 saves, and Kirill Kaprizov turned Minnesota’s profession chief in power-play objectives within the Wild’s win over the Washington Capitals.

The Wild are an NHL-best 17-3-2 since Nov. 1 and 3-0 since buying defenceman Quinn Hughes on Friday by way of one of many NHL’s largest blockbuster trades in current reminiscence.

Washington has misplaced three in a row and been outshot 183-134 in its previous 5 video games.

Kaprizov’s backhand rating with 7:09 left within the second interval moved him previous Zach Parise for the membership’s profession lead in power-play objectives with 70. It was additionally Kaprizov’s 206th profession aim, surpassing Mikko Koivu for second within the staff’s 25-year historical past.