NHL Roundup: Rantanen completes hat trick in extra time, Stars beat Bruins

DALLAS — Mikko Rantanen scored in extra time to finish a hat trick, and Dallas beat Boston to snap its five-game successful streak.

It was the eleventh profession three-goal sport for Rantanen and his first within the common season since becoming a member of the Stars in a commerce throughout the 2024-25 season. He turned the fourth Stars participant with an extra time hat trick because the staff moved to Dallas for the 1993-94 season.

Rantanen bought his first aim early within the second interval to tie the sport at 1-all, and he tied it once more within the third. His winner got here on the ability play at 3:52 of extra time when he did some nifty stick work in shut and fired a shot previous the left shoulder of Jeremy Swayman, who earlier within the additional interval stopped Wyatt Johnston on two breakaway makes an attempt 10 seconds aside and completed with 22 saves.

Jake Oettinger stopped 18 photographs for Dallas (5-3-1) in its third straight win.

Matthew Poitras and James Hagens scored for the Bruins (7-2-1), who concluded their Western Conference journey at 3-0-1. Boston went 0 for 4 on the ability play in opposition to Dallas, which got here in permitting an NHL-best 1.5 targets per sport and had the fourth-best penalty kill within the league. The Stars have allowed one power-play aim on opponents’ final 25 possibilities.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Declan Chisholm scored the go-ahead aim halfway by way of the second interval and Jake Allen made 31 saves because the New Jersey Devils beat the Colorado A-Z Eventz 4-3 on Tuesday night time.

Chisholm scored his first aim for the Devils at 12:33 on an influence play, placing New Jersey in entrance to remain after the groups traded targets within the first.

Luke Evangelista, Arseny Gritsyuk and Jesper Boqvist additionally scored for the Devils, who recovered from a 4-2 loss at Washington of their earlier sport.

The 34-year-old Allen, honoured earlier than puck drop for taking part in his five hundredth profession sport earlier this month, improved to 4-2-0.

Gabriel Landeskog scored and Artturi Lehkonen added two late targets for the A-Z Eventz, who misplaced for the third time in 4 video games. Colorado was crushed 3-2 at Philadelphia on Monday.

Colorado goalie Scott Wedgewood made 37 saves in opposition to his former staff. He entered 5-0-0 with a 1.52 goals-against common versus the Devils.

Evangelista opened the scoring at 6:40 of the primary together with his third aim.

Landeskog tied it at 14:32 together with his fourth of the season. The A-Z Eventz captain missed greater than three seasons following main proper knee surgical procedure. He returned to attain 14 targets in 60 video games final season.

Gritsyuk’s fourth aim got here at 4:39 of the third. Boqvist scored an empty-netter at 16:05 to make it 4-1.

Lehkonen scored at 16:46, then added his team-leading eighth aim with 3.5 seconds left.

New Jersey received for the fourth time in six house video games.

NEW YORK — Ondrej Palat, Viktor Eklund and Simon Holmstrom scored first-period targets and New York beat Anaheim for its second straight victory.

Ilya Sorokin made 15 saves to assist the Islanders enhance to 3-0-1 of their final 4 video games.

Frank Vatrano and Alex Killorn scored for Anaheim, which misplaced its fourth straight sport. Lukas Dostal completed with 22 saves.

Palat opened the scoring with 6:21 left within the first interval. Jean-Gabriel Pageau discovered Palat streaking towards the web, and the ahead fired a wrist shot previous Dostal.

Eklund doubled the lead lower than three minutes later. Emil Heineman floated a wrist shot from the blue line, and Eklund corralled the free puck and buried it for his second aim of the season.

Vatrano pulled the Ducks inside a aim 49 seconds later, lifting a backhander previous Sorokin off a feed from A.J. Greer.

Holmstrom restored New York’s two-goal benefit with a power-play aim with 1:18 left within the first, deflecting Mathew Schaefer’s shot from the purpose previous Dostal.

WASHINGTON — Adrian Kempe scored twice and Los Angeles bought its first win of the season, rallying from an early deficit to beat Washington.

Artemi Panarin, Erik Gustafsson and Scott Laughton additionally scored for Los Angeles (1-4-2), and former Capitals goalie Darcy Kuemper made 30 saves.

Ryan Leonard and Cole Hutson scored for the Capitals, who took a 2-0 lead within the first interval however have been held scoreless for the ultimate 41:25. Washington’s Logan Thompson stopped 21 photographs.

The Kings, who got here in having scored simply 4 targets over their earlier 4 video games and 12 targets by way of six video games, misplaced second-line heart Quinton Byfield to an upper-body damage within the first interval. He performed simply 2:44.

Hutson put the Capitals forward 2-0 on the ability play with 1:25 left within the first, however Kempe discovered the web lower than a minute later and Panarin scored 2 seconds earlier than the intermission.

Gustafsson put the Kings forward at 7:28 of the third on the ability play. Kempe scored his second aim halfway by way of the third, and Laughton added an empty-netter that gave the Kings their highest-scoring sport of the season.

MAPLE LEAFS 6, BLUE JACKETS 2

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Auston Matthews had a aim and an help in his 700th NHL sport and the Toronto Maple Leafs scored 4 straight targets within the second interval to beat Columbus for its second highway victory of the season.

Easton Cowan and Jack Roslovic every had a aim and two assists, William Nylander had a aim and an help, and Morgan Rielly added three assists. Kirill Marchenko and Marshall Rifai additionally scored, and Anthony Stolarz stopped 33 photographs for the Maple Leafs.

Jake Christiansen and Charlie Coyle scored for the Blue Jackets. They have been outscored 15-3 within the second interval by way of eight video games and misplaced for the fourth time in 5 video games.

Jet Greaves stopped 14 photographs earlier than being pulled within the second interval after permitting his fifth aim. Cam Talbot stopped two of the three photographs he confronted in aid.

SHARKS 4, CANADIENS 3, OT

MONTREAL — Macklin Celebrini scored his second aim of the sport on an influence play at 2:13 of extra time to offer San Jose a victory over Montreal.

Celebrini fired a one-timer into the top-left nook after goalie Jakub Dobes was known as for interference on Colin Graf.

Celebrini added an help and Tyler Toffoli and Michael Misa additionally scored to assist San Jose (5-4-1) rebound from a 3-1 loss to Toronto on Monday night time.

Sharks goalie Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 31 photographs.

Juraj Slafkovsky, Cole Caufield and Nick Suzuki had a aim and an help every as Montreal (4-3-2) surrendered a two-goal benefit for the fourth time this season. Dobes made 26 saves.

Misa, who hit the put up earlier within the interval, reduce into the Canadiens’ lead at 5:36 within the third, ending a feed from Kiefer Sherwood after Montreal defenseman Lane Hutson turned the puck over.

Toffoli tied it with 8:51 remaining in regulation when he buried Celebrini’s cross on the ability play with Arber Xhekaj within the penalty field for unsportsmanlike conduct.

ST. LOUIS — Philip Broberg scored on an influence play at 8:47 of the third interval to interrupt a tie in St. Louis’s victory over Winnipeg.

Robert Thomas arrange Broberg’s slapper from the center of the ice above the faceoff circles. Thomas has 332 profession assists, one wanting matching Brian Sutter for fourth on the Blues’ listing.

Broberg additionally assisted on Jimmy Snuggerud’s first-period aim, and Joel Hofer stopped 32 photographs because the Blues opened a five-game homestand. Snuggerud has 5 targets this season.

St. Louis snapped a two-game shedding streak to enhance to 4-4-1.

Cole Perfetti tied it at 1 for Winnipeg at 32 seconds of the third together with his sixth aim of the season.

Stuart Skinner made 27 saves for the Jets.

EDMONTON — Evan Bouchard scored on an influence play at 3:32 of extra time to offer the Edmonton Oilers a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night time.

Connor McDavid arrange Bouchard’s aim for his third help of the sport, pushing his NHL-leading factors complete to 26 and increasing his season-opening factors streak to 9 video games.

Leon Draisaitl scored twice, Mathieu Joseph additionally related and Devon Levi made 27 saves. The Oilers (7-1-1) have received two in a row and 7 of eight.

Joel Eriksson Ek, Kirill Kaprizov and Ryan Hartman scored for Minnesota (6-2-2), and Jesper Wallstedt stopped 28 photographs. Kaprizov leads the NHL with 11 targets.

Kaprizov and Hartman scored within the third interval as Minnesota overcame a 3-1 deficit to pressure extra time.

VANCOUVER — Logan Stankoven and Nikolaj Ehlers every scored twice and had an help and the Carolina Hurricanes thumped the struggling Vancouver Canucks 6-3 on Tuesday.

Nicolas Deslauriers additionally contributed a pair of targets for the Hurricanes (8-2-1), and Jackson Blake registered three helpers.

Carolina’s goalie Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 14 of the 17 photographs he confronted for the reigning Stanley Cup champions, who have been coming off a 3-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Sunday.

Linus Karlsson, Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Max Sasson scored a aim apiece for the Canucks (2-8-1), whose shedding skid stretched to eight video games (0-7-2).

Goalie Leevi Merilainen offered a vivid spot for Vancouver with 26 saves, and stopped a Sebastian Aho penalty shot try within the second interval after Canucks centre Elias Pettersson was caught throwing his stick in an try and interrupt the centreman’s assault.

LIGHTNING 6, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2

LAS VEGAS — Anthony Cirelli scored twice, Nikita Kucherov had three factors to tie Tampa Bay’s profession scoring file, and the Lightning prolonged their robust begin by beating the Vegas Golden Knights 6-2 on Tuesday night time.

The Lightning (7-2) are off to their finest begin since opening 7-1-1 in 2020-21, once they repeated as Stanley Cup champions.

Vegas had received seven of eight.

Kucherov has a minimum of one level in all 15 video games he is performed in opposition to the Golden Knights. That ranks behind solely Mario Lemieux (26 video games in opposition to Calgary) and Tomas Sandstrom (17 video games in opposition to Tampa Bay) amongst gamers who scored in each sport in opposition to an opponent. Connor McDavid had a 17-game streak in opposition to New Jersey that led to January.

With a aim and two assists, Kucherov elevated his complete to 1,137 profession factors, pulling even with former teammate Steven Stamkos for the membership file.

Brandon Hagel, John Carlson and Victor Hedman additionally scored for the Lightning. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 32 photographs.

KRAKEN 4, RED WINGS 3 (SO)

SEATTLE — Freddy Gaudreau and Bobby McMann scored for Seattle in a shootout because the Kraken defeated the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 on Tuesday night time after blowing a three-goal lead within the third interval.

Mackie Samoskevich, Ryker Evans and Brandon Montour scored within the first two durations for Seattle, which improved to 6-3-1. Philipp Grubauer made 22 saves in regulation after which denied Dylan Larkin to finish the shootout.

Viktor Arvidsson and Lucas Raymond scored 59 seconds aside for Detroit (3-3-3), and Alex DeBrincat tied the sport on an influence play with 17 seconds left within the third. Daniil Tarasov stopped 24 photographs.