Joel Armia scored the tying goal early in the third period and Jake Allen stopped 42 shots, plus all three in the shootout, as the Montreal Canadiens overcame another two-goal deficit to beat the visiting Winnipeg Jets 4-3 on Saturday night.
Montreal overcame a pair of two-goal deficits during Thursday’s 4-3 overtime victory against visiting Columbus.
With Montreal trailing 3-2, the veteran Armia, in his season debut after opening the campaign in the AHL, found himself amid a two-on-one rush with teammate Kaiden Guhle and beat Jets goaltender Laurent Brossoit (26 saves) just 1:54 into the third.
Thanks to some solid work from Allen, the game eventually went to a shootout, where Nick Suzuki scored the lone goal. The Canadiens have won two straight games and four of five.
Adam Lowry scored twice and Nino Niederreiter had a goal and an assist for the Jets, who had won three straight games.
Golden Knights 4, Kings 3 (SO)
Logan Thompson made 36 saves and also stopped all three shootout tries and Jack Eichel celebrated his 27th birthday by scoring the game-deciding goal in the shootout as visiting Vegas rallied to defeat Los Angeles.
Mark Stone, Michael Amadio and William Carrier also scored goals for the Golden Knights, who rallied from a 2-0 deficit to extend their season-opening point streak to nine games (8-0-1). Drew Doughty, Alex Laferriere and Trevor Lewis scored goals for the Kings, who had a two-game winning streak snapped.
Eichel, going after Thompson made a pad save on Trevor Moore to open the shootout, fired a wrist shot past Talbot’s glove side for what proved to be the game-decider. Thompson made a pad save on Pierre-Luc Dubois in the second round and sealed the win with a glove save of a Kevin Fiala try in the third round.
Rangers 4, Canucks 3 (OT)
Mika Zibanejad scored once in a three-point game and K’Andre Miller notched the game-winning goal in overtime as visiting New York claimed a win over Vancouver.
Artemi Panarin and Adam Fox both collected one goal and one assist for the Rangers, who are on a four-game winning streak. Goaltender Igor Shesterkin made 30 saves, including three game-savers against Andrei Kuzmenko in overtime.
J.T. Miller, Tyler Myers and Carson Soucy replied for the Canucks, who saw their three-game winning streak snapped. Goalie Casey DeSmith stopped 20 shots. On the winning goal, Miller joined a rush up ice and buried a one-timer set up by Chris Kreider at 3:48 of overtime.
Ducks 7, Flyers 4
Frank Vatrano collected a hat trick, Ryan Strome added one goal and two assists and Anaheim defeated host Philadelphia.
Adam Henrique had one goal and one assist while Trevor Zegras and Brett Leason each contributed one goal for the Ducks, who won their third game in a row. Anaheim goaltender Lukas Dostal made 27 saves.
Travis Konecny scored twice and Cam Atkinson and Joel Farabee each had one goal for the Flyers, who lost at home for the first time in four games. Bobby Brink chipped in two assists.
Panthers 3, Kraken 2
Nick Cousins scored the go-ahead goal into an empty net with 5:52 left in the third period as Florida defeated Seattle in Sunrise, Fla.
The net was open because Kraken goalie Joey Daccord went to retrieve a puck in the corner to his right. However, the puck took an odd bounce and went right to Cousins, who scored his first goal of the season.
Seattle’s Jared McCann scored a goal against his former team, teammate Eeli Tolvanen also tallied and the Kraken got 35 saves from Daccord (2-1-2), who lost in regulation for the first time this season.
Bruins 4, Red Wings 1
David Pastrnak scored twice in the third period to highlight his three-point night as Boston defeated visiting Detroit.
Pavel Zacha and Charlie McAvoy helped the Bruins get out to a 2-0 lead during the opening 20 minutes. Pastrnak also gave an assist to Zacha before netting his back-to-back goals to finish off Boston’s seventh win in eight games (7-0-1).
Joe Veleno scored his fifth goal in five games for Detroit, which has lost back-to-back games and gone 0-2-1 since a five-game winning streak. Ville Husso took the loss despite a 27-save effort.
Islanders 2, Blue Jackets 0
Semyon Varlamov, making his second start of the season, stopped all 34 shots he faced as New York blanked host Columbus.
Kyle Palmieri scored in the first and Matt Martin added a goal with 3:21 left in the third for the Islanders, who have won two straight games after a three-game losing streak. The shutout was the 39th of Varlamov’s career and his first since he turned back 23 shots in a 4-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Feb. 26.
Spencer Martin made 31 saves for the Blue Jackets, who have lost three straight games (0-1-2).
Predators 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)
Roman Josi scored at 2:13 of overtime to lift host Nashville to a win against Toronto.
Luke Evangelista left a pass for Josi high in the zone, and the Predators captain took it to the high slot. Ryan O’Reilly scored twice, Josi added an assist and Filip Forsberg and Evangelista each had two assists for the Predators, who have won three of their past four games. Juuse Saros made 33 saves.
William Nylander and Mark Giordano scored, and Ilya Samsonov made 21 saves for the Maple Leafs, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.
Senators 5, Penguins 2
Brady Tkachuk scored twice and goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made 40 saves to help visiting Ottawa snap a three-game losing streak with a win against Pittsburgh.
Ridly Greig added a goal and an assist, Dominik Kubalik and Drake Batherson also scored and Claude Giroux and Tim Stutzle each added two assists for the Senators, who were playing without three injured defensemen.
Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel scored for the Penguins, who have lost four of their last five games. Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry gave up three goals on nine shots before being pulled. Magnus Hellberg, making his Penguins debut, made 15 saves.
–Field Level Media
