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Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier each had a goal and an assist to extend their point streaks to eight games each and Lukas Dostal made 21 saves for the Ducks, who bounced back from a 2-0 deficit after the first period to win for the seventh time in their past eight games.

Anaheim has scored seven goals in back-to-back games and has hit the mark four times this season.

Wyatt Johnston had two goals and an assist, Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists, Miro Heiskanen had four assists and Jake Oettinger made 18 saves for the Stars, who came in on a seven-game point streak (4-0-3).

Penguins 5, Capitals 3

Sidney Crosby scored two goals and Pittsburgh beat visiting Washington despite surrendering a three-goal second-period lead.

Bryan Rust had the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and had two assists for the Penguins. Pittsburgh's Anthony Mantha and Connor Dewar also scored, Ben Kindel had two assists, and Arturs Silovs made 28 saves.

Dylan Strome had a goal and two assists and Tom Wilson scored his fourth goal in four games and Rasmus Sandin also tallied for the Capitals. Charlie Lindgren stopped 26 shots, and Alex Ovechkin had two assists one night after recording his 900th NHL goal.

Devils 4, Canadiens 3 (OT)

Jesper Bratt's goal 1:33 into overtime gave host New Jersey a come-from-behind win over Montreal in Newark, the Devils' second win in three games.

Cody Glass, Ondrej Palat and Timo Meier also scored for the Devils, who are 2-3-0 since an eight-game winning streak that began with the second game of the season.

Kirby Dach, Jake Evans and Oliver Kapanen got the goals for the Canadiens, who played their fourth consecutive extra-time game (2-0-2) and have lost the last two. Defenseman Noah Dobson had two assists and Jakub Dobes stopped 24 shots.

Blues 3, Sabres 0

Joel Hofer made 28 saves for his third career shutout as St. Louis blanked host Buffalo, ending the Sabers' seven-game point streak.

Mathieu Joseph had a goal and two assists for the Blues, who won for just the second time in 10 games. Justin Faulk had a goal and an assist for St. Louis and Nick Bjugstad also scored.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed two goals on 16 shots for the Sabres, who entered the game 3-0-4 since Oct. 22. They surrendered a goal in each period and were shut out for the second time this season.

Bruins 3, Senators 2 (OT)

Pavel Zacha scored with 5.6 seconds left in overtime to propel Boston past visiting Ottawa. Zacha stuffed home a loose rebound in front of the crease after Charlie McAvoy's hard net drive for the deciding goal, sending Boston to its fifth consecutive win and avenging a 7-2 loss to its Atlantic Division rival on Oct. 27.

Sean Kuraly and Morgan Geekie also scored, Andrew Peeke had two assists, and Joonas Korpisalo made 20 saves for the Bruins.

Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist to lead Ottawa, which has gone four straight without a regulation win (1-1-2). Michael Amadio also scored his third goal in four games.

Hurricanes 4, Wild 3

Nikolaj Ehlers scored a tiebreaking goal in the first minute of the second period to cap a dizzying stretch and Carolina held on to defeat Minnesota night in Raleigh, N.C.

Jackson Blake and Sean Walker both had a goal and an assist and Andrei Svechnikov also scored for the Hurricanes, whose rotations took a hit when defenseman Jalen Chatfield left in the first period with an upper-body injury.

Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen, who allowed three goals in the first four Wild shots, finished with 21 saves. Matt Boldy scored twice and Brock Faber had the other goal for the Wild, who were trying to build on their first two-game winning streak of the season. Filip Gustavsson stopped 23 shots.

Flyers 3, Predators 1

Matvei Michkov and Noah Cates scored second-period goals, leading Philadelphia to a win over host Nashville.

Philadelphia's Travis Konecny logged an assist and added an empty-net goal with 1:13 remaining in the third period. Cam York picked up two assists. The Flyers have won back-to-back road games after starting the season 0-2-1 away from home. Dan Vladar made 23 saves to improve to 5-0-1 in six career appearances against Nashville

Ryan O'Reilly scored for the Predators, who have lost three in a row (0-1-2) and six of the past seven (1-4-2). Juuse Saros stopped 23 shots as Nashville dropped to 4-4-2 on home ice this season. Saros is now 5-5-1 in 11 career appearances against Philadelphia.

Panthers 5, Kings 2

Sam Reinhart celebrated his 30th birthday by scoring the game-winning goal in the second period and Brad Marchand tallied twice to give Florida a win in Los Angeles.

Sam Bennett and Anton Lundell also scored for the Panthers, who claimed only their second road win of the season by scoring four unanswered goals. Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves for the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions.

Anze Kopitar and Corey Perry replied for the Kings, who have claimed only one victory in seven home games. Goalie Anton Forsberg stopped 19 shots in the loss.

Lightning 6, Golden Knights 3

Nikita Kucherov and Brandon Hagel each scored two goals and an assist as Tampa Bay rallied from an early two-goal deficit to win in Las Vegas.

Dominic James scored his first NHL goal and also had two assists for Tampa Bay, which won for the sixth time in its last seven games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves.

Ivan Barbashev scored two goals and had an assist and Mitch Marner had a goal and two assists for Vegas, which took its fourth loss in its past six games (2-3-1). Carl Lindbom stopped 21 of 26 shots in his third career NHL start.

Dominic James scored his first NHL goal and also had two assists, Oliver Bjorkstrand added two assists and Gabe Goncalves scored a goal for Tampa Bay, which won for the sixth time in its last seven games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves.

Ivan Barbashev scored two goals and had an assist, Mitch Marner had a goal and two assists and Jack Eichel chipped in with two assists for Vegas, which took its fourth loss in the past six games (2-3-1). Carl Lindbom stopped 21 of 26 shots in his third career NHL start.

Vegas, which held Tampa Bay without a shot on goal for the first 15:35 of the game, jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period behind a pair of goals by Barbashev. The first came at the 7:25 mark on a backhand rebound of a Noah Hanifin slap shot from the left point. The second came on a snap shot in the slot off a Marner pass at 15:53.

Tampa Bay bounced back with two goals in the span of 2:52 early in the second period to tie it.

James set up the first goal after Hanifin lost the puck behind the net, passing to Goncalves in the low slot, where he fired a wrist shot into the top left corner 36 second into the period. It was Goncalves' first goal of the season.

James, playing in his eighth NHL game, then tied it at the 3:28 mark when he put in a rebound of a Bjorkstrand shot from the slot.

The Lightning took their first lead, 3-2, at 2:48 of the third period on a Kucherov sharp-angled one-timer from below the right circle.

The Golden Knights answered 49 seconds later when Marner's wrist shot from the left point hit defenseman Victor Hedman in the slot and caromed past Vasilevskiy.

Hagel then put Tampa Bay back in front 35 seconds later with his 100th career goal for the Lightning and fifth in six games, a spinning slap shot in the slot off a James feed.

Kucherov extended the lead to 5-3 with 5:47 left with a power-play goal, blasting a one-timer from the right circle that deflected off Hanifin's stick and past Lindbom's right arm.

The Golden Knights pulled Lindbom for an extra attacker with 2:10 remaining, and Kucherov sent Hagel in for an empty-netter with 46.5 seconds left to seal the win.

Sam Bennett and Anton Lundell also scored for the Panthers, who claimed only their second road win of the season by scoring four unanswered goals.

Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves for the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions.

Anze Kopitar and Corey Perry replied for the Kings, who have claimed only one victory in seven home games.

Goalie Anton Forsberg stopped 19 shots.

With the score tied 2-2 after the first period, Reinhart made his milestone birthday extra special by jumping on a rebound chance at 11:45 of the second period to net his fifth goal in six games.

Lundell extended the Florida lead when he scored a short-handed goal at 8:41 of the third period.

Marchand rounded out the scoring four minutes later when he took advantage of a turnover in the Kings zone and netted his sixth goal in five games.

It is another home defeat for the Kings, who even held a lead during a back-and-forth first period.

Bennett provided the Panthers a much-needed quick start when he opened the scoring at the 2:06 mark. Jeff Petry's point shot was denied but Bennett pounced on the rebound.

Kopitar answered at the 9:23 mark. While he was parked in front of the net, the Kings captain deflected Adrian Kempe's high shot on the power play.

Perry put the Kings ahead 97 seconds later with a breakaway marker, his fourth goal in five games.

But Marchand tied the clash at 17:30 of the opening frame by stealing the puck from Forsberg behind the Kings net and quickly depositing it into the cage.

Lundell scored and Marchand got his second of the day with insurance goals in the third at the 8:41 and 12:36 marks, respectively.

The Flyers have won back-to-back road games after starting the season 0-2-1 away from home. They own a 5-2-0 mark across their past seven contests overall.

Philadelphia's Travis Konecny logged an assist and added an empty-net goal with 1:13 remaining in the third period. Cam York picked up two assists.

Dan Vladar made 23 saves to improve to 5-0-1 in six career appearances against Nashville.

Ryan O'Reilly scored for the Predators, who have lost three in a row (0-1-2) and six of the past seven (1-4-2).

Juuse Saros stopped 23 shots as Nashville dropped to 4-4-2 on home ice this season. Saros is now 5-5-1 in 11 career appearances against Philadelphia.

Michkov tied the game 1-1 at 4:43 of the second. He one-timed York's pass beyond Saros for his second of the season, snapping a nine-game drought.

Philadelphia took its first lead of the game at 17:37 of the middle period. Cates put home the rebound off Jamie Drysdale's shot for his first goal in eight games.

The Predators outshot the Flyers 10-7 in the first period and led 1-0 after 20 minutes.

Nashville opened the scoring 1:44 into the game. Filip Forsberg snapped a shot that deflected off Drysdale and hit O'Reilly's arm before beating Vladar.

Philadelphia's best chance of the opening frame came at 4:34 as Travis Sanheim tried to go backhand to beat Saros to the glove side on a partial break, but the Predators goaltender made the save.

The Thursday matchup was the second of two meetings between the clubs in the last week. Philadelphia earned a 4-1 home win over Nashville on Oct. 30.

Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier each had a goal and an assist to extend their point streaks to eight games and Lukas Dostal made 21 saves for the Ducks, who bounced back from a 2-0 deficit after the first period to win for the seventh time in the past eight games.

Wyatt Johnston had two goals and an assist, Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists, Miro Heiskanen had four assists and Jake Oettinger made 17 saves for the Stars, who came in on a seven-game point streak (4-0-3).

Johnston scored on a one-timer from the slot while on a power play to give the Stars a 1-0 lead at 5:49 of the first.

Dallas went back on the power play and Johnston scored on a tip to stretch the lead to 2-0 at 16:18.

The Ducks, who came in leading the NHL in goals per game at 3.92, found their game and outscored the Stars 4-1 in the second period.

Kreider scored his fifth power-play goal of the season to cut it to 2-1 at 1:16, and rookie Ian Moore followed with his first NHL goal in his 10th game, redirecting a feed from Ryan Poehling to tie it 2-2 at 2:48.

Tyler Seguin got behind the defense and scored his first goal against the Ducks in his 16-year NHL career to move the Stars back ahead 3-2 at 8:19.

Gauthier answered with his NHL-leading 11th goal of the season, a wrist shot from the right circle to tie it 3-3 at 14:07.

Olen Zellweger scored his first goal of the season at the tail end of a power play to give Anaheim a 4-3 lead at 17:05.

Kreider scored his ninth goal in nine games this season on a deflection in front of the net 16 seconds into the third period to make it 5-3, but Rantanen made the Stars 3-for-3 on the power play when he scored at 1:50 to cut it to 5-4.

Carlsson scored on a short-handed 2-on-1 break to make it 6-4 at 9:22.

Roope Hintz, who had missed the past five games with an injury, scored on a deflection to cut it to 6-5 at 16:39, but Mason McTavish scored into an empty net with 1:53 left to complete the Ducks' fourth seven-goal outburst of the season.

Bryan Rust had the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and had two assists for the Penguins, who had lost two straight and blew a three-goal lead Monday night in a loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Ben Kindel also had two assists, and Arturs Silovs made 28 saves.

Dylan Strome had a goal and two assists, and Tom Wilson scored his third goal in two games for the Capitals, who were playing the second of a back-to-back after beating the St. Louis Blues 6-1 on Wednesday. Charlie Lindgren made 26 saves,

Alex Ovechkin had two assists one night after recording his 900th NHL goal.

Rust gave the Penguins a 4-3 lead at 11:16 of the third period when he re-directed Evgeni Malkin's pass home during a power play.

Connor Dewar scored into an empty net at 17:56 for the 5-3 final.

Pittsburgh had the man advantage five times and scored three goals. Washington went 0-for-3 on the power play.

Crosby gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead at 2:22 of the first period when he scored on a one-timer from the right circle off a pass across the slot from Kindel on a power play.

Crosby made it 2-0 at 11:32, knocking in the rebound of Rust's shot on a power play.

Anthony Mantha increased the lead to 3-0 at 2:08 of the second period when he scored from in front, poking the rebound of Tommy Novak's shot past Lindgren.

Strome pulled the Capitals within two at 9:41 when he received a pass from Ovechkin, turned and fired it under the crossbar from the right circle.

Rasmus Sandin made it 3-2 at 14:55, scoring on a snap shot from the left circle off a cross-ice pass from Strome on the rush.

Wilson tied the score with five seconds remaining in the second period, taking a pass in the slot from Strome and shooting just inside the right post.

Zacha stuffed home a loose rebound in front of the crease after Charlie McAvoy's hard net drive for the deciding goal, sending Boston to its fifth consecutive win and avenging a 7-2 loss to its Atlantic Division rival on Oct. 27.

Sean Kuraly and Morgan Geekie also scored, Andrew Peeke had two assists, and Joonas Korpisalo made 20 saves for the Bruins.

Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist to lead Ottawa, which has gone four straight without a regulation win (1-1-2). Michael Amadio also scored his third goal in four games.

Senators goalie Linus Ullmark stopped 22 shots.

Boston led 25-22 in shots on goal. Neither side scored on the power play.

Boston forward Johnny Beecher was not on the bench to start the second period and did not return due to an upper-body injury.

Boston held a 9-2 shot advantage in the first, but trailed the game 1-0 after Amadio rushed down the right wing and buried Shane Pinto's pass in transition for the opening tally at the 5:42 mark. The goal came on Ottawa's first shot.

Geekie brought the visitors even just 1:22 into a physical middle frame. After Peeke's drive from the right circle clanked off the far post, Geekie slotted the carom into the net for his team-leading 10th goal of the season.

Kuraly gave the Bruins their first lead with 3:57 left in the second, taking Tanner Jeannot's perfect centering pass and burying a wrist shot while alone in the slot.

The visitors knotted the score with 8:08 left in regulation. Just as an Ottawa power play expired, Giroux slid down the left wing circle to sneak a shot through traffic and past Korpisalo.

Ullmark made one of his biggest stops inside the final five minutes, using his pad to deny Henri Jokiharju's open wrist shot from close range.

Earlier in the 3-on-3 session, Korpisalo went post-to-post to take a shot away from Pinto. David Pastrnak's odd-man chance with Geekie drew a slash with 41.9 seconds left, but the Boston power play was negated off the ensuing faceoff with Geekie taking a penalty.

Mathieu Joseph had a goal and two assists for the Blues, who won for just the second time in 10 games. Justin Faulk had a goal and an assist for St. Louis and Nick Bjugstad also scored.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed two goals on 16 shots for the Sabres, whose seven-game point streak ended.

Buffalo outshot St. Louis 7-4 in the first period, but the Blues took a 1-0 lead.

The Sabres got a power play when Blues defenseman Cam Fowler took a hooking penalty to thwart a Buffalo rush. After Hofer's glove save on Josh Doan's point-blank shot, the Blues countered with a short-handed goal.

Joseph stole the puck at Buffalo's left point and converted his breakaway.

Buffalo had multiple chances to tie the game in the first period, but Tage Thompson hit the post with a long shot through traffic and Hofer gloved Michael Kesselring's last-second shot from the right faceoff dot.

The Blues controlled the early second period. Luukkonen stopped Nathan Walker shot on a 2-on-1 rush, but Bjugstad gave the Blues a 2-0 lead by taking Faulk's pass and snapping a shot from the left wing.

The Sabres earned multiple scoring chances for the rest of the period, including Owen Power's shot from outside the left post and Jack Quinn's slap shot from above the left circle, but they again couldn't convert.

Rasmus Dahlin hit the post during a sustained flurry and Hofer made a right pad save on Alex Tuch's point-blank shot.

Buffalo sustained offensive pressure through the third period. Quinn earned a great scoring chance moving through left circle and Isak Rosen tested Hofer while moving in from the right circle.

Faulk's empty net goal with 62 seconds left iced the game.

Cody Glass, Ondrej Palat and Timo Meier also scored for the Devils, who have won two of their last three. Jacob Markstrom made 16 saves.

Kirby Dach, Jake Evans and Oliver Kapanen got the goals for the Canadiens, who played their fourth consecutive extra-time game (2-0-2) and have lost the last two. Defenseman Noah Dobson had two assists and Jakub Dobes stopped 24 shots.

Bratt stole the puck from Alex Newhook at the New Jersey blue line for a breakaway and the game winner.

Meier tied the game off a goalmouth scramble with 1:07 left in regulation and Markstrom pulled for the extra attacker. It was Meier's fourth goal and first in 10 games.

Kapanen backhanded in a rebound with 9:27 left in regulation to give Montreal a 3-2 lead.

Evans tied the game 2-2 just 59 seconds into the third period on a harmless-looking shot from a bad angle in the right circle.

Palat gave New Jersey a 2-1 lead 8:05 into the second period on a one-timer from just below the right circle as he converted a backhand pass from defenseman Simon Nemec. It was Palat's first goal of the season.

Glass, in his first shift after missing seven games with an upper-body injury, snapped in a shot from the left circle off the rush at 1:53 of the first period.

A little over a minute later, Dobson's shot from along the right boards hit Dach in the chest and bounced up and over Markstrom and into the net at 2:59.

Markstrom stopped Cole Caufield's shot and the rebound on a breakaway with a little more than three minutes left and Dobes denied Bratt on a breakaway with just over two minutes remaining.

Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton left the game early in the second period for an undisclosed reason.

Celebrini, the 2024 first overall pick, has seven goals and nine assists over his last nine games and entered Thursday's action tied with Connor McDavid for the league lead with 21 points in 14 games.

The 19-year-old, who paces the Sharks with eight goals and 13 assists this season, had a goal and two helpers on Wednesday night as San Jose routed the host Seattle Kraken 6-1. It was Celebrini's league-leading fourth three-point game this season.

"He's obviously special," Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said. "What he does, the way he competes -- yes, he gets on the scoresheet, but it's the other things to me that are so impressive. The way he competes on faceoffs, the way he competes defensively, the way he tracks, the way he's a 200-foot center is absolutely remarkable."

Will Smith, Tyler Toffoli and John Klingberg each added a goal and an assist and Ethan Cardwell and Ty Dellandrea also scored in the win over the Kraken. Goaltender Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves for San Jose, which improved to 4-1-1 over its last six games.

Askarov, Friday's expected starter, is 3-4-1 in eight games this season with a 3.88 goals-against average and an .874 save percentage.

Sharks forward Michael Misa, the second overall draft selection in 2025, was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body issue sustained during Wednesday's morning skate.

Friday is the first of three meetings between the Jets and Sharks.

Winnipeg swept the three games against San Jose last season, outscoring the Sharks 14-7.

The Jets head to San Jose as part of a season-long six-game, 12-day road trip looking to shake Tuesday's 3-0 loss to the Los Angeles Kings.

Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves as Winnipeg's three-game winning streak came to an end. It was the Jets' first road loss of the season (4-1-0).

"I don't think we created enough offense," Jets coach Scott Arniel said. "I think we had 10 scoring chances ... but I didn't think we got to any second opportunities, continuous sort of attacks."

Tuesday marked the return of Adam Lowry to the Winnipeg lineup. The Jets captain, who missed the first 12 games of the season recovering from offseason hip surgery, finished with a shot on goal and was a minus-1 in 14:08 of ice time.

"Try to get him out there as much as possible -- try not to get him thinking," Arniel said of the game plan with Lowry. "Just get him playing. He's missed a lot of time, and I think he got stronger as the game went on. I think he got more comfortable."

Forward Mark Scheifele leads the Jets with nine goals and 20 points through 13 games. Hellebuyck, Friday's likely starter, is 6-4-0 with a 2.31 GAA and a .921 save percentage in 10 starts.

The Flames, who opened the season with a 4-3 shootout win at Edmonton, then won just once over a 12-game stretch before defeating Philadelphia, 2-1, on Sunday and followed that up with 5-1 victory over visiting Columbus on Wednesday.

Lack of scoring has been a major reason for the slow start for Calgary, which sits last in the NHL standings with 10 points in 15 games. The Flames rank 31st out of 32 teams with an average of 2.33 goals per game and have scored two goals or less nine times, including five games with just one goal.

However, Wednesday's win marked the second time in six games that Calgary hit the five-goal mark in a game. The Flames needed just 92 seconds to jump out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Morgan Frost and Blake Coleman.

"Pucks are starting to go in, so we've just got to stay with the way we play and play hard," Coleman, who leads the team with six goals, said. "A lot of games that we weren't winning a couple weeks ago we deserved a better fate in. We knew eventually it would turn. That's just the way the game works."

Getting off to a quick start is key according to forward Joel Farabee.

"If we keep starting games like that, we're a tough team to play against," Farabee said. "When we're on our toes and putting pressure on the other team, we're going to create a lot of turnovers and get our chances. The first 10 games or so the puck wasn't going in for us, and now it is."

Despite the slow start to the season, the Flames, last in the Pacific Division, are just six points out of the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

"It feels good to start getting some wins," Coleman said. "Usually that's a contagious feeling in the room and we can build on it."

Chicago will be playing the fifth game of a season-high six-game road trip that began with losses at Winnipeg, Edmonton and Seattle before a 5-2 victory at Vancouver on Wednesday.

The contest with the Canucks was 0-0 after two periods before the Blackhawks exploded for four goals in the span of 11:37 to start of the third period, highlighted by a hat trick by Tyler Bertuzzi. Connor Bedard added an empty-net goal and an assist and Spencer Knight made a season-high 43 saves for Chicago.

"I thought we were really good in the third," Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill said. "We talked about, 'Good teams find a way to win this game. You're on the road. It's 0-0. You probably haven't played your best. Go out and have a great period.' And I thought they did."

The win snapped an 11-game losing streak to Vancouver for the Blackhawks dating back to Jan. 31, 2022.

Bertuzzi became the seventh Blackhawks player in the last 30 years to score a hat trick in a single period and the first since Taylor Raddysh did it in the third period on March 14, 2023. It was his fourth career hat trick.

"He's a guy you appreciate more from ice level than you might from up top," Blashill said. "Skating doesn't always look great but man he wins pucks, and that's kind of who he's always been for me. He's great on that back post."

Both teams endured shutout defeats in their last outing -- the Rangers fell to Carolina 3-0 on Tuesday while the Red Wings were blanked by Vegas 1-0 the same night. They'll meet up in Detroit on Friday night.

Scoring struggles have been the norm for the Rangers this season. In seven of their eight losses, including overtime, they have scored one or no goals. Their power play has been punchless, converting on just four of 36 opportunities.

"I don't know, honestly," forward Mika Zibanejad said of the scoring woes. "We keep talking about having good looks. We keep talking about the stuff we do well and try to build on it. I feel like we're at three or four or maybe five Grade-As and we don't score. The puck just has got to go in.

"Other than that we have to keep going. We have to find a way to put the puck in the net. I don't know. I don't think I've ever been a part of something like this before in terms of getting looks and not scoring. It's frustrating."

Most of their troubles have come at home, including the matchup with the Hurricanes. All six of New York's victories have occurred on the road.

"These guys are human, they care a lot about what's going on," Rangers coach Mike Sullivan said. "Of course we want to be a team that prides itself on being good at home, being stingy at home, making this a tough place for people to play. I thought when you look at how the game was played in the first two periods there was a lot to like about our game. Some of the quality looks, I'm not sure we could get better looks."

For the Red Wings, the loss to the Golden Knights capped a 3-2 road trip.

"It was a close game," coach Todd McLellan said. "There were chances both ways, but the goaltenders stood in there fairly well. We gave ourselves a chance to win. It would have been nice to have been a little more effective on, at least, the one full power play that we had. That may have been our opportunity, but just not enough sustained offensive time."

Detroit now enters a stretch in which it will play seven of eight games at home.

The Red Wings carry a five-game home winning streak into Friday's contest. Their lone loss at home came in their season opener against Montreal.

"Very exciting," team captain Dylan Larkin said. "It's always a tough challenge to come back home after a long trip out west. We're going to have to be ready, and it's going to be exciting. We've built some momentum, and we'll have great crowds. We want to continue where we left off at home and that's the exciting part."

Larkin leads Detroit in scoring with eight goals and 18 points.

He practiced on his usual forward line with Marco Kasper and Alex DeBrincat, and also on the first power-play unit.

Kane, who turns 37 on Nov. 19, was not ready to say he will play in a game this weekend. The Red Wings host the New York Rangers on Friday night and the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon.

"We'll see," Kane told reporters after Thursday's practice. "I'm feeling pretty good. It was nice to get back into practice with the team today. Other than that, I feel pretty good and we'll go from there.

"We'll see how it is (Friday). I don't think there's any real decision on when I'm back or anything like that."

Kane crashed into the boards late in Detroit's 2-1 overtime win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Oct. 17.

In his third season with the Red Wings and 19th overall in the NHL, Kane was off to a strong start with five points (two goals, three assists) in five games. He signed a one-year, $3 million deal on June 30.

Kane had been skating on his own for a couple of weeks and said he felt progress in the last "four or five days."

"I was pretty confident I was going to be able to get through a practice and skate with the team," Kane said. "But you never know until you get into it, so I'm happy I was able to do that and participate and go the whole way."

Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said he checked on Kane a couple of times on Thursday.

"He said he felt pretty good, so I think that's positive. But that decision will be made tomorrow when we get a little more information," McLellan said.

Kane has 494 goals and 854 assists (1,348 points) in 1,307 career regular-season games with the Blackhawks (2007-23), Rangers (2023) and Red Wings. He won three Stanley Cups with Chicago and became the first American player to win the Hart Memorial Trophy (league MVP) and the Art Ross Trophy (leading point-scorer).

The first overall pick of the 2007 NHL Draft by Chicago, Kane is 27 points from passing Mike Modano (1,374) for the most by a U.S.-born player.

Ovechkin comes in after scoring his 900th NHL goal and third of the season as the Capitals beat the visiting St. Louis Blues 6-1 on Wednesday night, snapping a four-game losing streak (0-3-1).

"I'm still playing, but when I'm going to be done playing, of course, I'm going to think about it," Ovechkin said of the milestone. "And lots of guys on the bench said, 'Nine hundred. That's pretty special.' But I'm still playing, still have lots of games left, so we'll see what's going to happen."

His next game is against the Penguins, who return home after completing a four-game road trip with a 4-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday.

The Thursday game will be the 74th regular-season meeting between Ovechkin and Crosby. Ovechkin has 68 points (38 goals, 30 assists) in those contests and Crosby has 95 points (33 goals, 62 assists).

Anthony Beauvillier and Tom Wilson each had two goals against the Blues, and John Carlson had a goal and an assist for the Capitals, who set a season high for goals. Jakob Chychrun had three assists, and Logan Thompson made 23 saves.

"It's been a long time coming for our guys," Thompson said. "I think we've had a lot of chances. It was good to see them finally going in. Credit to the guys, it was overall one of our best games of the season and just build off it as we start this road trip."

Washington killed off all three St. Louis power plays, extending its penalty-kill streak to 12 dating back to Oct. 28.

Charlie Lindgren starts in goal for the Capitals on Thursday. He is 1-3-0 with a 2.54 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage in his career vs. Pittsburgh.

On Monday night, the Penguins could not hold a 3-0 third-period lead against the Maple Leafs, leaving them with a 1-2-1 mark on their road trip.

"It has to be a full 60 minutes, though, and we got away from it there," Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. "It was a number of different factors. When they took momentum, we weren't able to at least pause the momentum. They kept coming and then we were back on our heels, and you can't play the game that way."

Rookie Ben Kindel scored twice for his first multi-goal NHL game for the Penguins, who have lost two in a row.

Kindel, an 18-year-old who was a first-round pick in this year's draft, has five goals on the season.

"Just the sense, his ability to read space, the ability to attack space, to know where the next play is -- those are the types of things that I think we've seen from him on a pretty consistent basis," Muse said.

Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry got hurt in the Toronto game and will be out a minimum of three weeks with a lower-body injury. Sergei Murashov, 21, was called up from AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

Arturs Silovs, the likely starter on Thursday, has never faced the Capitals.

The Penguins also will be without Noel Acciari, who left the Monday game with an upper-body injury and will be out at least three weeks.

During their last five outings, the Sabres won once in a shootout and earned an overtime-loss point in the other four games. They ran their overall point streak to seven games (3-0-4) in the process.

The Sabres will try to extend that run when they host the slumping St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. Buffalo would like to do it in regulation time after going into extra time in five straight games.

"It's just how seasons go, and weird stuff happens," Sabres goaltender Alex Lyon said. "It means that we're competitive and we're staying in there, and I almost hate to say that. But if we find a way to keep getting points, find a way to continue to stick around, that's a good thing.

"I also think the next step is available for us where maybe we start to take over. But credit to guys, and (we) continued to battle all night (against Utah) with a tough lineup situation."

Buffalo center Josh Norris will be sidelined for additional weeks with an upper-body injury, and playmaking winger Zach Benson is shelved by a lower-body injury. Forwards Jason Zucker (illness) landed on injured reserve, and Jiri Kulich (non-injury medical issue) also was out on Tuesday.

On the other hand, forward Tyson Kozak could return to action against the Blues. He has been sidelined since Oct. 24 due to a lower-body injury.

The Sabres' health issues gave young forwards Noah Ostlund and Isak Rosen the opportunity to move up from AHL Rochester.

"We need their skill, we need their scoring ability that they've shown in the minors," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "This is the next step for them. This is the opportunity they're waiting for. All of a sudden, they get 14, 15 minutes, and I think they've taken advantage of it. Both guys have played extremely well for us."

The Sabres will catch St. Louis playing the second of back-to-back road games. The Blues fell 6-1 at Washington on Wednesday night, when Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scored his 900th career goal.

"Well, this is unacceptable, it's just that simple," Blues coach Jim Montgomery said after the loss.

The Blues believed they got back on track with a 3-2 home victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday, but the Capitals dominated them from start to finish.

"If you don't compete and battle, you're going to get your butts kicked most nights," Blues captain Brayden Schenn said. "It's happened way too many nights, over and over again. ... That was as disappointing a loss as you can have after finally getting a win."

The Blues are 1-6-2 in their past nine games.

"At the end of the day, a quick turnaround, you have to have a short memory in this league," Schenn said. "We have to go to Buffalo and play for each other first and foremost. Start with that and hope the results come from that."

The Blues started Jordan Binnington in goal against the Capitals, but Montgomery pulled him midway through the game after the 32-year-old veteran allowed four goals on 15 shots.

Joel Hofer relieved Binnington and allowed two goals on 17 shots. Normally Hofer would start on the second night of back-to-back games, but Montgomery could come back to Binnington.

Anthony Beauvillier and Tom Wilson each scored two goals and Jakob Chychrun recorded three assists as the Capitals snapped a four-game winless streak.

Alexey Toropchenko scored for the slumping Blues, who are 1-6-2 in their last nine games. Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington allowed four goals on 15 shots before giving way to Joel Hofer midway through the game.

Ovechkin set up his league-record 900th goal by knocking down an outlet attempt by Binnington early in the second period. When Chychrun's ensuing shot caromed to him off the end boards, Ovechkin scored on a spinning backhand from a bad angle before Binnington could get to the post.

Sharks 6, Kraken 1

Macklin Celebrini logged a goal and two assists as San Jose handed Seattle its first regulation loss at home this season.

Will Smith, Tyler Toffoli and John Klingberg each added a goal for the Sharks, who improved to 4-1-1 over their past six games. Goaltender Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves.

Ryan Winterton scored his first NHL goal for the Kraken, who entered the game with a 4-0-2 home record. Joey Daccord stopped 15 of 20 shots before being pulled at 3:24 of the third period. Matt Murray saved 2 of 3 attempts the rest of the way.

Flames 5, Blue Jackets 1

Nazem Kadri scored in his 1,000th game and Calgary got off to a lightning start and claimed a victory over visiting Columbus.

Morgan Frost and Blake Coleman gave Calgary a 2-0 lead after 92 seconds. Adam Klapka and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames, who have won two consecutive games for the first time this season.

Calgary goaltender Dustin Wolf sparkled, making 42 saves, 22 of them in the third period alone while the Blue Jackets attempted a comeback that fell well short.

Kirill Marchenko scored for Columbus, which has dropped two games in a row.

Blackhawks 5, Canucks 2

Tyler Bertuzzi recorded a hat trick and Spencer Knight made 43 saves in Chicago's road win over Vancouver.

The victory ended both Chicago's three-game winless streak (0-2-1), and a longstanding drought against Vancouver. The Blackhawks were 0-10-1 in their previous 11 games with the Canucks, dating back to the 2021-22 season.

Vancouver outshot Chicago by a 45-28 margin and held a 35-19 shots edge through two periods. Aatu Raty and Evander Kane scored late in the third period to spoil Knight's shutout bid

Maple Leafs 5, Mammoth 3

John Tavares scored in the third period to snap a 2-2 tie and Toronto went on to defeat visiting Utah.

Tavares, William Nylander, Matias Maccelli and Matthew Knies all had a goal and an assist and Auston Matthews also scored for the Maple Leafs, who have won three in a row. Jake McCabe added two assists and Anthony Stolarz made 21 saves.

Michael Carcone, Mikhail Sergachev and Dylan Guenther scored for the Mammoth, who split the first two matchups of a four-game road trip that started Tuesday with a 2-1 overtime win over the Buffalo Sabres. Vitek Vanecek stopped 14 shots.

The victory ended both Chicago's three-game winless streak (0-2-1), and a longstanding drought against Vancouver. The Blackhawks were 0-10-1 in their previous 11 games with the Canucks, dating back to the 2021-22 season. The 11-game domination tied the Canucks' franchise record for longest win streak against a single opponent.

Vancouver outshot Chicago by a 45-28 margin and held a 35-19 shots edge through two periods. Led by Knight's outstanding performance, the Blackhawks withstood this early barrage to keep the game scoreless before the teams erupted for a seven-goal third period.

The Blackhawks had the first four of those tallies, led by Bertuzzi converting passes from the side of the net at both the 3:06 and 6:46 marks for a 2-0 lead.

After Ilya Mikheyev scored, Bertuzzi struck again 11:37 into the third period for his fourth hat trick in his 10 NHL seasons.

Knight stopped 43 shots to improve to 5-3-2 this season. The save total was the second highest of his career.

Chicago's Connor Bedard had an empty-net goal and an assist. The forward has 11 points (five goals, six assists) over a six-game point streak. Ryan Donato assisted on two of the Blackhawks' tallies.

Aatu Raty and Evander Kane scored late in the third period to spoil Knight's shutout bid and give the Canucks some late hope prior to Bedard's empty-net tally with one minute remaining.

Vancouver's Drew O'Connor seemingly had the opening tally 8:34 into the second period, but the would-be goal was erased after a video review. O'Connor collided with Knight before jamming the puck into the net, leading to Chicago coach Jeff Blashill making a successful goaltender-interference challenge.

Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen stopped 23 of 27 shots.

Will Smith, Tyler Toffoli and John Klingberg each added a goal and an assist and Ethan Cardwell and Ty Dellandrea also tallied for the Sharks, who improved to 4-1-1 over their past six games. Goaltender Yaroslav Askarov made 28 saves.

Ryan Winterton scored his first NHL goal for the Kraken, who entered the game with a 4-0-2 home record. Joey Daccord stopped 15 of 20 shots before being pulled at 3:24 of the third period. Matt Murray saved 3 of 4 attempts the rest of the way.

The Sharks took a 2-1 lead after a back-and-forth first period, despite getting outshot 10-6.

Celebrini opened the scoring on the game's first shot at 1:08 of the first. Klingberg won a battle for the puck along the right-wing boards and shoveled a pass to Toffoli, who quickly spotted Celebrini open in the slot for a wrist shot into the upper left corner of the net.

The Kraken tied it at 16:30 of the first. Winterton was stopped by Askarov on a drive to the net, with Seattle keeping control of the puck and cycling it around the offensive zone. Ryan Lindgren's shot from the blue line was knocked down out front, and the puck fell at the feet of Winterton in the slot. He put a wrist shot into the upper right corner.

The Sharks regained the lead at 18:42 of the first after a Seattle turnover just outside its own zone led to a short 3-on-2 rush. Former Kraken forward Alexander Wennberg carried the puck over the blue line and sent a cross-ice pass to Cardwell for a one-timer from low on the left wing.

The Sharks extended their advantage to 3-1 on the power play at 11:21 of the second. Klingberg converted a slap shot from just inside the blue line.

San Jose pulled away with three goals in the opening 3:54 of the third.

Smith made it 4-1 at 1:02 on a wrist shot from just outside the right faceoff dot that pinballed off a pair of Kraken defenders on its way into the net.

Dellandrea chased Daccord when he scored on a rebound after the goalie stopped Collin Graf on a short-handed breakaway.

Toffoli beat Murray on a breakaway at 3:54, just 30 seconds after the backup goalie entered the game.

Morgan Frost and Blake Coleman gave Calgary a 2-0 lead after 92 seconds. Adam Klapka and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames, who have won two consecutive games for the first time this season but still sit in last spot in the league standings.

Calgary goaltender Dustin Wolf sparkled, making 42 saves, 22 of them in the third period alone while the Blue Jackets attempted a comeback that fell well short.

Kirill Marchenko scored for Columbus, which has dropped two games in a row. Goalie Jet Greaves stopped 21 shots for the Blue Jackets, who opened a four-game road trip.

After a pregame ceremony to honor Kadri, Frost gave the hosts a huge early boost 56 seconds into the clash by deflecting Jonathan Huberdeau's point shot. The helper extended Huberdeau's point streak to six games (three goals, four assists).

Coleman doubled the lead 36 seconds later by converting a shot from the left circle during a scramble.

Marchenko put the Blue Jackets on the board at 6:57 of the opening frame by finishing a short-handed breakaway opportunity.

The Flames responded with another pair of goals 37 seconds apart before the midway point of the second period to build a three-goal edge.

Kadri made his milestone game more memorable when he finished a perfectly executed 2-on-1 rush with Joel Farabee at 7:47 of the middle frame. It was his 311st career goal and his fourth of the season.

Klapka extended Calgary's edge by finding the mark when he elected to shoot during another odd-man rush. Yan Kuznetsov, a second-round pick in the 2020 draft playing his second NHL game and first of this season, collected his first point with an assist.

Backlund's empty-net goal with 49 seconds remaining rounded out the scoring.

Anthony Beauvillier and Tom Wilson each scored two goals, and John Carlson had a goal and an assist as the Capitals snapped a four-game winless streak.

Jakob Chychrun recorded three assists for Washington and goaltender Logan Thompson made 23 saves.

Alexey Toropchenko scored for the slumping Blues, who are 1-6-2 in their last nine games.

Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington allowed four goals on 15 shots before giving way to Joel Hofer midway through the game.

Ovechkin set up his league-record 900th goal by knocking down an outlet attempt by Binnington early in the second period. When Chychrun's ensuing shot caromed to him off the end boards, Ovechkin scored on a spinning backhand from a bad angle before Binnington could get to the post.

Beauvillier increased Washington's lead to 3-0 at the 4:33 mark of the period by cutting to his backhand and lifting a shot past Binnington.

Carlson made it 4-0 at 9:28 of the second by stealing the puck inside the St. Louis blue line and scoring with a turnaround shot from the slot.

Beauvillier pushed the lead to 5-0 at 16:20 by beating Hofer over his shoulder on the short side from the left circle.

Toropchenko got the Blues on the scoreboard by scoring short-handed 37 seconds into the third period.

But Wilson crashed the net for a rebound conversion at 9:00 to extend Washington's lead to 6-1.

The Capitals controlled the first period while outshooting the Blues 12-5 and taking a 1-0 lead.

Washington pinned the exhausted Blues in their own zone during a three-shift sequence, firing away at Binnington until they finally drew a penalty. The Capitals converted their man advantage when Carlson fired a slap shot and Wilson deflected it past Binnington.

Tavares added an assist and William Nylander, Matias Maccelli and Matthew Knies also had a goal and an assist each. Auston Matthews scored for the Maple Leafs, who have won three in a row. Jake McCabe added two assists and Anthony Stolarz made 21 saves.

Michael Carcone, Mikhail Sergachev and Dylan Guenther scored for the Mammoth, who have split the first two of a four-game road trip that started Tuesday with a 2-1 overtime win over the Buffalo Sabres. Vitek Vanecek stopped 14 shots.

Most of the first period was tight checking, although Tavares dinged a shot off a post. The teams opened up in the late stages and Carcone scored at 18:49 of the first from the edge of the crease after Lawson Crouse beat Toronto's Brandon Carlo to the puck behind the net and dished it to the goalmouth. Toronto has allowed the first goal in seven straight games.

Nylander tied the game when he fired an 11-foot wrister while dropping to one knee under the bar at 4:46 of the second period after Knies chipped the puck in front.

Matthews gave Toronto the lead at 8:56 of the second, snapping home a 32-footer from Maccelli's pass.

Stolarz was nimble during a spell in the second when Utah had back-to-back power plays.

Utah tied the game on Sergachev's long slap shot through the five-hole at 16:27 of the second. Dmitri Simashev made the pass to earn his first NHL point.

Toronto started the third period with an unsuccessful power play.

Tavares, who was honored before the game for scoring his 500th career goal last Wednesday, scored No. 501 on a backhand from close range at 8:06 of the third period.

Maccelli scored from the right circle at 15:40 of the third on a 22-foot wrist shot.

Knies scored into an empty net at 17:01 and Guenther scored at 18:53.

Toronto's top rookie Easton Cowan was assigned to the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League and Scott Laughton (foot) was activated from injured reserve.

Ovechkin increased his league-record total, becoming the first player to 900 goals by corralling a missed shot from teammate Jakob Chychrun and spinning to backhand the puck past Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington, who lunged but failed to glove it.

Ovechkin initiated the sequence by stealing Binnington's attempted pass and feeding the puck to Chychrun at the point.

The goal at 2:39 of the second period was Washington's second of the game. Capitals players streamed off the home bench to mob Ovechkin, their 40-year-old captain and a nine-time 50-goal scorer.

The scene was reminiscent of April 6 when Ovechkin blasted his 895th career goal past New York Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin to surpass Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 goals towards the end of a marvelous regular season for him and the Capitals, who topped the Eastern Conference standings.

Ovechkin had scored twice this season and Washington owned a 6-5-1 record (13 points) entering Wednesday's matchup with St. Louis.

The Lightning, who started the trip with a 4-2 victory over the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City, come in off a 3-2 loss to the NHL-points-leading Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night in Denver.

That loss snapped a five-game winning streak for Jon Cooper's squad. The Lightning gave up two goals in the span of 73 seconds early in the second period to fall behind 3-1 and managed just a third-period goal by Brayden Point the rest of the way.

"The second is (when) they kind of took over," Point said. "We had a stretch there, I don't know how long it was for those two goals, but that's tough to come back from."

"It was good for a bit, and then we got in our own way," Cooper said pointing to his team's five penalties in the contest. "And when we get in our own way, it's going to be tough for us.

"I loved our first period. It was unfortunate that (there were) untimely penalties. We took those tonight, but they were the better team for periods two and three. So, that was a little disappointing."

Tampa Bay defeated the visiting Golden Knights 2-1 on Nikita Kucherov's goal 32 seconds into overtime on Oct. 26 in the first meeting between the teams. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 18 saves for the Lightning while Carl Lindbom stopped 26 shots in his NHL debut for Vegas, which was playing the second game of a back-to-back.

It's possible that Lindbom, who was on the losing end of a 4-2 decision to the Avalanche on Halloween afternoon in Las Vegas in his only other start, could be back in the nets on Thursday.

Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said after practice Wednesday that Lindbom and Akira Schmid each will get a start this week for the Golden Knights, who also host the red-hot Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night.

Schmid began the season as the backup to Adin Hill, who is now sidelined with a lower-body injury. He has taken advantage of more playing time, going 6-1-0 with a 24-save shutout in a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday.

It was just the second shutout of Schmid's career. The first came on Feb. 25, 2023, with the New Jersey Devils against the Philadelphia Flyers.

"Fun," Schmid replied when asked to describe his feelings afterward. "Tight games like that, I think they're always fun as a goalie. I think emotions are always high, too. Maybe a little more pressure than other games if you're up 3-1, 4-1. It was fun."

Ivan Barbashev scored the only goal of the tight-checking contest in the second period when he put in a rebound of a Brandon Saad shot.

"I thought we played relatively well in front of him," Cassidy said. "(Schmid) has generally given us a chance to win every time out there, and tonight was no different."

Thursday's game is the third game of a season-high six-game homestand for the Golden Knights, who don't play another road contest until Nov. 15 at St. Louis.

The Predators' Steven Stamkos tied the game with just 0.3 seconds remaining to force overtime on Tuesday, but the joy was short-lived.

Wild forward Marcus Johansson was awarded the game-winning goal 3:38 into overtime after Predators goaltender Justus Annunen pushed from side to side and inadvertently knocked the net off its moorings.

Matthew Wood scored the other Nashville goal, and Annunen made 22 saves. The Predators have now lost five of their last six (1-3-2).

"I think we deserved that last goal to tie it," said Nashville coach Andrew Brunette. "I was happy for (Stamkos). It was a hell of a shot. There's only a few players in the history of the NHL who can make that shot. He made it.

"We just had trouble scoring a little bit, but we hung in there, and it was good to get a point. I would have liked to go on to the shootout or play a little bit longer."

Filip Forsberg has paced the Predators with six goals and 11 points through 15 games.

Annunen, Nashville's likely starter Thursday, is still in search of his first win of the season (0-2-1). The 25-year-old has a 3.70 goals-against average and an .872 save percentage in three games.

Nashville, which is 3-5-2 over its last 10 games, host the Flyers to open a brief two-game homestand. The Predators are 4-3-2 on home ice this season.

Thursday is the second of two meetings in the last week.

Trevor Zegras scored a pair, Jamie Drysdale and Travis Konecny also scored as Philadelphia earned a 4-1 home ice win over Nashville on Oct. 30. Wood had the lone tally for the Predators.

The Flyers head to Nashville to conclude a two-game road trip following a 5-4 shootout win in Montreal on Tuesday.

Bobby Brink scored twice as Philadelphia jumped out to a 3-0 first-period lead. However, Montreal responded with four unanswered second-period goals. Nikita Grebenkin forced overtime with his first of the season midway through the third, and Zegras netted the shootout winner as Philadelphia won on the road for the first time this season (1-2-1).

"We just got some good momentum going on the bench and then obviously we had the two quick power-play goals, which kind of gave us life," said Zegras, who has a team-leading 11 assists and 15 points in 13 games. "Then we knew that they were going to come back with a big push in the second, and I thought we did a great job keeping our composure and tying it up and obviously taking it to the shootout."

Owen Tippett and Brink share the team lead with five goals each through 13 games.

Dan Vladar, Thursday's expected starter in goal, made 16 saves in the win over the Canadiens to improve to 5-3-0 with a 2.33 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage.

Now the Kings will look for another helping when they host the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers on Thursday night.

The Kings not only snapped a modest two-game skid with a 3-0 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday, but they recorded their first home win of the season after losing the first five clashes.

"I'll take any win," Los Angeles coach Jim Hiller said. "I think we played to our identity, and you have to start there. You can't come off that, because then you get in all kinds of trouble. We're going to start scoring more, I really believe that. We got some really good looks again."

The Kings are in the league's bottom third offensively and near the middle defensively, but the win over Winnipeg gives them something to build on ahead of the four-game homestand finale that precedes a six-game road trip.

Against the Jets, it was a 1-0 game until the final five minutes before the Kings pulled away. The capper was Drew Doughty's goal that sealed the victory and also made him the franchise's all-time leading goal scorer among defensemen. Doughty's tally was the 162nd of his career, moving him past Rob Blake.

"It feels special for sure. It's a huge honor," Doughty said. "I looked up to Rob Blake as a young boy being an L.A. Kings' fan. When you come into the league, it's never something you even think of. So it's kind of shocking that this all happened."

The Panthers arrived in Los Angeles after Tuesday's humbling 7-3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks to open a four-game trip. Florida held a 3-2 lead late in the second period before surrendering five unanswered goals.

"We played well enough to be in it, but it's not really well enough and up to our standards," forward Noah Gregor said. "So some stuff we got to work on."

It has been a rough start for the Panthers, who have only one win in six games away from South Florida and entered Wednesday tied for last in the Eastern Conference.

Granted, the Panthers are without two star forwards in captain Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk, and a clutch defenseman in Dmitry Kulikov, but nobody in the league is feeling sorry for them.

"Everybody has factors that they deal with at the start of each year," coach Paul Maurice said.

All the Panthers can do is keep grinding and hope to find traction with the players who are healthy enough to have an impact and work their way out of their current win-one, lose-one stretch.

Offensively, the Panthers are 25th in average goals per game at 2.54. One of the few saving graces is the continued production from veteran Brad Marchand, who scored in Anaheim. In his 17th NHL season, the 37-year-old is leading the Panthers with seven goals and 13 points.