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Brady Skjei, Jonathan Marchessault and Reid Schaefer scored regulation goals for Nashville, which has won five of its last seven games.

Cale Makar, Brock Nelson and Artturi Lehkonen had goals, Nathan MacKinnon and Martin Necas had two assists each, and Scott Wedgewood turned away 25 shots for Colorado.

Wedgewood, who missed the last three games, was taken out of the shootout after Filip Forsberg crashed into him on the Predators second attempt.

The Avalanche, who finished their road trip 2-1-1, host Nashville on Saturday night.

The score was tied at 2-all when Skjei scored with eight minutes left in the third period on a wrister the blueline through a screen.

Wedgewood went off for an extra skater with 2:43 left, Colorado went on the power play with 1:38 remaining, and Makar tied at 19:52.

Nelson gave the Avalanche a 1-0 lead when he skated into the Predators zone, deked by Roman Josi and slid a backhander through Saros' pads 1:12 into the game.

It was Nelson's fifth goal in his last six games.

Nashville answered with a pair of goals 1:25 apart later in the first. Marchessault got a pass from O'Reilly and put a shot on Wedgewood from the right circle. The rebound bounced in front of the goaltender and Marchessault knocked it in at 4:05.

Schaefer gave Nashville a 2-1 lead when he grabbed the puck from the corner, skated to the front of the net and beat Wedgewood at 5:30.

Colorado got the equalizer midway through the first period. MacKinnon kept the puck in the Predators zone, passed it to Necas along the boards, and Necas put a shot on net. Lehkonen battled with Adam Wilsby for the rebound and was able to spin around and tap it in at 10:21.

Alex Tuch tallied the game-winning goal and Josh Doan scored twice for the Sabres, who squandered a 3-0 lead in the third period but still snapped a three-game skid.

Buffalo goaltender Colten Ellis stopped all six shots he faced before leaving the game late in the first period with an upper-body injury. Alex Lyon made 21 saves in relief.

Sabres center Josh Norris was a late scratch due to illness and soreness, the team announced.

Connor McDavid scored twice, Vasily Podkolzin added a goal and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves for the Oilers, who had won three of their previous four games.

Tuch received a centering pass from Ryan McLeod in the slot and beat Skinner with a quick wrist shot 33 seconds into overtime.

With Skinner pulled for the extra attacker, McDavid scored from the left circle to tie it 3-3 with two seconds remaining in the third period.

With Buffalo ahead 3-0, McDavid got the Oilers on the board 10 seconds into the third. He collected a loose puck along the right wall and brought it to the front of the net before putting a wrist shot over Lyon's right pad.

Podkolzin narrowed the gap to 3-2 at 1:56, pushing a loose puck from in front past Lyon's pad.

Doan gave Buffalo a 1-0 lead on the power play at 19:01 of the first period when he tipped a Rasmus Dahlin point shot under Skinner's arm.

The Sabres were on that man advantage after Oilers forward David Tomasek caught Ellis in the head as he drove through the crease. Ellis exited the game after Doan's goal.

Thompson made it 2-0 at 11:03 of the second period. He picked the puck off Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard at the goal line and took it in front for a snap shot that beat Skinner stick side.

Doan increased the margin to 3-0 with a highlight-reel tally from in front on a power play 56 seconds later. He took a pass from Thompson, pulled it back through his legs and put it past Skinner far side.

Anaheim was short-handed, and Husso had just reached the bench for an extra skater when Sennecke drove to the net. His shot deflected off Pittsburgh's Erik Karlsson and crossed the goal line.

Jackson LaCombe and Troy Terry scored in regulation before Leo Carlsson tallied in the shootout for the Ducks, who have won three in a row.

Anthony Mantha, Noel Acciari and Tommy Novak scored, Karlsson had two assists and Arturs Silovs made 25 saves for the Penguins in the opener of a five-game homestand.

Bruins 5, Blues 2

Mark Kastelic and Fraser Minten scored two goals each as Boston rolled host St. Louis for its second victory over the Blues in less than a week.

Pavel Zacha also tallied for the Bruins, who won their third straight game. David Pastrnak earned two assists for Boston after missing the previous five games with an undisclosed injury. Jeremy Swayman recorded 24 saves.

Robert Thomas scored twice for the Blues, each time on an assist from Pavel Buchnevich. Joel Hofer made 26 saves as St. Louis' two-game winning streak ended. St. Louis' Nick Bjugstad exited with an upper-body injury early in the second period.

Flyers 4, Sharks 1

Dan Vladar made 17 saves and Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist to guide Philadelphia to a home victory over San Jose. Christian Dvorak, Carl Grundstrom and Noah Cates also scored for the Flyers, who have won five of seven.

Collin Graf scored in a third straight game for the Sharks, who were not able to carry any momentum from a 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday. Alex Nedeljkovic made 26 saves.

Philadelphia scored the first of four unanswered goals when Konecny's high flip out of the defensive zone caromed off the shoulder of teammate Trevor Zegras and unleashed Dvorak on a first-period breakaway. Konecny's assist on the play was his 500th career NHL point in his 10th season.

Devils 4, Senators 3

Cody Glass scored the go-ahead goal with 7:36 remaining in the third period to lift New Jersey over host Ottawa as the Devils ended a season-high five-game losing streak.

New Jersey's Arseny Gritsyuk collected a goal and two assists, and Connor Brown notched three assists. Jacob Markstrom made 35 saves for the Devils, who overcame allowing three power-play goals.

Drake Batherson scored two power-play goals and Tim Stutzle also converted with the man advantage for the Senators. Linus Ullmark turned aside 28 shots.

Lightning 6, Canadiens 1

Darren Raddysh scored two goals and the Tampa Bay offense erupted in a win at Montreal, snapping the Lightning's four-game losing streak.

Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who had been shut out in their previous two games.

Pontus Holmberg and Charle-Edouard D'Astous also scored, and Jonas Johansson made 26 saves. Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman left with an injury in the first period.

Oliver Kapanen scored for the Canadiens, who have lost two straight and four of six. Jakub Dobes was lifted after allowing three goals on 14 shots in the first period. Sam Montembeault yielded three goals on 13 shots in relief.

Hurricanes 4, Blue Jackets 1

Eric Robinson scored a tiebreaking goal in the third period and Carolina went on to defeat Columbus in Raleigh, N.C.

Seth Jarvis, Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook also scored for the Hurricanes, who went 4-3-0 on their seven-game homestand. Martinook's goal came with 1:15 remaining into an empty net while Carolina was short-handed. Andrei Svechnikov had two assists. Brandon Bussi made 23 saves, improving his record to 9-1-0.

Dmitri Voronkov scored the goal for Columbus, which has lost three straight -- the last two in regulation. The Blue Jackets had gone more than a month without consecutive games without a point. Jet Greaves, playing in back-to-back games, stopped 27 shots.

Islanders 5, Golden Knights 4 (SO)

Bo Horvat scored two goals and Emil Heineman tallied the game-winner with a glove-side wrist shot in the fourth round of a shootout to lead New York to a victory over Vegas in Elmont, N.Y.

Marc Gatcomb and Simon Holmstrom tallied a goal each as the Islanders recorded their fourth victory in the past five games. Ilya Sorokin won his fourth straight start with 32 saves.

Pavel Dorofeyev sent the game into overtime after chipping in a rebound of a Mitch Marner point shot with 14 seconds left in regulation. Marner, Noah Hanifin and Ivan Barbashev also scored for the Golden Knights. Marner added an assist, Jack Eichel and Mark Stone each had two assists, and Carter Hart logged 23 saves.

Stars 4, Jets 3

Mikko Rantanen picked up three assists as Dallas won its fourth consecutive game, defeating host Winnipeg.

Esa Lindell, Roope Hintz, Alexander Petrovic and Jason Robertson each scored for the Stars. Wyatt Johnston pitched in with two helpers, while Casey DeSmith held his own with 30 saves.

The Jets battled back from deficits of 3-0 and 4-2, pulling within one with 14:06 left in regulation, but they were unable to get any closer. Mark Scheifele scored twice for Winnipeg, while Logan Stanley provided the other tally. Kyle Connor had two assists, and Eric Comrie made 15 stops.

Pavel Zacha also tallied for the Bruins, who won their third straight game -- and their second game against St. Louis in six days.

David Pastrnak earned two assists for Boston after missing the previous five games with an undisclosed injury. Sean Kuraly also notched two assists, and Jeremy Swayman made 24 saves.

Robert Thomas scored twice for the Blues, each time on an assist from Pavel Buchnevich. Joel Hofer made 26 saves as St. Louis' two-game winning streak ended.

St. Louis sustained another casualty when a high hit knocked Nick Bjugstad out of the game with an upper-body injury early in the second period.

St. Louis tied the game 2-2 at 4:51 of the third period when Buchnevich's centering pass found Thomas alone in front of the net. However, Kastelic reached into the crease to poke in a loose puck to put Boston up 3-2 at 8:01.

Minten swatted a bouncing puck into the net from the slot to make it 4-2 at 11:33, and Zacha finished off the Blues by finding an empty net at 18:19.

The Blues took a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal 5:27 into the game when Buchnevich fed Thomas for a shot from the high slot.

The Bruins outshot the Blues 13-3 during the second period and kept the hosts under duress for 19 minutes, emerging with a 2-1 lead at the second intermission.

Minten tied the game 1-1 by tapping the puck into the open right side during a goalmouth scramble at 12:48 of the middle frame. Kastelic put Boston up 2-1 by deflecting Victor Soderstrom's shot from the left point less than two minutes later.

The Blues finally mustered an offensive push in the final minute of the second period, but Bruins defenseman Hampus Lindholm blocked Jake Neighbours' backhand shot toward the open side of the net.

Esa Lindell, Roope Hintz, Alexander Petrovic, and Jason Robertson got the goals for Dallas, and Wyatt Johnston had two helpers. Casey DeSmith made 30 saves.

Mark Scheifele scored twice for Winnipeg, while Logan Stanley provided the other tally. Kyle Connor had two assists. Eric Comrie made 15 stops.

Just 44 seconds into the first period with the Jets struggling to get the puck out of their zone, Lindell stepped into a loose puck and fired into the top corner on the Stars' first shot of the night.

Winnipeg pushed back late in the frame. Gabe Vilardi came closest to equalizing by ringing a wrist shot off the right post with 5:21 remaining.

Dallas doubled its lead 1:16 into the second period on the power play. After a flurry of pressure, Hintz chipped a loose puck past DeSmith to make it 2-0.

Just 1:15 later, Petrovic finished off a dump-and-chase cycle, stretching the Stars' lead to 3-0.

The Jets finally broke through at 11:04 when Connor intercepted a misplayed pass from behind the Dallas net by Nils Lundkvist. Connor fed Scheifele in the slot, and the Jets captain snapped a shot past DeSmith to cut the deficit to 3-1.

Winnipeg pulled within one with 1:08 left in the middle period, seconds after a power play expired, to close the deficit to 3-2. Josh Morrissey launched a stretch pass that forced the Stars out of position, springing Scheifele for his second of the game.

The Stars restored their two-goal lead with their second power-play marker of the night, this time off the stick of Robertson at 4:46 of the third period, pushing the score to 4-2.

The Jets struck back just 1:08 later. Stanley drove into the slot and fired a shot through traffic, then followed up to bury his own rebound and bring Winnipeg back within one at 4-3, but that's as close as the Jets would get.

Heineman ripped a wrist shot past the glove side of Vegas goaltender Carter Hart to win it. Marc Gatcomb and Simon Holmstrom also scored for New York, which won for the fourth time in the last five games.

It was 39th multi-goal game of Horvat's career and fourth this season. Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves to win his fourth straight start.

Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist and Jack Eichel and Mark Stone each had two assists for the Golden Knights. Noah Hanifin, Ivan Barbashev and Pavel Dorofeyev also scored goals for Vegas, which had a four-game win streak snapped. Hart finished with 23 saves.

Vegas took a 2-0 lead with two nearly identical goals in a four-minute span in the first period. Hanifin got the first to snap his 11-game goal drought. Eichel fired a shot from the right circle that Sorokin stopped with his left pad, but the rebound caromed straight to a wide-open Hanifin at the bottom of the left circle, where he roofed the rebound.

Marner followed at the 16:01 mark, putting in a rebound of Kaeden Korczak shot, also from the bottom of the left circle.

New York cut the lead to 2-1 with 27 seconds left in the period on Horvat's a one-timer from the right circle past Hart's glove side.

The Islanders tied it early in the second period when Casey Cizikas carried the puck behind the net and then spun around and hit Gatcomb with a pass in front of the crease, where he fired a shot over Hart's left pad.

New York took its first lead, 3-2, at the 13:30 mark of the second period when Holmstrom lasered a wrist shot from the top of the left circle past Hart's glove and off the far post and into the net for his first goal in 18 games.

Vegas tied it, 3-3, early in the third period on Barbashev's highlight-reel goal, swiping a one-handed shot over Sorokin's left pad as he was falling forward to the ice in the slot.

Horvat put the Islanders back in front with 9:45 remaining with a power-play goal, one-timing a Mathew Barzal pass from the high slot past Hart's glove side.

Vegas pulled Hart for an extra attacker and tied it with 14 seconds left when Dorofeyev chipped in a rebound of a Marner point shot inside the right post.

The Golden Knights' Dorofeyev, Marner, Eichel and Shea Theodore missed shots in the shootout, while the Islanders' Barzal, Holmstrom and Horvat failed before Heineman's goal.

Seth Jarvis, Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook also scored for the Hurricanes, who went 4-3-0 on their season-long seven-game homestand. Martinook's goal came with 1:15 remaining into an empty net while Carolina was skating in a short-handed situation. Andrei Svechnikov had two assists.

Brandon Bussi made 23 saves, improving his record to 9-1-0. Carolina was beginning a four-game stretch against Metropolitan Division opponents.

Dmitri Voronkov scored the goal for Columbus, which has lost three straight games -- the last two in regulation. The Blue Jackets had gone more than a month without consecutive games without a point.

Goalie Jet Greaves, playing in back-to-back games, stopped 27 shots.

Robinson, who played the first six-plus years of his career with the Blue Jackets, ended a 10-game stretch without a goal when he finished off a pass from Taylor Hall 7:53 into the third period.

Staal's marker at the 13:38 mark, assisted by Svechnikov and Shayne Gostisbehere, gave him power-play goals in back-to-back games after a four-plus-year drought since his last one.

The Blue Jackets, playing the first of four meetings with Carolina this season, scored on their second shot on goal. Voronkov, who was alone in front of the net, converted on a power play with 7:21 to play in the first period.

Jarvis recorded his team-leading 17th goal midway through the second period. He has racked up six goals during the seven-game homestand.

The Hurricanes held a 21-14 advantage in shots through two periods. The Blue Jackets posted 10 shots in the third, their most in any period, but came up empty.

The Hurricanes wrapped up a three-day celebration of the 20th anniversary season of the franchise's only Stanley Cup championship. There was an on-ice ceremony prior to the game.

Anaheim was short-handed, and Husso had just reached the bench for an extra skater when Sennecke drove to the net. His shot deflected off Pittsburgh defenseman Erik Karlsson and crossed the goal line to tie it 3-3.

Jackson LaCombe and Troy Terry scored in regulation, and Leo Carlsson scored in the shootout for the Ducks, who have won three in a row.

Noel Acciari and Tommy Novak scored, Karlsson had two assists and Arturs Silovs made 25 saves for the Penguins in the opener of a five-game homestand.

Anthony Mantha had given the Penguins a 3-2 lead when he scored on a power play with 3:55 left.

Husso was called for holding the stick of Rutger McGroarty during a scramble in front of the crease and Mantha scored seven seconds into the man-advantage when his attempted pass through the crease went off the stick of Husso and into the net.

Pittsburgh outshot the Ducks 16-8 in the opening period, but could only take a 1-0 lead on the first goal of the season by Acciari at 9:49.

The scoring play began with Acciari winning a faceoff in the Anaheim zone. The puck went to teammate Connor Dewar, who swung and missed but then kicked the puck back to Acciari, who scored with a wrist shot through the legs of Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov from the right circle.

It marked the seventh straight game the Penguins scored a first-period goal, the longest streak in the NHL.

The Ducks began to get their legs moving in the second period and tied it 1-1 at 5:19.

Anaheim won a faceoff in the Pittsburgh zone, and the puck went back to LaCombe along the wall. He drove to the net through the left circle and took a shot from the goal line that squeezed through high on the near side.

The Ducks moved ahead 2-1 at 14:10 of the second when Terry gathered a loose puck in the Pittsburgh zone, and he also scored near side from the bottom of the right circle.

The Penguins tied it 2-2 with 19 seconds left in the second period when Novak banked the puck off the back of Husso from below the goal line on the second rebound try.

New Jersey's Arseny Gritsyuk collected a goal and two assists, Glass had one of each and Paul Cotter and defenseman Simon Nemec also tallied.

Connor Brown notched three assists and Jacob Markstrom made 34 saves for the Devils, who overcame allowing three power-play goals to snap a season-high five-game losing skid.

Ottawa's Drake Batherson scored two power-play goals and Tim Stutzle also converted with the man advantage. The two are tied with the injured Shane Pinto with a team-best 12 goals on the season.

Captain Brady Tkachuk and Dylan Cozens each notched two assists and Linus Ullmark turned aside 28 shots for the Senators, who went 0-3-0 on their three-game homestand and have dropped five of their last six overall.

New Jersey forced a turnover by Tyler Kleven in Ottawa's defensive zone, leading to Gritsyuk feathering a cross-slot feed that Glass converted to give the Devils a 4-3 lead.

Batherson, who cleaned up a loose puck to open the scoring 1:36 into the game, scored from in close midway into the second period to forge a 3-3 tie.

Nemec's shot from along the edge of the right faceoff circle handcuffed Ullmark to level the contest at 1-1 at 5:09 of the first period.

The Senators claimed a 2-1 lead with 7:01 remaining in the first period after Stutzle's shot from the high slot caromed off the skate of New Jersey defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler and past Markstrom.

Gritsyuk converted from in close exactly five minutes later to even the contest at 2-2 before Cotter forced a turnover in the neutral zone and backhanded the puck past Ullmark at 4:21 of the second period.

Christian Dvorak, Carl Grundstrom and Noah Cates also scored for Philadelphia, which has won five of its last seven games. Vladar's highlights included a stop on Will Smith's breakaway in the first period and a key save against Ty Dellandrea in the third.

Collin Graf scored in a third straight game for San Jose, which was not able to carry any momentum from Sunday's 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. The Sharks have not won back-to-back games since Nov. 18 and Nov. 20.

Alex Nedeljkovic made 26 saves for San Jose.

Graf opened the scoring midway through the first period off a nice passing sequence. Smith found John Klingberg, who whipped it across the ice to Graf for a tic-tac-toe goal.

Philadelphia tied it late in the period when Konecny's high flip out of the defensive zone caromed off the shoulder of teammate Trevor Zegras and unleashed Dvorak on a breakaway. Dvorak shifted to his backhand and beat Nedeljkovic.

Konecny's assist on the play was his 500th career NHL point in his 10th season.

The Flyers scored twice in the second period, beginning with Grundstrom's first goal of the season in just his second game with the team. Grundstrom got a piece of Nick Seeler's shot from the left point to make it 2-1 with 3:20 gone in the session.

Grundstrom played for the Sharks last season, scoring three goals and totaling nine points in 56 games. He had not scored since April 9.

Cates made it 3-1 with 12 seconds to play in the second period, solving Nedeljkovic with a wrister from the left circle.

The Flyers killed off a penalty late in the third period before Konecny's empty-netter with 1:43 remaining sealed the outcome.

Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who had been shut out in consecutive games. Jonas Johansson, playing for the second straight night after a 2-0 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday, made 26 saves.

Oliver Kapanen scored for the Canadiens, who have lost two straight and four of six. Jakub Dobes was lifted after allowing three goals on 14 shots in the first period. Sam Montembeault allowed three goals on 13 shots in relief.

Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman left with an injury in the first period.

Tampa Bay pulled away with a three-goal first period.

Point ended the scoreless skid and gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 2:27. Jake Guentzel flipped a long pass to Point at center ice, and he muscled around a defenseman before lifting a shot over Dobes' right shoulder.

The assist was Guentzel's 600th point (282 goals, 318 assists) in 630 NHL games.

Pontus Holmberg made it 2-0 at 6:03 when he came out of the penalty box, controlled a loose puck and came in alone to score on a snap shot from the slot.

Kucherov increased the lead to 3-0 at 17:12, scoring on a one-timer from the right circle off a pass from Max Crozier.

Charle-Edouard D'Astous made it 4-0, converting a pass across the slot from Kucherov at 2:43 of the second period.

Kapanen pulled the Canadiens within 4-1 with 54 seconds left in the period when he knocked home the rebound after Nick Suzuki's shot hit the post during a power play.

Raddysh increased the Tampa Bay lead to 5-1 at 1:22 of the third period when he entered the zone along the right boards and scored over Montembeault's shoulder.

Raddysh made it 6-1 at 8:41, scoring a power-play goal on a wrist shot from the point through traffic to cap his second career multi-goal game.

The Kraken have lost six games in a row -- the past five in regulation -- after a 4-1 loss Monday to visiting Minnesota.

They will look to finally snap that streak when they play host to the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.

"Rock bottom is a tough spot to be in," said Kraken forward Chandler Stephenson, a two-time Stanley Cup winner. "And you can say all you want and whatever, but I mean, you just got to do it. I think that's kind of the biggest thing right now."

The Kraken were in Monday's game until the final 75 seconds, when the Wild scored a pair of empty-net goals in quick succession.

"You've got to find ways to win," said Kraken captain Jordan Eberle, who scored his team-leading ninth goal of the season. "You can say we're working hard, competing, but we need to find a little bit more from every single guy.

"I've said this before -- I think the line between winning and losing is so thin. I mean, obviously, we've lost six in a row. ... You have to realize a little bit here puts you over that edge and you start winning again."

Backup goaltender Philipp Grubauer stopped 25 of 27 shots for the Kraken but suffered his first regulation defeat of the season (4-1-1).

At least the Kraken's league-worst penalty kill (66.2%) didn't allow a goal and Eberle scored with the man advantage to tie the game in the second period.

"We won the so-called special teams battle, which we haven't done for a little bit here," Kraken coach Lane Lambert said. "So, it's a step in the right direction and definitely a positive from that standpoint."

Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak was a healthy scratch for a second consecutive game, something he had never endured since being selected in the 2021 expansion draft.

The Kings are coming off a 4-2 victory Monday over the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City.

Joel Armia tallied twice, Adrian Kempe had a goal and an assist and captain Anze Kopitar also scored for the Kings, who had snapped a two-game losing streak Saturday with a 6-0 victory against visiting Chicago.

"I think after that game on Saturday, you come in here (to Utah) and feel good about your game," said Kempe, who leads the Kings with 26 points and shares the team lead of 10 goals with Kevin Fiala.

"Obviously, you don't expect to go out and score six every game, but we kind of kept it going in the first period, had two goals, and then it was a tough game from there on."

Los Angeles is playing its characteristic brand of stingy defense under coach Jim Hiller.

Only the Colorado Avalanche and Washington Capitals allow fewer goals on a per-game basis, putting the Kings on pace to place in the top three in the category for a third straight season.

The outbursts against Chicago and Utah propelled the Kings to 27th in scoring. Before those wins, they buried a total of 20 goals across their previous 10 games.

Goalie Darcy Kuemper has made four straight starts for the Kings. He denied 19 of 21 shots against the Mammoth to improve to 10-6-5 with a .914 save percentage.

Now, the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions face the challenge of building upon that as they start a four-game road trip Wednesday in Salt Lake City against the Utah Mammoth.

After losing the first three games in regulation and the fourth in overtime, the Panthers finished the homestand with victories on back-to-back days against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday and New York Islanders on Sunday.

Carter Verhaeghe scored twice against Columbus and once versus the Islanders. The forward has four goals in his last three games since his first child was born, which caused Verhaeghe to miss the Dec. 2 home game against Toronto.

The weekend also brought the return of forward Eetu Luostarinen, who missed eight games as he recovered from burns sustained in a grilling mishap.

Having both players back on the ice has provided a much-needed spark, Panthers coach Paul Maurice said after Sunday's victory, especially since the team remains without top forwards Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk, neither of whom has played a game this season.

"When you miss two of your top six when you've already got two of your top six out, this makes a huge difference in how we look," Maurice said. "Getting those guys back, we're more confident now. Going to be a really tough road trip, but we're playing as well as we've played in quite a while."

Daniil Tarasov stopped 20 of the 21 shots he faced Sunday. He could start Wednesday in Utah as the Panthers will play at the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday. That move would likely allow Sergei Bobrovsky, Florida's No. 1 netminder, to face the NHL's top team.

With the Blue Jackets last season, Tarasov stopped 32 shots to help Columbus earn a 3-2 overtime victory in Utah on Jan. 31.

The Panthers will be the second of three straight home games for the Mammoth, who fell 4-2 to the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.

That was not the biggest blow the Mammoth suffered that day, as the team reported prior to the loss that Logan Cooley, who leads Utah with 14 goals, will be out indefinitely due to a lower-body injury. The 21-year-old center ranks third on the team with 23 points.

Mammoth coach Andre Tourigny was philosophical after Monday's loss about how the team needs to step up in Cooley's absence.

"If you play the way you should play, which is at your full potential, you won't raise anything," he said. "You will just be the best version of yourself. ... There's no other Logan Cooley on our team, so there's nobody who can be a Logan Cooley for the next little while. It's not the way it is. Everybody has to be themselves, but the best version of themselves."

Clayton Keller, who has 28 points to lead the Mammoth, notched his 10th goal and an assist to give him points in four of his last five games.

Karel Vejmelka made 23 saves but saw his two-game winning streak end Monday. The Czech goalie is 1-5-1 in seven career games against the Panthers, with a .912 save percentage and a 3.31 GAA.

The Red Wings, who are coming off Monday's 4-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks, have found themselves back among the collection of clubs vying for top spot in the Atlantic Division.

"We're kind of getting into a rhythm here," said goaltender John Gibson, who posted his first shutout of the season in Vancouver. "Obviously, we're only halfway through (this road trip) and have three big ones left, but just kind of build off this one and take it into the back-to-back coming up."

The Red Wings are three matchups into a six-game road swing that takes them to Edmonton the night after visiting Calgary. Proving how wild the standings are right now, they went from outside a playoff position to first place in the Atlantic by beating the Canucks.

Continuing the trend in which Detroit has cobbled together a 3-0-2 run will require more of what transpired in Vancouver.

While Gibson, acquired in the offseason to solidify the Red Wings between the pipes, made 39 saves, James van Riemsdyk continued showing his hot hand by scoring for a fourth consecutive game. Captain Dylan Larkin added a goal and the club received depth-player scoring from Andrew Copp and Nate Danielson.

"We're happy we got the secondary scoring," coach Todd McLellan said. "We can't keep relying on three or four guys. When they're having dry nights, somebody else has to pick up the slack."

The Flames are looking to continue their climb up from the league's basement. Thanks to a 7-2-1 run capped with a 7-4 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday, they are only a handful of points outside a playoff position.

"I think it's a really big thing we take a ‘W' and win three games in a row," said forward Yegor Sharangovich, who scored twice in a three-point game against Buffalo. "Now we have fun, everyone is smiling and we need to just keep going."

Calgary sat last in the league less than a week ago and had been there for the majority of the first eight weeks of the season. However, the Flames won the first three outings of a four-game homestand and posted a 5-0-1 mark in their last half-dozen clashes at the Saddledome.

Just like the Red Wings, the Flames have no time to fall off the track.

When asked after Tuesday's practice whether he has given his squad a goal or mile marker to focus on, coach Ryan Huska replied, "We have to catch the team in front of us right now. The focus is to end this homestand the right way and try to make it 4-for-4 if we can."

Although the seven goals against the Sabres was a season high for Calgary, which is tied with Seattle as the league's lowest scoring club on a per-game basis, Huska wanted to ensure his players were not thinking that performance was the key to success.

"Some of the games we played when we weren't winning were better than some of the ones we've played over the last little bit -- the last couple of games in particular," Huska said.

As NHL players prepare to return to the Olympics for the first time since 2014, two issues have arisen around the Santagiulia Arena in Milan where both men's and women's hockey is set to take place: the size of the surface rink and the quality of the ice.

According to The Athletic, the 60-meter (196.85 ft x 85.3 ft) by 26-meter surface in Milan, approved by the International Ice Hockey Federation, is more than three feet shorter than the 200-foot length required in the NHL.

Though the Milan surface is a fraction wider than the required NHL specifications, many are reportedly concerned it is not enough to make up for the shorter rink given the frequency of high-speed collisions that are part of the sport.

"While these dimensions differ slightly from a typical NHL rink, they are consistent with IIHF regulations, match the rink size used at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and are fully consistent with the dimensions the NHL requires as part of its Global Series Game arena specifications," the IIHF said in a statement released by the Milano Cortina Foundation.

"All involved, the IIHF, the Organizing Committee, NHL, NHLPA, IOC and the relevant venue authorities agree that the differences in rink specifications are insignificant, and should not impact either the safety or quality of game play."

Additionally, construction issues at the Santagiulia Arena have delayed its completion date to Feb. 2, just three days before the women's ice hockey tournament is set to begin, with testing at the new arena not taking place until Jan. 9-11.

NHLPA assistant executive director Ron Hainsey told Sportsnet on Saturday the players are more concerned about the quality of the ice than the size of the surface, especially considering two regular-season games were successfully played as part of the NHL's Global Series in Stockholm's Avicii Arena, which is similar in size to the Santagiulia Arena surface.

"The health and safety of our players while playing on any surface will not be compromised," he said.

The women's tournament will take place at Santagiulia Arena and Milano Rho Arena from Feb. 5-19. The men's tournament will also split time between the two arenas, kicking off Feb. 11 with five games played in the first 30 hours, and concluding with the gold medal game on Feb. 22.

Daly told reporters Monday at the league's board of governors meetings in Colorado Springs he didn't think the construction issues were "insurmountable" but that the NHL was increasing its efforts to ensure the safety and playability of the ice in Milan.

"We have offered and they're utilizing our ice experts and technicians and outside providers," Daly said. "We're basically moving everybody there to try to help get this done in a way that's acceptable for NHL athletes. And I'm cautiously optimistic it will be fruitful."

Daly said there is no contingency plan if the league's needs aren't met.

"I mean, it kind of is what it is," Daly said. "Having said that, if you're faced with that being the reality, then you have to think about what you do next. ... What I'd say is, I think in emergency-type situations like that in the past, I think we've responded appropriately, came up with good solutions and I have no doubt that we'll be able to come up with good solutions if we're faced with that."

The 2026 Winter Olympics will be co-hosted by Milan and the alpine resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo from Feb. 6-22.

The predicaments are not as similar as they might seem.

New York is coming off successive overtime losses to visiting Colorado and Vegas on Saturday and Sunday, both by scores of 3-2.

Chicago, meanwhile, absorbed blowouts of 6-0 and 7-1, respectively, in Los Angeles and Anaheim on successive nights. The Blackhawks have lost consecutive games by at least six goals for the first time since 1951.

"When you get your butt kicked on the scoreboard two nights in a row like that -- and (Sunday) was a total, total whupping -- your confidence slips," Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill said. "But this is a big-boy league, man. You've got to have mental toughness.

"We'll get out of here, fly home and get back out (to practice). But there's lessons to be learned. The one thing I've been impressed (about) with this team is, they've learned lessons."

Chicago looks to have a different mix than the group that last skated at United Center on Nov. 30. The team sent rookie defenseman Sam Rinzel and forward Landon Slaggert to Rockford of the American Hockey League this week.

While the past two losses have been historically one-sided, the Blackhawks actually have been struggling for the past three weeks. They are 2-6-2 in the past 10 games, getting outscored 42-22 over that span.

"We've got a lot of work to do," Chicago forward Andre Burakovsky said, "and we've got to correct some things and just overall be better."

New York couldn't hold a one-goal lead in the last minute of regulation on Sunday but nonetheless took positives from a brief, two-game homestand against Colorado and Vegas, which both entered Tuesday as top-five teams in the Western Conference.

The Rangers are 5-1-2 in their past eight games after earning 10 wins over their first 23 games.

"We're starting to do a lot of the right things more on a consistent basis, especially against the top teams in the league," New York forward J.T. Miller said Sunday. "We looked at this week as a really good challenge. Dallas, Ottawa and these two (games), eight points were up for grabs, and we got six. I think we'll take that any day of the week.

"I think we're getting rewarded by getting team points. We're hanging in there. It's a hard part of the schedule, every team goes through it, and we're trying to grind. I love that we're playing some of the top teams in the league right now. It's an unreal challenge for our group to kind of see where we're at."

New York has especially shown resilience with All-Star defenseman Adam Fox (upper body) on long-term injured reserve.

"I think we're moving towards the identity that we're trying to build and the game that we want to play. And we've just gotta continue to stay hungry and continue to work at it," Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan said. "I think once again, when you play some of the better teams in the league like we have most recently, and the guys perform the way they have, I think it provides a lot of evidence. And I think that reinforces belief in what we're doing and how we're going about it."

The Blackhawks and Rangers split two meetings last season, with New York outscoring Chicago 7-4.

Malkin, 39, did not play in Sunday's 3-2 shootout loss to the Dallas Stars after recording two goals and an assist in Pittsburgh's 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday.

Penguins head coach Dan Muse initially said Malkin was day-to-day with the injury. He is now considered week-to-week.

Also headed to IR with an upper-body injury is forward Blake Lizotte. It's unclear when Lizotte suffered the injury.

Lizotte had an assist, two hits and two blocks in 13:59 minutes of ice time against the Stars on Sunday.

In corresponding moves, the Penguins recalled forwards Danton Heinen and Sam Poulin from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL.

The second overall pick of the 2004 NHL Draft, Malkin led the league in points (2008-09, 2011-12) and earned the Hart Trophy as the league's MVP in 2012. He won three Stanley Cup Championships with the Penguins (2009, 2016, 2017).

In 26 games this season, he is second on the team with 29 points (eight goals, 21 assists) and has a plus-5 rating. He has 1,375 points (522 goals, 853 assists) in 1,239 career games, all with the Penguins.

Lizotte has five points (three goals, two assists) in 27 games this season. He has 131 points (51 goals, 80 assists) in 406 games with the Los Angeles Kings (2018-24) and Penguins.

McMann received a match penalty for high-sticking during a break in play early in the third period of Toronto's 2-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning Monday. His action came in response to a cross-check from Lightning forward Oliver Bjorkstrand.

McMann, 29, has 14 points (eight goals, six assists) in 28 games this season.

He has totaled 73 points (43 goals, 30 assists) and a plus-24 rating in 168 career games with the Maple Leafs.

The Oilers enter the contest having won two straight and four of their past six games (4-2-0) after losing four of their previous five (1-3-1).

They skated to a 6-2 home victory against the Winnipeg Jets in their most recent outing on Saturday. That was preceded by a 9-4 triumph against the visiting Seattle Kraken on Thursday.

"We look a lot more connected, we look a lot faster," Edmonton center Leon Draisaitl said. "Obviously, we're looking to take steps and continue to get better. Sometimes you lose confidence in your own ability and the ability of the group a little bit, and then it takes a little (while) to get out of it. Hopefully, we can string a couple together here."

Edmonton's offense has come to life of late, scoring at least four goals in each of the past four wins and managing three in one of the two losses. At the end of their five-game struggle on Nov. 20, the Oilers were averaging 2.96 goals. Entering the Tuesday slate, their goals-per-game average of 3.31 has vaulted them up to seventh in the league.

"I think we're starting to get that feeling back," Edmonton forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins said. "You could see (during the skid) the way that we want to play creeping into our game, and it's never gonna go super smooth, but we know what we're capable of and it takes a lot of work. We're at our best when it's simple and we're working hard, and then our skill takes over from there."

The Sabres arrive in the Alberta capital having hit the halfway point of a season-high six-game road trip, still in search of a win on the trek.

Their latest setback came Monday in Calgary, a 7-4 defeat against the Flames. Buffalo cut a two-goal deficit in half four times but failed to pull even each time, and the Flames added a pair of empty-net tallies late in the third period.

"S--t game. Horrible game," said Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin, who had a goal and an assist. "That's all I can say. The result, how the game ended. A lot of errors."

The Sabres are 2-9-2 on the road this season, the worst away record in the NHL. Both of their road wins went beyond regulation -- an overtime decision against the Detroit Red Wings on Nov. 15 and a shootout triumph against the Minnesota Wild on Nov. 29.

"We need to win a game," Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said.

The penalty kill has been a strength for the Sabres since the start of the season, ranking among the top three in the NHL. However, it has taken a bit of a hit on the trip, allowing four power-play goals on 11 opportunities. The Sabres took five penalties on Monday, and Calgary converted twice right after 5-on-3 opportunities became 5-on-4s.

"We've been pretty good all year not getting caught on 5-on-3," Ruff said. "You've got to eliminate that. We know going into (Tuesday's) game ... we can't give Edmonton five or six power plays."

The Lightning dropped their fourth straight game on Monday night with a 2-0 setback to the host Toronto Maple Leafs,. Tampa Bay has been shut out in its past two games and totaled four goals in the four-game skid.

Montreal will look to bounce back from a 4-3 home loss to the St. Louis Blues on Sunday that followed consecutive shootout wins. The Canadiens are not lighting the lamp at a rapid pace either, scoring just 10 goals while going 2-3-0 in their past five games.

Against the Maple Leafs, Lightning goalie Jonas Johansson stopped 22 of 23 shots before Toronto clinched it with an empty-net goal. Tampa Bay could not connect on any of its 29 shots and has now gone more than 128 minutes since its last goal.

"It was one of those ones where it looked like whoever scored first was going to win, and that's pretty much how it ended," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of the Monday contest. "A little unfortunate for us because we've been playing pretty well and unfortunately losing, and tonight I thought we took a step back honestly."

It was the first time the Lightning took consecutive shutout losses since November 2023.

Tampa Bay center Brayden Point played 18:48 and had four shots on goal in his return after missing seven games with an undisclosed injury. Winger Nikita Kucherov, who had missed one game due to an undisclosed ailment, played a team-high 24:38 and had two shots on goal.

Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy (undisclosed injury) was placed on injured reserve ahead of the Monday game, so Brandon Halverson could make his first appearance of the season, and the third of his NHL career, on Tuesday.

Halverson got in a game off the bench for the New York Rangers on Feb. 17, 2018, then took a 6-4 loss while starting for the Lightning against the Utah Mammoth on March 22, 2025.

The Canadiens had a day off following their stumble against the Blues. Noah Dobson had a goal and an assist while Cole Caufield and Lane Hutson also scored for Montreal. With goalie Sam Montembeault a late scratch due to an illness, Jakub Dobes started for the second straight day and made 14 saves.

"I felt good," Dobes said. "The legs were fine, the mind is probably the one part that gets overused the most. But I felt pretty decent. I felt like I made pretty good reads, maybe one mistake on the third goal, but everyone makes mistakes, so it happens."

The Canadiens led 2-1 after the first period, but the Blues scored two goals in 39 seconds early in the second period to take the lead for good.

"It's not rocket science, really," Canadiens defenseman Mike Matheson said. "It's two breakdowns that led to two quick goals, and that was the difference."

Caufield brings a career-high-tying 11-game point streak (four goals, nine assists) into the Tuesday game. Hutson, a defenseman who had six goals in 82 games last season, already has five goals through 17 games this season.

Meanwhile, Montreal rookie Oliver Kapanen has one goal in his past nine games after opening the season with seven in his first 19.

The teams are meeting for the first time this season. Montreal took two of three from Tampa Bay in 2024-25.

It was the 25th career shutout for Gibson and his first since Jan. 4, 2023, when he led the Anaheim Ducks to a 2-0 win over the Dallas Stars. Gibson shut out the Canucks for the fourth time in his career -- his top total against any NHL team.

James van Riemsdyk, Andrew Copp, Nate Danielson and Dylan Larkin scored goals and defenseman Axel Sandlin-Pellikka had two assists for Detroit, which extended its point streak to five games (3-0-2) with its second straight win.

Kevin Lankinen stopped 10 of 13 shots for Vancouver before giving way to rookie Nikita Tolopilo at the start of the third period. Tolopilo finished with six saves for the Canucks, who lost for the eighth time in 10 games (2-7-1).

Maple Leafs 2, Lightning 0

Dennis Hildeby stopped 29 shots to earn his first career shutout as Toronto defeated visiting Tampa Bay.

Morgan Rielly scored in the first period for the Maple Leafs, who have won four of five. Auston Matthews added an empty-net goal with one second remaining in the game.

With Andrei Vasilevskiy landing on injured reserve earlier in the day because of an undisclosed injury, Jonas Johansson started in goal for Tampa Bay and stopped 22 shots. It was the opener of a four-game road trip for the Lightning, who have lost four in a row and have been shut out in back-to-back games.

Flames 7, Sabres 4

Yegor Sharangovich scored twice in a three-point game while Nazem Kadri tallied once and added two assists to lead host Calgary to a season-high goal total and a victory over slumping Buffalo.

Yan Kuznetsov logged a goal and an assist while Rasmus Andersson, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary, which has won three straight games. Matt Coronato notched two assists, and Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf made 25 saves.

Rasmus Dahlin posted a goal and an assist while Tage Thompson, Owen Power and Alex Tuch each had a goal for the Sabres, who have lost three straight. Josh Norris and Jason Zucker recorded two assists apiece. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen saved 17 of 22 shots before Alex Lyon made four saves in the third period.

Kings 4, Mammoth 2

Joel Armia scored two goals for Los Angeles in a win against Utah in Salt Lake City.

Adrian Kempe had a goal and an assist, Anze Kopitar also scored, Kevin Fiala had two assists and Darcy Kuemper made 19 saves for the Kings, who have won two in a row following a 2-3-3 stretch.

Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist, Dylan Guenther also scored and Karel Vejmelka made 23 saves for the Mammoth, who have lost six of their past eight games.

Wild 4, Kraken 1

Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal and two assists as Minnesota defeated host Seattle.

Marcus Johansson, Kirill Kaprizov and Vladimir Tarasenko also tallied and goaltender Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves for the Wild, who went 2-2-0 on their four-game trip.

Jordan Eberle scored for the Kraken, who lost their sixth straight (0-5-1). Philipp Grubauer stopped 25 of 27 shots but took his first regulation defeat of the season (4-1-1).

Marcus Johansson, Kirill Kaprizov and Vladimir Tarasenko also tallied, and goaltender Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves for the Wild, who went 2-2-0 on their four-game trip.

Jordan Eberle scored for Seattle, which lost its sixth straight (0-5-1). Philipp Grubauer stopped 25 of 27 shots but suffered his first regulation loss of the season (4-1-1).

Johansson, who played with the Kraken in their expansion season of 2021-22, tallied the go-ahead goal at 8:12 of the third period on an acrobatic move in front of the net. Eriksson Ek got to a loose puck on the right-wing boards and backhanded it toward the top of the crease. Johansson jumped and tipped the puck between his own legs in one motion, with the redirection sailing over Grubauer's shoulder and into the far upper corner of the net.

Kaprizov and Tarasenko scored empty-net goals at 18:45 and 19:00, respectively, to clinch the victory. Kaprizov's goal was his team-leading 18th of the season.

Minnesota opened the scoring at 1:18 of the second period as Jacob Middleton kept the puck in the offensive zone and Matt Boldy drove the puck down the left-wing boards and behind the net. Eriksson Ek skated to the low slot and Boldy found him for a snap shot that left Grubauer little chance.

The Kraken tied it on the power play at 6:48 of the period after Chandler Stephenson won a faceoff in the offensive zone. Jared McCann tapped the puck back to defenseman Vince Dunn at the left point, who returned it to McCann. The forward sent a cross-ice pass to Stephenson, who had moved from the left to the right faceoff circle, and he spotted Eberle at the far post for a tap-in. It was Eberle's team-leading ninth goal of the season.

Dunn put a jarring shoulder-to-shoulder hit on Wild forward Mats Zuccarello at the blue line with about five minutes left in the first. Zuccarello took a hard fall with his helmet bouncing off the ice and went straight to the locker room and didn't return. Minnesota's Danila Yurov came to Zuccarello's defense and received a double-minor for roughing in a slight scuffle with Dunn, who got two minutes for roughing.

Seattle rookie forward Berkly Catton, a first-round pick in 2024, missed the game with an upper-body injury and is considered week to week. Catton blocked a shot with his right hand late in Saturday's 4-3 loss to Detroit.

It was the 25th career shutout for Gibson and his first since Jan. 4, 2023, when he led the Anaheim Ducks to a 2-0 win over the Dallas Stars. Gibson shut out the Canucks for the fourth time in his career -- his top total against any NHL team.

James van Riemsdyk, Andrew Copp, Nate Danielson and Dylan Larkin scored goals and defenseman Axel Sandlin-Pellikka had two assists for Detroit, which extended its point streak to five games (3-0-2) with its second straight win.

Kevin Lankinen stopped 10 of 13 shots for Vancouver before giving way to rookie Nikita Tolopilo at the start of the third period. Tolopilo finished with six saves for the Canucks, who lost for the eighth time in 10 games (2-7-1).

Detroit took a 1-0 lead at 14:14 of the first period when van Riemsdyk extended his goal streak to a career-high four games. J.T. Compher got the primary assist, winning a board battle behind the net and then making a one-arm pass to van Riemsdyk in front of the crease. van Riemsdyk backhanded in his own rebound for his sixth goal in the last seven games.

The Red Wings extended the lead to 3-0 near the end of the second period with two goals in the span of 37 seconds. Copp, on the left doorstep, got the first at 15:15 when he tipped in a crossing pass from the right circle by Sandlin-Pellikka. Danielson, stationed in front of the crease, got the next one when he redirected Sandlin-Pellikka's one-timer through Lankinen's pads.

Vancouver pulled Tolopilo for an extra attacker with 5:16 remaining, and Larkin sealed the win with an empty-netter with 4:31 to go, his team-leading 16th goal of the season.

Yan Kuznetsov logged a goal and an assist while Rasmus Andersson, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary, which has won three straight games and produced a season-high goal total. Matt Coronato notched two assists, and Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf made 25 saves.

Rasmus Dahlin posted a goal and an assist while Tage Thompson, Owen Power and Alex Tuch each had a goal for the Sabres, who have lost three straight outings. Josh Norris and Jason Zucker recorded two assists apiece.

Buffalo's starting goalie, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, surrendered five goals on 22 shots. Alex Lyon took the net for the third period and stopped all four shots he faced.

Sharangovich opened the scoring just before the midway point of the first period when MacKenzie Weegar's point shot ricocheted off his arm and into the net.

Andersson doubled the lead during a 5-on-3 power play, converting with an off-speed point shot. His stick broke as he unloaded, and the puck bounded off a defender and into the cage.

Thompson gave the Sabres life with a power-play goal, a top-shelf wrist shot at 4:24 of the second period from the right circle to snap his personal six-game goal drought. That tally began a wild game of chase.

Huberdeau restored Calgary's two-goal edge with another man-advantage marker, a tap-in tally set up by Coronato at 7:05 of the middle period. Power again pulled Buffalo within one goal with a long wrist shot at 13:43 to snap a 13-game goal drought.

Kadri replied 31 seconds later to make it a 4-2 game, finishing a perfect three-way passing play. However, Dahlin again made it a one-goal game at 16:32 with a neat redirect for his first goal in 15 games.

Kuznetsov put the hosts again ahead by a pair 55 seconds later by driving to the net and burying a loose puck, but it was not over.

Tuch's power-play goal with 2:31 remaining in the third -- on a deflection -- again pulled Buffalo within one goal, but empty-net goals by Backlund and Sharangovich quashed the Sabres' comeback hopes.

Adrian Kempe had a goal and an assist, Anze Kopitar also scored, Kevin Fiala had two assists and Darcy Kuemper made 19 saves for the Kings, who have won two in a row following a 2-3-3 stretch.

Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist, Dylan Guenther also scored and Karel Vejmelka made 23 saves for the Mammoth, who have lost six of their past eight games.

Both teams killed power plays in the first seven minutes before the Kings took a 1-0 lead at 7:50.

Kempe entered the Utah zone with speed after receiving a pass from Fiala. He raced around defenseman Nate Schmidt and through the slot before scoring from in close.

Armia scored on a breakaway after receiving a pinpoint stretch pass from Fiala to extend the lead to 2-0 at 10:08 of the opening period.

A minute later, Mammoth forward Brandon Tanev appeared to score on a breakaway, but the Kings challenged that he was offside prior to the goal and that was confirmed after a replay review.

Utah went on its second power play of the first period when Andrei Kuzmenko was called for interference on Dylan Guenther with 1:17 left.

The power play carried over to the second period and Keller tapped the puck back to Guenther, who scored 34 seconds into the period with a one-timer from the high slot to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Kopitar made it 3-1 when a loose puck came to him in the slot and he lifted it into the net at 3:27 of the third period.

Keller fired a backhand into the far top corner from the right circle to bring the Mammoth back within 3-2 at 12:15 of the final period.

Armia sealed the win by scoring into an empty net with 1:38 left.

Utah announced earlier Monday that the team's leading goal-scorer, Logan Cooley, would be out indefinitely with a lower-body injury sustained Friday against the Vancouver Canucks.