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The Sharks trailed 5-1 with 13 minutes left in the game.

Tyler Toffoli had two goals and two assists, Macklin Celebrini added a goal and two assists and William Eklund scored a goal and an assist. Alexander Wennberg had three assists, and Yaroslav Askorov made 38 saves.

Klingberg converted a cross-slot pass from Celebrini for the winner in the extra period after Toffoli forced overtime with 1:38 to play.

Bryan Rust and Anthony Mantha each had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who lost their fourth straight game. Sidney Crosby contributed a goal and an assist, and Rutger McGroarty and Kevin Hayes got goals. Arturs Silovs stopped 26 shots.

Devils 4, Ducks 1

Stefan Noesen had a goal and Paul Cotter added the go-ahead score as New Jersey earned a victory against visiting Anaheim.

Cody Glass and Connor Brown also scored goals, Juho Lammikko and Ondrej Palat had two assists each, and Jake Allen made 30 saves for the Devils, who had lost six of seven.

Troy Terry scored for the Ducks, and Lukas Dostal made 18 saves after being unavailable the previous nine games because of an upper-body injury.

Wild 3, Senators 2

Joel Eriksson Ek scored with 24 seconds remaining to lift Minnesota over Ottawa in Saint Paul, Minn.

Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt stopped 34 of 36 shots to earn the victory. Eriksson Ek's hard-angle shot from near the sideboards gave Minnesota its third win in a row. Tyler Pitlick and Ryan Hartman also scored for the Wild.

Tim Stutzle and Dylan Cozens each finished with a goal and an assist for Ottawa. The Senators lost for the fourth time in their past five games.

Golden Knights 3, Blue Jackets 2

Brayden McNabb scored the go-ahead goal at the 13:13 mark of the third period, and Carter Hart made 27 saves as visiting Vegas moved into sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division with a victory over Columbus.

Pavel Dorofeyev and Ben Hutton also scored goals, and Mitch Marner had three assists, his second three-point game of the season, for Vegas, which extended its point streak to seven games (6-0-1), tying a season high.

Charlie Coyle and Yegor Chinakhov scored goals, and Jet Greaves made 22 saves for Columbus, which lost its fifth straight game.

Rangers 5, Canadiens 4 (OT)

J.T. Miller scored a power-play goal in overtime as New York erased a three-goal deficit and earned the win over visiting Montreal.

After Jake Evans was sent off for slashing Artemi Panarin, the Rangers captain whipped a slap shot by Canadiens rookie goalie Jacob Fowler to snap New York's three-game losing streak and improve its home record to 4-8-3. Noah Laba and Panarin scored 11 seconds apart in the first period for the Rangers, and Will Cuylle and Miller scored 36 seconds apart in the second. New York goalie Igor Shesterkin made 13 saves.

For Montreal, Zachary Bolduc and Arber Xhekaj scored 89 seconds apart in the first period before Evans completed the three-goal flurry. Josh Anderson scored the Canadiens' fourth goal in the second. Fowler stopped 21 shots in his second NHL start as Montreal fell to 6-1-3 in their past 10 road games.

Islanders 3, Lightning 2 (SO)

Mathew Barzal and Emil Heineman scored in the shootout for New York, which completed a perfect three-game homestand by edging Tampa Bay in Elmont, N.Y.

Matthew Schaefer and Calum Ritchie scored in the first for the Islanders, who won despite being outshot 34-17. The shots were the fewest for New York in a victory since it had 14 shots in a 2-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights n Feb. 4. Goalie Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves as the Islanders won for the sixth time in seven games.

Darren Raddysh scored in the second and J.J. Moser collected the tying goal in the third for the Lightning, whose two-game winning streak was snapped. Goalie Jonas Johansson, drawing the start with Andrei Vasilevskiy on injured reserve, made 15 saves.

Hurricanes 4, Flyers 3 (SO)

Jackson Blake scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lift Carolina to a road victory over Philadelphia.

Pyotr Kochetkov stopped all four Flyers attempts before Blake's first career shootout goal clinched Carolina's victory. Nikolaj Ehlers, Alexander Nikishin and Seth Jarvis scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who have won six of their last eight games overall.

Bobby Brink, Trevor Zegras and Carl Grundstrom scored in regulation for the Flyers, who will try to exact revenge Sunday when the teams reconvene in Raleigh, N.C. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves for Philadelphia, while Kochetkov finished with 15 saves for the visitors.

Flames 2, Kings 1 (OT)

Morgan Frost scored his first career overtime-winning goal to give visiting Calgary a victory over Los Angeles.

Blake Coleman also scored for the Flames, who have won four of five games. Goaltender Dustin Wolf stopped 20 shots.

Adrian Kempe replied for the Kings, who have dropped two straight games and dropped five of their last 11 in extra time (4-2-5). Goalie Darcy Kuemper provided a sparkling performance with 36 saves, including 13 in a perfect first period.

Jets 5, Capitals 1

Gabriel Vilardi scored two goals and the Jets beat Washington in Winnipeg.

Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves in his return from arthroscopic knee surgery. Playing his first game since Nov. 15, Hellebuyck carried a shutout into the final minutes. Vilardi has three goals in his past two games. Morgan Barron and Alex Iafallo scored in their second straight game and Iafallo added an assist for the Jets, who had lost three straight and five of six. Adam Lowry, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Josh Morrissey each had two assists.

Jakob Chychrun scored for the Capitals, who saw their nine-game point streak (7-0-2) end. They are 1-1-2 in their past four. Logan Thompson made 30 saves.

Red Wings 4, Blackhawks 0

Alex DeBrincat scored twice and had an assist and Patrick Kane added a goal and an assist to back a 26-save shutout from John Gibson and lift Detroit to a victory over host Chicago.

Skating against their former team, DeBrincat and Kane scored in the opening 4:35 to stake the Red Wings to an early lead they wouldn't relinquish. Chicago outshot Detroit 26-24 but struggled to solve Gibson while falling to 2-4-1 in its past seven games.

Blackhawks leading scorer Connor Bedard, whose 44 points ranked fourth in the league entering the night, didn't play after sustaining an upper-body injury in the final seconds of Friday's 3-2 loss in St. Louis.

Oilers 6, Maple Leafs 3

Connor McDavid continued his scoring surge with two goals and an assist and visiting Edmonton defeated Toronto.

McDavid has seven goals and eight assists in his past five games. Vasily Podkolzin also scored twice while Darnell Nurse and Zach Hyman scored one each for the Oilers, who have won two in a row. Tristan Jarry stopped 25 shots in his Oilers debut after being obtained in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.

Easton Cowan, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Steven Lorentz scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost two straight.

Panthers 4, Stars 0

Brad Marchand scored twice and added an assist, leading Florida to a shutout victory over host Dallas.

Anton Lundell added a goal and an assist and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers, who improved to 5-5-1 in their last 11. Sam Reinhart added a pair of assists for his seventh multi-point game of the season. Sergei Bobrovsky made 15 saves for his third shutout of the season and 52nd of his career.

Jake Oettinger stopped 19 shots to fall to 1-7-1 in nine starts against the Panthers. The loss drops Dallas to 8-2-1 over its last 11 and 10-5-1 at home this season.

Avalanche 4, Predators 2

NHL scoring leader Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and an assist, Scott Wedgewood turned away 27 shots as surging Colorado Avalanche topped visiting Nashville.

Valeri Nichushkin, Jack Drury and Victor Olofsson also scored and Samuel Girard had two assists for Colorado, which has won 11 straight at home, where it remains unbeaten in regulation this season (13-0-2).

Tyson Jost and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Justus Annunen made 38 saves for Nashville, which had won four of its last five, including a shootout win over Colorado on Tuesday night. That game was a rare loss for the Avalanche, who have earned at least one point in 23 of their last 24 games and have just two regulation losses this season.

Blake Coleman also scored for the Flames, who have won four of five games.

Goaltender Dustin Wolf stopped 20 shots.

Adrian Kempe replied for the Kings, who have dropped two straight games and dropped five of their last 11 in extra time (4-2-5).

Goalie Darcy Kuemper provided a sparkling performance with 36 saves, including 13 in a perfect first period.

Frost -- whose father, Andy, the former longtime public address announcer at Toronto Maple Leafs games, delivered the starting lineup to the team as part of Calgary's Fathers' trip -- finished the game on a high note. He and Jonathan Huberdeau completed a perfect give-and-go during a 3-on-1 rush 66 seconds into the extra period.

Calgary is now on a 9-4-2 run.

Kings captain Anze Kopitar appeared to have scored early in overtime but it was ruled he had kicked the puck into the net.

Despite Calgary holding an early edge in momentum, Kempe opened the scoring at 11:10 of the first period when he unloaded a rocket of a one-timer from the right faceoff dot set up by Alex Laferriere's cross-ice pass.

The Flames continued to hold the momentum -- outshooting the Kings by an 8-0 count in the first five minutes of the second period -- and were rewarded when Coleman tied the clash with a short-handed breakaway tally at 6:41 of the frame. Coleman is tied with Kings forward Joel Armia with three short-handed goals this season.

From there it was the goaltenders shining in the spotlight. Kuemper made a bunch of solid stops while the Flames -- the league's lowest-scoring team --peppered him consistently. He especially had Matt Coronato looking skyward a couple of times.

Wolf was not as busy, but provided a save-of-the-year candidate when he made a sprawling catch on Kevin Fiala's redirect while on an odd-man rush when the Flames trailed 1-0.

The Kings were without Phillip Danault due to illness and Calgary captain Mikael Backlund did not play after the second period.

They'll try for two straight when they wrap up a six-game trip Sunday in Seattle.

The Sabres posted a 3-2 victory in Vancouver on Thursday as Tage Thompson and Rasmus Dahlin each had a goal and an assist and goaltender Alex Lyon made 30 saves. It was the first time the Sabres won in regulation away from home since April 1.

"I feel like we're understanding road games better now," said Dahlin, who extended his point streak to four games (two goals, six assists). "We're keeping it simple, taking advantage of special teams and then (heck) of a goalie (Thursday), so a lot of good things."

After opening their trip with three straight losses, it appeared the Sabres were on their way to another when they allowed the tying goal with two seconds remaining in regulation Tuesday at Edmonton.

But Alex Tuch scored 33 seconds into the extra session to give Buffalo a 4-3 victory.

They carried that momentum with them to Vancouver, though Tuch was a late scratch because of an illness. The Sabres also were without Josh Norris for a second straight game because of injury, leaving them without a pair of top-six forwards.

"That shows a lot of character," Dahlin said. "Some guys are out of the lineup too and I'm very proud of the boys. Some guys from (Rochester of the American Hockey League) have been coming in and playing unbelievable, too, so (heck) of a team effort. We're taking steps."

Lyon made his first start since Nov. 28, though he picked up the win Tuesday after replacing an injured Colten Ellis (concussion) late in the first period.

"I kind of had a little bit of a rhythm and you kind of have a baseline on what you want to do, and how you want to be when you get in the net," Lyon said. "The first period was a grind for me and the guys did a great job of keeping them limited. We played a really sharp first period, and we played a great second period, and then we just found a way to win at the end."

Seattle suffered a 5-3 defeat at Utah on Friday night, its seventh in the past eight games (1-6-1).

The Kraken were also short-handed up front, with forwards Jared McCann, Jaden Schwartz and Berkly Catton all out. McCann is the franchise's career scoring leader and Schwartz led the team this season.

Mason Marchment tallied twice for Seattle, doubling his season total.

"(We were) getting some shots through from the point," Marchment said. "There were a handful of shifts there where we kind of had them hemmed in and got a bunch of good looks. And we're getting pucks to the net and diving through seams, and that's how you score goals in this league. I thought we did a good job at that."

The Kraken failed to score on a two-man advantage early in the third and on another power play later in the period.

"That power play in the third period was the difference," Seattle coach Lane Lambert said. "We had a lot of chances again. ... For the most part, I thought our guys were good."

Valeri Nichushkin, Jack Drury and Victor Olofsson also scored and Samuel Girard had two assists for Colorado, which has won 11 straight at home, where it remains unbeaten in regulation this season (13-0-2).

Tyson Jost and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Justus Annunen made 38 saves for Nashville, which had won four of its last five, including a shootout win over Colorado on Tuesday night. That game was a rare loss for the Avalanche, who have earned at least one point in 23 of their last 24 games and have just two regulation losses this season.

MacKinnon gave Colorado a 1-0 lead with his NHL-leading 26th goal of the season. He carried the puck to the top of the left circle and sent a quick wrister by Annunen at 1:26 of the first period.

It is the ninth time in 32 games the Avalanche have scored in the first 90 seconds and extended MacKinnon's home goal streak to six games. He also leads the NHL this season with 53 points.

Drury made it 2-0 on a 4-on-4 when his shot from the slot was tipped by Roman Josi's stick and the puck then deflected off Nicolas Hague's left knee and in at 11:47.

Nashville answered when it went on the power play nine seconds later. Filip Forsberg sent the puck low to Ryan O'Reilly, he tapped it to Marchessault in the right circle, and his quick shot beat Wedgwood at 12:37 of the first period.

The Predators carried the play for the first half of the second period, including a great chance by Steven Stamkos, but Olofsson's wrister from the slot during a delayed penalty gave Colorado a 3-1 lead at 9:57.

Annunen came off for an extra skater late in the third period and Nichushkin scored into the empty net at 16:26. Jost answered at 18:57.

Anton Lundell added a goal and an assist and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers, who improved to 5-5-1 in their last 11.

Sam Reinhart added a pair of assists for his seventh multi-point game of the season.

Sergei Bobrovsky made 15 saves for his third shutout of the season and 52nd of his career.

With the victory, Florida improved to 15-9-3 all-time in Dallas.

Jake Oettinger stopped 19 shots to fall to 1-7-1 in nine starts against the Panthers.

The loss drops Dallas to 8-2-1 over its last 11 and 10-5-1 at home this season. The Stars have dropped back-to-back games after having their four-game winning streak snapped by the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.

Marchand added his second of the night into an empty net at 17:12 of the third for his team-leading 18th. The 37-year-old has 27 points (15 goals, 12 assists) in 24 games against the Stars.

Florida outshot Dallas 13-7 in the second period and held a 3-0 lead heading into the third.

Lundell opened the scoring 19 seconds into the middle frame, outwaiting Oettinger and tucking it just inside the post for his ninth of the season.

Florida doubled its lead at 5:45 as the rebound off Carter Verhaeghe's shot deflected off the leg of Bennett for his 10th of the season. With the helper, Verhaeghe has 16 points in his last 12 games.

Marchand made it 3-0 on power play with 15 seconds remaining in the period, one-timing a Reinhart pass.

Saturday was the teams' second and final meeting of the season. Florida edged visiting Dallas 4-3 in a shootout Nov. 1.

Skating against their former team, DeBrincat and Kane scored in the opening 4:35 to stake the Red Wings to an early lead they wouldn't relinquish

Chicago outshot Detroit 26-24 but struggled to solve Gibson while falling to 2-4-1 in its past seven games.

Blackhawks leading scorer Connor Bedard, whose 44 points ranked fourth in the league entering the night, didn't play after sustaining an upper-body injury in the final seconds of Friday's 3-2 loss in St. Louis.

Chicago coach Jeff Blashill didn't have an update on Bedard before the game and said the club will "know more in the next couple days."

The Blackhawks recalled forward Nick Lardis, their third-round selection in the 2023 NHL Draft, before the game. Lardis, who had 26 points in 24 games with Rockford of the American Hockey League, registered two shots and five hits in 15:32 of ice time.

Detroit took a 1-0 lead just 55 seconds into the game as DeBrincat tipped the puck past Chicago goaltender Arvid Soderblom on Andrew Copp's feed from the right corner.

Kane, who tallied the secondary assist on the play, scored on a backhand off 2-on-1 with DeBrincat moments later as the duo capitalized on a Connor Murphy turnover.

Emmitt Finnie made it 3-0 at 14:23 of the second period when he scored on a rebound, and DeBrincat closed the scoring with an empty-net goal at 16:14 of the third.

Chicago recorded just six shots in the second period. Ilya Mikheyev had a shorthanded breakaway attempt with 3:30 to play in the period but fanned on the shot attempt.

Gibson improved to 5-0 with two shutouts in December. Lardis had a prime chance on a third-period power play but hit the crossbar.

Both teams were 0-for-3 on the power play. Soderblom stopped 20 shots.

Detroit earned a split of the season series, avenging a 5-1 home loss to the Blackhawks on Nov. 9.

Kane has 498 career goals.

After Jake Evans was sent off for slashing Artemi Panarin, the Rangers used their timeout. Following the stoppage, New York snapped a three-game losing streak and improved to 4-8-3 at home.

Vincent Trocheck won an offensive zone faceoff from Nick Suzuki and quickly moved the puck to Mika Zibanejad. Zibanejad made a quick pass to Miller in the left faceoff circle and the New York captain whipped a slap shot by Montreal defenseman Mike Matheson and over rookie goalie Jacob Fowler.

Noah Laba and Panarin scored 11 seconds apart in the first period after the Rangers allowed three goals in 3:37. Will Cuylle and Miller scored 36 seconds apart after the Rangers fell behind 4-2 early in the second.

Zachary Bolduc and Arber Xhekaj scored 89 seconds apart before Evans completed the three-goal flurry. Josh Anderson scored Montreal's fourth goal 3:17 into the second.

New York goalie Igor Shesterkin made 12 saves.

Fowler stopped 21 shots in his second NHL start as the Canadiens were unable to win a third straight contest and fell to 6-1-3 in their past 10 road games.

Montreal opened the scoring when Bolduc cut to the net and got in front of Shesterkin for a re-direction of Suzuki's cross-ice feed from the left wing with 7:19 remaining.

The Canadiens scored on their next shot with 5:50 left when Xhekaj used a screen by Anderson and put a shot from the right point past Shesterkin.

Evans was left open in the right circle and made it 3-0 with a shot by Shesterkin with 3:42 left and the Rangers answered back when Laba slipped a shot past Fowler from the left side of the crease with 1:11 left and Panarin lifted the puck by Fowler's stick after being hooked from behind by Noah Dobson on a breakaway.

After Anderson blasted a one-timer from the slot for a 4-2 lead, Cuylle's pass from the red line banked off Fowler and Miller tied it by getting to the net and backhanding the rebound of Matthew Robertson's shot by Fowler.

Pavel Dorofeyev and Ben Hutton also scored goals, and Mitch Marner had three assists, his second three-point game of the season, for Vegas, which extended its point streak to seven games (6-0-1), tying a season high.

Charlie Coyle and Yegor Chinakhov scored goals, and Jet Greaves made 22 saves for Columbus, which lost its fifth straight game.

The Blue Jackets took a 1-0 lead at the 7:02 mark of the first period when Coyle roofed a wrist shot from the right circle over Hart's right shoulder.

Early in the second period, Vegas tied it on Dorofeyev's power-play goal, a one-timer from the bottom of the right circle. It was Dorofeyev's 13th goal of the season, tying Tomas Hertl for the team lead, and also his eighth power-play score, tied for second in the NHL.

The Blue Jackets appeared to regain the lead at the 2:25 mark when a wide-open Ivan Provorov ripped a shot from the high slot past Hart's blocker side. But the goal came off the scoreboard when Vegas successfully challenged that Miles Wood was offside on the play.

Columbus took a 2-1 lead early in the third period on Chinakhov's first goal in 20 games, a wrist shot from the top of the left circle past Hart's glove side and off the far-right post and in.

Vegas tied it at 2-2 just 63 seconds later when Hutton snapped in a wrist shot from the left circle off a drop pass from Marner.

McNabb then gave the Golden Knights their first lead with a sharp-angled shot from the bottom of the right circle inside the short side top corner. It was his first goal since April 8, 2025, at Colorado.

McNabb picked up a double minor for high-sticking Adam Fantilli with 2:59 to go but the Blue Jackets, who pulled Greaves for an extra attacker and a 6-on-4 power play the final minute, failed to tie it with Chinakhov rattling the post with one shot.

Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves in his return from arthroscopic knee surgery. Playing his first game since Nov. 15, Hellebuyck carried a shutout into the final minutes.

Vilardi has three goals in his past two games. Morgan Barron and Alex Iafallo scored in their second straight game and Iafallo added an assist for the Jets, who had lost three straight and five of six. Adam Lowry, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Josh Morrissey each had two assists.

Jakob Chychrun scored for the Capitals, who saw their nine-game point streak (7-0-2) end. They are 1-1-2 in their past four. Logan Thompson made 30 saves.

Washington went 1-for-5 on the power play; Winnipeg was 1-for-3.

Logan Stanley gave the Jets a 1-0 lead at 9:13 of the first period. Morrissey's slap shot from the point bounced off the end boards and out in front, where Stanley batted it past Thompson.

Barron made it 2-0 at 18:53. Lowry carried into the zone and passed across to Barron, who had a step on the Caps defenseman and redirected the puck home.

Iafallo made it 3-0 at 3:39 of the second period when his centering pass from along the left boards deflected off the stick of Washington's Justin Sourdif in the slot and past Thompson.

Vilardi made it 4-0 with seven seconds left in the period, scoring at the left post when he tipped in Connor's backdoor pass across the slot during a power play.

Vilardi made it 5-0 at 11:55 of the third period, completing a tic-tac-toe passing sequence with a one-timer from the left post after a Washington turnover in the defensive zone.

Chychrun spoiled Hellebucyk's shutout bid at 16:32 when he scored on a one-timer from the right circle off a pass from John Carlson during a 5-on-3 power play.

Pyotr Kochetkov stopped all four Flyers attempts before Blake's first career shootout goal clinched Carolina's victory. Nikolaj Ehlers, Alexander Nikishin and Seth Jarvis scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who have won six of their last eight games overall.

Bobby Brink, Trevor Zegras and Carl Grundstrom scored in regulation for the Flyers, who will try to exact revenge Sunday when the teams reconvene in Raleigh, N.C. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves for Philadelphia, while Kochetkov finished with 15 saves for the visitors.

With the game tied at 2-2 and under eight minutes remaining in the third period, Andrei Svechnikov unleashed Jarvis on a breakaway. The Hurricanes' leading goal scorer went forehand-to-backhand at the last second and the puck trickled over the goal line for his 18th of the season.

Just 23 seconds later, though, Grundstrom skated in on a 2-on-1 and beat Kochetkov with a wrister.

Carolina controlled play for most of overtime, although both teams had a chance to prevail in the final minute. Travis Konecny and Zegras squandered a 2-on-1 before Ersson stoned Jordan Staal from point-blank range on the other end.

The first seven shootout attempts failed before Blake went backhand-to-forehand and stuffed one inside the post.

Brink opened the scoring midway through the first period. Zegras entered the zone with speed and left a perfect drop pass for Brink, who slammed on the brakes in the high slot and beat Kochetkov just inside the post.

Late in the period it was Zegras' turn to find the back of the net. This time, the play was made by Konecny, who flipped a gentle pass into the slot that Zegras rammed home for his 12th of the campaign.

Carolina got within 2-1 early in the second period following a neutral-zone turnover by Philadelphia's Ty Murchison. Shayne Gostisbehere intercepted the puck and found Ehlers, who snapped a wrister past Ersson.

About five minutes later, the Hurricanes tied it at 2-2 when Nikishin's shot -- which was going wide of the net -- hit off the skate of the Flyers' Noah Cates and zipped past Ersson.

McDavid has seven goals and eight assists in his past five games.

Vasily Podkolzin also scored twice while Darnell Nurse and Zach Hyman scored one each for the Oilers, who have won two in a row.

Leon Draisaitl added three assists and is one point away from 1,000 career points.

Tristan Jarry stopped 25 shots in his Oilers debut after being obtained in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.

Easton Cowan, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Steven Lorentz scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost two straight. Dennis Hildeby allowed six goals on 32 shots before being replaced in the third period by Artur Akhtyamov, who stopped four shots.

Edmonton scored at 3:25 in the freewheeling first period. Evan Bouchard picked off a stray pass at the Oilers' blue line and knocked the puck forward to the speeding McDavid, who finished the play with a deke and a tuck.

Cowan tied the game at 16:03 of the first, chipping a backhander past Hildeby on the rebound from Scott Laughton's backhand.

With a tired Oilers defense laboring, Ekman-Larsson scored from the high slot on a pass from Matthew Knies at 4:54 of the second period to give Toronto a 2-1 lead. It was uncertain if Ekman-Larsson would play after leaving Thursday's game with a lower-body injury.

McDavid tied the game at 10:29 of the second. After a Toronto turnover in the neutral zone, McDavid swooped to the goal, flipped the puck in front and Toronto defenseman Troy Stecher knocked the puck into the net.

Edmonton took the lead at 19:29 of the second started by McDavid's speed after a turnover. Draisaitl then passed to Nurse, who snapped home a 29-footer.

Edmonton opened a 5-2 lead with a pair of goals in the first two minutes of the third period.

Podkolzin scored on a deflection at 1:21 then tipped in the second goal 24 seconds later. Both came on shots by Draisaitl.

Hyman scored on a backhand shot from the edge of the crease at 9:28 of the third.

Matthew Schaefer and Calum Ritchie scored in the first for the Islanders, who won despite being outshot 34-17. The shots were the fewest for New York in a victory since it had 14 shots in a 2-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights n Feb. 4.

Goalie Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves as the Islanders won for the sixth time in seven games.

Darren Raddysh scored in the second and J.J. Moser collected the tying goal in the third for the Lightning, whose two-game winning streak was snapped. Goalie Jonas Johansson, drawing the start with Andrei Vasilevskiy on injured reserve, made 15 saves.

The Islanders drew two penalties in the first 2:11 before Schaefer scored a power play goal on their first shot at the 3:05 mark.

Schaefer and Mathew Barzal exchanged the puck three times between the left faceoff circle and the slot before Schaefer moved back into the faceoff circle and dished to Duclair, who was near the bottom of the circle. Duclair immediately passed back to Schaefer, who fired a shot beyond Johansson's glove.

The Islanders doubled the lead on their next shot. Duclair picked off a pass by Nick Paul in the New York zone and raced up the left side of the ice before passing from deep in the left faceoff circle to Ritchie, who sent a shot off the top post with 9:54 left.

The Lightning scored twice to tie the game while limiting the Islanders to just two shots in the next 32-plus minutes.

Raddysh collected a 5-on-3 goal at 10:13 of the second, when his slapshot from the slot sailed stick side past Sorokin as he was screened by teammate Ryan Pulock.

Moser tied the score at 3:20 of the third. Brayden Point won a faceoff with Ritchie deep in the Islanders zone and the puck went to Nikita Kucherov, who dished to Moser before the defenseman's shot from the left faceoff circle went over Sorokin's glove.

The Sharks trailed 5-1 with 13 minutes left in the game.

Tyler Toffoli had two goals and two assists, Macklin Celebrini added a goal and two assists and William Eklund scored a goal and an assist. Alexander Wennberg had three assists, and Yaroslav Askorov made 38 saves.

Bryan Rust and Anthony Mantha each had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who lost their fourth straight game. Sidney Crosby contributed a goal and an assist, and Rutger McGroarty and Kevin Hayes got goals. Arturs Silovs stopped 26 shots.

Klingberg converted a cross-slot pass from Celebrini for the winner.

Toffoli put in a rebound with 1:38 remaining in regulation with Askarov pulled for the extra attacker to tie the game at 5.

Celebrini made it 5-4 with 2:27 left on a one-timer from the high slot with Askarov out.

Pittsburgh scored three goals in the second period to take a 4-1 lead.

McGroarty gave the Penguins a 2-1 lead 19 seconds into the middle period with his first goal of the season.

Hayes scored at 9:42 to make it 3-1. Rust scored a power-play goal with seven seconds remaining in the period.

Mantha picked up a power-play goal 5:25 into the third period to make it 5-1.

Klingberg connected on a 5-on-3 power-play goal at 7:33.

Eklund brought the Sharks to within 5-3 with 5:41 left in regulation.

Toffoli gave San Jose a 1-0 lead with 9:33 left in the first period.

Crosby's power-play goal tied it with 7:19 remaining in the opening period. This two-point game moved him to 1,721 career points, two shy of Mario Lemieux's franchise record.

Rickard Rakell returned for Pittsburgh after missing 20 games with a hand injury.

The Sharks' Will Smith left the game after a hit from Parker Wotherspoon early in the second period.

San Jose's Philipp Kurashev left with an upper-body injury in the middle of the second period.

Eriksson Ek's hard-angle shot from near the sideboards gave Minnesota its third win in a row. Tyler Pitlick and Ryan Hartman also scored for the Wild.

Tim Stutzle and Dylan Cozens each finished with a goal and an assist for Ottawa. The Senators lost for the fourth time in their past five games.

Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt stopped 34 of 36 shots to earn the victory.

Senators goaltender Leevi Merilainen allowed three goals on 25 shots.

The score was 2-2 in the final minute when the Senators failed to clear the puck out of their defensive zone. Marcus Johansson slid a long pass toward the bottom of the right circle for Eriksson Ek, who blasted a one-timer past Merilainen.

The Wild opened the scoring with 16:06 left in the second period. After Minnesota won a faceoff in its offensive zone, Pitlick skated toward the front of the crease and deflected a shot from the point for his first goal of the season.

Hartman increased the Wild's lead to 2-0 when he scored on the power play with 3:58 remaining in the second period. Johansson held the puck toward the side of the crease and zipped a pass to Hartman, who tapped in a shot.

The Senators got on the scoreboard 23 seconds into the third period. On a power play, Stutzle spotted a rebound near the right side of the crease and made a diving shot into an open net.

Another power-play goal by the Senators evened the score at 2-all with 14:15 remaining in the third period. Cozens handled the puck in the high slot, waited for a screen in front of the crease and ripped a rising wrist shot past Wallstedt.

Minnesota played less than 24 hours after making a franchise-altering trade to acquire defenseman Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks. Hughes did not play in Saturday's game, but is expected to make his team debut Sunday against the Boston Bruins.

Cody Glass and Connor Brown also scored goals, Juho Lammikko and Ondrej Palat had two assists each, and Jake Allen made 30 saves for the Devils, who had lost six of seven.

Troy Terry scored for the Ducks, and Lukas Dostal made 18 saves after being unavailable the previous nine games because of an upper-body injury.

Anaheim has lost two in a row following a three-game winning streak.

The Ducks didn't get their first shot on goal until 10:56 of the first, but then took a 1-0 lead at 13:18.

Glass tried to make a drop pass for Brown in the Anaheim zone, but Brown slipped and fell. Leo Carlsson recovered the puck for the Ducks and made an outlet pass to Terry for a breakaway and he scored for the third straight game.

New Jersey tied it 1-1 at 16:09 of the first.

Lammikko entered the Anaheim zone with speed and raced down the right side before taking the puck below the goal line and then centering a pass in front of the crease, where Noesen had position to fire the puck into the net.

The Devils moved ahead 2-1 at 5:52 of the second.

Colton White's point shot hit Ducks defenseman Drew Helleson in front of his net. Helleson tried to sweep the puck out of danger, but it went to Cotter at the side of the crease and he shot the puck into the open net.

Glass, who won 12 of 14 faceoffs, made it 3-1 at 17:04 of the second when he scored with a wrist shot from the right hash marks.

Brown scored into an empty net with 2:00 left to make it 4-1.

New Jersey was without leading goal scorer Timo Meier because of a family matter.

The Devils also played without Simon Nemec, who was injured during practice on Friday. Nemec leads all New Jersey defensemen with 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists).

"I actually think -- this is going to sound strange -- I think this is one of our better-played games on the trip," Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said after Thursday's 4-1 loss in Edmonton. "We didn't scramble around quite as much, yet when you look at it from an offensive perspective, probably not enough in and around the net, the net intensity."

Despite the setback, Detroit has earned seven of 10 possible points through the first five games of the trip. Thursday marked the first time during that span that the club didn't score at least four goals.

Simon Edvinsson had the club's lone goal in Edmonton, as the blueliner scored for the first time since a two-goal effort against St. Louis on Oct. 25. Alex DeBrincat, a former Blackhawk alongside teammate Patrick Kane, has earned points in four of the past six games, contributing four goals and four assists.

Chicago is coming off a 3-2 road loss to the St. Louis Blues on Friday. The Blackhawks fell to 3-7-2 in their past 12 games.

Wyatt Kaiser and Andre Burakovsky scored for the Blackhawks while Connor Bedard had two assists. Bedard won't play Saturday, however, after sustaining an upper-body injury in what coach Jeff Blashill called a "freak accident" in the closing seconds in St. Louis.

The Blues' Brayden Schenn made a physical play on Bedard on the game's final faceoff and Bedard left the ice clutching his right shoulder after the horn sounded.

Bedard is Chicago's top scorer with 44 points -- 19 goals and 25 assists -- in 31 games.

Detroit will aim to avenge a 5-1 home loss to the Blackhawks on Nov. 9 and earn a split of the season series.

Bedard tallied a goal and two assists and Arvid Soderblom stopped 45 shots in that game. Dylan Larkin scored for the Red Wings.

After Spencer Knight started in goal for Chicago in St. Louis, Soderblom could get the call against Detroit, getting another opportunity to face his younger brother, Elmer, a Red Wings forward who notched an assist in Edmonton for just his second point this season.

"You kinda look back to those days when you were younger and you're playing just for fun in the backyard or in the basement or wherever," Arvid Soderblom said. "Right then, your dream is to get to the NHL, but you never know if you're gonna make it. And then for both of us to make it and play for historical teams, him on the Red Wings and me here, I think that's pretty cool. Just having that experience (of playing each other) is gonna be something we're both looking back at for the rest of our lives. We don't take that for granted to play each other."

Bedard, 20, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, was injured on a faceoff just before Chicago fell 3-2 to St. Louis.

St. Louis center Brayden Schenn, opposing Bedard in the faceoff circle, struck the young star with a solid check after the puck was dropped, causing him to writhe in pain before skating off holding his right shoulder.

Speaking to reporters after the game, Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill called the injury a "freak accident" and added that the team would have further updates on Bedard's condition Monday.

"He won't play tomorrow," Blashill said. "I won't know more info tomorrow, so don't ask me tomorrow. At some point through the weekend, I'll know more, so I'd probably have more info come Monday."

Bedard, who assisted on both of Chicago's goals, leads the team in scoring this season with 44 points (19 goals, 25 assists) in 31 games and ranks among the NHL's leading scorers.

In his third season, the 2023-24 Calder Trophy winner as the league's best rookie has 172 points (64 goals, 108 assists) in 181 games.

Nick Schmaltz had a goal and two assists, Kailer Yamamoto scored against his former team and JJ Peterka and Lawson Crouse added empty-netters as the Mammoth snapped a three-game losing streak. Goaltender Karel Vejmelka made 32 saves.

Mason Marchment tallied twice and Ben Meyers also scored for Seattle, which lost for the seventh time in its past eight games (1-6-1). Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 26 of 29 shots.

With Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren in the box for tripping, the Mammoth took advantage of Seattle's league-worst penalty kill to take the lead. Mikhail Sergachev kept the puck in the offensive zone at the right point and sent the puck ahead to Schmaltz, who found Guenther with a cross-ice pass. Guenther, who played junior hockey in Seattle, scored on a one-timer from just inside the left faceoff dot.

It was Guenther's 14th goal of the season, tying for the team lead and producing his fourth tally in a three-game goal streak.

Peterka and Crouse scored into an empty net at 17:49 and 18:58, respectively, to make it 5-2 before Meyers tallied for the Kraken at 19:17.

The Kraken opened the scoring at 3:35 of the second period. Chandler Stephenson got the puck out of Seattle's own zone and found Freddy Gaudreau along the right-wing boards at center ice. Gaudreau fed Marchment, who split two Utah defenders at the blue line and skated in alone on Vejmelka. Marchment lifted a backhander over the goalie's blocker and into the upper right corner of the net.

The Mammoth tied it at 8:09 as Schmaltz stole the puck from Marchment just inside Seattle's offensive zone and raced the length of the ice, beating Grubauer with a forehand shot over the catching glove and into the upper right corner.

Yamamoto gave Utah a 2-1 lead at 13:24 after an odd-man rush. Liam O' Brien's shot went wide left of the net, but Yamamoto tracked down the rebound at the bottom of the right faceoff circle, spun and fired the puck into the net before Grubauer could get from post to post. Officials originally disallowed the score because of goalie interference, but Mammoth coach Andre Tourigny challenged the call and a video review determined Grubauer wasn't obstructed.

The Kraken tied it at 7:50 of the third, seconds after Utah had killed off a 5-on-3 disadvantage. Lindgren sent a cross-ice pass to Marchment for a one-timer from the top of the right faceoff circle that beat Vejmelka just inside the near post.

Logan Mailloux and Matt Luff each scored their first goals in a Blues' uniform. Justin Faulk also scored for St. Louis and Robert Thomas recorded two assists.

St. Louis had lost their previous two games by a combined 12-4 score.

Andre Burakovsky had a goal and an assist and Wyatt Kaiser also scored for the Blackhawks, who are 3-7-2 in their last 12 games.

Connor Bedard earned two assists, but he appeared to suffer a shoulder injury during a last-second faceoff.

Spencer Knight made 23 saves in defeat.

The Blues struck first by scoring 3:41 into the game. With a penalty pending against the Blackhawks, Mailloux took a pass from Thomas, moved in on left wing and snapped a shot from the faceoff dot past Knight.

After Chicago killed off a penalty, Luff put the Blues up 2-0 at even strength. He joined the rush coming down the middle, took Robby Fabbri's pass and scored from the slot.

The Blackhawks cut their deficit to 2-1 with 4:10 left in the first period with their own rush goal. Kaiser came down the middle, accepted a pass from Burakovsky and scored coming through the slot.

St. Louis increased their lead to 3-1 midway through the second period. Faulk took a pass from Tyler Tucker in the right circle, attacked the net and slipped a shot past Knight on the short side.

Bedard stole the puck on the forecheck and set up Burakovsky's tap-in at the right post as Chicago cut its deficit to 3-2 with 5:54 left in the game.

Dylan Holloway had an opportunity to finish off the Blackhawks, but he hit the post and crossbar on a breakaway. That gave Chicago an opportunity to remove Knight for an extra attacker and apply pressure until the final horn.

The Blackhawks outshot the Blues, 23-15, over the final two periods.

The rivals have split a pair of meetings in St. Louis and have two more in Chicago when the calendar turns to 2026.

The Kings have scored a half-dozen times while down a skater or two, but their 3-2 overtime road loss to the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday put front and center the need to stop reaching the penalty box.

The Kraken scored all three goals while on the power play, including one in the final minute of regulation and another 81 seconds into extra time, leaving the Kings lamenting a lost point in the standings.

"We cleaned that up and then that's crept back in," coach Jim Hiller said. "You just obviously can't do it. You can argue with some of the calls but the calls are made. That's what I say, when you get those types of penalties, they're 50/50 calls a lot of times, they can go either way, but if you put yourself in that position, then you've got to live with the results."

Los Angeles had its two-game winning streak snapped, but has posted a 4-2-4 mark in its last 10 outings.

As the Kings return home for one game in the middle of five road clashes, the focus will be on cleaning up their discipline, which will make closing out a one-goal game that much easier.

"I feel like every game kind of comes down with this situation and we're very comfortable in that situation," defenseman Joel Edmundson said. "At the end of the day, when you take seven minors, it's tough to win a hockey game."

The Flames are on a quest to return to the win column after a 4-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday to close out a strong homestand in which they opened with a trio of victories.

Calgary may sit second from the bottom in the league standings, but it has compiled a 7-4-1 record in the past dozen outings, and nearly completed a wild comeback against Detroit.

After staking the Red Wings a four-goal lead, the Flames scored three times in the final 12 minutes only to fall just short. Not falling behind so early and by so much is obviously the focal point going forward, but the Flames can take solace in their effort to pull close.

"From an offensive-zone, possession game, guys were making plays, moving their feet," forward Blake Coleman said after Friday's practice. "We can build on that third period, carry on the momentum."

Adding an extra element to this two-game trip, which also includes a stop in San Jose, the Flames will have their fathers (or a similar role model) with them on the road.

"I love this trip. I think it's a really important one for the players," coach Ryan Huska said. "You see a different side of the players when their dads are around, too. I like it when it comes game time, they want to give their best. They want to play well in front of their dads."

The last time the club had a fathers' trip, midway through the 2023-24 campaign, the Flames skated away with a pair of wins.

"We had a great trip. We ran the table," Coleman said. "Hopefully they can keep tradition going here. It injects a bit of energy and keeps the room light."

In return for the coveted defenseman, Vancouver will receive center Marco Rossi, defenseman Zeev Buium, forward prospect Liam Ohgren and a 2026 first-round pick.

"We would like to thank Quinn for his time with the Vancouver Canucks," Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford said in a statement announcing the deal. "Quinn is a great person, a great player and one of the greatest Canucks of all time. With the circumstances surrounding JT (Miller) and now Quinn, we are fortunate to acquire these very good young players from Minnesota. They will be a key part of the rebuild we are currently in, giving us a bright future moving forward."

Hughes, 26, leaves the Canucks as one of the most accomplished players in franchise history, amassing 432 points in 459 games since being drafted seventh overall in 2018. The two-time All-Star has 23 points (two goals, 21 assists) in 26 games this season and is under contract through 2026-27 with a $7.85 million cap hit.

Minnesota adds Hughes to a blue line built for a push in the top-heavy Central Division, looking to find some long-awaited playoff success. The Wild have not won a playoff series in 10 years and haven't advanced past the second round since 2003.

The Wild can open extension talks with Hughes on July 1 and, under current rules, offer an eight-year deal before the maximum term drops to seven in September.

For Vancouver, the move signals a full reset after an 11-17-3 start. The Canucks targeted premium young assets and landed three recent first-rounders.

"Quinn played hard, lead by example and did a lot of very good things for the Canucks," general manager Patrick Allvin said. "Trading away a player of this caliber is never an easy decision to make, but it was one we had to do to make our team better. We are so excited to add a solid center in Marco, a good young blueliner in Zeev and a versatile forward in Liam."

Rossi, 24, was the ninth overall pick in 2020 and is coming off a 24-goal, 60-point campaign. He signed a three-year, $15 million deal in the offseason and has 13 points in 17 games this season.

Buium, 20, was the No. 12 pick in 2024 and has quickly transitioned to the NHL with 14 points in 31 games this season as a rookie. The 21-year-old Ohgren, the 19th pick in 2022, has 46 NHL games under his belt and projects as a middle-six winger. He hasn't recorded a point in 18 NHL games this season.

The 2026 first-round pick gives Vancouver additional flexibility as it reshapes its roster around a younger core. For Minnesota, the calculus is clear: add an elite, puck-driving No. 1 defenseman for two playoff runs and try to convert a sustained surge into spring success.

Colorado tied the game with eight seconds left in the third period, but then lost in a shootout to the Predators. The Avalanche get a chance to avenge that rare loss when they host Nashville on Saturday night in Denver.

It is the third of four meetings between the teams this season. Colorado won the first game 3-0 in Nashville on Nov. 22, during its 10-game winning streak, which was snapped at Minnesota on Nov. 28.

The Avalanche stole a point against the Wild and have earned at least one in 29 of their 31 games. They have won 10 straight at home, where they are 12-0-2 overall, after a 6-2 victory over Florida on Thursday.

It was the seventh time this season that Colorado has scored six or more goals, which has made things easier for its goaltenders.

"You still have to make a couple saves, but the quantity and volume are a lot lower than a lot of other places that ask a lot of you," Mackenzie Blackwood said after stopping 23 shots against the Panthers. "They make my life pretty darn easy."

The Avalanche lead the NHL in goals scored (124) and allowed (68), which has led to a league-best 51 points. Colorado has the NHL's scoring leader in Nathan MacKinnon, who has 53 points (25 goals, 28 assists), and the leader among defensemen in Cale Makar, who has 37 points (10 goals, 27 assists).

MacKinnon scored his 392nd career goal Thursday night, passing Joe Sakic for the most by an Avalanche player. Sakic holds the franchise record with 625, which includes his goals with the Quebec Nordiques.

Gavin Brindley returned from a 10-game absence with a goal and an assist Thursday night, but forward Joel Kiviranta didn't play the last two periods due to an upper-body injury.

Head coach Jared Bednar said after Friday's optional practice that Kiviranta, who missed 17 games earlier this season with a lower-body injury, is feeling better and could be back in the lineup Saturday night.

Colorado isn't the only team on a heater right now. The last-place Predators have won six of their last eight games and closed the gap on seventh-place St. Louis in the Central Division with a 7-2 win over the Blues on Thursday.

Steven Stamkos recorded his second career four-goal game in the win.

"It's one of those nights," said Stamkos, who finished with nine shots on goal. "You can never expect to come in and score four goals. Just great to be part of that win, where we put together some quality games after some quality games. That's been something we've been trying to accomplish."

Stamkos now has 594 career goals, 22nd on the all-time list, and his 12 goals this season lead Nashville. Ryan O'Reilly (10 goals, 13 assists) and Luke Evangelista (four goals, 19 assists) lead the team with 23 points and Filip Forsberg has 21 points (11 goals, 10 assists).

The Predators are averaging 4.1 goals during this eight-game stretch.

Dallas wrapped up a brief two-game road trip with a 5-2 loss in Minnesota on Thursday, two nights after squeezing out a 4-3 win in Winnipeg.

"That was a little bit in the making," Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said of the defeat in Minnesota. "You don't play great in Winnipeg. Your specialty teams win you the game. Specialty teams were in effect (Thursday); you get a shorty and a power-play goal. But when you're taking on that much water 5-on-5, you're just not playing well."

Miro Heiskanen had a goal and an assist, and Jason Robertson also found the back of the net against the Wild as the Stars had their 13-game road point streak (9-0-4) end. Jake Oettinger made 27 saves for Dallas, which had won four straight.

"We probably got what we deserved," Stars captain Jamie Benn said. "I thought Jake was great and made a lot of big saves, but it wasn't a good enough 60-minute effort."

Robertson paces the Stars with 20 goals through 32 games, while Mikko Rantanen has a team-leading 29 assists and 42 points in 31 contests.

Oettinger, Saturday's likely starter, is 14-5-2 with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage in 21 games this season. In nine career games against Florida, Oettinger owns a 1-6-1 record.

Saturday is the second and final meeting of the season between the Panthers and the Stars. Brad Marchand scored in regulation and added the shootout winner as Florida edged Dallas 4-3 in the previous meeting Nov. 1.

Sam Bennett and Sam Reinhart had the other goals that day for Florida, while Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves. Rantanen had a goal and an assist, while Justin Hryckowian and Wyatt Johnston also scored for the Stars. Sam Steel added three helpers in the loss.

Florida travels to Dallas as part of a four-game, six-day road trip, looking to bounce back from a 6-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night.

Noah Gregor and Mackie Samoskevich scored for the Panthers, who had their three-game win streak and four-game point streak come to a halt.

Daniil Tarasov made 36 saves for Florida, which is 5-7-0 on the road this season.

Thursday's loss was the second game of a back-to-back for the Panthers. Florida edged the Utah Mammoth 4-3 on Wednesday night.

"We were in it for a period, and that was really it," Gregor said about the loss to the Avs. "It is tough coming to a building like this on a back-to-back. They're obviously first place in the league for a reason. They're really hard to play against, but obviously not a great result."

Marchand has a team-leading 16 goals and 31 points through 29 games this season.

Bobrovsky, expected to start Saturday, is 12-8-1 with a 2.98 GAA and an .882 save percentage this season.

Despite absorbing a 3-2 shootout loss to the visiting Hurricanes on Thursday night, the Capitals have earned points in nine straight games (7-0-2) to tie Carolina for points at the top of the Metropolitan Division.

Winnipeg, meanwhile, has lost three straight and nine of 11 (2-8-1) to fall out of the Western Conference playoff picture, at least for now.

The Jets' latest defeat came at the hands of the visiting Boston Bruins 6-3 on Thursday night. After Winnipeg took a 1-0 lead, Boston scored three straight and held off a Jets rally.

Morgan Barron, Alex Iafallo and Gabriel Vilardi scored for the Jets. Eric Comrie made 18 saves.

"I think there's been times where we've kind of started to feel like our game is going in the right direction, but it hasn't been consistent enough," Barron said. "And, obviously, it's a results-based league, so you've got to find a way to kind of start winning these games."

Barron ended a 19-game run without a goal, and Winnipeg's Kyle Connor (assist) extended his point streak to seven games (four goals, six assists).

Special teams continue to be a problem for Winnipeg, which has given up power-play goals in seven straight games.

"I mean, tonight, special teams (was) a big part of it. I think, especially on the PK, we got to be better," Barron said. "And then, you give up a few grade As."

The Washington Capitals are dealing with a different problem. They are 17-9 in games decided in regulation, 1-0 in games that end in overtime, but 0-4 in shootouts, including Thursday's loss to Carolina.

Washington went 0-for-3 in the shootout on Thursday, with Anthony Beauvillier, Dylan Strome and Sonny Milano unable to convert. Capitals goalie Logan Thompson stopped one of two shots.

For the season, the Capitals have converted just two of 15 shots (Strome and Beauvillier are each 1 for 4). Alex Ovechkin and Connor McMichael are 0-for-2, and several skaters have missed their only attempt.

"We're probably going to try and utilize different guys, to be honest with you," coach Spencer Carbery said after the game Thursday. "This is probably the last straw with the guys that we have. We'll look at some different guys who'll get some consideration."

Connor McMichael had a goal and an assist for the Capitals versus Carolina. Thompson made 37 saves, and Nic Dowd energized the crowd twice in the third period with a fight and a goal that made it 2-1.

"He got the fans into it, he got all of us into it," McMichael said of Dowd. "He made a few big plays after (the fight). He really carried us on his back in the third period."

Washington defenseman John Carlson returned after missing three games with an upper-body injury, and the Capitals got more good news on the injury front Friday. Goalie Charlie Lindgren (upper-body injury) practiced and will travel with the team to Winnipeg and Minnesota.

One day after he returned to injured reserve, the team announced Friday that Hedman will undergo a procedure on his elbow Monday. His goal is to be ready to represent Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan; the men's hockey tournament begins Feb. 11.

"Hedman, he's our captain -- he's a huge part of our team," Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper told reporters. "But if it's going to happen -- which you don't want it to -- but if it is, it's better it happens now than in April."

Cooper confirmed Thursday that Hedman had aggravated a previously unspecified injury that caused him to miss 12 games earlier this season. Hedman returned Dec. 6 and played three games in four days before being placed back on IR.

Hedman, who turns 35 next week, has 12 points (all assists) in 18 appearances this season. He was the 2017-18 Norris Trophy winner for best defenseman in the league.

He has tallied 806 career points (171 goals, 635 assists), a plus-193 rating and 778 penalty minutes in 1,149 games with the Lightning, winning back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and 2021.