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Anthony Beauvillier and Aliaksei Protas also scored for the Capitals, who have won five straight and eight of nine. Alex Ovechkin had two assists, and Logan Thompson made 24 saves.

Adrian Kempe scored in his second straight game for the Kings, who had collected points in five straight (2-0-3). Darcy Kuemper made 22 saves.

The Capitals beat the Kings 2-1 in Washington on Nov. 17.

Washington went 1-for-2 on the power play; Los Angeles was 0-for-2.

Wilson gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 14:50 of the first period. Kuemper made a pad save on Ovechkin's shot from the left circle, but Ryan Leonard got the rebound and passed in front to Wilson for the tip in.

Wilson, who was named the NHL's third star of the past week on Monday, extended his point streak to six games (five goals, five assists).

Washington outshot Los Angeles 12-3 in the first period.

Kempe tied the score 1-1 at 5:28 of the second period. Anze Kopitar carried in to the offensive zone on a 2-on-1 rush and fed across to Kempe, who chipped the puck past Thompson for his ninth goal of the season.

Beauvillier gave the Capitals a 2-1 lead at 1:18 of the third period. Ovechkin came out of the penalty box and took a pass from Connor McMichael on a 3-on-1 rush. He carried in along the left side and passed across the slot to McMichael, who fed the trailing Beauvillier in front for the tip in.

Ovechkin has points in five straight games (two goals, five assists). He became the seventh player in NHL history with 800 career road points (463 goals, 337 assists).

Protas scored into an empty net at 18:18 for the 3-1 final.

Ivan Barbashev and Braeden Bowman each had a goal and an assist and Ben Hutton also scored for Vegas, which won its second straight game and prevailed for just the second time in 10 contests that went beyond regulation.

Hart was making his first NHL start in 22 months and 12 days following his acquittal in a sexual assault trial in July at London, Ontario. The 27-year-old stopped two shootout tries, including Frank Nazar's backhand attempt to begin the fourth round. Theodore then lofted a backhand shot past Spencer Knight's glove side for the game-winner.

Tyler Bertuzzi had a goal and an assist and Connor Bedard and Oliver Moore also scored for Chicago, which took its sixth loss in seven games (1-4-2). Knight finished with 25 saves.

Bedard gave Chicago its first lead at the 4:45 mark of the third period. He broke in one-on-one against Theodore, deked around him and then snapped a wrist shot from the high slot past Hart's blocker side and off the crossbar and in for his team-leading 17th goal.

Bowman tied it 3-3 with 2:28 left in regulation when he backhanded in a rebound of his own shot over Knight's right pad.

Vegas needed just 27 seconds to take a 1-0 lead when Barbashev's crossing pass from the left circle for Bowman hit the skate of Blackhawks defenseman Wyatt Kaiser and caromed into the net.

Chicago tied it 56 seconds later when Moore ripped a wrist shot from the right circle past Hart's blocker side and into the top left corner.

The Blackhawks took a 2-1 lead midway through the second period, taking advantage of a Hart blunder in the process. Hart, aggressively coming out to clear a puck in front of his crease, instead passed it to Bertuzzi, who then chipped the loose puck past the sprawling goaltender.

The Golden Knights tied it 2-2 at 17:19 of the middle period when Hutton's one-timer from inside the blue line deflected in off Chicago defenseman Matt Grzelcyk stationed by the right post.

Gabriel Landeskog contributed two assists and Mackenzie Blackwood turned away all 10 shots he faced in relief of Scott Wedgewood for Colorado, which has won nine straight at home.

Wedgewood left midway through the second period with an upper-body injury after making 10 saves and was ruled out before the third period. Wedgewood leads the NHL in wins with 13.

Valeri Nichushkin returned after missing eight games with a lower-body injury.

The Avalanche remained unbeaten in 13 home games (11-0-2) and earned at least a point in their 17th straight game (14-0-3). Colorado has just one regulation loss in 26 games. It is the second longest into a season with just one regulation loss, trailing only the 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers (37 games).

Linus Karlsson had a goal and Kevin Lankinen made 28 saves for Vancouver. The Canucks have lost six of their last seven and are 2-6-2 in their last 10 games.

Vancouver forward Evander Kane left the game late in the third period holding his left wrist. He went straight to the locker room and didn't return.

Karlsson gave Vancouver the lead just 2:55 into the game when he got a pass from Arshdeep Bains, stickhandled on Wedgewood and beat him with a backhander in close.

MacKinnon tied it in the final minute of the first period. Devon Toews took a shot from the right side, the rebound went to MacKinnon in the left circle and he chipped it over Lankinen's right pad at 19:23.

Nelson, who had four points in a 7-2 win over Montreal on Saturday, gave Colorado the lead when Landeskog fed him as he skated down the slot and he wristed it over Lankinen's right shoulder at 13:52.

MacKinnon again struck in the final minute of a period when his one-timer on a pass from Landeskog beat Lankinen at 19:26.

MacKinnon leads all NHL skaters in goals (22) and points (46).

The NHL's hottest goaltender earned his seventh straight win while extending the Wild's point streak to 12 games (10-0-2).

Three days after the Oilers shut out the Seattle Kraken, Wallstedt and the Wild gave Edmonton a taste of their own medicine as they were unable to find the scoresheet for the first time all season.

Jonas Brodin tallied the game's lone goal at 13:11 of the first period. The Minnesota defenseman blasted a slap shot past Edmonton goalie Stuart Skinner (23 saves).

Brodin stepped in and one-timed a won faceoff by Nico Sturm, not long after the Wild were unable to capitalize on the game's opening power play.

The Oilers were on the man advantage with 13:02 left in the second period when Wallstedt robbed Zach Hyman.

Hyman took a pass out front of the net and made a quick move to the backhand, only for the red-hot goaltender to kick out his pad to deny the possible game-tying goal.

With 9:35 remaining in the second, Evan Bouchard hooked up with Leon Draisaitl for a give-and-go, but the Oilers' top defenseman soared his shot over the net.

With just under five minutes left in the middle frame, Draisaitl came storming down on a 3-on-2 and handed it off to Andrew Mangiapane, but once again Wallstedt stepped up and turned away another high-quality chance.

Edmonton star Connor McDavid finally recorded his first shot on goal with 6:43 left in the contest, but Wallstedt was once again up to the task.

Minnesota's Matt Boldy took a penalty with 40 seconds left in the game, but the Oilers were unable to find some late-game heroics.

Draisaitl saw his eight-game point streak (five goals, eight assists) come to an end.

Wedgewood started in net and allowed one goal on 11 shots in 32:28, but was replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood midway through the second period.

Wedgewood entered Tuesday leading all goaltenders in wins with 13 in 18 games, tied for second in goals-against average (2.08) and in save percentage (.921)

Michael Bunting netted one goal and one assist and Jonathan Marchessault added a goal for the Predators, who have won three of four games.

Goaltender Juuse Saros made 27 saves and Nicolas Hague posted a pair of assists.

Morgan Frost replied with a late goal for Calgary.

Starting goalie Devin Cooley stopped 12 of 16 shots for Calgary before being pulled after two periods. Dustin Wolf made 11 saves in mop-up duty for the club that was pushed down to the bottom of the league standings.

The Predators were the better team from the drop of the puck and were rewarded when Schaefer, skating in his third NHL game, opened the scoring with a rebound tally at 6:24 of the clash.

Stamkos doubled the lead with a milestone marker of his own, converting a tap-in tally set up during an odd-man rush at 5:04 of the second period to become the 53rd player in league history to reach the 1,200-point mark. It was his 589th career goal.

Marchessault extended the lead at 14:25 of the middle frame with a rocket of a shot through a screen.

Wiesblatt made his 28th career game even more memorable by scoring against his hometown team 67 seconds later, burying the puck off a short feed to finish a rush.

Bunting made it a 5-0 game with a redirect at 2:59 of the third period.

Frost spoiled Saros's bid for his first shutout of the season with a power-play marker at 13:39 of the final frame. It snapped the team's goal drought at 117 minutes and 35 seconds.

The Ducks pulled off an improbable 3-2 overtime victory over the Mammoth on Nov. 17 when Troy Terry tied it on a goal with 4.1 seconds remaining in regulation and Olen Zellweger won it 1:50 into the extra period.

Anaheim rookie Beckett Sennecke had an assist on Zellweger's game-winner to start his current eight-game points streak (one goal, seven assists). The 19-year-old tied Paul Kariya's mark from 1994-95 as the longest points streak by a rookie in franchise history.

The Ducks won their first five games in November as part of a seven-game winning streak, then immediately lost three consecutive. The victory over Utah ended that dry spell and started a 5-3-0 run that has kept them in first place in the Pacific Division.

The current run included a 4-1 road victory against the St. Louis Blues on Monday when Anaheim points leader Leo Carlsson scored his 14th goal of the season and Chris Kreider added his 13th into an empty net.

Ville Husso made 21 saves for the Ducks to improve to 2-1-0. Husso, who made his season debut on Friday, started each of the past three games with No. 1 goalie Lukas Dostal out with an upper-body injury and expected to miss two-to-three weeks.

Husso helped Anaheim kill off all six St. Louis power-play opportunities.

"We changed our penalty killing units a bit," Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said of the team that is 27th in the NHL with a 75.6 percent kill rate. "They had some good looks, they had some dangerous misses, but you get off to a start like that with the new units getting out there, I thought there were some good things."

The Mammoth's current four-game losing skid is part of a larger 2-5-3 run that includes last month's overtime loss to the Ducks. Monday's 6-3 road loss to the San Jose Sharks has Utah on its longest stretch without a point this season.

Lawson Crouse scored a pair of goals for the Mammoth, including a short-handed strike in the third period. But Utah was down 6-2 before the midway point of the game against the young and speedy Sharks, with a game against the Ducks offering a similar challenge.

"Our execution right now as a team is not really good," Utah coach Andre Tourigny said. "That is on all of us."

Crouse delivered his first multi-goal game of the season, but was in no mood to celebrate.

"We need to be better. Everyone," Crouse said after the loss.

JJ Peterka scored his 10th goal for the Mammoth. Utah points leader Logan Cooley has one goal and one assist in four games following his four-goal effort in a win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Nov. 24.

Karel Vejmelka allowed three goals in the opening 13 minutes against the Sharks and was replaced by Vitek Vanecek, who let in a burst of three goals in less than three minutes in the second period.

Defenseman Troy Stecher scored his first goal as a Leaf since he was acquired on waivers in November before adding an assist on their second goal. Bobby McMann and Dakota Joshua chipped in with multi-point outings while Scott Laughton sealed the deal with his first goal of the year. Sam Reinhart netted Florida's only goal.

Joseph Woll turned away 25 shots to pick up the win while the Panthers' Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 26 of 29.

The Leafs scored on their first shot for a third consecutive game with a Stecher wrist shot from the point that seemed to perplex Bobrovsky. The goal marked Stecher's first goal since New Year's Eve.

Toronto's third line continued its positive run of form two-and-a-half minutes later, having all snapped lengthy scoring droughts Saturday against Pittsburgh. McMann drove to the outside and slid the puck onto Joshua's backhand for a casual flip over a sprawling Bobrovsky.

The Panthers struck back late in the second period with a short-handed goal as Toronto's five-forward power play bungling its defensive assignments. Anton Lundell fought three Leafs off in the corner before feeding a wide-open Reinhart in the slot to cut the deficit to 2-1 at the 14:43 mark.

Laughton poked home his first of the season off a Steven Lorentz feed he fished out from the skates of Aaron Ekblad. John Tavares snapped his four-game goal-less drought with an empty-netter with 19 seconds remaining.

Florida's Uvis Balinskis was denied his first of the year in close quarters, Jake McCabe scrambling to the rescue to clear his rebound off the goal line early in the opening frame.

Bobrovsky made perhaps his best save of the game when he denied Toronto a short-handed goal of its own in the third period, sliding across the crease to deny Nicolas Roy blocker-side on a 2-on-1.

The Panthers have dropped four of their last five games and four straight at home. In addition to the ongoing absences of Matthew Tkachuk and Aleksander Barkov, Carter Verhaeghe missed the game with his wife soon expecting a child.

After Mika Zibanejad easily moved the puck into the offensive zone, he passed to Artemin Panarin. Panarin's shot was stopped by goalie Casey DeSmith, but the Stars could not clear.

Gavrikov pounced on the rebound in the slot and lifted a backhander into the slightly vacated left side of the net.

Gavrikov scored his fourth career overtime goal as the Rangers played their first game without top defenseman Adam Fox (shoulder).

The Rangers forced overtime when Will Cuylle netted the tying goal with 2:13 remaining in regulation. Shortly after New York pulled goalie Igor Shesterkin for the extra attacker, Cuylle scored from the edge of the left crease and beating Dallas defenseman Miro Hesikanen to a loose put and lifting it over DeSmith.

Dallas had taken a 2-1 lead at 9:32 of the third period. Mikko Rantanen finished off a 2-on-1 with Wyatt Johnston following an offensive-zone giveaway near the blue line by New York captain J.T. Miller.

Carson Soucy scored 6:51 into the first period for the Rangers, who improved to 3-8-1 at home.

Kyle Capobianco produced a tying goal midway through the first period for the Stars, who lost Tyler Seguin to an apparent leg injury in the opening minutes. Seguin got hurt when he collided with Gavrikov along the boards in the second minute of the contest.

Dallas saw a four-game winning streak stopped and lost for only the third time in its past 13 contests (10-1-2).

Shesterkin made 23 saves, including a point-blank stop on Colin Blackwell shortly after Rantanen scored.

DeSmith turned aside 38 shots, including 17 in the third period. He also made 10 stops during five New York power plays and denied the Rangers six times during a four-minute high sticking penalty to Sam Steel in the final period.

The Rangers opened the scoring 6:51 into the contest by finishing off an odd-man rush.

After exiting the penalty box, Soucy was sprung on a 2-on-1 with Noah Laba by Conor Sheary's clearing pass off the boards. Laba's shot was stopped by DeSmith but trickled into the crease, and Soucy tapped it into the open net.

Dallas tied it a little over two minutes later. Capobianco sent a shot from the point through traffic after New York defenseman Braden Schneider could not clear the offensive zone.

Lucas Raymond and Alex DeBrincat each contributed a goal and an assist. James van Riemsdyk and Ben Chiarot also scored for Detroit to snap a four-game winless streak.

John Gibson made 34 saves as the Red Wings avenged a 3-2 shootout loss to the Bruins on Saturday. Detroit had gone 0-3-1 in its previous four games.

Boston defenseman Jonathan Aspirot scored his first career goal during the second period. Alex Steeves supplied two goals and Marat Khusnutdinov also scored for the Bruins.

Goaltender Jeremy Swayman was pulled in favor of Joonas Korpisalo during the third period after giving up Detroit's fifth goal. Swayman made 18 saves.

The Red Wings grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first period. Van Riemsdyk got the scoring going on a breakaway. He took a lead pass from Albert Johansson and skated into the left circle, where he rifled a shot past Swayman's glove. Seider collected the second assist.

Seider made it 2-0 with 6:11 left in the period. His shot from the point squeezed inside Swayman's stick and the post. Patrick Kane and DeBrincat picked up the assists.

DeBrincat pushed the lead to three goals just 1:35 into the second period. He took a shot from the slot that slipped through Swayman's pads for his 13th goal this season.

Aspirot put Boston on the board with his breakthrough goal, a slapshot from the point with 8:51 remaining in the period.

Steeves briefly cut Detroit's advantage to 3-2 when he scored on a rebound with 4:22 left in the period. Elias Lindholm and Morgan Geekie collected the assists.

Chiarot answered less than a minute later as he scored from the slot off a Dylan Larkin feed for a 4-2 Red Wings lead.

Raymond scored on the Red Wings' first power play to make it 5-2 and end Swayman's night at the 3:55 mark of the third.

Khusnutdinov and Steeves scored in the final 5:03 -- Steeves' goal came with 11.2 seconds left while playing with an extra attacker -- but the deficit was too great.

With 7:17 remaining in regulation and Ottawa ahead 4-2, Tkachuk, amid a delayed penalty, took a pass in the slot from Tim Stutzle and beat Montreal goaltender Sam Montembeault (24 saves) to help his team finish 4-3-0 on a season-long road stretch.

Tkachuk was playing just his sixth game and third since missing 20 with a thumb injury. He assisted on Artem Zub's tiebreaking goal in the first period.

Fabian Zetterlund also had a goal with an assist, while Jake Sanderson and Drake Batherson scored 1:10 apart in the second period for the Senators, who got 19 saves from Linus Ullmark.

Juraj Slafkovsky and Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal, which has lost seven of 10.

With Ullmark still feeling the effects of taking Lane Hutson's shot between the legs, Slafkovsky was on the doorstep to put in Cole Caufield's pass just 3:37 into the game via the power play.

The Senators equalized 24 seconds later. Tyler Kleven (two assists) found Zetterlund at the low point for a successful slap shot.

Ottawa went ahead with 3:07 remaining in the first. Off a perfect no-look, backhanded pass into the slot from Tkachuk, Zub pushed the puck past Montembeault.

The Senators made it 3-1 at 5:48 of the second period. Moments after Ottawa's Michael Amadio hit the post on a rebound, Sanderson kept the puck in the Canadiens' zone and sent it over to Amadio, who got it back to him for a successful backhander.

Just over a minute later, Batherson cleaned up Kleven's rebound and snapped the puck by Montembeault for a three-goal edge.

Montreal, though, again came through on the power play. Beginning with Hutson and Caufield, the puck went to Suzuki, who waited to the left of the net and found enough of an opening to beat Ullmark with 11:10 remaining in the middle frame.

Sorokin stopped the first 25 shots he faced and finished with 28 saves for the Islanders, who ended a three-game losing streak (0-2-1) and improved to 2-3-1 on their seven-game homestand that ends Thursday night against the NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche.

Dominic James scored at the 16:26 mark of the third for the Lightning, who outscored opponents 30-10 during their winning streak. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy recorded 21 saves.

The Lightning outshot the Islanders 9-7 during a scoreless first period before Horvat snapped the tie 55 seconds into the middle period. Horvat's shot from the right faceoff circle bounced off Vasilevskiy and back to Horvat as he swooped into the slot. New York left winger Emil Heineman and Tampa Bay defenseman J.J. Moser tussled for position before a shooting lane opened and Horvat put the rebound home past a sprawling Vasilevskiy.

The Lightning collected 12 of the final 18 shots of the period, but they couldn't collect the tying goal. Sorokin turned back Tampa Bay's most serious threat with 7:25 left, when he corralled a point-blank backhand by Anthony Cirelli.

Duclair, who played for the Lightning during the 2023-24 season, doubled the lead following a chaotic sequence deep in the Tampa Bay zone 5:30 into the third.

Lightning right wing Pontus Holmberg got a glove on a puck chipped into the slot by Islanders defenseman Tony DeAngelo, but Holmberg whiffed trying to deliver a clearing pass. The puck bounced to New York center Calum Ritchie, who backhanded a pass to Duclair before the left wing beat Vasilevskiy on his stick side.

James ended Sorokin's bid for his 25th career shutout -- which would have tied him for first on the Islanders' all-time list with Chico Resch -- with 3:44 left when his angled shot from the goal line snuck under Sorokin's left arm.

The Lightning pulled Vasilevskiy almost immediately thereafter to get an extra attacker on the ice, but they collected just two more shots.

Norris and the Sabres look to build off one of their best wins of the season Wednesday when they visit the Philadelphia Flyers.

After coming over in a trade with the Ottawa Senators last season, Norris played only three games for the Sabres before suffering a torn oblique muscle that ended his campaign. This season, he was in uniform for the opener but suffered an upper-body injury that night, keeping him out of the next 24 games.

Norris' long absence ended Monday, when he scored twice and added an assist in a resounding 5-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets.

"I just wanted to come back and get right back in and not be a distraction," Norris said. "... I just thought they did a great job (without me) up to this point, and I just wanted to come in and contribute. I'm really happy to be back."

Buffalo has won six of its last nine games, including lopsided wins over the Edmonton Oilers (5-1), Chicago Blackhawks (9-3) and Carolina Hurricanes (4-1), in addition to the recent rout against Winnipeg.

Still, Norris' return has to be a welcomed sight for a team that has not made the playoffs since 2011.

"To replace a guy like that is (almost) impossible," Sabres forward Alex Tuch said. "He has such a high-end skill set, such a good skater. Just an unbelievable 200-foot centerman. His IQ is off the charts. He put it on full display (Monday). He was unbelievable. When you miss a guy like that, it definitely hurts. It's good to get him back."

While Buffalo is welcoming back one of its top weapons, Philadelphia will be without one of its best players for the foreseeable future.

Flyers winger Tyson Foerster exited with a bizarre upper-body injury in Monday's 5-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. While attempting an uncontested slap shot, Foerster fell to his knees in pain and hustled straight to the locker room.

The team announced Tuesday that Foerster, who leads the team with 10 goals, will miss two to three months with an upper-body injury.

"That's tough. He's such a big part of the team, the locker room, everything. So, yeah, I mean, it's definitely difficult," linemate Travis Konecny said of Foerster's injury on Monday, per the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Foerster scored the Flyers' only goal in the loss to the Penguins, a setback that snapped their winning streak at three games. Philadelphia has killed off 82.1% of power plays this season -- ranking in the top 10 in the league -- but the team allowed three man-advantage goals against Pittsburgh.

"The PK, which has been good all year, struggled," Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said, noting that goaltenders Dan Vladar and Samuel Ersson have covered up for some of the penalty-killing unit's flaws of late. "We're a little out of structure. ... We've got to clean up the structure part of it."

Philadelphia has only lost back-to-back games in regulation once this season.

"All year long, we've responded well after losses and bad efforts," Flyers captain Sean Couturier said. "We'll forget about this one and move on."

This is the first meeting of the season between the Flyers and Sabres. Philadelphia won two of the three matchups last season.

Foerster was injured shortly after scoring his team-leading 10th goal of the season in the second period of the Flyers' 5-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday. He appeared to sustain the injury while taking a shot on goal, as he clutched his right shoulder while coming off the ice.

"That's tough. He's such a big part of the team, the locker room, everything. So, yeah, I mean, it's definitely difficult," linemate Travis Konecny said of Foerster's injury on Monday, per the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Foerster, 23, has bolted out of the blocks while playing in the first season of a two-year, $7.5 million contract. He also has three assists and a plus-7 rating in 21 games.

He set career highs across the board with 43 points (25 goals, 18 assists) in 81 games last season, his second full campaign with Philadelphia.

Foerster has totaled 96 points (58 goals, 38 assists) in 187 career games since being selected by the Flyers with the 23rd overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft.

Walker was injured during St. Louis' 4-1 loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Monday.

Walker's injury came hours after the Blues announced forward Jimmy Snuggerud would be sidelined for at least six weeks with a wrist injury.

Walker, 31, has nine points (three goals, six assists) in 25 games this season for the Blues.

A Stanley Cup champion with Washington, Walker has totaled 65 points (31 goals, 34 assists) in 254 career games with the Edmonton Oilers, Capitals and Blues.

Bryan Rust chipped in with a goal and two assists for Pittsburgh, which has won three of its past four games. Tommy Novak and Kevin Hayes also scored for the Penguins, while Tristan Jarry made 28 saves.

Tyson Foerster scored the only goal for the Flyers -- his team-leading 10th -- but later exited with an upper-body injury. The high-scoring winger fell to his knees in pain after attempting an uncontested one-timer before shuffling off to the locker room.

Dan Vladar allowed five goals on 27 shots for Philadelphia, which had won five of its previous six games.

Blue Jackets 5, Devils 3

Sean Monahan tallied twice and Charlie Coyle scored once in a three-point game to lead Columbus to a comeback victory over New Jersey in Newark, N.J.

Miles Wood notched one goal and one assist while Denton Mateychuk added a goal for the Blue Jackets, who snapped a four-game winless streak (0-1-3). Zach Werenski collected a pair of assists, and Elvis Merzlikins made 30 saves.

Nico Hischier notched one goal and one assist while Ondrej Palat and Timo Meier added a goal apiece for the Devils, who took their second loss in a row. Jesper Bratt had two assists, and Jake Allen stopped 19 shots.

Ducks 4, Blues 1

Fill-in goaltender Ville Husso made 21 saves as visiting Anaheim defeated St. Louis.

Husso, a former Blues netminder, was pressed into the lead role for Anaheim with Lukas Dostal and Petr Mrazek sidelined by injuries. Pavel Mintyukov and Leo Carlsson each had a goal and an assist as the Ducks snapped their 10-game losing streak against the Blues. Mason McTavish and Chris Kreider also scored for Anaheim.

Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington stopped just three of the five shots he saw before getting pulled. Joel Hofer stopped 19 of 20 shots in relief. Jordan Kyrou scored the St. Louis goal.

Sharks 6, Mammoth 3

Tyler Toffoli scored twice and added two assists as host San Jose doubled up Utah.

Will Smith added two goals and an assist, while Pavol Regenda and Adam Gaudette also found the back of the net for the Sharks, who have won five of their last eight and improved to 9-4-3 on home ice. Macklin Celebrini picked up three assists, extending his home point streak to eight games (six goals, nine assists).

Yaroslav Askarov made 31 saves as the Sharks took two of three meetings against the Mammoth this season. Lawson Crouse scored twice and JJ Peterka also scored for Utah, which has dropped four straight and eight of 10 (2-5-3).

Sabres 5, Jets 1

In his return to the lineup, Josh Norris had two goals and an assist as Buffalo crushed visiting Winnipeg.

Jason Zucker, Bowen Byram and Alex Tuch also scored for the Sabres. Josh Doan and Zach Benson both chipped in two assists. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 23 stops.

Kyle Connor was the lone goal scorer for the Jets. Backstopping for Winnipeg, Eric Comrie made 11 saves and Thomas Milic made 15.

Will Smith added two goals and an assist, while Pavol Regenda and Adam Gaudette also found the back of the net for the Sharks, who have won five of their last eight and improved to 9-4-3 on home ice.

Macklin Celebrini picked up three assists, extending his home point streak to eight games (six goals, nine assists).

Yaroslav Askarov made 31 saves as the Sharks took two of three meetings against the Mammoth this season.

Lawson Crouse scored twice and JJ Peterka also scored for Utah, which has dropped four straight and eight of 10 (2-5-3).

Karel Vejmelka made six saves and was replaced by Vitek Vanecek, who stopped 18 shots.

Trailing 6-2, Crouse added his second of the night, a short-handed redirection of a Mikhail Sergachev pass past Askarov.

The Sharks scored three unanswered in the second period to open a four-goal lead.

San Jose took a 4-2 lead at 6:16 of the second as Smith toe-dragged around Nate Schmidt and Brandon Tanev before putting his shot between the pads of Vanecek.

Gaudette gave the Sharks a three-goal lead, putting a backhand shot past the glove of Vanecek at 7:25 of the middle frame.

Smith added his second of the period at 9:09, putting a Toffoli feed under the glove of Vanecek.

Toffoli, who tied a career high with his four-point game, opened the scoring at 4:41 of the first, snapping a Celebrini feed past a screened Valmeljka.

San Jose doubled its lead on a power play at 7:58 as Regenda redirected a Philipp Kurashev shot past Vejmelka for his first goal of the season.

Utah got on the board midway through the period as Crouse tapped in a cross-crease pass from Michael Carcone.

Toffoli added his second of the opening period, restoring the two-goal lead at 12:59, snapping a shot past Valmeljka off a Celebrini faceoff win.

The goal ended Valmeljka's night as the Utah starter allowed three goals on nine shots.

The Mammoth responded with four minutes remaining in the first as Peterka beat Askarov short side over the shoulder.

The Sharks and Mammoth had split their first two meetings, with each team winning on home ice.

Now the question is, will he start or back up Akira Schmid?

Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said he wouldn't announce his starter until Tuesday morning but "I'm sure you'll see a lot of both goalies" in the near future, which includes a five-game road trip that begins Friday at New Jersey.

The 27-year-old Hart, a second-round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2016, was one of five players found not guilty of sexual assault charges in July in London, Ontario. The players -- all members of Canada's World Junior Championship gold medal-winning team -- were accused of assaulting a woman in a hotel room after a Hockey Canada gala.

The NHL suspended all five players after determining their conduct did not meet "the highest level of moral integrity" expected by the league.

Hart signed a two-year, $4 million contract with Vegas on Oct. 24 and has been practicing with the nearby AHL Henderson Silver Knights. He appeared in three AHL games and posted a 3.07 goals-against average and .839 save percentage.

"I've worked my (butt) off to get to this point, and for me the key is preparation," Hart told reporters after practice on Monday. "I've been doing everything I can to be prepared, and I'll be prepared if I get the call tomorrow."

Hart compiled a 96-93-29 record, 2.94 goals-against, and .906 save percentage in 227 games with the Flyers before the league-mandated suspension, which was lifted on Monday. His last NHL start came on Jan. 20, 2024, in a 7-4 loss to Colorado. He was pulled after two periods after yielding five goals on 15 shots.

Hart is expected to give a boost to a shaky goaltending situation for the Golden Knights, who lost starter Adin Hill to a lower-body injury on Oct. 20. Vegas was 5-0-2 at the time of Hill's injury but has gone just 6-6-6 since and ranks just 15th in goals-against (2.96). Vegas has also struggled badly in overtime contests, compiling a league-worst 1-8 record.

"Akira (9-2-4, 0.896 save percentage) has played well too," Cassidy said. "I'm sure you'll see a lot of both goalies, but Carter has waited a long time to play, so he's definitely going to get his share of starts."

Chicago, which snapped a five-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over Pacific Division co-leader Anaheim on Sunday, will be playing the first game of a four-game western road trip that includes back-to-back games with the Los Angeles Kings and a rematch with the Ducks on Sunday.

Connor Bedard scored two goals, including the game-winner midway through the third period, and had two assists in the comeback win against Anaheim. The Blackhawks trailed 3-0 midway through the first period but rallied with five consecutive goals, the final one an empty-netter by Bedard with 1:55 remaining.

"That's not an acceptable start," Bedard, who entered Monday night tied for second in the NHL with 37 points, said. "I think everyone took it upon themselves to up their game a little bit more. That's a game we needed, five games straight without being able to pick up a win. I think we all took the initiative there after the first and stepped it up."

Vegas is 15-3-3 all-time against the Blackhawks, including 8-2-1 at T-Mobile Arena.

Husso, a former Blues netminder, was pressed into the lead role for Anaheim with Lukas Dostal and Petr Mrazek sidelined by injuries.

Pavel Mintyukov and Leo Carlsson each had a goal and an assist as the Ducks snapped their 10-game losing streak against the Blues. Mason McTavish and Chris Kreider also scored for Anaheim.

Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington stopped just three of the five shots he saw before getting pulled. Joel Hofer stopped 19 of 20 shots in relief.

Jordan Kyrou scored the St. Louis goal.

The Ducks seized a 1-0 lead 6:33 into the game when McTavish hammered a one-time shot from the left wall past Binnington's short side.

Kyrou answered just 20 seconds later. Robert Thomas maneuvered in from the left wing and slid a cross-ice pass to Kyrou breaking toward the right post.

Anaheim chased Binnington midway through the first period. Mintyukov beat him with a shot off the rush from the right boards to put the Ducks up 2-1.

The teams exchanged 2-on-1 rushes in the scoreless second period, but Blues winger Dalibor Dvorsky missed the net on his break with Pavel Buchnevich and Kreider couldn't beat Hofer after taking a cross-ice pass from Cutter Gauthier.

During the final 2 minutes of the period, the teams exchanged offensive flurries. But Hofer made tough saves at one end, then the Blues failed to convert passes and redirections around the net at the other end.

The Blues had chances to tie the game early in the third period. But Husso stopped Kyrou at point-blank range, then he turned aside Thomas' shot from the right faceoff dot off the rush.

Anaheim increased its lead to 3-1 at the 5:58 mark when Carlsson deflected Radko Gudas' shot from the right point.

With Husso pulled for an extra attacker, Kreider scored an empty-net goal with 2:37 left to make it 4-1.

Jason Zucker, Bowen Byram, and Alex Tuch also scored for the Sabres. Josh Doan and Zach Benson chipped in two assists. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 23 stops.

Kyle Connor was the lone goal scorer for the Jets. Backstopping for Winnipeg, Eric Comrie made 11 saves and Thomas Milic made 15.

The Sabres set the tone early, striking on the power play to open a dominant first period. Zucker pounced on a loose puck in front and stuffed it past Comrie just 2:46 into the game.

Buffalo doubled the lead only 15 seconds later when Byram jumped into the rush and wired a shot into the net to make it 2-0. Comrie surrendered two goals on the first three shots he faced.

Norris, who was activated before the game after missing every contest since Buffalo's season opener on Oct. 9 against the Rangers, pushed the lead to 3-0 at 14:54. Norris walked out from the side of the net and jammed the puck home.

Milic replaced Comrie to start the second period in net for Winnipeg.

The Jets finally got on the board at 11:26 of the second period, when Connor batted a shot from the top of the crease that trickled over the line to cut the deficit to 3-1.

The Sabres would quickly restore their three-goal cushion just 1:23 later. Tuch drove the net and buried his own rebound from a sharp angle, pushing the lead to 4-1.

Just 41 seconds into the final frame, Norris was sprung on a breakaway and buried his second of the game, extending Buffalo's advantage to 5-1. That would hold to be the final score.

Miles Wood notched one goal and one assist while Denton Mateychuk added a goal for the Blue Jackets, who snapped a four-game winless skid. Zach Werenski collected a pair of assists.

Goaltender Elvis Merzlikins made 30 saves in a strong outing after surrendering a pair of early goals.

Nico Hischier netted one goal and one assist while Ondrej Palat and Timo Meier added goals for the Devils. Jesper Bratt had two assists.

Goalie Jake Allen stopped 19 shots for the Devils.

After the visitors fell behind by a pair, Mateychuk put Columbus on the board just before the midway point of the opening frame with a power-play goal thanks to a nifty redirect.

Monahan tied the game 88 seconds into the second period, finishing a chance from the doorstep after he knocked a loose puck out of the air to help him get behind the defender.

The Blue Jackets broke the game open with a pair of goals 34 seconds apart early in the third period.

Coyle gave Columbus its first lead at 6:40 by pouncing on a long rebound for his first goal in nine outings.

Soon after, Monahan notched his second of the game with a quick release shot from the bottom of the right circle to make it a 4-2 affair.

Meier made it a one-goal game thanks to a power-play goal with 8:09 remaining in regulation.

However, Wood responded soon after with a tap-in tally set up by Coyle's steal of an Allen pass attempt from deep in the Devils zone to round out the scoring.

The Devils staked a two-goal lead thanks to a pair of goals on successive shots. Hischier's power-play goal opened the scoring 86 seconds into the game and Palat doubled the lead at 3:03 by burying an open chance deep in the zone.

It was a spirited affair which boasted four fights in the second period alone, with the temperature rising significantly after New Jersey's Brenden Dillon -- who played his 1,000th game -- went to the dressing room after landing on his face during a tussle with Dmitri Voronkov. Dillon returned to the game before the intermission but did not play in the third period.

Bryan Rust chipped in with a goal and two assists for Pittsburgh, which has won three of its last four games. Tommy Novak and Kevin Hayes also scored for the Penguins, while Tristan Jarry made 28 saves.

Tyson Foerster scored the only goal for the Flyers -- his team-leading 10th -- but later exited with an upper-body injury. The high-scoring winger fell to his knees in pain after attempting an uncontested one-timer before shuffling off to the locker room.

Dan Vladar allowed five goals on 27 shots for Philadelphia, which had won five of its previous six games.

Crosby opened the scoring 9:18 into the contest when he slammed home a rebound of a shot by Rust.

Foerster tied it early in the second period with Philadelphia skating 5-on-3. He took a shot from the left circle that slipped through Jarry with traffic in front of the net.

Pittsburgh responded with a pair of power-play goals later in the period - Crosby's 18th of the season and Rust's eighth.

Crosby scored the go-ahead goal on a one-timer from the slot, courtesy of Rust's nifty feed. Rust made it 3-1 with 4:08 left in the period, snapping a perfect shot into the top-right corner of the net.

Crosby has 59 career goals against the Flyers -- his most against any team -- and has seven goals in his last seven games. Only two players in the league have more goals this season than the 38-year-old Crosby.

Evgeni Malkin's third-period goal was challenged and overturned due to goaltender interference, leaving Philadelphia down 3-1. However, it ultimately didn't matter much, as Novak and Hayes scored down the stretch to create a comfortable margin for the visitors.

Foote, who won two Stanley Cups and reached six conference finals with Colorado, brings his scuffling Vancouver squad to Denver to face the Avalanche on Tuesday night.

The Canucks have lost five of their last six and are 2-5-3 in their last 10 games heading into a matchup with the best team in the NHL.

Vancouver's goaltending has been somewhat chaotic over the last week. Kevin Lankinen was away from the team for personal reasons before returning to the net in Sunday's 2-1 overtime loss at Los Angeles, Thatcher Demko has been out for three weeks with a lower-body injury and isn't on the current road trip and Nikita Tolopilo is away from the team to be with his wife, who was giving birth to the couple's first child.

"Tolo's done a great job for us," Foote said Sunday of the 25-year-old goalie. "Demko has been skating every day at home. (Sunday) he had his first day off in a while and things look good."

The slow start to the season has rumors circulating that the Canucks could trade unrestricted free agents Kiefer Sherwood, Evander Kane, David Kampf, Teddy Blueger or Derek Forbort. Sherwood leads the Canucks with 12 goals; veteran Kane has five goals and nine assists in his first season in Vancouver.

Colorado has been playing well while second-line winger Valeri Nichushkin has been on the injured list, but he was a full participant in Monday's practice and may return to the lineup against the Canucks. Nichushkin hasn't played since Nov. 11 due to a lower-body injury.

If he does return, it bolsters an already potent lineup, led by Nathan MacKinnon, whose 44 points (20 goals, 24 assists) tops the NHL scoring list. His linemate, Martin Necas, is second on the Avalanche in scoring with 33 points (13 goals, 20 assists) and Cale Makar is third with 32 points (nine goals, 23 assists). Makar leads all NHL defensemen in scoring.

Brock Nelson has tallied 16 points (eight goals, eight assists) but he has begun to find some success. He had just four points in 12 games in October but has come on in November; he ended the month with a four-point effort in a win over Montreal on Saturday (two goals, two assists).

"The last couple of games and the last couple of weeks I feel like we've done a better job of getting more attacks, more shots and being a bit more dangerous," he said.

Saturday's 7-2 rout completed an 11-win month for Colorado and kept it unbeaten in regulation at home (10-0-2). The Avalanche, who have just one regulation loss in 25 games, have won their last eight home games and are averaging more than five goals in those games. They have netted at least six goals on four occasions.

The Oilers carry some momentum into Tuesday's clash after Stuart Skinner's 26-save shutout in Edmonton's critical 4-0 blanking of the Seattle Kraken on Saturday.

A strong goaltending performance came at the perfect time for an Oilers squad that has allowed three or more goals in 19 of their 26 games this season.

"I thought it was good." Skinner remarked following Saturday's road win. "I was able to play a solid game, but I thought you could see that from everybody. I think this was one of the games where we were able to play a really solid 60-minute game."

Alongside Skinner's shutout, the Oilers top dogs came to play with Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins all collecting a goal and an assist in the victory.

Draisaitl extended his point streak to eight games (five goals, eight assists). Nugent-Hopkins impressed in his return after missing the previous nine games with an undisclosed injury.

"This is how you want to respond, no question about it," Nugent-Hopkins said. "But now we look forward to the next one on Tuesday. We'll take a day to get a little rest, and then back at it on Monday, but this is how you want to respond. It shows a lot of good things for our group."

The Wild will be eyeing a return to the win column, where they'd found themselves in seven straight games before Saturday's 3-2 shootout defeat at home to the Buffalo Sabres.

The Wild, who open a four-game Western road trip Tuesday, were riding high coming into Saturday following Friday's gutsy 3-2 shootout win over the division-leading Colorado Avalanche.

"Anyone can beat anyone on any given night, that's why it's the hardest league in the world," said Wild coach John Hynes when speaking about the lessons his team can take away from Saturday's loss. "I think when you look at these two things, Colorado had the same game that we had (Friday) night and they came back out and they beat Montreal (Canadiens) pretty good and then we weren't at our best tonight. Not what it was (Friday) night."

"So, to me, that's where we got to grow as a team."

Wild star forwards Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy each scored in the win, with Kaprizov extending his point streak to seven games (seven goals, two assists).

Despite the shootout loss, the Wild stretched their point streak to 11 games (9-0-2).

Goaltending has been a key cog in the Wild's recent run, allowing more than three goals just once over their past 14 games and collecting four shutouts across that stretch.

Filip Gustavsson made 30 saves in Saturday's loss, but hasn't been alone in Minnesota's crease with 23-year-old Jesper Wallstedt being one of the NHL's hottest netminders.

Minnesota's 2021 first-round pick has posted a 7-0-0 record across his past seven starts, while compiling three shutouts.

Edmonton has won each of the previous two meetings, the most recent a 5-3 road victory Jan. 15, 2025.

The Predators (20 points) sit last in the 32-team NHL, two points back of the Flames. Calgary has played two more games heading into the clash of the cellar-dwellers, who are both looking to rebound from losses.

The Flames arrive after a 1-0 overtime defeat at the hands of the host Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday, while Nashville is coming off a dispiriting 5-2 home setback to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday.

The Predators trailed 3-0 past the midway point before making it a one-goal game. but watched their Central Division rivals pull away and saw their modest two-game winning streak snapped.

"It's frustrating," said forward Nick Blankenburg. "We're just trying to build that consistent game. We're trying to find that for 60 minutes, and I think you'd be blind if you don't see that. There's glimpses and there's parts where it's really good. We've just got to find a way to do it ... consistently."

The Predators will likely be without forward Michael McCarron, who was injured in a fight in Saturday's clash, but it appears forward Jonathan Marchessault will return after missing the past two games due to a lower-body injury.

Adding to all of Nashville's frustrations is how the team was strong in consecutive road wins over the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks, but failed to carry any momentum home.

"We've got to play the way that we played in those two (previous games)," said forward Luke Evangelist, who has posted three consecutive multi-point games. "We were desperate."

The Flames arrive disappointed in their defeat against the Hurricanes, but buoyed by the fact they have crawled out from their opening-month struggles and are executing more along the lines of expectations.

Calgary kept a potent Carolina team in check beyond regulation time.

"We didn't get the result we wanted, but I did like a lot of the way we played," said coach Ryan Huska. "We had some really good opportunities, but we didn't capitalize on them."

For all of Calgary's struggles, the team's defensive game has become more sound as the season has progressed. Although their offensive numbers are at the bottom of the pack, the Flames are in the middle of the league in goals-against-per-game.

That is how Calgary has posted a 2-1-1 record on its five-game road trip and won four of its last six outings.

"We're playing hard. I think we're a team that can play effectively on the road, play hard road games and battle in low-scoring games," said forward Matt Coronato. "We're proud to play with that effort. We have one more game on this trip. If we could come out with a win, that would be a great finish."

After this clash, which ends a stretch in which the Flames have played seven of eight games on the road and skated in all four NHL time zones, they are scheduled to play four consecutive at home. Thus the desire to end the road swing on a high note.

"It's definitely a big game," Coronato said. "We want to get back home feeling good about things, for sure."