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They held off the Ottawa Senators 4-3 Friday, then edged the Utah Mammoth 1-0 the next night. The Blues will try to continue their resurgence on Monday night when they host the Anaheim Ducks.

The Blues came into this three-game homestand with a 3-5-4 record on their own rink. Then they regained their defensive intensity while twice holding their lead in the face of late-game pressure.

"It's been great to watch the last two nights how committed guys have been to playing the right way, to sacrificing for each other, to being selfless again," Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. "It's nice to see those qualities in our team identity."

In both games the Blues kept their opponent from scoring 6-on-5 goals during the final minutes. St. Louis also killed off a five-minute penalty late in the victory over Utah while allowing just three shots on goal during that span.

"It's a testament to our attitude, to our mentality," Blues forward Dylan Holloway said. "Guys weren't getting down on the bench, guys were keeping each other up and making hell of a good plays on the PK. That was a huge kill for us."

As a result, the Blues were able to win consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 11 and 13.

"It's huge," said Holloway, who scored the only goal in Saturday's game. "I think our effort and our intensity has definitely been there these past two games. Obviously playing a back-to-back is tough. You've got to dig deep, but (the Mammoth) were playing a back-to-back too, so we knew it was going to be a bit of a grind out there and I was proud of our effort."

The Blues got strong goaltending performances from Jordan Binnington Friday and Joel Hofer Saturday, so Montgomery will have an interesting choice to make in net for this game.

The Blues will bid for their first three-game winning streak of the season against the Ducks, who fell to the Blackhawks 5-3 Sunday afternoon in Chicago.

"I think after we got the 3-0 lead, we didn't do what made us successful," Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. "We got careless with the puck and (thought) we could do whatever we wanted to do, and that changed ... Certainly disappointed. That was one that you get it out of your mind because it could haunt you."

After their 11-3-1 start, the Ducks leveled off while going 4-6-0. They allowed 14 goals while losing two of their last three games.

With goaltender Lukas Dostal sidelined with an upper-body injury, Petr Mrazek started against the Blackhawks on Sunday. But he suffered a lower-body injury late in the game, forcing former Blues netminder Ville Husso to fill in.

Husso earned a 5-4 shootout victory Friday over the Los Angeles Kings in his return from the AHL.

"I've been playing a lot down there, so it's been good," Husso said. "The team is doing well there, too. I'm just trying to keep myself (at the) top of the game. It was not easy, but I was ready to go, and it was nice to get the two points."

With Dostal expected to miss a few weeks, Husso could take the lead role for the Ducks, starting with Monday's game.

Johnston's three goals give him 16 on the season, including an NHL-best 12 on the power play after two on Sunday. The 16 overall goals ties him for the team lead with Jason Robertson, who had a goal and two assists in the win. Mavrik Bourque and Jamie Benn also scored. Mikko Rantanen added three assists, and Roope Hintz helped on two for Dallas, which is 10-1-1 in its last 12 games.

Casey DeSmith made 15 saves for the Stars. Dallas' backup goalie is now 6-0-2 in his last eight starts. Defenseman Lian Bichsel left the game with 4:21 left in the second after hitting the boards with an apparent leg injury.

Jake Sanderson scored for Ottawa, with assists from David Perron and Nick Cousins. Senators netminder Linus Ullmark saw his personal three-game winning streak end as he stopped only 20 shots.

Hurricanes 1, Flames 0 (OT)

Nikolaj Ehlers scored with 2:08 remaining in overtime to give Carolina a narrow victory over Calgary in Raleigh, N.C.

Ehlers notched his fifth goal of the season by crashing the net and converting on a delivery from Taylor Hall, who had the puck coming down the left side. Sean Walker also assisted on the goal.

Brandon Bussi made 15 saves for his first career shutout as the Hurricanes won their second game in a row and improved to 8-3-1 at home this season. Devin Cooley stopped 16 shots for the Flames, who were held without a shot in overtime.

Blackhawks 5, Ducks 3

Connor Bedard had two goals and two assists to help Chicago rally from a three-goal deficit and beat visiting Anaheim.

Tyler Bertuzzi, Ryan Greene and Colton Dach also scored, and Spencer Knight made 23 saves for the Blackhawks, who had lost five in a row (0-4-1).

Cutter Gauthier had a goal and an assist and Olen Zellweger and Chris Kreider also scored for the Ducks. Anaheim goalie Petr Mrazek had 13 saves before leaving with a lower-body injury midway through the third period. Ville Husso replaced him and surrendered one goal on one shot.

Capitals 4, Islanders 1

Tom Wilson scored twice and Logan Thompson carried a shutout deep into the third period for Washington, which continued surging with the victory over reeling New York in Elmont, N.Y.

Aliaksei Protas and Alex Ovechkin added empty-netters in the final 71 seconds for the Capitals, who have won four straight games and seven of their past eight (7-1-0). Thompson made 30 saves and has allowed only four goals in his last three outings.

Wilson notched an assist for a three-point afternoon, while Ovechkin added an assist against the Islanders, who fell to 1-3-1 on a seven-game homestand that began after a 6-1-0 road trip.

The Athletic reported the injury was to his left shoulder with the team not viewing it as long term or season-threatening. Fox exited with 12:57 left in the third period of a 4-1 home loss to Tampa Bay on Saturday after he was checked into the boards by Lightning forward Brandon Hagel. Fox held his left arm as he left the ice and did not return.

Fox, an All-Star in 2022 and 2023, is required to miss at least 10 games and 24 days.

The 27-year-old recorded one assist in the game for a team-topping 23 this season. He shares the team lead with Artemi Panarin with 26 points in 27 games. Fox also has three goals, a plus-4 rating, 10 penalty minutes, 41 blocks and 15 hits in averaging 23:50 of ice time.

For his career, Fox has 395 points (66 goals, 329 assists) with a plus-121 rating, 184 penalty minutes, 719 blocks, 212 hits and 23:08 average ice time in 458 regular-season games since making his NHL debut in the 2019-20 season.

Fox also has five goals, 34 assists and a plus-7 rating, 28 penalty minutes, 102 blocks, 48 hits and 24:49 average ice time in 46 playoff games.

Calgary selected Fox in the third round of the 2016 NHL Draft. The Flames traded Fox to the Hurricanes in June 2018, and Carolina dealt him to New York in April 2019.

Johnston's three goals give him 16 on the season, including an NHL-best 12 on the power play. He also had an assist. The 16 overall goals ties him for the team lead with Jason Robertson, who had a goal and two assists in the win. Mavrik Bourque and Jamie Benn also scored.

Mikko Rantanen added three assists, and Roope Hintz helped on two.

Casey DeSmith made 15 saves for the Stars. Dallas' backup goalie is now 6-0-2 in his last eight starts.

Jake Sanderson scored for Ottawa, with assists from David Perron and Nick Cousins. Senators netminder Linus Ullmark saw his personal three-game winning streak end as he only stopped 20 shots.

After a scoreless opening 20 minutes, Bourque, playing in his 100th game, wasted little time in the second to give the Stars a 1-0 lead with 18:02 remaining in the middle period.

Sanderson tied the game with 11:24 left in the second, but Robertson gave the Stars the lead for good 44 seconds later.

Playing in his 400th game, Robertson coaxed Tim Stutzle into a turnover along the boards near the Senators' goal. The Stars leading scorer skated around to the high slot and beat Ullmark for his 16th goal of the season.

Robertson will hate seeing the calendar flip to December on Monday. The Stars winger finished November with 26 points (13 goals, 13 assists) in 15 games.

Johnston took over from there as he scored his first goal with 4:37 remaining in the second, off assists from Rantanen and Robertson. He scored his two power-play goals in the third and added a third point in the period on Benn's goal.

Benn, 36, playing in just his seventh game this season, had found the net in three of his last four contests.

The Stars welcomed back defensemen Ilya Lyubushkin after the blueliner missed the last six games with a lower-back injury. However, teammate Lian Bichsel left the game with 4:21 left in the second after hitting the boards with an apparent leg injury.

The Sharks' Will Smith scored twice and William Eklund also found the back of the net but San Jose fell 4-3 to the host Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday.

"Effort was good," said Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky. "We competed hard. There are obviously some things in our (defense), some detail stuff. We're probably giving up five 5-on-5 chances too many. We need to get those down to give ourselves a better chance and keep the puck out of the back of our net."

With his assist on Smith's third-period goal, Macklin Celebrini registered his 100th career point, becoming the eighth-youngest player in NHL history to reach the milestone. Celebrini paces the Sharks with 14 goals and 23 assists through 26 games.

His 37 points were second to only the Colorado Avalanche's Nathan MacKinnon (44) for the league lead entering Sunday's action.

Smith opened the scoring with his ninth of the season, but the Sharks then surrendered four unanswered goals. Eklund pulled San Jose to within one with 25 seconds remaining in the second period before a scoreless third.

"We got right back in it," said Alex Nedeljkovic, who made 20 saves. "We scored on the power play there; that gets us right back in it. Get one before the end of the second; it gave us a lot of life. There were a lot of good vibes here in between periods, and just trying to find a way to get the next one. They just did a good job of playing simple hockey and not giving us much."

San Jose, which is 8-4-3 on home ice this season, is 5-5-0 in its last 10 games.

Yaroslav Askarov, Monday's likely starting goaltender, is 9-6-1 with a 2.96 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage in 16 games this season.

The Sharks and Mammoth split the first two meetings this season, with each team winning on home ice.

Utah travels to San Jose as part of a season-high six-game road trip, looking to end a three-game skid.

The Mammoth dropped games on back-to-back nights to open the road trip, losing 4-3 in Dallas on Friday night before being shut out 1-0 in St. Louis on Saturday.

Karel Vejmelka made 18 saves for the Mammoth, who are 3-4-3 over their past 10 and are 5-8-2 on the road this season.

"We didn't get the result we wanted," said Utah coach Andre Tourigny. "I think we had a slow start, but we got a little better afterward.

"We had too many mistakes. We shot ourselves in the foot with turnovers."

Mammoth forward Logan Cooley left the loss in St. Louis in the third period with a lower-body injury following a knee-on-knee collision with the Blues' Alexey Toropchenko. According to reports, Cooley suffered a quad contusion and will undergo an MRI.

Cooley leads Utah with 14 goals and 23 points in 26 games.

Vejmelka is 10-7-2 with a 2.74 GAA and an .889 save percentage in 19 games this season.

Ehlers notched his fifth goal of the season by crashing the net and converting on a delivery from Taylor Hall, who had the puck coming down the left side. Sean Walker also assisted on the goal.

Brandon Bussi made 15 saves for his first career shutout as the Hurricanes won their second game in a row.

Devin Cooley stopped 16 shots for Calgary in what was a matchup between rookie goalies.

The winning goal came on Carolina's second shot of the extra session. Bussi didn't face a shot in the extra session after making six shots in the third period.

Bussi gloved Matt Coronato's breakaway shot with 11 1/2 minutes left in the third period. With about five minutes to play, Carolina's Jackson Blake received a pass alone in the slot, but he shot wide.

Eric Robinson created a buzz for the Hurricanes a bit later as he skated down the left side, but he had a tough angle on the release and Cooley made a relatively basic stop. Hurricanes forward Jordan Martintook's redirection just under the 1-minute mark was collected by Cooley.

Each team had 15 shots on goal through regulation, marking well below the average for each team -- 33.9 for Carolina, 29.7 for Calgary.

The Hurricanes, playing the third game of a seven-game homestand, have won eight of their first 12 (8-3-1) home games.

The teams combined for six shots across the first 17 minutes.

Going to the third period, Carolina had 10 shots on goal and Calgary had nine. Each team had failed on one power play.

Tyler Bertuzzi, Ryan Greene and Colton Dach also scored, and Spencer Knight made 22 saves for the Blackhawks, who had lost five in a row (0-4-1).

Cutter Gauthier had a goal and an assist, Olen Zellweger and Chris Kreider also scored and Troy Terry had two assists for the Ducks, who have lost two of three.

Anaheim goalie Petr Mrazek had 13 saves before leaving with a lower-body injury midway through the third period. Ville Husso replaced him and surrendered one goal on one shot.

The Ducks scored two goals in the first 47 seconds, the fastest two goals to start a game in team history.

Gauthier scored 15 seconds in on a one-timer from the left circle to give Anaheim a 1-0 lead.

Terry supplied the pass to Gauthier, extending Terry's point streak to seven games (two goals, six assists).

Zellweger scored 32 seconds later on a wrist shot from the same left circle to make it 2-0.

The previous fastest two goals in team history occurred in 97 seconds by Corey Perry and Patrick Eaves on March 28, 2017, against the Vancouver Canucks.

Kreider extended the lead to 3-0 when Beckett Sennecke's pass went off his skate and was redirected into the net at 10:25 of the first.

Sennecke also extended his point streak to seven games (one goal, six assists).

Chicago went on its first power play with 2:24 left in the opening period, and Bertuzzi scored 21 seconds into the man-advantage on a redirection from in front of the net to cut it to 3-1 at 17:57.

The Blackhawks came back with two goals in the second period to tie the score heading into the third.

Greene scored off a two-on-one break at 6:43 to make it 3-2, and Dach scored with a wrist shot from the left hash marks while on a power play to tie it 3-3 at 12:34.

Alex Killorn appeared to score short-handed for Anaheim with 15:39 left in the third period, but Chicago challenged for offsides, and the goal was overturned after a video review.

Shortly after Mrazek was injured, a turnover left Bedard alone in front of the crease, and he faked out Husso before sliding the puck in the net for a 4-3 lead at 9:55 of the third.

Bedard then scored into an empty net with 1:55 remaining to make it 5-3.

The Jets snapped a four-game skid with a 5-2 victory Saturday in Nashville, buoyed by secondary scoring as Cole Perfetti recorded his first goal in six games and Nino Niederreiter scored twice, his first tallies in eight.

"Right now, we're just a little fragile group," Niederreiter said. "Once you're fragile, you're just trying to kind of feel and get the momentum going. But... it's one win. We've got to go to the next."

It seemed to work after Jets head coach Scott Arniel questioned his team's professionalism following Friday's 5-1 loss in Carolina, saying he might need to do "a little more screaming" to "find a way to get these guys ready to play." That message appeared to resonate.

"We've got so many guys who have produced offensively for a long time in this league," defenseman Luke Schenn said. "It's going to come as long as we continue to do the right things and compete and go to the net."

Mark Scheifele leads the Jets with 31 points on 13 goals and 18 assists.

It was a big, gutsy 3-2 victory for the Sabres on Saturday in Minnesota, coming less than 24 hours after a 5-0 loss to New Jersey. Buffalo stayed persistent, tied the game in the third period and ultimately won in a shootout, giving the Wild their first loss in eight games.

With goals hard to come by, the Sabres will take them any way they can. Josh Doan's third-period equalizer took a fortunate bounce -- a wrist shot that ricocheted off the glass, then redirected off Wild forward Mats Zuccarello before slipping inside the right post.

"Yeah, I think that's a whole tale of unfortunate events for them," Doan said. "But the way that we've been playing... you kind of feel a little bit of relief from pucks not going in. They're starting to go in again."

While coach Lindy Ruff isn't dwelling on the fact that the Sabres sit five points out of a playoff spot and are trying to end a 14-year postseason drought, he was pleased to finally see something go right for his beleaguered group.

"By playing the game the right way, we finally caught a break," Ruff said after the win against the Wild. "Take it one game at a time... we know we have to win... the only way to get back in the race and right into the thick of it is to win."

Alex Tuch leads a balanced Buffalo attack with 22 points (eight goals, 14 assists), while Tage Thompson is the team's top goal scorer with a dozen.

On the injury front, Jets defenseman Neal Pionk remains day-to-day with a lower-body injury, and it's unclear if he'll return to the lineup Monday. For the Sabres, Josh Norris -- who has not yet returned from a seven-week stint on injured reserve with an upper-body injury -- continued to sit out Saturday's game against the Wild. Norris was considered a possibility to play, and his status for Monday appears to be a game-time decision.

The Flyers will try to post their season-high fourth straight win Monday when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins in the opener of a six-game homestand.

Philadelphia began its recent road trip with a lethargic 3-0 loss against the Tampa Bay Lightning. However, the team bounced back with a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers before heading north for victories over the New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils.

In the 5-3 win over New Jersey, Owen Tippett and Matvei Michkov each scored twice to help the Flyers improve to 5-1-0 in their last six games.

"I don't want to say it's a measuring stick for us because I think we deserve to be talked about with the teams we're playing right now," winger Travis Konecny said. "I think it just shows that we have some depth, we're all contributing in different ways. ... Everyone's just stepping up. We love this group. It's a lot of guys that just want to play for each other and do the right things."

Dan Vladar made 29 saves against the Devils to improve to 10-4-1 with a 2.43 goals-against average. The offseason signee has given up three goals or fewer in 12 of his 15 games.

Another first-year Flyer, center Trevor Zegras, leads the team with 24 points (nine goals, 15 assists) through 24 games.

"The one thing I love with this group is they always want to learn," Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said. "Win or lose or it's a bad period or it's a good period, they're asking questions, they're trying to learn. That's what we're doing every day -- we're trying to build some blocks here."

The Penguins are opening a spacious three-game road trip that will go from Philadelphia to Tampa Bay to Dallas. They had registered at least a point in five of their previous six games before absorbing a 7-2 pounding at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.

Arturs Silovs allowed four goals on 10 shots before giving way to Tristan Jarry, who turned aside the final 10 of the 13 shots he faced.

"I thought we had the puck a lot," Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. "Within the chances, I think we have to create more quality on some of those. There were opportunities there. ... I don't think our execution was there on a number of them, and then the chances we're giving up, they're just too loud. They're too big."

Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist for Pittsburgh. Following the lopsided defeat, he concurred that the team needs to tighten up defensively after allowing a season-high seven goals.

"I think the quality of the chances we gave up were just too good," Crosby said. "I thought we had the puck for a good chunk of it, but when we did have breakdowns, they were big ones and quality chances. So, we have just got to tighten up."

Crosby, 38, is showing no signs of slowing down as he's averaging better than a point per game with 27 (16 goals, 11 assists) in 24 outings.

This is the second of four matchups between the Penguins and Flyers this season. Philadelphia won the first battle of Pennsylvania, 3-2 on Oct. 28, as Bobby Brink had a goal and an assist before adding the decisive goal in the shootout.

The Blue Jackets are on a four-game (0-1-3) winless streak, and the team has led in the third period during each of their overtime losses. Over their last 11 games, the Jackets have held seven third-period leads, but they only have a 3-0-4 record in those games.

Friday's 4-3 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins continued the trend. Columbus led 3-1 after two periods, only for the Penguins to equalize in the third and then complete the comeback on Kris Letang's overtime winner.

Despite the "frustrating" stretch, defenseman Zach Werenski is encouraged by the fact that the Jackets have been "leading in almost every game."

"I really like what we have going on in here," Werenski said. "But, yeah, I mean, we're sick of talking about (the blown leads)... I'm sure fans are sick of seeing it. So, at the end of the day, it's on us to just find a way to get a win and win in regulation."

Werenski leads the Blue Jackets with 24 points (nine goals, 15 assists) and is among the highest-scoring defensemen in the NHL.

The Jackets dropped a 3-2 result to the Devils in Columbus on Oct. 13 in the clubs' first meeting of the season. New Jersey is 9-2-0 in its last 11 games with the Blue Jackets, dating back to the 2022-23 season.

The Devils are 9-1-1 on home ice this season, but are coming off their first home regulation loss. The Philadelphia Flyers scored three times in the second period to power a 5-3 win over New Jersey on Saturday. The hosts trimmed a 4-1 deficit to 4-3 with 13:32 remaining, but could not complete the comeback.

"We just didn't do it consistent enough tonight over 60 minutes," forward Timo Meier said after the game. "We let them get behind us too much, gave up way too many chances... We had a good push and it wasn't enough."

Meier and Nico Hischier are both on five-game point streaks. Meier has seven points (four goals, three assists) during his streak, while Hischier has been even hotter with 10 points (five goals, five assists).

These offensive surges have helped carry the Devils' offense while Jack Hughes has been on injured reserve. The Blue Jackets could use similar help from the rest of their roster while Kirill Marchenko and Boone Jenner remain sidelined with upper-body injuries.

Neither Marchenko nor Jenner will play on Monday, coach Dean Evason said during Sunday's practice. Marchenko has resumed skating after missing the last four games for the Jackets, while Jenner has returned to full practices amid a nine-game absence.

Jet Greaves has started nine of the Blue Jackets' last 11 games, and will likely play again Monday. Greaves is 7-4-5 with a 2.81 goals against average and a .901 save percentage over 16 starts this season.

Jake Allen will probably start for the Devils, as Allen is next up in the goalie rotation since Jacob Markstrom faced Philadelphia. Allen (2.27 GAA, .919 save percentage) has much better numbers than Markstrom (3.60 GAA, .874 save percentage), and is making the case for a larger piece of New Jersey's goaltending timeshare.

Aliaksei Protas and Alex Ovechkin added empty-netters in the final 71 seconds for the Capitals, who have won four straight and seven of eight (7-1-0). Thompson made 30 saves and has allowed four goals in his last three outings.

Wilson notched an assist for a three-point afternoon, while Ovechkin also added an assist to his ledger.

Bo Horvat scored a power play goal in the later stages of the third period for the undermanned Islanders, who fell to 1-3-1 on a seven-game homestand that began immediately after a 6-1-0 road trip. New York played Sunday without Kyle Palmieri, who suffered a torn left ACL in Friday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers and Jean-Gabriel Pageau, who is week-to-week with an upper body injury.

Goalie Ilya Sorokin recorded 14 saves, as New York outshot Washington, 31-18.

Wilson opened the scoring just 12 seconds after Matthew Schaefer was whistled for tripping. Ovechkin, at the top of the left faceoff circle, passed to Wilson, who was stationed at the goal line and flicked a shot over Sorokin's stick-side blocker at the 7:37 mark.

Sorokin's turnover led to Wilson's unassisted goal with 6:02 left in the second. The netminder's pass from behind the Islanders' net, intended for Schaefer, was picked off by Wilson, who backhanded home a shot into the wide-open net past a sprawling Sorokin.

Anthony Beauvillier was penalized for high sticking to set up Horvat's goal with 6:17 left. Ryan Pulock's shot from the high slot glanced off Capitals center Connor McMichael and bounced towards the net, where Anders Lee swiped at the puck twice before Horvat swooped in between Washington defensemen Rasmus Sandin and Matt Roy and tucked a shot under Thompson's legs.

The Islanders pulled Sorokin with a little more than two minutes left but didn't build a serious threat before Protas and Ovechkin scored their empty-netters. The goal was the 909th for Ovechkin, who broke Wayne Gretzky's NHL record against New York at UBS Arena on Apr. 6.

Hagel scored a goal for the fifth straight game and registered his third multi-goal game in that span as Tampa Bay also improved to 15-3-0 in their past 18 games following a 1-4-2 start. Hagel produced his fourth multi-goal game this season by scoring with 9:07 left in the first and with 11:03 remaining in the second.

Nick Paul scored early in the third as Tampa Bay was on its way to avenging an earlier 7-3 home loss to the Rangers. Jake Guentzel finished it off on an empty-net goal with 17.4 seconds left. Nikita Kucherov collected three assists and extended his points streak to nine games. He has four goals and 14 assists during the streak.

Darren Raddysh had three assists after scoring twice in Friday's 6-3 win at Detroit. Tampa Bay earned its sixth win of the streak by at least two goals and is outscoring opponents 29-10 during the run of success. Lightning goalie Jonas Johansson stopped 12 shots while Igor Shesterkin made 31 saves for New York, which got its lone goal from J.T. Miller.

Avalanche 7, Canadiens 2

Brock Nelson scored twice and added two assists to eclipse the 600-point mark for his career and stake Colorado to a 4-0 lead in the rout of Montreal in Denver.

Gabriel Landeskog added two goals and an assist, Nathan MacKinnon recorded a goal and two assists, Brent Burns and Devon Toews scored and Martin Necas had three assists for the Avalanche. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 21 shots to earn the win.

Ivan Demidov scored in the second period to snap Blackwood's shutout streak at 174 minutes, 31 seconds. Lane Hutson also scored while Jakub Dobes posted 29 saves for the Canadiens, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.

Maple Leafs 7, Penguins 2

Toronto salvaged its Thanksgiving weekend, following a loss Friday with a thumping of host Pittsburgh.

Seven Toronto players registered multiple points as seven different Leafs scored goals. Bobby McMann, Nicolas Roy Auston Matthews and Oliver Ekman-Larsson each tallied a goal and an assist in the win

Toronto's Dennis Hildeby earned his first win since January, turning away 33 of 35 shots. Arturs Silovs allowed four goals on 10 shots before being replaced by Tristan Jarry, who stopped 10 of 13.

Oilers 4, Kraken 0

Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl each recorded a goal and an assist and Stuart Skinner recorded his second shutout of the season, leading visiting Edmonton to a win over Seattle.

Zach Hyman and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins contributed to the Oilers' balanced attack, also finishing with a goal and an assist. Skinner, who allowed 16 goals in his last four starts, made 26 saves, including 12 in the first period, helping kill three Kraken power plays.

McDavid, who has 25 assists this season, scored the team's fourth and final goal midway through the third period. He has 12 multi-point games this season. McDavid recorded at least one point in 12 of the Oilers' 14 games in November. Joey

Daccord made 21 stops as Seattle lost its third game in a row.

Sabres 3, Wild 2 (SO)

Beck Malenstyn and Josh Doan scored in regulation and Buffalo won in a shootout in Saint Paul, Minn., ending Minnesota's seven-game winning streak.

Tage Thompson, Jack Quinn and Noah Ostlund scored in the four-round shootout, and Colten Ellis made 22 saves in his sixth NHL start for the Sabres, who had lost two in a row.

Kirill Kaprizov scored for the fifth straight game and Matt Boldy also scored -- and both also scored in the shootout -- and Filip Gustavsson made 30 saves for the Wild, who were 11-1-1 in their previous 13 games.

Kings 2, Canucks 1 (OT)

Adrian Kempe scored his third overtime goal of the season at 3:58 to lift Los Angeles over visiting Vancouver, giving the Kings a point in nine of their last 10 games.

Quinton Byfield partially whiffed on a shot attempt and the puck went to Kempe at the side of the net. He skated to the inside edge of the right circle and scored with a wrist shot. The referees returned to the ice to review whether Byfield interfered with Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen, but the goal stood.

Anze Kopitar scored in regulation and Anton Forsberg made 19 saves for the Kings, who were coming off a 5-4 shootout loss at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. Evander Kane scored for the Canucks, who have lost five of six (1-4-1).

Bruins 3, Red Wings 2 (SO)

Jeremy Swayman topped off a 24-save effort with three straight stops in a shootout, leading host Boston past Detroit on the front end of the Atlantic Division rivals' home-and-home series.

Casey Mittelstadt scored a backhander for the lone shootout goal after Morgan Geekie tallied twice in regulation, and Elias Lindholm had two assists for the Bruins. Geekie is tied for the NHL lead with 20 goals this season, including eight in a recent six-game span. Swayman stopped the Red Wings' Lucas Raymond, Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat in the shootout.

Detroit's Michael Rasmussen scored with 1:54 left to force overtime, while Raymond also lit the lamp for the Red Wings. Dylan Larkin assisted on both goals. Goalie Cam Talbot made 17 saves.

Flyers 5, Devils 3

Owen Tippett had two goals and an assist and Philadelphia held on to beat New Jersey in Newark, N.J.

Travis Konecny and Trevor Zegras contributed a goal and an assist each and Matvei Michkov also scored for the Flyers, who have won five of their last six games. Defenseman Travis Sanheim had two assists and Dan Vladar made 29 saves.

Dawson Mercer had a goal and an assist and Timo Meier and defenseman Simon Nemec scored for the Devils, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Jesper Bratt had two assists and Jacob Markstrom stopped 27 shots.

Blues 1, Mammoth 0

Joel Hofer made 18 saves for his fourth career shutout as St. Louis blanked visiting Utah in a defensive battle.

Dylan Holloway scored for the Blues, who won consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 11-13. Holloway scored the game's lone goal with 1:50 left in the second period. Philip Broberg raced up the left wing and dropped a pass to Holloway, who snapped a shot past Vejmelka's far side.

Karel Vejmelka made 18 saves for the Mammoth, who lost key forward Logan Cooley to a lower-body injury in the third period. Cooley needed help leaving the ice after his knee-on-knee collision with Blues winger Alexey Toropchenko.

Jets 5, Predators 2

Nino Niederreiter scored a pair of goals and Winnipeg jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period and never looked back, defeating host Nashville to end a four-game losing streak.

Gabriel Vilardi, Cole Perfetti and Kyle Connor were the other goal scorers for the Jets, while Dylan Samberg had three assists and fellow defenseman Luke Schenn two more. Eric Comrie made 20 stops to get the win.

Nick Blankenburg and Luke Evangelista scored goals, with Erik Haula assisting on each, as the Predators tried to claw back from a 3-0 hole more than halfway through the game. Justus Annunen turned aside 20 pucks in the loss.

Golden Knights 4, Sharks 3

Tomas Hertl scored two goals and rookie Carl Lindbom made 18 saves to pick up his first NHL win as Vegas snapped a four-game losing streak with a victory over San Jose in Las Vegas.

It was the 36th career multi-goal game of Hertl's career and the first this season. Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist, and Colton Sissons also scored for Vegas, which scored its ninth consecutive win over San Jose while improving to 29-2-5 all-time against the Sharks.

Will Smith scored two goals and William Eklund also scored for San Jose. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 20 of 24 shots.

Quinton Byfield partially whiffed on a shot attempt and the puck went to Kempe at the side of the net. He skated to the inside edge of the right circle and scored with a wrist shot.

The referees returned to the ice to review whether Byfield interfered with Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen, but the goal stood.

Anze Kopitar scored in regulation and Anton Forsberg made 19 saves for the Kings, who were coming off a 5-4 shootout loss at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.

Los Angeles has earned a point in nine of its past 10 games (6-1-3).

Evander Kane scored for the Canucks, who have lost five of six (1-4-1).

Lankinen returned after being unavailable the past two games because of personal reasons and made 21 saves for Vancouver, which lost at the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Friday.

The game underwent three replay reviews in the first five minutes, all leading to overturned goals before Kopitar scored at 17:19 of the first period for a 1-0 lead.

Brian Dumoulin made a stretch pass to Kempe in the neutral zone and he carried the puck across the blue line before nearly running into Kopitar as they criss-crossed above the right circle.

Kopitar inadvertently kicked the puck off Kempe's stick, but it went in front of him and into the high slot, where he shot a one-timer over Lankinen's glove and into the net for his fifth goal of the season.

The score remained 1-0 until early in the second period after Kane went to the penalty box 43 seconds into the period for slashing Andrei Kuzmenko.

The Canucks killed the penalty and Drew O'Connor spotted Kane exiting the penalty box, hitting him with a stretch pass at the red line for a breakaway. Kane skated in on Forsberg and elected to shoot from between the hash marks, beating him on his stick side to tie it 1-1 at 2:52.

It was the 36th career multi-goal game of Hertl's career and the first this season. Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist, and Colton Sissons also scored for Vegas, which scored its ninth consecutive win over San Jose while improving to 29-2-5 all-time against the Sharks.

Will Smith scored two goals and William Eklund also scored for San Jose. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 20 of 24 shots.

Smith, playing in his 100th NHL game, gave San Jose a 1-0 lead at the 7:34 mark of the first period when he flicked a wrist shot from near the left faceoff circle past Lindbom's glove and into the top far corner.

Vegas snapped a streak of three straight games of falling behind 2-0 when Hertl tied it near the end of the period, picking up a loose puck in the slot and then ripping a wrist shot past Nedeljkovic's blocker side.

The Golden Knights built a 4-1 lead in the second period on consecutive goals by Sissons, Marner and Hertl. Sissons tapped in a rebound of a Keegan Kolesar shot at the end of an odd-man rush at the 5:36 mark. Marner circled behind the net and wrapped in a shot around the right post at 7:02 gone. Hertl redirected Marner's point shot under Nedeljkovic's pads for a power-play goal at the 12:38 mark.

But San Jose rallied to cut the lead to 4-3 near the end of the period on a power-play goal by Smith, who one-timed a Kolesar turnover in front of the net, and a breakaway goal by Eklund off an Adam Gaudette pass following a neutral-zone giveaway by Alexander Holtz.

The Sharks pulled Nedeljkovic for an extra attacker with 1:45 remaining and the Golden Knights missed a couple of opportunities to seal it with errant empty-net tries by Marner and Brayden McNabb. McNabb then picked up a cross-checking penalty with 34.5 seconds left to give San Jose a 6-on-4 power-play, but Lindbom stopped wrist shots by Alexander Wennberg and Eklund during the final frantic seconds to pick up his first win in seven career starts.

Dylan Holloway scored for the Blues, who won consecutive games for the first time since Oct. 11-13.

Karel Vejmelka made 18 saves for the Mammoth, who lost key forward Logan Cooley to a lower-body injury in the third period. Cooley needed help leaving the ice after his knee-on-knee collision with Blues winger Alexey Toropchenko.

The Blues built a 7-1 shots advantage in the first nine minutes of the game. Vejmelka held the fort while stopping Holloway's rush from the left wing, Mathieu Joseph's wraparound shot, Colton Parayko's blast from the right faceoff dot and Toropchenko stuff attempt at the crease.

Utah got rolling midway through the first period and nearly took the lead when Clayton Keller fired a shot off the crossbar.

After outshooting the Mammoth 8-4 in the first 20 minutes, the Blues built the same edge during the second period. Vejmelka stopped Pavel Buchnevich's blast from the right circle, then Dalibor Dvorsky's wide-open follow shot.

Robert Thomas had a short-handed breakaway, but his shot missed the net.

The Mammoth had a few good chances in the second period, including a double tip by Kailer Yamamoto, and Dylan Guenther and Michael Carcone's opportunity on a 2-on-1 rush.

The Blues finally broke through with 1:50 left in the second period. Philip Broberg raced up the left wing and dropped a pass to Holloway, who snapped a shot past Vejmelka's far side to put St. Louis up 1-0.

After Toropchenko was assessed a five-minute major penalty for his collision with Cooley, the Mammoth had a chance take control with their extended power play.

But the Blues earned the best opportunity during that stretch with Nick Bjugstad's short-handed breakaway that Vejmelka stopped.

The Mammoth pulled Vejmelka for an extra attacker at the end, but they failed to score 6-on-5.

Tage Thompson, Jack Quinn and Noah Ostlund scored in the four-round shootout, and Colten Ellis made 22 saves in his sixth NHL start, letting only one attempt past him in the shootout for the Sabres, who had lost two in a row.

Kirill Kaprizov scored for the fifth straight game, Matt Boldy - who had Minnesota's lone shootout goal -- also scored and Filip Gustavsson made 30 saves for the Wild, who were 11-1-1 in their past 13 games.

Kaprizov scored his sixth goal in the past five games to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead at 9:37 of the first period.

Buffalo forward Tyson Kozak tried to clear the puck from his zone, but it hit Wild defenseman Jake Middleton in the back, leading to a cross-ice feed from Mats Zuccarello to Kaprizov, who scored his 17th goal of the season with a one-timer from the right circle.

The Sabres tied it 1-1 at 12:42.

Peyton Krebs took a shot from the left circle off a rush that was stopped, but the rebound went off Malenstyn and across the goal line.

The Wild moved back ahead 2-1 at 14:05 of the first.

Buffalo forward Alex Tuch overskated the puck just as he was about to cross the blue line. He then brought the puck back deeper into his zone and it was stolen by Boldy along the wall. He then skated in alone on Ellis and scored from the bottom of the right circle.

Doan was credited with a goal when his shot caromed off the glass behind the goal and back over the net. Wild forward Zuccarello tried to bat the puck away with his glove but slapped it into his own net to tie it 2-2 at 6:01 of the third.

Toropchenko was assessed penalty for kneeing and game misconduct at the 6:17 mark of the third period with the Blues leading 1-0.

Cooley had two shots in 11:01 of ice time.

The 21-year-old has 23 points (14 goals, nine assists) in 26 games this season with 20 penalty minutes.

The franchise, then in Arizona, selected Cooley third overall in the 2022 NHL Draft. For his career, he has 59 goals and 73 assists with 84 penalty minutes in 182 games since making his debut in the 2023-24 season, when he played 82 games and made the NHL All-Rookie Team.

Casey Mittelstadt scored a backhander for the lone shootout goal after Morgan Geekie tallied twice in regulation, and Elias Lindholm had two assists for Boston.

Geekie is tied for the NHL lead with 20 goals this season, including eight in a recent six-game span.

Swayman made 15 stops in the third period in overtime and stopped Lucas Raymond, Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat in the shootout to deliver the Bruins' third win in the last five games.

The Bruins went 5-for-5 on the penalty kill, including fending off an Elias Lindholm hook at 1:24 of the extra session.

Michael Rasmussen scored with 1:54 left to force overtime, while Raymond also lit the lamp for Detroit. Dylan Larkin assisted on both goals.

Red Wings goalie Cam Talbot made 17 saves.

After the teams combined for just nine shots during the opening period, Geekie broke the scoreless duel 4:25 into the second when he redirected Lindholm's drive from the right point while stationed in traffic in the slot.

Swayman helped the Bruins maintain the one-goal lead, making two saves in succession on Rasmussen's point-blank chances halfway through the middle frame.

Boston nearly made it 2-0 in the waning seconds of the period. After Lindholm won an offensive-zone draw, he tipped Andrew Peeke's point shot on net and Talbot got a piece of the puck to send it past the post.

Detroit had key chances stopped by Swayman within a minute early in the third. Emmitt Finnie went in 2-on-1 after picking off an errant pass, then J.T. Compher broke in ahead of the defense.

The visitors' push resulted in a tying goal with 13:22 remaining. Finnie picked off an attempted clearance near the blue line and fed Larkin whose shot from above the right circle was tipped in by Raymond at the net front.

Alex Steeves drew a high-sticking call leading to Boston's second power play with 6:48 left, and Geekie netted his second go-ahead goal just 26 seconds later. Mittelstadt and Lindholm started the sequence that led to the score on a wrister from the left dot.

The Bruins also completed a kill with 3:56 to go in regulation, but Rasmussen forced the extra session as he slotted home Kane's backhand pass while crashing the net.

Travis Konecny and Trevor Zegras contributed a goal and an assist each and Matvei Michkov also scored for the Flyers, who have won five of their last six games. Defenseman Travis Sanheim had two assists and Dan Vladar made 29 saves.

Dawson Mercer had a goal and an assist and Timo Meier and defenseman Simon Nemec scored for the Devils, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Jesper Bratt had two assists and Jacob Markstrom stopped 27 shots.

Mercer closed New Jersey's deficit to 4-3 at the 6:28 mark of the third period. After stealing the puck, he moved from the outside of the right circle to the slot, where he slid a backhand slot through Vladar's pads. It was Mercer's first goal in eight games and 10th of the season.

Tippett was awarded his second goal with 47 seconds in regulation left when Markstrom was pulled for the extra attacker. Tippett had a breakaway on the empty net and was tripped in the neutral zone.

Meier's power-play goal with 27 seconds left in the second period pulled New Jersey to within 4-2. He scored by putting in a rebound.

Philadelphia scored three goals earlier in the period to take a 4-1 lead.

Michkov came out of the penalty box after serving a crosschecking penalty and gave the Flyers a 2-1 lead 53 seconds into the middle period. He completed a 2-on-1 rush with a shot from in front that trickled through Markstrom as Michtov's momentum carried him into the goaltender.

Konecny made it 3-1 at 3:16 on a one-timer from inside the top of the left circle, which also ended his nine-game goal-less drought.

Zegras scored on a one-time shot from the bottom of the right circle to complete another 2-on-1 rush with 6:57 left in the period.

The game was tied at one after the first 20 minutes.

Tippett, in his seventh season, opened the scoring at 5:18 with his 100th career goal and 200th point.

Nemec tied it with 7:51 left in the first period.

Each player on Toronto's goal-starved third line snapped lengthy droughts in a dominant second period.

Bobby McMann and Nicolas Roy each recorded a goal and an assist. Auston Matthews, Matthew Knies, Max Domi, Morgan Rielly and Oliver Ekman-Larsson also had multi-point games for Toronto. Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby has three multi-point games in four after notching a goal and an assist.

Toronto's Dennis Hildeby earned his first NHL win since January, turning away 33 of 35 shots. Arturs Silovs allowed four goals on 10 shots before being replaced by Tristan Jarry, who stopped 10 of 13.

The Leafs opened the scoring on their first shot. Ekman-Larsson was fortunate to retrieve his own blocked shot off an unsuspecting Parker Wotherspoon, wristing his fourth goal of the season past a scrambling Silovs. The Swedish defenseman left in the third period with an injury.

Penguins rookie Ben Kindel responded some 90 seconds later off a bizarre play, a loose puck caroming off Scott Laughton's shoulder before Kindel batted it out of the air and into the net from the low faceoff circle. Leafs rookie Easton Cowan stole back the lead with a goal, a little more than a flick into an open net off a smooth William Nylander feed from the high slot.

Two Leafs dashed lengthy scoring ruts to kick off the middle frame. McMann worked the puck to the point and hustled to the front of the net to tip a Rielly flip from the blue line past Silovs for his first point in seven games.

Dakota Joshua netted his first in 10 games two minutes later, prompting Penguins coach Dan Muse to pull the Latvian netminder. Roy scored just his second goal of the season off a slick saucer pass from Domi, returning after being scratched in a 4-2 loss at Washington on Friday.

The Penguins seemed to emerge with a newfound energy in the third, much like the night before. Crosby ignited the Penguins' hopes with a backhand flip past Hildeby. Matthews quickly quashed any hopes for a competitive tilt with his 10th of the season. Nick Robertson added the Leafs' seventh goal after stealing the puck from Matt Dumba on a breakout.

The result marked Toronto's first regulation win since Nov. 5. The Penguins have dropped six of their last seven against the Leafs.

The Stars won 4-3 Friday over the Utah Mammoth despite allowing their guests to go up 2-0 less than 13 minutes into the contest. Dallas' power play keyed the comeback as it went 2-for-5, which included Wyatt Johnston's goal with 1:27 left in the second that served as the game-winner.

Friday's win was the third in four days for the Stars and coach Glen Gulutzan noted how the travel involved in that span -- from Edmonton to Seattle to Dallas -- sapped his team. In those instances, Gulutzan says it's important to rely on power-play lines and penalty-killers.

"You need your specialty teams and your goaltender, because chances are 5-on-5 you might take in some water, and that's what happened (Friday night)," he said.

The Stars denied the Mammoth on their two power-play chances as goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 27 shots in the win, including all nine in the third period.

Johnston scored his 13th goal, and his NHL-best 10th power-play goal, on Friday. He leads the league's deadliest power play as the Stars boast the most goals (27) and highest conversion rate (31.8%). That unit could be especially dangerous Sunday as the Senators' penalty kill ranks next to last in the league, stopping just 71% of their opponents' chances.

Oettinger has won six of his last seven games, and his 11 wins are tied for second in the league entering Saturday's games. Casey DeSmith, his backup, is tied for fifth in save percentage (.919) and fifth in goals-against average (2.20) among goaltenders who've played at least six games.

Dallas is the next-to-last stop for the Senators on their season-long seven-game road trip. They have won three of the first five, including wins at Anaheim and Vegas. However, Ottawa had an outcome opposite of Dallas on Friday as the Senators allowed St. Louis to score three third-period goals in a 4-3 loss.

The loss left Senators coach Travis Green upset, saying after the game that his team's uncharacteristic play late cost them two points.

Ottawa practiced Saturday.

"You tend to lose a little execution in your games if you don't practice," Green said Saturday.

Friday's game marked the return of forward Brady Tkachuk, who missed 20 games due to a thumb injury that required surgery. The team captain registered an assist in his first game since Oct. 13.

Having last season's leading goal-scorer back on the ice should be a boost for the Senators, as Tkachuk scored 29 times in just 72 games last season.

The Senators also are happy to see another scorer get hot on the trip. Fabian Zetterlund has just four goals in 24 games, but three have come in the last four games. The 26-year-old forward scored 24 goals for San Jose two seasons ago and 19 between the Sharks and Senators last season.

Tkachuk may not be the only veteran returning soon. Ridly Greig skated in practice Saturday and Green indicated the center, 23, could play Sunday after dealing with an undisclosed injury that has kept him out since Nov. 15.

Leevi Merilainen started in net for Ottawa on Friday, meaning Linus Ullmark likely will face Dallas. The Senators' top goalie has won his last three starts, which coincide with Ottawa's three wins on this road trip.

When the teams played in Ottawa on Nov. 11, the Stars rallied from a 2-0 first-period hole to win 3-2 on Roope Hintz' overtime goal.

Zach Hyman and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins contributed to the Oilers' balanced attack, also finishing with a goal and an assist.

Skinner, who allowed 16 goals in his last four starts -- including getting benched after one period in his previous start -- made 26 saves, including 12 in the first period, helping the Oilers kill three early Kraken power plays.

McDavid, who now has 25 assists this season, scored the team's fourth and final goal midway through the third period. He now has 12 multi-point games this season. McDavid recorded at least one point in 12 of the Oilers' 14 games in November.

Nugent-Hopkins, who made his return against the Kraken after missing nine games with an undisclosed injury, got the scoring started with a power play goal 8:31 minutes into the game. He was assisted by Draisaitl and Evan Bouchard on his sixth goal of the campaign.

In the second period, Draisaitl started to give the Oilers a cushion with his 15th goal of the season. Draisaitl scored seven goals in 15 games in November and recorded his ninth multi-point game of the campaign.

Hyman, who now has four points in seven games this season, added the Oilers' third goal, bouncing the puck off a skate and past Kraken goaltender Joey Daccord, who has now lost five of his last six starts. It was Hyman's first goal since Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on May 25. He missed significant time with a wrist injury.

Daccord made 21 stops as Seattle held a 26-25 advantage in shots on frame.

The Kraken's power play woes continued, going 0-for-6 on the man advantage. Seattle had a 5-on-3 opportunity in the first period that lasted a minute, 55 seconds, but failed to beat Skinner. The Kraken are now 0-for-11 on the power play over their last two games. The Oilers, on the other hand, went 2-for-2 on the power play.

Jaden Schwartz, who leads the Kraken in goals (8) and points (15) this season, missed his first game this season with a lower-body injury. He is expected to be sidelined for approximately six weeks.

The Edmonton win avenged a 3-2 setback to Seattle on Oct. 25. The teams will reconvene in Edmonton on Dec. 4 and again north of the border on March 31.

Seattle has lost three consecutive games for the first time this season.

Gabriel Landeskog added two goals and an assist, Nathan MacKinnon recorded a goal and two assists, Brent Burns and Devon Toews also scored and Martin Necas had three assists for Colorado, which wore blue Quebec Nordiques sweaters in celebration of its 30th season in Denver.

Colorado goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood turned away 21 shots, although Montreal snapped his shutout streak of 174 minutes, 31 seconds, going back to his win against Buffalo on Nov. 13.

The Avalanche have won eight straight home games and are 13-0-3 in their last 16 games. Colorado's one regulation loss in 25 games has tied the 2012-13 Chicago Blackhawks for second place in league history for the longest span into a season with just one loss.

The 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers have the record at 37 games.

Ivan Demidov and Lane Hutson scored and Jakub Dobes made 29 saves for Montreal, which had its three-game winning streak snapped.

Nelson, who tied his career high for points in a game, recorded his 600th point when took a pass from Artturi Lehkonen and wristed the puck over Dobes' left shoulder at 7:32 of the first period. Lehkonen finished with two assists.

Landeskog made it 2-0 at 13:25 of the first when Nelson's shot deflected off of him as he was upended in the Canadiens' crease by Josh Anderson. Montreal unsuccessfully challenged for goaltender interference.

Nelson assisted on Burns' goal 50 seconds into the second period, and just 3:05 later the former New York Islander scored on a backhand pass from Necas to give Colorado a 4-0 lead.

Demidov spoiled the shutout when he scored 8:27 into the second period. MacKinnon got it back when he scored his NHL-leading 20th goal of the season with 55 seconds left in the second stanza. MacKinnon also leads the league in points with 44.

Toews made it 6-1 at 2:51 of the third, Hutson scored a power-play goal at 5:10 and Landeskog completed the scoring on the power-play less than two minutes later.

Colorado outshot Montreal 36-23 and won 32 of 58 (55.2%) of the face-offs.

The Ducks have won five games this season after trailing by two goals or more, the most in the NHL.

"On the bench, we never feel like we're out of a game," Ducks coach Joel Quenneville said. "It's almost like we get more angry when we get down by one or two."

They'll try to continue their remarkable start to the season when they visit the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon.

The Los Angeles Kings became the latest come-from-behind victim.

They led 4-2 midway through the third period Friday afternoon in Anaheim, but the Ducks rallied to tie with 1:31 left in the third period, getting the second goal with goalie Ville Husso pulled for the extra skater, and then won 5-4 in a shootout to stay atop the Pacific Division.

"Great comeback," Ducks forward Chris Kreider said. "We've had a lot of interesting games, spotting teams leads. Good job at coming back and fighting back. It's probably not a lot of fun for the coaches, but probably fun for the fans."

Other teams have taken notice of the Ducks' success, their youth and their style of play

"They're tremendous players," said Kings defenseman Brian Dumoulin, who played 61 games for the Ducks last season. "They can make plays and it doesn't take a lot of time and space. They have a lot of confidence right now, they're winning games."

Of course, Quenneville still sees plenty of areas for improvement. A three-time Stanley Cup champion as coach of the Blackhawks from 2008-18, Quenneville wants the Ducks to be better with their puck management in the defensive zone.

"Sometimes, it looks like there's nothing happening and then, all of a sudden, they've got an A-plus chance out of nowhere," Quenneville said. "We've got to make sure that we kill the play until it's over."

The Ducks will face a rising Chicago team that also started strong but has lost five straight games, four of them at home.

The Blackhawks most recently fell to the Nashville Predators 4-3 on Friday. The Predators entered that game with the fewest points in the NHL (18).

"The last few games, we played great and we didn't get the win," Chicago forward Andre Burakovsky said. "(Against the Predators), we just made it hard for ourselves. I think Nashville is a team that we should and can beat. We just mentally didn't want it enough, I guess."

Chicago spent a chunk of practice Saturday working on breakouts, focusing particularly on breakouts following dump-ins.

"The guy with the puck has to skate and put himself in as good a position as possible, even if it's two little strides to open up lanes and not stand still," Blackhawks coach Jeff Blashill said. "And the guys without the puck have to support it."

Chicago center Teuvo Teravainen did not practice on Saturday for undisclosed reasons and he's questionable to play against the Ducks, Blashill said.

Teravainen is tied for third on the team with 16 points (six goals, 10 assists).

"Only the most mentally tough survive this league," Blashill said. "So, we're going to have to be mentally tough and dig in."

Hagel scored a goal for the fifth straight game and registered his third multi-goal game in that span as Tampa Bay also improved to 15-3-0 in their past 18 games following a 1-4-2 start.

Hagel produced his fourth multi-goal game this season by scoring with 9:07 left in the first and with 11:03 remaining in the second.

Nick Paul scored early in the third as Tampa Bay was on its way to avenging an earlier 7-3 home loss to the Rangers. Jake Guentzel finished it off on an empty-net goal with 17.4 seconds left.

Nikita Kucherov collected three assists and extended his points streak to nine games. He has four goals and 14 assists during the streak.

Darren Raddysh had three assists after scoring twice in Friday's 6-3 win at Detroit.

Tampa Bay earned its sixth win of the streak by at least two goals and is outscoring opponents 29-10 during the run of success.

Tampa Bay backup goalie Jonas Johansson stopped 10 shots while New York's Igor Shesterkin made 31 saves.

The Rangers fell to 2-8-1 at home, in complete contrast to their 11-4-1 mark on the road. New York did not get its first shot on goal until 10:31 left in the first period and got its 10th shot with about six minutes left in the third.

New York also lost defenseman Adam Fox for the final 12:57 after he took a hit from Hagel into the boards.

Tampa Bay took the first eight shots on goal and capitalized on an errant clearing try by the Rangers.

Defenseman Carson Soucy tried to get the puck out of the defensive zone but his pass for Mika Zibaenejad was intercepted by Hagel. Hagel quickly moved to the middle of the slot, took a pass from Raddysh and his off-balance shot deflected off Soucy's skate and by Shesterkin.

Hagel scored again after getting a long pass from Kucherov out of the defensive zone. He was a few strides ahead of New York defenseman Will Borgen in the middle of the slot and his initial breakaway attempt was stopped before Hagel chipped in the rebound.

Miller re-directed a pass from Fox after getting positioning on the right side of the crease from Tampa Bay defenseman Emil Lilleberg with 2:29 remaining but Paul re-directed Kucherov's pass 2:02 into the third.