NHL roundup: Avs lose goalie however edge Sabres in OT

Devon Toews scored 48 seconds into overtime, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Buffalo Sabres 6-5 in Denver on Thursday night and extend their winning streak to six games.

Jonathan Drouin sent the game into overtime when he scored with 7.7 seconds left. Toews also had two assists, Cale Makar scored two goals, Mikko Rantanen and Drouin each had a goal and an assist, Ross Colton provided a goal and Nathan MacKinnon had three assists for Colorado.

The Avalanche prevailed despite losing goaltender Scott Wedgewood to injury. Wedgewood was hurt 1:27 into the third period when Zach Benson was battling with Colorado’s Parker Kelly near the net and fell into Wedgewood’s right leg. The goalie went down inside his net, play continued and Benson scored moments later to give Buffalo a 4-2 lead.

Wedgewood was helped off the ice after making 14 on 18 shots. He was replaced by Mackenzie Blackwood, who turned away two of the three shots he faced. Jason Zucker recorded his third career hat trick and also added an assist, Benson and Bowen Byram also scored, Tage Thompson had three assists and Luukkonen made 23 saves for Buffalo.

Canucks 4, Kraken 3 (SO)

J.T. Miller scored the lone shootout goal as Vancouver defeated host Seattle for just its second win in its past seven games (2-2-3).

Max Sasson, Conor Garland and Tyler Myers scored in regulation for the Canucks, and Thatcher Demko stopped 11 of 12 shots before leaving in the second period after sustaining an apparent lower-body injury in a collision with teammate Noah Juulsen. Kevin Lankinen came on and made 13 saves on 15 shots.

Matty Beniers and Vince Dunn had a goal and an assist apiece and Chandler Stephenson also scored for Seattle, which had a two-game winning streak snapped. Philipp Grubauer, making his third straight start for the injured Joey Daccord (upper body), stopped 19 of 22 attempts.

Hurricanes 3, Panthers 1

Jaccob Slavin scored with 7:30 remaining to break a tie and lift Carolina over Florida in Sunrise, Fla., avenging two disturbing losses from last month.

Brent Burns had the first Carolina goal and Martin Necas added an empty-netter with 28 seconds to play. The Hurricanes won for only the second time in their past 10 road games (2-6-2). Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 25 shots.

Anton Lundell scored for the Panthers and Sergei Bobrovsky had a splendid effort in Florida’s goal with 37 saves. The Panthers’ back-to-back victories against the Hurricanes in mid-December came by a combined score of 12-3, including a 6-0 blanking.

Wild 4, Capitals 3 (SO)

Matt Boldy scored in the second round of a shootout to lift visiting Minnesota past Washington.

Boldy rebounded after hitting the post late in overtime by wristing a shot past Charlie Lindgren in the shootout. Marc-Andre Fleury preserved the win by flashing his glove to thwart Alex Ovechkin to end the game.

Tom Wilson and Martin Fehervary also scored a goal and Lindgren made 30 saves for the Capitals. Minnesota’s Ryan Hartman collected a goal and an assist, Marco Rossi and Yakov Trenin also tallied, and Fleury turned aside 28 shots.

Rangers 2, Bruins 1

Jonathan Quick made 32 saves and recorded his 399th career regular-season victory as host New York snapped a four-game losing streak by edging Boston.

Elevated to New York’s No. 1 goalie for at least three games until Igor Shesterkin returns from an upper-body injury, Quick earned his first win since Nov. 30. He is one away from joining Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury and Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky as the third active goalie to reach 400 career wins.

Mika Zibanejad and rookie Brett Berard scored 3:05 apart in the first period after the Rangers began slowly. Quick was beaten only by Elias Lindholm 7:57 into the second. Boston goalie Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves.

Ducks 4, Jets 3 (OT)

Troy Terry scored his second goal of the game with 1:26 left in overtime to lift visiting Anaheim over Winnipeg.

Terry also had an assist, Radko Gudas had a goal and an assist, Leo Carlsson also scored and John Gibson made 27 saves and picked up an assist on the game-winner for the Ducks, who matched a season high with their third straight win.

Alex Iafallo had a goal and an assist, Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry also scored, Josh Morrissey had two assists and Connor Hellebuyck made 20 saves for the Jets, who have lost two in a row (0-1-1).

Maple Leafs 2, Islanders 1

Bobby McMann scored twice, including the game-winner on the power play with 2:59 left in regulation, as Toronto defeated New York in Elmont, N.Y.

McMann’s third two-goal game of the season was all the support Joseph Woll (32 saves) needed as the Maple Leafs won for the third time in four games.

Scott Mayfield recorded his second goal of the season for the Islanders, who have lost three straight. Ilya Sorokin stopped 29 shots.

Red Wings 5, Blue Jackets 4

Jonatan Berggren’s breakaway goal with 36 seconds left broke a tie and gave visiting Detroit a win over Columbus.

Alex DeBrincat had a goal and two assists, Dylan Larkin and Patrick Kane each collected a goal and an assist, and Erik Gustafsson also scored for Detroit, which improved to 3-1-0 under new coach Todd McLellan. Cam Talbot stopped 21 shots.

James van Riemsdyk had two goals and an assist, Zach Werenski tallied one goal and two assists and Sean Monahan got the other marker for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins made 21 saves.

Stars 4, Senators 2

Roope Hintz scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal midway through the second period, and stingy Dallas won its third straight game by doubling up on visiting Ottawa.

With Dallas trailing 2-1, Jamie Benn and Hintz scored in a 1:08 span of the second. Matt Duchene added some third-period insurance with a goal to complement an earlier assist, while Jason Robertson and Wyatt Johnston had two helpers apiece for Dallas, which improved to 4-0-1 in its last five games. Jake Oettinger made 11 saves.

Brady Tkachuk scored and assisted on Ridly Greig’s goal for the Senators, who were held to their second-fewest shots on goal this season. Leevi Merilainen made 21 saves for Ottawa, which went 0-for-4 on the power play and opened 2025 on a sour note after going 9-3-1 in December.

Utah 5, Flames 3

Lawson Crouse scored twice, including the game-winning tally, and Clayton Keller collected one goal and one assist to lead the Utah Hockey Club to a victory at Calgary.

Logan Cooley and Kevin Stenlund also scored goals while Olli Maatta notched a pair of assists for Utah, which snapped a five-game losing streak (0-4-1). Karel Vejmelka made 23 saves.

Blake Coleman replied with one goal and one assist, while Connor Zary and Brayden Pachal also scored for the Flames. Dan Vladar stopped 21 shots, including an Alexander Kerfoot penalty shot in the third period.

Golden Knights 5, Flyers 2

Ilya Samsonov made 23 saves to win his fifth straight start and Pavel Dorofeyev scored what proved to be the game-winner in a three-goal second period as Vegas rallied to defeat Philadelphia in Las Vegas.

Mark Stone had a goal and an assist, Nicolas Hague, Alexander Holtz and Tanner Pearson also scored and Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin each had two assists for Vegas, which improved to 5-0-1 in its past six meetings with the Flyers.

Tyson Foerster and Travis Konecny scored goals for Philadelphia. Aleksei Kolosov finished with 22 saves.

Sharks 2, Lightning 1

Mario Ferraro produced a fight and the game-winning goal, Marc-Edouard Vlasic notched a point in his season debut and San Jose broke an eight-game losing streak (0-7-1) by edging visiting Tampa Bay.

Ferraro put the home side up 2-0 in the second period after fighting with Mitchell Chaffee earlier in the frame. Tyler Toffoli also scored for San Jose. Vlasic returned after missing the first 40 games of the season due to an upper-back injury.

In a matchup of Russian goaltenders, San Jose’s Yaroslav Askarov made 24 saves to outduel Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy (23 saves). Anthony Cirelli collected the Lightning’s lone goal.

–Field Level Media