Mattias Ekholm scored at 1:04 of extra time because the Edmonton Oilers finished a two-goal comeback to defeat the visiting Boston Bruins 3-2 on Thursday evening.
Ekholm snapped off the deciding target because the trailer at the rush. He won a feed from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who picked the puck off Boston goaltender Jeremy Swayman’s pads and dished a cross again.
The Oilers, who’ve gained six in their remaining seven video games, erased a 2-0 deficit with objectives in the second one and 0.33 sessions. Zach Hyman had a target and an help, scoring Edmonton’s first prior to putting in place Connor McDavid’s tying tally with 2:21 left. Leon Draisaitl had 3 assists and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves for the Oilers. Draisaitl and McDavid have seven-game level streaks.
Boston had a 2-0 lead after one era, as Elias Lindholm scored 1:07 in and Mark Kastelic doubled the rating with 2:25 left prior to intermission. Swayman stopped 23 photographs for the Bruins, who finished a 2-2-1 highway go back and forth in opposition to Western Convention groups.
Avalanche 4, Sharks 2
Joel Kiviranta scored two third-period objectives to lend a hand visiting Colorado come again to overcome San Jose.
Valeri Nichushkin scored the primary of Colorado’s 3 objectives within the ultimate era. Mikko Rantanen additionally scored, Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar had two assists every and Mackenzie Blackwood made 32 saves for Colorado, which has gained 5 of 7.
Carl Grundstrom and William Eklund scored second-period objectives, Luke Kunin assisted on each markers and Alexandar Georgiev made 27 saves for the Sharks, who’ve dropped six in their previous seven. Georgiev was once traded from the Avalanche to the Sharks on Dec. 9 in trade for Blackwood.
Penguins 5, Predators 4 (OT)
Bryan Rust scored his moment target of the evening 1:07 into extra time to cap a four-point evening, Sidney Crosby had a target with 3 assists, and Pittsburgh edged host Nashville.
The OT tally gave the Penguins their first lead and their 8th win in 11 video games (8-2-1). Rickard Rakell and Erik Karlsson every had a target and an help for Pittsburgh, which has performed 3 directly extra time contests, profitable two times.
Brady Skjei had a target and an help and Filip Forsberg added two assists for Nashville, which has 5 issues in 4 video games following its 0-5-3 slide.
Lightning 3, Blues 1
Nikita Kucherov prolonged his issues streak to 9 video games, Gage Goncalves scored his first target and Tampa Bay earned a season-high fourth directly win via beating visiting St. Louis.
Kucherov posted two second-period assists to present him 20 issues (3 objectives, 17 assists) in 9 outings. Goncalves notched his first target in his twentieth NHL sport. Anthony Cirelli and Nick Perbix tallied because the Lightning gained for the 6th time in seven December video games (6-1-0). Andrei Vasilevskiy denied 31 photographs.
St. Louis’ Pavel Buchnevich scored, giving him issues in 10 of his previous 11 video games (4 objectives, six assists). Jordan Binnington surrendered 3 objectives on 11 photographs prior to being lifted. Joel Hofer stopped all seven photographs in reduction.
Kings 7, Flyers 3
Anze Kopitar and Kevin Fiala every scored two times and Los Angeles tallied 4 objectives within the 0.33 era in a victory over host Philadelphia.
Warren Foegele added a target and an help for Los Angeles, which stepped forward to 3-1-1 on its season-long seven-game highway go back and forth. Tanner Jeannott and Quinton Byfield additionally scored, and Alex Laferriere, Vladislav Gavrikov and Jordan Spence every chipped in a couple of assists.
Tyson Foerster notched two objectives and an help for Philadelphia, which has dropped six of its remaining 8 video games (2-5-1). Aleksei Kolosov surrendered six objectives on 26 photographs for the Flyers, whilst Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves.
Blackhawks 3, Kraken 1
Ilya Mikheyev scored two times and Teuvo Teravainen had two assists to again a 27-save effort from Arvid Soderblom as Chicago crowned visiting Seattle for a season-best 0.33 win in a row.
Nolan Allan additionally scored for Chicago. Mikheyev has scored 4 objectives prior to now 3 video games after notching simply two within the first 28 video games.
Ryker Evans scored for Seattle, and Joey Daccord stopped 21 photographs. Kaapo Kakko made his Seattle debut after he arrived by the use of a business Wednesday with the New York Rangers. He had two photographs on target in 13:15 of ice time.
Blue Jackets 4, Devils 2
Elvis Merzlikins made 40 saves as Columbus doubled up visiting New Jersey to snap a five-game dropping streak (0-3-2).
Sean Monahan had two objectives and an help, Ivan Provorov and Zach Werenski added objectives, and Kirill Marchenko had two assists for the Blue Jackets.
Luke Hughes had a target and an help and Timo Meier additionally scored because the Devils attempted to return again from a 3-0 deficit however fell quick. Jake Allen made 16 saves for New Jersey, which had gained 3 directly.
Senators 3, Flames 2 (OT)
Brady Tkachuk scored 55 seconds into extra time and visiting Ottawa edged Calgary for its 5th directly win.
The sport ended with a sequence of end-to-end rushes. After Senators goalie Linus Ullmark made a save on Jonathan Huberdeau, he despatched an outlet cross to Tim Stutzle. Dan Vladar made the save, however Tkachuk knocked within the rebound for his sixteenth target of the season and Ullmark’s first help of the marketing campaign.
Nick Cousins and Ridly Greig additionally scored for the Senators, who personal the NHL’s longest present profitable streak. Ullmark made 29 saves. Blake Coleman and Huberdeau scored for the Flames, who’ve misplaced 3 of 4 (1-2-2). Matt Coronato had two assists, and Vladar made 26 saves.
Golden Knights 3, Canucks 1
William Karlsson netted the go-ahead target early within the 0.33 era and Vegas scored 3 consecutive instances to drag out the win over Vancouver in Las Vegas.
It was once the 0.33 game-winning target of the season for Karlsson. Brett Howden had a target and an help and Alex Pietrangelo additionally scored for Vegas, which stepped forward to 6-1-0 in December and 17-3-2 in opposition to Western Convention warring parties. Adin Hill made 19 saves.
Teddy Blueger scored for Vancouver, which misplaced its moment directly sport (0-1-1) and fell for the 5th time in seven video games (2-3-2). Kevin Lankinen, making his first get started since Dec. 12 after lacking 3 video games with the flu, completed with 18 saves.
–Box Degree Media
