Phil Kessel scored his league--leading 10th goal midway through the third period to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.
Mikhail Grabovski, Tim Connolly and Clarke MacArthur also scored for the Maple Leafs (7-2-1).
Matt Cooke, Chris Kunitz and Evgeni Malkin scored for the weary Penguins (8-3-2), who were playing for the 13th time in 26 days.
Kessel and Pittsburgh’s James Neal entered the evening tied for the NHL lead in goals. Kessel edged ahead shortly after the Penguins erased their third one-goal deficit of the game and Pittsburgh goalie Jonas Gustavsson made sure it stood up by stacking his pads on a great opportunity by Neal with less than five minutes to play.
CANUCKS 7, CAPITALS 4
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Alex Edler scored his first two goals of the season and added an assist to lead Vancouver past Washington.
Maxim Lapierre and Chris Higgins also had a pair of goals for the Canucks. Henrik Sedin scored the winner at 6 minutes, 18 seconds of the third period. Alex Ovechkin had two goals for the Capitals, who lost their second straight after opening the season with seven consecutive wins for the first time in franchise history. Mike Knuble converted a penalty shot and Marcus Johansson also scored for the Capitals.
LIGHTNING 1, JETS 0
In Tampa, Florida, Dwayne Roloson made 28 saves in his 29th career shutout and Vincent Lecavalier scored a power-play goal late in the second period as Tampa Bay downed Winnipeg.
Ondrej Pavelec stopped 26 shots for the Jets, who were coming off a 9-8 win on Thursday in Philadelphia.
Lecavalier scored with 39.2 seconds left in the second. His tough-angle shot from below the right circle beat Pavelec.
SENATORS 5, RANGERS 4, SO
In New York, Milan Michalek capped Ottawa’s three-goal comeback in the third period and then netted the only goal in the shootout as Ottawa stormed back to beat New York and stretch their winning streak to five games.
Jason Spezza started the rally from a 4-1 hole by scoring twice and Michalek tied it with Ottawa’s third goal in a 7:52 span when he put in his seventh with 2:50 remaining.
That wiped out a big day by Rangers top forwards Brad Richards and Marian Gaborik, who were split up as linemates, but produced three points each — with Richards scoring twice.
PANTHERS 3, SABRES 2
At Buffalo, New York, Jason Garrison’s goal snapped a third-period tie and lifted Florida over Buffalo.
Marcel Goc and Tomas Fleischmann also scored, and Jose Theodore made 24 saves for the Panthers, who won for the third time in their past four games.
Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville scored and Ryan Miller finished with 33 saves for the Sabres (6-4-0).
Tomas Kopecky added three assists, while Garrison also had an assist.
FLYERS 5, HURRICANES 1
In Philadelphia, Jaromir Jagr scored two goals to lead Philadelphia past Carolina.
Ilya Bryzgalov needed an outing like this one to restore the confidence he said was shot after an 0-4-1 stretch with a 4.62 goals against average.
Pittsburgh’s Jussi Jokinen scored in the second period after Bryzgalov was knocked down.
Max Talbot, Scott Hartnell and Claude Giroux also scored against Brian Boucher for Philadelphia.
CANADIENS 4, BRUINS 2
In Montreal, Brian Gionta and David Desharnais scored power-play goals and Carey Price made 26 saves as Montreal extended their winning streak to three with a win over Boston.
Lars Eller and Tomas Plekanec also scored for Montreal. The Canadiens improved to 4-5-2 after winning only one of their first eight games.
Tyler Seguin scored with 54.4 seconds remaining to draw the Bruins within one. Milan Lucic also scored for the reigning Stanley Cup champions.
SHARKS 3, ISLANDERS 2, OT
In Uniondale, New York, Brent Burns scored a power-play goal 1:07 into overtime to give surging San Jose a victory over the New York Islanders.
Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture also scored for the Sharks and Thomas Greiss made 35 saves. San Jose has won the first five games of their six-game road trip.
John Tavares and Michael Grabner scored for the Islanders, who have lost five in a row.
WILD 1, RED WINGS 0
In St Paul, Minnesota, Josh Harding made 36 saves and Dany Heatley scored to lift Minnesota over Detroit.
Jimmy Howard made 19 saves for the Red Wings, who have lost four games in a row after a 5-0 start.
PREDATORS 3, DUCKS 0
In Nashville, Tennessee, Pekka Rinne made 20 saves for Nashville in his 100th career win.
Rinne set a franchise record with 22 shutouts, two this season.
Patric Hornqvist, Martin Erat and Shea Weber scored for -Nashville in the first meeting between the two teams since the Predators beat the Ducks in the opening round of the playoffs last season.
STARS 3, DEVILS 1
In Dallas, Texas, Vernon Fiddler scored the go-ahead goal off a fortunate bounce with 8:26 remaining to send Dallas to a victory over New Jersey.
With the score at 1-1, Fiddler sent a shot toward the net from the left of the goal that banked off the skate of Devils defenseman Mark Fayne and past goalie Johan Hedberg for Fiddler’s second goal of the season.
Kari Lehtonen stopped 31 shots and Loui Eriksson and Sheldon Souray also scored for the Stars, who’d won their first four at home before a 5-3 loss to Los Angeles on Thursday night.
Petr Sykora scored for the Devils.
In other NHL play it was:
‧ Blackhawks 5, Blue Jackets 2
‧ Coyotes 3, Kings 2, OT
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