Washington’s hot streak on home ice was ended on Tuesday as the Dallas Stars beat the Capitals 5-2 in a clash of two of the NHL’s early divisional leaders.
Michael Ryder scored twice and Adam Burish had the tiebreaking goal early in the third period as Dallas inflicted the first home defeat on Washington in seven games.
Burish put Dallas ahead to stay after 34 seconds of the third period, while Jamie Benn and Eric Nystrom scored in a 32-second span to make it 5-2 with 11 minutes, 55 seconds left, giving the Stars their fourth straight win and the NHL’s best record at 11-3.
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Alexander Semin and John Carlson scored for the Capitals.
Panthers 5, Maple Leafs 1
In Toronto, Florida took advantage of shaky Toronto goalie Jonas Gustavsson and routed the Maple Leafs.
Jack Skille, Marco Sturm, Tomas Kopecky, Sean Bergenheim and Shawn Matthias had the goals for Florida (7-4-3), off to their best start in 12 years.
The Maple Leafs, struggling without injured goalie James Reimer, were booed by the home fans for the second straight game after Gustavsson surrendered three soft goals.
Phil Kessel scored Toronto’s lone goal — his NHL-leading 11th of the season, which ended a team scoreless streak of 138 minutes.
Blues 3, Blackhawks 0
In St Louis, Missouri, the hosts gave new coach Ken Hitchcock a win in his first game in charge, beating Chicago.
The Blues had replaced Davis Payne after a mediocre six wins from 13 games to start the season.
St Louis goalie Jaroslav Halak shrugged off his shaky start to the season, making 29 saves for the shutout, while Chris Stewart scored on the power play to end a 10-game goal drought. Vladimir Sobotka and T.J. Oshie also found the net.
Oilers 3, Canadiens 1
In Montreal, Nikolai Khabibulin made 28 saves to help Edmonton down Montreal.
Khabibulin, who has allowed just nine goals in nine games, has yet to lose in regulation, improving to 7-0-2.
Ryan Jones scored a short-handed goal in the second period, Tom Gilbert scored after 16:28 of the third and Ryan Smyth scored into an empty net with 42.4 seconds remaining.
Montreal’s Max Pacioretty had scored 22 seconds after Gilbert to make it 2-1.
Red Wings 5, Avalanche 2
In Detroit, Michigan, Johan Franzen scored three goals and suddenly Detroit rolled over Colorado.
Nicklas Lidstrom started the scoring midway through the first period. Franzen then scored twice to give the Red Wings a three-goal lead in the second period and chased Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov.
Dan Cleary scored off his own rebound to essentially seal the victory with 5:14 left.
Milan Hejduk pulled the Avalanche within two goals a couple minutes later, but Franzen scored an empty-net goal with 31.3 seconds left.
Gabriel Landeskog also scored for Colorado.
Sabres 6, Jets 5, OT
In Buffalo, New York, Thomas Vanek scored a power-play goal 4:35 into overtime, tipping in Jason Pominville’s shot, in Buffalo’s victory over Winnipeg.
Vanek scored twice and Pominville finished with a goal and two assists. Derek Roy had two goals and an assist, forcing overtime by scoring a power-play goal with 6:08 left in regulation as Buffalo extended their winning streak to three games.
Bryan Little scored twice, while Dustin Byfuglien and Tanner Glass each had a goal and an assist for the Jets, who went 3-2-2 on their longest road trip of the season.
The Sabres never led until Vanek’s winning goal. They trailed 2-0 before the game was six minutes old.
Devils 3, Hurricanes 2
In Newark, New Jersey, rookie center Adam Henrique scored with 3:19 left to lift New Jersey over Carolina.
The Devils earned their third straight win and the Hurricanes dropped their third straight.
Henrique inadvertently sent Joni Pitkanen’s pass past his own goalie to tie the game at 2-2 after 6:06 of the third period, but he made up for that by skating around goalie Cam Ward and sliding the puck under him for the winning goal.
It was the rookie’s second straight game-winner after scoring in overtime to beat Winnipeg on Saturday.
Dainius Zubrus and Petr Sykora also scored for New Jersey. Brandon Sutter had a short-handed goal for Carolina.
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