Max Pacioretty had two goals, while Dale Weiss scored on a penalty shot as the Montreal Canadiens beat the rival Boston Bruins 5-1 on Thursday night for their fourth straight win.
Lars Eller and Jiri Sekac also scored for Montreal (12-4-1), who benefited from Sergei Gonchar’s debut after he was acquired on Tuesday in a trade with Dallas.
Dougie Hamilton scored a power-play goal for Boston (10-8-0), who lost badly for a second game in a row after a 6-1 setback in Toronto on Wednesday night. The Bruins were playing a third game in four nights.
JETS 3, HURRICANES 1
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Blake Wheeler scored two goals and had an assist, and the Jets beat the Hurricanes.
The Jets, who are in the middle of a five-game road trip, won for the fifth time in seven games and bounced back from a shutout loss. They have gone 7-1-2 in their past 10 games.
Carolina lost for the second time in three games since winning four straight.
Elias Lindholm scored Carolina’s goal on the power play.
Winnipeg backup goalkeeper Michael Hutchinson earned the win with 22 saves. Cam Ward finished with 34 saves.
AVALANCHE 4, RANGERS 3, SO
In New York, Nathan MacKinnon scored the tying goal in the third period and then connected in the shootout as the Avalanche rallied for a victory over the Rangers.
MacKinnon started the tiebreaker with a goal, and Alex Tanguay added one in the third round. Semyon Varlamov stopped Mats Zuccarello and then Lee Stempniak on the final attempt as Colorado won for the first time in three games on a four-game trip.
Matt Duchene had a goal and assist, and Tanguay also scored for the Avalanche, who had dropped four of five. Varlamov stopped 30 shots.
Derek Stepan and Danb Girardi scored their first goals of the season 1 minute, 43 seconds apart in the second period for the Rangers, who led 3-2 after trailing by a goal twice.
SHARKS 2, LIGHTNING 1
In Tampa, Florida, Antti Niemi made 32 saves and added an assist as the Sharks beat the Lightning.
Joe Thornton and Tyler Kennedy scored for the Sharks, who are 2-2 on a seven-game road trip. Niemi improved to 5-0-1 against the Lightning.
Tampa Bay got a goal from Steven Stamkos, and Ben Bishop stopped 37 shots.
The Lightning are 0-1-1 since their six-game winning streak was snapped.
WILD 6, SABRES 3
In St Paul, Minnesota, Nino Niederreiter had his first career three-goal game, while backup goalie Niklas Backstrom stopped 25 shots as the Wild broke out of a scoring slump for a victory over the Sabres to snap a four-game skid.
The Wild have been missing leading scorer Zach Parise since Nov. 4. He is out with a concussion and Minnesota scored just two goals in three straight losses without him.
After Rasmus Ristolainen scored his first of the season just 1:03 in for Buffalo, the teams combined for three goals in a 17-second span midway through the period.
Minnesota’s Ryan Carter opend the spurt. Seven seconds later, Niederreiter got his first and 10 seconds after that Buffalo’s Zemgus Girgensons evened the score.
Kyle Brodziak and Jared Spurgeon also scored for Minnesota. Former Wild center Torrey Mitchell for the Sabres.
BLUES 4, PREDATORS 3
In St Louis, Missouri, Paul Stastny scored on a deflection with 5 minutes, 54 seconds left to lift the Blues over Nashville. St Louis have won nine of 10.
The Predators had a three-game winning streak snapped.
Stastny tipped in a shot from Kevin Shattenkirk to break a 3-all tie.
Vladimir Tarasenko, T.J. Oshie and Carl Gunnarsson also scored for the Blues.
In other NHL action, it was:
‧ Senators 4, Oilers 3, OT
‧ Flames 5, Coyotes 3
‧ Stars 2, Kings 0
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