Tage Thompson and J.J. Peterka on Tuesday each had a hat-trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win against the Boston Bruins.
Thompson and Peterka became the first pair to score a hat-trick in the same game for the Sabres since 2008.
Mason Lohrei and Brad Marchand scored, while Jeremy Swayman made 26 saves for the Bruins, who have won five of their past eight games following a six-game winless streak.
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Zach Benson also scored for the Sabres and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 26 saves.
It was Peterka’s first career hat-trick and Thompson’s seventh.
JETS 4, CANADIENS 1
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AP, MONTREAL
Kyle Connor scored twice and Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves as Winnipeg won their fourth in a row over Montreal.
Mark Scheifele also scored and Rasmus Kupari added an empty-net goal. Gabriel Vilardi provided two assists.
Juraj Slafkovsky gave Montreal an early lead and Sam Montembeault stopped 20 shots, but the Canadiens lost their third consecutive game after winning 10 of their previous 13.
Slafkovsky opened the scoring at 11 minutes, 3 seconds of the first period when he buried a behind-the-net feed from Nick Suzuki.
Connor evened the score at 15:36 of the first, before Scheifele gave Winnipeg a 2-1 lead in the second.
Connor added his second with two seconds remaining in the second period.
B’HAWKS 4, LIGHTNING 1
AP, TAMPA, Florida
Connor Bedard scored from a seemingly impossible angle and Arvid Soderblom stopped 34 shots as Chicago beat Tampa Bay.
Landon Slaggert, Ryan Donato and Teuvo Teravainen also scored for Chicago, who won for just the third time in 18 games this season when trailing after the first period.
The 19-year-old Bedard, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 draft, sparked the Blackhawks on a power play midway through the second. He drifted to near the bottom of the right circle before firing a shot through a tiny window that got past goaltender Jonas Johansson and hit the left post for his 14th goal of the season.
Johansson finished with 16 saves.
Brayden Point scored early in the first period for Tampa Bay, who have lost four of five.
HURRICANES 4, RANGERS 0
AP, NEW YORK
Andrei Svechnikov scored twice and added an assist, while Frederik Andersen made 22 saves as Carolina beat New York.
Sebastian Aho and Seth Jarvis also scored for the Hurricanes, who won for the fifth time in their past six games.
The Rangers lost their second in a row after earning points in 10 straight games.
The shutout was Andersen’s first this season and the 28th of his career. He has won three straight since his return after knee surgery to improve to 6-1-0.
Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves for the Rangers.
ISLANDERS 5, AVALANCHE 2
AP, NEW YORK
Simon Holmstrom scored twice and added an assist, while Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves to lead New York to a win over Colorado.
Bo Horvat, Anders Lee and Alexander Romanov also scored for New York, who have won five in a row.
Mackenzie Blackwood finished with 23 saves, while Artturi Lehkonen and Jack Drury scored for the Avalanche.
Tied 1-1 entering the third period, New York scored four goals. Horvat’s 18th of the season with 8:37 left was the winner.
CAPITALS 3, FLAMES 1
AP, CALGARY, Alberta
Logan Thompson made 32 saves, while Pierre-Luc Dubois, Dylan Strome and Aliaksei Protas scored the goals as Washington beat Calgary.
Blake Coleman scored on the power play for Calgary and Dustin Wolf had 20 stops.
Thompson was especially sharp early as the Flames outshot the visitors 13-5 in the first period. He made a pad save off Ryan Lomberg on a breakaway and a stick save off Nazem Kadri on a partial breakaway.
One day after signing a six-year US$35.1 million contract extension, Thompson made it six straight wins while improving to 11-0-1 in his past dozen starts.
STARS 4, KNIGHTS 3, OT
AP, LAS VEGAS
Wyatt Johnston scored 20 seconds into overtime to complete a natural hat-trick and rally Dallas to a victory over Las Vegas.
It was Johnston’s second career hat-trick as the Stars erased a 3-1 second-period deficit and won for the fourth time in five games. He also had a hat-trick on March 5 last year in San Jose.
Mavrik Borque scored the other Stars goal, Roope Hintz had two assists and Jake Oettinger made 25 saves.
Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist for the Golden Knights, while Tomas Hertl scored a goal and Mark Stone had two assists. Adin Hill finished with 25 saves.
DUCKS 6, KRAKEN 4
AP, SEATTLE
Mason McTavish scored the tying goal early in the second period and assisted on Robby Fabbri’s go-ahead goal 4:35 later, sending Anaheim to a victory over Seattle.
Troy Terry, Cutter Gauthier, Jackson LaCombe and Frank Vatrano also scored for the Ducks, who took the lead for good with three goals in the first eight minutes of the second period.
Anaheim have won three straight after losing seven of eight.
McTavish, Fabbri, LaCombe and Vatrano each finished with a goal and an assist. Ryan Strome had two assists, while Lukas Dostal made 26 saves.
Eeli Tolvanen, Mitchell Stephens, Jaden Schwartz and Shane Wright scored for the Kraken.
Philipp Grubauer turned away 17 shots.
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