Martin Necas had a goal and two assists as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals 4-1 in a Stadium Series game in front of 56,961 fans Saturday night in Raleigh, N.C.
Frederik Andersen stopped 24 shots and also recorded an assist.
Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Teuvo Teravainen also had one goal and one assist each, while Paul Stastny also scored for the Hurricanes, who won for the 10th time in 11 games.
Tom Wilson scored for Washington with 9:28 remaining, preventing Andersen’s first shutout of the season.
Goalie Darcy Kuemper made 31 saves for the Capitals, who’ve lost four games in a row and played for the third straight game without star forward Alex Ovechkin, who’s dealing with the recent death of his father.
Avalanche 4, Blues 1
Defenseman Bowen Byram scored twice as visiting Colorado beat St. Louis.
Mikko Rantanen scored his 200th career NHL goal and added an assist for the Avalanche, who extended their point streak to four games (3-0-1).
Sammy Blais scored and Jordan Binnington made 29 saves for the Blues, who were playing their first game since trading captain Ryan O’Reilly and forward Noel Acciari to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Maple Leafs 5, Canadiens 1
Michael Bunting scored two goals and Toronto defeated visiting Montreal.
Pierre Engvall added a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs, who have won two straight to end a three-game homestand. William Nylander and Davd Kampf also scored for Toronto and Auston Matthews and Rasmus Sandin each added two assists. Joseph Woll made 29 saves.
Josh Anderson scored for the Canadiens, who have lost two straight after winning three in a row. Jake Allen stopped 36 shots.
Predators 7, Panthers 3
Roman Josi scored once and had two assists — all during a streak of five consecutive Nashville goals — as the hosts flattened Florida.
Nashville also got two goals from Thomas Novak and one each from Matt Duchene, Ryan Johansen, Colton Sissons and Yakov Trenin (empty-netter). Ryan McDonagh added a game-high three assists. It was McDonagh’s first three-point game since Dec. 5, 2021.
Nick Cousins — who played the past two seasons for Nashville — scored for the Panthers, along with Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Reinhart. It was the 28th goal of the season for Tkachuk.
Bruins 6, Islanders 2
Boston scored three goals in each of the first two periods on the way to a win over visiting New York.
Trent Frederic registered the third two-goal game of his career to lead the Bruins to their third consecutive win and a season sweep of the Islanders. Jake DeBrusk and Nick Foligno each finished with a goal and an assist, while David Pastrnak hit the 300-assist milestone for his career and Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots.
Kyle Palmieri and Matt Martin scored, and Semyon Varlamov made 21 saves for New York, which is 1-2-2 in its last five games. Boston led 3-0 before the Islanders finally got on the board courtesy of Palmieri, who scored at 6:46 of the second.
Devils 5, Penguins 2
Nico Hischier had two goals and two assists to lead visiting New Jersey past Pittsburgh.
Dawson Mercer had a goal and an assist for the Devils and Dougie Hamilton and Jesper Bratt also scored. Evgeni Malkin scored both goals for the Penguins, who have lost three of four.
Pittsburgh goaltender Dustin Tokarski, the organization’s No. 3 option, started with Tristan Jarry injured and backup Casey DeSmith having played less than 24 hours earlier. Tokarski made 38 saves. At 14:43 of the third, Malkin closed it to 4-2 with a rising wrist shot from the slot, but then Hischier added an empty-netter with 2:04 left.
Blue Jackets 4, Stars 1
Defenseman Adam Boqvist scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period to lift visiting Columbus to a victory over Dallas.
Columbus’ Mathieu Olivier collected a goal and two assists, Eric Robinson had one of each and Liam Foudy scored his first career NHL regular-season goal. Joonas Korpisalo turned aside 28 shots for the Blue Jackets, while forward Johnny Gaudreau sat out because of a lower-body injury, ending his streak of playing in 349 straight games.
Ty Dellandrea scored in the second period and Scott Wedgewood made 33 saves for the Stars, who have dropped four games in a row (0-2-2) and seven of their past nine (2-2-5).
–Field Level Media
