Cole Perfetti notched his first career hat trick to lead the Winnipeg Jets past the visiting Utah Hockey Club 5-2 on Friday night.
Nikolaj Ehlers reached 500 career points with a goal and two assists for the Jets, who avenged a 5-2 loss at Utah on Monday.
David Gustafsson also scored, Dylan DeMelo had two assists and Connor Hellebuyck made 17 saves as Winnipeg earned its fifth victory in seven games.
Nick Schmaltz and Barrett Hayton scored for Utah, which had won three straight, including a 4-0 road win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday. Clayton Keller had two assists, and Connor Ingram stopped 24 shots.
Stars 4, Golden Knights 3
Jason Robertson scored two goals and Jake Oettinger made 18 saves to lead host Dallas past Vegas. It was Robertson’s second multigoal game of the season.
Roope Hintz and Jamie Benn also scored goals and Matt Duchene, Wyatt Johnston and Evgenii Dadonov each had two assists for the Stars, who leapfrogged the idle Minnesota Wild into second place in the Central Division.
Jack Eichel scored two goals, Mark Stone had three assists and Shea Theodore also scored for the Golden Knights, who took their fifth loss in six games (1-4-1). Adin Hill finished with 23 saves.
Lightning 4, Blackhawks 3 (OT)
Nikita Kucherov capped a three-point outing with a power-play goal 58 seconds into overtime, and Tampa Bay rallied to beat Chicago.
Kucherov one-timed the winner from the right circle after earlier posting two assists. He stretched his point streak to 11 games, the longest active run in the NHL. Jake Guentzel tied the game late, Mitchell Chaffee and Nick Paul also scored and Victor Hedman had two assists. Jonas Johansson made 11 saves as the Lightning moved to 11-0-1 in their past 12 games in Chicago.
Getting all their tallies from rookies, the Blackhawks saw Colton Dach hit the net for the first time in the NHL, while Frank Nazar and Louis Crevier had a goal and an assist apiece. Goalie Arvid Soderblom stopped 36 shots for Chicago, which blew a 3-1 lead.
Islanders 3, Flyers 1
Anthony Duclair and Bo Horvat scored the tying and go-ahead goals in a 55-second span late in the first period for New York, which matched its season-best winning streak by beating Philadelphia in Elmont, N.Y.
Brock Nelson scored in the second period for the Islanders, who have won three in a row to improve to 3-2-0 on a season-high seven-game homestand. New York also won three straight from Jan. 5-11. Kyle Palmieri logged two assists for the Islanders. Nelson also had a two-point game, and New York goalie Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves.
Tyson Foerster scored in the first period and goalie Ivan Fedotov recorded 24 saves. for the Flyers, who lost for the second time in as many nights following a six-game point streak (5-0-1). Philadelphia fell to the New York Rangers 6-1 on Thursday.
–Field Level Media
