EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid reached 800 profession factors and scored his forty third and forty fourth targets within the third interval to provide the Edmonton Oilers a 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday evening.
McDavid additionally assisted on Leon Draisaitl’s tying objective early within the third, with McDavid selecting up his 800th level and Draisaitl his 700th on the play.
Taking part in in his 545th recreation, McDavid turned the fifth-fastest participant in NHL historical past to hit the mark, behind Wayne Gretzky (352 video games), Mario Lemieux (410), Mike Bossy (525), and Peter Stastny (531).
McDavid gave the Oilers the lead with 7:21 left when his cross deflected in off Flyers defenseman Travis Sanheim. McDavid then scored a short-handed objective into an empty internet with 2:25 remaining.
McDavid leads the NHL in targets and factors with 105.
Draisaitl additionally had two assists, Tyson Barrie scored and Stuart Skinner made 23 saves. The Oilers snapped a four-game shedding streak to enhance to 31-19-8.
Noah Cates and Owen Tippett scored for Philadelphia.
MAPLE LEAFS 6, SABRES 3
BUFFALO, NY (AP) — Newly acquired heart Ryan O’Reilly scored twice on Toronto’s first two pictures on internet and added an empty-net objective within the Maple Leafs’ victory over Buffalo.
Taking part in his third recreation in 4 nights since being acquired from St. Louis, O’Reilly scored 37 seconds aside within the opening interval and the Maple Leafs led 4-0 on targets in a span of 8:18.
O’Reilly added two assists and sealed the win with the primary five-point outing of his profession by scoring into an empty internet with 1:10 remaining — and after the Sabers scored 3 times to chop Toronto’s result in 5-3.
O’Reilly’s new line mates acquired in on the enjoyable, with captain John Tavares scoring and including three assists, and Mitchell Marner establishing 5 targets. Michael Bunting and William Nylander additionally scored, and Ilya Samsonov made 29 saves.
Alex Tuch, with the one centesimal objective of his profession, Jack Quinn and Jeff Skinner scored for Buffalo.
RED WINGS 3, CAPITALS 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pius Suter scored twice, Robert Hagg ended a 75-game objective drought and beat Detroit Washington.
The Pink Wings received for the sixth time in seven video games, shifting forward of the Capitals within the Japanese Convention wild-card race and taking one other step to finish their six-year playoff drought. Washington misplaced a fifth in a row in regulation — its longest stretch with out a level since January 2014, the final time the staff missed the postseason.
Detroit saved rolling regardless of Dylan Larkin getting ejected at 12:43 in for cross-checking TJ Oshie within the face. Larkin, a pending free agent and the Pink Wings’ captain, had been their finest participant throughout this run with seven targets and 6 assists in six video games for the reason that NHL All-Star break.
No Larkin, no downside, with Hagg scoring for the primary time since Oct. 25, 2021 — two groups in the past — and Suter getting one objective short-handed within the first interval and one other at even energy within the third. Ville Husso made 26 saves.
Washington’s solely objective got here on a serious penalty to Larkin, when Tom Wilson redirected a shot from Erik Gustafsson previous Husso. Alex Ovechkin missed a fourth consecutive recreation for the demise of his father.
LIGHTNING 6, DUCKS 1
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nick Paul had the primary of 4 Tampa Bay targets in a span of 5:55 within the second interval, Brayden Level scored his 2 hundredth NHL objective and the Lightning dealt Anaheim its sixth straight loss.
Ross Colton, Anthony Cirelli and Zach Bogosian additionally scored through the second-period outburst, and Level and Corey Perry scored within the third. Andrei Vasilevskiy completed with 24 saves.
Anaheim’s Ryan Strome spoiled Vasilevskiy’s shutout bid, scoring 6:28 into the third interval.
BLACKHAWKS 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2, SO
CHICAGO (AP) — Tyler Johnson scored the lone objective in a shootout to elevate Chicago previous Vegas for its third straight victory.
Johnson beat Laurent Brossoit with a low shot within the third spherical of the tiebreaker after scoring a power-play objective with 55 seconds left in regulation to power time beyond regulation.
Johnson tied it on a screened shot from the excessive slot after Vegas defenseman Alex Pietrangelo was penalized for delay of recreation for lofting the puck over the glass and goalie Petr Mrazek was pulled for an additional attacker.
Jack Eichel scored his 18th objective and Keegan Kolesar additionally related for the Golden Knights, whose five-game profitable streak ended. Rookie Cole Guttman scored in his second straight recreation for Chicago.
HURRICANES 4, BLUES 1
RALEIGH, NC (AP) — Andrei Svechnikov scored twice within the first eight minutes to interrupt a 19-game objective Drought and Carolina beat St. Louis.
Sebastian Aho had a second-period objective, and Seth Jarvis added a objective and two assists. Svechnikov additionally had an help because the Hurricanes received their fourth recreation in a row and for the eleventh time of their final 12. Frederik Andersen stopped 35 pictures for his fifth consecutive victory.
Justin Faulk scored for St. Louis.
PREDATORS 5, CANUCKS 4, SO
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Matt Duchene scored the one objective within the shootout as Nashville held off Vancouver.
Vancouver’s Conor Garland made it a one-goal recreation with 1:0t to go, and Andrei Kuzmenko tied it along with his second objective of the evening with 15.4 seconds left.
Duchene beat goalie Collin Delia as Nashville’s second shooter.. Goalie Juuse Saros stopped Kuzmenko, JT Miller and Elias Petterson for the win.
Cole Smith, Philip Tomasino, Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund every had a objective for Nashville, winners of two of its final three. Sheldon Dries additionally had a objective for Vancouver, which misplaced 4 of 5.
CANADIENS 5, DEVILS 2
NEWARK, NJ (AP) — Sam Montembeault stopped three breakaways and made 37 saves to assist Montreal finish New Jersey’s six-game dwelling profitable streak.
Defenseman Johnathan Kovacevic and Nick Suzuki scored in a 1:13 span within the second interval to place Montreal forward. Justin Barron, Rem Pitlick and Mike Matheson additionally scored for the Canadiens.
Jesper Bratt and Dawson Mercer scored for New Jersey, which misplaced for less than the third time in 18 video games (13-3-2).
WILD 2, KINGS 1
st. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Ryan Hartman scored twice and Filip Gustavsson made 33 saves and Minnesota beat Los Angeles.
Gustavsson received for the fourth time in 5 video games as Minnesota received its third straight.
Pheonix Copley made 18 saves for Los Angeles, which had received seven of 9. Anze Kopitar scored with 20.5 seconds remaining for the Kings.
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