Pettersson, Canucks tangle with Red Wings
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DETROIT — Dylan Larkin scored the only goal in a shootout to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 comeback win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.
Justin Abdelkader and Gustav Nyquist scored in regulation for Detroit, which has won four of five. Jimmy Howard stopped 40 shots before denying Elias Pettersson, Nikolay Goldobin and Bo Horvat in the tiebreaker.
Pettersson and defenceman Ben Hutton scored for Vancouver, which had its three-game winning streak snapped. Jacob Markstrom made 28 saves.
Nyquist tied the game at 2 just 1:37 into the third period. His shot went off Markstrom’s pad and in off the leg of Canucks defenceman Troy Stecher for his second goal.
Abdelkader’s power-play goal put Detroit on the board and made it 2-1 with 6:15 left in the second. He put in a loose puck from the slot for his third of the season.
Hutton’s third goal with 8:39 remaining in the middle period gave the Canucks a 2-0 advantage. Hutton beat Howard with a screened wrist shot from the left point.
The Red Wings challenged that the play was offside going into the zone, but the goal was upheld.
Detroit had an apparent goal by Martin Frk reversed on a challenge by Vancouver at 5:36 of the second. Frk took a long pass at the Canucks blue line for a breakaway and beat Markstrom with a slap shot from the right circle. But the Canucks challenged that the play was offside and replays showed Frk was in the Vancouver zone before the puck, and the call was reversed.
Pettersson gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead with 6:21 left in the first period on a slap shot from the top of the left circle off the rush. The rookie centre has 10 goals.
Vancouver winger Brock Broeser missed the game with a groin injury.
Rangers 5, Canadiens 3
NEW YORK — Neal Pionk scored the tiebreaking goal on a sensational, end-to-end rush late in the third period and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight win.
Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider each had a goal and an assist, Tony DeAngelo and Pavel Buchnevich also scored, and Kevin Hayes had three assists for the Rangers. Henrik Lundqvist made 31 saves.
New York trailed 3-1 early in the second period before scoring the last four goals — three in the third.
On the go-ahead goal, Pionk brought the puck from behind the Rangers net, spun around one Montreal player, skated up the left side, cut in toward the front of the Canadiens net and put it past goalie Carey Price while falling to the ice with 2:44 left.
Tomas Tatar had two goals and Max Domi also scored for Montreal, which was 7-3-1 in its last 11 games. Brendan Gallagher and Petry each had two assists, and Price stopped 27 shots.
Maple Leafs 3, Knights 1
TORONTO — There have been times this season when the Maple Leafs felt they deserved a better fate on home ice. That wasn’t the case Tuesday. Frederik Andersen was stellar in making 36 saves as Toronto survived a spirited Vegas onslaught to defeat the Golden Knights 3-1.
The visitors had 82 shot attempts compared to the Leafs’ 40, including a 40-13 edge in a second period where Toronto barely touched the puck.
“We didn’t get on the forecheck,” Leafs winger Mitch Marner said. “Freddie Andersen has been unbelievable for us every single game.
“He’s the reason we stole one tonight.”
Connor Brown, with a goal and an assist, Marner and Nazem Kadri, into an empty net, scored for Toronto (10-5-0), which came in just 3-5-0 at Scotiabank Arena compared to a perfect 6-0-0 on the road.
Cody Eakin replied for Vegas (6-8-1), which got 18 stops from Marc-Andre Fleury.
Lightning 5, Oilers 2
TAMPA, Florida — Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 33 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2.
Steven Stamkos had a goal and two assists, and Brayden Point and Yanni Gourde also scored for the Lightning.