Crosby leads Penguins past Panthers; Leafs snap 14-game skid vs rival Habs
Sidney Crosby scored twice, including the winner when he batted the puck out of the air in the third period, as the Pittsburgh Penguins downed the Florida Panthers 4-3 on Saturday night.
Patric Hornqvist and Greg McKegg also scored and Kris Letang added two assists for the Penguins, who are 8-0-2 in their past 10 games against the Panthers with five wins in a row at home.
Matt Murray made 43 saves for Pittsburgh.
Jonathan Huberedau scored twice, Aaron Ekblad also tallied and Evgenii Dadonov had two assists for Florida.
The Panthers’ James Reimer stopped 29 shots in defeat.
Maple Leafs 4, Canadiens 3( OT)
Toronto snapped a 14-game losing streak against Montreal with an overtime victory.
Auston Matthews scored his second goal of the game and fifth of the season 48 seconds into the extra session to give Toronto its first win against Montreal since January 2014.
James van Riemsdyk and Patrick Marleau also scored for the Maple Leafs and Frederik Andersen made 31 saves.
Jeff Petry, Alex Galchenyuk and Jonathan Drouin scored for the Canadiens and Carey Price made 18 saves.
Flyers 8, Capitals 2
Sean Couturier, Scott Laughton and Claude Giroux each netted a pair of goals, and Jakub Voracek and Shayne Gostisbehere each recorded three assists as Philadelphia routed Washington.
Wayne Simmonds and Valtteri Filppula also scored for the Flyers and Brian Elliott turned aside 21 shots to earn his third win in his first season.
Devils 3, Rangers 2
Miles Wood, Adam Henrique and Drew Stafford each scored a goal as New Jersey defeated New York.
The Devils’ Keith Kinkaid made 29 saves in his first start of the season.
New Jersey defenseman Will Butcher had two assists, giving him eight this season. He leads all rookies with eight points.
Rick Nash and defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk scored for the Rangers, with Shattenkirk’s coming with 56.8 seconds left to complete the scoring. Ondrej Pavelec made 16 saves for New York.
Stars 3, Avalanche 1
Dallas Stars coach Ken Hitchcock won his 783rd career game and passed Al Arbour for the third-most wins in NHL history with a win over Colorado.
Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin each had a goal and an assist for Dallas, while Ben Bishop made 21 saves in the victory.
Seguin also had his first career fight in the third period against former teammate Patrik Nemeth, giving the center his first career Gordie Howe hattrick, with a goal, an assist and a fight.
Blue Jackets 5, Wild 4 (OT)
Alexander Wennberg scored early in overtime as Columbus rallied past Minnesota.
Columbus (4-1-0) got regulation goals from Zach Werenski, David Savard, Cam Atkinson and Josh Anderson, and Sergei Bobrovsky had 17 saves.
Tyler Ennis scored twice, and Eric Staal and Landon Ferraro had goals for the injury-riddled Wild (1-1-2), who got 30 saves from Devan Dubnyk.
Bruins 6, Coyotes 2
Zdeno Chara, still a dominant player at age 40, had a goal and two assists and the Boston Bruins rode a three-goal second period to a conquest of still-winless Arizona.
Brad Marchand, David Pastrnak and rookie Jake DeBrusk – the son of former Coyotes player Louie DeBrusk – each had a goal and an assist and backup goaltender Anton Khudobin stopped 29 of 31 shots in his first start of the season.
Arizona, playing under first-year coach Rick Tocchet, remains the Western Conference’s lone winless team at 0-4-1 overall. This is the first time in the franchise’s 38-year NHL history they are winless after five games. (Reuters)