Oilers shut out Devils

EDMONTON: Alex Chiasson collected a goal and an assist while Ryan NugentHopkins and Joel Persson both registered two assists as the host Edmonton Oilers handily beat the New Jersey Devils 4-0 on Friday. The two assists were the first points of Persson’s ninegame NHL career. The Pacific Divisionleading Oilers scored three goals in the second period and received a 29-save performance from goalie Mikko Koskinen to snap a two-game losing skid. Koskinen recorded his first shutout of the season and the fifth of his NHL career.

Edmonton has struggled to receive secondary scoring, and it finally received some against a Devils team that had high hopes before arriving in Alberta. New Jersey also lost 5-2 at Calgary on Thursday. After a goalless first period, Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl opened the scoring 1:55 into the second frame. Sprung on a breakaway by NugentHopkins, Draisaitl nettled his team-high 14th goal with a backhanded shot. Rookie forward Gaetan Haas doubled the Edmonton lead with his second goal of

the season at 15:45 of the period. Haas sent a long shot that ricocheted off the skate of Devils defender Will Butcher and into the net.

Sixty-six seconds later, James Neal made it a 3-0 game by netting his 12th of the season. Neal was parked at the side of the net and pounced on a loose puck for the rebound tally. Chiasson’s first goal of the season, a power-play marker at 6:02 of the third period, rounded out the scoring. Chiasson was at the doorstep while his team was buzzing around the offensive zone, and he deflected a Nugent-Hopkins shot. Goalie Cory Schneider made 28 saves for New Jersey, which concludes a five-game road trip Sunday afternoon in Vancouver. The loss was doubly costly for the Devils. Defenseman Sami Vatanen left the game after a collision in the first period and didn’t return.

LIGHTNING 3, SABRES

Nikita Kucherov, Alex Killorn and Yanni Gourde scored goals to help Tampa Bay beat Buffalo in the first of two meetings this weekend at the NHL Global Series in Stockholm. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves for the Lightning, who won in regulation for just the second time since Oct. 15. Sam Reinhart scored twice, and Linus Ullmark made 31 saves for Buffalo, which has lost four in a row and is 1-41

since an 8-1-1 start.

RED INGS , BR INS

Robby Fabbri scored twice on the power play in his Red Wings debut as Detroit stunned visiting Boston. Dylan Larkin and Anthony Mantha also scored, and Tyler Bertuzzi had two assists as the Red Wings snapped a four-game losing streak. Detroit entered the contest mired in a 1-11-1 funk.

David Krejci and Torey Krug tallied for the Bruins, who lost a second straight in regulation for the first time this season. Jonathan Bernier stopped 26 shots for the Red Wings. Tuukka Rask made 28 saves for the Bruins.

ETS , CAN C S 1

Kyle Connor had a goal and an assist as the Winnipeg Jets defeated the visiting Vancouver Canucks 4-1 Friday night. Jack Roslovic, Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry also scored and goaltender Connor Hellebuyck made 32 saves as the Jets improved to 3-0-1 this month. J.T. Miller scored for the Canucks, who lost for the second consecutive night, and goalie Thatcher Demko stopped 31 of 34 shots. Vancouver had an eight-game points streak (5-0-3) snapped in a 5-2 defeat Thursday in Chicago.

Connor scored on a breakaway at 13:35 of the third period to help clinch the victory. After the Canucks won a

faceoff in the Winnipeg end, Connor stole the puck from Vancouver defenseman Tyler Myers, who spent the previous five seasons with the Jets, at the blue line and raced down the ice before beating Demko with a forehand shot.

The go-ahead goal came at 16:54 of the second after Winnipeg’s Tucker Poolman gained possession of the puck at center ice and fed Connor streaking down the right wing. Connor’s shot was kicked aside by Demko, but Scheifele collected the rebound at the bottom of the faceoff circle on his backhand, shifted the puck to his forehand and slipped a shot inside the right post.

The Canucks’ Miller broke a scoreless tie at 6:53 of the second period. Miller took a pass at the top of the crease from Troy Stecher and redirected the puck past Hellebuyck. Brock Boeser also got an assist on the goal.

The Jets tied it with a power-play goal at 11:54 of the second. Blake Wheeler carried the puck over the blue line and down the center of the ice before shooting the puck wide of the net. Roslovic pounced on a failed clearing attempt near the left faceoff circle, driving to the net before his first shot was stopped by Demko. But Roslovic was able to lift the rebound over the goalie’s left leg pad and into the net. — Reuters