Edmonton shut out Flames
EDMONTON: Connor McDavid scored the game’s lone goal midway through the first period and Mikko Koskinen collected a 24-save shutout as the Oilers held on for a 1-0 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday.
Edmonton have won three straight games, and posted a 7-2-1 record since Ken Hitchcock took over as head coach on Nov 20, to pull themselves to within striking distance of the play-off picture.
Koskinen has won all six starts on home ice this season, three of them with shutouts.
McDavid’s winning goal came at 12:18 of the first period by finishing a pretty tictac-toe passing play.
At the other end, Flames goalie David Rittich stopped 29 shots in the loss that snaps his team’s five-game winning streak.
McDavid started the odd-man rush up the ice before moving the puck to Leon Draisaitl, who put it over to Alex Chiasson.
Chiasson sent a cross-ice pass that McDavid one-timed for the tally, his 11th goal in 14 career games against Calgary.
At Anaheim, Daniel Sprong and Ryan Getzlaf scored in the shoot-out as the Ducks outlasted New Jersey 6-5 in a wild game that started fast as the two teams combined for six goals, three apiece, in the first 14 minutes of the first period.
The goals by Sprong and Getzlaf were the only tallies in the shoot-out, which came after 65 minutes in which there were three lead changes and five ties.
At Las Vegas, Marc-Andre Fleury had 22 saves topick up his league-leading 17th victory of the season to help lead the Golden Knights over Dallas 4-2.
William Karlsson, Reilly Smith, Alex Tuch and Ryan Carpenter each scored goals for Vegas.
The Golden Knights improved to 8-2 in their last 10 games and won their fifth straight home contest.