Pens prevail as Malkin scores twice
ANAHEIM: Evgeni Malkin produced two goals and an assist in his season debut and Jeff Carter added two scores as the Pittsburgh Penguins earned a 4-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL on Tuesday.
Kasperi Kapanen had two assists and Tristan Jarry made 25 saves for the Penguins, who earned the victory one game after their 10-game winning streak ended with a 3-2 road defeat to the Dallas Stars on Saturday.
Malkin, who has been out since surgery in June to repair the ACL and MCL in his right knee, found the net twice in the second period, scoring in a regular-season game for the first time since March 15 against the Boston Bruins.
Jakob Silfverberg had a goal for the Ducks to end a 30-game scoring drought. Goalie Anthony Stolarz stopped 30 shots in place of John Gibson, who is in Covid-19 protocol.
At Nashville, Matt Duchene scored a power-play goal 3:01 into overtime as the Predators beat Colorado 5-4.
Duchene and Luke Kunin finished with two goals each, Tanner Jeannot also scored and Roman Josi had three assists for Nashville. Juuse Saros stopped 40 shots to help the Predators win their fifth straight.
Cale Makar tallied a goal and two assists, Nicolas Aube-Kubel added a goal and an assist and Andre Burakovsky and Nathan MacKinnon also scored for the Avalanche.
At Las Vegas, William Nylander scored in the third round of a shootout to give Toronto a 4-3 victory over the Golden Knights.
Nylander, who also scored the first goal of the game, fired a forehand shot over the glove of Vegas goaltender Robin Lehner to win it.
Auston Matthews and Ilya Mikheyev also scored goals for Toronto while Campbell finished with 31 saves to improve to 18-5-3 on the season. Toronto improved to 5-0-1 in their past six games.
Alex Pietrangelo, William Karlsson and Keegan Kolesar scored for Vegas, who lost for the fourth time in their last five games (0-2-2).