NHL results | Friday
Flames 4, Jets 0 (Thursday) Calgary wins series 3-1
EDMONTON, Alberta — Sean Monahan and Sam Bennett each scored a goal and an assist, and the Calgary Flames beat the Winnipeg Jets in Game 4 on Thursday night to win their qualifying round series.
Dillon Dube and Rasmus Andersson also scored for the Flames, and Cam Talbot made 31 saves for the shutout.
Connor Hellebuyck stopped 30 shots for the Jets.
Calgary outscored Winnipeg 16-6 while winning three of the four games. It was a series the Jets were chasing from the get-go, when they lost elite scorers Patrik Laine and Mark Scheifele to injury in Game 1. Two other top point-getters Blake Wheeler and Kyle Connor failed to step up to fill the void.
Islanders 5, Panthers 1 New York wins series 3-1
TORONTO — Anthony Beauvillier scored twice, and the New York Islanders beat the Florida Panthers to clinch an NHL best-of-five preliminary round playoff series in four games on Friday.
Brock Nelson and Mathew Barzal had a goal and assist each in a game the Islanders never trailed. Defenseman Ryan Pulock made a diving stick save to prevent Florida’s Aleksander Barkov from scoring into an open side to maintain New York’s 3-1 lead midway through the second period.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 24 shots, Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored an empty-netter, and the Eastern Conference’s seventh-seeded Islanders bounced back from a 3-2 loss in Game 3 on Wednesday. New York will open the best-ofseven first-round series against a yet to be determined opponent next week.
Coyotes 4, Predators 3 Arizona wins series 3-1
EDMONTON, Alberta — Brad Richardson scored on a rebound in overtime, Darcy Kuemper stopped 49 shots and Arizona advanced in the postseason for the first time in eight years.
The Coyotes, the Western Conference’s No. 11 seed, took a 2-0 lead early in the second period. But they allowed Nashville to tie it before going ahead 3-2 on Jordan Oesterle’s goal early in the third. Nashville pulled goalie Juuse Saros late in the period and Filip Forsberg tied it with 32 seconds left.
Richardson won it after he redirected Vinnie Hinostroz’s shot and punched in the rebound past Saros to help the Coyotes win the Stanley Cup qualifier series 3-1.
Canadiens 2, Penguins 0 Montreal wins series 3-1
TORONTO — Artturi Lehkonen flipped a shot past Tristan Jarry with 4:11 remaining to lift Montreal to a stunning victory and clinching the Canadiens’ first playoff berth in three years.
Shea Weber added an emptynet goal in the final seconds as the 12th-seeded Canadiens captured the best-of-five qualifying round over fifth-seeded Pittsburgh in four games. Carey Price stopped 22 shots to collect his sixth career playoff shutout. Montreal will advance to the first round of the playoffs against either Tampa Bay or Philadelphia.
Blackhawks 3, Oilers 2 Chicago wins series 3-1
Edmonton, Alberta — Brandon Saad, Matthew Highmore and Dominik Kubalik scored and the Chicago Blackhawks beat Edmonton, knocking the Oilers out of the postseason tournament.
The Blackhawks won the bestof-five qualifying series 3-1. Chicago advances to the round of 16.
Josh Archibald and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for Edmonton.
Columbus vs. Toronto, late Vancouver vs. Minnesota, late