Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Rantanen scores late in OT, Avalanche beat Oilers 6-5
Mikko Rantanen scored with 21 seconds remaining in overtime, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-5 on Sunday.
Nathan MacKinnon and J.T. Compher each had a goal and an assist, and Artturi Lehkonen, Valeri Nichushkin and Logan O’Connor added goals for Colorado, which won its third straight. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 35 shots.
After the Oilers iced the puck to set up a faceoff in their zone, Rantanen made them pay with his 36th goal of the season.
Edmonton lost its third straight game after regulation and its fourth in a row overall. The Oilers, who haven’t won in Denver since Dec. 11, 2018, have blown threegoal leads in consecutive games and have dropped six straight to the Avalanche.
Warren Foegele scored twice, Mattias Janmark had a goal and an assist and Tyson Barrie and Leon Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers. Jack Campbell had 36 saves. DEVILS 4, JETS 2 >> Fabian Zetterlund and Miles Wood scored in a twominute
span of the third period and Mackenzie Blackwood made 23 saves as New Jersey rallied past Winnipeg.
The Jets led 2-1 heading into the third period on the strength of firstperiod goals by Cole Perfetti and Neal Pionk. The Devils rallied with three goals in the third and extended their home winning streak to six games.
Dawson Mercer scored twice for the Devils, including an empty-netter.
Mark Scheifele had two assists for the Jets, who had won six straight games at Prudential Center and hadn’t lost in regulation in Newark since 2012.
Tkachuk had three-point games to lead Ottawa past St. Louis.
Stutzle had two goals and an assist and extended his point streak to four games (four goals, six assists). Tkachuk extended his career-best point streak to seven games (5 goals, 6 assists) with a goal and two assists.
Shane Pinto, Alex DeBrincat, Drake Batherson and Ridley Greig also scored for Ottawa. Mads Sogaard made 30 saves.
Colton Parayko and Tyler Pitlick scored for the Blues, who were coming off a 4-1 loss to Colorado WILD 4, PREDATORS 3 >> on Saturday. Thomas Greiss Ryan Hartman scored on stopped 27 shots. a rebound to put Minnesota BLACKHAWKS 5, MAPLE ahead with 21 seconds LEAFS 3 >> Patrick Kane left, just 26 seconds had his ninth career regular-season after Nino Niederreiter hat trick and tied the game for Nashville. rookie Cole Guttman scored the winner as Chicago
Kirill Kaprizov scored topped Toronto and twice and Brandon Duhaime climbed out of last place added a goal for in the NHL. Minnesota, which won Max Domi had a goal in regulation for the first and three assists for the time in 13 games since Blackhawks, who won Jan. 17. their second straight
Tommy Novak and Roman following a three-game Josi scored for Nashville losing streak .The Maple and assisted on Niederreiter’s Leafs had won two goal. Filip Gustavsson, straight. Jaxson Stauber who stopped 23 made 31 saves. shots, is 9-1-1 in his last Mitch Marner, John 11 home starts. Tavares and Noel Acciari SENATORS 7, BLUES 2 >> scored for Toronto. Ilya
Samsonov made 23 stops.