Nugent-Hopkins leads Oilers to win over Jets
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had two goals and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers beat the visiting Winnipeg Jets 6-3 Friday night for their second straight win.
Leon Draisaitl and Kailer Yamamoto each had two goals and an assist, and Connor McDavid had three assists for his sixth straight multi point game for Edmonton. Stuart Skinner finished with 25 saves for his second straight win to improve to 1713-4 this season.
McDavid has 10 goals and nine assists in the last six games, and 24 points during a nine-game point streak. HURRICANES 6, COYOTES 1 >> Sebastian Aho scored twice, Shayne Gostisbehere had a power-play goal against his former team and Carolina crushed host Arizona.
Paul Stastny, Jaccob Slavin and Martin Necas also scored for Carolina. Brent Burns had four assists and Necas and Andrei Svechnikov tallied two each. Antti Ranta had 17 saves as the Hurricanes got their 40th win of the season to give them 88 points and keep their narrow lead over New Jersey in the Metropolitan Division.
Alex Wennberg and Jared McCann each had a goal and an assist, and Seattle won at Columbus for its third straight road win and a season series sweep.
The Coyotes traded Nick Ritchie, a former Duck, and defenseman Troy Stecher to the Flames just before the deadline Friday for Brett Ritchie and minor-leaguer Connor Mackey. According to NHL stats, it's the first brotherfor-brother trade in league history.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
PACIFIC DIVISION
Vegas Kings Seattle Edmonton Calgary Vancouver Ducks
San Jose
CENTRAL DIVISION
Dallas Minnesota Colorado Winnipeg Nashville St. Louis Arizona Chicago
GP W
62 63 62 63 62 61 63 62
GP W
62 62 59 62 59 61 62 61 37 35 35 34 27 24 21 18 33 35 34 35 30 27 21 21
L OT Pts GF GA
19 20 21 21 22 32 34 32 6 8 6 8 13 5 8 12 80 199 174 78 214 213 76 217 198 76 243 210 67 197 194 53 206 245 50 161 257 48 183 232
L OT Pts GF GA
16 21 20 25 23 29 32 35 13 6 5 2 6 5 9 5
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Boston Toronto Tampa Bay Buffalo Ottawa Florida Detroit Montreal
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
Carolina
New Jersey N.Y. Rangers Pittsburgh N.Y. Islanders Washington Philadelphia Columbus
GP W
61 48 8 62 38 16 61 37 19 60 31 25 61 31 26 63 30 27 61 28 24 62 26 32
GP W
60 61 62 61 64 63 62 62
Friday's results
L OT Pts GF GA
Ducks 3, Montreal 2 Seattle 4, Columbus 2 Edmonton 6, Winnipeg 3 Carolina 6, Arizona 1 Vegas 4, New Jersey 3, SO
Today's games
Detroit at N.Y. Islanders, 9:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 9:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 10 a.m. Colorado at Dallas, 12:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Florida, 3 p.m. Washington at San Jose, 3 p.m. Columbus at Ottawa, 4 p.m. Edmonton at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Toronto at Vancouver, 4 p.m. Nashville at Chicago, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Calgary, 7 p.m.
St. Louis at Kings, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday's games
40 40 35 31 31 30 23 20 79 204 163 76 179 168 73 190 164 72 191 171 66 172 175 59 189 223 51 167 222 47 152 222
L OT Pts GF GA
12 15 18 21 25 27 28 36 5 101 233 130 8 84 211 164 5 79 217 185 4 66 224 215 4 66 194 191 6 66 215 216 9 65 186 201 4 56 170 221 8 6 9 9 8 6 11 6
Tampa Bay at Carolina, noon Detroit at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Montreal at Vegas, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Arizona, 4 p.m. Seattle at Colorado, 6 p.m. 88 206 155 86 218 166 79 207 175 71 200 195 70 184 176 66 191 189 57 163 205 46 161 229