Bruins down Canucks in battle of NHL's best
Brad Marchand and Danton Heinen scored shorthanded in the first period, and the host Boston Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 on Thursday night in a matchup of the NHL's top two teams.
Linus Ullmark stopped 17 shots for his first shutout of the season. Morgan Geekie and Pavel Zacha also scored, and Charlie Coyle set up both short-handed goals.
It was the eighth victory in 10 games for Boston, which tied Vancouver atop the league standings with 73 points.
Jacob Markstrom made 37 saves, Connor Zary and Andrew Mangiapane each had a goal and an assist and visiting Calgary defeated the New Jersey for its third straight win. Mikael Baklund, Kevin Rooney, Andrei Kuzmenko and Andrew Mangiapane also scored for the Flames. Ondrej Palat scored twice for the Devils.
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Ryan Lomberg scored the game-winning goal with 6:52 to go, Matthew Tkachuk had three points and host Florida defeated Washington for its fifth win in six games.
Alex Ovechkin got the 833rd goal of his career and Anthony Mantha also scored for the Capitals.
Travis Konecny had a goal, an assist and a fight in the first period — known as a “Gordie Howe hat trick” — to
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lead host Philadelphia over slumping Winnipeg. Morgan Frost added a goal and an assist and Ryan Poehling and Tyson Foerster also scored for the Flyers.
Kyle Connor scored for the Jets, who have dropped five straight.
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Martin Necas scored a natural hat trick in the first 17 minutes, the first threegoal game of his career and host Carolina beat Colorado. The Hurricanes led 3-0 with 3:09 remaining in the first period thanks to Necas.
Zach Parise and Samuel Girard scored in a sevensecond span in the final minute of the first period for the Avalanche.
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Mathew Barzal and Bo Horvat each had a goal and an assist in host New York's victory over Tampa Bay. Nikita Kucherov and Brandon Hagel scored for the Lightning, who announced that defenseman Mikhail Sergachev will be sidelined indefinitely after undergoing surgery Thursday to stabilize fractures to both the tibia and fibula in his left leg.
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Jonathan Marchessault scored 19 seconds into the game, Adin Hill made 20 saves and visiting Vegas beat Arizona. Marchessault, Nicolas Hague and Chandler Stephenson had goals in the first 6:17 for the Golden Knights, who have won seven of nine. Jason Zucker and Clayton Keller scored for the Coyotes.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
PACIFIC DIVISION
Vancouver Vegas Edmonton Kings Calgary Seattle Ducks
San Jose
Dallas Colorado Winnipeg St. Louis Nashville Arizona Minnesota Chicago
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Boston Florida Toronto Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Buffalo Ottawa
N.Y. Rangers Carolina Philadelphia N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh New Jersey Washington Columbus
GP W
51 52 46 48 51 50 50 51
CENTRAL DIVISION
51 52 49 49 51 49 50 51
GP W
51 51 49 52 50 50 50 47 51 50 52 51 47 49 49 50
Thursday's results
Today's games
Saturday's games
34 31 29 23 24 21 18 14
GP W
31 32 30 26 26 23 22 14 32 32 26 27 26 21 22 20
GP W
32 29 27 22 23 25 22 16
L OT Pts GF GA
12 15 16 15 22 19 30 32
L OT Pts GF GA
14 16 14 21 23 23 23 35
L OT Pts GF GA
10 15 15 20 18 21 24 25
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
16 16 19 17 17 21 20 24 5 6 1 10 5 10 2 5 6 4 5 2 2 3 5 2 9 4 8 5 6 8 4 2 3 5 6 12 7 3 7 10
Philadelphia 4, Winnipeg 1 Boston 4, Vancouver 0 Florida 4, Washington 2 Calgary 5, New Jersey 3 Carolina 5, Colorado 2
N.Y. Islanders 6, Tampa Bay 2 Vegas 3, Arizona 2 73 189 133 68 169 141 59 161 127 56 152 132 53 158 159 52 140 147 38 129 170 33 107 199 68 189 157 68 196 165 65 149 116 54 141 153 54 153 160 49 145 150 49 151 167 30 106 179 73 178 132 68 163 131 60 173 157 59 178 173 58 176 161 50 141 177 48 147 157 42 158 170
L OT Pts GF GA
67 166 144 63 170 149 60 153 150 56 152 170 53 141 126 53 169 176 51 119 155 42 148 184
Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 5 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Edmonton at Ducks, 7 p.m.
Calgary at N.Y. Islanders, 10 a.m. Dallas at Montreal, 10 a.m.
St. Louis at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Vancouver at Detroit, 10 a.m. Washington at Boston, 12:30 p.m. Colorado at Florida, 3 p.m.
New Jersey at Carolina, 4 p.m. Pittsburgh at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Seattle at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Tampa Bay at Columbus, 4 p.m. Toronto at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
Arizona at Nashville, 5 p.m. Edmonton at Kings, 7 p.m.