Kane, Crawford lead Blackhawks to win over Blue Jackets

COLUMBUS, OHIO >> Patrick Kane had two goals and an assist, Corey Crawford stopped 37 shots to get his first win in nearly 10 months, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 Saturday night.

Alex DeBrincat and Marcus Kruger also scored for Chicago, which earned a point for the sixth time in seven games (4-1-2).

Crawford was playing his second game since a concussion suffered in a win at New Jersey last Dec. 23.

Zach Werenski scored for Columbus and Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 22 saves.

BLUES 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1 >> Ryan O’Reilly scored his first goal with St. Louis, and Jake Allen made 22 saves as the Blues beat Toronto.

Robert Bortuzzo, Zach Sanford and Ivan Barbashev also scored, and David Perron added two assists for St. Louis, which picked up its second victory in seven games this season. RED WINGS 4, PANTHERS 3 >> Gustav Nyquist scored 3:44 into overtime to lift Detroit to its first win of the season, over Florida.

Dennis Cholowski had a goal and an assist, and Thomas Vanek and Dylan Larkin also scored for the Red Wings, who were 0-5-2 in their first seven games.

SABRES 5, KINGS 1 >> Jeff Skinner scored three goals for his fifth career hat trick and Buffalo’s reconfigured top line keyed a win over Los Angeles.

Jason Pominville had a goal and two assists for his 700th career point, and Jack Eichel added three assists after Sabres coach Phil Housley shuffled his lines in an effort to revive an offense that was held to one goal in three of the past four games.

AVALANCHE 3, HURRICANES 1 >> Gabriel Landeskog scored twice to give him six goals in three games, Nathan MacKinnon added a goal and two assists and Colorado beat Carolina. JETS 5, COYOTES 3>> Three Jets cored their first goals of the season, defenseman Jacob Trouba had three assists and Winnipeg beat Arizona.