Laine scores five times, Jets soar past the Blues
ST. LOUIS >> Patrik Laine scored five goals Saturday in the Winnipeg Jets’ 8-4 victory at St. Louis, two short of a 97-year-old NHL record.
It was the 61st five-goal game in league history. Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs was the last player to score six goals in a game, on April 22, 1976, against Boston.
Brandon Tanev, Blake Wheeler, and Jack Roslovic also scored for the Jets, who snapped their first twogame losing streak of the season.
Laine’s five-goal outburst gives him a league-leading
16 goals in 10 November games.
Joe Malone, who played in the early days of the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens, scored seven goals in a game with the Quebec Bulldogs in Jan.
1920. He also had a sixgoal game and three fivegoal games.
CAPITALS 5, RANGERS 3 >> Brett Connolly scored the tiebreaking goal with 6:24 left in the third period, and Washington won its seasonhigh fifth straight game.
Alex Ovechkin, Nic Dowd, Jakub Vrana and Tom Wilson also scored for defending Stanley Cup champion Washington, and John Carlson had three assists. Pheonix Copley, starting in place of Braden Holtby, stopped 27 shots. BLACKHAWKS 5, PANTHERS 4>> Former Flyer Erik Gustafsson scored 2:32 into overtime to give Chicago the win.
Gustafsson wristed in his third goal of the season to beat Florida goalie James Reimer, snapping Chicago’s two-game overall losing streak and eightgame road skid.
Alex DeBrincat tied it with two seconds left in regulation and David Kampf, Patrick Kane and Alexandre Fortin also tallied for the Blackhawks. SABRES 3, RED WINGS 2 >> Sam Reinhart and Tage Thompson scored in a seven-round shootout to give Buffalo its ninth consecutive victory.
Jeff Skinner and Thompson scored for the Sabres in regulation, and Linus Ullmark made 35 saves.
Dylan Larkin, Anthony Mantha scored for Detroit, and Jimmy Howard stopped 33 shots. Andreas Athanasiou scored in the shootout for the Red Wings. BRUINS 3, CANADIENS 2 >> John Moore scored a power-play goal with 2:57 left and Boston beat host Montreal.
David Backes and Jake DeBrusk also scored to help the Bruins win for third time in four games. Tuukka Rask made 32 saves, and David Krejci had two assists.
Jonathan Drouin and Tomas Tatar scored in the third period for the Habs, and Carey Price stopped 32 shots. The Canadiens have lost four straight. PENGUINS 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 >> Jake Guentzel scored his first career regular-season hat trick to send Pittsburgh past Columbus.
Tanner Pearson also scored for the Penguins, who have won two of their last three after losing nine of their previous 10. Kris Letang had three assists and Sidney Crosby two. Phil Kessel continued an eightgame point streak for Pittsburgh and Evgeni Malkin has a seven-game run.
Casey DeSmith made 37 saves for Pittsburgh. ISLANDERS 4, HURRICANES
1>> Thomas Greiss made
26 saves, and Valtteri Filppula, Anthony Beauvillier, Josh Bailey and Adam Pelech scored for New York.
Brock Nelson, Anders Lee and Bailey finished with multipoint games. It was the sixth multipoint game of the season for Bailey.
Justin Williams scored for the Hurricanes.