Kings win their seventh straight against shorthanded Senators
Jonathan Quick made 34 saves and the Los Angeles Kings beat the shorthanded Ottawa Senators 2-0 on Thursday night to extend their winning streak to seven games.
Ottawa has nine players and an assistant coach in the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. On Thursday, goalie Matt Murray, defenseman Nikita Zaitsev and winger Alex Formenton were placed in the protocol. They joined defensemen Josh Brown, Victor Mete and Nick Holden, as well as forwards Austin Watson, Connor Brown and Dylan Gambrell, and associate coach Jack Capuano.
Anze Kopitar and Andreas Athanasiou scored for the Kings. They improved to 8-5-1.
Filip Gustavsson stopped 32 shots for Ottawa. The Senators have lost six straight games at home and are 0-5-1 overall in their last six.
The undermanned Senators also lost defenseman Artem Zub to an upper-body injury midway through the first period. Defenseman Lassi Thompson made his NHL debut for Ottawa and Dilon Heatherington and forward Andrew Agozzino also were recalled from Belleville of the American Hockey League.
Kopitar opened the scoring on a power play with 4:32 left in the second. Athanasiou made it 2-0 with just over three minutes remaining, tipping a point shot.
OILERS 5, BRUINS 3 » Leon Draisaitl had two goals and an assist, moving ahead of teammate Connor McDavid into the NHL scoring lead and leading Edmonton to the victory. Evan Bouchard, Zach Hyman and Cody Ceci also scored, and Mikko Koskinen stopped 26 shots for Edmonton.
McDavid had one assist to extend his scoring streak to 12 games to start the season. After entering the game tied for the NHL lead with 23 points, McDavid fell behind Draisaitl, who has a league-leading 12 goals to go with his 14 assists.
DEVILS 4, ISLANDERS 0 » Mackenzie Blackwood made a season-high 42 saves for his seventh career shutout to help New Jersey beat New York. Janne Kuokkanen scored a shorthanded goal, Tomas Tatar had a power-play goal and Dawson Mercer and Dougie Hamilton each had one at even strength. New Jersey has won three in a row to improve 4-1-2 in its last seven games.
CANADIENS 4, FLAMES 2 » Nick Suzuki broke a thirdperiod tie with a powerplay goal and Montreal beat Calgary. Suzuki fooled goalie Jacob Markstrom by shooting from behind the net. The puck hit the goalie’s skate and crossed the line for Suzuki’s fourth goal in five games.
Jake Evans, Brendan Gallagher and Ben Chiarot also scored for the Canadiens, and Jake Allen made 24 saves. Mikael Backlund and Andrew Mangiapane had first-period goals for the Flames in the opener of a six-game trip. CAPITALS 2, RED WINGS 0 » Zach Fucale became the first goaltender in Washington history to post a shutout in his NHL debut, stopping 21 shots as the Capitals beat Detroit. Dmitry Orlov and Lars Eller scored 10 seconds apart in the first period as the Capitals ended Detroit’s threegame win streak.
The 26-year-old Fucale was picked by Montreal in the second round of the 2013 draft. He was 3-0-2 this season for Hershey before the Capitals called him up this week from the American Hockey League.
Fucale was the first goaltender to shut out the Red Wings in his NHL debut in Detroit’s 95 seasons.
Alex Ovechkin had an assist on the first goal for the Capitals, who opened a stretch of seven games in 11 days.
Orlov’s second goal of the season came off a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov at 12:43.
Eller scored his first goal after a takeaway from Nick Jensen.