Krejci, Bruins extend Sabres’ winless streak to 13 games
David Krejci had three assists to cross the 700-point threshold and the Boston Bruins beat host Buffalo 4-1 on Thursday night to extend the Sabres’ skid to 13 games.
David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist for the Bruins, Craig Smith, Jake DeBrusk and Greg McKegg also scored, and Jaroslav Halak made 23 saves
Kyle Okposo scored his first career short-handed goal but it was hardly enough for the Sabres in their first game under new coach Don Granato. Buffalo’s 13-game skid (0-11-2) is the second-longest in franchise history and the longest in the NHL since the Sabres lost 14 straight during the 2014-15 season.
The two-game series concludes Saturday in Buffalo, when up to 1,800 fans — 10% of building capacity — will be allowed to attend.
The game was allowed to proceed after both teams canceled their pregame skates due to members entering the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol. Boston forward Sean Kuraly was added to the protocol list, while the Sabres did not disclose which member of their hockey staff had a positive test.
Blue Jackets 3, Hurricanes 2 (OT): Seth Jones scored his second goal with 50.4 seconds remaining in overtime to give Columbusthe win at Carolina. Kevin Stenlund scored in regulation for the Blue Jackets.
Oliver Bjorkstrand assisted on all three goals. Sebastian Aho scored twice for the Hurricanes, who lost their second straight after an eight-game winning streak.
Columbus goalie Joonas Korpisalo stopped 25 shots, including Martin Necas’ attempt off an overtime breakaway.
Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for Carolina in the first of four consecutive meetings between the teams.
Lightning 4, Blackhawks 2: Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves for his 10th consecutive victory, rookie Ross Colton broke a thirdperiod tie with his second career goal and host Tampa Bay beat Chicago. Victor Hedman, Alex Killorn and Yanni Gourde also scored for Tampa Bay.
Dylan Strome and Mattias Janmark had power-play goals for the Blackhawks. They have lost three straight and are 1-5 in their last six games.
Colton gave Tampa Bay the lead at 5:32 of the third period. He raced up ice and took a pass from Mathieu Joseph, skated in alone on Kevin Lankinen, pulled the puck back to his forehand and tucked a shot between the post and the pad.
Hedman added an emptynet goal with 16 seconds.
Devils 3, Penguins 2: Scott Wedgewood made 40 saves, Jack Hughes had a goal and an assist, and the host Devils beat Pittsburgh. P.K. Subban and Travis
Zajac also scored, and the Devils collected their second straight win at home following a losing streak of 11 games (0-10-1) in Newark.
Flyers 4, Islanders 3: Oskar Lindblom scored his second goal of the game with 2:22 left, Carter Hart made 22 saves and Philadelphia recovered after blowing a late, three-goal lead to beat host New York. Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek also scored as Philadelphia beat the Islanders for the third straight time this season.
East
Washington N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia N.Y. Rangers New Jersey Buffalo Central
Tampa Bay Florida Carolina Chicago Columbus Nashville Dallas Detroit West
Vegas Minnesota Colorado
St. Louis Los Angeles Arizona
San Jose Anaheim North
Toronto Winnipeg Edmonton Montreal Vancouver Calgary Ottawa
GP W LOT Pts GF GA
29 19 6 4 42 103 88 31 19 8 4 42 90 71 30 18 11 1 37 96 85 28 16 8 4 36 77 66 28 15 10 3 33 92 99 28 12 12 4 28 85 76 27 10 13 4 24 68 86 29 619 4 16 61 101 GP W LOT Pts GF GA
29 21 6 2 29 19 6 4 29 20 7 2 31 14 12 5 31 12 12 7 30 13 16 1 25 9 9 7 30 917 4 GP W LOT
44 106 69 42 100 83 42 99 75 33 94 102 31 83 101 27 73 98 25 72 68 22 68 99 Pts GF GA
27 20 6 1 41 90 61 27 18 8 1 37 86 64 27 17 8 2 36 86 64 29 14 10 5 33 89 96 28 12 10 6 30 83 79 29 12 13 4 28 70 88 27 11 13 3 25 80 96 30 816 6 22 67 103 GP W LOT Pts GF GA
30 19 9 29 18 9 32 19 13 29 13 8 33 15 16 30 14 13 33 10 20
2 2 0 8 2 3 3
40 102 79 38 97 85 38 110 94 34 93 80 32 92 104 31 83 92 23 87 130
THURSDAY
Nashville 2, Florida 1
Tampa Bay 4, Chicago 2 Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Boston 4, Buffalo 1
Columbus 3, Carolina 2, OT New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 2 Dallas at Detroit, late Minnesota at Colorado, late Winnipeg at Edmonton, late Arizona at Anaheim, late
FRIDAY
Calgary at Toronto, 7
N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 7 Vancouver at Montreal, 7
St. Louis at San Jose, 9
Vegas at Los Angeles, 10
WEDNESDAY
N.Y. Rangers 9, Philadelphia 0 Winnipeg 4, Montreal 3 (OT) Los Angeles 4, St. Louis 1 Edmonton 7, Calgary 3 Vancouver 3, Ottawa 2 (SO) Vegas 5, San Jose 4
Nashville 0 1 1—2 Florida 1 0 0—1
First Period—1, Florida, Huberdeau 11 (Weegar, Hornqvist), 18:38. Penalties— Davies, NSH (Cross Checking), 12:13; Ekblad, FLA (Slashing), 13:08; Huberdeau, FLA (High Sticking), 14:01.
Second Period—2, Nashville, Jarnkrok 8 (Carrier, Ekholm), 7:25. Penalties— Trenin, NSH (Holding), 0:38.
Third Period—3, Nashville, Jarnkrok 9 (Granlund), 1:17. Penalties—Ekholm,
NSH (Interference), 12:13; Yandle, FLA (Holding), 19:41.
Shots on Goal—Nash 12-7-8—27. Fla 13-15-13—41. Power-play opp—Nash 0 of 3; Fla 0 of 3. Goalies—Nash, Saros 6-5-0 (41 shots-40 saves). Fla, Bobrovsky 12-3-2 (27-25). A—4,559 (19,250).
T—2:29.