Vegas’ Lagace makes 24 saves for 1st NHL win
Maxime Lagace made 24 saves for his first NHL victory and the Vegas Golden Knights had three power-play goals in a 5-4 win over the Senators on Saturday in Ottawa.
Erik Haula had two goals and an assist, Alex Tuch, William Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault also scored, and Marchessault added two assists. Expansion Vegas snapped a three game-losing streak to improve to 9-4-0.
Lagace lost his first three games with the Golden Knights. He was 2-2-0 in four games this season for the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League.
Mark Stone, Alex Burrows, Ryan Dzingel and Erik Karlsson scored for Ottawa, and Craig Anderson stopped 29 shots. The Senators will leave Monday for Sweden for two games against the Colorado Avalanche.
Marchessault gave Vegas a 3-2 lead on a power player with 7:21 left in the second.
William Karlsson scored on a wraparound to make it 4-2 at 3:29 of the third, and Haula had a power-play goal at 6:47. Dzingel’s fifth of the season for Ottawa made it 5-3 at 7:52, and Erik Karlsson scored his first of the season in the final minute of play.
Blues 6, Maple Leafs 4: Alex Pietrangelo scored twice, Jaden Schwartz and Brayden Schenn each had three assists, and host St. Louis defeated Toronto . Canadiens 5, Jets 4: Max Pacioretty scored a power-play goal at 3:07 of overtime to lead visiting Montreal past Winnipeg . Capitals 3, Bruins 2: Tom Wilson posted his first two goals of the season, Alex Ovechkin also scored and visiting Washington continued its recent success against Boston . Lightning 5, Blue Jackets 4: Steven Stamkos had a powerplay goal in regulation and the lone goal during the shootout, helping host Tampa Bay beat Columbus.
Rangers 5, Panthers 4: Kevin Shattenkirk scored twice, including the winner in overtime, to lift host New York over Florida . Rick Nash, Michael Grabner and Nick Holden also scored for the Rangers, who won their third straight.
Avalanche 5, Flyers 4: Mikko Rantanen scored the winner in the shootout, and visiting Colorado kicked off its road trip by beating Philadelphia . In the third round, Ranatanen made a nifty move and fired a shot past the sprawled-out Michal Neuvirth to give the Avalanche their third straight win. Stars 5, Sabres 1: Tyler Seguin scored his fifth power-play goal of the season in host
Dallas’ four-goal first period, and the Stars beat Buffalo. Blackhawks 2, Wild 0: Artem Anisimov scored a power-play goal with 5:42 left in the third period, and visiting Chicago beat Minnesota . Coyotes 2, Hurricanes 1, Rookie Clayton Keller scored in regulation and the shootout, helping Antti Raanta and host Arizona beat Carolina. Raanta had 35 saves in Arizona’s second win of the season. Canucks 4, Penguins 2: Rookie Brock Boeser had three goals and an assist, leading Vancouver past visiting Pittsburgh . Predators 4, Kings 3: Viktor Arvidsson scored on a breakaway at 4:40 of overtime, lifting Nashville over Los Angeles. The Kings forced overtime with three goals in the third period.
Olympics: The Kontinental Hockey League may withdraw its players from the Pyeongchang Olympics in protest at doping investigations into Russian athletes, the league president suggested. The Moscow-based KHL, widely considered the strongest league outside the NHL, contains leading Russians but also many players who could represent the United States, Canada, and various European nations. In a statement, KHL president Dmitry Chernyshenko said the International Olympic Committee “is destroying the existing world order in sports” by pursuing doping cases against Russians in other sports who are suspected of using banned substances around the time of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.