Avalanche, Sabres stay sizzling hot
Nadem Kadri and Matt Calvert each scored twice, PierreEdouard Bellemare had a goal and two assists against his former team and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Golden Knights 61 on Friday in Las Vegas.
“Everything went my way, the puck was like a magnet,” Bellemare said. “It felt like it just stayed with me. I tried stuff that I’ve probably never tried before and I fired, and it was in the net. And I’m like, ‘What the heck just happened?’ It was a good game for me.”
Cale Makar also scored and Phillip Grubauer made 25 saves to help the Avalanche improve to 811.
William Karlsson scored for Vegas in the matinee game on Nevada Day. Sabres 2, Red Wings 0: Linus Ullmark made 41 saves, Sam Reinhart scored his fifth goal and Buffalo beat Detroit to improve to 9-2-1. Reinhart also assisted on Jake McCabe’s first goal of the season, and Jack Eichel had two assists. Jimmy Howard stopped 23 shots for Detroit. The Red Wings have lost seven in a row. Capitals 6, Canucks 5: Evgeny Kuznetsov scored two goals, sparking a comeback from a 5-1 deficit with a buzzer-beater to end the second period, and Washington won in Vancouver in a shootout. Michal Kempny also scored two goals, but the Capitals’ John Carlson saw his point streak end at 10 games. Islanders 4, Senators 2: Nick Leddy scored his second goal of the first period on a penalty shot and visiting New York beat Ottawa for its sixth straight victory. Matt Martin and Derick Brassard also scored and Thomas Greiss made 30 saves to help the Islanders improve to 6-3-0 and drop the Senators to 2-6-1. Tyler Ennis scored twice for Ottawa. Coyotes 5, Devils 3: Barrett Hayton scored his first NHL goal early in the third period, Antti Raanta made 32 saves and Arizona overcame two deficits to beat Jack Hughes and host New Jersey. Nick Schmaltz, Michael Grabner, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Clayton Keller also scored to help the Coyotes win for the fifth time in six games. Hughes, the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft, scored once and set up goals by Sami Vatanen and Pavel Zacha.