Bruins win fourth straight by edging Penguins
BOSTON — Matt Grzelcyk scored his first career goal, David Krejci had a goal and an assist and the Boston Bruins stretched their seasonlong winning streak to four straight in a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.
David Pastrnak’s goal on a breakaway 5:06 into the third broke a 3-all tie and Anton Khudobin shut out the Penguins the rest of the way to win his fourth straight start. Khudobin finished with 17 saves for Boston, which outshot Pittsburgh 33-20 and has its longest winning streak of the season. Charlie Coyle and Chris Stewart scored in the shootout to give Minnesota a victory over Colorado at home. Jason Zucker and Nino Niederreiter scored in regulation for Minnesota.
Nikolaj Ehlers scored two goals in the game’s first 5 minutes, and streaking Winnipeg beat Anaheim on the road. The Jets have won six of their last seven. Bryan Little also had a goal and two assists for Winnipeg. Defenseman Nick Leddy snapped a shot past Philadelphia goalie Brian Elliott 2:44 into overtime to give New York a road victory. Mathew Barzal, Cal Clutterbuck, Jordan Eberle and Andrew Ladd scored in regulation for the Islanders. Alex Ovechkin and Devante Smith-Pelly each scored a goal, Philipp Grubauer stopped 25 shots for his first victory of the season and Washington beat Tampa Bay at home to end the Lightning’s six-game road winning streak. Ovechkin’s second goal in two games and 15th overall followed a six-game drought.
Jonathan Marchessault took a pass from Shea Theodore and poked the game-winning goal past Aaron Dell to give Vegas Golden an overtime victory over San Jose at home. William Karlsson scored two goals for Vegas.
Brian Boyle scored to help New Jersey beat Vancouver at home. Taylor Hall had a goal and two assists for the Devils.
Robin Lehner stopped 29 shots and Buffalo snapped a seven-game skid with a home win over Edmonton. Jack Eichel, Jacob Josefson and Kyle Okposo, with an empty-netter, scored for Buffalo.
Mats Zuccarello scored 37 seconds into overtime to give New York Rangers a home victory over Detroit Red Wings. Chris Kreider also scored for the Rangers, and Henrik Lundqvist made 41 saves.
James Van Riemsdyk had a goal and an assist to help Toronto beat Carolina on the road. Ryan Johansen had a goal and an assist, and Pekka Rinne earned his second shutout of the season as Nashville beat St. Louis on the road.