Avs defeat Leafs, win 10th in a row

Blake Comeau scored the go-ahead goal with 7:43 left and the Colorado Avalanche beat the host Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 on Monday night to extend its winning streak to 10 games.

Comeau beat a backchecking Auston Matthews to the net and redirected Carl Soderberg’s feed past goalie Frederik Andersen to put Colorado ahead 3-2. Gabriel Landeskog added an empty-net goal in the final minute to seal it.

Gabriel Bourque and Nail Yakupov also scored for the surprising Avalanche (2716-3), which has surged into a crowded race for the two Western Conference wild cards. Jonathan Bernier made 29 saves for his ninth straight win in place of injured Semyon Varlamov.

Matthews and Patrick Marleau scored for the Maple Leafs (26-18-5). Andersen stopped 23 shots in defeat.

Colorado began its winning streak with a 4-3 overtime victory on Dec. 29 at home against Toronto.

Bourque opened the scoring 2:19 into the game, banging in the rebound of a shot by Tyson Jost that Andersen took in the chest and couldn’t corral.

Marleau tied it 19 seconds into the second, firing a one-timer from the top of the faceoff circle over Bernier’s glove on a setup from Leo Komarov.

SABRES 2, FLAMES 1 >> Jack Eichel scored 1:30 into overtime to give Buffalo its first win at Calgary in more than 14 years. Eichel one-timed a pass from Rasmus Ristolainen for his 19th of the season, putting it past Mike Smith to extend his point streak to six games (four goals, six assists). COYOTES 3, ISLANDERS 2 >> Nick Cousins scored his second goal of the game 2:21 into overtime to lift Arizona over New York. Cousins added an assist and the Coyotes ran their points streak to five games, a season high. Arizona has points from seven of eight games, with six of those going to overtime.

RED WINGS 3, DEVILS 0 >> Petr Mrazek had 37 saves in posting his second straight shutout and third of the season as visiting Detroit played one of its best games of the season in beating slumping New Jersey.

Mrazek has stopped 64 shots in shutting out the Blackhawks and Devils in his last two starts. He now has three shutouts in 14 games with a 5-5-1 record. LIGHTNING 2, BLACKHAWKS 0 >> Andrei Vasilevskiy made 40 saves in his NHL-best seventh shutout, Chris Kunitz scored a shorthanded goal in the second period and Tampa Bay beat Chicago.

Yanni Gourde also scored as Tampa Bay stopped a season-high three-game slide and leapfrogged idle Vegas for the best record in the NHL.

WILD 3, SENATORS 1 >> Jason Zucker scored for the fourth straight game and Alex Stalock made 37 saves to help Minnesota beat Ottawa.

Zach Parise and Mikael Granlund also scored for Minnesota, which is 4-0-2 in the past six games.