Tuch’s shootout goal gives Vegas win at Tampa Bay
TAMPA BAY: Alex Tuch scored in the third round of the shootout as the visiting Vegas Golden Knights rallied from a 2-0 deficit to snap a franchise-record four-game regular-season losing streak with a 3-2 shootout victory at Tampa Bay on Tuesday night. Tuch circled in from the right side and then deked Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy and beat him with a forehand shot just inside the right post for the game-winner. Cody Eakin and Valentin Zykov each scored goals for Vegas. MarcAndre Fleury finished with 24 saves and also stopped a Brayden Point shootout attempt to pick up his league-leading 28th victory. Point and Mathieu Joseph scored goals and Steven Stamkos had two assists for Tampa Bay, which had a twogame winning streak snapped. Vasilevskiy finished with 35 saves, including a highlight-reel, no-stick diving block of a Max Pacioretty shot late in the third period to get the game into overtime.
BRUINS 3, ISLANDERS 1
Patrice Bergeron, playing in his 1,000th NHL game, scored the first and last goals for the Boston, which fended off visiting New York. Peter Cehlarik scored the game-winning goal early in the third period for the Bruins, who have won two straight following a three-game losing streak. Goalie Tuukka Rask made 28 saves. Jordan Eberle scored for the Islanders, who had their eight-game points streak snapped. Goalie Robin Lehner recorded 24 saves.
BLACKHAWKS 6, OILERS 2
Patrick Kane and Dominik Kahun each had a goal and an assist, and Chicago scored five goals in the third period to rally for a win at Edmonton. Erik Gustafsson, John Hayden, Dylan Strome and Drake Caggiula also scored for the Blackhawks. Chicago has won five games in a row, which is its best streak of the season. Leon Draisaitl scored twice in a losing effort for Edmonton, which is winless in its past six. Connor McDavid collected a pair of assists for the Oilers.
BLUE JACKETS 6, AVALANCHE 3
Pierre Luc-Dubois had two goals, Josh Anderson and Alexander Wennberg scored 1:42 apart midway through the third period and Columbus downed Colorado at Denver. Wennberg also had an assist, and Oliver Bjorkstrand and Cam Atkinson also scored for Columbus. Sergei Bobrovsky had 27 saves for the Blue Jackets. Nikita Zadorov, Samuel Girard and Erik Johnson had goals, and Philipp Grubauer stopped 31 shots for Colorado, which has lost four in a row.
SABRES 5, WILD 4 (SO)
Sam Reinhart scored the only shootout goal, carrying Buffalo over visiting Minnesota. Sabres goalie Linus Ullmark stopped Victor Rask and Jason Zucker in the shootout before Reinhart’s shot went off the blocker of Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk and trickled in to open the third round. Reinhart also had a regulation goal and an assist. Ullmark had 41 saves in the win, and Dubnyk stopped 35 shots.
HURRICANES 4, PENGUINS 0
Goaltender Curtis McElhinney stopped all 23 shots he faced to backstop visiting Carolina in a shutout of Pittsburgh. It was McElhinney’s ninth career shutout, first of the season and first in his career against Pittsburgh. Jordan Martinook, Brett Pesce, Micheal Ferland and Andrei Svechnikov scored for the Hurricanes.