Rantanen, Avs take out Flyers
Mikko Rantanen had two goals, Matt Nieto and Gabriel Landeskog scored, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Flyers, 4-1, last night in Philadelphia.
The Avalanche continued their early-season hot streak and finished 3-0-1 on their four-game road trip. Landeskog had a hat trick against New Jersey and clinched this one with his eighth goal of the season early in the third period.
Semyon Varlamov was solid in net with 37 saves.
The Flyers lost at home for the third time.
Rantanen needed only 3:23 to beat Brian Elliott for his third goal of the season and the quick lead. Nathan MacKinnon set up Rantanen for the power-play score, and they became the first players in franchise history with concurrent nine-game point streaks to start the season.
Nolan Patrick scored in the third for the Flyers.
Elliott made 29 saves. Hurricanes 3, Red Wings 1
— Michael Ferland scored in his fourth straight game and Sebastian Aho had an assist and set a franchise record for points in consecutive games to start a season as Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak by winnning in Detroit.
Defenseman Justin Faulk also scored, and Jordan Martinook added an emptynet goal for the Hurricanes.
Carolina Hurricanes activated goalie Scott Darling (lower body) from injured reserve and sent him on a conditioning assignment at AHL Charlotte. Jets 5, Blues 4 — Bryan Little tied it late in the third period and Jacob Trouba scored in overtime to help host Winnipeg overcome a two-goal deficit and take down St. Louis.
Trouba took a pass from Kyle Connor and shot into an open side of the net behind goalie Jake Allen. It was Trouba’s first goal of the season.
Mark Scheifele scored twice and Ben Chiarot added a goal for Winnipeg.
Ryan O’Reilly had a goal and two assists for St. Louis, and David Perron, Vince Dunn and Colton Parayko also scored.
Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for Winnipeg (6-2-1), which has points in five straight games (4-0-1).
Allen stopped 31 shots for the Blues (2-3-3), who finished a three-game trip (1-1-1) through Canada. Elsewhere in the NHL — The New Jersey Devils placed former Boston College defenseman Steven
Santini on injured reserve with a broken jaw. Santini was hurt Saturday when a puck hit him in the face in the first period against Philadelphia.
The Devils also recalled forward Kevin Rooney and defenseman Egor Yakvolev from Binghamton of the American Hockey League.