Laine nets five goals in Jets win

Patrik Laine scored five goals last night in the Winnipeg Jets’ 8-4 victory over the Blues in St. Louis, two short of the 97-year-old NHL record. It was the 61st five-goal game in league history. Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs was the last player to score six goals in a game, on April 22, 1976 against the Bruins. Brandon Tanev, Blake Wheeler, and Jack Roslovic also scored for the Jets, who snapped their first two-game losing streak of the season. Laine’s five goal outburst gives him a league-leading 16 goals in 10 November games. Maple Leafs 6, Flyers 0 — Andreas Johnsson had a hat trick midway through the first period and host Toronto routed Philadelphia. John Tavares, Patrick Marleau and Josh Leivo also scored, and backup goalie Garret Sparks made 35 saves for his first shutout of the season and the second of his career. Mitch Marner added two assists. Neither team was assessed a penalty for the second consecutive game at Scotiabank Arena. The NHL’s last penalty-free game before this week came in March 2017. Capitals 5, Rangers 3 — Brett Connolly scored the tiebreaking goal with 6:24 left in the third period, and visiting Washington beat New York for its season-high fifth straight win. Alex Ovechkin, Nic Dowd, Jakub Vrana and Tom Wilson also scored for defending Stanley Cup champion Washington, and John Carlson had three assists. Pheonix Copley, starting in place of Braden Holtby, stopped 27 shots. Jimmy Vesey, Brady Skjei and Ryan Strome scored for the Rangers, who lost their second straight, ending a sevengame winning streak on home ice. Kevin Hayes had two assists and Alexandar Georgiev finished with 23 saves. Penguins 4, Blue Jackets 2 — Jake Guentzel scored his first career regular-season hat trick and host Pittsburgh defeated Columbus. Guentzel’s first career hat trick came in the 2017 playoffs against Columbus, and he had another in the 2018 playoffs against Philadelphia. Guentzel has scored six goals in his last seven games overall and has 16 points in 13 regular-season and playoff games against Columbus. He has nine goals, including two hat tricks, in his last eight games against the Blue Jackets. Sabres 3, Red Wings 2 — Sam Reinhart and Tage Thompson scored in a seven-round shootout to give visiting Buffalo its ninth consecutive victory, over Detroit. Jeff Skinner and Thompson scored for Buffalo in regulation, and Linus Ullmark made 35 saves. Blackhawks 5, Panthers 4 — In Sunrise, Fla., Erik Gustafsson scored 2:32 into overtime to give Chicago a victory over Florida. Gustafsson wristed in his third goal of the season to beat Florida goalie James Reimer, snapping Chicago’s two-game overall losing streak and eight-game road skid. Islanders 4, Hurricanes 1 — Thomas Greiss made 26 saves, and Valtteri Filppula, Anthony Beauvillier, Josh Bailey and Adam Pelech scored, leading host New York to a victory over Carolina. Elsewhere in the NHL — Vancouver Canucks forward Antoine Roussel has been fined $5,000 by the NHL for biting San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic.