Bonino, Fabbro, Grimaldi lead Predators past Devils
NASHVILLE, TENN. » Nick Bonino, Dante Fabbro and Rocco Grimaldi each had a goal and an assist, and the Nashville Predators beat the New Jersey Devils 6-4 on Saturday night.
Yakov Trenin scored his first NHL goal, and Daniel Carr and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, which snapped a two-game losing skid. Mattias Ekholm had two assists and Pekka Rinne stopped 29 shots.
Jesper Bratt, Travis Zajac, Kyle Palmieri and Taylor Hall scored for the Devils, losers of five straight. Louis Domingue finished with 31 saves.
LEAFS 5, BLUES 2 » Auston Matthews broke out of a slump with a pair of goals and Zach Hyman also scored twice as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the St. Louis Blues 5-2 on Saturday night.
Frederik Andersen made 26 saves for the Leafs, who had lost seven in a row against St. Louis.
David Perron and Ivan Barbashev scored for St. Louis, which has lost two in a row following a four-game winning streak.
Vasilevskiy has 37 saves, Lightning beat Sharks 7-1 LIGHTNING 7, SHARKS 1. » Andrei Vasilevskiy made 37 saves, Steven Stamkos had two power-play goals and an assist, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the San Jose Sharks 7-1 on Saturday night.
Tampa Bay also got two goals from Tyler Johnson. Alex Killorn, Victor Hedman and Carter Verhaeghe had the other goals, and Killorn added three assists. PENGUINS 5, RED WINGS 3 » Evgeni Malkin and Jake Guentzel each had a goal and two assists to help the Pittsburgh Penguins build a two-goal lead midway through the second period on the way to a 5-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.
WILD 6, HURRICANES 2 » Sebastian Aho recorded a career-high five points and tied his personal best with three goals, and the Carolina Hurricanes snapped the Minnesota Wild’s five-game winning streak with a 6-2 victory Saturday night. PANTHERS 4, BLUE JACKETS
1 » Sergei Bobrovsky made
33 saves against his former team and Josh Brown scored the winning goal in the Florida Panthers’ 4-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night.
Bobrovsky made his first start against the Blue Jackets since signing with the Panthers on July 1. He played the previous seven seasons with Columbus. AVALANCHE 4, BRUINS 1» Ian Cole scored his first goal of season in his 500th career NHL game, backup goalie Pavel Francouz stopped all
16 shots he faced in relief and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Saturday night for their season-high sixth straight win.
Andre Burakovsky, Valeri Nichushkin and Gabriel Landeskog also scored for Colorado, which has won
11 of its last 14 games. The Avalanche posted their 11th win in their last 12 games in Boston, with their lone loss in the stretch coming in the last trip on Feb. 10 last season.
CANUCKS 6M SABRES 5M, OT » J.T. Miller scored a powerplay goal 3:21 into overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks over the Buffalo Sabres 6-5 Saturday.
Buffalo’s Marcus Johansson scored with 59 seconds left and his team’s goalie pulled in the third period to tie it at 5, but Miller scored his 13th of the season off a pass from rookie defenseman Quinn Hughes in OT.