Flyers win, hand winless Coyotes 10th loss of year
PHILADELPHIA » Sean Couturier broke a scoreless tie early in the third period and Carter Hart made 29 saves to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-0 victory over the winless Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.
Claude Giroux had a goal and an assist and Scott Laughton also scored for the Flyers, who have won three of four.
Arizona (0-9-1) lost its 10th game to start the season and remains the only winless team in the NHL. The Coyotes, who dropped a club-record 11 in a row to begin the 2017-18 season, will look for their first victory when they wrap up a six-game trip on Friday at Anaheim. Arizona did pick up a point with a shootout loss to Buffalo on Oct. 16.
The 1943-44 Rangers set the NHL record, going 15 games without a win to start the season.
Karel Vejmelka made 31 saves in a strong performance for Arizona. CANADIENS 3, RED WINGS 0 » Nick Suzuki had a goal and two assists, Jake Allen stopped 22 shots for his second shutout of the season, and Montreal beat Detroit.
Josh Anderson scored his third of the season and Brendan Gallagher added an empty-netter for the Canadiens, who had lost three of their last four games — all on the road. Allen got his 23rd career shutout.
Alex Nedeljkovic finished with 39 saves for the
Red Wings.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 0 » Auston Matthews scored twice and Jack Campbell made 26 saves, leading Toronto to its third straight win.
Mitch Marner had a goal and assists on both of Matthews’ goals, and William Nylander added a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs.
Robin Lehner had 29 saves for Vegas, which was without several top players because of injuries, including captain Mark Stone (lower body), Max Pacioretty (broken left foot), William Karlsson (broken foot), Alex Tuch (shoulder), Zach Whitecloud (lower body) and Nolan Patrick (undisclosed).
WILD 5, SENATORS 4 » Kirill Kaprizov scored his first goal of the season 2:02 into overtime and Minnesota beat Ottawa.
Marcus Foligno scored twice for Minnesota, which got points from 11 players and won for the sixth time — all by one goal. Caleb Addison and Nico Sturm also scored. Cam Talbot had 24 saves for the Wild, winners of nine straight against Ottawa.
JETS 4, STARS 3, SO » Mark Scheifele scored the deciding goal in the shootout in his return from COVID-19 protocol to lead Winnipeg.
Paul Stastny, Josh Morrissey and Pierre-Luc Dubois scored in regulation for Winnipeg. Eric Comrie stopped 24 shots. Kyle Connor also scored in the shootout.