Pittsburgh goalie has 50 saves in win
Penguins 4, Sabres 3: Evgeni Malkin scored his fourth goal of the season, Jeff Zatkoff made 50 saves in his season debut, and host Pittsburgh beat Buffalo on Thursday night.
Pascal Dupuis, Patric Hornqvist and Ben Lovejoy all scored their first goals of the season and Malkin added an assist for the Penguins, who earned their third straight victory, sixth win in seven games and seventh straight over the Sabres. Malkin has four goals and nine points in his past seven games.
Zatkoff got the call after Marc-Andre Fleury started the first nine games for Pittsburgh.
Sidney Crosby had two assists, his first points in three games. he is off to the worst start of his career and went without a point in eight of the team’s first nine games.
Pittsburgh’s power play, the worst in the league, scored its third of the season in 32 chances, breaking an 0-for-11 slump with Malkin’s goal.
Jamie McGinn, Nicolas Deslauriers and Matt Moulson scored for Buffalo.
Dupuis’ goal was his first since last November after he missed most of 2014 with career-threatening blood clots.
Phil Kessel saved a goal early in the third period, keeping the Penguins ahead by two when he fished a puck off the goal line and out of harm’s way during a net-mouth scramble.
Hurricanes 3, Islanders 2, OT: Ron Hainsey scored at 2:21 of overtime to lift Carolina over host New York.
Brock McGinn and Chris Terry scored in regulation to help the Hurricanes win their second straight to cap a 4-3-0 trip. Eddie Lack stopped 17 shots.
Hainsey took a pass from Jordan Staal and slid the puck past Islanders goaltender Thomas Greiss near the midpoint of the extra period for his second goal of the season. Terry had tied the score with 5:04 left in the third. The goal was Terry’s second of the season.
Matt Martin and Frans Nielsen scored for the Islanders, and Greiss finished with 26 saves.
Devils 4, Flyers 1: Travis Zajac scored twice and Kyle Palmieri had a goal and two assists to lead New Jersey over host Philadelphia.
Andy Greene scored an empty-net goal with 6.7 seconds left for the Devils, who won their fourth straight on the road.
Luke Schenn scored for the Flyers.
Palmieri put the Devils in front 1:28 into the third period when he blocked Evgeny Medvedev’s shot attempt at the blue line, raced past Medvedev and fired a wrist shot from the left circle over goalie Steve Mason’s left shoulder that made it 2-1.
Zajac made it a twogoal lead just over a minute later with his second power-play goal of the night.
Avalanche 2, Lightning 1: Alex Tanguay and Nathan MacKinnon each had a goal and an assist, Semyon Varlamov made 34 saves and Colorado beat host Tampa Bay to end a four-game losing streak.
Varlamov earned his 108th career victory with the Avalanche and moved past Dan Bouchard into second place on the franchise wins list. Jarome Iginla had two assists to move past Phil Housley (1,232) into sole possession of 38th place with 1,233 points in his career.
The Lightning got a goal from Alex Killorn.
Tanguay opened the scoring during a goalmouth scramble with 4:03 left in the first. A no-goal call on the ice was overturned after a video review.
The Avalanche made it 2-0 with 6:56 left in the second after Iginla sent a pass from behind net off goalie Ben Bishop that MacKinnon put into the net from in-close.