Pavelski leads Stars past Devils
Former Shark Joe Pavelski had two goals and two assists, and the Dallas Stars extended their winning streak to four games with a 5-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
Roope Hintz scored for the fourth straight game and rookie Jacob Peterson got his eighth goal as Dallas swept its four-game road trip. Braden Holtby made 36 saves to improve his career mark against New Jersey to 18-4-3.
Stars defenseman Jani Hakanpaa added an emptynet goal at 17:35 of the third period after taking a pass from Pavelski.
Jesper Bratt scored his fourth goal in the last three games for New Jersey, which is 1-5 in its last six.
Devils top goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood was placed on injured reserve earlier in the day with a heel injury and rookie Akira Schmid got the start after being recalled from Utica (AHL).
PENGUINS 6, COYOTES 3 >> Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang led a four-goal, thirdperiod barrage to give Pittsburgh a 6-3 win over visiting Arizona.
Pittsburgh trailed early in the third before its offensive show, when Letang scored twice and Crosby netted his 11th for the Penguins, who won their sixth straight game.
Pittsburgh has 17 wins in its last 19 games. Bryan Rust and Brock McGinn both scored their 10th goals of the season and Brian Boyle added a third-period goal. Tristan Jarry stopped 13 shots.
HURRICANES 4, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3, OT >> Sebastian Aho’s second goal of the game 3:49 into overtime gave Carolina a win over Vegas after blowing a two-goal lead late in regulation.
Nino Niederreiter and Vincent Trocheck scored 57 seconds apart in the second period and Aho had a power-play goal in the third for host Carolina. Andrei Svechnikov’s second assist
of the game came on the winning goal.
The Hurricanes bounced back from one of their worst outings of the season three nights earlier. Frederik Andersen made 26 saves as Carolina won for the fourth time in five games. SENATORS 5, SABRES 0 >> Tyler Ennis had a hat trick to lead Ottawa over visiting Buffalo.
Drake Batherson and Alex Formenton also scored for Ottawa, while Matt Murray made 32 saves for his third win of the season and 14th career shutout.
The win came at a cost: Batherson went hard into the boards late in the first period and did not return. Dylan Gambrel also suffered an upper-body injury.
This was the first of a four-game homestand for the Senators, who continue to play without fans. ISLANDERS 4, FLYERS 3 Zach Parise scored the tiebreaking goal with just over eight minutes left in the third period and Ilya Sorokin made 14 saves as New York edged visiting Philadelphia.
The reeling Flyers notched their franchise-record 13th straight loss.
Parise rifled the puck past Flyers goalie Martin Jones at 11:51 for his third goal of the season as the Islanders improved to 8-2-1 in their last 11 games and beat the Flyers for the ninth straight time.
The gritty 37-year-old Parise is one of three Islanders to play all 35 games during this COVID-impacted season.