Highlights of Tuesday's National Hockey League games
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[November 02, 2016]
Nov 1 (The Sports Xchange) -
Highlights of Tuesday's National Hockey League games:
Rangers 5, Blues 0
The New York Rangers showed their high-powered offense once again
Tuesday as they throttled the St. Louis Blues 5-0 at Madison Square
Garden.
Five players scored for the Rangers, who have won five of six are
averaging a league-best four goals per game.
Rookie left winger Jimmy Vesey scored his sixth goal and added two
assists; left winger Rick Nash and right winger Mats Zuccarello
scored their fifth goals; center Kevin Hayes scored his third and
defenseman Dan Girardi added his second.
Goaltender Henrik Lundqvist posted the shutout by making 35 saves.
Blues goaltender Jake Allen was pulled in the second period after
allowing four goals on 20 shots. Backup goaltender Carter Hutton
stopped eight of nine in relief.
Ducks 4, Kings 0
Rickard Rakell scored a goal and recorded two assists in his season
debut as Anaheim handed Los Angeles its third straight shutout.
Joseph Cramarossa scored his first career NHL goal and Antoine
Vermette and Ryan Kesler also tallied for the Ducks, who have beaten
the Kings in 12 of their last 16 regular-season meetings.
Goaltender John Gibson made 30 saves for his first shutout of the
season.
Capitals 3, Jets 2
Washington overcame a pair of late-game goals by Winnipeg in a win.
Jay Beagle took the air out of the MTS Centre with the winning
marker with 30 seconds left.
Washington goalie Braden Holtby made 43 saves for the win, while
Winnipeg's Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves.
Karl Alzner and Evgeny Kuznetsov also scored for the Capitals, while
Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry scored for the Jets
Blackhawks 5, Flames 1
Patrick Kane scored a goal and dished out a pair of assists, and
Chicago pulled away from Calgary.
Artem Anisimov and Artemi Panarin each finished with a goal and an
assist and Tyler Motte and Niklas Hjalmarsson scored goals for the
Blackhawks.
Michael Frolik scored the Flames' lone goal.
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Sabres 2, Wild 1
Johan Larsson scored the game-winner in the latter half of third
period as Buffalo won its third game in a row, beating Minnesota.
Ryan O'Reilly also scored for the Sabres and Robin Lehner had 27
saves as Buffalo became the first visiting team to win in Minnesota
this season.
The Wild, who had shut out the Sabres in Buffalo last week, got a
power-play goal from Mikael Granlund and 22 saves from goalie Devan
Dubnyk.
Senators 2, Hurricanes 1
Kyle Turris scored with 1:51 left in overtime to give Ottawa a
victory over Carolina at Canadian Tire Centre.
Turris took a pass from Erik Karlsson and rifled a shot past
Carolina goalie Cam Ward from the left wing faceoff circle.
In regulation time, Jaccob Slavin scored for the Hurricanes while
replying for the Senators was defenseman Dion Phaneuf.
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Maple Leafs 3, Oilers 2 (OT)
Toronto defeated Edmonton in overtime at the Air Canada Centre in
front of a crowd of 19,687 to end a two-game losing skid.
Nazem Kadri, who had two goals in the game, scored the winner 12
seconds into overtime. Ben Smith scored the other goal for the
Leafs, who improved to 3-4-3 on the season.
The Oilers, who received goals from Anton Lander and Darnell Nurse,
dropped to 7-3.
Lightning 6, Islanders 1
Tampa Bay bolted out to a three-goal first-period lead and scored
three more times in the second period of a rout of New York at
Barclays Center.
Nikita Kucherov scored the first two goals for the Lightning before
Steven Stamkos, Brian Boyle, J.T. Brown and Valtteri Filppula all
added a goal apiece. Goalie Ben Bishop, who gave up all six goals to
the Rangers, recorded 26 saves while Kucherov added a pair of
assists.
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Dennis Seidenberg scored in the final minute of the second period
for the Islanders, who surrendered their most goals in a home game
since moving to Barclays Center last season.
Bruins 2, Panthers 1
Tuukka Rask remained undefeated as Boston held off Florida at the
BB&T Center.
Rask, who made 32 saves, is 5-0-0 this season. The Bruins' goals
came on a penalty shot by Brad Marchand in the first period and a
short-handed marker by Dominic Moore in the second.
The Panthers finally got on the scoreboard with 4:35 left in the
third period on the first NHL goal for Denis Malgin, a 19-year-old
rookie right winger.
Predators 5, Avalanche 1
Craig Smith scored twice, Ryan Johansen had a goal and an assist,
and Nashville beat Colorado to snap a three-game skid.
Roman Josi and Matt Irwin also scored and Filip Forsberg had two
assists for the Predators, who won for just the second time in eight
games. Pekka Rinne finished with 28 saves.
Jarome Iginla scored for the Avalanche, who have lost two straight
at home.
Blue Jackets 3, Stars 2 (OT)
Seth Jones scored 46 seconds into overtime as Columbus extended
Dallas' losing streak to three games with an overtime victory in
front of 10,141 at Nationwide Arena.
Sam Gagner sent the game into overtime for Columbus, tying the score
on a power-play goal with 15.1 seconds left in regulation. Nick
Foligno also scored for the Blue Jackets
Jason Spezza and Tyler Seguin scored for the Stars.
Coyotes 3, Sharks 2
Brad Richardson, Lawson Crouse and Jamie McGinn scored in a
second-period barrage and Arizona defeated San Jose at Gila River
Arena to improve to 3-6 this season and 2-1 at home.
Louis Domingue made 39 saves for the Coyotes and Martin Jones made
27 saves for the Sharks in his sixth straight start.
Patrick Marleau and Mikkel Boedker scored for the Sharks.
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