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NHL roundup: Marchand's hat trick, OT goal lift Bruins

[March 07, 2018] Brad Marchand completed his third career hat trick 34 seconds into overtime and finished with five points on the evening to send the Boston Bruins past the Detroit Red Wings 6-5 on Tuesday night in Boston.

Marchand now leads the team with 28 goals on the season and recorded his 11th career regular-season overtime goal, moving him into first all-time in Bruins history.

Torey Krug (13 goals) scored twice, Jake DeBrusk (14) added a goal and Anton Khudobin made 30 saves as Boston earned its fourth straight victory.

Anthony Mantha (23 goals) lit the lamp twice and Frans Nielsen (14), Martin Frk (11) and Mike Green (7) each had goals for Detroit, which lost its fourth straight.

Jets 3, Rangers 0

Patrik Laine recorded his fourth career hat trick as Winnipeg blanked New York at Madison Square Garden.

He surpassed his total from his rookie season by upping his season total to 38 goals. He also extended his points streak to nine games. He has 13 goals and six assists during the streak.

Laine also recorded his 14th multi-point game this season and eighth during this streak.

Devils 6, Canadiens 4

Travis Zajac scored a pair of first-period power-play goals in a three-point game and Taylor Hall continued his torrid scoring streak as the New Jersey Devils scored four times in the opening frame en route to a 6-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night in New Jersey.

Hall collected two assists, which officially gives him a 19-game point streak. He's hit the scoresheet in 26 straight games played - a three-game hiatus due to a knee injury breaking up the run - in which he's collected 18 goals and 38 points.

Goalie Keith Kinkaid made 29 saves in the win at Prudential Center, which snaps New Jersey's three-game losing skid, on a night his teammates provided an offensive onslaught.

Blue Jackets 4, Golden Knights 1

Joonas Korpisalo had 37 saves and Pierre-Luc Dubois and Artemi Panarin each had a goal and two assists to lead host Columbus over Pacific Division-leading Vegas.

Defensemen Zach Werenski and Ian Cole also scored for Columbus, which won despite getting outshot, 38-21. Korpisalo, filling in for starter Sergei Bobrovsky who was ill, snapped a personal three-game losing streak.

Erik Haula scored for the lone goal for Vegas, which lost for the fourth time in five games. Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 17 saves, suffering just his ninth loss in 34 games (22-9-3).

Lightning 5, Panthers 4 (OT)

Brayden Point scored with 2:11 left in overtime as host Tampa Bay edged Florida.

The loss snapped Florida's season-best six-game win streak.

Tampa Bay's win spoiled a heroic effort by Florida's Nick Bjugstad, who scored three goals for his first career hat trick. He has 16 points in his past 16 games.

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Wild 6, Hurricanes 2

Eric Staal's second goal of the game capped a franchise record-breaking four-goal outburst early in the second period and host Minnesota routed Carolina.

Goalie Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves at Xcel Energy Center and had a front-row seat to his team's seventh wins in nine games.

Already up 1-0 after the first period, the Wild went on a scoring spree after the intermission, with Nino Niederreiter kicking things off just 23 seconds into the middle period. Niederreiter was parked in the slot and deflected a Jared Spurgeon point shot to snap a nine-game goal drought.

Predators 2, Stars 0

Ryan Hartman broke a scoreless tie early in the third period with his second game-winning goal since joining Nashville just over a week ago in a shutout of visiting Dallas.

Pekka Rinne stopped 26 shots for his seventh shutout.

Hartman, who was picked up on Feb. 26 from Chicago, potted a tie-breaking goal in the last minute of his first game with the Predators the next night in Winnipeg. He provided the only goal they would need at 5:33 of the third period.

Blackhawks 2, Avalanche 1 (OT)

Jonathan Toews scored the game-winning goal nine seconds into overtime, and host Chicago outlasted Colorado.

Toews pumped his fist and high-fived teammates after his 18th goal of the season and his second in the past two games. He capitalized on a pass from right winger Patrick Kane, who slipped a feed from the right circle to Toews for the one-timer shot.

The sequence marked Toews' second game-winning goal of the season.

Ducks 4, Capitals 0

Rickard Rakell scored his team-leading 28th goal and John Gibson made 36 saves in his second shutout of the season as host Anaheim blanked Washington.

Adam Henrique (20 goals), Hampus Lindholm (10) and Nick Ritchie (6) also had goals as Anaheim won its third straight game and earned a point for the eighth time in nine games (7-1-1). The Ducks leapfrogged idle San Jose into second place in the Pacific Division with the victory.

Braden Holtby allowed three goals on nine shots in net for Washington before being yanked in favor of Philipp Grubauer, who finished with eight saves. The Capitals snapped their two-game winning streak, but maintained a one-point lead over idle Pittsburgh atop the Metropolitan Division.

--Field Level Media

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