NHL roundup: Matt Boldy's hat trick leads Wild over Kraken
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[March 28, 2023]
Matt Boldy scored his second hat trick in nine days as the
Minnesota Wild defeated the Seattle Kraken 5-1 Monday night in St.
Paul, Minn.
Jake Middleton and Ryan Hartman also scored and Marcus Johansson,
Jared Spurgeon and Joel Eriksson Ek had two assists apiece for the
Central Division-leading Wild, who improved to 15-1-4 in their past
20 games and pulled within three points of Western
Conference-leading Vegas. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 35
saves.
Jaden Schwartz scored for the Kraken, who lead the West's wild-card
race. Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 9 of 13 shots before being
pulled early in the third after Boldy scored to make it 4-0. Martin
Jones stopped 6 of 7 shots the rest of the way as Seattle had an
eight-game road point streak snapped (7-0-1).
Boldy completed the hat trick 50 seconds into the third. Eriksson Ek
stole a clearance attempt and passed to Boldy for a one-timer from
the slot. Boldy also had three goals in a 5-3 victory against
Washington on March 19.
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Canadiens 4, Sabres 3 (SO)
Brendan Gallagher's 200th career goal tied things up just before the
midway point of the third period, and Montreal eventually won in a
shootout against host Buffalo.
With the Canadiens down 3-2, Gallagher leveled things when he rang
the post via his milestone goal with 11:25 remaining in regulation.
Jordan Harris and Alex Belzile also had goals, and Michael
Pezzetta's score in the sixth round of the shootout was the
difference for the Canadiens.
Lukas Rousek scored on his first NHL shot and added an assist in his
league debut for the Sabres. JJ Peterka and Riley Stillman also
scored, while Eric Comrie made 38 saves for Buffalo, which played
without star Tage Thompson (upper-body injury).
Senators 5, Panthers 2
Brady Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, Mads Sogaard made 32 saves
and Ottawa scored three power-play goals to beat visiting Florida.
The win moved the Senators closer in their pursuit of an Eastern
Conference wild-card spot. The Pittsburgh Penguins, who were idle on
Monday, are in the second wild-card slot with 82 points, while the
Panthers are just behind them despite being on a season-high,
four-game losing streak.
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Ottawa's Alex DeBrincat, Tim Stutzle and Erik Brannstrom all scored
on the power play, with each score coming near the end of each
period. After its 3-for-4 performance on Monday, the Senators'
streaking power-play unit is 10-for-28 over the past eight games.
Gustav Forsling scored both of the Panthers' goals.
Islanders 5, Devils 1
Kyle Palmieri scored twice against his former team for New York,
which earned a pivotal victory by beating New Jersey in Elmont, N.Y.
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Pierre Engvall scored in the first period and Bo
Horvat and Zach Parise each scored empty-netters late in the third
for the Islanders, who stopped a two-game losing streak and
lengthened their lead in the Eastern Conference wild-card race.
Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves.
Erik Haula scored in the second period for the Devils, who lost for
the sixth time in eight games (2-4-2) and missed a chance to move
within one point of the idle first-place Carolina Hurricanes in the
Metropolitan Division. New Jersey goalie Vitek Vanecek recorded 31
saves.
Oilers 5, Coyotes 4
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored a third-period tiebreaking goal, Leon
Draisaitl netted the 300th of his career and Edmonton prevailed in
Tempe, Ariz.
By scoring in his 630th game, Draisaitl used the fourth-fewest games
to reach 300 goals among active players. Evan Bouchard had a goal
and an assist, and Zach Hyman and Darnell Nurse scored for the
Oilers. Jack Campbell made 29 saves for the win.
Arizona got two goals apiece from Matias Maccelli and Barrett Hayton.
Lawson Crouse dealt three assists and Jack McBain and Nick Schmaltz
each had two.
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Avalanche 5, Ducks 1
Nathan MacKinnon and Bowen Byram each had a goal and an assist as
visiting Colorado cruised past Anaheim for its third consecutive
win.
Valeri Nichushkin, Jack Johnson and Samuel Girard also scored goals
and Cale Makar added two assists for Colorado, which is one point
behind first-place Minnesota in the Central Division ahead of a
Wednesday game vs. the Wild in Denver. Jonas Johansson stopped 29 of
30 shots.
Derek Grant scored for Anaheim, which took its fifth straight loss.
John Gibson made 39 saves for the Ducks, who finished an eight-game
homestand with just a 1-6-1 record to fall to 12-22-3 at the Honda
Center this season.
--Field Level Media
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