BOSTON (AP) — Elias Lindholm scored in overtime as the Bruins rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period to top the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 and extend Boston’s home winning streak to five games.
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Bruins → score → games
Mason Lohrei scored to pull Boston within a goal and Morgan Geekie’s second goal of the season with 12 seconds left in the third period sent the game into overtime.
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goal → score → overtime
Ryan Greene and Connor Bedard scored in the third period as the Chicago Blackhawks took a 4-2 lead.
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Blackhawks → score → lead
Anton Frondell had his second career two-goal game for Chicago.
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Frondell → have → Chicago
The Blackhawks came into the game with the worst power play in the NHL, converting on 4 of 40 opportunities and were 0 for 11 on the power play on the road.
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Blackhawks → come → road
However, it took Frondell just 11 seconds to give Chicago the lead after Will Borgen was whistled for a delay-of-game penalty.
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Borgen → take → penalty
Goaltender Michael DiPietro kept Boston in the game with key saves as the Bruins were outshot 28-13 in the first two periods.
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Bruins → keep → periods
He stopped a Bedard shot from the slot with 2:09 left in the first period.
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He → stop → period
Geekie, who hasn’t scored in his previous nine games, hit a shot off the post late in the first period.
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who → score → period
David Pastrnak scored on a breakaway in the first period for his 428th career goal, passing Patrice Bergeron and moving into sole possession of third place on the Bruins’ career goal-scoring list.
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Pastrnak → score → list
Casey Mittelstadt and Mason Lohrei also scored for the Bruins.
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Mittelstadt → score → Bruins
Connor McDavid extended his NHL-record season-opening assist streak to 14 games by setting up Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ second goal, and Edmonton opened their road trip by beating New York.
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Edmonton → extend → York
Nugent-Hopkins scored on a power play in the third period to give McDavid his league-best 29th assist.
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Hopkins → score → assist
McDavid has a big lead in points with 37 and is on pace for more than 200.
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McDavid → have → 200
Longtime running mate Leon Draisaitl recorded a pair of assists, including a perfect skate-to-stick exchange that led to Vasily Podkolzin putting the puck into a wide open net.
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Podkolzin → record → net
Ilya Sorokin similarly had little chance on Nugent-Hopkins’ shot from point-blank range off a feed from Kasperi Kapanen 68 seconds earlier.
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Sorokin → have → Kapanen
Edmonton’s Tristan Jarry stopped all 18 shots he faced for a second consecutive shutout, and Jason Dickinson scored into an empty net to seal the victory.
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Dickinson → stop → victory
The Oilers have won 10 of their first 14 games this season, their first with Mike Babcock as coach.
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Oilers → win → coach
Despite 20 saves from Sorokin, the Islanders’ winning streak ended at two games, with top defenseman Matthew Schaefer getting whistled for two of the team’s five minor penalties.
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Schaefer → end → penalties
Forward Emil Heineman was ejected less than 2 1/2 minutes in for a knee-on-knee hit that injured Isaac Howard, who put no weight on his left leg as he was helped off the ice and did not return.
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he → eject → ice
Steven Stamkos scored the tying goal in regulation and the only goal of the shootout to lead Nashville to a victory over Tampa Bay.
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Stamkos → score → Bay
Reid Schaefer, Adam Edstrom and Jayden Struble also scored and Justus Annunen made 22 saves in regulation and overtime for the Predators, who had lost two straight.
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who → score → two
Filip Forsberg and Nick Perbix each had a pair of assists.
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Forsberg → have → assists
Just one day after reportedly asking to be traded, Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov had three assists.
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John Carlson had a goal and an assist, Jake Guentzel, Victor Hedman and Conor Geekie also scored and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves for the Lightning, losers of three of four.
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Vasilevskiy → have → four
Nashville had lost their first five games that had extended past regulation this season before Saturday.
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that → lose → Saturday
Stamkos, the former Lightning captain, made it 4-4 with a power-play goal at 7:27 of the third.
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it → make → third
It was the 246th power-play goal of Stamkos’ career, tying him with Phil Esposito for sixth in NHL history.
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It → tie → history
BLUES 5, RED WINGS 4
DETROIT (AP) — Aleksanteri Kaskimaki scored his first career NHL goal to cap St. Louis’ rally from a two-goal, third-period deficit in a victory over Detroit.
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Kaskimaki → score → Detroit
Kaskimaki tapped in an Alexey Toropchenko pass with 6:45 remaining to complete the comeback after Pavel Buchnevich and Justin Barron scored earlier in the period.
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Buchnevich → tap → period
The 22-year-old from Finland was playing in his 11th NHL game.
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old → play → game
Jimmy Snuggerud scored his team-high eighth goal and Dalibor Dvorsky added the Blues’ other goal.
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Dvorsky → score → goal
Joel Hofer made 24 saves in the opener of St. Louis’ four-game road trip.
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Hofer → make → trip
Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist to lead the Red Wings.
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Raymond → have → Wings
J.T. Compher and Keegan Kolesar scored the first goals of the season for Detroit.
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Compher → score → Detroit
Kolesar’s goal was his first point in 14 games since he was acquired from Vegas in an offseason trade.
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he → acquire → trade
Emmitt Finnie added a power-play goal for the Red Wings, while John Gibson made 10 saves.
SABRES 3, KINGS 2
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tage Thompson scored twice, including the go-ahead goal with 6:20 remaining, and Buffalo beat Los Angeles to extend their road point streak to seven games.
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Buffalo → add → games
Jack Quinn had a goal and an assist, Zach Benson and Rasmus Dahlin each had two assists, and the Sabres won their third straight overall.
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Sabres → have → straight
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 27 saves.
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Luukkonen → make → saves
Corey Perry had a power-play goal, Andre Lee also scored and Anton Forsberg stopped 28 shots for the Kings.
Thompson put the Sabres back in front on a one-timer off a pass from Quinn on a power play at 13:40 of the third period.
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Thompson → have → period
…and 10 more, not listed.
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