Scheifele, Connor score twice as red-hot Jets down Rangers 6-3
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor each scored twice, Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves, and the Winnipeg Jets won their seventh straight, 6-3 over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.Gabriel Vilardi and Vladislav Namestnikov also scored for the Jets, who have now won 15 of their first 16 National Hockey League games.Will Cuylle, Alexis Lafreniere and Kaapo Kakko scored for the Rangers, who dropped their second straight home game following last Thursday’s 6-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres.Hellebuyck improved to 12-1-0 this season. Scheifele scored 57 seconds into the contest before Cuylle tied it at 13:07 of the first.Vilardi put the visitors ahead on the power play at 8:58 before Lafreniere tied the game again at 12:51 of the second.Connor put the Jets ahead for good at 16:03 of the second. Scheifele scored again 1:08 into the third — his ninth of the season — before Kakko narrowed the deficit to 4-3 just 32 seconds later. Namestnikov scored his fifth at 13:08 and Connor completed the scoring into an…
Linus Ullmark shuts the door, Senators smother Maple Leafs 3-0
TORONTO - Linus Ullmark made 26 saves for his first shutout of the season as the Ottawa Senators blanked the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 on Tuesday.
Canucks' Pettersson marks birthday with two points, 3-1 win over Flames
VANCOUVER - Elias Pettersson, celebrating his 26th birthday, tied the game on the power play early in the second period and assisted on Erik Brannstrom’s goal in the third as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Calgary Flames 3-1 Tuesday night.
WHL roundup: Birnie nets shootout winner, Broncos beat Warriors 4-3
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Brady Birnie scored in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the Swift Current Broncos to a 4-3 victory over the Moose Jaw Warriors in Western Hockey League action on Tuesday night at Moose Jaw Events Centre.
NHL roundup: Canadiens snap six-game losing skid with 7-5 win over Sabres
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Cole Caufield scored twice, including the game-winner, to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 7-5 National Hockey League win against the Buffalo Sabres on Monday.The win snapped a six-game losing streak for the Canadiens, and ended a three-game winning streak for the Sabres.Caufield’s two goals put him at a league-leading 12 for the season. His second was a power-play goal with 7:02 left in the third period that put the Canadiens ahead to stay.Buffalo's leading-scorer Tage Thompson and defenceman Mattias Samuelsson exited the game with lower-body injuries and did not return.Rasmus Dahlin and Dylan Cozens each had a goal and an assist for Buffalo. Thompson, Peyton Krebs and JJ Peterka also scored for the Sabres.Nick Suzuki scored twice and had an assist and Juraj Slafkovsky had three assists for Montreal. Josh Anderson, Christian Dvorak and Emil Heineman also scored.Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday:---STARS 7 PENGUINS 1PITTSBURGH (AP) — Miro Heiskanen scored two of Dallas's six first-period goals…
WHL roundup: Cleaver stops 35 shots as Hurricanes blank Wheat Kings 3-0
BRANDON, Man. - Koen Cleaver stopped 35 shots, Logan Wormald scored his 12th of the season and Brayden Edwards had two assists as the visiting Lethbridge Hurricanes blew past the Brandon Wheat Kings 3-0 in Western Hockey League action on Monday at Westoba Place.
Sabres leading scorer Tage Thompson out with lower-body injury
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Sabres leading scorer Tage Thompson left Monday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens in the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return.Thompson, who scored his 11th goal of the season in the first period of the Sabres 7-5 loss, played one shift of the second period before he left the game. Sabres coach Lindy Ruff did not have an update on his condition following the game.“He’s a huge piece on our team and we need him out there,” Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin said.Thompson has 11 goals and seven assists for 18 points this season.Sabres defenseman Mattias Samuelsson also left the game in the second period with a lower-body injury. There was no update on his status after the game.___AP NHL: https://www.apnews.com/hub/NHL
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