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NHL roundup: Skinner's hat trick leads Sabres in rout

ByReuters

Published 21/10/2018 at 06:09 GMT

Jeff Skinner earned a hat trick, and goaltender Linus Ullmark made 19 saves as the visiting Buffalo Sabres cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday afternoon.

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Skinner scored his first goal at 3:31 of the second period. He tallied again
at 15:52 of the period before his final goal came on an empty net with less
than a minute to play in the third.
Jason Pominville and Zach Bogosian scored the Sabres' other goals. Jonathan
Quick had 21 saves for Los Angeles.
Ullmark nearly earned his second shutout in two starts this season, after he
paved the way to a 3-0 victory at Arizona on Oct. 13. Drew Doughty scored on
the power play for the Kings at 12:16 of the third period.
Flyers 5, Devils 2
Jakub Voracek scored the tiebreaking goal on a breakaway with 3:10 remaining
and added two assists, lifting Philadelphia to victory over visiting New
Jersey.
Voracek's goal gave the Flyers the win after the Devils' Brian Boyle scored
the tying goal early in the third on a New Jersey power play. Boyle forged a
2-2 deadlock with a wrist shot over Brian Elliott's right shoulder while Kyle
Palmieri set a screen.
Elliott made 19 saves for the Flyers, who also received goals from Travis
Konecny, Nolan Patrick, Wayne Simmonds and Scott Laughton. Keith Kinkaid had
16 saves for the Devils.
Avalanche 3, Hurricanes 1
Gabriel Landeskog continued his scoring spree with two goals, and goalie
Philipp Grubauer made 42 saves as Colorado defeated Carolina at Raleigh, N.C.
Landeskog, who was coming off a hat trick Thursday night at New Jersey, scored
in each of the first two periods. Nathan MacKinnon, who assisted on the first
two goals, added a third-period goal with 3:09 to play.
Micheal Ferland scored for the Hurricanes with 2:33 left. Sebastian Aho
assisted on the play, giving him at least one point in all eight games this
season. Carolina goalie Curtis McElhinney made 19 saves.
Jets 5, Coyotes 3
Adam Lowry scored his fourth goal of the season, Josh Morrissey and Tyler
Myers each had a goal and an assist and Winnipeg continued its home dominance
of Arizona with a win.
Mathieu Perreault and Blake Wheeler added goals, and Jacob Trouba had three
assists for the Jets, who have won all 10 home games against Phoenix since
relocating from Atlanta in 2011. The Coyotes left Winnipeg for Arizona in
1996.
Clayton Keller scored two third-period goals, Christian Fischer scored his
first goal of the season and Oliver Ekman-Larsson had three assists for the
Coyotes. Winnipeg goalie Laurent Brossoit made 42 saves, and Phoenix's Antti
Raanta stopped 27 shots.
Blues 4, Maple Leafs 1
Robert Bortuzzo scored first in a three-goal second period, and David Perron
added two assists as visiting St. Louis defeated Toronto.
Zach Sanford, Ryan O'Reilly and Ivan Barbashev also scored goals for the
Blues, who won for the second time in seven games this season. Goaltender Jake
Allen made 22 saves.
Morgan Rielly scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost two in a row. Toronto
goaltender Frederik Andersen stopped 21 shots.
Senators 4, Canadiens 3 (OT)
Mark Stone scored 2:30 into overtime to lift host Ottawa past Montreal.
Stone, who also scored Ottawa's first goal, took a pass from Matt Duchene and
rang the game-winner from the left circle off the post behind Montreal goalie
Carey Price. Mikkel Boedker and Duchene also scored for the Senators, who won
their third straight. Goalie Craig Anderson made 24 saves.
Max Domi, Phillip Danault and Paul Byron scored goals for the Canadiens, who
had their three-game winning streak snapped. Price stopped 30 shots
Red Wings 4, Panthers 3 (OT)
Gustav Nyquist scored 3:44 into overtime as Detroit got its first win of the
season, defeating Florida at Sunrise, Fla.
The Wings, who had started the season 0-5-2, also got goals from Dennis
Cholowski, Dylan Larkin and former Panthers winger Thomas Vanek. Goalie Jimmy
Howard earned the win, making 34 saves.
Florida got goals from Keith Yandle, Nick Bjugstad and Mike Hoffman, whose
score with 1:16 left in the third sent the game to overtime. Panthers goalie
Michael Hutchinson could not hold a 2-0 lead. He stopped 27 shots.
Blackhawks 4, Blue Jackets 1
Corey Crawford made 37 saves for his first victory in more than 10 months, and
visiting Chicago pulled away to beat Columbus.
Crawford made 12 saves in the first period, 16 in the second period and nine
in the third period to notch his first victory since Dec. 17, 2017. He missed
most of last season and the beginning of this season because of
concussion-like symptoms.
Patrick Kane scored two goals for the Blackhawks, while Alex DeBrincat and
Marcus Kruger tallied one goal apiece. Zach Werenski scored Columbus' lone
goal. Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky turned aside 22 shots.
Wild 5, Lightning 4 (OT)
Mikael Granlund's overtime goal gave Minnesota the win over Tampa Bay at Saint
Paul, Minn.
Charlie Coyle dropped a pass to Granlund on the right side, and Granlund
squeaked the puck past Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy (29 saves) for the
game-winner at 3:43.
Coyle, Marcus Foligno, Zach Parise and Jason Zucker also scored for the Wild,
and Alex Stalock made 27 saves to earn his first victory of the season. The
Lightning got goals from Ryan Callahan, Yanni Gourde, J.T. Miller and Anton
Stralman, whose goal at 15:02 of the third period tied the score and forced
overtime.
Predators 3, Oilers 0
Juuse Saros stopped 31 shots -- 18 in the third period -- to record his second
shutout in as many outings against Edmonton as visiting Nashville won its
fifth straight game.
P.K. Subban and Viktor Arvidsson netted second-period goals 88 seconds apart,
and Roman Josi added an empty-netter with 53 seconds remaining in the game for
the Predators, who have now won 13 consecutive games against the Oilers.
Cam Talbot made 25 saves for Edmonton, which saw a three-game winning streak
snapped. Oilers star center Connor McDavid was held without a point for the
first game this season.
Golden Knights 3, Ducks 1
Jonathan Marchessault had a goal and an assist, and Marc-Andre Fleury had 17
saves to pick up his 408th career victory and move into 10th place on the
NHL's all-time win list as Vegas downed Anaheim at Las Vegas.
William Karlsson and Ryan Reaves also scored goals for Vegas, which won its
third straight game. Fleury broke a tie with Glenn Hall for 10th place on the
all-time career wins list.
Ben Street scored the lone goal for Anaheim, which had a two-game winning
streak snapped. John Gibson kept the Ducks in the game by making 42 saves.
Canucks 2, Bruins 1 (OT)
Bo Horvat scored at 3:12 of overtime as Vancouver returned home from a
six-game trip to defeat Boston.
Brandon Sutter also scored for Vancouver, and Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves as
the Canucks won for the fourth time in five games.
Joakim Nordstrom scored for Boston, which dropped to 0-1-2 on the Western
Canadian part of its four-game trip. Jaroslav Halak had 20 saves for the
Bruins.
Sharks 4, Islanders 1
Joonas Donskoi and Logan Couture each registered a goal and an assist, and
Tomas Hertl added three assists as San Jose defeated visiting New York.
Sharks goaltender Martin Jones stopped 24 shots as the teams split their
two-game season series. Timo Meier and Brent Burns added the other tallies for
San Jose.
Brock Nelson scored the lone New York goal, and Robin Lehner made 37 saves in
a physical affair that included 19 penalties, with four misconducts handed out
in the third period. The Islanders finished their four-game road trip with a
1-3-0 record.
--Field Level Media
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