NHL roundup: Former Devils help soaring Jets sink New Jersey 4-2

The victory extended Winnipeg’s win streak to four games, and halted New Jersey’s at five games.

After Mercer gave the Jets a 3-2 lead on the power play at 11:58 of the third period, Connor sealed the outcome with an unassisted empty-net goal.

The Devils, who trailed 2-0 after the first period, tied the game in the second period with a pair of goals 44 seconds apart. Bratt scored at 1:14 on a setup from Arseny Gritsyuk from behind the net. Jack Hughes also assisted to extend his point streak to six games.

Glass tied the game at 1:58 when he deflected Jonathan Kovacevic’s shot past Daws.

Connor scored during a two-man advantage at 15:06 of the first period when he deflected Cole Perfetti’s pass past Allen. Mark Scheifele also assisted, moving him into a second-place tie with Dale Hawerchuk in assists in franchise history with 550.

Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday:

AVALANCHE 6 MAPLE LEAFS 3

TORONTO (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog scored his second goal of the game early in the third period to put Colorado ahead for good in a win over Toronto.

Devon Toews, with a goal and an assist, Brock Nelson, Artturi Lehkonen and Martin Necas in an empty net also scored for Colorado. Cale Makar added two assists and Mackenzie Blackwood made 28 saves.

Darren Raddysh and Easton Cowan, with a goal and an assist each, and Jack Roslovic scored for Toronto, which has lost four games in a row and dropped six of its last seven.

Sergei Bobrovksy finished with 22 stops.

The 38-year-old goaltender — a two-time Stanley Cup champion and two-time Vezina Trophy winner as the NHL’s top netminder — has allowed three goals or more in 12 of his 13 starts since signing in free agency July 1.

Landeskog scored the go-ahead goal at 5:02 of the third, just 51 seconds after Roslovic tied the score 3-3.

Raddysh’s blast that gave Toronto a 1-0 lead was clocked at 92.89 miles per hour — the fourth fastest shot to result in a goal across the league this season, according to the NHL.

CAPITALS 3 SENATORS 2 (OT)

OTTAWA, Ont. (AP) — Cole Hutson’s goal 74 seconds into overtime, set up by Alex Ovechkin, gave Washington a win over Ottawa.

The Capitals overcame a horrid second period in which they allowed two goals and trailed 2-1.

Matt Roy and Pierre-Luc Dubois also scored for the Capitals (10-6-0). Logan Thompson made 23 saves.

Ridly Greig and Hayden Hodgson scored for the Senators (11-6-2). Samuel Ersson stopped 14 shots.

Outshot 17-2 in the second period, Washington went more than 20 minutes before registering its next shot in the third period.

The Capitals showed life on the power play and maintained control after it expired and capitalized with Hutson finding Dubois at the side of the net for a wide-open shot to tie it at 2-all at 12:31 of the third.

Ersson made a big save on Jack St. Ivany with four minutes remaining to keep the game tied.

With 2:57 remaining Jakob Chychrun levelled a huge hit on Nick Cousins, but no penalty was called. Cousins needed help getting off the ice.

WILD 2 CANADIENS 1 (OT)

MONTREAL (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov scored on a power play in the opening minute of overtime and Jesper Wallstedt made 27 saves as Minnesota beat Montreal after Carey Price was inducted into the Canadiens’ Ring of Honour.

Bobby Brink scored in regulation for Minnesota (13-3-4). Kaprizov scored on a one-timer on the power play 21 seconds into the extra period for his 17th goal of the season.

Canadiens forward Cole Caufield was penalized for slashing as Quinn Hughes’ stick broke in the corner, sending Minnesota on the power play with 56 seconds remaining in regulation.

Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal (11-3-4), which extended its streak without a regulation loss to 11 games (8-0-3). Jacob Fowler stopped 22 shots.

Suzuki tied the game with a wild goal at 18:22 in the third period. With the goalie pulled, Caufield’s sharp-angled shot ricocheted off Wallstedt — twice — and the post before landing in the crease before Suzuki jammed it through a crowd.

After two periods without a goal, Brink broke the deadlock 2:53 into the third when he beat Fowler with a shot to the glove side on a breakaway.

PANTHERS 4 BLUE JACKETS 1

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Sam Bennett scored twice, and Florida snapped a two-game skid with a win over Columbus.

Florida notched its 12th victory in the last 13 games against the Blue Jackets.

Lars Eller and Sam Reinhart also scored. Aaron Ekblad had three assists, and Anton Lundell added two assists. Jacob Markstrom stopped 37 shots for Florida, which improved to 6-0-0 when leading after two periods.

Ivan Provorov scored for the Blue Jackets. Cam Talbot stopped 24 shots.

Bennett opened the scoring with a power-play goal off the rush at the two-minute mark of the second period, giving Florida a power-play goal in seven of its last eight games.

Eller made it 2-0 at 4:17 before Provorov cut that lead in half with 20 seconds left in the period.

Bennett restored the two-goal lead at 14:29 of the third. Matthew Tkachuk’s assist was his team-leading 23rd and extended both his assist and point streaks to five games.

BLUES 3 RED WINGS 2

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jimmy Snuggerud had a goal and an assist and his tally in the third period was the winner as St. Louis beat Detroit.

Snuggerud scored on a deflection with 4:02 left. Dylan Holloway got an assist on the go-ahead goal. Pius Suter and Justin Barron also scored for the Blues, who snapped a three-game skid. St. Louis had lost five of its last seven games before Tuesday.

Moritz Seider and Andrew Copp scored for the Red Wings, who dropped their fifth straight and lost for the fifth time in six games.

Joel Hofer stopped 30 shots in the win for the Blues.

John Gibson, back in the lineup after sustaining a lower-body injury in a game against Tampa Bay on Nov. 3, had 30 saves for the Red Wings.

PREDATORS 3 KINGS 0

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filip Forsberg scored two goals, Juuse Saros made 30 saves in his 28th career shutout, and Nashville extended its winning streak to five games with a victory over Los Angeles.

Nils Hoglander had two assists and Adam Wilsby got an empty-net goal in the Predators’ opener of a five-game West Coast road trip. Saros finished his first shutout of the season with 13 saves in the third period against the Kings’ improved effort.

Anton Forsberg stopped 27 shots for the Kings, who were shut out for the first time this season. Los Angeles dropped to 2-3-0 on its seven-game homestand with back-to-back losses.

Nashville scored early in the first period when Hoglander controlled a blue-line turnover by Brian Dumoulin and eventually made a backhand pass through defenceman Cody Ceci’s legs to Filip Forsberg for his sixth goal.

Filip Forsberg scored again in the second when Hoglander flipped the puck to him from the boards for an awkward shot that surprised Anton Forsberg.

After a slow offensive start to the season, Filip Forsberg has six goals in his last eight games, including two multigoal games in the past two weeks.

The Associated Press

by The Canadian Press

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