Capitals earn franchise-record seventh straight road win vs. Blue Jackets

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — T.J. Oshie scored twice and the Washington Capitals used a four-goal second interval to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-2 for its franchise-record seventh straight street victory on Thursday night time.

Washington has gained 12 of its final 15 video games, with factors in eight straight. Columbus has misplaced 9 of its final 10.

Oshie, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Martin Fehervary and Garnet Hathaway scored within the second interval, and Oshie and Alex Ovechkin added third-period targets. Dylan Strome contributed three assists, Evgeny Kuznetsov had two helpers, and Darcy Kuemper stopped 25 pictures.

Johnny Gaudreau and Gavin Bayreuther scored for Columbus, and Emil Bemstrom had two assists. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 31 pictures in his first begin since Dec. 13.

PREDATORS 5, HURRICANES 3

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nashville goalie Juuse Saros made a franchise-record 64 saves and Mark Jankowski scored 5:06 into the third interval to provide the Predators their first lead in a victory over the Hurricanes.

Saros stopped all 28 pictures within the third.

Filip Forsberg, Mattias Ekholm, Cody Glass and Colton Sissons additionally scored for Nashville.

Paul Stastny, Brady Skjei and Jordan Staal scored for Carolina.

The Hurricanes, who had a franchise-record 11-game successful streak finish Tuesday night time in opposition to the New York Rangers, have misplaced consecutive video games in regulation for the primary time since Nov. 6 and 9.

RANGERS 4, CANADIENS 1

MONTREAL (AP) — Filip Chytil had two targets and New York scored thrice in lower than six minutes in the course of the second interval to beat skidding Montreal.

Chris Kreider had a short-handed purpose and defenseman Braden Schneider additionally scored for the surging Rangers, who gained their third straight and improved to 11-2-1 of their previous 14 video games. Jaroslav Halak made 17 saves.

Joel Armia scored for Montreal. The Canadiens have misplaced seven video games in a row.

BLUES 5, DEVILS 3

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Ivan Barbashev tied it late within the second interval and arrange Brandon Saad’s go-ahead purpose early within the third in St. Louis’ victory over New Jersey.

Robert Thomas scored twice, Jordan Kyrou added a purpose and Jordan Binnington made 36 saves to assist the Blues enhance to 7-2-3 of their final 12 video games.

Jack Hughes, who has six targets in his final 4 video games, scored twice for New Jersey and Nico Hishier scored on a two-man benefit with 7:51 left. Akira Schmid, who was recalled from Utica earlier within the day due to a hand damage sustained by Mackenzie Blackwood, made 14 saves.

KRAKEN 5, MAPLE LEAFS 1

TORONTO (AP) — Vince Dunn had a purpose and two assists, Martin Jones stopped 26 pictures and Seattle beat Toronto for its third straight victory.

Jared McCann had a purpose and an help to assist Seattle enhance to 21-12-4. Eeli Tolvanen opened the scoring for the Kraken on the ability play, with Matty Beniers and Alex Wennberg including targets.

John Tavares had a power-play purpose for Toronto and Matt Murray made 21 saves. The Maple Leafs dropped to 23-9-7.

FLYERS 6, COYOTES 2

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — All-Star Kevin Hayes scored certainly one of 5 targets for Philadelphia within the second interval and Morgan Frost had 4 assists to assist carry the Flyers previous Arizona for his or her fourth straight victory.

Hayes was a shock choice because the Flyers’ choice to All-Star weekend, incomes the nod over standout winger Travis Konecny or goalie Carter Hart.

Konecny did rating his twentieth purpose of the season to start out the scoring surge for the Flyers within the second. Joel Farabee, Wade Allison and Ivan Provorov additionally scored for the 5-2 lead that stored their sizzling streak rolling. James van Riemsdyk made it 6-2 within the third and helped the Flyers rating at the very least three targets in eight straight video games.

Hart stopped 21 pictures. Michael Carcone scored late within the first interval to provide Arizona a 1-0 lead and Nick Ritchie answered Konency’s purpose early within the second for a 2-1 lead.

OILERS 4, ISLANDERS 2

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid arrange power-play and short-handed targets within the first interval to succeed in 500 profession assists in Edmonton’s victory over New York.

McDavid reached 500 assists in 527 video games. Solely 5 gamers in NHL historical past have accomplished it sooner — Wayne Gretzky (352), Mario Lemieux (433), Peter Stastny (507) and Bobby Orr (522).

Jack Campbell made 20 saves to assist the Oilers (21-17-2) finish a two-game dropping streak and five-game house slide. Leon Draisaitl had a purpose and his four-hundredth help, Kailer Yamamoto, Dylan Holloway and Zach Hyman additionally scored and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had two assists.

Mathew Barzal and Cal Clutterbuck scored for New York and Ilya Sorokin stopped 34 pictures. The Islanders have dropped two of three to fall to 22-16-2.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, PENGUINS 1

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jack Eichel had a purpose and two assists in his return from a lower-body damage and Vegas beat Pittsburgh.

Vegas leads the Western Convention and is tied for second within the NHL at its halfway level of the season. Pittsburgh, a 2-1 loser in Boston on Monday within the Winter Basic, has misplaced six straight, going 0-4-2 since Dec. 27.

After giving the Knights a 2-0 lead early within the first interval, Eichel — again after lacking 11 video games — assisted on targets by Chandler Stephenson and Mark Stone. Phil Kessel and Paul Cotter additionally scored and Adin Hill made 38 saves.

Ty Smith scored the lone purpose for Pittsburgh, his first of the season.

CANUCKS 4, AVALANCHE 2

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Andrei Kuzmenko scored twice and Vancouver beat Colorado.

Brock Boeser and J.T. Miller additionally scored for Vancouver and Collin Delia stopped 29 pictures. The Canucks snapped a three-game dropping streak to enhance to 17-18-3.

Mikko Rantanen and Samuel Girard scored for Colorado. The defending champion Avalanche are 0-4-1 of their final 5 to fall to 19-15-3.

BRUINS 5, KINGS 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trent Frederic scored twice in 34 seconds in the course of the third interval and Boston beat Los Angeles to prolonged its factors streak to 12 video games.

Frederic put within the go-ahead purpose at 10:36 when he redirected Brandon Carlo’s shot from the purpose. The Boston middle then shortly picked up his career-high ninth purpose of the season at 11:10 when he beat Pheonix Copley with a backhander,

David Pastrnak additionally had two targets and leads the Bruins with 27 on the season. Brad Marchand had a purpose and an help for the Bruins, who’re 9-0-3 of their final 12 video games and have an NHL-best 64 factors.

Jeremy Swayman stopped 27 pictures and beat Copley within the first NHL matchup of goalies born in Alaska. Copley made 17 saves.

Phillip Danault and Sean Durzi scored for Los Angeles.