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NHL Roundup: Rantanen scores first goal with Hurricanes in win over Blackhawks

RALEIGH, N.C. — Mikko Rantanen scored his first goal with the Carolina Hurricanes, helping them beat the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Thursday night.

Seth Jarvis and Jaccob Slavin also scored for the Hurricanes, who won for the sixth time in seven games. Pyotr Kochetkov made 18 saves.

Connor Bedard and Ilya Mikheyev scored for Chicago. Arvid Soderblom stopped 24 shots.

The Hurricanes got Rantanen from Colorado as part of last weekend’s three-team trade that also involved Chicago. He picked up an assist in Tuesday night’s 4-0 win at the Rangers.

Taylor Hall, who was traded from Chicago to Carolina as part of the deal, was sidelined because of an illness.

Rantanen gave Carolina a 2-1 lead in his home debut when he scored his 26th goal of the season 4:52 into the second period. Slavin added his fourth goal at 5:59.

WILD 4, CANADIENS 0

NHL Highlights: Wild 4, Canadiens 0
Marc Andre-Fleury posted 19 saves to earn a shutout in his final potential game in his home province to lift the Minnesota Wild past the Montreal Canadiens 4-0.
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    MONTREAL — Marc-Andre Fleury made 19 saves for his first shutout of the season in likely his final game in Montreal, helping Minnesota beat Montreal.

    The 40-year-old Fleury, from Sorel-Tracy about 50 miles northeast of Montreal, is retiring after the season. He has 76 career shutouts — three at Bell Centre, where more than 100 friends and family cheered him Thursday.

    Liam Ohgren and Devin Shore each scored their first goal of the season. Marco Rossi had a goal and an assist and Frederick Gaudreau added an empty-netter.

    The Wild improved to 3-0 on their five-game trip. They beat Chicago 4-2 on Sunday night and topped Toronto 3-1 on Wednesday night.

    Jakub Dobes stopped 23 shots for Montreal.

    LIGHTNING 3, KINGS 0

    NHL Highlights: Lightning 3, Kings 0
    Brandon Hagel recorded two goals and an assist and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves to pick up the shutout as the Tampa Bay Lightning blanked the Los Angeles Kings 3-0.
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      TAMPA, Fla. — Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28 shots, Brandon Hagel scored two goals and had an assist and Tampa Bay beat Los Angeles.

      Anthony Cirelli scored his fourth short-handed goal of the season for the Kings. The shutout was Vasilevskiy’s second this season and 37th of his career.

      David Rittich finished with 30 saves for Los Angeles, which has lost four straight. The Kings were shut out for the second consecutive game and fell to 2-7-1 in the past 10 games.

      Hagel opened the scoring at 4:45 of the first period and opened up some breathing room with his second with less than five minutes to play. Cirelli scored an empty-net goal with 1:17 left.

      JETS 6, BRUINS 2

      NHL Highlights: Jets 6, Bruins 2
      Mark Scheifele scored a pair of goals and Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves as the Winnipeg Jets dominated the Boston Bruins 6-2.
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        BOSTON — Mark Scheifele scored his 30th and 31st goals of the season and Western Conference-leading Winnipeg beat Boston.

        Vladislav Namestnikov had a goal and assist, and Nikolaj Ehlers, Parker Ford and Kyle Connor also scored for the Jets. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 27 shots.

        It was the fifth straight win for Winnipeg, which took the season series after beating Boston 8-1 in December.

        Brad Marchand and Elias Lindholm had goals for Boston, which has lost two in a row. Joonas Korpisalo finished with 21 saves.

        Trailing 2-1 and down a man with Marchand in the penalty box at the start the third period, Boston’s Pavel Zacha won a faceoff and found Lindholm, who muscled it past Hellebuyck to tie it. But 24 seconds later, Scheifele added his second goal of the night, followed by a tap-in from Nikolaj Ehlers to give the Jets a two-goal cushion just 77 seconds into the final period.

        SENATORS 5, CAPITALS 4 (OT)

        NHL Highlights: Senators 5, Capitals 4 (OT)
        Thomas Chabot scored the game-winning goal in overtime and added an assist, Josh Norris found the back of the net and notched two assists, and the Ottawa Senators topped the Washington Capitals in a 5-4 win.
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          OTTAWA, Ont. — Alex Ovechkin moved within 19 goals of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record, scoring on a late power play in Washington's overtime loss to Ottawa.

          Ovechkin scored his 23rd goal of the season to push his career total to 876. Gretzky scored 894 goals in the NHL.

          Ovechkin pulled the Capitals to 4-3 on a long wrist shot with 6:59 left. The 39-year-old Russian star then set up Dylan Strome’s tying goal with 5:29 remaining. Thomas Chabot scored for Ottawa at 1:46 of overtime.

          Josh Norris scored for Ottawa on a second-period penalty shot and Ridly Greig, Shane Pinto and Jake Sanderson added goals, with Pinto also missing on a penalty shot. Anton Forsberg made 31 saves.

          Stromme scored twice and Connor McMichael also scored for Washington. Charlie Lindgren stopped 29 shots.

          ISLANDERS 3, FLYERS 0

          NHL Highlights: Islanders 3, Flyers 0
          Marc Gatcomb scored his first career NHL goal and Ilya Sorokin made 24 saves in a shutout effort as the New York Islanders blanked the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0.
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            PHILADELPHIA — Ilya Sorokin made 23 saves for his third shutout of the season, Marc Gatcomb scored his first NHL goal and New York won their sixth straight game with a victory over Philadelphia.

            Simon Holmstrom and Kyle Palmieri also scored for the Islanders, who leapfrogged the Flyers and the idle New York Rangers in the Metropolitan Division standings and are three points out of a wild-card spot.

            It was the 21st career shutout for Sorokin, who won his fifth straight game and has allowed just four goals in that span. New York has outscored opponents 21-7 during its streak.

            The Flyers were blanked for the second consecutive game. Ivan Fedotov made 25 saves for Philadelphia.

            FLAMES 4, DUCKS 1

            NHL Highlights: Flames 4, Ducks 1
            Matt Coronato scored his first NHL hat trick, Dustin Wolf made 31 saves, and the Calgary Flames topped the Anaheim Ducks in a 4-1 win.
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              CALGARY, Alberta — Matt Coronato had two goals and an assist, Dustin Wolf made 30 saves and Calgary beat Anaheim.

              Coronato set up Ben Coleman’s goal that gave Calgary a 2-1 lead with 44 seconds left in the second period. Coronato doubled the lead with 3:50 left, scoring off goalie John Gibson’s turnover, and added an empty-netter with 2:23 to go.

              Frank Vatrano opened the scoring for Anaheim midway through the first period. Adam Klapka tied it 15 second into the second.

              Gibson stopped 26 shots.

              RED WINGS 3, OILERS 2, SO

              NHL Highlights: Red Wings 3, Oilers 2 (SO)
              Dylan Larkin scored in regulation and found the back of the net in the shootout while Alex Lyon made 44 saves to help the Detroit Red Wings pick up a 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers.
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                EDMONTON, Alberta — Dylan Larkin tied it in the second period and scored in a shootout to help Detroit beat Edmonton.

                Lucas Raymond also scored for the Red Wings in the tiebreaker, while Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins failed on their chances against Alex Lyon, who made 45 saves in regulation and overtime.

                Edmonton took a 2-0 lead in the first period. Leon Draisaitl scored his 36th goal of the season and Jeff Skinner also connected.

                Michael Rasmussen scored at 9:59 of the second and Larkin tied it with 8:13 left in the period.

                Stuart Skinner stopped 32 shots for the Oilers.

                BLUE JACKETS 2, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1, OT

                NHL Highlights: Blue Jackets 2, Golden Knights 1 (OT)
                Cole Sillinger played the overtime hero, netting his eighth goal of the season in the extra frame, while Elvis Merzlikins made 25 saves as the Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1.
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                  LAS VEGAS — Cole Sillinger, who missed the previous three games because of an upper-body injury, scored on a rebound 52 seconds into overtime to give Columbus a victory over Vegas.

                  Adam Fantilli, skating in his 100th career game, scored the other Blue Jackets goal, and Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots.

                  Tomas Hertl scored his 20th goal of the season for the Golden Knights and Ilya Samsonov made 22 saves.

                  Hertl extended his point streak to 11 games (nine goals, six assists), just one off the club record set by Jack Eichel during the 2023-24 season. It is the NHL’s longest active streak. Hertl also had eight goals in his past eight games.

                  Columbus has points in 10 of the past 12 games, going 9-2-1.

                  By picking up a point, the Golden Knights remained in a tie for first place in the Pacific Division with the Edmonton Oilers with 68 points.

                  Eichel’s goal streak (three games) and point streak (seven) ended.

                  KRAKEN 6, SHARKS 2

                  NHL Highlights: Kraken 6, Sharks 2
                  Brandon Montour scored twice, including the game-winner, and Chandler Stephenson tallied three points as the Seattle Kraken cruised to a 6-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks.
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                    SEATTLE — Brandon Montour scored two of Seattle’s four second-period goals and they pulled away for a win over San Jose.

                    Chandler Stephenson, Oliver Bjorkstrand, Jaden Schwartz and Eeli Tolvanen also scored for Seattle while Joey Daccord had 26 saves.

                    Carl Grundstrom and Tyler Toffoli scored for San Jose, which has lost six of its last seven games.

                    Montour broke a 20-game scoreless streak with his first goal at 2:54 of the second to give the Kraken a 3-1 lead. He scored again at 7:52 to make it 5-1.

                    Stephenson gave Seattle the lead with a goal 3:55 into the game, but Grundstrom tied it at 1-1 with a goal that bounced off Kraken center Shane Wright with just over two minutes remaining in the period.

                    Stephenson also had two assists.

                    Bjorkstrand put Seattle ahead to stay at 17:57 of the second.

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