Auston Matthews may have scored another hat trick, but the Toronto Maple Leafs still bowed down, losing 6-4 to the Buffalo Sabres.
Matthews now has eleven goals this season. This is his tenth hat trick since the start of his NHL career. One of his goals, on the power play, was his 80th on the power play, which gives him the fourth most in this category in Maple Leafs history.
Alex Tuch found the back of the net twice in the victory, including his second into an empty net to break the hearts of Leafs fans playing at home.
Jordan Greenway, Jeff Skinner, Tage Thompson on the penalty kill and JJ Peterka on the power play have the other goals for the Sabres.
Mitchell Marner scored the other goal for the Maple Leafs. He also added three assists to his record by being an accomplice on each of Matthews’ goals.
With an assist, William Nylander had at least one point in the Maple Leafs’ first 11 games this season, a team record.
Montreal goaltender Devon Levi faced 29 shots while Joseph Woll received a burst of 39 shots.
The Capitals write their history; Johnny nailed to the bench by Pascal Vincent
The Washington Capitals signed the 1000th in their history, a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Washington needed 1,904 games to get there. His home record is 1000-655-249.
Blue Jackets forward Johnny Gaudreau was benched during the last 16 minutes of the game by his coach Pascal Vincent, who was unhappy with the effort of his star player.
The Capitals’ attack was focused in the first period as Tom Wilson and Sonny Milano found the back of the net to give their team a two-goal lead.
The Blue Jackets showed their teeth in the second period when Dmitri Voronkov just 1:38 in, but the attack stopped there.
Goaltender Charlie Lindgren shined in front of the Capitals cage afterward, facing 35 shots. For his part, Elvis Merzlikins faced 27 shots.
First setback in regulation time for the Bruins
David Perron had three points, including two in the third as the Red Wings scored three unanswered goals, and Detroit handed the Boston Bruins their first regulation loss this season, beating them 5-4.
The Bruins had only one overtime loss since the start of the season. They are now 9-1-1 after 11 games.
Perron finished the game with a goal and two assists. He notably broke a 3-3 tie at 8:56 of the third before setting up Andrew Copp’s goal less than two minutes later.
Lucas Raymond and Dylan Larkin each had a goal and an assist. Jake Walman has the other scorer for the Red Wings, who had only one victory in their previous five games (1-3-1).
David Pastrnak, James van Riemsdyk and Matthew Poitras all had a goal and an assist for the Bruins.
JVR and Poitras both scored their fourth goals to give the Bruins an early 2-0 lead. Raymond and Walman then scored to allow the Red Wings to tie the game.
Charlie Coyle put the Bruins back in control in the second before seeing the Red Wings take control of the game in the third thanks to goals from Larkin, Perron and Copp.
Pastrnak restarted the debate with his ninth goal with less than six minutes to play, but the Bruins were unable to tie the game.
Ville Husso made 26 saves to get his hands on his fifth victory of the season.
A 5th goal for Bedard
Connor Bedard scored his fifth goal of the season, Philipp Kurachev had three points and the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Florida Panthers by a score of 5-2.
The Blackhawks scored three goals in the first period. Nick Foligno opened the scoring for Chicago with his second goal of the season. Nikita Zaitsev and Taylor Hall followed with their first goals of the season.
Bedard then made it 4-0 with the only goal of the second period.
The young Blackhawks, who had not played in the last four days, were able to bounce back after being corrected 8-1 by the Arizona Coyotes during their last meeting on Monday.
Carter Verhaeghe was an accomplice on each of the Panthers’ goals, scored by Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Matthew Tkachuk in the third.
Petr Mrazek faced 40 shots from the Panthers. He repelled 38 to sign his third victory of the season.
Fleury and the Wild climb back up and slow down the Rangers
Mats Zuccarello and Matt Boldy scored in the shootout and the Minnesota Wild overcame a 0-3 deficit to beat the New York Rangers 5-4.
Wild starting goalie Filip Gustavsson allowed three goals on the Rangers’ first four shots before giving way to Marc-André Fleury, who made 13 saves on 14 shots.
Fleury also stood out in the shootout, confirming the Wild’s victory with a superb pad save against Vincent Trocheck.
Zuccarello also had a goal and an assist in regulation time.
The Rangers’ winning streak ends at six while the Wild ends a four-game winless streak (0-3-1).
The Rangers built a 3-0 lead on goals from Jimmy Vesey, Artemi Panarin and Erik Gustafsson in the first period, but the Wild then scored four unanswered goals to take the lead in the game.
Ryan Hartman, Joel Eriksson Ek, Zuccarello and Marco Rossi scored for the Wild during this sequence.
Chris Kreider then forced overtime with his eighth goal of the season.
In addition to scoring his sixth goal of the season, Panarin had an assist and was the Rangers’ only scorer in the shootout.
The Hurricanes play a dirty trick on the Islanders
Sebastian Aho capped a dramatic comeback by the Carolina Hurricanes with an overtime goal to give the New York Islanders a 4-3 victory.
Aho and the Hurricanes rallied from a 3-0 deficit to force overtime.
Aho also became the first player in team history to reach ten goals in overtime.
Trailing by three goals, Jalen Chatfield, Dmitry Orlov and Jesperi Kotkaniemi, with the tying goal with less than five minutes remaining, found the back of the net for the Canes.
Noah Dobson, Simon Holmstrom and Mathew Barzal gave the Islanders the lead.
Andrei Svechnikov for the Hurricanes and Bo Horvat for the Islanders both had two assists.
Antti Raanta made 22 saves in the victory while Ilya Sorokin stopped 44 shots.
A 29th shutout for Talbot
Cam Talbot made 24 saves for his first shutout of the season, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-0 to extend their point streak to six games.
Los Angeles got off to a fast start when Adrian Kempe and Anze Kopitar scored 18 seconds apart in the first period. Arthur Kaliyev and Trevor Moore scored in the second period and Blake Lizotte added a goal in the third period.
It was Talbot’s 29th career shutout.
Cal Petersen made 25 saves for Philadelphia. It was his first start for the Flyers since arriving from Los Angeles in an offseason trade.
The Flyers lost for the fifth time in the last seven games and were shut out for the first time this season.
Philadelphia played its second straight game without starting goaltender Carter Hart (mid-body) and No. 1 center Sean Couturier (lower body). Their condition is being assessed on a daily basis as goaltender Felix Sandstrom (upper body) was added to the injured list before the match.
