Mats Zuccarello’s power-play goal with 4:38 left in the final period allowed the Minnesota Wild to snap the Los Angeles Kings’ five-game winning streak with a 3-1 come-from-behind victory on Monday in Saint Paul, Minn.
Ryan Hartman also scored for the Wild, who had lost four of their past five (1-3-1), and he assisted on Zuccarello’s game-winner.
Minnesota’s Marcus Johansson added an empty-netter in the final minute, and Jared Spurgeon notched two assists in the victory. Filip Gustavsson made 28 saves.
Adrian Kempe scored for Los Angeles, on assists from Kevin Fiala and Drew Doughty. Darcy Kuemper stopped 19 shots as he saw his four-game winning streak end.
Devils 2, Blue Jackets 1
Jesper Bratt and Timo Meier scored a goal apiece and Jake Allen shined in a 45-save performance as visiting New Jersey defeated Columbus.
It was the 20th goal of the season for both Bratt and Meier — just 39 seconds apart in the second period — as the Devils won for the fourth time in five games. The two forwards extended their point streaks to four games.
Mathieu Olivier scored for the Blue Jackets, who have dropped four straight games and six of the past seven. Jet Greaves made 18 saves in the loss.
Maple Leafs 6, Flames 2
Auston Matthews had two goals and an assist, William Nylander added a goal and two assists, and Toronto dismantled visiting Calgary 6-2.
Maple Leafs forward Max Domi also tallied a goal and an assist, while Nicholas Robertson and Bobby McMann added a goal apiece. Joseph Woll made 24 saves in Toronto’s second win in seven games (2-4-1).
Rasmus Andersson and Kevin Bahl scored for the slumping Flames, who have dropped three straight (0-2-1). Calgary’s Dustin Wolf was pulled after allowing five goals on 26 shots in the loss.
Sabers 3, Bruins 2 (OT)
Alex Tuch netted the game-winning power-play goal with 10.7 seconds remaining in overtime to lift visiting Buffalo past Boston.
Owen Power notched a tying goal for the Sabres at 12:48 of the second period, and he added two assists. Peyton Krebs also scored for Buffalo, while Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 17 saves.
Both of Boston’s goals came in the first frame. Morgan Geekie finished with a goal and an assist to pace the Bruins, and Pavel Zacha added the other tally. Joonas Korpisalo recorded 27 saves.
Lightning 2, Flyers 0
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 21 saves and Nikita Kucherov scored the game-winning goal with 89 seconds remaining in the first period for host Tampa Bay.
Jake Guentzel had five shots on target and added an insurance empty-net goal for the Lightning with 90 seconds to go in the third period.
Ivan Fedotov stopped 21 shots for the Flyers, who have dropped seven of nine games in March. Nick Deslauriers had seven hits in the game and Nick Seeler had six.
–Field Level Media
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