Mar 4, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Nashville Predators center Steven Stamkos (91) gets set for a face-off during the second period against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images Steven Stamkos completed a hat trick in overtime to lift the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 win against the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.
Stamkos fired a one-timer from the left circle at 2:39 of the extra frame for his 14th career hat trick.
Justus Annunen made 17 saves for the Predators, who have won three straight.
Alex Vlasic and Ilya Mikheyev scored for the Blackhawks, who are 3-0-2 in their past five games. Arvid Soderblom made 38 saves.
Flames 1, Canadiens 0
Rookie goaltender Dustin Wolf recorded his third shutout of the season and his career while backstopping host Calgary to a shutout victory over Montreal.
Joel Farabee scored the game’s lone goal for the Flames, who moved back into the Western Conference’s second wild-card position. Wolf made 26 saves in an excellent goaltending battle to pitch the goose egg in his team’s first game at home after a six-game road trip. He is the first rookie goaltender in franchise history to record three shutouts in a season.
Jakub Dobes, another freshman netminder, stopped 23 shots for the Canadiens, who had their streak of earning points snapped at six games.
Panthers 4, Sabres 0
Vitek Vanecek made 21 saves in his Panthers debut, and defenseman Nate Schmidt provided two primary assists as Florida defeated visiting Buffalo in Sunrise, Fla.
Florida has won six straight games, and the Panthers have never trailed during that span. The Panthers are also 19-for-19 on the penalty kill in those six games. A.J. Greer, Carter Verhaeghe, Anton Lundell and Sam Bennett (empty-netter) scored on Saturday for the Panthers.
Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 32 saves.
Senators 4, Rangers 3 (OT)
Brady Tkachuk scored his second goal of the game 33 seconds into overtime as host Ottawa stormed back for a victory over New York to move into the Eastern Conference’s first wild-card spot.
Tkachuk scored Ottawa’s first goal just over four minutes into the second and then capped the comeback with a quick shot from the left circle that sailed by goalie Igor Shesterkin’s stick. Ridly Greig and Michael Amadio scored in the final 9:44 of regulation to help Ottawa move one point ahead of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Artemi Panarin gave the Rangers a 3-1 lead by scoring for the fourth straight game 7:08 into the third. Carson Soucy scored 8:37 into the first and Mika Zibanejad scored 3:55 into the second, 11 seconds before Tkachuk’s first goal.
Kings 2, Blues 1 (OT)
Quinton Byfield scored the game-winning goal 27 seconds into overtime for Los Angeles, which snapped a five-game losing streak with a win over visiting St. Louis.
Anze Kopitar scored for the Kings off assists from Drew Doughty and Mikey Anderson, whose stickwork prevented the Blues from scoring less than a minute into the game. Adrian Kempe assisted on Byfield’s second overtime goal of the season, and Darcy Kuemper stopped 19 shots.
Nick Leddy, who missed 45 games because of a lower-body injury, registered his first goal of the season. Jake Neighbours and Zachary Bolduc earned assists for the Blues. Joel Hofer made 21 saves.
Oilers 5, Stars 4
Zach Hyman had two goals and an assist for Edmonton in a win against visiting Dallas.
Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist, Viktor Arvidsson and Connor Brown also scored and Stuart Skinner made 21 saves for Edmonton, which has won three of four following a season-long five-game losing streak.
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist in his first game with the Stars, who had their four-game winning streak snapped. Wyatt Johnston, Jamie Benn and Matt Dumba also scored and Jake Oettinger made 22 saves for Dallas in the opener of a four-game road trip.
Kraken 4, Flyers 1
Matty Beniers had a goal and an assist and goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves for his first victory since Dec. 30 as Seattle defeated host Philadelphia.
Tye Kartye, Chandler Stephenson and Brandon Montour also tallied as the Kraken snapped a two-game losing streak. Kartye and Grubauer were both making their first NHL appearances in more than a month after being recalled from Coachella Valley of the American Hockey League.
Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers, who dropped to 0-3-0 on their seven-game homestand. Samuel Ersson stopped 28 of 32 shots.
Bruins 4, Lightning 0
Goaltender Jeremy Swayman broke a personal six-game losing streak with his fourth shutout as Boston, depleted by an active NHL trade deadline, blanked host Tampa Bay.
Swayman made 26 saves, including an incredible stick stop on Brandon Hagel in front of an open cage with 15:40 left, for his 16th career shutout and first win since Feb. 4 (1-4-2). Boston won for just the second time in 10 matches (2-6-2).
In the Bruins’ first game since trading captain Brad Marchand on Friday and playing without injured defensemen Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm, former Lightning forward Cole Koepke scored twice for his first career multi-goal game and Nikita Zadorov added an empty-net goal. Mark Kastelic scored in his 200th NHL game.
Avalanche 7, Maple Leafs 4
Valeri Nichushkin had three goals for his first career regular-season hat trick, Nathan MacKinnon had two goals to reach 100 points for the season, and Colorado rallied with four third-period goals to beat Toronto in Denver.
Joel Kiviranta and Jonathan Drouin also had goals, Ross Colton and Sam Malinski finished with two assists each and Mackenzie Blackwood made 17 saves for Colorado. Nichushkin also has a postseason hat trick. He assisted on MacKinnon’s empty-net goal at 19:07, which was his 999th career point.
Mitch Marner and John Tavares scored two goals apiece, Auston Matthews had three assists, William Nylander contributed two assists and Anthony Stolarz turned away 27 shots for the Maple Leafs, who have dropped three in a row.
Islanders 4, Sharks 2
Jean-Gabriel Pageau had a goal and two assists for retooled New York, which beat host San Jose in the Islanders’ first game without Brock Nelson, who spent his entire 12-year career with New York before he was dealt to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.
Anthony Duclair scored in the first period, and Anders Lee and Adam Boqvist scored in the third for the Islanders, who have won four of five (4-1-0) to move within three points of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Goalie Ilya Sorokin made 38 saves.
Nikolai Kovalenko scored in the second and Will Smith had a goal late in the third for the Sharks, who lost for the 19th time in 23 games (4-16-3). San Jose has 43 points, the fewest in the NHL Goalie Alexander Georgiev recorded 24 saves.
–Field Level Media
