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BUFFALO http://www.sanjosesharksteamshop.com/authentic-joe-thornton-jersey , N.Y. (AP) — Jeff Skinner scored 3:06 into overtime after getting the tying goal late in regulation, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 on Friday for their eighth straight victory.Buffalo’s win streak is the longest in the NHL and the team’s best stretch since winning 10 in a row to start the 2006-07 season. Casey Mittelstadt also scored for the Sabres, and Carter Hutton made 31 saves.Brendan Gallagher and Andrew Shaw scored the Canadiens, who have lost three straight. Phillip Danault had two assists, and Antti Niemi stopped 37 shots.FLYERS 4, RANGERS 0PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sean Couturier scored a pair of goals, Calvin Pickard made 31 saves in his 12th career shutout and Philadelphia snapped a four-game losing streak by scoring three goals in the final five minutes, 21 seconds.Travis Konecny had a goal, two assists and got into fight, Jordan Weal scored an empty-net goal and Claude Giroux had three assists for Philadelphia.Pickard was in net because starter Brian Elliott and backup Michal Neuvirth are sidelined with lower body injuries. Pickard has made 10 appearances and has a 4-1-2 record.New York lost for the third time in 12 games. The Rangers entered with three wins a row.WILD 4, JETS 2ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Eric Staal scored with 2:31 remaining and Minnesota topped Winnipeg in an emotional, penalty-filled matchup.Nino Niederreiter, Eric Fehr and Zach Parise also scored for Minnesota, which trailed 2-0 after two periods. Alex Stalock made 26 saves while filling in for Devan Dubnyk, who was scratched with an illness.Patrik Laine scored for the sixth time in three games for Winnipeg, which has lost back-to-back games for the first time this season. Nikolaj Ehlers added his fifth goal of the season, and Connor Hellebuyck made 35 saves.DUCKS 2, OILERS 1, OTANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Rickard Rakell scored 14 seconds into overtime as Anaheim rallied to beat Edmonton.The Ducks earned their second straight win after a pair of overtime losses to Toronto and Colorado. Nick Ritchie tied the game with 16.2 seconds remaining, and John Gibson made 27 saves.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored a power-play goal for the Oilers. Mikko Koskinen made 24 saves, and Connor McDavid extended his point streak to five games.CAPITALS 3, RED WINGS 1WASHINGTON (AP) — Michal Kempny and Alex Ovechkin scored in a 1:56 span of the third period and Washington recorded its season-high fourth consecutive victory.Kempny snapped a 1-1 tie with a slap shot at 6:38, and Ovechkin extended the lead to 3-1 with his 16th of the season.Ovechkin and Tom Wilson each finished with a goal and an assist against Detroit. Washington goalie Braden Holtby had 31 saves.Andreas Athanasiou scored his 10th goal of the season in the first period for the Red Wings, who were 9-2 in their last 11 games before the trip to Washington.Jonathan Bernier finished with 17 stops.ISLANDERS 4, DEVILS 3, OTNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mathew Barzal scored on a his own rebound after being stopped on a breakaway at 3:40 of overtime to lead the Islanders.Jordan Eberle Womens Joonas Donskoi Jersey , Anders Lee and Nick Leddy also scored as the Islanders snapped a two-game losing streak and beat New Jersey for the second time this season. Thomas Greiss made 39 saves.Taylor Hall, Brian Boyle and Marcus Johansson scored for the Devils, and Keith Kinkaid made 31 saves. The loss was the fourth in 11 home games (7-1-3), with only one coming in regulation.GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2, FLAMES 0LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alex Tuch had a goal and an assist in his 100th career game to lead Vegas.The Golden Knights avenged a 7-2 loss at Calgary on Monday and marked the first time the Flames have been shut out this season.Colin Miller scored his first goal of the season, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves in his fourth shutout of the season. It also was the 52nd shutout of his career, moving him into sole possession of 24th place on the NHL list, one shy of Nashville’s Pekka Rinne.Calgary goaltender David Rittich made 26 saves. He entered with a six-start win streak and an 8-1-0 mark on the year.HURRICANES 4, PANTHERS 1RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jordan Martinook recorded his first career hat trick and Carolina defeated Florida.Martinook scored in the first period and added two goals in the third for the Hurricanes, who won their third straight game.Teuvo Teravainen also scored, and Curtis McElhinney made 34 saves for Carolina in his third win in as many starts.Troy Brouwer scored Florida’s only goal at 14:04 of the third period, spoiling McElhinney’s shutout bid.LIGHTNING 4, BLACKHAWKS 2TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tyler Johnson scored twice and Nikita Kucherov had three assists for Tampa Bay.Ryan Callahan and Brayden Point also scored for Tampa Bay, which improved to 13-0-2 in the past 15 regular-season meetings with Chicago. Louis Domingue stopped 30 shots.The Lightning (16-6-1) remained on top of the Atlantic Division, one point ahead of Buffalo.Artem Anisimov and Jonathan Toews scored for Chicago (8-10-5), which dropped to 2-4-2 under new coach Jeremy Colliton. Corey Crawford finished with 25 saves.BLUE JACKETS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 2COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cam Atkinson scored for the sixth straight game, and Columbus remained atop the Metropolitan Division with the win.Josh Anderson had two goals and Markus Hannikainen also scored, helping the Blue Jackets avenge a 4-2 loss at Toronto on Monday. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 32 shots for his eighth win.Ron Hainsey and Kasperi Kapenen scored for the Maples Leafs (15-8-0), and Frederik Andersen stopped 20 shots.BRUINS 2, PENGUINS 1, OTBOSTON (AP) — Joakim Nordstrom scored 1:57 into overtime to lift Boston past Pittsburgh.Jake DeBrusk also scored and Jaroslav Halak made 36 saves for the Bruins.Evgeni Malkin scored the only goal for Pittsburgh, which was trying to win back-to-back games for the first time in nearly a month.Tristan Jarry had 35 saves for the Penguins, getting his first start of the season one day after being recalled from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL after the Penguins placed Matt Murray on injured reserve Thursday.AVALANCHE 5, COYOTES 1GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — J.T. Compher scored a pair of short-handed goals in his return after missing 16 games due to injury for Colorado.Philipp Grubauer made 36 saves in his fifth win and first shutout of the season. Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen each had a goal and assist Justin Braun Jersey Kids , and Tyson Barrie also scored for the Avalanche.Dylan Strome scored a power-play goal in the third period as the Coyotes lost for the fourth time in five games.BLUES 6, PREDATORS 2ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan O’Reilly, Brayden Schenn and Alex Pietrangelo finished with a goal and an assist, and St. Louis snapped a three-game losing streak.Ivan Barbashev, Zach Sanford and Robby Fabbri also scored for the Blues, who posted their highest goal total in 11 games. Robert Thomas had a pair of assists, and Jake Allen made 26 saves as interim head coach Craig Berube earned his first win since taking over after Mike Yeo was fired on Monday night.Nick Bonino and Ryan Hartman scored for the Predators, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Juuse Saros was pulled in favor of Pekka Rinne after giving up five goals on 15 shots.STARS 6, SENATORS 4DALLAS (AP) — Miro Heiskanen scored two goals, and Dallas rallied to beat Ottawa.Jamie Benn, Taylor Fedun, Blake Comeau and Gavin Bayreuther also scored for Dallas.Ryan Dzingel, Brady Tkachuk, Maxime Lajoie and Zach Smith scored for Ottawa.SHARKS 4, CANUCKS 0SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Erik Karlsson had a goal and two assists and Joe Thornton surpassed a big milestone for the second time this month for San Jose.Thornton had two assists, moving him past Mario Lemieux for 11th place on the NHL list. The 39-year-old center scored his 400th goal on Nov. 13.Logan Couture, Timo Meier and Melker Karlsson also scored in the win.Sharks goalie Aaron Dell had 19 saves.Canucks goalie Anders Nilsson turned back 20 shots. Defenseman Shea Weber will make his debut as the 30th captain in the 109-year history of the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday when the Canadiens host the Carolina Hurricanes at Bell Centre.The 33-year-old was named captain in October, but has been out of the lineup after undergoing offseason knee and ankle surgery. He practiced with David Schlemko as his partner on Monday, was on the first power-play unit and led the team’s stretch at the end of practice. It will be Weber’s first game in almost a year: his last game was Dec. 16, 2017.“I feel good. I feel really good,” Weber told the team’s website after practice Monday. “There were a lot of ups and downs. It’s been a long time. It’s been frustrating, it’s been hard, it’s been grueling, but we’re here. I’m excited right now to get going.”Article continues below ...Weber said it’s been hard to watch his teammates without being able to help. The Canadiens are off to a decent start without him with a 11-8-5 record and were holding the second wild card position in the Eastern Conference on Monday. The Canadiens are coming off a 3-2 loss to the Boston Bruins on home ice Saturday and have slipped to 3-4-3 in their past 10 games, so Weber’s return comes at a good time.“If this was all in the summer, it would be a different story than watching 20 games of your team going to war every night and fighting and battling and not being able to help them,” Weber said. “Obviously, I’m just going to try and keep simple Youth Kevin Labanc Jersey , help out any way I can and hopefully help us move forward.”Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher said Weber’s return has the players as excited as the Montreal fans.“It’s going to be a big boost, but I think we’re all excited to watch him play,” said Gallagher on montrealcanadiens.com. “He’s one of the best players in our game for a reason. He has been for a long time. Just as a fan of the game, I think you’re excited to see him back on the ice.”With Weber’s return, the Canadiens placed defenseman Karl Alzner and his $4.27 million cap hit on waivers. If he clears at noon on Tuesday, as expected, he will be sent to the Canadiens American Hockey League farm team, the Laval Rocket. Alzner is the defenseman less likely to be claimed on waivers because of his contract.The Hurricanes are coming off a 4-1 loss Saturday to the New York Islanders in Brooklyn, a game in which the Islanders scored on their first two shots of the game. The Hurricanes, who lead the NHL in average shots per game with 39.9, were on their heels against the Islanders and will be looking to change that against the Canadiens.“We just didn’t come ready to go from the get-go. We knew what they were going to do. We talked about it and had a game plan, but from the first shift on, we didn’t do it at all,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour told NHL.com. “It’s a tough one because we wanted to keep moving forward, but, man, I’ve never seen us play that bad. That was really poor, to a man. Each guy — we didn’t come ready to go, and we got what we deserved.“We wouldn’t have beat a minor league team. That’s what we looked like out there tonight. I don’t even think they played well. It was a gross game for two periods. They capitalized on mistakes we gave them, and they hunkered down. They knew we weren’t fighting through anything. We made it pretty easy on them.”The Hurricanes are 4-5-1 on the road.“It wasn’t there (Saturday). We weren’t ready to show up,” Hurricanes forward Lukas Wallmark told NHL.com. “We win together, and we lose together. … We have to be better than that.”The Hurricanes called up defenseman Jake Bean and forward Valentin Zykov from the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL on Sunday. If he plays, Bean, 20, will make his NHL debut. He was the Hurricanes first pick (No. 13 overall) in the 2016 NHL Draft. He made his professional debut last spring with the Checkers after a dazzling junior career. The native of Calgary had 196 points (49 goals, 147 assists) in 219 games in the Western Hockey League.Zykov, 23, returns to the Hurricanes after a conditioning assignment. He had three assists in 13 games with the Hurricanes before being sent to Charlotte.