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GLENDALE Erik Condra Jersey Womens , Ariz. (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights couldn’t put away the Arizona Coyotes in regulation time, but they dominated overtime and picked up an important divisional win.Max Pacioretty stuffed in a rebound at 3:36 of overtime, and the Golden Knights beat the Coyotes 3-2 Wednesday night.The goal was the second of the night for Pacioretty, who also scored in the second period. Tomas Nosek also scored, and Marc-Andre Fleury had 19 saves for Vegas.Vegas had five shots in the extra period; Arizona had none.“We know how many divisional games we have here coming up,” Pacioretty said. “They’re all important. To be able to stick with it, kill that penalty at the end, was huge.”Derek Stepan scored twice for Arizona, and Darcy Kuemper had 22 saves. Both teams have picked up points in three of their last five games.Stepan scored at 19:08 of the first period and with 6:49 left in the third period. His second goal tied the game at 2-all. On the power play, Alex Galchenyuk fed Stepan, who had plenty of open net.The Coyotes got another power play with 1:55 to play, but couldn’t convert before the end of regulation.“There’s some positives to take out of the power play scoring a big goal for us,” Stepan said. “We scored a big goal to give our team a chance to win the hockey game. … We go forward with that.”Vegas lost a chance for a two-goal lead early in the third period. Cody Eakin’s apparent goal was reviewed and overturned when teammate Alex Tuch was ruled offside.The first period saw some hard hitting by both teams and a brief tussle between Coyotes center Brad Richardson and Golden Knights center William Karlsson. Arizona’s Christian Fischer had a shot bounce off the post late in the period.Stepan scored his fifth goal of the season with 52 seconds left in the first, when he redirected Jakob Chychrun’s shot past Fleury for a 1-0 Coyotes lead.Chychrun, playing in just his second game of the season, recorded his first point.Nosek took a pass from Reilly Smith and beat Kuemper with a shot over his glove at 5:50 of the second period, tying the game.The Coyotes just missed regaining the lead at the 11:32 mark of the second when Clayton Keller broke away with a long pass from Oliver Ekman-Larsson and hit the post with his shot.Pacioretty started the play that led to his goal late in the second period. He passed to Tuch, who sent the puck to Eakin Carl Soderberg Jersey , who crossed it back to Pacioretty, who netted a wrist shot.“‘Patch’ is one of those guys when he gets the puck in the net, he gets confident,” Vegas head coach Gerard Gallant said. “It couldn’t happen to a better player.”The Coyotes’ NHL-best penalty kill was 2 for 2 on Friday, and has allowed just five goals on 62 opponent power plays this season. Defenseman Alex Goligoski also returned from injury, playing for the first time since Nov. 8.“We need some individuals to play better,” Coyotes head coach Rick Tocchet said. “It’s too hard of a game for us. We don’t have the team to outscore teams all the time. We have to play a good, diligent game defensively.”NOTES: The game was the first of four meetings between the desert rivals. … Golden Knights F Tomas Hyka returned to action after being scratched from Monday’s game. … Kuemper started his eighth straight game with No. 1 goaltender Antti Raanta still out with a lower body injury. … F Josh Archibald served the second of a two-game suspension for an illegal check to the head from last week. … D Dakota Mermis was sent back to AHL Tucson after playing in one game for the Coyotes last weekend.UP NEXTVegas: Hosts the Calgary Flames on Friday night.Arizona: Hosts the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night. NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — John Gibson made 29 saves and Troy Terry scored his first NHL goal and set up another, helping the sending the new-look Anaheim Ducks beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Saturday.The Ducks have won two straight after a franchise-record 12-game losing streak.Daniel Sprong also had a goal and an assist and Derek Grant, playing in his second game with the Ducks after being acquired Wednesday, got the insurance goal early in the third period. Grant scored on a setup by Terry, who was recalled from the minors Wednesday.The Ducks made four trades in a three-day span leading to their shutout victory over Minnesota on Thursday night. Gibson also was in goal for that one.Marcus Johansson and Jesper Bratt scored for New Jersey.LIGHTNING 6, SHARKS 3TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Steven Stamkos scored twice and NHL points leader Nikita Kucherov added a pair of assists tp lead NHL-best Tampa Bay.Victor Hedman had a goal and an assist, and Alex Killorn, Mathieu Joseph and Yanni Gourde also scored for Tampa Bay, which is 6-2 since the Sharks ended the Lightning’s 16-game streak of consecutive games with a point on Jan. 5.Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves and recorded his 20th victory of the season.Evander Kane had two goals Gabriel Landeskog Jersey Kids , and Marcus Sorenson also scored for the Sharks. San Jose was without All-Star defenseman Erik Karlsson, who was a late scratch after participating in warmups.Martin Jones stopped 20 shotsRANGERS 3, BRUINS 2BOSTON (AP) — Mika Zibanejad scored two goals, Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves to take over sole possession of sixth place on the NHL’s career wins and New York won for the fourth time in five games.Filip Chytil also scored for the Rangers, and Lundqvist got his 446th win to break a tie with Terry Sawchuk and move eight behind Curtis Joseph for fifth. It was New York’s eighth win in the last nine meetings against Boston.Danton Heinen and Brad Marchand scored for the Bruins, who lost in regulation for just the second time in 10 games (7-2-1). Boston also lost starting goalie Tuukka Rask to a concussion late in the first period.STARS 4, JETS 2DALLAS (AP) — Brett Ritchie, Blake Comeau and Radek Faksa scored their first goals of the new year and Dallas beat Central Division-leading Winnipeg.The goals by Ritchie, Comeau and Faksa gave Dallas a 3-0 lead after two periods. Tyler Seguin scored in the third period. Ben Bishop made 15 of his 27 saves in the third period as Dallas snapped a four-game losing streak.Branden Lemieux and Kyle Connor scored 21 seconds apart in the third period, rallying the Jets to 3-2. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 36 shots for the Jets, who had won four in a row and were 18-6 in their previous 24 games.PANTHERS 4, PREDATORS 2NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Aaron Ekblad and Vincent Trocheck each had a goal and an assist to lead Florida.Jared McCann and Frank Vatrano had the other goals for the Panthers, who snapped snapped a seven-game losing streak with a home victory over Toronto on Friday night. James Reimr stopped 37 shots.Nick Bonino and Austin Watson each scored and had an assist, and Juuse Saros made 26 saves for Nashville, which has lost four of its last five.Ekblad got his 62nd career goal, moving him into first place in Florida franchise history for a defenseman.BLUES 3, SENATORS 2ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carl Gunnarsson scored the go-ahead goal with 7:44 left in the third period http://www.officialavalanche.com/authentic-adidas-j.t.-compher-jersey , lifting St. Louis past Ottawa.Vladimir Tarasenko and Vince Dunn also had goals for the Blues, who beat Ottawa for the fourth straight time. Jordan Binnington made 28 saves.Gunnarsson’s goal was his first in 29 career games against Ottawa, and his second goal overall in as many games. The Senators unsuccessfully challenged the goal, claiming Anderson had covered the puck moments before it was knocked free by Pat Maroon.Nick Paul and Magnus Paajarvi scored for the Senators, who lost for just the second time in their last six games. Craig Anderson made 35 saves.AVALANCHE 7, KINGS 1DENVER (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored two of Colorado’s franchise record-tying six second-period goals, Semyon Varlamov stopped 30 shots and the Avalanche routed Los Angeles.Colorado had six goals in a period for the first time since March 3, 1999, at Florida. Gabriel Landeskog, Tyson Barrie, Sheldon Dries and Colin Wilson also scored in the decisive period. Dries’ short-handed goal made it 5-0 and chased goalie Jonathan Quick. Carl Soderberg got things rolling with a goal in the first period. Ilya Kovalchuk ended Varlamov’s shutout big with a power-play goal in the third.FLYERS 5, CANADIENS 2MONTREAL (AP) — Nolan Patrick scored twice in the third period and Philadelphia beat Montreal for its third straight win.Travis Konecny and James van Riemsdyk also had goals and Michael Raffl scored an empty-netter, and Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists. Carter Hart stopped 33 shots while making his fifth consecutive start.Max Domi and Brett Kulak scored for the Canadiens, whose season-best four-game winning streak was snapped.It was the first of three meetings this season between the Canadiens and Flyers, who have now beaten Montreal in five straight games dating to the 2016-17 season.FLAMES 5, OILERS 2EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Mark Giordano, Johnny Gaudreau Youth Matt Nieto Jersey , Sean Monahan and Mikael Backlund each had a goal and an assist as Calgary beat Edmonton.Oliver Kylington also scored for the Flames, who have gone 7-0-1 in their last eight games. David Rittich stopped 22 shots.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Milan Lucic had goals for the Oilers, who had won back-to-back games before playing Calgary. Mikko Koskinen finished with 29 saves.GOLDEN KNIGHTS 7, PENGUINS 3LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jonathan Marchessault scored three goals for his second career hat trick to lead Vegas.Shea Theodore, Max Pacioretty, Oscar Lindberg and William Karlsson also scored as the Golden Knights improved to 16-4-3 at home this season. Marc-Andre Fleury, who spent his first 13 seasons with the Penguins, stopped 34 shots to up his record to 27-12-4.Marchessault scored twice less than four minutes apart in the second period to give Vegas a 5-3 lead. His empty-netter with 21 seconds left in the game completed the scoring with the Golden Knights’ first hat trick of the season and third in franchise history.Phil Kessel, Dominik Simon and Sidney Crosby scored for Pittsburgh, and Casey DeSmith finished with 28 saves.WILD 2, BLUE JACKETS 1ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Zach Parise scored his team-leading 20th goal and Devan Dubnyk had 19 saves as Minnesota held off Columbus.Jordan Greenway also scored his ninth goal for Minnesota, which handed the Blue Jackets their second straight loss. Newcomers Pontus Aberg and Victor Rask had assists for their first points with the Wild since being traded earlier in the week from Anaheim and Carolina, respectively.Artemi Panarin scored Columbus’ lone goal, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 29 shots.