Cirelli’s OT goal lifts Lightning over Stars 2-1

TAMPA Fla AP Anthony Cirelli scored into overtime to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to their fourth straight win - over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night Brandon Hagel scored his first power-play goal in nearly months for the Lightning and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped shots for the mastery Adam Erne scored for Dallas which had its three-game winning streak snapped though the Stars still have points in five straight Jake Oettinger finished with saves Dallas alternate captain Tyler Seguin the second overall pick in the draft by Boston played in his th career contest to become the th participant in NHL history to reach that milestone With the encounter tied at Cirelli was able to skate in alone on Oettinger pull the puck to his backhand and push it past the Dallas goaltender for his sixth goal of the season Hagel put the Lightning who had just one win in their first seven games in front at of the second period on the power play FLYERS PREDATORS PHILADELPHIA AP Trevor Zegras scored twice and added an assist to continue his home ice hot streak and Philadelphia beat Nashville Zegras who leads the Flyers with points has at least one point in each of the organization s seven home games this season becoming just the third Flyer to do so in his first seven home games with the organization After a scoreless first period Zegras snapped a wrist shot past Nashville goalie Juuse Saros into the second period Zegras scored his fourth goal this season on the power play in the third period one-timing a pass from Cam York past Saros Zegras also picked up an assist on Jamie Drysdale s first goal of the season in the second period Dan Vladar made saves for the Flyers Vladar has not allowed more than two goals in any of his six starts for Philadelphia this season BRUINS SABRES OT BOSTON AP Marat Khusnutdinov scored into overtime and Boston beat Buffalo Alex Tuch s goal with left in regulation tied it wiping out Buffalo s two-goal deficit in the third period Morgan Geekie scored for the sixth straight meeting David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist and Mark Kastelic also scored for Boston Joonas Korpisalo made saves as the Bruins won for the third time in four games Khusnutdinov scored on a wrister from the right circle slipping the puck inside the right post Rasmus Dahlin and Josh Doan also scored for the Sabres who dropped their third straight overtime battle Alex Lyon stopped shots HURRICANES ISLANDERS RALEIGH N C AP Andrei Svechnikov had a goal and an assist Brandon Bussi had saves and Carolina beat New York Mike Reilly Bradly Nadeau Jordan Martinook and Jackson Blake also scored and Logan Stankoven also had a goal and an assist for Carolina The Hurricanes snapped a two-game skid and got the second win in five games Matthew Schaefer and Simon Holmstron scored for the Islanders in their third straight loss - - after winning four in a row David Rittich had saves The Islanders were without star center Mathew Barzal stated by coach Patrick Roy earlier in the day as a healthy scratch as discipline for being late to the rink Nadeau got the Hurricanes on the scoreboard into the event as he got the puck in the left circle and put it past Rittich for his first NHL goal It was the -year-old s third battle of the season and sixth of his career SENATORS FLAMES SO OTTAWA Ontario AP Drake Batherson and Tim Stutzle scored in the shootout and Ottawa beat Calgary Ottawa s Jake Sanderson redeemed himself for an earlier mistake by tying the tournament -all with remaining with a shot from the top of the faceoff circle The Flames benefited from Sanderson s giveaway with Nazem Kadri and Jonathan Huberdeau playing a give-and-go before Kadri beat Linus Ullmark who stopped shots at of the third Artem Zub made it - at of the third with a blast from just inside the blue line The Flames jumped to a - first-period lead thanks to a pair of power-play goals Ottawa gave up two power-play goals on four Calgary chances PENGUINS WILD ST PAUL Minn AP Bryan Rust had a goal and an assist Tristan Jarry made saves and Pittsburgh beat Minnesota to hand the Wild their fifth straight loss Rust s tip-in of Ryan Shea s long pass from the point broke a - tie into the third Ben Kindel added an insurance goal a minute later Shea also scored and Anthony Mantha had an empty-net goal for Pittsburgh which improved to - - on the road Jarry improved to - - since returning from an AHL stint late last season The -year-old goalie held the Wild scoreless on four power plays after they entered leading the Western Conference with goals with the man advantage Kirill Kaprizov had the lone goal for Minnesota which has lost eight of nine including four straight to start a six-game homestand Filip Gustavsson made saves Shea s slap shot off a loose puck outside the left faceoff circle tied it into the second period Gustavsson stopped former Wild forward Connor Dewar on a short-handed breakaway before Jarry made two point-blank saves to help keep it tied entering the third JETS BLACKHAWKS WINNIPEG Manitoba AP Gabriel Villardi had two goals and an assist and linemates Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor each had a goal and a two assists as Winnipeg beat Chicago Vladislav Namestnikov and Josh Morrissey also scored for Winnipeg and Dylan DeMelo had two assists Connor Hellebuyck stopped shots Teuvo Teravainen Alex Vlasic and Andre Burakovsky scored for Chicago and Spencer Knight finished with saves in the opener of a six-game trip The Jets scored quick goals in each of the first two periods After Chicago took a penalty at of the first period Namestnikov scored seconds later on a quick feed from behind the net by Gustav Nyquist An unlucky bounce led to the Blackhawks evening it up at Hellebuyck went to play a puck when it was dumped in the corner but it hit a seam in the boards and bounced straight to Teravainen as he was skating to the front of the net CANUCKS BLUES SO ST LOUIS AP Keifer Sherwood had a hat trick Jake DeBrusk scored the only goal in a shootout and Vancouver beat St Louis DeBrusk beat Jordan Binnington in the third round of the shootout to give the Canucks their second win in six games Kevin Lankinen made saves for Vancouver Sherwood s third goal came with remaining in the third period He picked up a loose puck in the right circle after a stick was broken and whistled the puck over the shoulder of Binnington who finished with saves It was his second career hat trick Sherwood has scored nine goals this season Jimmy Snuggerud Dylan Holloway and Pius Suter scored for St Louis which outshot the Canucks - but extended its winless streak to six games RANGERS OILERS OT EDMONTON Alberta AP J T Miller scored into overtime and New York erased a two-goal deficit to beat Edmonton Johnny Brodzinski Braden Schneider and Taylor Raddysh also scored for the Rangers who improved to - - on the road this season Darnell Nurse had a pair of goals and Matt Savoie had his first career goal for the Oilers who have lost three of their last four Igor Shesterkin made for the Rangers while Stuart Skinner made stops for the Oilers The Oilers got a bizarre goal to take a - lead midway through the second period as Nurse took a shot from a bad angle near the goal line that nobody initially thought went in until a review determined that the puck was sitting on top of Shesterkin s pads as he backed into the net SHARKS DEVILS SAN JOSE Calif AP William Eklund scored in the opening minute to set the tone for San Jose and the Sharks earned their first home win of the season by beating New Jersey Eklund scored on a breakaway just seconds into the battle with linemates Philipp Kurashev and Alex Wennberg adding goals later in the first period for San Jose Will Smith and Tyler Toffoli then scored late in the second period to break the meeting open and give San Jose its first win in six games at the Shark Tank this season Alex Nedeljkovic made saves Macklin Celebrini assisted on Smith s goal late in th second to extend his points streak to a career-best six straight games and give the -year-old points already this season The only teenagers with more in his company s first games are Bryan Trottier Steve Yzerman Wayne Gretzky and Sidney Crosby Dawson Mercer scored two power-play goals for the Devils who have lost two straight games to open their four-game road trip New Jersey had won eight in a row before losing - at Colorado on Tuesday Jake Allen made saves to lose for the first time this season after winning his first five decisions RED WINGS KINGS SO LOS ANGELES AP Lucas Raymond scored in the shootout and Detroit beat Los Angeles Marco Kasper scored two goals and Alex DeBrincat had a goal and an assist for Detroit Cam Talbot stopped shots through overtime and denied all three attempts in the tiebreaker as the Red Wings got their third straight win and eighth in the last games Quinton Byfield had a goal and an assist and Alex Laferriere and Corey Perry also scored for Los Angeles which snapped a two-game win streak and a six-game point streak - - Darcy Kuemper had saves On Detroit s first attempt in the shootout Raymond scored into the top right corner Talbot then denied Corey Perry and Kevin Fiala to preserve the win Midway through overtime Anze Kopitar had a great chance to win it for Los Angeles as he drove the net and tried to tuck it past Talbot but the goalie turned it aside Source