Matthews nets hat trick, Nylander scores in OT lifting Maple Leafs over Flyers 4-3
Thu, Feb 15, 2024
NHL News (AP)
TORONTO (AP) - Auston Matthews had a natural hat trick in the second period and William Nylander scored 54 seconds into overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.
Matthews pushed his NHL-leading goals total to 45, completing his fifth hat trick of the season and 12th of his career in a 7:49 span in the second period. He's on a 71-goal pace through 51 games, looking to become the first NHLer to hit 70 since Teemu Selanne and Alexander Mogilny each had 76 in 1992-93.
Ilya Samsonov made 29 saves. Mitch Marner had three assists, and Timothy Liljegren had two.
Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist for Philadelphia. Travis Sanheim and Garnet Hathaway also scored and Samuel Ersson stopped 24 shots.
RANGERS 7, CANADIENS 4
NEW YORK (AP) - Chris Kreider scored a hat trick, Adam Fox had four assists and Jonathan Quick made 30 saves as New York downed Montreal to match a season high with their sixth straight victory.
Mika Zibanejad added a goal and two assists for the Rangers, who also got goals from Will Cuylle, Vincent Trocheck and Kaapo Kakko. Artemi Panarin added three assists.
The Rangers, who equaled their season best for goals, scored four times in 4:10 during the second period after Montreal took a 1-0 lead in the first.
Cole Caufield had two goals twice for Montreal, which has lost three of four. Jake Evans and Juraj Slafkovsky also scored for the Canadiens.
PANTHERS 4, SABRES 0
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Anthony Stolarz stopped 45 shots for his seventh career shutout and Florida became the 11th NHL team to win 10 consecutive road games with a win over Buffalo.
Carter Verhaeghe opened the scoring midway through the first period and added an empty-netter. Anton Lundell scored by tipping in Matthew Tkachuk's point shot on a delayed penalty with 2:44 left in the second period.
Ryan Lomberg followed Verhaeghe's empty-netter with a goal with 11 seconds remaining.
Florida extended its franchise-record road winning with the run that is tied for the sixth-longest among NHL teams, and two short of matching the record held by Detroit (2005-06) and Minnesota (2014-15).
KRAKEN 4, BRUINS 1
BOSTON (AP) - Matty Beniers had a goal and two assists as Seattle concluded a five-game road trip with a win over Eastern Conference-leading Boston.
Jordan Eberle, Eeli Tolvanen and Jared McCann also scored for Seattle. Joey Daccord stopped 36 shots to snap his three-game losing streak.
Boston has dropped three straight and four of five, with all the defeats coming at home. David Pastrnak scored for the Bruins, and Jeremy Swayman made 22 saves.
DUCKS 5, SENATORS 1
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) - Mason McTavish scored twice against his hometown team to help Anaheim beat Ottawa.
The 21-year-old McTavish grew up in nearby Carp, Ontario. He has 15 goals this season, his third with the Ducks.
Frank Vatrano, Pavel Mintyukov and Cam Fowler also scored for Anaheim. John Gibson stopped all 15 shots he faced through two periods before leaving because of an upper-body injury. Lukas Dostal made 18 saves in he third period.
Claude Giroux scored for Ottawa and Joonas Korpisalo made 15 saves.
LIGHTNING 6, AVALANCHE 3
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - NHL points leader Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist as Tampa Bay beat Colorado.
Kucherov picked up his 93rd point on a goal that made it 4-3 at 8:13 of the third.
Colorado's Nathan MacKinnon, second in points, increased his total to 89 with two assists.
Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point, Anthony Cirelli and Nick Perbix also scored for the Lighting, who got 28 saves from Andrei Vasilevskiy.
Defenseman Bowen Byram scored twice for the Avalanche and Artturi Lehkonen added a goal.
KINGS 2, DEVILS 1
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Quinton Byfield scored on a power play with 5:37 left and Los Angeles rebounded from a seven-goal loss to beat New Jersey.
Anze Kopitar scored a short-handed goal and David Rittich made 27 saves as the Kings won for only the fifth time in their last 20 games (5-9-6).
Tyler Toffoli scored on a power play for New Jersey, which had won two in a row. Nico Daws was outstanding in goal, making 27 saves, including sensational glove stops on Kopitar in the first period and Adrian Kempe in the second.
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