Brink’s shootout winner sends Flyers over Penguins 3-2

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Travis Konecny scored a milestone goal, Bobby Brink scored the shootout winner and had a goal and an assist and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Konecny notched his 200th career goal in the second period on a shot from the right circle, beating Pittsburgh goalie Arturs Silovs over his blocker. He became the 17th player in Flyers history to reach the 200-goal plateau.

Brink scored on the power play in the first by poking a rebound past Silovs for his third goal of the season. He also made a deft double deke move on a goal in the shootout. Sam Ersson made 24 saves for the Flyers, who won for the fourth time in five games.

Sidney Crosby scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season to force overtime for the Penguins, who have registered at least one point in seven straight (5-0-2).

Justin Brazeau scored his sixth goal for Pittsburgh and Silovs made 32 saves.

MAPLE LEAFS 4, FLAMES 3

TORONTO (AP) — Max Domi and Matthew Knies each scored two goals, and Toronto topped Calgary.

Knies also had an assist as Toronto earned its second straight win. Anthony Stolarz stopped 26 shots.

Domi made it 4-3 when he beat Dustin Wolf with 2:04 left for his third goal of the season.

Morgan Frost, Joel Farabee and Samuel Honzek scored for Calgary in the opener of a four-game trip. The Flames dropped to 1-8-1 in their last 10 games.

Frost opened the scoring for Calgary, beating Stolarz off the rush with a shot that went off the post and in. It was Frost’s second goal of the year.

After Toronto generated little offense in the first period, Domi tied it at 1 early in the second.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 6, HURRICANES 3

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jack Eichel scored twice in the final 4:59 to help Vegas beat Carolina.

First Eichel forced a turnover near the blue line with Carolina on the attack, then raced the other direction to beat Frederik Andersen for a 4-3 lead. Minutes later, he finished a feed from Ivan Barbashev to make it 5-3 with roughly 2 1/2 minutes left.

Tomas Hertl added an empty-net clincher in the final seconds as Vegas closed out a second win against Carolina in nine days.

Pavel Dorofeyev scored twice in the first period for Vegas, the second coming on the power play, and Brett Howden had a backhand-forehand finish at the crease on Andersen to tie it at 3 early in the third. Akira Schmid had 21 saves for Vegas.

Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov broke through in the opening minutes with a one-timer off a power-play faceoff win for his first goal of the season, which also marked Carolina’s third goal with the man advantage after a rough start to the season.

Jordan Martinook and Logan Stankoven also scored for the Hurricanes, while Andersen finished with 29 saves.

BLUE JACKETS 4, SABRES 3, OT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Miles Wood scored twice, with his second goal coming 2:53 into overtime, to rally Columbus to a win over Buffalo.

Zach Werenski and Yegor Chinakhov had a goal and assist each, and the Blue Jackets won their fourth straight road game. Jet Greaves made 35 saves, including kicking out his right pad to stop Jiri Kulich on a breakaway 40 seconds into overtime.

Wood forced overtime by tipping in Chinakhov’s shot with 6:05 remaining, and his two-goal outing came in his return after missing five games with what initially appeared to be a frightening injury to his left eye. He was hurt while chasing after a loose puck when Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton’s stick rode up beneath Wood’s shield and struck him in the eye.

Josh Doan, Ryan McLeod and Josh Dunne, with his first NHL career goal, scored for Buffalo, which is 4-1-2 in its past seven following an 0-3 start. Alex Lyon finished with 35 saves.

BRUINS 5, ISLANDERS 2

BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak had a goal and an assist to help Boston rally for a victory over New York.

Pastrnak, Elias Lindholm and Mikey Eyssimont scored during Boston’s second-period rally after the Bruins managed just four shots on goal in the opening period. Morgan Geekie added a power-play goal in the third and Fraser Minten had an empty-netter as Boston rebounded from a 7-2 loss at Ottawa on Monday night.

Charlie McAvoy had two assists and Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves for Boston, which won for just the second time since starting the season 3-0.

Bo Horvat had a goal and an assist for the Islanders. Kyle Palmieri also scored, and Ilya Sorokin finished with 17 saves.

DUCKS 3, PANTHERS 2, SO

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Troy Terry and Mason McTavish scored in a shootout, and Anaheim beat Florida.

Leo Carlsson had a goal and an assist, and Cutter Gauthier also scored to help the Ducks end a five-game trip with a victory in coach Joel Quenneville’s first game against his former team.

Quenneville, who coached the Panthers from 2019-21, returned to Sunrise for the first time since resigning as Florida’s coach after details of a sexual-assault scandal involving his 2010 Stanley Cup-winning Chicago Blackhawks squad were revealed in October 2021.

Quenneville was banned from the NHL for nearly three years for his handling of the situation before taking over the Ducks in May. He won three titles in 10 years with the Blackhawks and last coached for Florida on Oct. 27, 2021.

Carlsson buried a short-handed goal midway through the second period to extend his point streak to four games. He assisted on Gauthier’s power-play goal a couple of minutes later to give Carlsson a team-leading 11 points this season.

Lukas Dostal stopped 31 shots for the Ducks.

LIGHTNING 5, PREDATORS 2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Zemgus Girgensons scored two goals to lead Tampa Bay to a victory over Nashville.

Brandon Hagel, Nikita Kucherov and Charl-Edouard D’Astous also scored for the Lightning, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 18 saves. After winning just one of their first seven games of the season, the Lightning have won three straight.

Anthony Cirelli and Pontus Holmberg each had two assists for the Lightning.

Luke Evangelista scored a goal and added an assist and Filip Forsberg also scored, and Juuse Saros made 25 saves for Nashville, losers of two in a row.

Girgensons scored the game’s first goal at 10:31 of the opening period. He missed the first seven games of the season with an upper-body injury. He later added his second late in the third.

Hagel doubled the Tampa Bay lead at 15:37 of the second.

RED WINGS 5, BLUES 2

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dylan Larkin scored twice and Alex DeBrincat also scored to help Detroit beat St. Louis.

Ben Chiarot and Elmer Soderblom also scored, and John Gibson made 20 saves for the Red Wings, who had rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat the Blues 6-4 on Saturday night.

Brayden Schenn and Jordan Kyrou scored, and Jordan Binnington made 15 saves for the Blues, who have lost their last five.

St. Louis has allowed at least five goals in all six of its regulation losses.

Kyrou scored his fourth goal of the season with 4:24 remaining in the third period to give him at least one point in each of his last eight games.

Larkin scored his eighth goal of the season into an empty net for his 250th career goal with 1:07 remaining in regulation.

JETS 4, WILD 3, OT

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kyle Connor’s wrist shot 46 seconds into overtime gave Winnipeg a victory over Minnesota, its ninth straight win against their Central Division rival.

Connor scored his fifth goal of the season off a clean look from the slot after a drop pass from Mark Scheifele.

Nino Niederreiter scored the tying goal midway through the third period for the Jets, who took a 2-0 lead in the first when Gabriel Vilardi and Vladislav Namestnikov scored on deflected shots 22 seconds apart.

Kirill Kaprizov and Brock Faber scored in the second period and Marcus Johansson got the go-ahead goal on a power play early in the third for the Wild, who outshot the Jets 38-22. Johansson was credited with his fourth goal in the last three games when Faber’s shot bounced around the goal mouth and glanced off Jets defenseman Luke Schenn’s knee.