Joel Hofer made 34 saves through regulation and overtime and added three more stops in the shootout as the St. Louis Blues edged visiting Tampa Bay 3-2 on Friday to snap the Lightning’s 11-game winning streak.
Jordan Kyrou scored the decisive shootout goal and earned an assist for the Blues, who won their second straight game. Jake Neighbours and Nick Bjugstad scored regulation goals for St. Louis.
Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who fell one victory short of setting a team record. Tampa Bay also won 11 straight in the 2019-20 season.
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored, Darren Raddysh earned two assists and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves for the Lightning.
Hurricanes 9, Panthers 1
Nikolaj Ehlers had a hat trick to help Carolina finally break through against Florida at Raleigh, N.C.
Ehlers, who also had an assist, scored the game’s first goal and two of the team’s six goals in the final period for his sixth career hat trick. Nine Hurricanes had multiple points in Carolina’s highest scoring output of the season.
Florida’s Uvis Balinskis scored 1:19 into the second period to tie the score, but the Panthers had only eight shots through two periods. Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves in perhaps the most forgettable outing of his career as he allowed a career-high nine goals.
Ducks 3, Kings 2 (SO)
Tim Washe scored his first NHL goal and visiting Anaheim erased a two-goal deficit en route to winning in a shootout against Los Angeles.
Washe was playing in his sixth NHL game, his fourth this season. Ryan Strome also scored while Beckett Sennecke had two assists and scored in the shootout for the Ducks, who have won two in a row after a nine-game losing streak (0-8-1). Mason McTavish netted the shootout winner.
Joel Armia had a goal and an assist, Quinton Byfield also scored and Darcy Kuemper made 26 saves for the Kings, who have lost three in a row (0-1-2) and five of six (1-2-3). Brandt Clarke scored Los Angeles’ lone shootout goal.
Red Wings 4, Sharks 2
Dylan Larkin had the go-ahead goal and Marco Kasper ended a long scoring drought as host Detroit defeated San Jose.
Kasper scored his first goal in 37 games and added an assist. Alex DeBrincat scored his team-high 25th goal and J.T. Compher fired in the other goal for the Red Wings. Lucas Raymond supplied three assists and James van Riemsdyk had two assists.
Will Smith and Collin Graf scored for the Sharks. Smith had missed 13 consecutive games due to an upper-body injury. Macklin Celebrini, the league’s third-leading scorer with 72 points, added an assist. Yaroslav Askarov made 21 saves for the Sharks, who had won seven of their last nine games.
Predators 7, Avalanche 3
Ryan O’Reilly earned his first hat trick of the season and the seventh of his career, Juuse Saros turned away 39 shots and Nashville beat Colorado in Denver.
O’Reilly, who added an assist, last had a hat trick on Jan. 4, 2025, against the Calgary Flames. Two of his seven have come against Colorado, the team that drafted him in the second round in 2009.
Filip Forsberg recorded a goal and two assists, Steven Stamkos and Michael Bunting each had a goal and an assist and Michael McCarron also scored for the Predators. Roman Josi finished with three assists while Luke Evangelista contributed two assists.
–Field Level Media
