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Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday:<\/p>\n

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AVALANCHE 9 FLAMES 2<\/p>\n

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Nazem Kadri scored twice on the power play against his former team as part of a 26-shot, five-goal first period and Colorado<\/a> cruised to a win over Calgary.<\/p>\n

The 26 shots is tied for second-most in a period in franchise history. The Avalanche finished with 49 shots \u2014 tied for their season high \u2014 as they increased their lead to eight points over Dallas in the race for the NHL\u2019s top record. <\/p>\n

Jack Drury kicked off the scoring spree 2:31 into the game, followed by back-to-back power-play goals from Kadri over a 66-second span. Captain Gabriel Landeskog and Parker Kelly also added goals before the first-period horn sounded. <\/p>\n

Nathan MacKinnon added his 49th goal in the second period, along with two assists in the third. Martin Necas, Sam Malinski and Artturi Lehkonen each scored in the final period. The nine goals tied a season high.<\/p>\n

Cale Makar notched three assists before leaving the game with an upper-body injury. <\/p>\n

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4 CANUCKS 2<\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Adin Hill made 22 stops and Vegas opened the John Tortorella era<\/a> with a win over Vancouver.<\/p>\n

One day after the Golden Knights fired Bruce Cassidy<\/a>, who led the team to a Stanley Cup title in 2023, they treated Tortorella to a come-from-behind victory.<\/p>\n

Rasmus Andersson, Shea Theodore, Reilly Smith and Cole Smith each scored for Vegas.<\/p>\n

Evander Kane and Brock Boeser scored for the Canucks, while Kevin Lankinen made 30 saves.<\/p>\n

MAPLE LEAFS 5 DUCKS 4 (OT)<\/p>\n

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 John Tavares redirected a shot from Morgan Rielly into the net with five seconds left in overtime to lift Toronto to a come-from-behind victory over Anaheim.<\/p>\n

The Leafs overcame a 3-1 deficit with three goals in the third period, including Rielly\u2019s snap shot from the high slot that beat Anaheim goalie Ville Husso stick-side to give Toronto a 4-3 lead with three minutes left in regulation.<\/p>\n

But Leo Carlsson, who hobbled to the locker room after taking a hard hit and falling to the ice in the first minute of the third, gathered a loose puck near the left circle and flicked a shot past Toronto goalie Anthony Stolarz to make it 4-4 with 1:39 left.<\/p>\n

Tavares added a first-period goal, and Stolarz stopped 28 of 32 shots for Toronto, which took the ice about 1 1\/2 hours after general manager Brad Treliving was fired near the end of his third season, with the Maple Leafs on the verge of being eliminated from the playoffs for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n

Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier scored in the first 10 minutes, and John Carlson scored his first goal for the Ducks. Gauthier, who leads the Pacific Division-leading Ducks with 38 goals and 65 points, suffered an upper-body injury on a cross-check late in the first and did not return. Husso had 22 saves.<\/p>\n

SHARKS 5 BLUES 4<\/p>\n

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Adam Gaudette scored with 21 seconds left, Alexander Wennberg and Macklin Celebrini each had two goals and an assist, and San Jose beat St. Louis to snap the Blues\u2019 three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

On the rush, Gaudette flicked a wrist shot<\/a> from near the left faceoff spot that trickled between the legs of goalie Joel Hofer. <\/p>\n

Yaroslav Askarov made 22 saves for the Sharks (34-31-7), who have 75 points \u2014 tied with Seattle and two behind Nashville for the final Western Conference wild-card berth. Los Angeles has 76 points, while St. Louis (31-31-11) has 73.<\/p>\n

Theo Lindstein, Pavel Buchnevich, Philip Broberg and Cam Fowler scored for the Blues, and Jake Neighbours had two assists. Hofer finished with 24 saves. <\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday: AVALANCHE 9 FLAMES 2 DENVER (AP) \u2014 Nazem Kadri scored twice on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[967,966,5,960,968,959,961,962,40,4,963,964,965,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-532447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-central-vancouver-island","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nanaimo","12":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","13":"tag-nanaimo-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","15":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-oceanside","19":"tag-parksville","20":"tag-qualicum","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116322603761425947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}