Casey DeSmith made 35 saves to help the visiting Dallas Stars win their sixth game in a row, a 3-1 decision against the Seattle Kraken on Monday night.
DeSmith, the No. 2 goalie for Dallas behind Jake Oettinger, stretched his point streak to nine games (8-0-1).
Matt Duchene, Wyatt Johnston and Mikael Granlund scored for the Stars (49-21-4, 102 points), who moved within four points of the first-place Jets in the Central Division with eight games remaining for both. The Stars’ Esa Lindell and Mason Marchment recorded two assists apiece.
Kaapo Kakko scored and Philipp Grubauer made 28 saves for the Kraken (31-38-6, 68 points), who have lost five of six (1-4-1).
Flyers 2, Predators 1
Matvei Michkov and Travis Konecny had two assists each, Ryan Poehling and Jamie Drysdale got the goals, and Philadelphia defeated Nashville for its third straight win.
Ivan Fedotov made 28 saves in the victory to snap a six-game personal losing streak.
The Predators’ Zachary L’Heureux scored his side’s lone goal, with assists coming from Michael McCarron and Brady Skjei. Justus Annunen stopped 16 shots but dropped his fifth straight start.
Devils 3, Wild 2 (SO)
Nico Hischier scored his fourth goal in two games and New Jersey defeated Minnesota in a shootout at Newark, N.J., to sweep a home-and-home set.
Luke Hughes had a goal and an assist for the Devils, and Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves. Paul Cotter and Jesper Bratt scored for New Jersey in the shootout.
Vinnie Hinostroza and Matt Boldy scored for the Wild, and Filip Gustavsson stopped 26 shots. Mats Zuccarello and Boldy were unsuccessful on shootout attempts for Minnesota.
Flames 3, Avalanche 2 (SO)
Ryan Lomberg and Adam Klapka scored 32 seconds apart in the third period, Yegor Sharangovich had the only goal in the shootout and Calgary rallied to beat Colorado in Denver.
Lomberg and Klapka added an assist each and Dan Vladar made 28 saves through overtime and another in the shootout for Calgary, which is five points back of the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot.
Cale Makar and Logan O’Connor each netted a goal, Nathan MacKinnon had an assist to stretch his home point streak to 25 games and Scott Wedgewood turned away 25 shots for Colorado. The Avalanche have dropped two straight.
–Field Level Media
