Brady Tkachuk scored his 200th career goal and collected two of his three assists in a four-goal first period for the Ottawa Senators, who netted the first six goals of an 8-4 victory over the host New York Rangers on Wednesday night.

Tkachuk joined Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Alexei Yashin as the fourth player to score 200 goals for Ottawa when he finished off a 2-on-1 to give the Senators a 3-0 lead. Dylan Cozens added a goal and two assists in Ottawa’s dominant period.

Jake Sanderson and Thomas Chabot scored in the second to chase New York goalie Jonathan Quick. David Perron scored in the third and Tim Stutzle added an empty-netter as the Senators posted their second-highest goal total in any game against the Rangers.

Rookie Gabe Perreault tallied twice and Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist for New York. Noah Laba also scored, and J.T. Miller and Mika Zibanejad each notched two assists. The Rangers dropped their fifth straight game (0-4-1) and have been outscored 30-12 since beating the Florida Panthers in the Winter Classic.

Golden Knights 3, Kings 2 (OT)

Mark Stone scored 25 seconds into overtime to lift visiting Vegas to its season-high fifth straight win as it defeated Los Angeles.

Stone had a goal and an assist, Braeden Bowman and Mitch Marner also scored, Eichel had three assists and Akira Schmid made 22 saves for the Golden Knights, whose winning streak comes on the heels of a five-game skid (0-3-2).

Kevin Fiala had a goal and an assist, Brandt Clarke also scored and Kuemper made 24 saves for the Kings, losers of four of five (1-2-2).

Devils 3, Kraken 2 (OT)

Nico Hischier scored twice, the latter at 3:42 of overtime, as New Jersey defeated Seattle in Newark, N.J.

Cody Glass also scored and Jack Hughes and Luke Hughes assisted on both Hischier goals for the Devils, who won their second straight following a four-game skid. Goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 15 saves.

Jared McCann had a goal and an assist, Adam Larsson scored and Vince Dunn had two helpers for the Kraken, who are 1-1-1 on their five-game trip that continues Thursday in Boston. Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 23 of 26 shots.

Sabres 5, Flyers 2

Captain Rasmus Dahlin scored twice on the power play to record the fifth multi-goal performance of his career, fueling host Buffalo past Philadelphia.

Ryan McLeod collected a goal and an assist and Mattias Samuelsson and Jack Quinn each scored a goal to help the Sabres secure their 14th win in the last 16 games. Buffalo won two of the three games against Philadelphia this season, with both victories being recorded at home.

Owen Tippett collected a goal and an assist and Trevor Zegras added his team-leading 18th goal for the Flyers, who saw their losing streak extend to a season-high four games (0-3-1).

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Mark Stone scored 25 seconds into overtime to lift the visiting Vegas Golden Knights to their season-high fifth straight win as they defeated the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 on Wednesday night.

In overtime, Jack Eichel took the puck behind the Los Angeles net and drew goalie Darcy Kuemper out of the crease before making a diving pass to Stone out front. The Vegas captain scored to extend his point streak to nine games.

Stone had a goal and an assist, Braeden Bowman and Mitch Marner also scored, Eichel had three assists and Akira Schmid made 22 saves for the Golden Knights, whose winning streak comes on the heels of a five-game skid (0-3-2).

Kevin Fiala had a goal and an assist, Brandt Clarke also scored and Kuemper made 24 saves for the Kings, losers of four of five (1-2-2).

The Kings tied it 2-2 on Clarke’s goal with 1:27 left in the third period and Kuemper pulled for the extra skater.

Clarke received a cross-ice pass to the side of the crease from Adrian Kempe and stuffed it through Schmid’s pads.

Vegas had scored on the power play to take a 2-1 lead at 12:07 of the third period.

Kempe was in the box for hooking Shea Theodore when Marner received a pass above the circles, brought the puck a few strides closer to the Los Angeles goal and then fired a wrist shot into the net from the right hash marks.

The Golden Knights scored the lone goal through the first two periods at 3:56 of the second.

Three players from each team battled for the puck in the corner of the Los Angeles zone. Eichel managed to nudge it back to Theodore above the left circle.

Theodore tapped it back to Eichel in the same circle and he spotted Bowman left unmarked in the right circle. Eichel slid Bowman a backhand pass and he had time to make a couple stick moves before lifting the puck over Kuemper’s glove for a 1-0 lead.

It was the first goal in 18 games for Bowman.

The Kings avoided getting shut out for the first time this season against the visiting Dallas Stars on Monday when they scored at 6:42 of the third period in the 3-1 loss.

Los Angeles ended Schmid’s shutout bid when Fiala scored at 6:24 of the third to tie it 1-1.

Schmid made back-to-back saves on Alex Turcotte and Fiala, and Noah Hanifin blocked a shot by Turcotte before Fiala got to that rebound and scored the tying goal from the bottom line of the left circle.

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Brady Tkachuk scored his 200th career goal and collected two of his three assists in a four-goal first period for the Ottawa Senators, who netted the first six goals of an 8-4 victory over the host New York Rangers on Wednesday night.

Tkachuk joined Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Alexei Yashin as the fourth player to score 200 goals for Ottawa when he finished off a 2-on-1 to give the Senators a 3-0 lead.

Dylan Cozens added a goal and two assists in Ottawa’s dominant period. Drake Batherson and Nick Jensen scored in the opening 4:53 before Tkachuk and Cozens scored in the final five minutes of the period.

Jake Sanderson and Thomas Chabot scored in the second to chase New York goalie Jonathan Quick. David Perron scored in the third and Tim Stutzle added an empty-netter as the Senators posted their second-highest goal total in any game against the Rangers.

Ridly Greig contributed a career-best three assists by setting up the final three goals of the opening period as the Senators recorded their top goal total of the season.

Ottawa goalie Leevi Merilainen made 18 saves.

Rookie Gabe Perreault tallied twice and Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist for New York. Noah Laba also scored, and J.T. Miller and Mika Zibanejad each notched two assists.

The Rangers dropped their fifth straight game (0-4-1) and have been outscored 30-12 since beating the Florida Panthers in the Winter Classic. New York also dropped to 5-13-4 at home and heard boos throughout along with various chants calling for general manager Chris Drury to be fired.

Quick allowed six goals on 17 shots and dropped to 0-9-2 in his past 11 appearances. He has allowed 19 goals while starting each of the past four games since Igor Shesterkin was placed on injured reserve with a lower-body injury.

Spencer Martin relieved Quick and stopped 11 of 12 shots.

Batherson tapped the rebound of a Cozens shot into the open net during a power play 2:18 into the game. Jensen then took a shot from the left point that deflected in off New York defenseman Braden Schneider.

Tkachuk finished off a 2-on-1 with Cozens with 4:59 left in the first following a giveaway by New York defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov for a 3-0 lead. Cozens easily scored from the middle of the slot in the final seconds to end the opening period.

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Captain Rasmus Dahlin scored twice on the power play to record the fifth multi-goal performance of his career, fueling the host Buffalo Sabres to a 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday.

Ryan McLeod collected a goal and an assist and Mattias Samuelsson and Jack Quinn each scored a goal to help the Sabres secure their 14th win in the last 16 games.

Buffalo won two of the three games against Philadelphia this season, with both victories being recorded at home.

Josh Doan and Tage Thompson each notched two assists and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 20 saves to improve to 8-1-0 at home this season. Luukkonen arguably made his best save by flashing his glove to deny an unmarked Nikita Grebenkin near the right post, preserving a scoreless tie just over six minutes into the first period.

Owen Tippett collected a goal and an assist and Trevor Zegras added his team-leading 18th goal for the Flyers, who saw their losing streak extend to a season-high four games (0-3-1).

Dan Vladar yielded two goals on five shots before being replaced by Samuel Ersson, who made six saves.

Dahlin skated along the outer edge of the right circle before wristing a shot past Vladar to open the scoring at 9:30 of the first period.

Noah Ostlund skated across the blue line and floated the puck into the slot for Samuelsson, who swept the puck past Vladar to give Buffalo a 2-0 lead. The goal was the eighth of the season for Samuelsson, who scored just seven times in his previous five seasons in the NHL.

Stationed behind the net, McLeod wristed a centering feed that was converted in front by Quinn at 4:22 of the second period.

Tippett scored just over six minutes later for his sixth goal in his last 12 games for the Flyers before Dahlin converted from the slot to regain his team’s three-goal advantage with 6:09 remaining in the second period.

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The Utah Mammoth look to extend their point streak to six games when they face the suddenly scuffling Dallas Stars on Thursday in Salt Lake City.

The Stars sit 13 points ahead of the Mammoth in the standings, but the gap has been narrowing between the Central Division rivals. Dallas is 2-4-4 in its last 10 games, while the Mammoth are 4-0-1 in their last five outings.

Utah’s most recent victory came over another red-hot team. The Toronto Maple Leafs took a 10-game point streak (8-0-2) into Tuesday’s clash in Salt Lake City, but the Mammoth outshot the Leafs 40-20 in a 6-1 rout.

Utah is 3-0-1 over the first four matchups of its season-long seven-game homestand. Before this home swing, 26 of the Mammoth’s first 43 games were on the road.

“I think we’ve talked about this stretch for a little bit, and have looked forward to getting a little bit of time at home,” Utah forward Dylan Guenther said. “So it’s nice to be getting points, and we play a really good (Dallas) team next game, so just make sure that we’re ready to go.”

The Stars are 15-5-6 in away games, posting the second-most road points (36) in the league. Utah is the final stop on a six-game road trip that has seen Dallas post a 2-2-1 record.

The grueling schedule may have caught up to Dallas in Tuesday’s 3-1 loss to the Anaheim Ducks. Coming off a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday, the Stars didn’t look sharp in the second half of the back-to-back, and lost to a team that had been on a nine-game winless streak (0-8-1).

While the Stars were inevitably due for a slump after their early-season dominance, coach Glen Gulutzan warned that “we have to be ready for” such “desperate” opponents like Anaheim.

“The league’s just getting tighter and tighter. … We have to keep grinding out points, and it is a grind to get points,” Gulutzan said. “You talk to anybody in the league. It’s tough night in and night out. There’s lots of parity. We’ve got to get going here a little bit.”

Dallas defenseman Miro Heiskanen missed Tuesday’s game due to a personal matter and is questionable for Thursday.

Jake Oettinger is expected to start against Utah. Oettinger has struggled recently with a 4.08 goals against average and .843 save percentage in his last four games, but played well in stopping 24 of 25 Kings shots Monday.

Karel Vejmelka should be back in the Mammoth’s net. Vejmelka has a league-high 21 wins with a 2.58 GAA and .900 save percentage over 35 starts.

Mikko Rantanen leads the Stars in assists (44) and points (62), while Jason Robertson has a team-leading 27 goals. Clayton Keller tops the Mammoth in assists (30) and points (43) while Guenther leads them with 23 goals.

The Stars’ elite power-play unit has gone cold, going only 2-for-20 over their last nine games. Dallas’ 28.5% power-play percentage for the season still ranks near the top of the NHL, while the Mammoth’s 15.4% mark sits near the bottom.

In their first meeting, the Stars earned a 4-3 home win Nov. 28.

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Nico Hischier scored twice, the latter at 3:42 of overtime, as the New Jersey Devils defeated the Seattle Kraken 3-2 Wednesday night in Newark, N.J.

Cody Glass also scored and Jack Hughes and Luke Hughes each had two assists for the Devils, who won their second straight following a four-game skid. Goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 15 saves.

Jared McCann had a goal and an assist, Adam Larsson scored and Vince Dunn had two helpers for the Kraken, who are 1-1-1 on their five-game trip that continues Thursday in Boston. Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 23 of 26 shots.

Hischier skated down the right wing in overtime, faked going across the top of the crease and stuffed a backhander past Grubauer and inside the near post for the winner.

The score was tied at 1-1 after the first period and 2-2 after two.

Glass gave the Devils a 1-0 lead just 54 seconds in. Dougie Hamilton’s shot from the blue line deflected off Seattle forward Eeli Tolvanen on its way to the net, handcuffing Grubauer. The goalie made the initial save but left a juicy rebound that Glass put into the net.

The Kraken tied it at 8:55 as McCann carried the puck over the blue line and left a drop pass for Larsson. The defenseman’s wrist shot from the top of the right faceoff circle beat Markstrom.

The Devils went back up on the power play at 3:33 of the second. Jack Hughes sent a cross-ice pass to Hischier and his slap shot from the top of the right faceoff circle snuck just inside the far post.

The Kraken equaled the score with the man advantage at 5:06. Dunn broke his stick on a slap shot from the blue line, sending the puck knuckling toward the net. Markstrom made a sprawling kick save but McCann lifted the rebound over the goalie.

Kraken forward Chandler Stephenson returned after missing the previous two games due to the birth of a child.

Devils defenseman Simon Nemec was back in after being scratched from Monday’s 5-2 victory at Minnesota.

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