Victor Olofsson scored twice, Ross Colton also had a goal and the Colorado Avalanche beat Tampa Bay 3-2 in Denver on Tuesday night to end the Lightning’s five-game winning streak.

Scott Wedgewood made 22 saves for Colorado, which survived a furious surge at the end of the third period to improve to 3-0-2 in the past five games.

The Lightning pulled goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy for an extra skater and spent most of the final three minutes in the Avalanche zone. Wedgewood stopped one shot and was aided by his defense blocking several attempts.

Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point scored and Vasilevskiy turned aside 30 shots for Tampa Bay, which took its first loss since Oct. 23.

The Lightning struck early in the game when Kucherov stole the puck from Cale Makar behind the Colorado net and scored on a wraparound at 1:37 of the first period.

The Avalanche evened it up later in the first period on their first power-play chance of the night. Vasilevskiy made a save on Nathan MacKinnon’s close-in shot, but the rebound went to his left and Olofsson cleaned it up at 13:51.

Olofsson struck again in the second period on a fortunate bounce. Gabriel Landeskog fed Jack Drury in the slot, but he fanned on the shot. The puck went across to Olofsson, whose one-timer beat Vasilevskiy at 4:08 for a 2-1 lead.

It was his fifth goal in the past four games after he failed to score in the first 10 games of the season. Olofsson registered his first career hat trick against the New Jersey Devils on Oct. 28.

Colorado extended the lead 1:13 later when Colton got a stretch pass from Sam Malinski at the Tampa Bay blue line, went in alone on Vasilevskiy and backhanded the puck off the goaltender’s skate and in.

Point cut into the Lightning’s deficit early in the third period when he skated into the Avalanche zone, maneuvered around Devon Toews and roofed a backhander past Wedgewood at 3:32.

–Field Level Media

Marcus Johansson scored the winning goal to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 overtime win over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night in St. Paul, Minn.

Kirill Kaprizov and Zeev Buium also scored for Minnesota, which won back-to-back games for the first time this season. Brock Faber had two assists and blocked a team-high six shots.

Matthew Wood and Steven Stamkos scored for Nashville, which earned one point in the standings with a last-second goal that sent the game to overtime.

Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson stopped 32 shots to improve to 4-6-1 on the season.

Predators goaltender Justus Annunen turned aside 22 shots.

Johansson was credited with the goal that helped the Wild avoid a late collapse. He stood at the left side of the crease and shot toward a wide-open net immediately after Annunen kicked the far goal post off its moorings.

The goal stood after officials determined that Annunen intentionally dislodged the post.

The Predators evened the score at 2-2 with three-tenths of a second remaining in regulation. Nashville had an extra attacker on the ice, and Stamkos delivered with a one-timer from the top of the left circle.

The Wild opened the scoring on the power play midway through the first period. Kaprizov handled the puck at the top of the slot and fired a rising shot through traffic and into the net.

The sequence produced Kaprizov’s team-leading eighth goal in 14 games this season.

Nashville pulled even at 1-1 with 14:44 to go in the second period. Michael McCarron carried the puck toward the crease and flipped a backhand pass to Wood, who punched in a shot from the right side of the net.

The 20-year-old Wood lifted his arms to celebrate his third goal in 14 career games. The Predators drafted him in the first round (No. 15 overall) in 2023.

Another power-play goal gave Minnesota a 2-1 lead with 3:59 remaining in the second period. Buium skated toward the slot and redirected a long shot from the blue line past Annunen.

–Field Level Media

Wyatt Johnston got the shootout winner and had three assists to give the host Dallas Stars a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.

Mikko Rantanen scored twice to eclipse 300 career goals and had an assist, and Miro Heiskanen also scored for the Stars, who stretched their points streak to seven games (4-0-3). Casey DeSmith stopped 23 shots. Jason Robertson chipped in the Stars’ other shootout goal.

Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist and Vasily Podkolzin and Leon Draisaitl got the other regulation goals for the Oilers, who blew a 2-0 lead and lost for the second straight night. Jack Roslovic had two assists and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves.

Draisaitl scored in the shootout.

Heiskanen tied the game 3-3 with 7:40 left when he connected on a rebound off the back boards for his third goal of the season.

Rantanen’s power-play goal 9:10 into the second period made it 2-1.

He poked in a backhand shot while falling during a goal-mouth scramble for the 300th goal of his career, becoming the fourth player from Finland to reach that mark. He joins Jari Kurri, Teemu Selanne and Olli Jokinen.

McDavid restored the two-goal lead 7:51 into the third when he scored from the bottom of the left circle off the rush for his fourth goal of the year. McDavid hit the goal post earlier in the period.

But it only took 46 seconds for Rantanen to make it 3-2 with his seventh goal at 8:37 with a shot from the slot off the rush.

Rantanen hit the goal post on a breakaway about 12 seconds into the middle period.

Edmonton scored twice in the first seven minutes of the opening period to take a 2-0 lead.

Podkolzin opened the scoring 3:40 in when he tapped in a cross-slot pass from the bottom of the left circle off the rush for his second goal. The pass was a one-handed effort by Roslovic.

Draisaitl fired in a power-play goal at 7:07. He connected on his patented one-timer from along the goal line in the right corner. It was his 10th goal.

–Field Level Media

Winners of 11 straight games against Chicago, the Vancouver Canucks look to make it a dominant dozen when the Blackhawks visit on Wednesday.

The 11 consecutive victories are tied for the most in a row against a single opponent in Vancouver franchise history. The Canucks already added to the streak with a 3-2 shootout win in Chicago on Oct. 17.

Vancouver can become the fifth franchise to defeat the Blackhawks at least 12 straight times.

The more immediate winless drought on Chicago’s mind is the team’s 0-2-1 start to its six-game road trip. Chicago never led at any point over the three games, and forward Andre Burakovsky believes his team has been too tentative in its opening approach.

“We need to take command and set the tone ourselves. We can’t come out and have slow starts,” Burakovsky said after Monday’s 3-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken.

Burakovsky has been doing his part with a three-game goal scoring streak and six points over the last four games (three goals, three assists).

Connor Bedard has nine points (four goals, five assists) over a five-game point streak. The third-year star leads Chicago in assists (10) and points (16) and is tied with Ryan Donato for the team lead with six goals.

Arvid Soderblom faced the Kraken, so starting goaltender Spencer Knight should be back between the pipes against Vancouver. Knight has been solid in posting a .913 save percentage and 2.62 goals against average over nine games this season.

The Canucks are beginning a four-game homestand on the heels of a 2-1-0 road trip that they capped with a dramatic 5-4 overtime win over the Nashville Predators on Monday. Brock Boeser scored the second-latest overtime goal in Vancouver history, tallying the winner with just two seconds left in the extra frame.

Boeser’s heroics salvaged the win after Vancouver squandered a 4-2 lead. Nashville scored twice in the last 8:08 of regulation to equalize, but “we stayed calm when they tied it,” Canucks coach Adam Foote said.

“I liked the way we hung in there. We were resilient. … I was just happy that we stayed within ourselves. Should’ve won that without OT for sure, but that happens some nights.”

Vancouver is 4-0-0 this season in games decided in overtime or the shootout.

Boeser had two goals and an assist Monday, continuing an unusual all-or-nothing stretch for the forward. Boeser has gone without a point in six of his last eight games, but he recorded three points in both of the other contests.

Quinn Hughes logged 28:04 of ice time Monday after missing the Canucks’ previous four games with a lower-body injury. Hughes’ return is a big help to a Vancouver team still missing several regulars to injuries.

Conor Garland leads the Canucks in assists (eight) and points (11) but is questionable for Wednesday after missing the last three games with an undisclosed injury.

Thatcher Demko will likely be back in Vancouver’s net. Demko has a .912 save percentage and a 2.57 GAA in nine games, though he allowed four goals in each of his last two starts.

–Field Level Media

Pyotr Kochetkov made 25 saves in an impressive season debut Tuesday night and the Carolina Hurricanes earned a 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers, who remained winless on home ice.

Kochetkov returned from missing the first month with a lower-body injury after making one appearance for the Chicago Wolves on an AHL conditioning assignment. He made 15 saves in the first period and five more during a New York power play early in the second when Carolina was called for too many men on the ice.

Kochetkov posted his 11th career shutout and Carolina’s first of this season. His performance helped the Hurricanes improve to 7-1-0 in the past eight meetings with the Rangers.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored a power-play goal with 6 1/2 minutes left in the first for his first goal with the Hurricanes. Seth Walker scored late in the second after setting up Ehlers’ goal.

Seth Jarvis added an empty-net goal with 1:39 left by finishing off a breakaway and Mike Reilly collected an assist.

The Rangers dropped to 0-5-1 at home, breaking the 1943-44 team record for the longest home losing skid to start a season. The NHL’s longest home losing streak at the start of a season is eight games set by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1971-72 season.

New York saw a three-game winning streak stopped and was blanked for the fourth time on home ice this season. The Rangers have scored six goals on home ice this season and had one shot on goal in the final 20 minutes when it heard loud boos.

New York’s Igor Shesterkin stopped 29 shots but was beaten on a pair of screened shots late in the first two periods.

The Rangers took 13 of the game’s first 17 shots on goal but could not score and fell behind during Carolina’s initial power play. Shortly after Jarvis was denied by a sprawling save, he screened Shesterkin, allowing Ehlers’ shot from above the right circle to sail by Mika Zibanejad and into the vacated left side of the net.

Carolina doubled its lead on a similar play to the first goal. After Walker made the pass to Ehlers for the first goal, he stepped into a shot from above the right circle and sent it through traffic and into the net as Shesterkin was screened by Carolina’s Bradly Nadeau.

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Marat Khusnutdinov tied the game late in the third period and collected the only goal in the shootout Tuesday night for the visiting Boston Bruins, who edged the New York Islanders 4-3 in Elmont, N.Y.

Viktor Arvidsson and Pavel Zacha also scored for the Bruins, who have won four straight and five of six (5-1-0). Goalie Jeremy Swayman made 29 saves before stopping all three New York attempts in the shootout.

Boston’s streak started with a 5-2 home win over the Islanders one week ago.

Bo Horvat had two goals and Anthony Duclair also scored for the Islanders, who had their two-game winning streak snapped and lost for the fourth time in six games (2-2-2). Goalie Ilya Sorokin recorded 24 saves in regulation and overtime, including a point-blank stop of Charlie McAvoy in the final 20 seconds of the extra session.

Duclair snapped the scoreless tie 5:11 into the second period following an offensive zone faceoff win by Kyle MacLean.

The Bruins tied the score at the 12:21 mark on what amounted to an own goal by the Islanders. Arvidsson’s shot from near the left post sailed through the crease before bouncing off Anders Lee’s skate and trickling into the net.

Horvat put the Islanders ahead just 45 seconds later following a turnover by the Bruins. Emil Heineman got a piece of Morgan Geekie’s pass in the neutral zone before Mathew Barzal picked up the puck, raced up the right side of the ice and dished to Horvat, whose shot bounced off the left post and into the net.

Zacha started and finished the sequence resulting in the game-tying goal with 2:31 left in the period. The center intercepted Kyle Palmieri’s pass in the neutral zone before he headed towards the slot, where he buried a rebound of McAvoy’s shot.

Horvat capped an end-to-end sequence 5:05 into the third to give the Isles their third lead of the game. Palmieri passed through the neutral zone to Matthew Schaefer, who waited a beat before dishing to Horvat. With Nikita Zadorov standing in front of him, Horvat controlled the puck and beat Swayman gloveside.

Khusnutdinov tied the game in impressive fashion with 4:54 left, when he reached around Horvat and Tony DeAngelo, dove and put back the rebound of Fraser Minten’s shot past a sprawled Sorokin, who’d lost his stick.

–Field Level Media

Trevor Zegras scored in the first round of the shootout to lift the visiting Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.

Zegras, who notched two assists in regulation, took his time before wiring his shootout attempt between the pads of Sam Montembeault.

Dan Vladar stopped Cole Caufield in the second round of the shootout and captain Nick Suzuki’s backhand bid sailed wide of the net in the third, giving the Flyers their first road win (1-2-1).

The loss was the Canadiens’ first in six games this season that ventured past regulation.

Philadelphia’s Bobby Brink scored two goals and defenseman Cam York collected a goal and an assist.

Nikita Grebenkin scored his first career NHL goal midway into the third period and Vladar made 16 saves for the Flyers, who scored three goals in the opening eight minutes of a game for the first time since Nov. 2, 2011.

Montreal’s Kirby Dach scored two goals, Suzuki added a goal to extend his career-high point streak to 12 games and Ivan Demidov also tallied.

Defenseman Lane Hutson had two assists and Caufield added one while playing in his 300th career game.

Montembeault yielded three goals on the first five shots he faced before finishing with 38 saves.

Grebenkin leveled the contest at 4-4 with 9:09 remaining in the third period by wiring a shot that beat Montembeault, who had lost his stick.

With Philadelphia leading 3-0, Dach cleaned up a friendly carom off the end boards to put Montreal on the scoreboard at 3:12 of the second period.

Suzuki’s one-timer from the left circle trimmed the Flyers’ lead just 63 seconds later and Dach converted from the doorstep to forge a 3-3 tie with 6:32 left in the second.

With his team on the power play, Demidov wired a sharp wrist shot from the right circle that handcuffed Vladar to give Montreal a 4-3 lead with 4:03 remaining in the second.

Brink redirected defenseman Travis Sanheim’s shot from the point to open the scoring before York converted Zegras’ nifty backhanded feed on a 5-on-3 advantage.

Zegras’ sharp shot from the right circle produced a rebound that Brink converted from in close at 7:50 of the first period.

–Field Level Media