Shea Theodore, Phil Kessel, Jack Eichel, Michael Amadio and William Carrier each had a goal and an assist, and the Vegas Golden Knights scored five times in the third period to cruise to a 7-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas.

Paul Cotter and Brett Howden also scored goals for Vegas, which increased its Pacific Division lead to three points with its third consecutive victory. Reilly Smith and William Karlsson each added two assists.

Adin Hill made 23 saves for the Golden Knights to improve to 5-0-1 all-time against the Ducks.

Isac Lundestrom had a goal and an assist and Frank Vatrano also scored for Anaheim. John Gibson, coming off a franchise-record 53-save performance in a 6-3 loss to Pittsburgh on Friday, finished with 32 saves.

Canadiens 6, Oilers 2

Alex Belzile scored his first career NHL goal and Jordan Harris recorded his first career two-goal game as host Montreal held Connor McDavid off the scoresheet and claimed a victory over Edmonton.

Josh Anderson, Rafael Harvey-Pinard and Christian Dvorak also scored for the Canadiens, while Evgenii Dadonov and Jonathan Drouin both collected two assists.

Goaltender Jake Allen sparkled while making 29 saves, including seven against McDavid, who saw his point streak snapped at 15 games. Leon Draisaitl and Evander Kane found the net for the Oilers.

Kraken 4, Flyers 3

Jaden Schwartz scored two goals to lift Seattle past host Philadelphia.

Jordan Eberle had one goal and one assist and Eeli Tolvanen added a goal for the Kraken, who snapped a three-game losing streak. Alex Wennberg contributed two assists and Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 15 saves.

Owen Tippett had one goal and one assist for the Flyers, who have dropped two straight. James van Riemsdyk and Patrick Brown each added one goal. Tippett and van Riemsdyk each had shots blocked in the final 10 seconds.

Sharks 4, Capitals 1

Erik Karlsson had a goal and two assists for visiting San Jose in a win over Washington.

Tomas Hertl and Alexander Barabanov each had a goal and an assist and Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 12 of 13 shots for the Sharks before leaving with an upper-body injury late in the second period. Aaron Dell replaced him and stopped all eight shots.

Evgeny Kuznetsov scored, and Charlie Lindgren made 29 saves for the Capitals.

–Field Level Media

The Detroit Red Wings are seven points out of a wild-card spot and must vault four squads to reach the Stanley Cup playoffs, but they have not given up hope.

As they kick off a five-game road trip by facing the Vancouver Canucks on Monday in the second half of a home-and-home series, the Red Wings are riding a modest two-game winning streak.

After claiming a 2-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday and a 5-2 triumph over the Canucks Saturday, the Red Wings are looking to win three consecutive outings for the first time since late November.

“The last two wins have been huge, huge for our confidence,” said captain Dylan Larkin, who netted two goals and an assist Saturday. “We just need to really bring it against Vancouver again and start the road trip out on the right foot.”

Detroit scored a pair of early goals Saturday and never relinquished the lead.

“Some of the top teams in our league can have an off-night and win. That’s not us,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “This just gives us an opportunity to build off something because this will be a really tough road trip against four good teams, including against two we just beat.”

Having faith that a playoff push is possible adds excitement for the Red Wings.

“We’ve set goals and need to get there,” said Larkin, who has netted three goals and five points in a three-game point streak. “We need some wins, a lot of wins, but there hasn’t been one guy that doesn’t seem like he’s not into going for it. That’s been very refreshing.”

The Canucks, who have only four victories in their last 15 outings (4-10-1), return home after managing just one win during a four-game trip. Defense remains an issue for Vancouver, which surrendered 19 goals on the trip.

“There’s a history here of giving up a lot of freebie goals and we have to clean that up,” Canucks coach Rick Tocchet said. “There was a lot of good things (on the road trip), but if you want to play a fast style of play, you’ve got to be in shape. I think this team has another level of fitness.”

In the seven games since Tocchet took over as coach, the Canucks have a 3-3-1 record in which they have allowed 29 opposing tallies. They trailed by two or more goals in all four games on the road trip. In Detroit, it was 2-0 Red Wings by the 2:35 mark of the first.

“Just a lot of shooting ourselves in the foot,” Vancouver forward Dakota Joshua said. “Not the winning recipe that we came into the game with, and then you catch yourself trying to battle back for pretty much 55 minutes of the game. Not a good recipe.”

Amid their struggles to win, the Canucks have a few players providing offense. Elias Pettersson has netted six goals and eight points during a five-game point streak, while J.T. Miller has six assists in five games and defenseman Quinn Hughes has tallied five helpers in three outings.

Anthony Beauvillier, who was acquired in the trade that sent Bo Horvat to the New York Islanders, has scored one goal in each of the last two games.

–Field Level Media

The Buffalo Sabres will be out to rebound from a three-game skid when they begin a three-game road trip through California with a visit to the Los Angeles Kings on Monday.

The Sabres are coming off a 7-2 loss to the Calgary Flames on Saturday, a contest in which Buffalo jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period before collapsing in the second, allowing four goals in a span of 5:22, including three in 1:47.

It was the Sabres’ first game since Feb. 1 following the All-Star break. They’re 0-2-1 in their past three games after a five-game winning streak.

“For sure disappointing, but let’s not hit the panic button right now,” Buffalo captain Kyle Okposo said Saturday after the game. “I don’t think anybody in here is going to tell you they played a good game. Once we kind of settle in here, get back into a groove, I think we re-evaluate.”

Sabres coach Don Granato put his squad through a fast-paced practice Sunday in Los Angeles, during which he stopped a drill and made them skate sprints after he was unhappy with the way the session started, per The Buffalo News.

He also tweaked the forward lines, with Dylan Cozens moving up to center Jeff Skinner and Alex Tuch while Tage Thompson was flanked by Casey Mittelstadt and Okposo.

“The issue that we had (Saturday), it’s not going to be solved with strategy. It’s going to be solved with work ethic,” Granato said. “That was the message before practice, that we were going to have probably our hardest practice of the year. It was right up there with it.”

The Sabres have been very much at home on the road, going 15-7-2 away from Buffalo. They’ve been especially comfortable when traveling through the Western Conference, with a 10-1-2 record as the visitor against those opponents.

The Kings will try to build off a 6-0 shellacking of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, their fourth win in the past six games (4-1-1).

Los Angeles was bumped down from second place in the Pacific Division to the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference on Sunday thanks to a Seattle Kraken victory. The Kraken, Edmonton Oilers and Kings all have 65 points.

Pheonix Copley has been a big part of the Kings’ push, going 16-3-1 since making his Kings debut on Dec. 6. The 31-year-old’s efforts between the pipes earned him a one-year, $1.5 million contract extension on Friday.

“My mindset was just to try and earn an opportunity and see where it took me,” Copley said. “I’ve always had the confidence that I can win games at this level and it’s hard to get an opportunity. … Once that came, just see what would happen and do my best to make the most of it.”

At the other end of the ice, Adrian Kempe has been on a roll of late, with 15 points (11 goals, four assists) in his past 11 games. He has six goals in his past two games after notching four against the Penguins on Saturday, and he leads the Kings with 26 on the season.

–Field Level Media

This has been a season of adjustment for Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett.

On Monday night, Bennett and the Panthers will open a four-game road trip by visiting the Minnesota Wild in Saint Paul, Minn.

Bennett, who scored a career-high 28 goals last season in his first full campaign with the Panthers, has thrived despite some changes around him.

First, interim coach Andrew Brunette was replaced by Paul Maurice, who brought in a more structured system.

Then Jonathan Huberdeau, who had a monster year and led the Panthers last season in points (115) and assists (85), was traded, and Anthony Duclair, who scored a career-high 31 goals, ruptured his Achilles tendon in the summer.

Suddenly, both of Bennett’s linemates were gone.

“With Duclair and Huberdeau, it was all speed,” said Bennett, who has just 14 goals in 54 games this season. “Now it’s more in-zone plays — grinding it out. It’s a different game, more battles.”

To be fair, Bennett still has excellent linemates — Matthew Tkachuk, who leads Florida in assists (46) and points (73), and Carter Verhaeghe, who tops the team in goals (28).

Those two have helped Bennett, 26, tie his career high in assists with 21. Bennett has plenty of time to smash that personal best, and he needs just 15 points to get a career high there, too.

In other words, other than his goal-scoring number declining, it hasn’t been too bad for Bennett, who has quickly earned respect from Maurice.

“(Bennett) is one of those throwback guys,” Maurice said of Bennett, who was Calgary’s first-round pick, fourth overall, in 2014. “He says about 10 words a year, and he works his (butt) off every shift.”

The Panthers lost 5-3 to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday but have won three of their past four games. They will face a Wild team that is coming off a 3-2 shootout win over New Jersey on Saturday.

Minnesota is 1-1-0 so far in a seven-game homestand.

Since Jan. 7, however, the Wild have lost nine of 15 games. During this span, they have suffered three losing streaks of three games apiece. They also have one three-game winning streak.

The Wild have one of the top-rated farm systems in the NHL, and the latest evidence of that is winger Matt Boldy, who tallied 24 assists as a rookie last year and already has 21 in this campaign.

Third-year pro Kirill Kaprizov set a Wild franchise record last season in goals (47) and points (108). He leads the team in both categories again this season, posting 29 goals and 62 points, including a team-high 33 assists.

Kaprizov, 25, Boldy, 21, and goalie Filip Gustavsson, 24, are all part of Minnesota’s core.

Gustavsson, who beat the Devils on Saturday, is 12-8-1 with a 2.25 goals-against average and a .923 save percentage. He’s paired with 38-year-old Marc-Andre Fleury, who is 16-12-3 with a 2.98 GAA and a .902 save percentage.

Gustavsson was asked about Minnesota’s three-game losing streak that he helped end on Saturday.

“I’ve been on losing streaks before with previous teams, and the best way to do it was just try not to feel the pressure,” Gustavsson said.

On Monday the Wild will likely face Panthers starting goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (14-14-2, 3.13 GPA, .903 save percentage).

–Field Level Media

Despite losing back-to-back games in overtime, the Arizona Coyotes take a five-game point streak into the final meeting of their three-game road trip as they pay a visit to the Nashville Predators on Monday night.

The streak includes impressive home wins over St. Louis (5-0) and Minnesota (3-2) but also three overtime road losses to Anaheim (2-1), Chicago (4-3) and Saturday night at St. Louis (6-5).

It will be the third game in four nights for Andre Tourigny’s squad, which blew 2-0 leads in both Friday’s loss to the Blackhawks and Saturday’s contest against the Blues before scoring late in the third period to force overtime and garner a point.

Nick Bjugstad scored the tying goal with 2:27 left at Chicago before Caleb Jones scored the winner in overtime. The Coyotes, who surrendered five consecutive goals to St. Louis after taking a 2-0 first-period lead on Saturday, battled back to score three goals over the final 10:13 with Lawson Crouse scoring the tying goal with 57 seconds left after goalie Karel Vejmelka had been pulled for an extra attacker.

Ryan O’Reilly scored the winning goal 1:02 into overtime for the Blues, but Tourigny was still happy with his team’s comeback.

“We came back strong in the third,” Tourigny said. “It was urgent. … Everybody was focused on coming back in that game and playing well. Today was a good day.”

Arizona played the game at St. Louis without star defenseman Jakob Chychrun, who was a healthy scratch for what the team said was due to “trade-related reasons.” The Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins and Calgary Flames are among the teams reportedly interested in acquiring Chychrun before the March 3 trade deadline.

“We have a job to do,” Tourigny said. “(Chychrun) is a great guy, a guy we like in the locker room, but there’s a situation there that concerns him, our GM, our organization, obviously, and his agent. It’s their job to deal with it, not my job.”

Nashville has won four of its last five and is in fifth place in Central, four points behind third-place Colorado and also four points behind Minnesota, which holds the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

The Predators enter Monday coming off a 2-1 overtime victory at Philadelphia on Saturday. Matt Duchene scored the game-winner with a wrist shot from the high slot off a drop pass from Ryan Johansen 34 seconds into the extra period while Juuse Saros stopped 23 of 24 shots.

“I thought I might have had a chance to beat their guy wide and take it to the net, and he did a good job of skating back,” Johansen said. “By doing that, though, it gave (Duchene) a little time and space just to drop it to him and get a shot off, and he took over from there and got it done.”

Left wing Filip Forsberg, who leads the Predators with 19 goals, had to be helped off the ice late in the first period following a check by Philadelphia defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen. Forsberg didn’t return.

“It could be anything the way that he went down,” Nashville coach John Hynes said. “I have not talked to the trainers. They just let me know that he wasn’t going to finish the game.”

–Field Level Media