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.

Vegas, playing its first home game since a 6-2 victory over Washington on Jan. 21, took a 1-0 lead at the 2:08 mark of the opening period when Cotter one-timed a rebound from the right circle inside the near post for his 10th goal of the season.

Howden extended the lead to 2-0 midway through the second period with his second goal of the season and first since Oct. 18 at Calgary when he fired in a wrist shot into the top left corner from the edge of the left circle.

Anaheim cut it to 2-1 at the 16:03 mark of the period when Vatrano chipped in a rebound of a Lundestrom shot. It was his 13th goal of the season and seventh in the last 10 games.

The Ducks had a chance to tie it early in the third period when Ryan Strome skated in on a breakaway but Hill turned aside his wrist shot with his left pad.

Vegas then broke the game open with two goals in the span of 91 seconds. Theodore got the first at the 6:40 mark with a one-timer from above the circles past Gibson’s glove side for his fifth goal of the season.

Shortly after Anaheim’s Kevin Shattenkirk hit the post on another breakaway try, Kessel made it 4-1 when he tapped a rebound into a wide-open left side of the net for his 11th goal of the season.

Eichel increased the lead to 5-1 with his 17th goal of the season at the 11:53 mark. Lundestrom cut it to 5-2 with his second goal of the season but Amadio and Carrier responded with goals just 79 seconds apart to give Vegas five goals in a period for just the second time in team history.

–Field Level Media

After one of their biggest victories of the season, the Calgary Flames look to keep their scoring touch going when they visit the Ottawa Senators on Monday.

The Flames trailed 2-0 after the first period of Saturday’s game with the Buffalo Sabres, then quickly took the lead with three goals in the opening 4:04 of the second frame. Calgary went on to score four more unanswered tallies in a 7-2 win that matched its highest goal total of the season.

Outshooting Buffalo by a 40-23 margin, the Flames displayed the kind of scoring efficiency that has eluded the team for much of the season. Calgary ranks near the NHL lead in shots (1,451), yet is near the bottom of the league in shooting percentage (8.9 percent).

“It’s still a bit of a relief to be able to score goals back-to-back in a short period of time,” Flames coach Darryl Sutter said. “We’ve had a hard time doing that. … It’s not about the number of goals you score, but when you can do it. You score two or three quick ones, that makes a big difference in the game.”

Jacob Markstrom stopped 21 of 23 shots, ending a personal 0-3-2 winless drought for the goaltender. The Flames have been largely altering Markstrom and Dan Vladar over the last month, so it isn’t clear if Markstrom will get another start Monday.

The win ended a two-game (0-1-1) winless drought for the Flames and improved their record to 2-1-1 in the first four games of its five-game road trip. Ottawa is the final stop on a trip that bridged the NHL All-Star break.

The Senators entered the break on a four-game winning streak, but their return to the ice Saturday resulted in a 6-3 home loss to the Edmonton Oilers. With the game tied at the second intermission, Ottawa allowed three unanswered goals during the third period.

Beyond the scoreboard, the larger concern was an injury to Anton Forsberg, who had to be stretchered off the ice late in the third period. Edmonton’s Zach Hyman was shoved onto Forsberg’s lower body during a scramble in front of the net, leaving the Ottawa goalie in obvious pain.

Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said Sunday that Forsberg suffered MCL injuries in both knees, and will be out indefinitely.

Mads Sogaard played the final 5:23 of the game in relief of Forsberg. It was Sogaard’s first NHL game of the season and only the third of his career, yet the 22-year-old might now be the Senators’ top option in net for the foreseeable future. Goalie Cam Talbot is also on injured reserve, and hasn’t played since suffering his own in-game lower-body injury on Jan. 25.

Ottawa coach D.J. Smith admitted that Sogaard is “in a tough spot here. But you know what, sometimes you get forced into these things and you find out in a hurry. He’s a good goalie, so he’s going to get his opportunity if clearly (Forsberg) can’t go.”

Defenseman Jake Sanderson also left Saturday’s game early and will miss the next 10-14 days with an upper-body injury.

Ottawa’s Claude Giroux has 10 points (six goals, four assists) during a six-game points streak. The 35-year-old has goals in five consecutive games, matching the longest streak of his 16-year NHL career.

–Field Level Media

Erik Karlsson had a goal and two assists for the visiting San Jose Sharks in a 4-1 win against the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon.

Karlsson has 73 points (18 goals, 55 assists) in 54 games, keeping him on pace to become the sixth NHL defenseman to score at least 100 points in a season.

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, who were coming off a 2-1 win at the Boston Bruins on Saturday afternoon, becoming just the second team to win in regulation at TD Garden this season.

The Sharks scored on their first shot of the game after forcing a turnover in the neutral zone.

Jonah Gadjovich made a quick pass ahead to Evgeny Svechnikov at the Washington blue line. Svechnikov skated into the left circle and beat Lindgren with a wrist shot on the short side for a 1-0 lead at 2:54 of the first period.

The Sharks made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 9:04 of the second period.

Karlsson made a pass to Hertl at the inside edge of the left circle and he redirected the puck toward the Washington net. The shot was blocked in front by Trevor van Riemsdyk, but Barabanov scored the rebound.

Kuznetsov cut to the net and scored at 16:56 of the second period to trim the lead to 2-1.

Kuznetsov made contact with the head of Kahkonen, who stayed down on the play and was eventually replaced by Dell, who was recalled from San Jose of the American Hockey League on Saturday because James Reimer was ill.

Karlsson made it 3-1 at 12:55 of the third period when he flicked the puck toward the net from off the wall and above the right circle and it fluttered over the shoulder of Lindgren.

Hertl scored into an empty net with 2:11 left for a 4-1 lead.

–Field Level Media

Jaden Schwartz scored two goals to lift the Seattle Kraken past the host Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Sunday.

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. 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.

Flyers goaltender Felix Sandstrom stopped 17 shots.

Schwartz’s second goal, at 1:03 of the third period, gave the Kraken a 4-2 lead. His shot landed just under the crossbar and over the line.

Philadelphia’s Tony DeAngelo skated in and ripped a backhand on goal at 6:57, but Grubauer cut off the angle.

Seattle tightened defensively from there and allowed few scoring chances.

After Travis Konecny was whistled for delay of game at 16:10, Brown scored short-handed to close the Flyers within 4-3.

Sandstrom was then pulled for an extra at 18:25 and the Flyers had numerous solid scoring chances, but they couldn’t convert.

Philadelphia tied the game at 2-2 when van Riemsdyk redirected a shot from the point by Tippett at 3:33 of the second period.

Schwartz snapped a shot just high over the net at 9:59.

Schwartz then put the Kraken ahead 3-2 at 18:59 with a clean shot from the slot.

The Flyers had only 10 shots on goal through two periods.

The Flyers went ahead 1-0 at 2:11 of the first period when Tippett connected on the power play.

The Kraken equalized at 12:53 when Eberle capitalized on a Flyers turnover and recorded his 11th goal of the season.

Seattle stayed aggressive and took a 2-1 advantage at 17:01 when Tolvanen ripped a shot over Sandstrom’s glove and just inside the post.

–Field Level Media

Alex Belzile scored his first career NHL goal and Jordan Harris recorded his first career two-goal game as the host Montreal Canadiens held Connor McDavid off the scoresheet and claimed a 6-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.

Goaltender Jake Allen sparkled while making 29 saves, including seven against McDavid, who saw his point streak snapped at 15 games.

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

Leon Draisaitl and Evander Kane replied for the Oilers, who went into the game on a 9-0-2 run. Goalie Stuart Skinner stopped 24 shots.

Belzile, a 31-year-old forward, spent five seasons in the ECHL, two tiers below the NHL, in a long climb to Montreal. He opened the scoring at the 8:14 mark of his 20th big-league game.

Harris doubled the lead when he ripped a sharp-angled shot from below the left circle at 3:54 of the second period, and then Anderson’s power-play goal on a rebound, his 15th tally of the season, made it a 3-0 count before the game’s midway point.

Draisaitl’s power-play goal put the Oilers on the board at 12:22 of the frame, earning him a fifth consecutive 30-goal season, before Kane made it a 3-2 game with five minutes remaining in the period when he buried a long shot for his ninth of the season.

However, the Canadiens regrouped and Harvey-Pinard’s power-play goal with 79 seconds left in the second period, his sixth of the season, restored a two-goal edge. He has scored six goals in nine games since being summoned from the minors.

Harris notched his second of the game, and third of the season, about three minutes into the third period, and Dvorak added a short-handed goal, his eighth goal of the season, midway through the period to round out the scoring.

The Oilers were without forward Klim Kostin due to an injury suffered in Saturday’s road win over the Ottawa Senators. Montreal lost defenseman Arber Xhekaj after he appeared to injure his right hand in a second-period fight.

–Field Level Media