Caleb Jones scored on a rebound with 1:23 remaining in overtime as the Chicago Blackhawks rallied from an early two-goal deficit to defeat the visiting Arizona Coyotes 4-3 on Friday night.

Andreas Athanasiou, who finished with a goal and two assists, broke in on a breakaway that Arizona goaltender Connor Ingram blocked into the right circle. Jones scooped up the rebound and then fired a wrist shot into the net, his second goal of the season and also his second career overtime winner.

Colin Blackwell and Seth Jones also scored goals and Sam Lafferty added two assists for Chicago. Rookie Jaxson Stauber, making his first career start at the United Center, finished with 23 saves to improve to 3-0-0 and become the first goalie in franchise history to win his first three NHL starts.

Clayton Keller had a goal and two assists, Nick Schmaltz added a goal and an assist and Nick Bjugstad also scored for Arizona, which fell to 6-20-5 on the road this season. Ingram stopped 40 of 44 shots.

Arizona, shut out 2-0 in its last trip to Chicago on Jan. 6, needed just 88 seconds to take a 1-0 lead. Keller, left open on the left circle, took a pass from Jakob Chychrun and then skated in and fired a wrist shot off the far post and into the net for his 19th goal of the season.

Schmaltz, playing in his 400th career game, made it 2-0 at 12:34 of the first when he one-timed a cross-crease pass from Keller from below the left circle for his 12th goal of the season.

Chicago cut it to 2-1 at 13:53 of the first when Jones scored his sixth goal of the season on a delayed penalty. He wired a wrist shot from the top of the right circle through traffic and into the far corner of the net.

Athanasiou tied it 2-2 early in the second period. He picked up the puck by the left boards and then skated in and roofed a backhand shot from the low slot for his 11th goal of the season.

Blackwell gave Chicago its first lead with 5:26 remaining in the third period when he speared in a rebound of an Athanasiou shot that settled on the goal line by the left post. It was Blackwell’s second goal of the season.

Bjugstad tied it 3-3 with 2:27 left when he fired a wrist shot from the top of the slot through Stauber’s pads for his 12th goal of the season. Keller picked up his 300th career point on the score.

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John Tavares scored two goals and Ilya Samsonov made 30 saves to fuel the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-0 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday in the opener of a home-and-home series.

Pierre Engvall also scored and Mitchell Marner notched two assists for the Maple Leafs, who returned from their All-Star break by recording their fourth win in six outings.

Samsonov turned aside all nine shots he faced in the third period to preserve his third shutout of the season and ninth in his career.

Joonas Korpisalo finished with 38 saves for the Blue Jackets, who will look to snap a four-game winless skid (0-3-1) when the teams reconvene in Toronto on Saturday.

The Maple Leafs took advantage of Mathieu Olivier’s interference penalty to set up the opening goal.

Marner skated into the slot and chipped the puck ahead to Tavares, who deflected it past Korpisalo at 5:45 of the first period.

Marner’s assist — his team-leading 42nd of the season at that point — extended his point streak to five games. The NHL’s Third Star of the Week is coming off a stellar performance at the All-Star Game in which he set a tournament record by notching six assists — three apiece in the two wins by the Atlantic Division.

Korpisalo prevented a two-goal deficit just over two minutes later by denying William Nylander on a breakaway. He also thwarted a point-blank chance by Alex Steeves, who was recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League on Thursday. Steeves was making his season debut and fourth career NHL appearance.

Columbus was unable take advantage of a four-minute power play in the second period following defenseman Timothy Liljegren’s high-sticking double minor.

Engvall doubled the advantage at 7:49 of the third period after converting defenseman’s Morgan Rielly’s centering feed. Engvall’s goal was his 11th of the season.

Tavares scored from the slot to cap his two-goal performance just 49 seconds later. The Maple Leafs captain has 23 goals on the season and three in his last six games.

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Vladimir Tarasenko scored his first goal for his new team 2:49 into the first period as the host New York Rangers recorded a 6-3 victory over the slumping Seattle Kraken Friday night.

Tarasenko was placed on the top line with Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad after being obtained from the St. Louis Blues Thursday afternoon. He meshed seamlessly with New York’s stars and scored on his second shift.

Kaapo Kakko and Vincent Trocheck also scored in the three-goal opening period as the Rangers improved to 5-0-1 since revamping their lines in the wake of a 3-1 home loss to the league-best Boston Bruins on Jan. 19. Defenseman Ryan Lindgren added a short-handed empty-net goal.

Defenseman Jacob Trouba and Zibanejad added power-play goals as the Rangers also improved to 19-4-3 in their past 26 games.

New York’s Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves and stopped Brandon Tanev on a short-handed breakaway late in the third.

Oliver Bjorkstrand scored in the second period while Jared McCann and Tanev tallied 22 seconds apart in the third as the Kraken dropped to 3-6-1 since winning eight straight Jan. 1-14.

Seattle goalie Martin Jones allowed five goals on 27 shots.

After a giveaway by Seattle’s Ryan Donato in the neutral zone, Panarin gained possession and sped down the right side. Tarasenko skated through the slot and easily turned Panarin’s centering feed into a 1-0 lead.

About 2 1/2 minutes later, Kakko crashed the net and made it 2-0 by tipping in a shot by Filip Chytil past Jones.

New York got to the front of the net for its third goal with 5:31 remaining. Jones initially made a left pad stop on Trocheck but could not cover up, the puck trickled to the goal line and Trocheck easily tapped it in for his 15th goal.

Trouba made it 4-0 by sweeping a backhander from the red line that caromed off Seattle defenseman Will Borgen’s skate into the vacated right side of the net 63 seconds in.

Bjorkstrand got Seattle on the board by finishing off a breakaway when the Rangers were slow to complete a line change a little over a minute after Trouba scored.

After Zibanejad buried a one-timer from the left side early in the third period, McCann blasted a wrister over Shesterkin and Tanev scored on a breakaway with 13:39 remaining.

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Clinging to the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference, the slumping Minnesota Wild will try to snap a three-game losing streak when they host the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

It’s the fifth time this season the Wild have lost three consecutive games, but so far they haven’t dropped four in a row. To keep that streak alive they’ll have to bounce back from an ugly 5-1 home loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday that saw them get booed off the ice.

It won’t be easy. New Jersey owns the best road record in the NHL at 19-3-2.

It’s the second game of a seven-game homestand for Minnesota, which is tied in points with third-place Colorado in the Central Division with 58 points. The defending Stanley Cup champions have a game in hand on the Wild.

“We’re still in the thick of it and we can’t be down on ourselves,” Wild captain Jared Spurgeon said.

Minnesota allowed four goals in the second period of Thursday’s loss, including three in a span of 2:26. The final one came when Jack Eichel cruised alone down the right wing and fired a shot past Marc-Andre Fleury’s blocker side and inside the far post. Fleury, who was eventually lifted after the second period, then slammed his stick against the post before tossing it toward center ice.

“I shouldn’t do that, probably,” Fleury said. “I was just mad for giving up another goal. There was a lot in that period. I felt like I didn’t make a save. Just angry, and it came out that way.”

Fleury finished with 18 saves on 23 shots. The first two Vegas goals came on deflections off Minnesota players near the net. Another came on a penalty shot by Reilly Smith, who had been slashed on a breakaway by defenseman Alex Goligoski.

“It’s hard not to win and to lose this way, too, especially for me as a goalie (against) my old teammates,” Fleury said. “It’s a little embarrassing.

“It’s better to have a rough patch now than later on. Once we get out of this, we’re going to be better for it.”

New Jersey begins a nine-day, four-game road trip that also includes stops at Columbus, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. The second-place Devils have won three in a row and trail Metropolitan-leading Carolina by four points.

New Jersey comes in off a 3-1 victory over Seattle on Thursday. Defenseman Dougie Hamilton led the way with a pair of power-play goals to extend his point streak to six games and also give him a career-high 51 points (15 goals, team-high 36 assists) after just 51 games. Backup goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood made 33 saves.

The win over the Kraken was the first game this season missed by All-Star center Jack Hughes, who is listed as week-to-week with an upper-body injury. Hughes is third in the NHL with 35 goals and leads the team with 67 points.

“It’s been about the team all year, really,” New Jersey coach Lindy Ruff told reporters. “(Jack) had a great first 50 games, you can’t disguise that at all. But at the same time, we’ve made this about the team, and we need the other guys.”

Hughes had two goals and an assist in 21:44 of time on ice in New Jersey’s 5-4 overtime victory over Vancouver on Monday. He missed practice on Tuesday and then left Wednesday’s practice early before Ruff announced he would be sidelined.

“It’s going to need a little time,” Ruff said. “When somebody goes down, we really have the next man up. … Every team has to deal with key injuries, key injuries to key players, and other players have to step in and have the ability to provide what Jack was bringing.”

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The Florida Panthers won their first eight games of 2021-2022, and they finished the regular season with the best record in the NHL.

This season has been a struggle by comparison. The Panthers didn’t win three straight games for the first time until Thursday.

That says it all for the Panthers, who will play host to the reigning Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night in Sunrise, Fla.

The Panthers are 6-1-0 in their past seven home games, and they believe they have finally turned the proverbial corner. In fact, they have outscored their past three opponents by a combined 15-5.

“We know we need to get on a bit of a run here,” Panthers forward Sam Reinhart said after scoring twice in Florida’s 4-1 win over the visiting San Jose Sharks on Thursday. “We’ve got to take care of home ice, especially with all of the opportunities we have ahead of us.”

The Panthers won on Thursday without their captain, Aleksander Barkov, who is one of the best two-way centers in the NHL. Barkov suffered an injury to his right hand in Florida’s win over Tampa Bay on Monday, and he is questionable to return on Saturday.

In Barkov’s absence, Eetu Luostarinen dished two assists for just his second multi-point game this season.

A 24-year-old native of Finland, Luostarinen has 25 points — one short of his career high.

“He’s such a smart player,” Reinhart said of Luostarinen. “I don’t know many guys in this league that are going to fill in for ‘Barky,’ but his game has really elevated this season.”

Matthew Tkachuk leads the Panthers in assists (44) and points (71). Carter Verhaeghe tops Florida with 28 goals, and Brandon Montour is No. 1 among Panthers defensemen with 44 points.

Montour had a 10-game points streak — a record for Panthers defensemen — snapped on Thursday. Tkachuk had a seven-game points streak snapped on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Avalanche, who have lost two straight games, have played this entire season without Gabriel Landeskog, who is due to return soon from knee surgery. It’s a big loss given that Landeskog has posted at least 20 goals in five straight seasons.

Colorado’s Cale Makar, who won the Norris Trophy last season as the league’s best defenseman, missed Thursday’s game due to an upper-body injury.

The Avalanche also lost forward Evan Rodrigues (11 goals) in the third period on Thursday when he took a puck to the face and did not return. Josh Manson and Darren Helm, two primary penalty-killers, are out due to lower-body injuries.

In addition, Nathan MacKinnon, who scored 32 goals last season, has just 14 goals this season while missing 11 games due to injury. MacKinnon still leads Colorado with 41 assists.

Colorado has flopped since returning from the All-Star break, scoring just one goal in two losses. The Avalanche were blanked 5-0 by Tampa Bay on Thursday.

“We’ve had two bad games,” acknowledged winger Mikko Rantanen, who leads Colorado in goals (34) and points (61). “Offensively, we have to be better.”

If the first-string goalies play on Saturday, the matchup would feature Colorado’s Alexandar Georgiev against Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky.

Georgiev, in his first season with Colorado after five years playing for the New York Rangers, is 20-12-3 with a 2.67 goals-against average.

Bobrovsky is 14-13-2 with a 3.09 GAA. He is 7-2-1 in his past 10 decisions.

–Field Level Media