Connor McDavid scored the winning goal in the third period to run his point-scoring streak to 16 games and lead the visiting Edmonton Oilers to an entertaining 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.

Tyson Barrie also scored for the Oilers, who received a sparkling 46-save performance from goaltender Stuart Skinner. Twenty-four of those saves came in the third period.

Mikael Backlund tallied for the Flames. Jacob Markstrom stopped 20 shots in a top-rate goaltending battle.

McDavid’s power-play goal at the 7:28 mark of the third proved to be the difference. McDavid worked with the puck to the high slot and ripped a shot off the post and into the net for his league-best 31st goal of the season.

The Edmonton captain has collected 15 goals and 32 points in his point-scoring spree, which is one short of the longest streak of his career. He became the first player to notch 16-game point streaks in consecutive seasons since Dany Heatley did so for the Ottawa Senators in 2005-06 and 2006-07.

McDavid has netted 29 goals and 52 points in 37 regular-season games against the Flames.

The Oilers vaulted the Flames into the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot, one point ahead of their provincial rivals.

The game also finishes the season series, with the Oilers taking two of the three Battle of Alberta clashes this season.

Both goalies stood tall for much of the game. Skinner made a couple of key stops while the score was 1-1, one against Nazem Kadri during a late second-period Calgary power play and then one on Milan Lucic’s redirect early in the third period. He was also very fortunate with Backlund hitting the post in the dying seconds.

For his part, Markstrom made a few huge saves on Leon Draisaitl, two of them during a second-period Edmonton power play, to give his team a chance.

After a scoreless opening period, the clubs traded tallies early in the second. Backlund opened the scoring 72 seconds into the period when he finished a dominating shift for his line with a rebound goal for his seventh of the season.

Barrie drew the Oilers even at 4:58 when he unloaded a rocket of a point shot that beat the screened Markstrom for his fifth of the season and 100th of his career at 4:58.

–Field Level Media

Lawson Crouse had a goal and two assists and Jakob Chychrun had three assists as the Arizona Coyotes recorded a 6-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday in Tempe, Ariz.

The Coyotes have won back-to-back games and have collected points in six of their last seven games on home ice (5-1-1).

The loss ended the Avalanche’s four-game winning streak.

Crouse’s backhanded goal at 11:33 of the first period gave the Coyotes a lead they would never relinquish. Crouse also had three points (two goals, one assist) in Arizona’s 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins on Dec. 9, but then collected only two points in his next seven appearances.

Chychrun matched a personal best with three points in a game. Complications from offseason wrist surgery delayed Chychrun’s season debut until Nov. 21, but the defenseman has made up for lost time with 16 points (three goals, 13 assists) over 17 games.

Nick Schmaltz and Clayton Keller each had a goal and an assist for the Coyotes. Shayne Gostisbehere, J.J. Moser and Michael Carcone scored Arizona’s other goals.

Cale Makar had a goal and an assist for Colorado, and J.T. Compher had two assists. Evan Rodrigues and Mikko Rantanen also scored for the Avalanche.

Both Makar and Rantanen came close to finding the scoresheet again in the second period. Makar rang a shot off the goalpost 30 seconds into the frame, while Rantanen had a possible game-tying goal disallowed on video review at the 12:00 mark.

Rantanen displayed excellent hand-eye coordination in knocking his own rebound out of the air for the seeming equalizer, but replay revealed that Makar was offsides earlier in the play.

Coyotes backup goaltender Connor Ingram was also sharp in denying the Avalanche during an extended offensive flurry in the second period. Ingram stopped 27 of 30 shots in the game to earn his second win of the season.

Avalanche goalie Alexandar Georgiev stopped 27 of 32 shots.

Schmaltz has nine points (three goals, six assists) during a six-game point streak.

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William Nylander scored the overtime winner to lift the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs over the St. Louis Blues 5-4 on Tuesday night.

Calle Jarnkrok had a goal and two assists for the Maple Leafs, who are 12-2-1 in their last 15 games.

Justin Holl, John Tavares and Alexander Kerfoot also scored for Toronto, and Ilya Samsonsov made 30 saves.

Calle Rosen, Ryan O’Reilly, Justin Faulk, Jordan Kyrou scored for the Blues, and Jordan Binnington stopped 32 shots.

The Maple Leafs scored just 3:08 into the game. Mark Giordano fired a slap shot into Auston Matthews’ screen, and then Holl converted the rebound after moving in from the right point.

Rosen tied the game 1-1 with a slap shot from atop the left circle. Samsonov stopped Alexey Toropchenko’s jam shot, but Logan Brown sent the rebound back to Rosen.

Toronto took a 2-1 lead with 57 seconds left in the first period. Tavares scored from the right faceoff dot off Mitchell Marner’s pass from the right corner.

Kerfoot scored shorthanded to make it 3-1 at 5:26 of the second period. Jarnkrok attacked from the left corner and Kerfoot rolled the bouncing rebound into the net.

O’Reilly cut the Toronto lead to 3-2 by coming down the middle on a 3-on-2 break and banking in a shot off the right post.

Faulk tied the game 3-3 with a power-play slap shot from the center point off Pavel Buchnevich’s pass back from the right circle.

Toronto then retook the lead 4-3 on Jarnkrok’s goal. Pontus Holmberg moved in from the right side, and Jarnkrok converted the rebound from a tough left-side angle.

Kyrou tied the game 4-4 by snapping a shot from the right faceoff dot through Robert Thomas’ screen for his seventh goal in his last four games.

Binnington stopped TJ Brodie’s penalty shot in overtime, but Nylander scored on a breakaway after stealing the puck from Vladimir Tarasenko at center ice.

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Mats Zuccarello had a goal and an assist and the Minnesota Wild defeated the host Winnipeg Jets 4-1 on Tuesday.

Jared Spurgeon, Frederick Gaudreau and Samuel Walker also scored for the Wild, who endured an odd travel day, having to fly to Winnipeg on the day of the game because of the NHL’s three-day holiday break.

Pierre-Luc Dubois scored for Winnipeg, while Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves in the loss.

Filip Gustavsson made 31 saves for Minnesota.

Spurgeon gave Minnesota 1-0 lead at 5:59 of the first period on the power play, going to the net and finishing off a feed from Ryan Hartman for his fourth goal of the season.

Zuccarello made it 2-0 at 6:33 of the opening period, one-timing a drop pass from Kirill Kaprizov.

Winnipeg clawed back and made it 2-1 at 10:03 of the first period when Dubois scored his 16th goal of the season. Josh Morrissey had the primary assist, registering his 40th point in just his 35th game. Morrissey is just the fourth active defenseman to achieve 40 points in 35, joining Erik Karlsson (this season), John Carlson (2019-20) and Morgan Rielly (2018-19).

Morrissey had an injury scare in the game when he got tangled up with Wild forward Matt Boldy along the boards. Morrissey grabbed his left arm as he went down the tunnel for further examination. After a quick consult, the defenseman returned to the game and didn’t miss another shift.

Zuccarello set up Gaudreau to make it 3-1 at 8:55 of the second period, restoring Minnesota’s two-goal lead. Zuccarello left the penalty box and carried the puck into the zone before sending a well-placed pass to Gaudreau for the finish on the odd-man rush.

Walker scored into the empty net to make it 4-1 with 2:05 remaining.

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Roope Hintz’s second goal of the night came with 52.3 seconds left in regulation to break a tie game, and gave the visiting Dallas Stars a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.

Hintz, who also put Dallas ahead with a goal early in the second period, pounced on a loose puck amid a net-front scrum late in the third for his fifth score in the last three games. Jamie Benn assisted on the play and opened the scoring with career goal 343 to sit alone in second place on the franchise list for the Central Division-leading Stars, who are amid a 7-2-1 overall stretch and won all three 2022-23 meetings with Nashville.

Filip Forsberg and Yakov Trenin each had a goal and Juuse Saros made 30 saves for the Predators, who are mired in a 1-3-1 home stretch. Nashville played without Matt Duchene, the team’s co-leader with 26 points entering the night, following the birth of his daughter.

Dallas wasted no time opening the scoring. Just 1:19 into the contest, Nashville had trouble clearing its zone, and the puck ultimately made its way to Benn, who beat Saros with a wrister for the milestone tally that also extended his point streak to six games. The Stars also had two power-play opportunities in the opening frame, but failed both times.

The Predators answered 56 seconds into the second period. With a 4-on-4 situation, Jack Oettinger’s pad-save rebound of Alex Carrier’s shot went right to Forsberg, who buried the puck for his 10th goal of the season. However, Dallas regained the lead 1:19 later, when Hintz deflected Jason Robertson’s shot from the point for a power-play score.

Nashville, though, tied it again with 11:45 remaining in the second. With the Predators short-handed, Trenin skated from his own end and kept the puck via a partial 2-on-1 break to beat Oettinger (26 saves). Nashville held a 13-4 shots-on-goal advantage in the middle frame.

Dallas is 4-0-1 in its last five road contests.

–Field Level Media

Anders Lee and Mathew Barzal scored twice apiece Tuesday night for the New York Islanders, who rolled to a 5-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Elmont, N.Y.

The two-goal game was the second of the season for both Lee and Barzal.

Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist and Brock Nelson added two assists for the Islanders, who earned their most lopsided win over the Penguins since a 9-3 rout on Feb. 11, 2011.

Ilya Sorokin made 20 saves as the Islanders won their second straight — their first winning streak since a four-game run from Nov. 21-26.

Pierre-Olivier Joseph scored for the Penguins, who have lost three of four (1-2-1). Tristan Jarry recorded 37 saves.

A turnover by the Penguins led to Lee’s first goal just 63 seconds after the opening faceoff. Brian Dumoulin’s clearing pass was picked off by Nelson, who dished to Lee before the Islanders captain sent a shot beyond Jarry’s stick.

The Penguins tied the score a little more than 15 minutes later, when Joseph’s shot sailed beyond the stick of teammate Brock McGinn and Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho and past Sorokin’s glove.

The Islanders took the lead for good with another early-period goal in the second. Barzal began the go-ahead sequence by winning a faceoff with Teddy Blueger deep in the New York zone. Barzal skated back in front of Jarry and was battling for position with Dumoulin when he got his stick on a shot by Hudson Fasching 50 seconds into the period.

A nifty pass by Noah Dobson set up Bailey’s goal shortly beyond the midway point of the second. Dobson, with McGinn in front of him, wound up as if he were going to shoot before dishing across the ice to a wide-open Bailey, who sent a shot beyond Jarry’s stick with 8:28 left in the period.

Barzal scored an unassisted goal with 3:18 left in the second following a lengthy battle for the puck between the teams near the Penguins’ net. Bailey lost the puck to Bryan Rust, but the puck then clipped off Pittsburgh’s Marcus Pettersson and to Barzal, whose shot bounced in off Jarry’s shoulder.

Lee added an insurance goal 3:33 into the third, when he put back a rebound of a shot by Nelson to end a sequence in which the Islanders had four shots.

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Darcy Kuemper made 32 saves and the surging Washington Capitals scored twice in the final 2:59 of the second period to pull away for a 4-0 victory over the host New York Rangers on Tuesday night.

The Capitals matched a season high with their fifth straight win and won for the 10th time in 11 games thanks to Kuemper, who posted his third shutout of the season and the 28th of his career.

Alex Ovechkin remained at 802 career goals after passing Gordie Howe for second on the NHL’s all-time list on Friday. The superstar contributed to Washington’s latest win by drawing the holding penalty on New York’s Chris Kreider that gave the Capitals a five-on-three power play, leading to Marcus Johansson’s first-period goal.

Erik Gustafsson and Lars Eller scored for the Capitals, who also are 13-3-1 in their past 17. Conor Sheary added a short-handed, empty-net tally with 3:02 remaining. Gustafsson and Sheary also had one assist apiece.

New York lost for the second time in three games following a seven-game winning streak. The Rangers missed the net 23 times and also had 16 shots blocked while being blanked for the second time this season and getting booed off the ice after the final buzzer.

Kuemper made 13 saves on five New York power plays and improved to 7-1-0 in eight career starts against the Rangers. He made 13 saves in the first period, seven in the second and 12 in the third.

New York’s Igor Shesterkin stopped 26 shots.

With the Rangers’ Ryan Lindgren in the penalty box for slashing in the first period, Kreider was penalized for holding Ovechkin in the right faceoff circle. Washington then went ahead at 8:44 on a fluky play in front of the net.

Evgeny Kuznetsov’s shot from the slot was stopped by Shesterkin but not controlled to create a faceoff. The puck caromed to the right side of the crease, and Johansson was credited with the rebound goal when the puck banked off New York defenseman Jacob Trouba’s stick.

The Capitals took a 2-0 lead when Gustafsson scored off a rush at 17:01 of the second period. He trailed the play as Shesterkin was unable to control the rebound of a shot by Sheary and sent the puck over the goalie’s stick.

After the Rangers lost a challenge for goaltender interference on Sheary and Gustafsson’s goal was allowed, Eller made it 3-0 by putting the puck under Trouba’s legs and past Shesterkin from the middle of the slot with 37 seconds left in the middle period.

–Field Level Media

Antti Raanta registered his first shutout of the season, and the Carolina Hurricanes used a strong opening period to set the tone to stretch their franchise-record point streak to 15 games by defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 3-0 on Tuesday night in Raleigh, N.C.

Martin Necas, Jesper Fast and Jordan Martinook scored goals for Carolina, which won its ninth game in a row.

Raanta’s 24 saves got the job done, seeing seven shots in each the first and third periods.

Chicago fell for the ninth time in its last 10 outings. It has been a shutout victim three times during that stretch. The Blackhawks were trying to win back-to-back games for the first time since late October.

Blackhawks goalie Petr Mrazek, a former Hurricanes goalie, made 46 saves.

The Hurricanes cranked out 23 shots in the first 20 minutes, scoring twice in the opening nine minutes.

Necas’ goal came as he camped in front of the net and benefited from getting his stick on the puck, which barely trickled across the line. It was his 15th goal of the season, with Brent Burns and Paul Stastny notching assists.

Necas had just 14 goals all of last season, when he played in 78 games.

Fast’s goal came at 8:53 of the first period. After Mrazek failed to glove an initial shot, the puck bounced around and eventually went off Chicago defenseman Connor Murphy and into the net. Fast was credited with the goal, giving him three of his five goals this season in the past two games. Brett Pesce and Brady Skjei posted assists on the marker.

Martinook’s goal came shortly after the Hurricanes’ second power play of the game expired. His goal was recorded at 4:55 of the third period, with Jordan Staal notching an assist.

Stastny, playing on his 37th birthday for the Hurricanes, has compiled seven points in 11 career outings on his birthday.

Carolina improved to 11-3-1 in home games with its seventh straight win on home ice.

–Field Level Media