The Minnesota Wild signed defenseman Brock Faber to a three-year, entry-level contract that begins immediately.

The team said he will join the Wild on Sunday and accompany them to Chicago for Monday night’s game against the Blackhawks.

A native of Maple Grove, Minn., Faber just concluded his season with the University of Minnesota, which lost in the semifinals of the Frozen Four on Thursday.

This season, as a junior, Faber captained the Golden Gophers and had four goals and 27 points, as well as 54 blocked shots and a plus-29 rating.

Faber played in 97 career games in college, tallying 53 points (seven goals, 46 assists), 130 blocked shots and a plus-54 rating. He is a two-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year winner and a two-time All-Big Ten first-team selection.

Faber, 20, also played for the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics, posting one assist in four games.

The Los Angeles Kings selected Faber in the second round of the 2020 NHL Draft. Last June, the Kings traded his rights and a 2022 first-round draft pick to Minnesota for Kevin Fiala.

–Field Level Media

The Colorado Avalanche will look to win their franchise-record 10th straight road game when they visit the reeling Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.

The Avalanche are coming off a 4-3 win over the host Los Angeles Kings on Saturday to tie their record set during the 2009-10 season.

The Ducks extended their winless streak to 10 games (0-9-1) with a 5-4 overtime loss to the host Arizona Coyotes on Saturday.

The defending Stanley Cup champion Avalanche (48-24-6, 102 points) have won 13 of their past 15 games and are heading to the playoffs for the sixth straight season.

The Ducks (23-45-11, 57 points) have the third-fewest points in league, one more than the Columbus Blue Jackets and Chicago Blackhawks. Anaheim will miss the playoffs for the fifth straight season.

For Colorado, Denis Malgin and Alex Newhook each scored in the first 2:30 of the second period to stake the Avalanche to a 2-0 lead before the Kings tied the game at 2-2 at the 12:55 mark of the period.

Defenseman Brad Hunt regained the lead for Colorado at 1:50 of the third period. Malgin scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal at 6:18 of the period.

Goalie Alexandar Georgiev made 38 saves for the Avalanche.

“Ugly, but a win’s a win,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said of his team’s franchise record 27th road victory of the season, eclipsing the mark set during the 2013-14 season.

“Our goalie was really good. We needed him to be really good on a night like that. And we were opportunistic. Made the most of those opportunities and were able to hang on, so we’ll take it and move on.”

The Ducks’ rally came up short against the Coyotes.

Anaheim, which trailed 3-1 midway through the second period, grabbed a 4-3 lead after Max Jones scored off an assist from Derek Grant with 1:54 remaining in the third. The Coyotes, however, tied the game with 35 seconds left.

In overtime, Matias Maccelli accepted a pass from defenseman Juuso Valimaki and found a streaking Barrett Hayton, who wristed a shot between goalie Ollie Eriksson Ek’s pads to end the game.

Before unleashing his game-winning shot, Hayton toe-dragged the puck around Anaheim defenseman Cam Fowler, who logged 38:55 of ice time. That set an NHL regular-season record since time on ice tracking began in the 1997-98 season.

Adam Henrique scored twice, Ryan Strome collected a goal and two assists and Jones had one of each for the Ducks.

Eriksson Ek made 34 saves in his NHL debut.

“Our guys, I’m really proud of how they continue to work, how they stick together, how they’re supporting each other,” Anaheim coach Dallas Eakins said. “This season is a tough one, but we’ll all be better for it.”

Colorado and Anaheim have split their previous two meetings this season. The Ducks pulled out a 5-3 road win on Jan. 26 before the Avalanche cruised to a 5-1 in Anaheim on March 27.

–Field Level Media

The Boston Bruins are on the cusp of NHL history.

Winners of five straight games, Boston (62-12-5, 129 points) aims to set an NHL record for single-season victories on Sunday when it visits the free-falling Philadelphia Flyers (29-37-13, 71 points).

The Presidents’ Trophy-winning Bruins tied the NHL record win total with a 2-1 triumph over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.

With less than a handful of games left before the playoffs, Boston’s lineup received a boost as Taylor Hall returned from a lower-body injury.

“I wanted to play in either the Toronto game (Thursday) or this game just to feel a little bit of playoff intensity against teams that are really looking for points,” Hall said after Saturday’s win. “Playing a game like that where every shift mattered was great.”

Former Devil Pavel Zacha scored both goals for Boston in Saturday’s win.

The Bruins have had brushes with individual and team history all throughout this season, now posting a win total that only the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings and 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning have reached in the history of the league.

The single-season NHL points record is also in sight for the Bruins. Their 129 points tied the 1977-78 Montreal Canadiens for the third-most in a single season. The 1995-96 Red Wings had 131 points, one shy of the all-time record set by the 1976-77 Canadiens.

Bruins coach Jim Montgomery believes that the records are not lost on his veteran-laden team.

“I think they do grasp it because we’re talking about the history of the NHL,” Montgomery said. “Yeah, I think they grasp it like when (Wayne) Gretzky broke (Gordie) Howe’s (scoring) record. That’s an individual feat, but everybody’s aware of it. Our group is aware of what we are doing as a team.”

The Flyers, who are 0-5-1 in their last six games, are coming off a 4-0 loss against the Islanders in New York. They finished a winless four-game road trip being outscored 16-5.

Saturday’s all-around effort was not to coach John Tortorella’s liking.

“We just couldn’t sustain. We played in spurts,” Tortorella said after his team went 0-for-2 on the power play and hardly tested Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin after the first period.

Philadelphia had a 10-4 shots edge over the first 14 minutes and finished the game with 27 shots.

Carter Hart stopped 15 of the 18 shots he faced in two periods before being pulled in favor of Felix Sandstrom.

“I didn’t feel like I deserved to be pulled, but it is what it is,” Hart said.

Tortorella declined to offer a reason for the switch.

“I just wanted to take him out,” he said.

Several Flyers are approaching significant career milestones and could reach them Sunday. James van Riemsdyk has scored 299 career goals, while defensemen Justin Braun and Tony DeAngelo will enter the game with 199 points.

Boston will finish the regular season without a loss in the first game of back-to-backs (12-0-2).

The Bruins have won both head-to-head meetings with Philadelphia this season, including a dominating 6-0 result on Jan. 16.

–Field Level Media

Connor McDavid had two goals and an assist to become the sixth player in NHL history to reach 150 points in a season, and the visiting Edmonton Oilers extended their point streak to 13 games with a 6-1 win against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday afternoon.

McDavid joined Wayne Gretzky (nine times), Mario Lemieux (four times), Steve Yzerman, Bernie Nicholls and Phil Esposito as the only NHL players to score 150 points in a season and the first since Lemieux in 1995-96.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had a goal and two assists, Zach Hyman and Derek Ryan each had a goal and an assist and Stuart Skinner made 22 saves for the Oilers, who are 12-0-1 during their longest point streak since the 2003-04 season. Tomas Hertl scored, and James Reimer made 29 saves for the Sharks, who have lost seven straight against the Oilers.

McDavid notched his 150th point when he scored with 1:44 left in the opening period for a 2-1 lead. He began the play by stealing the puck behind the San Jose net and passing it out front. The puck caromed in the slot before Warren Foegele made a backhand pass to McDavid coming out from behind the net and he scored with a one-timer.

Bruins 2, Devils 1

Pavel Zacha scored two goals in the opening 4:44 of the first period, and Boston held on to defeat New Jersey.

The Bruins matched the NHL record for single-season wins, a feat accomplished previously by Detroit in 1995-96 and Tampa Bay in 2018-19. Linus Ullmark made 29 saves for Boston, which has won five straight.

Jesper Bratt scored the lone goal and MacKenzie Blackwood made 38 stops for the Devils, who had won back-to-back games.
Avalanche 4, Kings 3

Denis Malgin scored two goals for visiting Colorado in a win against Los Angeles.

Alex Newhook and Brad Hunt also scored and Alexandar Georgiev made 38 saves for the Avalanche, who have won 13 of 15 to keep pace with the Dallas Stars atop the Central Division standings.

Adrian Kempe had two goals and assisted on the third, Anze Kopitar had three assists and Pheonix Copley made 19 saves for the Kings, who have lost five of seven and lead the fourth-place Seattle Kraken by just two points in the Pacific Division.

Kraken 7, Blackhawks 3

Daniel Sprong had a goal and two assists and both Jordan Eberle and Jared McCann added one of each as Seattle clinched at least the Western Conference’s top wild-card playoff berth with a victory against visiting Chicago.

Eeli Tolvanen, Yanni Gourde, Adam Larsson and Morgan Geekie also scored for the Kraken, who won their fourth consecutive game, and Jamie Oleksiak had three assists. Goaltender Martin Jones stopped 15 of 18 shots through two periods before leaving with an unspecified injury, and Philipp Grubauer stopped all 11 shots he faced in the third.

Seth Jones tallied twice and Lukas Reichel also scored for the Blackhawks, who have lost 10 of their past 11 games in regulation. Petr Mrazek made 24 saves.

Maple Leafs 7, Canadiens 1

Mitchell Marner had two goals and an assist and Toronto routed visiting Montreal.

With three points, Marner reached a career-best 98 points for the season. John Tavares added two goals, Auston Matthews had a goal and three assists, Michael Bunting had a goal and an assist and William Nylander scored once for the Maple Leafs. Ilya Samsonov made 20 saves for Toronto.

Johnathan Kovacevic scored for Montreal. Sam Montembeault stopped 39 shots for the Canadiens.

Wild 5, Blues 3

Ryan Hartman and Sam Steel each had a goal and an assist as Minnesota defeated visiting St. Louis in St. Paul, Minn.

Frederick Gaudreau, Jared Spurgeon and Jonas Brodin also scored for the Wild, who snapped a three-game winless streak. Gustav Nyquist had two assists for Minnesota and Filip Gustavsson made 37 saves.

Sammy Blais, Pavel Buchnevich and Jake Neighbours scored for the Blues, who suffered just their third regulation loss in their last 13 games. Jordan Binnington stopped 25 of 29 shots.

Coyotes 5, Ducks 4 (OT)

Barrett Hayton’s goal with a minute remaining in overtime lifted Arizona to a win over Anaheim in Tempe, Ariz., ending the Coyotes’ nine-game losing streak.

Clayton Keller collected his 37th goal and 48th assist of the season for the Coyotes. With two games left, Keller is one point shy of Keith Tkachuk’s single-season franchise record set during the 1996-97 campaign. Matias Maccelli had a goal and an assist and Christian Fischer and Lawson Crouse also scored for the Coyotes.

Adam Henrique scored twice, Ryan Strome had a goal and two assists and Max Jones had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, whose losing streak reached a franchise-record 10 games. Derek Grant had two assists.

Penguins 5, Red Wings 1

Captain Sidney Crosby collected two goals and an assist to boost his NHL career point total to 1,500, lifting Pittsburgh to a road win over Detroit.

The Penguins stayed in the hunt for one of the final two wild-card spots in the Eastern Conference. Pittsburgh entered the day one point behind Florida and the New York Islanders, but both of those teams won their games later Saturday.
Alex Nylander, Danton Heinen and Evgeni Malkin each scored a goal and Tristan Jarry made 19 saves for the Penguins. Pius Suter scored a goal and Ville Husso turned aside 23 shots for Detroit.

Sabres 4, Hurricanes 3

Tage Thompson’s third-period goal broke a tie and Casey Mittelstadt had two goals as Buffalo defeated visiting Carolina to help keep alive their playoff hopes.

Rasmus Dahlin provided a goal and two assists as the Sabres try to stay in the mix for an Eastern Conference wild card. Goalie Devin Levi, in his fourth NHL game, made 31 saves.

Seth Jarvis, Jesper Fast and Sebastian Aho scored for the Hurricanes, who lost their second straight game. They remained first in the Metropolitan Division by one point over the New Jersey Devils, who lost later Saturday. Antti Raanta made 26 saves for Carolina.

Stars 2, Golden Knights 1 (SO)

Roope Hintz scored in the second round of the shootout and Jake Oettinger thwarted all three attempts in the extra session to give Dallas a victory over visiting Vegas.

Hintz had the only score in the shootout after his wrist shot from the slot beat Jonathan Quick on his blocker side. Joel Kiviranta scored a goal and Oettinger finished with 19 saves for Dallas, which ended the day tied with Colorado for first place in the Central Division.

Brett Howden scored and Quick had 24 saves for Vegas, which saw its Pacific Division lead shrink to two points over Edmonton. The Oilers skated to a win over the San Jose Sharks earlier in the day.

Panthers 4, Capitals 2
Matthew Tkachuk scored the go-ahead goal with 60 seconds left and third-string goalie Alex Lyon made 22 saves as Florida defeated host Washington to extend its win streak to six.

Tkachuk’s 40th goal of the season came from long distance. Using a screen from teammate Aleksander Barkov, he fired from the left boards, beating Capitals backup goalie Charlie Lindgren (33 saves). The Panthers also got goals from Carter Verhaeghe, Aaron Ekblad and Sam Reinhart, the latter an empty-netter.

The Capitals, who were without star Alex Ovechkin due to an upper-body injury, lost their sixth straight game. Washington’s goals came from Dylan Strome and Tom Wilson.

Jets 2, Predators 0

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 28 shots as Winnipeg shut out visiting Nashville and jumped over Calgary and into the lead for the second Western Conference wild-card berth by one point.

The Jets have three games remaining, the Flames have two, and the Predators, who are three points behind the Jets, also have three to play.

Mark Scheifele and Neal Pionk were the goal scorers for Winnipeg. Predators goaltender Juuse Saros made 36 saves.

Rangers 4, Blue Jackets 0

Jimmy Vesey and Chris Kreider scored 1:41 apart in the first period and visiting New York kept alive its chance to finish second place in the Metropolitan Division. New York moved within two points of the second-place New Jersey Devils with the win. New Jersey dropped a 2-1 decision vs. the league-best Boston Bruins later Saturday.

Niko Mikkola scored his first goal of the season early in the third period and Mika Zibanejad collected two assists to give him 50 assists this season. Vincent Trocheck scored in the final minute of the third. Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves for his third shutout this season and 11th of his career.

Columbus fell to 1-6-1 over its past eight contests and lost by at least four goals for the 15th time.

Senators 7, Lightning 4

Egor Sokolov’s first career goal was the game-winner as host Ottawa broke a four-game losing skid in defeating Tampa Bay.

In just his third game this season and 11th in the NHL, Sokolov notched his first career marker at 2:07 of the third period for a 5-3 Senators lead. Alex DeBrincat had a power-play goal and an assist and Mark Kastelic added one of each. Drake Batherson, Julian Gauthier, Patrick Brown and Claude Giroux (empty-netter) also scored for Ottawa.

Victor Hedman had a power-play goal and two assists for the Lightning. Alex Killorn and Brandon Hagel tallied on the man advantage, and Brayden Point also scored. Brian Elliott made 33 saves for Tampa Bay.

Islanders 4, Flyers 0

Ilya Sorokin made 27 saves to lift host New York over Philadelphia in Elmont, N.Y. Sorokin turned aside all eight shots he faced in the third period to secure his NHL-leading sixth shutout of the season and 16th career.

Brock Nelson scored his team-leading 34th goal and Hudson Fasching and defensemen Scott Mayfield and Samuel Bolduc also tallied for the Islanders, who are tied with the Florida Panthers for the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Philadelphia’s Carter Hart yielded three goals on 18 shots before being relieved by Felix Sandstrom (two saves). The free-falling Flyers have lost six in a row overall (0-5-1) and 10 straight on the road (0-9-1).

Canucks 3, Flames 2 (SO)

Andrei Kuzmenko scored the only goal in the shootout as Vancouver dealt visiting Calgary’s playoff hopes a blow.

Kuzmenko faked a low shot and then lifted the puck over sprawled Calgary goalie Jacob Markstrom for the winner. Calgary is one point behind the Winnipeg Jets in the battle for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Elias Pettersson and Cole McWard also scored and Thatcher Demko finished with 41 saves for the Canucks, who played their final home game of the regular season. Elias Lindholm and Nazem Kadri scored and Markstrom turned aside 31 shots for the Flames, who had their three-game road win streak snapped.

–Field Level Media

Denis Malgin scored two goals for the visiting Colorado Avalanche in a 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.

Alex Newhook and Brad Hunt also scored and Alexandar Georgiev made 38 saves for the Avalanche (48-24-6, 102 points), who have won 13 of 15 to keep pace with the Dallas Stars atop the Central Division standings.

Adrian Kempe had two goals and assisted on the third, Anze Kopitar had three assists and Pheonix Copley made 19 saves for the Kings (45-25-10, 100 points), who have lost five of seven and lead the fourth-place Seattle Kraken by just two points. The Kings have two games remaining, and the Kraken have three.

The Avalanche were getting outshot 19-4 when Malgin scored on a bizarre play to give Colorado a 1-0 lead at 1:28 of the second period. His shot from the point went off the glass, landed on the top of the net, hit Copley and then caromed across the goal line.

Newhook scored on the next shot for the Avalanche as well, getting loose on a breakaway to give Colorado a 2-0 lead at 2:30.

Los Angeles cut the lead to 2-1 at 7:34 of the second. Kempe won the puck in the neutral zone, skated in and slid the puck past Georgiev for his 37th goal of the season.

Viktor Arvidsson’s one-timer went off the skate of Avalanche defenseman Devon Toews and into the net while Los Angeles was on a power play to tie it 2-2 at 12:55 of the second.

Hunt scored with a slapshot after a faceoff win by Colorado to move ahead 3-2 at 1:50 of the third period. Malgin scored off a backdoor pass at 6:18 to extend the lead to 4-2, but Kempe scored off the rush 26 seconds later to trim the margin back to one goal.

–Field Level Media