Jake DeBrusk tipped home Charlie McAvoy’s shot from the left point with 1:38 to play as the Boston Bruins outlasted the host Seattle Kraken 6-5 in a wild Thursday night affair.

David Krejci, David Pastrnak, Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand all had a goal and an assist for Boston, which has won five consecutive games. Brandon Carlo scored the first of the Bruins’ two third-period goals, while McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm had two assists apiece.

The winning goal was DeBrusk’s third goal in three games since returning from injuries. Jeremy Swayman made 36 saves, improving to 9-1-3 in his last 13 decisions.

Matty Beniers, Jamie Oleksiak and Vince Dunn each logged a goal and an assist for Seattle. Yanni Gourde and Schwartz added to the Kraken’s scoring. Philipp Grubauer stopped 27 shots, but Seattle lost its second straight game.

Wild 2, Blue Jackets 0

Kirill Kaprizov scored his team-leading 34th goal and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all 30 shots he faced for his 73rd career shutout as visiting Minnesota blanked Columbus. Fleury’s 73 shutouts rank 12th on the NHL’s all-time list.

The win snapped Minnesota’s five-game road losing streak and extended its overall win streak to four. Minnesota killed off its 22nd straight penalty in the win and has not given up a power-play goal in nine straight games.

Thursday marked the return of Columbus star Johnny Gaudreau, who missed two games due to a lower-body injury. Gaudreau’s consecutive-games played streak ended at 349, the third-longest active iron man streak in the NHL, behind Phil Kessel (1,038) and Brent Burns (734).

Sabres 6, Lightning 5 (OT)

Ilya Lyubushkin scored the game-winner on a short-handed breakaway 1:41 into overtime, Tage Thompson posted his fifth career hat trick and Buffalo beat host Tampa Bay.

With Buffalo opening overtime on a four-on-three penalty kill, Lyubushkin notched his first goal in 42 games this season by stripping Steven Stamkos up top and breaking in on goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (17 saves). Lyubushkin beat him on the short side to move Buffalo to 7-3 in overtime.

Nikita Kucherov set up Stamkos’ goal to stretch his team-record home point streak to 19 games, dating back to a three-assist game against the St. Louis Blues on Nov. 25.

Oilers 7, Penguins 2

Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists as Edmonton scored seven straight goals to defeat host Pittsburgh.

Leon Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each added a goal and an assist; Kailer Yamamoto, Devin Shore and Warren Foegele also scored; and Tyson Barrie had two assists for the Oilers, who have won two straight. Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner made 22 saves.

Kris Letang scored twice and Evgeni Malkin had two assists for the Penguins, who have lost four straight. Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry gave up six goals on 29 shots through two periods and was replaced by Casey DeSmith, who made 14 saves.

Devils 4, Kings 3 (OT)

Dawson Mercer remained red-hot, scoring a tying goal early in the third period before collecting his first overtime goal to lift New Jersey past visiting Los Angeles, which has lost the first two games of its five-game road trip, each by one goal.

After taking the puck along the boards and passing it to Dougie Hamilton, Mercer then dashed past Drew Doughty and into the crease, where he took the puck back from Hamilton and chipped the puck past Pheonix Copley for his seventh goal in the last five games.

Tomas Tatar scored in the second period for the Devils, who have won three of four. Goalie Vitek Vanecek made 19 saves. After Sean Durzi gave the Kings a 3-2 lead in the third, Nico Hischier drew the Devils even again to force overtime by redirecting a shot by Jack Hughes with 38.6 seconds left in regulation, setting up Mercer’s heroics.

Golden Knights 4, Flames 3 (OT)

Alex Pietrangelo put in a rebound 42 seconds into overtime as Vegas rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat Calgary in Las Vegas.

Jack Eichel had a goal and an assist and William Carrier and Zach Whitecloud also scored goals for Vegas, which won for the sixth time in seven games while improving to 8-0-0 all-time against Calgary at T-Mobile Arena. Laurent Brossoit finished with 25 saves in the victory.

Mikael Backlund and Jakob Pelletier each had a goal and an assist and Jonathan Huberdeau snapped a nine-game goal drought for Calgary. Vladar stopped 25 of 29 shots he faced.

Predators 6, Sharks 2

Mikael Granlund scored two goals in a three-point game and Nino Niederreiter tallied twice to lead visiting Nashville past San Jose.

Tommy Novak registered one goal and one assist and Yakov Trenin added a goal for the Predators, who have won three of four games. Matt Duchene collected three assists while Juuse Saros made 22 saves.

Nico Sturm and Martin Kaut replied for the Sharks, who have lost four of five games. James Reimer stopped 25 shots.

Red Wings 4, Rangers 1

Andrew Copp had a goal and two assists against his former team and host Detroit won for the seventh time in eight games by defeating New York.

Filip Zadina scored his second goal of the season for Detroit. Michael Rasmussen had a goal and an assist and Filip Hronek also scored, while Ville Husso made 30 saves. David Perron added two assists for the Red Wings, who were coming off a 4-1-0 road trip.

Vincent Trocheck scored the only goal for the Rangers, who have lost three straight following a seven-game winning streak. Jaroslav Halak made 19 saves for New York, which had just two power plays and came up empty both times.

Canucks 3, Blues 2 (OT)

Elias Pettersson scored on an end-to-end rush with 15 seconds left in overtime to complete a three-point night and lift visiting Vancouver to a victory over St. Louis.

Pettersson also assisted on goals by Andrei Kuzmenko and J.T. Miller as the Canucks won for just the third time in their last nine games (3-4-2). Rookie goaltender Arturs Silovs made 20 saves to earn his second NHL victory.

Alexey Toropchenko and Tyler Tucker scored and Jordan Binnington made 38 saves for the Blues, who lost their fourth straight game (0-3-1).

Ducks 4, Capitals 2

John Gibson made 41 saves for visiting Anaheim in a win against Washington in Washington D.C.

Isac Lundestrom, Troy Terry, Jakob Silfverberg and Derek Grant scored while Cam Fowler had two assists for the Ducks, who ended a six-game losing streak.

T.J. Oshie and Nick Jensen scored and Charlie Lindgren made 17 saves for the Capitals, who have lost six in a row.

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Mikael Granlund scored two goals in a three-point game and Nino Niederreiter tallied twice to lead the visiting Nashville Predators to a 6-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday.

Tommy Novak registered one goal and one assist and Yakov Trenin added a goal for the Predators, who have won three of four games. Matt Duchene collected three assists while goaltender Juuse Saros made 22 saves.

Nico Sturm and Martin Kaut replied for the Sharks, who have lost four of five games. Goalie James Reimer stopped 25 shots.

Due to injuries, the Predators were without top-line forwards Ryan Johansen and Filip Forsberg, and the Sharks missed star Timo Meier for a second consecutive game.

Niederreiter’s power-play goal opened the scoring at the 6:24 mark when his long shot ricocheted off a defender’s stick and into the cage.

Granlund doubled the lead 88 seconds into the second period. After a blocked shot came right to him, Granlund sniped an offering from the left faceoff dot.

Sturm put the Sharks on the board with a short-handed goal at 8:37 of the middle frame when he chased down a loose puck in the neutral zone and converted the breakaway for his career-high 12th goal of the season.

However, Granlund restored the two-goal edge at 13:34 of the period by finishing a give-and-go with Philip Tomasino for his ninth of the campaign.

Trenin added a short-handed goal with 29 seconds remaining in the middle frame, finishing a feed from Cole Smith for his eighth goal of the season.

Kaut again made it a two-goal deficit with his tally 50 seconds into the third period, his second of the season and first since being acquired from the Colorado Avalanche.

But Niederreiter’s second of the night, and fourth in three games, midway through the third period quashed any comeback hopes. His pass attempt banked off a defender’s stick and into the goal for his 18th of the season.

Novak added a power-play goal with six minutes remaining, his fourth in four games and eighth of the season, to round out the scoring.

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Jake DeBrusk tipped home Charlie McAvoy’s shot from the left point with 1:38 to play as the Boston Bruins outlasted the host Seattle Kraken 6-5 in a wild Thursday night affair.

David Krejci, David Pastrnak, Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand all had a goal and an assist for Boston, which has won five consecutive games.

Brandon Carlo scored the first of the Bruins’ two third-period goals, while McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm had two assists apiece.

The winning goal was DeBrusk’s third goal in three games since returning from injuries. Jeremy Swayman made 36 saves, improving to 9-1-3 in his last 13 decisions.

Only 4:10 remained when Jaden Schwartz tipped home Will Borgen’s shot from the right point to give Seattle a 5-4 lead, but Carlo redirected Lindholm’s diagonal feed from the circle a half-minute later to set up DeBrusk’s heroics.

Matty Beniers, Jamie Oleksiak and Vince Dunn each logged a goal and an assist for Seattle.

Yanni Gourde and Schwartz added to the Kraken’s scoring.

Philipp Grubauer stopped 27 shots, but Seattle lost its second straight despite outshooting the Bruins 41-33 and scoring the game’s only power-play goal.

Seattle played from the front as Beniers scored at the 40-second mark. Krejci tied it at 1-1 with a goal 10 1/2 minutes later.

Boston did not go ahead until nearly halfway through a combined six-goal second period, but its 3-2 and 4-3 advantages lasted for a mere total of two minutes.

Beniers slotted home the first Seattle shot, a wrister from the top of the left circle at the end of a three-on-one rush. Shortly after a series of Swayman saves, the Bruins evened the score at 11:18 on Krejci’s one-timer from low on the left.

The Kraken reclaimed the lead 1:17 into the second. After Alex Wennberg won a faceoff, Dunn’s slapper went in through traffic in front. Seattle’s 2-1 edge lasted only 1:06 as Pastrnak worked down on the left wing and cut inside for a game-tying goal over Grubauer’s shoulder.

Marchand followed McAvoy’s long shot for a rebound goal at 8:49, giving the Bruins their first lead at 3-2. Just 58 seconds later, however, Oleksiak buried Morgan Geekie’s backhand feed with a wrister as the trailer on the rush.

Marchand set up Bergeron for a two-on-one short-handed goal with 2:09 left in the second, but Seattle made it 4-4 during the same power play 62 seconds later when Gourde’s pass attempt deflected off McAvoy’s stick.

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Alex Pietrangelo put in a rebound 42 seconds into overtime as the Vegas Golden Knights rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Calgary Flames 4-3 on Thursday night in Las Vegas.

The winning goal came when Jonathan Marchessault fired a wrist shot from the high slot that clanged off the right post and landed in the crease behind Calgary goaltender Dan Vladar. Pietrangelo skated in and tapped in the rebound for his eighth goal of the season.

Jack Eichel had a goal and an assist and William Carrier and Zach Whitecloud also scored goals for Vegas, which won for the sixth time in seven games while improving to 8-0-0 all-time against Calgary at T-Mobile Arena. Laurent Brossoit finished with 25 saves in the victory.

Mikael Backlund and Jakob Pelletier each had a goal and an assist and Jonathan Huberdeau snapped a nine-game goal drought for Calgary. Vladar stopped 25 of 29 shots he faced.

Calgary, playing the second game of a back-to-back that began with a 6-3 victory at Arizona on Wednesday, didn’t show any signs of potential fatigue in the first period outshooting the Golden Knights 18-8 while taking a 1-0 lead.

Pelletier, who had a goal and an assist against the Coyotes, batted in a rebound of a Backlund shot in the crease on a power play at 13:25 for his third goal of the season.

Huberdeau made it 2-0 at the 1:24 mark of the second period when he took a Pelletier pass while cutting across the slot and then tucked a shot around Brossoit and inside the right post for his 11th goal of the season.

At 14:27 of the second, Vegas cut it to 2-1 when Eichel snapped a wrist shot from the top of the left circle past Vladar’s blocker and just inside the right post for his 19th goal of the season. It also snapped an 0-for-25 drought on the power play for the Golden Knights.

Backlund increased Calgary’s lead to 3-1 at 16:34 of the second. Backlund, stationed at the left edge of the crease, deflected Blake Coleman’s point shot under Brossoit’s right arm for his 14th goal of the season, extending his goal streak to four games.

Whitecloud made it 3-2 at 5:09 of the third period when he fired a wrist shot from the bottom of the right circle inside the far post for his second goal of the season.

Carrier tied it with 7:25 to go when he tapped in a rebound of an Alec Martinez shot for his 16th goal of the season.

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