The short-handed Chicago Blackhawks signed goaltender Dylan Wells to a one-year, two-way contract Wednesday.

The deal carries a $750,000 salary cap hit and comes with goalies Petr Mrazek (groin) and Alex Stalock (concussion) both dealing with injuries. Mrazek is on injured reserve and Stalock is in the concussion protocol.

Rookie netminder Arvid Soderblom entered Tuesday night’s game against the Islanders after Stalock was knocked into the goalpost by New York forward Casey Cizikas just 2:56 into the game.

Stalock remained sprawled on the ice for several minutes before skating to the bench. Cizikas was fined $5,000 for goalie interference on Wednesday.

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Wells, 24, has played in three games this season with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League, going 1-1-0 with a 4.27 goals-against average and an .862 save percentage.

Originally a fifth-round pick by the Edmonton Oilers in 2016, Wells was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes in July 2021.

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New York Islanders forward Casey Cizikas received a $5,000 fine from the NHL on Wednesday for goalie interference.

Cizikas drew a five-minute major for interference and a 10-minute game misconduct penalty just 2:56 into the first period Tuesday night when he rammed Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Alex Stalock into the goalpost.

Stalock exited the game and was placed in concussion protocol. He was replaced by rookie Arvid Soderblom, who stopped 28 of 30 shots in Chicago’s 3-1 loss to the Islanders.

The fine announced by NHL Player Safety is the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement.

Cizikas, 31, has two assists and 12 penalty minutes in 10 games this season, his 12th with the Islanders. He has 203 points (91 goals, 112 assists) in 674 games since being drafted by the Islanders in the fourth round in 2009.

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Hampus Lindholm went coast to coast and scored from the left hash marks at 3:37 of overtime Tuesday as the visiting Boston Bruins erased a three-goal deficit to win their sixth straight, 6-5 over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Charlie Coyle, Brad Marchand, Jakub Lauko, Pavel Zacha and Taylor Hall also scored for the Bruins.

Boston goaltender Linus Ullmark allowed five goals on 18 shots before being pulled in the second. Jeremy Swayman stopped all four shots he faced but left with an apparent left leg injury. Ullmark returned and went on to finish with 29 saves.

Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist, and Sidney Crosby, Bryan Rust, Josh Archibald and Rickard Rakell also scored for the Penguins, who have lost five straight. Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry made 34 saves.

Golden Knights 3, Capitals 2 (OT)

Shea Theodore scored 1:35 into overtime as Vegas rallied for its fifth consecutive victory, edging host Washington.

Theodore cut to the net and took a pass from Jack Eichel in the slot and then fired a wrist shot past Capitals backup goaltender Charlie Lindgren. Eichel and William Carrier also scored goals and Alex Pietrangelo had three assists for Vegas. Logan Thompson finished with 19 saves for the Golden Knights.

Marcus Johansson and Trevor van Riemsdyk scored goals and Dylan Strome added two assists for Washington. Lindgren stopped 28 of 31 shots.

Oilers 7, Predators 4

Leon Draisaitl had a goal and four assists to help host Edmonton beat Nashville for its fifth straight win.

Connor McDavid had two goals and two assists, Evander Kane had a hat trick and Jack Campbell made 19 saves for the Oilers.

Filip Forsberg had a goal and two assists while Mikael Granlund and Matt Duchene had two assists apiece for the Predators, who are 1-6-1 in their past eight games. Juuse Saros made 30 saves.

Kraken 5, Flames 4

Rookie Matty Beniers capped Seattle’s three-goal, third-period rally as the Kraken defeated host Calgary.

Beniers scored off a pass from Jordan Eberle on a three-on-one breakaway to snap a 4-4 tie at 13:26 of the final period. Carson Soucy, Morgan Geekie, Daniel Sprong and Yanni Gourde also scored for Seattle. Oliver Bjorkstrand notched two assists.

Tyler Toffoli had a goal and an assist and Nikita Zadorov, Nazem Kadri and Trevor Lewis also tallied for the Flames. Elias Lindholm had two assists, and Dan Vladar stopped 21 of 26 shots.

Devils 5, Canucks 2

Nico Hischier’s goal early in the first period sparked another wire-to-wire collective win for red-hot New Jersey, which beat host Vancouver.

Michael McLeod, Dawson Mercer, Yegor Sharangovich and Jack Hughes also scored for the Devils, who have won four straight — their longest winning streak since they won their first four games of the 2018-19 season. Mackenzie Blackwood made 21 saves for the victory.

Bo Horvat scored twice off assists from J.T. Miller for the Canucks. Vancouver goalie Thatcher Demko stopped 32 shots.

Lightning 4, Senators 3

Nikita Kucherov scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period as Tampa Bay earned a comeback win over Ottawa. Kucherov wound up with three points.

Ottawa captain Brady Tkachuk missed a point-blank chance with one second to go as the visitors lost their third straight game, while Tampa Bay won its third in a row.

Mikhail Sergachev and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist and Alex Killorn also scored for the Lightning, who got 12 saves from Andrei Vasilevskiy. Ottawa’s Dylan Gambrell scored in his season debut but was later ejected. Mathieu Joseph and Claude Giroux tallied, and Anton Forsberg made 30 saves for the Senators.

Wild 4, Canadiens 1

Kirill Kaprizov scored twice, Matt Boldy had a goal with an assist and Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves as Minnesota beat visiting Montreal in Saint Paul, Minn.

Mason Shaw also scored for the Wild, who improved to 2-3-0 at home on the young campaign.

Fleury, 37, seemed headed for his 72nd career shutout until Montreal’s Nick Suzuki scored on the power play with 6:30 remaining in regulation. Jake Allen stopped 27 shots for the Canadiens.

Islanders 3, Blackhawks 1

Brock Nelson scored a goal and had an assist for visiting New York, which continued its surge with a win over Chicago.

Anders Lee poked home a shot by Nelson in the first period and Zach Parise added an empty-netter with 13.1 seconds left in the third for the Islanders, who have won four straight. New York goalie Ilya Sorokin made 21 saves.

Jonathan Toews scored in the third period for the Blackhawks, who have lost four straight (0-2-2). Backup goalie Arvid Soderblom recorded 28 saves in relief of Alex Stalock, who stopped two shots before exiting following a collision with Islanders right winger Casey Cizikas 2:56 into the first.

Stars 5, Kings 2

Roope Hintz had two goals and an assist for Dallas in a win against visiting Los Angeles.

Jason Robertson had a goal and two assists, Tyler Seguin and Joe Pavelski also scored and Scott Wedgewood made 30 saves for the Stars, who scored three goals in a 90-second span of the second period. The Stars did not have No. 1 goalie Jake Oettinger (lower-body injury).

Kevin Fiala and Arthur Kaliyev scored and Cal Petersen made 35 saves for the Kings, who were coming off a 5-1 road win over the St. Louis Blues on Monday.

Coyotes 3, Panthers 1

Karel Vejmelka made 41 saves and Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist as Arizona picked up its first win in three tries at Mullett Arena with a victory over Florida in Tempe, Ariz.

Nick Ritchie and Lawson Crouse also scored for Arizona, which snapped a two-game losing streak. The Coyotes, who play 20 of their first 24 games on the road while a locker room annex is being finished, are slated to play in the 5,000-seat arena on the Arizona State University campus for at least the next three seasons until a proposed new arena in Tempe is built.

Colin White scored a goal and Spencer Knight stopped 18 of 20 shots for the Panthers, who lost for the third time in four games.

Rangers 1, Flyers 0 (OT)

Chris Kreider’s breakaway goal with 52.8 seconds left in overtime lifted New York to a shutout victory over visiting Philadelphia.

After the teams were scoreless in regulation, Mika Zibanejad collected a loose puck in the Rangers’ end and flipped it to Kreider, who was streaking down the middle of the ice. Kreider took the pass and slipped a backhander past goalie Carter Hart for his fourth goal of the season.

Kreider’s goal extended the Rangers’ winning streak to three games and dealt the Flyers their third loss in the past four games, though the past two setbacks came in overtime. New York goalie Igor Shesterkin made 19 saves. Hart stopped 35 shots.

Ducks 6, Sharks 5 (SO)

Adam Henrique scored two goals for visiting Anaheim in a shootout win at San Jose. Trevor Zegras and Troy Terry scored in the shootout for the Ducks, while Logan Couture scored the Sharks’ only shootout goal.

Frank Vatrano, Ryan Strome and Max Comtois also scored and Anthony Stolarz made 39 saves for the Ducks, who have won two in a row for the first time this season but remain the only NHL team without a win in regulation.

Erik Karlsson had three goals and an assist, Timo Meier scored two goals and Kaapo Kahkonen made 39 saves for San Jose, which is 1-2-1 in the past four games.

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Adam Henrique scored two goals for the visiting Anaheim Ducks in a 6-5 shootout win against the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night.

Frank Vatrano, Ryan Strome and Max Comtois also scored, and Anthony Stolarz made 39 saves for the Ducks, who have won two in a row for the first time this season, but remain the only NHL team without a win in regulation.

Erik Karlsson had three goals and an assist, Timo Meier scored two goals, and Kaapo Kahkonen made 39 saves for San Jose.

Trevor Zegras and Troy Terry scored in the shootout for Anaheim, while Logan Couture scored the Sharks’ only shootout goal.

The Sharks pulled Kahkonen for the extra attacker and Karlsson scored his third goal with 2:12 left in the third period to tie the score for a fifth time 5-5.

It was the first NHL hat trick for Karlsson.

Henrique scored his first goal of the season off a centering pass from Kevin Shattenkirk to give Anaheim a 1-0 lead at 5:16 of the first period.

Karlsson scored two goals 23 seconds apart in the first period to give the Sharks their only lead at 2-1.

He tied it with a long wrist shot through traffic at 6:18, and then scored from nearly the same spot with another wrister, giving him three consecutive multipoint games (six goals, three assists).

Vatrano scored off a feed from Isac Lundestrom to tie it 2-2 at 10:52 of the first. Henrique put the Ducks back ahead 3-2 when he scored up high on a backhand with 15 seconds left in the opening period.

San Jose was on its second power play when Meier scored short side from the left circle off the rush to tie the score 3-3 at 3:28 of the second period.

Strome put the Ducks back ahead for a third time 4-3 when a shot from John Klingberg deflected off his midsection and into the net at 15:10.

Meier was credited with his second goal because he was the nearest San Jose player when Ducks right wing Jakob Silfverberg shot the puck into his own net to tie the score 4-4 at 15:31 of the second.

Comtois scored off a feed from Terry to give the Ducks a 5-4 lead at 11:31 of the third period.

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Tage Thompson and the Buffalo Sabres aim to continue their torrid play on Wednesday when the team concludes its four-game homestand against the skidding Pittsburgh Penguins.

Thompson recorded a hat trick to highlight his career-high, six-point performance in Buffalo’s 8-3 romp over the visiting Detroit Red Wings on Monday. He is the sixth different Sabres player to score six points in a game and the first since Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine on Feb. 10, 1993 — four years before Thompson was born.

Thompson, 25, has five goals and four assists in his past two games to pull even with workhorse defenseman Rasmus Dahlin for the team lead in points with 12.

Despite the recent scoring surge, Thompson insists he won’t let it go to his head.

“I think one of the keys is to probably not get too high,” he said. “Same thing if you have a bad game, you don’t want to get too low. You try to stay even keel and just kind of keep doing what you’ve been doing. That’s the mindset I’m going to stick with going forward.”

Buffalo coach Don Granato likely would expect nothing less from Thompson. After all, he has known Thompson since their time together at the U.S. National Team Development Program.

“It’s enjoyable to watch ‘Tommer,’ having history with him, watching him when he was 16 years old, watching him grind his way to this point in his career,” Granato said.

“The thing that sticks out is the excitement of the bench and the players around him. It really tells you the person he is. … To see that and see a kid that it took so long for him to flourish and be recognized for the talent that he is, to see him fight through that and now start to get rewards for that work, it’s definitely enjoyable.”

Thompson isn’t the only surging Buffalo player, as Jeff Skinner has collected two goals and four assists during a three-game point streak.

Like Skinner, Sabres captain Kyle Okposo has set up a pair of goals in back-to-back games to claim a share of the team lead in assists with six.

While Buffalo has won five of its past seven, the Penguins saw their skid extend to five (0-4-1) with a 6-5 overtime loss to the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday night.

Evgeni Malkin collected a goal and an assist to give him five of each on the season. Captain Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell also scored to boost their goal totals to five, level with Malkin for the team lead.

Stopping the opposition has been an issue of late for Pittsburgh, which has surrendered 24 goals during its current winless stretch.

“We’re learning the hard way right now,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “If we want to be the team we want to become, we can’t beat ourselves.”

Casey DeSmith likely will get the nod in the Pittsburgh goal after Tristan Jarry stopped 34 shots on Tuesday. DeSmith has yielded nine goals en route to losing his three outings this season (0-2-1).

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The Toronto Maple Leafs hope to rebound from a disappointing road trip when they return home Wednesday night to play the Philadelphia Flyers.

After squandering a 3-1 third-period lead in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday, the Maple Leafs completed their trip 1-2-2.

“You can get frustrated all you want, it’s not going to help anything,” Maple Leafs defenseman and alternate captain Morgan Rielly said Sunday. “You can talk about a lot of different things but this is on us. Players are in control of the outcome.

“Nobody is making excuses, that it’s early, that it’s OK. We’re not saying that. We keep our focus that it’s a long season. We’re not going to try to turn away from anything, we keep going until we right the ship.”

The Maple Leafs will get a heavy dose of home cooking as they play eight of their next 10 games in Toronto.

The Flyers opened a three-game road trip Tuesday night with a 1-0 overtime loss to the New York Rangers. It was Philadelphia’s second consecutive loss in extra time.

The Maple Leafs have lost four in a row, two in overtime.

“When you talk about our start and our results we had, the points we have been able to accumulate to this point probably are even more than what I would expect based on how we have played, frankly,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said on Tuesday after practice.

The Maple Leafs are working on executing fundamentals, something that has been lacking.

“There are a lot of fundamentals we are not executing at a high level,” Keefe said. “Some of the things that we expect to be really good in — as simple as breaking out and being available for one another and being responsible for your touch and your pass — that was the emphasis, to be good in that area.”

Other than that, Keefe said that he had a simple message to his players: “It’s nice to be home. The calendar turns to November, we have a fresh opportunity to get back on home ice. Let’s get to work.”

“I think we’ve been on a roller coaster as far as our play,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said after a 4-3 overtime loss to the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday. “It’s been awful. It’s been good. It’s been just terrible. It’s been really good. It’s been up and down. But the team has found a way to get points. So they should feel good about this point.”

The Flyers had good goaltending again from Carter Hart on Tuesday as he stopped 35 shots. Rangers goaltender Igor Sheshterkin made 19 saves, none in overtime.

Tortorella said that because of the heavy minutes some of his players logged Tuesday, he will likely play defenseman Egor Zamula and center Tanner Laczynski on Wednesday to provide fresh legs against a team with speed like the Maple Leafs. Both were scratches Tuesday.

Tortorella saw value from the game in New York beyond the one point earned.

“It’s great experience for some guys to play in this building (Madison Square Garden), the way the atmosphere was, and just stay within themselves,” Tortorella said after the game on Tuesday. “That’s what I liked about it is that after an abysmal second period, I thought we gathered ourselves, and I thought we played a good third period.”

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Nico Hischier’s goal early in the first period Tuesday night sparked another wire-to-wire collective win for the red-hot New Jersey Devils, who beat the host Vancouver Canucks 5-2.

Michael McLeod, Dawson Mercer, Yegor Sharangovich and Jack Hughes also scored for the Devils, who have won four straight — their longest winning streak since they won their first four games of the 2018-19 season.

Seven players scored a goal apiece for New Jersey in a 7-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday. Hischier is the only player to score in each of the last two wins.

Goalie Mackenzie Blackwood made 21 saves Tuesday night.

Bo Horvat scored twice for the Canucks, who had a two-game winning streak snapped. Goalie Thatcher Demko recorded 32 saves.

Hischier scored 4:36 into the first and just eight seconds into a power play. After winning a faceoff with Horvat, Hischier skated to the right of Demko, where the center placed his stick down for a pass from Jasper Bratt and tucked the puck into the wide open corner of the net.

The Devils doubled their lead with 1:56 left in the first, when McLeod scored on the rebound of a rebound by Miles Wood, who had pounced on the puck after Demko turned back a shot by Nathan Bastian.

The Devils scored a short-handed goal with four seconds left on the Canucks’ power play. Mercer finished off a 2-on-1 when he took a pass from Sharangovich, who dished behind the feet of a sliding Oliver Ekman-Larsson and flicked a forehand into the upper corner of the net at 9:25.

Sharangovich capped another 2-on-1 opportunity barely two minutes later. John Marino’s clearing pass hit Jesper Boqvist in stride before Boqvist passed behind Horvat and to Sharangovich, who fired a shot past the stick of a sprawling Demko with 8:23 remaining.

The Canucks scored just eight seconds into a power play with 3:37 left in the second. Horvat won a faceoff with Hischier before sending his shot from the slot past Blackwood, who was screened by teammate Jonas Siegenthaler as he battled with Andrei Kuzmenko.

Horvat scored another power-play goal after Demko was pulled with 3:37 left, but Hughes scored an empty netter with 1:02 left to end any comeback hopes for the Canucks.

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