Jamie Benn had a goal and two assists as the Dallas Stars rolled to a 7-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday in Tempe, Ariz.

It was the highest-scoring game of the year for the Central Division-leading Stars, who have won their past two games.

Dallas’ Jason Robertson scored two goals while Roope Hintz had two assists. Denis Gurianov, Wyatt Johnston, Ty Dellandrea and Jani Hakanpaa scored the Stars’ other goals.

It was a well-rounded team effort for the Stars, as 13 players collected at least one point. Gurianov opened the scoring after 87 seconds, and Dallas was up 4-0 after one period.

Stars goalie Scott Wedgewood stopped 28 of 30 shots for his second consecutive victory.

Juuso Valimaki and Lawson Crouse scored for Arizona, after the Coyotes were already down 6-0 in the third period. Matias Maccelli assisted on both goals.

Arizona goaltender Connor Ingram was pulled less than 12 minutes into the game after he allowed three goals on 10 shots. Ingram was hampered by some poor defending from his teammates, including a bad pass from defenseman Dysin Mayo that led to Johnston’s goal.

Karol Vejmelka stopped 22 of 26 shots in relief. Vejmelka made a poor clearing pass of his own early in the third period, sending the puck directly to Benn for an easy goal.

After collecting three assists without scoring a goal in his first nine games, Benn has five points (one goal, four assists) in his past two games.

Robertson also has been hot, with eight points (five goals, three assists) over his past four outings. Robertson leads the Stars in both goals (seven) and points (15).

The Stars won the special teams battle, going 1-for-4 with the extra attacker and killing off Arizona’s lone power-play chance.

Arizona went 1-2-1 in its first homestand in its new venue, 5,000-seat Mullett Arena at Arizona State University. The Coyotes don’t have another home game until Dec. 9 as the team now embarks on a 14-game road trip.

–Field Level Media

Rookie Andrei Kuzmenko recorded his first NHL hat trick and added an assist for the Vancouver Canucks in an 8-5 win against the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night.

Elias Pettersson tallied a goal and four assists, Bo Horvat notched two goals and an assist and Spencer Martin made 26 saves for the Canucks, who have won three of four following a seven-game losing streak to start the season.

Troy Terry had a goal and two assists, Ryan Strome and Trevor Zegras each chipped in a goal and an assist and John Gibson made 39 saves for the Ducks, who remain the only NHL team without a win in regulation this season.

Terry scored a power-play goal at 16:30 of the first period to give the Ducks a 1-0 lead.

Horvat tied it 1-1 with 20 seconds left in the opening period. He tipped in a slap shot from Quinn Hughes with Vancouver on a power play.

The Canucks moved ahead 2-1 at 9:07 of the second period. Pettersson received a centering pass while stationed in front of the Anaheim net and kept the puck away from two defenders before sweeping it past Gibson.

J.T. Miller scored at 13:06 for Vancouver to make it 3-1.

Strome took a feed from Zegras in the right circle and scored with a wrist shot to cut the deficit to 3-2 with 46 seconds left in the second period.

Vancouver’s Dakota Joshua got to a loose puck in front of the crease and scored 5:30 into the third period. The Ducks challenged for goalie interference, but the goal was upheld and the Canucks went on a power play for delay of game.

Kuzmenko then scored 24 seconds into the man advantage to make it 5-2.

Anaheim then got within one with consecutive tallies. Max Comtois scored on a breakaway to cut it to 5-3 at 7:51, and Zegras followed with a power-play goal on a long wrist shot to make it 5-4 at 13:35.

Kuzmenko then rattled off two scores in two minutes to put the game out of reach.

He scored his second of the game, on a tip, to make it 6-4 at 14:48. He then completed his hat trick with 3:12 left for a 7-4 lead.

Max Jones cut it to 7-5 with 2:22 left.

Horvat scored short-handed into an empty net with 56 seconds left to make it 8-5. It was his sixth goal in the past three games.

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Ryan Graves and Jesper Bratt scored the tying and go-ahead goals seven seconds apart late in the third period Thursday night to lift the red-hot New Jersey Devils over the host Edmonton Oilers, 4-3.

The Devils have won five straight — their longest winning streak since a five-game run from Dec. 15-27, 2017. The Oilers had their five-game winning streak snapped.

The Oilers carried a 3-1 lead into the third after scoring twice in an 86-second span shortly before the midway point of the second. Miles Wood then scored his second goal of the game 1:14 into the third for the Devils before they mounted the historic rally.

After taking a pass from Tomas Tatar, Graves was tripped by Oilers center Ryan McLeod and sent an off-balance shot that trickled under Stuart Skinner’s legs at 16:45 of the third after the goalie could not cover up the puck.

The Devils’ Nico Hischier won the subsequent faceoff against Leon Draisaitl and the puck bounced backwards to John Marino, whose pass through the neutral zone hit Bratt in stride. Bratt shuffled the puck for a handful of strides before his shot glanced off the far post and into the net.

The goal extended Bratt’s season-opening point streak to a franchise-record 11 games.

The seven-second span was the fastest in which the Devils have scored two goals. John Madden and Patrik Elias scored eight seconds apart for New Jersey against the Boston Bruins on April 6, 2001.

The Oilers pulled Skinner shortly after Bratt’s goal but could get just one shot against Vitek Vanecek, who earned the win after stopping 18 of 19 shots in relief. Starter Mackenzie Blackwood exited 8:41 into the second after he appeared to hurt himself kicking a puck out of the crease. Blackwood had 16 saves on 18 shots.

Connor McDavid scored 9:20 into the first for the Oilers to open the scoring, and Wood answered at the 12:22 mark. Edmonton’s Derek Ryan broke the tie exactly eight minutes into the second, and Draisaitl extended Edmonton’s lead to two goals by scoring on the power play 86 seconds later.

Skinner recorded 39 saves.

–Field Level Media

Filip Forsberg and Matt Duchene each had a goal with an assist, and Kevin Lankinen made 29 saves, as the visiting Nashville Predators won for just the second time in nine games, 4-1 over the skidding Calgary Flames on Thursday night.

Forsberg scored 59 seconds into the second period and assisted on Roman Josi’s power-play goal 1:28 later. Meanwhile, ex-Flame Mark Jankowski scored in the first in his season debut and Duchene added an empty-netter for Nashville. Lankinen was solid all night en route to his second win in three starts with his new club — all coming away from home.

After taking two games from San Jose in Prague to open the season, the Predators went 1-6-1 before Thursday’s triumph.

Down 3-0, Calgary finally got on the board 1:43 into the third period, when Blake Coleman beat Lankinen after the netminder’s behind-the-net clearing attempt was intercepted. The Flames recorded the first five shots of the final frame; however, Lankinen regrouped and the Predators’ defense remained stout to record their first victory across four true road contests in North America.

Jacob Markstrom stopped 28 of 31 shots for Calgary, which has dropped three consecutive games — all at home — after winning five of its first six. The Flames are 3-4-0 during an eight-game home stretch.

Nashville played the aggressor most of the first period, outshooting the Flames 12-3. The Predators were eventually rewarded with 28.6 seconds remaining in the opening frame when Jankowski, who spent his first four NHL seasons (2016-20) with Calgary, rang the post in his Nashville debut after totaling five goals and four assists in seven games with Milwaukee of the AHL.

The Predators made it 2-0 when Forsberg took a stretch pass from Duchene, broke free and beat Markstrom over the top of his glove. Less than two minutes later, Josi converted a hard wrister from the blue line.

Nashville killed all three Calgary power-play chances and blocked a whopping 24 shots on the night.

–Field Level Media