Brandon Tanev scored with 3:39 left in regulation Saturday to give the visiting Seattle Kraken a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins for their fourth straight win.

Yanni Gourde’s pass from deep got to Tanev in front, and the former Penguins winger swept the puck over goaltender Tristan Jarry’s right shoulder.

Gourde finished with a goal and two assists, Tanev added an assist along with his goal, and Vince Dunn also scored for the Kraken, who topped the Penguins 3-1 at home one week earlier.

Seattle goaltender Martin Jones made 35 saves.

Sidney Crosby had a goal and his 900th career assist, Jake Guentzel also had a goal and an assist, and Kris Letang had two assists for the Penguins, who have lost seven straight (0-6-1) for the first time since 2005-06.

Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry made 25 saves.

The Penguins dominated much of the first, but it wasn’t until 5:24 of the second that Crosby gave them a 1-0 lead. From the top of the slot, he rifled a one-timer slapshot past Jones’ glove off a pass from Guentzel in the left circle. Guentzel had been a game-time decision after missing Friday’s practice because of illness.

Dunn tied it for Seattle at 7:48 of the second. Gourde won a faceoff at the left dot back to Dunn near the point. His shot changed directions when it went off the Penguins’ Sam Poulin and eluded Jarry’s blocker side.

Jarry made the biggest save of the second when the Kraken’s Morgan Geekie got a shorthanded breakaway after Letang missed while diving for the puck in his end. Jarry made a glove save on Geekie.

Gourde gave Seattle a 2-1 lead at 7:48 of the third. Tanev, from the slot, directed the puck ahead with his shinpad. Gourde, from in tight, lifted the puck over Jarry’s blocker.

At 9:51 of the second, Guentzel tied it 2-2 when his shot from deep on the left side went in off the stick of the Kraken’s Matty Beniers. Crosby’s assist made him the 20th NHL player to reach 900, and he is the sixth-fastest at 1,120 games.

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Carter Hart made 33 saves to help the visiting Philadelphia Flyers end a three-game losing streak with a 2-1 win against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

Kevin Hayes and Zack MacEwen scored for the Flyers, who had lost four of five following a 4-1-0 start.

Claude Giroux scored the 300th goal of his NHL career against his former team, and Cam Talbot made 26 saves in his first start of the season for Ottawa, which went 0 for 5 on the power play en route to losing its fifth in a row.

Giroux, who spent his first 15 NHL seasons with the Flyers and was their captain for 10 years, gave the Senators a 1-0 lead at 2:44 of the first period.

Giroux, Tim Stutzle and Brady Tkachuk entered the Philadelphia zone on a 3-on-3 rush, Stutzle slid the puck to Tkachuk on his left, got it back and then centered a pass to Giroux on his right for the redirection.

The Flyers traded Giroux to the Florida Panthers toward the end of last season. After helping the Panthers reach the Eastern Conference semifinals, Giroux signed a three-year deal with the Senators in the offseason.

Giroux has four goals and two assists in a five-game point streak.

Thomas Chabot was called for high sticking Nicolas Deslauriers at 5:12 of the first period and Hayes tipped in a point shot from Tony DeAngelo five seconds into the power play to tie the score 1-1.

Hart made a save on Shane Pinto’s breakaway with 5 1/2 minutes left in the opening period to keep the score tied.

MacEwen gave the Flyers a 2-1 lead at 18:24 of the second period when he scored off a rebound that came out to the slot.

The Flyers nearly extended their lead with 55 seconds left in the second when a shot by Nick Seeler went through Talbot’s pads and grazed the outside of the right post.

Talbot, who was acquired from the Minnesota Wild on July 12, sustained a broken rib in training camp and missed the first three weeks of the season.

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Nick Perbix’s first NHL goal broke a third-period tie as the Tampa Bay Lightning won for the fourth time in five games, beating the visiting Buffalo Sabres 5-3 on Saturday night.

Perbix, a rookie defenseman, took a drop pass from Nikita Kucherov and ripped the go-ahead marker with 4:55 left — coming just eight seconds after Lightning goalie Brian Elliott stopped Jeff Skinner on a breakaway.

Kucherov sealed the victory with an empty-netter, his sixth goal, with 58 seconds left. His three assists and tally moved his point streak to 10 games and his goal streak to six.

Brandon Hagel scored and had two assists for Tampa Bay. Brayden Point found the back of the net on the power play and had a helper, and Nicholas Paul scored. Elliott made 21 saves.

Zemgus Girgensons found the net for Buffalo, Casey Mittelstadt tallied on the power play and Skinner scored his third goal of the season. Owen Power dished out two assists. Eric Comrie stopped 25 shots.

Playing on the second night of a back-to-back, the Sabres were without leading point producer Rasmus Dahlin (upper body, day-to-day) and fell to 1-9-1 in their past 11 games against Tampa Bay.

Paul and Victor Hedman — both hampered by injuries this week — led the charge early as the defenseman sent a feed to Paul, who fired in his fourth goal from the left circle at 7:07.

The Sabres tied it when Girgensons tallied on an odd sequence. He zipped a puck high over Elliott from the slot and gathered the bouncing puck off the glass for a second chance. The fourth-line left wing then potted his third goal at 16:24.

In the second period and on the Lightning’s second power play, Point took a pass from Steven Stamkos and buried his sixth goal at 5:05 for a 2-1 lead. But Mittelstadt matched it at 8:34 on a deflection of Power’s long shot on Buffalo’s third man advantage as the teams played to a 2-all tie after 40 minutes.

Comrie and Elliott were excellent in a fast-paced opening to the third, but the Sabres grabbed a lead when Alex Tuch connected with Skinner on a cross-ice pass. The top-line left wing went around Elliott and jammed in the puck to put Buffalo out front for the first time at 4:25.

However, Hagel knotted it at 3 by putting in his own rebound just over three minutes later — his fourth goal — with another assist from Kucherov.

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Auston Matthews scored two goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Boston Bruins 2-1 Saturday night.

Mitchell Marner added two assists for the Maple Leafs, who have won two straight after losing four in a row.

Ilya Samsonov made 13 saves for the Maple Leafs in the first two periods. Samsonov did not come out for the third period because of a knee injury and was replaced by Erik Kallgren, who made seven saves.

Brad Marchand scored for the Bruins, who lost for just the second time in their first 12 games.

Linus Ullmark stopped 26 shots for the Bruins.

Matthews scored at 7:19 of the first period, tucking in the puck from beside the left goal post. Michael Bunting, who kicked the puck to Matthews behind the net, and Marner had assists.

Toronto had an 11-7 advantage in shots on goal after the first period.

John Tavares hit the crossbar with a shot early in the second period.

Marchand scored on a penalty shot with a nifty shoulder fake and backhand at 4:59 of the second period. The penalty shot was awarded when Marchand was tripped by TJ Brodie while on a breakaway during a Boston power play. It was Marchand’s fourth goal of the season and his 800th career point.

Matthews scored his sixth goal of the season from in front of the goal during a power play at 14:07 of the second. William Nylander circled behind the net to set him up. Marner also had an assist. Jake DeBrusk was serving a holding penalty.

The Maple Leafs led 26-14 in shots on goal after two periods.

After the Bruins killed off two penalties early in the third, they came close to tying the game when David Pastrnak hit the post with a shot.

Toronto survived two consecutive Boston power plays at 8:44 and 11:30 of the third.

Ullmark was removed for an extra attacker as the final minute of the third period approached. Kallgren and the Maple Leafs were able to hold off the Boston onslaught.

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Nick Ritchie capped a two-goal performance by scoring with 35.4 seconds remaining in the third period on Saturday, as the Arizona Coyotes overcame Alex Ovechkin’s NHL-record 787th goal with one franchise to post a 3-2 victory over the host Washington Capitals.

Ovechkin’s power-play goal at 8:55 of the second period came in his 1,287th game with Washington, snapping a tie with Hockey Hall of Famer Gordie Howe. “Mr. Hockey” scored 786 of his 801 career goals while playing in 1,687 games with the Detroit Red Wings from 1946-71.

Anthony Mantha set up that goal and scored one of his own before the Coyotes stormed back. Josh Brown cleaned up a loose puck in front at 6:33 of the third period. Ritchie’s first goal of the game sailed just under the crossbar and over the goal line to forge a tie at 9:45.

Arizona netted the winner after Barrett Hayton’s shot from the slot was denied by former Coyotes goaltender Darcy Kuemper. The puck trickled behind the goaltender and Ritchie alertly tapped it home at the left doorstep for his team-leading sixth goal of the season.

Defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere notched two assists and Karel Vejmelka turned aside 34 shots for Arizona, which opened its NHL high-tying 14-game road trip on Saturday. The Canucks also had a 14-game trek during the 2009-10 season as a means to accommodate the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk notched an assist and Kuemper made 23 saves for the Capitals, who have scored just seven goals during their four-game winless skid (0-2-2).

With Washington on its third power play of the game, Ovechkin opened the scoring with the fifth goal in his last seven games. Van Riemsdyk slid a pass deep into the left circle that Ovechkin one-timed past Vejmelka.

The Capitals doubled their advantage at 3:23 of the third period, courtesy of a fortunate bounce in the offensive end.

Gostisbehere’s pass from behind the net caromed off the skate blade of fellow Arizona defenseman Dysin Mayo, allowing Mantha to swiftly backhand the puck past Vejmelka.

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Jamie Benn scored his seventh career hat trick to help the Dallas Stars to a 6-2 win over the host Edmonton Oilers Saturday.

Jason Robertson had a goal and two assists, Joe Pavelski had a goal and an assist and Miro Heiskanen had two assists for the Stars, who have won three in a row and four of their past five. Scott Wedgewood made 28 saves.

Leon Draisaitl and Darnell Nurse scored, and Jack Campbell made 30 saves for the Oilers, who have dropped two straight after a five-game winning streak.

Pavelski gave the Stars a 1-0 lead at 6:15 of the first period. Campbell made the save on Robertson’s spin shot from the right circle but the rebound bounced to Roope Hintz in the left circle, who found Pavelski on the back door.

Colin Miller made the score 2-0 at 6:46 of the second period, blasting a feed in stride from the blue line that beat Campbell glove side.

Draisaitl got one back for the Oilers on the power play at 10:16. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins found him uncovered below the right circle for the one-timer to cut the deficit to 2-1.

Robertson extended his goal streak to five games to put Dallas ahead 3-1 at 14:48, when his shot from the left circle hit the post and then Campbell before rolling into the net. With the tally, he became the seventh player in franchise history to have a goal streak of five games or more before the age of 24.

Benn added to the lead less than a minute later. Robertson scooped up the rebound of his own shot down low and snuck it through the crease to Benn in front to extend the lead to 4-1 at 15:27.

Nurse narrowed it to 4-2 at 3:41 of the third period, scoring far side from the left circle. The goal was his 200th NHL point.

The Stars restored their three-goal lead 20 seconds later on the power play when Heiskanen sent a feed to Benn at the right side of the net for the tap in to make it 5-2 at 4:01.

Benn completed the hat trick, going bar down from the left circle for a 6-2 lead at 12:33.

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Josh Morrissey and Pierre-Luc Dubois had two of Winnipeg’s three power-play goals, and each added an assist, while Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves to record his 30th career shutout, as the surging Jets won 4-0 over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.

Nate Schmidt also scored, and Adam Lowry added a short-handed goal for the Jets, who went 3-for-4 on the power play to extend their point streak to six games (5-0-1).

Meanwhile, Hellebuyck was sharp against a Chicago group that was more active than its shot total might indicate. The veteran netminder, who made 25 saves during a 4-0 win over St. Louis on Oct. 24, has stopped 96 of 100 shots he’s faced in his last three games — and has six wins in nine starts.

The Blackhawks’ Arvid Soderblom stopped 21 of 24 shots through the first two periods before leaving with an apparent injury. In his NHL debut, backup Dylan Wells made 12 saves and allowed a wide-open Schmidt to score from the circle 4:59 into the third for Chicago, which is 1-3-2 since a four-game winning streak.

The Jets came out as the aggressors, recording the game’s first five shots on goal. However, the Blackhawks regrouped and eventually outshot Winnipeg 12-11 through the first 20 minutes.

Winnipeg posted the first six shots of the second period, and after the Blackhawks again found their offense, was rewarded with 9:56 remaining in the middle frame. On the power play, Morrissey drove a slap shot through traffic and by Soderblom for his first goal of the season.

The Jets then came through while a man down with 6:27 to go in the second. Taking advantage of some casual Blackhawks passing, Lowry picked up the puck on the neutral-zone boards, broke in and beat Soderblom for a 2-0 Winnipeg edge.

With the Jets back on the power play, some well-timed passing from Morrissey (10 assists on the season) to Kyle Connor ended with Dubois’ strike past Soderblom with 2:05 remaining before the second intermission.

The Jets, 4-1-0 at home, have won 11 of their last 14 versus Chicago.

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Devon Toews and Martin Kaut had a goal and an assist each and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 to sweep the two-game Global Series in Tampere, Finland, on Saturday.

Artturi Lehkonen, Logan O’Connor and Alex Newhook also scored for the Avalanche.

Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar had three assists each and Alexandar Georgiev turned away 31 shots for the Avalanche.

MacKinnon finished with seven points — all assists — in the two games.

Colorado, which won Friday’s game 6-3, played without defenseman Bowen Byram, who was a late scratch with a lower-body injury, and Valeri Nichushkin, who missed his fourth straight game, also with a lower-body injury.

Boone Jenner scored for Columbus and Joonas Korpisalo had 40 saves in his first NHL game since March 22. Korpisalo missed the beginning of the season recovering from hip surgery and was activated before Saturday’s game to play in his native Finland.

The Blue Jackets have lost five in a row.

Lehkonen quickly gave the Avalanche the lead when he scored his third goal of the season just 33 seconds into the game.

Columbus answered on the power play later in the first period. With Sam Girard off for holding, Jenner tipped Zach Werenski’s shot from the point at 12:27. It was his second goal of the season.

Colorado then took control in the first five minutes of the second period. Kaut broke the tie at 1:22 when his sharp-angle backhander went off Korpisalo’s back and in for his first goal of the season.

O’Connor made it 3-1 at 4:13 when he deflected Makar’s shot by Korpisalo, his third goal of the season and second in as many games.

The Avalanche went ahead by three goals 37 seconds later when MacKinnon fed Toews on an odd-man rush, who beat Korpisalo with a wrister. It was his first goal of the season.

Newhook added an insurance goal early in the third period when he scored off a pass from Evan Rodrigues at 1:36. It was his second goal of the season.

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NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday that Boston Bruins prospect Mitchell Miller is ineligible to play in the league because of his admitted bullying of a classmate as a teenager.

Bettman, who is attending the 2022 NHL Global Series in Finland, said the Bruins’ front office didn’t consult the league office before signing Miller to an entry-level contract on Friday. The Bruins assigned him to Providence of the American Hockey League.

The Arizona Coyotes drafted Miller in the fourth round in 2020 but renounced his draft rights that October after allegations surfaced that he had bullied a classmate with developmental disabilities as an eighth-grader. The University of North Dakota also removed him from the hockey team.

Miller, 20, called his actions “an extremely poor decision” and said he “acted very immaturely.”

“I bullied one of my classmates,” he said Friday in a statement released by the Bruins. “I deeply regret the incident and have apologized to the individual. Since the incident, I have come to better understand the far-reaching consequences of my actions that I failed to recognize and understand nearly seven years ago. I strive to be a better person and positively contribute to society.”

Bettman said apologies won’t wipe the slate clean.

“What I understand and I’ve heard through the media anecdotally, what he did as a 14-year-old is reprehensible, unacceptable,” Bettman said. “Before the Bruins made the decision to sign him, we were not consulted. I happened to talk to (Bruins president) Cam Neely since the time he was signed.”

“He’s not coming into the NHL, he’s not eligible at this point to come into the NHL,” Bettman said of Miller. “I can’t tell you that he’ll ever be eligible to come into the NHL. If, in fact, at some point they think they want him to play in the NHL, and I’m not sure that they’re anywhere close to that point, we are going to have to clear him and his eligibility and it’ll be based on all the information that we get firsthand at the time.

“So the answer is they were free to sign him to play somewhere else — that’s another league’s issue — but nobody should think at this point he is or may ever be NHL eligible. And the Bruins understand that now.”

Bettman didn’t close the door permanently to Miller playing in the NHL but said he “would need to see a whole bunch of things and understand a lot more firsthand than I do now anecdotally” before welcoming the defenseman.

Miller, who grew up in Sylvania, Ohio, pleaded guilty at age 14 to one count of assault and one count of violation of the Ohio Safe Schools Act, NBC Sports reported. He and another teenager were shown on a security video punching and kicking the boy and also forcing him to eat a piece of candy that had touched the inside of a bathroom urinal.

Miller played with the Tri-City Storm of the USHL in 2021-22 and registered 83 points (39 goals, 44 assists) and a plus-43 rating in 60 games. He swept the league’s Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards.

Neely said the organization did its due diligence before signing Miller.

“Representing the Boston Bruins is a privilege we take seriously as an organization,” Neely said. “Respect and integrity are foundational character traits we expect of our players and staff.”

Some Bruins players have spoken out against the signing, however.

Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron told reporters in Toronto on Saturday that the beliefs in the Bruins’ locker room run opposite to what Miller did.

“To be honest, the culture we built here goes against that type of behavior,” he said. “We’re a team that has built something about character and character people and individuals. What he did obviously is unacceptable and we don’t stand by that.

“In this locker room, we are all about diversity, inclusion and respect. Those are the key words and core values we have. We expect guys to wear this jersey to be high-character people with integrity and respect. That’s how they should be acting. My understanding is he’s going to put in the work in development programs and community programs to better himself. From my standpoint, it’s a hockey operations decision and we can only control what we can control. Truthfully, hopefully there is some growth and change. If it’s the same 14-year-old walking into this locker room, he wouldn’t be acceptable and welcomed in this locker room to be honest with you.”

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The Washington Capitals claimed forward Nicolas Aube-Kubel off waivers from the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.

A 2022 Stanley Cup winner with the Colorado Avalanche, Aube-Kubel played in six games with Toronto this season.

The 26-year-old Alberta native has 50 points (21 goals, 29 assists) in 175 career games with the Philadelphia Flyers, Avalanche and Maple Leafs.

The Flyers drafted Aube-Kubel in the second round in 2014. Claimed off waivers by Colorado in November 2021, he skated in 14 playoff games last season and posted a plus-2 rating with four penalty minutes.

He signed a one-year, $1 million deal with the Maple Leafs in July.

–Field Level Media