Andrei Kuzmenko scored on a breakaway 1:12 into overtime to give the visiting Vancouver Canucks a 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.

With San Jose in the midst of a line change, J.T. Miller fired a stretch pass to a wide-open Kuzmenko, who went in and fired a wrist shot past Kaapo Kahkonen’s glove side for the game-winner.

Kuzmenko, Elias Pettersson and Ilya Mikheyev each had a goal and an assist and Kyle Burroughs also scored a goal for Vancouver, which completed a three-game sweep of a road trip that also included wins at Colorado and Vegas. Miller added two assists for the Canucks, who have won their last six in a row over San Jose.

Thatcher Demko made 32 saves to improve to 7-0-0 all-time against the Sharks.

Luke Kunin scored two goals and Logan Couture also scored for San Jose, which lost for the fifth time in six games. Erik Karlsson and Nick Bonino both added two assists and Kahkonen stopped 16 of 20 shots for the Sharks, who are 2-8-4 at home this season.

Vancouver, which started its back-to-back with a 5-1 victory over Western Conference leader Vegas on Saturday night in Las Vegas, jumped out to a 1-0 lead at the 7:26 mark of the first period. Burroughs fired a slap shot from just inside the blue line that beat Kahkonen on his glove side for his second goal of the season. It marked the sixth straight game that the Canucks scored first.

San Jose tied it late in the second period on Kunin’s first goal of the game. Matt Benning rifled a shot from the right point that Bonino deflected into the shoulder of Kunin stationed in the slot. The puck then caromed high into the air and landed behind Demko, who lost sight of it, and bounced into the net.

The Sharks took a 2-1 lead at the 7:05 mark of the third period on a power-play goal. Couture blasted a slap shot from the right point that deflected off Canucks defenseman Ethan Bear and past Demko for his 12th goal of the season.

Vancouver tied it just 69 seconds later on Mikheyev’s sixth goal of the season on a wrist shot from the slot. Pettersson then gave the Canucks a 3-2 lead 2 1/2 minutes later when he redirected Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s shot for his 12th goal of the season.

Kunin tied it with 5:15 remaining with a one-timer from the left side of the net off a Karlsson crossing pass for his fifth goal of the season.

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Rookie Matty Beniers had a goal and two assists as the Seattle Kraken defeated the host Anaheim Ducks 5-4 Sunday night to extend their winning streak to five games.

Daniel Sprong had a goal and an assist, including the winner early in the third period, and Jared McCann, Alex Wennberg and Vince Dunn also scored as the Kraken improved to 7-1-1 on the road. Goaltender Martin Jones made 25 saves.

Troy Terry had a goal and an assist and Derek Grant, Mason McTavish and Adam Henrique also scored for Anaheim, which lost its second straight. Trevor Zegras had three assists and Cam Fowler had two.

Sprong scored the tiebreaking goal at 3:41 of the third. Beniers broke out of his own zone and fed Ryan Donato on the left wing, who sent a cross-ice pass to Sprong along boards at the offensive blue line. Sprong tried to shoot the puck deep into the opposite corner, but it hit a defenseman and fell right back to Sprong, who drove diagonally across the slot while Donato served as a screen and put a backhander into the net as Anaheim defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk crashed into goalie John Gibson.

Gibson, who stopped 14 of 19 shots, was forced to leave the game with an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Anthony Stolarz, who made six saves the rest of the way.

The Kraken took a 2-0 lead in the opening seven minutes.

McCann opened the scoring just 33 seconds in, taking a pass at the top of the crease after lifting the puck over a sprawling Gibson. Wennberg doubled the advantage at 6:53 with a tap-in at the right post.

Terry pulled the Ducks within 2-1 with a power-play goal at 14:16.

Dunn restored the two-goal edge at 19:33 of the first on a wrister from the high slot.

Grant scored 1:48 into the second to make it 3-2 before Beniers scored with a man-advantage at 9:30 to restore Seattle’s two-goal lead.

The Ducks tied it at 4-4 as McTavish and Henrique scored power-play goals at 16:34 and 17:55 of the second, respectively.

Seattle forward Morgan Geekie suffered an upper-body injury in a collision with teammate Adam Larsson early in the second period and didn’t return.

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Pierre-Luc Dubois and Saku Maenalanen each scored twice to help the Winnipeg Jets to a 7-2 win against the host Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.

Kyle Connor had a goal and two assists, Josh Morrissey had three assists and Blake Wheeler had two assists for the Jets, who are 8-3-0 in their past 11 games. Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves.

Taylor Raddysh and Jujhar Khaira scored, and Petr Mrazek made 37 saves for the Blackhawks, who have dropped seven straight (0-6-1).

Chicago appeared to score when Andreas Athanasiou poked home a bouncing puck just over six minutes into the first period, but video review showed forward Max Domi was offside and the goal was overturned.

The Jets later took a 1-0 lead when Adam Lowry picked up the loose puck by the net below the goal line and fed Jansen Harkins in front at 14:51 of the first period.

Maenalanen doubled the lead at 2:55 of the second period off a rebound that bounced out to him low in the left circle.

The Blackhawks responded 17 seconds later when Raddysh got on a loose puck just below the bottom of the left circle to cut it to 2-1.

Connor connected on a two-man advantage to put the Jets ahead 3-1 at 8:37, blasting a one-timer from the right circle, and Maenalanen beat Mrazek top corner on the far side from the left faceoff dot to extend it to 4-1 just over a minute later.

Khaira narrowed it to 4-2 on the power play at 15:09, taking a rebound off the end boards and lifting it into the net from the left side.

Mark Scheifele snapped a five-game goal drought to push it to 5-2 at 18:57, one-timing a feed from Wheeler at the right inner hashmarks.

Dubois made it 6-2 at 4:37 of the third period when his sharp angle shot from the low wall deflected off the stick of Chicago defenseman Filip Roos in front, and added his second when he tipped Morrissey’s shot on the power play at 12:10.

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The Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers — who had differing roles in massive comebacks Saturday on the East Coast — will now head west to face each other on Monday night.

Edmonton trailed the New York Rangers 3-0 in the third period before prevailing 4-3 in regulation on Saturday. Meanwhile, later that night, Florida led 3-0 in the first period and 4-1 in the third before losing 5-4 in overtime to the visiting St. Louis Blues.

That concluded Florida’s brief two-game pit stop at home, but now the Panthers will start a five-game road trip that begins with Monday’s game at Edmonton.

“We made mistakes that are not usual for us,” Panthers defenseman Radko Gudas said. “We have to remember the mistakes and forget about the loss.”

Gudas is coming off a monster game against the Blues. He scored one goal and had game highs in hits (five) and blocks (four).

Although he has two goals and four assists this season, Gudas is more known as the enforcer on a team that includes offensive-minded defensemen such as Brandon Montour (19 points) and Gustav Forsling (15 points).

Aaron Ekblad has just eight points, but he missed 11 games earlier this season due to injury.

The other key member of the defense is 35-year-old Marc Staal, who is in his 16th NHL season and has 49 career goals and 166 assists.

On offense, the Panthers’ leading goal-scorer is Carter Verhaeghe, who has 12. Matthew Tkachuk leads the Panthers in assists (18) and points (27).

Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov (18 points), who scored a career-high 39 goals last season, missed the Blues game due to a non-COVID illness. He didn’t travel with the team to Alberta for Monday’s game in Edmonton and Tuesday’s game in Calgary.

In goal, 34-year-old Sergei Bobrovsky began this season as the starter. But he has slumped with a 4-5-1 record and a 3.62 goals-against average.

Former backup goalie Spencer Knight, 21, has started six of Florida’s past nine games. Knight, who was Florida’s first-round pick in 2019, has played just 47 NHL games, including 40 starts. But he has better numbers than Bobrovsky this season, including a 6-3-2 record and a 2.63 GAA.

As for the Oilers, they are not totally thrilled with how they played against the Rangers.

“It was a big character win,” said Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl, who scored what became the game-winning goal with 2:02 left. “But we can’t be going down 3-0 every game. … It’s too exhausting on players.”

As expected, the Oilers’ top two scorers are Connor McDavid (team-high 16 goals, team-high-tying 20 assists) and Draisaitl (12 goals, team-high-tying 20 assists).

Scoring depth for Edmonton comes primarily from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (22 points) and Zach Hyman (19).

The Oilers made it to the Western Conference finals last season, their best finish since 2005-06.

After the season, the Oilers signed goalie Jack Campbell away from Toronto. Campbell, 30, got a five-year, $25 million contract. The former first-round pick is 7-5-0 with a 4.04 GAA.

Stuart Skinner, Edmonton’s third-round pick in 2017, is the backup goalie, going 4-5-0 with a 2.78 GAA.

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For the first time in a decade, the first clash of a season between the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers can be accompanied by visions of a playoff rematch.

A pair of Eastern Conference contenders will oppose each other for the first time this year Monday night, when the Devils are slated to visit the Rangers in a battle of longtime rivals.

Both teams were off Sunday after playing at home Saturday, when the surging Devils beat the Washington Capitals 5-1 and the Rangers squandered a three-goal third-period lead and fell to the Edmonton Oilers, 4-3.

The Devils’ win was notable in a number of ways. The victory was the 800th for coach Lindy Ruff, who is just the fifth coach to reach 800 wins in NHL history.

“It means I’ve been around a long time,” Ruff said. “You’ve got to do a lot of right things, have good teams, and the way our team is playing, I have to give them a lot of credit for getting me there.”

The victory was also the 15th in the last 16 games for the Devils, who have outscored the Capitals and Buffalo Sabres by a combined margin of 8-2 since a 13-game winning streak — tied for the longest in franchise history — ended Wednesday with a 2-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“When you’re winning, obviously it’s a lot better, but we like our brand of hockey,” said Devils center Jack Hughes, who collected his first career hat trick Saturday.

The Devils, who made the playoffs just once in the previous 10 years, will enter Monday with 36 points, tied for the most in the NHL with the Boston Bruins. New Jersey has a 12-point lead over the Rangers, in fifth place in the Metropolitan Division.

The Devils and Rangers haven’t made the playoffs in the same season since 2012, when New Jersey outlasted New York in six games in the Eastern Conference finals. That marked the sixth postseason clash between the teams since 1992.

The Rangers seemed to be the likeliest Big Apple-area team to make the playoffs after reaching the Eastern Conference finals last spring. But New York, which has one winning streak of longer than two games this season, has struggled to establish momentum over the first six weeks of the campaign and will enter Monday in ninth place in the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the Florida Panthers and Montreal Canadiens.

The defeat Saturday marked the eighth time this season the Rangers have lost a game decided by one goal (3-4-4).

The loss was especially frustrating for New York, which allowed the Oilers to score three times in a span of less than six minutes in the third before Alexis Lafreniere was whistled for roughing Tyson Barrie to set up Leon Draisaitl’s game-winning power-play goal with 2:02 left.

“We couldn’t stop the momentum and try to get the momentum to go the other way,” Rangers center Mika Zibanejad said. “That’s obviously a tough one, a tough way to lose.”

The Rangers also blew a multi-goal third-period lead against the Islanders on Nov. 8, when they gave up three unanswered goals over the final 20 minutes in a 4-3 loss.

“We might have had some bad periods, but I don’t remember a four-goal period, so for tonight we were awful,” Rangers coach Gerard Gallant said. “It’s embarrassing. It’s not acceptable.”

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Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and two assists as the Minnesota Wild built a three-goal lead before holding on to defeat the visiting Arizona Coyotes 4-3 on Sunday.

Sam Steel, Jared Spurgeon and Matt Boldy also scored for the Wild, who have won three of their past four. Joel Eriksson Ek had two assists, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves.

Kaprizov extended his point streak to nine games (five goals, nine assists). He has at least one assist in eight straight games, tying the Wild franchise record.

Nick Schmaltz, Lawson Crouse and J.J. Moser scored for Arizona, which has lost six of seven and is 4-4-2 on a 14-game road trip. Matias Maccelli had two assists, and Connor Ingram made 24 saves.

Crouse pulled the Coyotes within 4-2 when he scored from the slot with 3:18 remaining off a pass from Maccelli in the corner, and Moser made it 4-3 when he scored from just inside the left faceoff circle with 1:48 left.

The Wild took a 1-0 edge at 8:08 of the first period when a contested puck in the corner bounced off the end wall and out to Eriksson Ek. He passed to Kaprizov, who beat Ingram from beyond the crease.

Minnesota made it 2-0 with a 4-on-4 goal at 4:01 of the second period. Kaprizov back-handed the puck toward the net and it deflected of Arizona’s Shayne Gostisbehere in the slot, where Steel banged the loose puck past Ingram.

Arizona pulled within 2-1 at 18:36 of the second period when Schmaltz took a pass from Gostisbehere and fired a wrist shot through traffic from the high slot.

Spurgeon made it 3-1 when he lofted a puck toward the net from along the right wall and it deflected off Arizona’s Travis Boyd and past Ingram 36 seconds into the third period.

Boldy gave the Wild a bigger cushion with a power-play goal at 6:33, scoring on a one-timer from the right faceoff circle off a pass from Kaprizov.

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