Pierre Engvall scored the go-ahead goal at 17:33 of the third period and the Toronto Maple Leafs went on to defeat the visiting San Jose Sharks 3-1 Wednesday night.

Engvall scored his third goal of the season from the right circle with assists from Alexander Kerfoot and David Kampf.

Mitchell Marner scored into an empty net with an assist from Kerfoot at 18:49 of the third to match the Toronto team record of 18 straight games with at least one point. Darryl Sittler (1978) and Ed Olcyzk (1989-90) also had 18-game point streaks for the Maple Leafs.

Auston Matthews also scored for the Maple Leafs, who were coming off a 4-0-0 road trip. Ilya Samsonov returned from a knee injury to play in his first game since Nov. 5 and made 23 saves.

Matt Nieto scored for the Sharks, who opened a four-game road trip Tuesday with a 4-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens.

Aaron Dell made his first start for the Sharks this season and stopped 29 shots.

Toronto pressed during the first period, but that left them open to the counterattack that led to three San Jose breakaways. At 19:20 of the first period, Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson hit the goal post on a three-on-two breakout.

Toronto had a 10-7 advantage in shots on goal after one period.

Matthews tipped in his 12th goal of the season off Mac Hollowell’s shot at 4:19 of the second period. Michael Bunting also earned an assist.

Nieto scored his sixth goal of the season at 7:26 of the second on a nine-foot shot from the right of the net. Logan Couture made the pass from behind the goal line and Nick Cicek also earned an assist.

Toronto had a 22-18 edge in shots on goal after two periods.

Toronto center Calle Jarnkrok (groin) left the game in the second period and did not return.

The memory of former Maple Leafs defenseman Borje Salming, who died last week, was honored in a pregame ceremony.

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Jimmy Vesey, Barclay Goodrow and Chris Kreider each scored to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-1 victory over the host Ottawa Senators on Wednesday.

Ryan Lindgren had three assists after having five in his first 21 games combined this season, while Sammy Blais and Mika Zibanejad each added an assist for the Rangers, who ended a three-game losing streak.

Jaroslav Halak, starting in place of Igor Shesterkin, made 34 saves to pick up his first win as a Ranger after dropping his first six starts, including one in overtime.

Shane Pinto scored, and Cam Talbot made 33 saves for the Senators, who saw a two-game winning streak halted that had been their longest since a season-best four-game winning streak from Oct. 18-24.

Drake Batherson and Nick Holden each had an assist for the Senators.

The Rangers struck first when Talbot failed to make a clean save of Lindgren’s shot from the point, enabling Vesey to pounce on the loose puck and swat it into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead at the 10:34 mark of the first period.

The Rangers doubled their lead with 9:08 left in the second period when Goodrow deflected Lindgren’s shot past Talbot, with Blais also assisting on the play.

Ottawa cut the lead in half less than three minutes later when Pinto’s give-and-go along the boards with Batherson led to Pinto wristing a shot past Halak with 6:13 left in the period, with Holden also getting credited with an assist.

The Rangers extended their lead to 3-1 when Kreider deflected Lindgren’s shot from the point past Talbot with 6:01 left to play, with Zibanejad also assisting on the play.

The Rangers outshot Ottawa 36-35 and went 0-for-2 on the power play, while the Senators went 0-for-3.

After the Rangers and Ottawa meet in New York on Friday, the Rangers host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday before welcoming the St. Louis Blues on Monday.

The Senators return to Ottawa for a two-game homestand against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday and the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday.

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Jack Quinn scored in the third round of a shootout to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a 5-4 road win over the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday.

Quinn’s goal was the only one of the shootout, although David Perron and Dylan Larkin each hit the post on their shootout attempts for Detroit.

Dylan Cozens scored twice for Buffalo, while Oskar Sundqvist also had two goals for Detroit.

The Red Wings were 0-for-7 on the power play and failed to convert on a 2-man advantage they had for 1:27 that started when there was with 2:16 remaining in the game.

Detroit trailed 4-1 in the third period, but tied the game at 4-4 on three goals in a span of 5:40.

Perron made it 4-2 on a goal with 13:09 remaining in the game, and then Sundqvist scored back-to-back goals with 9:19 left and 7:29 remaining to bring the Red Wings back to even.

The Red Wings took an early lead, going up 1-0 just 1:20 into the game when Jonatan Berggren fired a shot from the top of the right face-off circle that got through traffic in front of the Buffalo goal and past Sabres goalie Craig Anderson.

Buffalo tied the game at 1-1 with 15:07 left in the first period on a short-handed goal by Cozens, who poked a loose puck at center ice past Detroit defensemen, caught up to it in the Red Wings zone and got off a shot that beat Detroit goalie Alex Nedeljkovic in between his pads.

Buffalo then took a 2-1 lead with 11:35 left in the first on the first career goal by Mattias Samuelsson, who fired an innocent looking wrist shot that hit Nedeljkovic in the chest, bounced behind him and went into the net.

Cozens scored his second goal with 11:48 remaining in the second to give Buffalo a 3-1 lead, and then Jeff Skinner gave the Sabres a 4-1 lead with 9:43 left in the second on a Buffalo power play.

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The Los Angeles Kings put goaltender Cal Petersen on waivers Wednesday, one day after the team’s 9-8 overtime loss to the visiting Seattle Kraken.

Petersen gave up four goals on 16 shots in relief of Jonathan Quick, who allowed five goals on 14 shots. Petersen allowed the decisive goal to Andre Burakovsky 2:08 into overtime.

Petersen, 28, is 5-3-2 with a 3.75 goals-against average in 10 games this season, but he has a woeful .868 save percentage that ranks second worst among the NHL’s 59 qualifiers.

Petersen is in the second season of a three-year, $15 million deal as the backup to Quick, the longtime Kings starting netminder.

Overall, Petersen is 44-42-10 with a 2.92 GAA and .905 save percentage in five seasons with the Kings.

Los Angeles hosts the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday.

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After losing a wild 9-8 overtime game to the Seattle Kraken that head coach Todd McLellan called “mass confusion,” the Los Angeles Kings return to action Thursday night when they host the Arizona Coyotes.

The 17 combined goals in Tuesday’s loss to Seattle made it the highest-scoring game of the season and marked just the 12th regular-season game with that many goals in the past 35 years.

“It’s a very, very confusing night for all of us,” McLellan said. “I’m really disappointed that we gave up nine goals, absolutely.

“On the other side of the coin, I’m glad that we fought back, got a point, and scored eight. So it’s mass confusion right now for all of us, and we better figure it out quickly.”

Things got even more confusing on Wednesday when the Kings cancelled their on-ice practice and media availability shortly after waiving goaltender Cal Petersen.

Petersen replaced Jonathan Quick midway through Tuesday’s loss and allowed four goals on just 16 shots. He is 5-3-2 with a 3.75 goals-against average but has a dismal .868 save percentage. He is in the first year of a three-year, $15 million contract that carries a $5 million cap hit for two more years.

Los Angeles had allowed a respectable total of 10 goals in its three previous games (1-1-1) before Tuesday. Quick departed 4:55 into the second period after allowing five goals on 14 Seattle shots.

On the bright side, the Kings continually battled back, scoring five game-tying goals.

They trailed the Kraken 8-6 midway through the third period before they scored twice to tie it and garner a point in the standings by sending the contest into overtime.

“(Tuesday) I feel like every mistake went in our net, every time,” center Phillip Danault said. “I guess it was just that kind of game. I’ve definitely never been a part of one like this. We got a big point, though, we came back and we kept believing in ourselves in the third.

“We have to learn from this,” Danault added, mindful that the Kings are 1-2-3 in their past six games. “If we want to be a winning team and go far in the playoffs, we have to work on it right now.”

Arizona, amid an NHL-record-tying 14-game road trip, has been off since a 4-3 loss at Minnesota on Sunday. This is the 11th game of the trip and before returning home, they will swing through western Canada to play at Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.

The Coyotes are a respectable 4-4-2 so far on the trip, but they have lost six of their last seven games (1-4-2).

They return to Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 9 and will then play eight of their next 10 games at home.

Arizona made things interesting at the end of Sunday’s loss to the Wild, cutting a 4-1 deficit to one goal thanks to scores by Lawson Crouse with 3:18 left and J.J. Moser with 1:48 remaining. However, the Coyotes managed just one shot on goal the rest of the way.

“We knew we had to make a push late,” said Crouse, who leads the team with 10 goals. “We gave it all we had and came up one short. A good fight back from the group, but one short, so it doesn’t really mean much.”

–Field Level Media