The Vancouver Canucks will try to win back-to-back home games for the first time this season when they host the Montreal Canadiens on Monday night.

Vancouver picked up just its fourth home win in 11 games (4-6-1) when they rallied for a 3-2 overtime victory against Arizona on Saturday. That snapped a three-game home losing streak that included back-to-back 5-1 losses to Washington and Florida earlier in the week.

Bo Horvat scored two goals, including the game-winner on a power play with 51 seconds remaining in overtime, and Brock Boeser scored the tying goal at the 11:48 mark of the third period.

“When you lose a couple in a row, you need your captain to step up and do the job,” Vancouver coach Bruce Boudreau said of Horvat. “And he stepped up and did the job.”

The goals were the 18th and 19th of the season for Horvat.

Arizona had controlled most of the first two periods of action and took a 2-1 lead in the second period on a power-play goal by Jakob Chychrun. The Canucks tied it on Boeser’s wrist shot from the bottom of the left circle midway through the third period.

Boeser, who has scored just four goals this season, had been informed earlier on Saturday that he would be a healthy scratch for the first time since his rookie season in 2017-18. However, he got a call several hours before the game that Dakota Joshua, who was to replace him in the lineup, sustained a minor injury and would miss the game. It was also reported that Boeser’s agent has been given permission to seek a trade.

“It was a lot of emotions,” Boeser said. “Obviously, it’s a really (lousy) feeling and you don’t want to be in that position. When I got the call, I knew I needed to make a difference, and I can’t ever put myself in that position again.”

Boudreau liked what he saw from Boeser on Saturday, though.

“I thought he was good,” Boudreau said. “He played mad, which I’m sure he was. This is what he’s used to doing. His shot was great. I was hoping he’d score in overtime. That would have been a pretty cool thing. But I thought he played a good game tonight.”

Montreal enters off a 5-3 loss at Edmonton on Saturday. The Canadiens, who have dropped two of their last three games, allowed three power-play goals in a span of 8:11 in the second period to fall behind 3-1, but they battled back to tie it later in the period on power-play goals by Evgenii Dadonov and Arber Xhekaj.

But Edmonton regained the lead for good with just five seconds left in the period on a deflating goal by Darnell Nurse. Connor McDavid, who had two goals and two assists, then picked up a big insurance score in the third period for the Oilers.

“It’s tough to give up those goals at the end of a period like that, especially (after) the kind of push we had the second half of that period,” Canadiens coach Martin St. Louis said. “It was a tough one.”

Still, St. Louis was happy with his team’s comeback after falling behind by two goals midway through the second period on the road.

“We don’t give up,” St. Louis said. “We fight. Just fell a little short tonight.”

This is the second meeting between the two teams. The Canadiens won the first one 5-2 on Nov. 19 in Montreal, with Kirby Dach leading the way with two goals and Nick Suzuki adding a goal and an assist.

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Semyon Varlamov stopped all 21 shots he faced Sunday night, as the New York Islanders rode a dominant second period to a 3-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in Elmont, N.Y.

It was the first shutout this season for Varlamov, the backup to Ilya Sorokin, and the 37th of his career.

Matt Martin scored shortly before the midway point of the second before Zach Parise and Brock Nelson added goals 43 seconds apart later in the period for the Islanders, who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Goalie Arvid Soderblom recorded 37 saves for the Blackhawks, who snapped an eight-game losing streak Saturday night. Chicago hasn’t won consecutive games since a four-game winning streak from Oct. 15-25.

The Islanders outshot the Blackhawks 10-8 in the first before taking control in the second, when they scored three goals while outshooting the visitors 20-6.

Martin opened the scoring in unusual fashion with a review-aided goal 8:58 into the period. Scott Mayfield passed into the crease to Casey Cizikas, whose backhand shot was deflected by Soderblom. The puck skittered underneath the legs of Filip Roos, who was battling Martin for position prior to Cizikas’ shot.

Martin was still dueling with Roos as he was knocked over from behind by Blackhawks right winger Taylor Raddysh, but the Islanders right winger but was able to get his stick on the loose puck and nudge it under the pads of Soderblom, who tried shoveling the puck out after it’d crossed the goal line.

The play was reviewed at the next whistle and the goal was awarded to Martin.

Jean-Gabriel Pageau got a stick on a clearing pass by Jonathan Toews in the Blackhawks’ zone to begin the sequence that ended with Parise.

Parise doubled the lead when he got a stick on Adam Pelech’s shot from the middle of the left faceoff circle with 5:29 left.

The Islanders quickly added another goal after Anders Lee won a battle for the puck in the New York zone with Caleb Jones.

Nelson retrieved the puck and dished to Lee, who passed to Anthony Beauvillier. The left winger passed to an open Nelson, who went to one knee and fired a slap shot that sailed beyond the extended stick of Jake McCabe and over Soderblom’s glove hand.

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JJ Peterka, Jeff Skinner and Jack Quinn each had a second-period goal to help the Buffalo Sabres rally for a 6-3 win over the visiting San Jose Sharks on Sunday.

Quinn finished with two goals and Tage Thompson had a goal and an assist, while Alex Tuch also scored for Buffalo. Dylan Cozens had three assists, Rasmus Dahlin had two and Skinner also had one for the Sabres, who won for the second time in their past three games.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 26 saves for Buffalo, which outshot San Jose 38-29.

Nick Bonino, Kevin Labanc and Oskar Lindblom scored, and Aaron Dell made 32 saves for the Sharks, who lost for the eighth time in their past 10 games (2-7-1).

Trailing 2-1 after the first period, Buffalo took control of the game in the first 4:21 of the second.

Cozens fired a perfectly placed pass to Peterka streaking down the left wing for a breakaway. Peterka wristed a shot off Dell’s glove and into the back of the net just 16 seconds into the period.

Skinner gave the Sabres a 3-2 lead they wouldn’t relinquish when he took a pass from Henri Jokiharju and swept across the goalmouth before roofing a shot over a sprawling Dell at the 4:21 mark.

Quinn’s power-play goal off assists from Victor Olofsson and Dahlin made it 4-2 with 6:15 left in the second period.

Quinn scored his second goal off an assist from Cozens at the 11:23 mark of the third period before Lindblom found the back of net for San Jose just 29 seconds later to make it 5-3.

Tuch’s empty-net goal capped the scoring with 3:23 left.

After Thompson’s power-play goal off assists from Dahlin and Cozens gave the Sabres a 1-0 lead at the 9:19 mark of the first period, the Sharks countered quickly.

Luke Kunin slid a centering pass to Bonino, who wristed a shot past Luukkonen for his first goal of the season with 6:20 left in the opening period.

The Sharks converted a power play to take a 2-1 lead. Matt Nieto controlled a loose puck along the board and slid toward the point, where Matt Benning zipped a cross-ice pass to Labanc, who wristed a shot into the back of net with 3:41 left in the period.

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Ville Husso made 32 saves to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-2 road win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday.

Austin Czarnik, Dominik Kubalik, Lucas Raymond and Andrew Copp each scored for Detroit, which snapped a three-game losing streak.

Marcus Bjork and Kent Johnson scored for Columbus. Joonas Korpisalo made 31 saves in defeat.

The Red Wings opened the scoring with 13:26 left in the first period on a goal by Czarnik, who went to the net and redirected a pass from Jonatan Berggren past Korpisalo.

Detroit then took a 2-0 lead on a power play with 2:24 remaining in the first when Kubalik fired a shot from the right faceoff circle underneath the crossbar and into the goal.

With 12:57 left in the second period, Raymond gave the Red Wings a 3-0 lead on a two-man advantage when he camped himself to the right of the Columbus goal, took a pass from Filip Hronek and one-timed a shot off Korpisalo’s pad and into the net.

Columbus got on the board with 3:50 left in the second on a power-play goal by Bjork, who skated in between the faceoff circles and fired a shot through a screen past Husso.

The Blue Jackets then shaved Detroit’s lead to 3-2 with 18:02 remaining when Johnny Gaudreau circled the net and fed a pass in front of the goal to Johnson, who buried the chance into a half-open goal.

Detroit regained a two-goal lead with 13:52 remaining when Copp banked in a shot from the side off Korpisalo’s shoulder and into the goal to make it 4-2 Red Wings.

With 1:48 remaining, Columbus had a 6-on-4 advantage after Detroit was called for a penalty shortly after the Blue Jackets pulled Korpisalo. But Columbus couldn’t score before time ran out.

David Perron, Olli Maatta and Hronek each finished with two assists for Detroit.

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The Edmonton Oilers will attempt to secure their fifth win in six games when they host the Washington Capitals on Monday night.

The Oilers come in off a 5-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens Saturday night that saw Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl produce four points apiece.

McDavid provided two goals and two assists and Draisaitl scored a goal while adding three assists. It was the ninth time the duo has scored four points each in the same game.

The Oilers led 4-3 after two periods and shut the Canadiens down for the final 20 minutes.

“We were not very good for 40 minutes, and we were lucky to find ourselves up by one after two periods,” McDavid said. “But I thought it was really a good job of playing a solid, mature third period and not giving them anything.”

Tyson Barrie and Zach Hyman each had two assists for Edmonton, which scored three straight power-play goals in an 8:11 span of the second period. Stuart Skinner made 30 saves.

The Oilers were without forwards Evander Kane (wrist surgery), Warren Foegele (undisclosed injuries) and Ryan McLeod (undisclosed).

“It hasn’t been pretty, but that’s what you have to do when you’re a little bit banged up,” McDavid said. “Obviously we are and we’re finding ways to win games, that’s the bottom line. And so, we have to keep doing that.”

McDavid has four straight multi-point games and 12 points (five goals, seven assists) during a five-game point streak, while Draisaitl has 11 points (six goals, five assists) during a five-game point streak that includes three straight multi-point games.

The Capitals likely don’t have any sympathy for the Oilers’ injury woes given what they have been dealing with.

Just when the Capitals were starting to get players back — including forward T.J. Oshie and defenseman John Carlson — they were bitten by the injury bug again Saturday night as defenseman Martin Fehervary and goalie Darcy Kuemper departed with upper-body injuries during a 5-2 loss at the Calgary Flames.

Fehervary has been ruled out of Monday night’s game while Kuemper is still being evaluated, but the Capitals likely will recall a goalie from AHL affiliate Hershey to back up Charlie Lindgren.

“We’ve had a ‘next man up’ mentality for a couple years now but when you have that you need everyone going, you need everyone picking it up for the guys that are out,” Oshie said. “It seems like when we are not playing our best, we do not have that full team effort.”

Washington is 1-2-1 on its six-game road trip, which ends Wednesday in Philadelphia.

Carlson and Conor Sheary scored for the Capitals against Calgary, and Kuemper made 24 saves before leaving at 16:09 of the second period. Lindgren allowed two goals on nine shots in relief.

“We would love to be on a 10-game winning streak. Obviously, that’s not the case,” forward Anthony Mantha said. “We need to figure it out within our group. I think we have enough vets to kind of take charge there. Everyone kind of knows how to play, and we just need to execute.”

The Capitals defeated the Oilers 5-4 on Nov. 7 in Washington.

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Frederick Gaudreau roofed a backhand shot in the third round of the shootout to give the visiting Minnesota Wild a 6-5 victory over the Dallas Stars on Sunday afternoon.

Dallas came back from a 5-1 deficit with four goals in the third period to force overtime and the shootout. Gaudreau scored after Roope Hintz, who had a hat trick and an assist, backhanded a shot past Marc-Andre Fleury but through the crease and wide of net to start the third round, the only miss of the shootout.

Kirill Kaprizov scored a first-period power-play goal to tie franchise records for point streak (12 games) and consecutive games with a goal (six). Connor Dewar scored a short-handed goal for Minnesota, which won its fourth straight game.

Jake Middleton, Jordan Greenway and Joel Eriksson Ek also scored and Jared Spurgeon and Ryan Reaves had two assists apiece for the Wild, who closed to within five points of the first-place Stars in the Central Division.

Fleury made 30 saves and improved to 7-0-1 in his last eight starts against Dallas.

Jason Robertson extended his career-high point streak to 18 games with his league-leading 23rd goal of the season and one assist for Dallas, which had a two-game win streak snapped. Mason Marchment also had a goal and an assist and Joe Pavelski added three assists for the Stars.

Jake Oettinger made 12 saves on 16 shots before being pulled after the second period for Scott Wedgewood, who stopped 14 shots but none of Minnesota’s three attempts in the shootout.

Minnesota established a 5-1 lead 29 seconds into the third period when Eriksson Ek deflected Spurgeon’s point shot past Wedgewood for his ninth goal of the season. But Dallas responded with three goals in a span of 2:43 by Hintz, Robertson and Marchment to cut it to 5-4.

The Stars pulled Wedgewood for an extra attacker with 2:18 left and Hintz scored just seven seconds later off a Pavelski pass to tie it 5-5.

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first period when Kaprizov snapped a wrist shot from the bottom of the left circle past Oettinger’s blocker side for his 16th goal of the season.

Dallas tied it at the 6:58 mark of the second period when Hintz buried a rebound of Robertson’s shot from the low slot for his ninth goal of the season.

Minnesota built a 4-1 lead with three goals in the span of 2:50. Dewar got the first when he picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone, raced past defenseman Ryan Suter on a breakaway and roofed a wrist shot for his third goal of the season.

Middleton and Greenway then scored 15 seconds apart. Middleton slapped a shot past Oettinger’s glove side for his second goal of the season, and Greenway spun around and put in a rebound from the slot for his first goal of the season.

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Morgan Barron and Mark Scheifele broke open a tie game with goals 49 seconds apart late in the third period, and the Winnipeg Jets scored five unanswered en route to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.

Taking a pass in the slot from Adam Lowry (two assists), Barron broke a 2-2 tie via his second goal of the season with 5:37 remaining in regulation. Less than a minute later, Scheifele drove the puck over the shoulder of Anaheim netminder Anthony Stolarz (35 saves) for his 13th goal of the season for the Jets.

Winnipeg also got a late goal from Nate Schmidt to overcome a 2-0 second-period hole and win for the 13th time in the last 18 games, while improving to 9-3-0 at home.

Saku Maenalanen had a goal and an assist and Dylan Samberg recorded his first NHL goal for Winnipeg, which has won eight straight home games over the Ducks. The Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves.

Jakob Silfverberg and Brett Leason each had a goal for Anaheim, last in the NHL with 15 points and mired in a 0-4-2 rut.

Despite playing the day before, Anaheim had more of a collective jump out of the gate than the Jets. The Ducks recorded nine of the game’s first 10 shots on goal, owned an 18-7 shots-on-goal advantage through the first 20 minutes and opened the scoring with 4:44 left in the first when Silfverberg put home a rebound of Frank Vatrano’s shot.

Anaheim went up 2-0 5:09 into the second. After Samberg mishandled the puck at the Ducks’ blue line, Leason picked it up, raced free down the ice on a partial breakaway and beat Hellebuyck.

Winnipeg cut that deficit in half with 9:29 remaining in the second, when Schmidt found Maenalanen in front of the net to push the puck past Stolarz. With 6:32 remaining in the middle frame, Samberg made up for his earlier miscue by throwing a wrister through traffic and by a screened Stolarz for his milestone goal to tie the contest.

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