SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Macklin Celebrini scored his team-leading 14th goal of the season, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Shakir Mukhamadullin added his first goal of the season, Collin Graf added an empty-netter and Yaroslav Askarov made 33 saves for the Sharks, who have won three of four.<\/p>\n
The No. 1 overall pick in the draft, Celebrini scored on a power play 11:45 into the second period. The 19-year-old phenom entered the day third in the NHL with 32 points. The goal came off an assist from Dmitry Orlov.<\/p>\n
Morgan Geekie scored his 17th goal for the Bruins, tying Colorado\u2019s Nathan MacKinnon for the league lead. Boston has lost four of six since a seven-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
BUFFALO \u2014 Beck Malenstyn scored a spectacular goal, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 28 saves and the Buffalo beat Eastern Conference-leading Carolina.<\/p>\n
Malenstyn took a touch pass from Tyson Kozak, made a sweet move to his right to slip past Sebastian Aho and easily beat Frederik Andersen to make it 3-1 with 1:24 left in the second period.<\/p>\n
Alex Tuch, Jack Quinn and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres, who have won four of five. Ryan McLeod had two assists, and Luukkonen got his second straight victory.<\/p>\n
Shayne Gostisbehere scored and Andersen made 17 saves for the Hurricanes, who lost in regulation for the first time since Nov. 11.<\/p>\n
Tuch opened the scoring on the power play in the first period. Gostisbehere made it 1-1 later in the first, also on the power play.<\/p>\n
Quinn gave the Sabres a 2-1 lead early in the second. Thompson\u2019s empty-netter extended his goal streak to six games.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal missed the game because of illness.<\/p>\n
ISLANDERS 1, KRAKEN 0, SO<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014 Bo Horvat kept New York alive in the third round of a shootout and Kyle Palmieri scored in the fourth to back David Rittich in the Islanders\u2019 victory over Seattle.<\/p>\n
Rittich made 19 saves for his first shutout with the Islanders and the eighth of his NHL career, allowing only Freddy Gaudreau\u2019s opening goal in the shootout. The 33-year-old goalie is 6-2-0 as the backup to Ilya Sorokin after playing for Los Angeles the past two seasons.<\/p>\n
Palmieri scored after Rittich stopped Seattle\u2019s Chandler Stephenson.<\/p>\n
The Islanders won a shootout for the first time in just over a year. They have seven victories in their last nine games, rebounding from a 2-1 home loss to St Louis on Saturday after a 6-1-0 trip.<\/p>\n
Joey Daccord made 34 saves for Seattle for his second shutout of the season and seventh overall. He stopped Horvat and Matthew Schaefer with the Islanders on a power play late in overtime.<\/p>\n
WINNIPEG \u2014 Jesper Wallstedt made 32 saves for his NHL-leading third shutout \u2014 all in the last four games \u2014 and Minnesota beat Winnipeg for their fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n
Minnesota had its second straight shutout and fifth of the season. On Friday night in Pittsburgh, resurgent starter Filip Gustavsson stopped 19 shots in a 5-0 victory.<\/p>\n
Wallstedt improved to 6-0-2 and lowered his goals-against average to 1.94, helping Minnesota up its record to 12-7-4. The 23-year-Swede had consecutive shutouts against Calgary and Anaheim and made a career-high 42 saves Wednesday night at home in a 4-3 shootout victory over Carolina.<\/p>\n
Kirill Kaprizov, Brock Faber and Denis Yurov scored. The Wild have nine victories and only one regulation loss in 11 games in November. They had lost nine straight to Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Eric Comrie made 27 saves for Winnipeg. The Jets dropped to 12-9-0.<\/p>\n
AVALANCHE 1, BLACKHAWKS 0<\/p>\n
CHICAGO \u2014 Scott Wedgewood made 22 saves for his first shutout and Colorado extended their winning streak to nine games with a victory over Chicago.<\/p>\n
Cale Makar scored late in the second period for the NHL-leading Avalanche, whose run is the team\u2019s longest since winning nine straight March 4-24, 2024. Colorado improved to 16-1-5 and has points in 13 straight (11-0-2) since its lone regulation loss at Boston on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n
Spencer Knight made 25 saves for the Blackhawks, losers of three straight following a six-game (5-0-1) point streak.<\/p>\n
Wedgewood\u2019s ninth career shutout gave the Avalanche two in two nights. Colorado was coming of a 3-0 win at Nashville on Saturday behind Mackenzie Blackwood\u2019s 35 saves.<\/p>\n
VANCOUVER \u2014 Dustin Wolf made 28 saves, defenseman Rasmus Andersson helped set up three goals and Calgary beat Vancouver for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n
Morgan Frost, Connor Zary, Kevin Bahl, Yegor Sharangovich and Blake Coleman scored for the resurgent Flames in the second half of a back-to-back set. Coleman also had an assist, and Mikael Backlund had two.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night at home, Calgary beat Dallas 3-2 in a shootout to escape the NHL cellar. At 8-13-3, Calgary has 19 points \u2014 three more than last-place Nashville, though the Flames have played three more games.<\/p>\n
Filip Hronek and Quinn Hughes scored for Vancouver, and Kevin Lankinen stopped 16 shots. The Canucks have lost six of seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Macklin Celebrini scored his team-leading 14th goal of the season, and the San Jose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-303110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}