Wednesday Night Hockey

Colorado Avalanche v Ottawa Senators

2-5 

Matt Duchene scored two goals and registered an assist, on his 28th birthday, for the Senators in their 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche. Ryan Dzingel also scored and assisted one.

Brady Tkachuk and Mark Stone also found the net, whilst Anders Nilsson made 30 saves for the hosts, who won their third in four games.

Nathan MacKinnon recorded a goal and an assist, Nikita Zadarov also scored, Mikko Rantanen registered his 49th and 50th assists of the campaign and Semyon Valamov made 26 saves for the Avs, who lost for the 10th time in 12 games.

Matt Calvert had a goal disallowed for Colorado, the video review showed the net was off its mooring at the time of the goal.

Up Next:

Kings v Avalanche – Saturday, January 19th (3pm)

Senators v Canes – Friday, January 18th (7:30pm)

 

Boston Bruins v Philadelphia Flyers

3-4 

Sean Couturier scored a natural-hatty for Philly, which saw hat tricks scored on six consecutive days for the first time since 1999. The forward has two hat tricks in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but this is his first in the regular season.

Oskar Lindblom had a goal and an assist for the hosts. Carter Hart made 29 saves for the Flyers, who have won three of their last four and have been victorious in consecutive games for the first time since mid December. Claude Giroux and Ivan Provorov each registered two assists, Giroux now has 500 in the NHL.

Peter Cehlarik, who was playing his first NHL game of the season, scored twice for Boston with David Pastrnak adding the other. Jaroslav Halak made 15 saves in net for the Bruins, who are 26-16-5.

Up Next:

Blues v Bruins – Thursday, January 17th (7pm)

Flyers v Canadiens – Saturday, January 19th (7pm)

 

Buffalo Sabres v Calgary Flames

4-3 (OT) 

Jack Eichel ended the Calgary Flames’ five-game win streak with an overtime winner at the ScotiaBank Saddledome.

Evan Rodrigues, Rasmus Dahlin and Jake McCabe scored, whilst Linus Ullmark made 30 saves for the Buffalo Sabres, who ended their three-game losing streak.

Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk and Noah Hanifin all scored for the hosts, with David Rittich making 19 saves for the Flames, who have earned at least a point in 10 of their last 11 games.

Up Next:

Sabres v Canucks – Friday, January 18th (10pm)

Red Wings v Flames – Friday, January 18th (9pm)

 

Edmonton Oilers v Vancouver Canucks

3-2 (SO) 

The Edmonton Oilers won straight games for the first time in more than a month, defeating the Canucks 3-2 in a shootout at Rogers Arena. Alex Chiasson was the only one to convert his penalty.

Jujhar Khaira  and Connor McDavid scored and Mikko Koskinen made 20 saves for the Oilers, who hadn’t won two consecutive games since Dec. 9-11. They had alternated wins and losses for seven straight games after losing the previous six.

Markus Granlund scored one and assisted another, Brandon Sutter also found the net and Jacob Markstrom made 28 saves for Vancouver, who have won just once in their last five games.

Ben Hutton thought he’d scored the go-ahead goal for the Canucks on the power play with 1:06 left in the second, but it was overturned after Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock successfully challenged that Jake Virtanen was offside.

Up Next:

Flames v Oilers – Saturday, January 19th (10pm)

Sabres v Canucks – Friday, January 18th (10pm)

 

San Jose Sharks v Arizona Coyotes

3-6 

The San Jose Sharks saw their seven-game winning streak come to an end with a 6-3 defeat by the Arizona coyotes at Gila River Arena. It was the longest active winning streak in the NHL.

Christian Fischer and Lawson Crouse each registered a goal and an assist, Ryan Panik, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Alex Galchenyuk and Josh Archibald also scored for Arizona.

Darcy Kuemper made 26 saves for the Coyotes to win his fourth consecutive game. His counterpart, backup Aaron Dell made 35 saves for the Sharks who are 16-4-2 since
Dec. 2.

Kevin Labanc scored once and assisted twice, with Evander Kane and Logan Couture adding the other goals. Erik Karlsson registered his 40th assist of the season for the San Jose Sharks.

Up Next:

Sharks v Lightning – Saturday, January 19th (7pm)

Penguins v Coyotes – Friday, January 18th (9pm)

 

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