Tomas Hertl, Keegan Kolesar and Ivan Barbashev all scored with less than four minutes remaining in the third period Friday to rally the Vegas Golden Knights past the Ottawa Senators 6-4 in Las Vegas.
Nicolas Roy and Nicolas Hague also tallied goals for the Golden Knights, while Adin Hill stopped 35 of the 39 shots he faced.
Linus Ullmark, who missed the Senators’ past four games with a strain injury, made 22 saves in the loss. Adam Gaudette scored twice, while Drake Batherson and Claude Giroux each added one goal and one assist for Ottawa.
Hertl tied the score at 4-4 on the power play when he slid a feed from Mark Stone through the legs of Ullmark with 3:11 left. Kolesar scored one minute later to give Vegas the lead, before Barbashev tacked on an empty-netter for his second goal of the game and seventh of the season.
Predators 3, Blackhawks 2
Brady Skjei scored the go-ahead goal at 13:07 of the third period and visiting Nashville rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Chicago.
Skjei took a return pass from Tommy Novak at the point and scored a power-play goal on a wrist shot through traffic from the top of the left circle. Gustav Nyquist had a goal and an assist for the Predators, who have won two straight after opening with five losses. Filip Forsberg also scored, Alexandre Carrier had two assists, and Juuse Saros made 27 saves for the victory.
Craig Smith and Connor Bedard scored for the Blackhawks, who have lost three straight, all at home. Petr Mrazek stopped 31 shots.
Islanders 4, Devils 3 (OT)
Bo Horvat scored the game-winner in overtime and Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves to lift New York over New Jersey in Newark, N.J.
Horvat one-timed a cross-ice feed from Mathew Barzal past Jake Allen at 1:08. With Allen pulled for the extra attacker late in the third period, Jesper Bratt forced the extra frame when he lifted a puck over Sorokin from the side of the net at 18:31.
Kyle Palmieri and Brock Nelson each had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, and Anders Lee had a goal. Bratt had a goal and an assist, Nico Hischier and Curtis Lazar also scored, and Allen made 26 saves for New Jersey, which has lost four straight (0-2-2).
Oilers 4, Penguins 0
Evan Bouchard collected one goal and one assist and goaltender Stuart Skinner recorded his first shutout of the season as host Edmonton beat Pittsburgh.
Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Mattias Ekholm also scored, while Viktor Arvidsson collected three assists in the victory. Skinner made 27 saves to net his fifth career shutout for the Oilers.
Joel Blomqvist stopped 46 shots in a valiant effort for the Penguins, who have lost four consecutive games overall and seven straight to Edmonton.
–Field Level Media