Tage Thompson and JJ Peterka each recorded a hat trick and an assist to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 7-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday.
Thompson scored in each period en route to his seventh career hat trick and first of the season, while Peterka capped the first of his career with back-to-back goals in the third. The Sabres had not had multiple players record hat tricks in the same game since January 2008.
Zach Benson added a last-minute goal, Dylan Cozens had two assists, and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen’s 25 saves helped Buffalo snap a two-game skid and win for only the second time in six games.
Mason Lohrei and Brad Marchand each scored a goal and Jeremy Swayman made 26 saves for Boston, which was 5-1-1 in its previous seven games.
Stars 4, Golden Knights 3 (OT)
Wyatt Johnston scored a natural hat trick, including the game-winner 20 seconds into overtime, as Dallas rallied for a victory over Vegas in Las Vegas.
Johnston scored a short-handed goal in the second period, then tied the game at 11:54 of the third. In overtime, he finished a two-on-one break on a give-and-go with Roope Hintz, burying a crossing pass into a wide-open net to complete his second career hat trick. Hintz finished with three assists and Mavrik Bourque scored for Dallas.
Vegas’ Tomas Hertl extended his point streak to 10 games with a goal, Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist and Mark Stone notched two assists. Adin Hill made 24 saves for the Golden Knights, who are 2-1-2 in their past five games.
Jets 4, Canadiens 1
Kyle Connor scored twice and Gabriel Vilardi added two assists as Winnipeg won its fourth straight game by posting a victory over host Montreal.
Mark Scheifele also had a goal, Rasmus Kupari notched an empty-netter and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 24 shots for the Jets, who overcame an early 1-0 deficit to improve to 15-5-3 since Dec. 10. Winnipeg leads the Western Conference with 73 points this season.
Juraj Slafkovsky scored for Montreal, which has yielded 12 goals during an 0-2-1 rut.
Blackhawks 4, Lightning 1
Landon Slaggert scored the go-ahead goal in his season debut as Chicago opened a three-game Eastern Conference road trip with a win over Tampa Bay.
Slaggert, who was recalled from the American Hockey League on Sunday, broke a 1-1 tie in the second period with his second career goal. That propelled Chicago to just its sixth road win overall and its first since Dec. 9. Connor Bedard notched a power-play goal and Ryan Donato scored before Teuvo Teravainen tallied into an empty net for the Blackhawks.
Brayden Point scored his team-best 28th goal for the Lightning, while goalie Jonas Johansson got the start over Andrei Vasilevskiy (illness) and made 16 saves.
Hurricanes 4, Rangers 0
Frederik Andersen made 22 saves, Andrei Svechnikov scored in the opening minute of the first period and the final minute of the second as visiting Carolina pulled away for a shutout victory over New York.
The Hurricanes won for the fifth time in six games (5-0-1) largely thanks to Andersen, who won his third straight game since missing two months recovering from knee surgery. Svechnikov registered his third multi-goal game this season. Taylor Hall and Mikko Rantanen registered their first points since being acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks and Colorado Avalanche, respectively, in Friday’s three-team trade.
The Rangers lost their second straight following a 10-game points streak and took their second regulation loss in 12 games (7-2-3). New York goalie Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves but the Hurricanes scored following misplays by the Rangers.
Capitals 3, Flames 1
Logan Thompson made 32 saves in his hometown one day after signing a contract extension with Washington, helping the Capitals beat host Calgary.
Pierre-Luc Dubois, Dylan Strome and Aliaksei Protas all scored for Washington, which rebounded from its first regulation loss of 2025 and improved to 10-1-3 in its last 14 games. Thompson notched his sixth straight win as the Capitals reached 73 points to match the Winnipeg Jets for the most in the NHL. The 27-year-old signed a six-year extension worth $35.1 million on Monday.
Blake Coleman provided the lone goal for the Flames, who have lost two consecutive games but are clinging to the Western Conference’s second wild-card position.
Islanders 5, Avalanche 2
Simon Holmstrom scored twice in the third period for surging New York, which extended its season-best winning streak to five games by beating Colorado in Elmont, N.Y.
Anders Lee, Bo Horvat and Alexander Romanov also tallied for the Islanders, who went 5-2-0 on a season-high seven-game homestand. Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves.
Artturi Lehkonen and Jack Drury scored for the Avalanche, who have lost four of five (1-3-1). Mackenzie Blackwood recorded 23 saves.
Ducks 6, Kraken 4
Mason McTavish continued his torrid scoring stretch with a goal and an assist as Anaheim defeated host Seattle.
Robby Fabbri, Jackson LaCombe and Frank Vatrano each had a goal and an assist and Troy Terry and Cutter Gauthier also scored for the Ducks, who won their third game in a row. Ryan Strome added two assists, and Lukas Dostal made 26 saves.
Eeli Tolvanen, Mitchell Stephens, Jaden Schwartz and Shane Wright scored and Brandon Montour had two assists for Seattle, which lost for the second night in a row. Philipp Grubauer, making his first start since Jan. 12, stopped 17 of 22 shots.
–Field Level Media
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