NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Steven Stamkos scored the game-winner at 11:31 of the third period as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 Saturday night to spoil the first outdoor NHL game in Music City.
Stamkos also had two assists. Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist, and Brayden Point also scored the first goal as Tampa Bay became the NHL’s 27th franchise to finally play an outdoor game. The Lightning now have won four straight to pull within a point of Atlantic Division-leading Florida.
Tanner Jeannot and Filip Forsberg each scored a power-play goal for Nashville, which dropped to 0-2 in outdoor games. The Predators also snapped a two-game win streak.
This was the outdoor game the Predators, and Nashville, had wanted for years at Nissan Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, across the Cumberland River from their own arena. Nine players remain from Nashville’s first outdoor game in the 2020 Winter Classic in Dallas.
OILERS 4, PANTHERS 3: Derek Ryan got his first NHL hat trick as Edmonton snapped their two-game losing streak, winning in Sunrise, Florida
After goalie Mikko Koskinen denied Mason Marchment’s shot on a 3-on-1 break near the end of the second period, Ryan tapped in a pass from Evander Kane for the hat trick and a 4-2 lead.
Leon Draisaitl netted his team-leading 36th goal, and Connor McDavid had two assists for Edmonton, which is 6-2 under new coach Jay Woodcroft.
Koskinen made 44 saves, including a key point-blank stop of Carter Verhaeghe on a breakaway midway through the third period, and a glove save on Aleksander Barkov with 4:22 remaining.
FLYERS 2, CAPITALS 1: Cam Atkinson had a goal and an assist and Claude Giroux also scored to lead Philadelphia to a victory over Washington in Philadelphia.
Carter Hart made 27 saves for the Flyers, who snapped a six-game losing streak and won for just the third time in 22 games.
T.J. Oshie scored for the Capitals, who lost their second straight.
Giroux tied Hall of Famer Eric Lindros for eighth place on the Flyers’ all-time scoring list with the 290th goal of his career just 11 seconds into the game to put Philadelphia up early. Atkinson outraced Martin Fehervary to the puck in the Philadelphia zone, then fed Giroux for a wrist shot from the slot that beat Ilya Samsonov on the blocker side for his 17th of the season.
PENGUINS 1, RANGERS 0: Tristan Jarry turned aside 27 shots to outduel Igor Shesterkin, Evgeni Malkin scored his eighth goal of the season and Pittsburgh won at home.
Jarry bounced back from a rough performance in a loss to New Jersey by picking up his 11th career shutout and fourth this season. Malkin provided the difference with a power-play goal 5:09 into the third as the Penguins ended a three-game losing streak to slip past the Rangers into second place in the Metroplitan Division.
Shesterkin finished with 25 saves, but the Rangers, who tested Jarry early and late, ended their six-game point streak.
MAPLE LEAFS 10, RED WINGS 7: Mitchell Marner had four goals and two assists, including a natural hat trick during the first 9:19 of the second period, and Toronto withstood a third-period rally to win in Detroit.
Marner scored on two shots from the right circle and one from the left during a one-man barrage to open the middle period that pushed Toronto ahead 6-1. The 24-year-old added his fourth goal late in the third period. He had 14 two-goal games prior to this hat trick.
Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 37th goal and had three assists on Marner’s first career hat trick. Michael Bunting contributed his fifth goal in three games against Detroit this season along with four assists.
Maple Leafs goaltender Jack Campbell was replaced by Petr Mrazek in the final period after allowing five goals. Campbell had 20 saves and Mrazek made six.
CANADIENS 2, SENATORS 1: Artturi Lehkonen scored twice and Montreal won in Ottawa, Ontario for its fifth straight win.
Andrew Hammond stopped 26 shots to for Montreal to improve to 2-0-0 in two starts this season.
Colin White scored for Ottawa, and Matt Murray had 30 saves. The Senators have lost six of their last nine (3-5-1).
Lehkonen got the Canadiens on the scoreboard first for the fifth straight game as he got the rebound of Ben Chiarot’s shot from the blue line and tucked it past Murray with 3:13 left in the first period.
White tied it with a power-play goal at 1:23 of the second as he got a pass from Connor Brown in the slot and quickly fired it past Hammond.
Lehkonen regained the lead for Montreal as he beat Murray on the blocker side with a slap shot from the high slot with 5:39 remaining in the middle period.
AVALANCHE 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2: Nathan MacKinnon scored in the third period to lift Colorado to a victory in Las Vegas.
The Avalanche overcame a 2-1 deficit by scoring two goals 26 seconds apart early in the third period, with J.T. Compher tying the game and MacKinnon burying the go-ahead goal in front of 18,333 in attendance.
Andre Burakovsky also scored for Colorado while Darcy Kuemper made 34 saves.
Chandler Stephenson and Jonathan Marchessault scored for Vegas. Laurent Brossoit stopped 18 shots.
After firing 14 shots on goal during Friday night’s 6-3 home win over Winnipeg, MacKinnon had zero shots until his game-winner, a one-timer just inside the blue line off a pass from Cale Makar.
Just prior to that, Compher tied it when he deflected Jack Johnson’s rip from the blue line.
Colorado has now scored a league-best 79 third-period goals and has 17 comeback wins this season, including nine in the third period.
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