BLACKHAWKS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1
Patrick Kane had three goals for his first hat trick of the season and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 Friday night for their 10th straight win.
Artemi Panarin also scored and assisted on two of Kane's goals for the Blackhawks. Scott Darling made 28 saves to earn the win in net for Chicago while Corey Crawford took the night off after a 2-1 win in Montreal the night before.
Kane, who added an assist for a four-point night, now has an NHL-leading 28 goals on the season.
The win puts Chicago in first in the Central Division, a point ahead of the Dallas Stars, who played at Anaheim later Friday night.
Morgan Rielly scored for Toronto, which has lost four in a row. James Reimer stopped 25 shots.
LIGHTNING 5, PENGUINS 4 (OT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Vladislav Namestnikov completed a hat trick in overtime and Tampa Bay beat Pittsburgh to extend a season-high four-game winning streak.
Valtteri Filppula and Anton Stralman also scored for Tampa Bay and Steven Stamkos had two assists. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves.
Pittsburgh got goals from Kris Letang, Patric Hornqvist, Trevor Daley and Chris Kunitz. Evgeni Malkin had two assists, giving him 23 assists and 42 points in 31 games against Tampa Bay.
Namestnikov scored the winner from in close 2:11 into the extra session.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves for the Penguins.
DUCKS 4, STARS 2
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jakob Silfverberg had a goal and an assist and the NHL's lowest-scoring team blasted the highest-scoring team for four goals in the first period.
After Silfverberg and Sami Vatanen scored 31 seconds apart in the opening minutes, Hampus Lindholm and Corey Perry scored 33 seconds apart later in the first period while the Ducks shredded the Stars' defense and goalie Kari Lehtonen in a 12:32 stretch.
Frederik Andersen made 22 saves for the Ducks, who have won seven of 10.
Mattias Janmark scored a short-handed goal and captain Jamie Benn had a power-play goal for the Stars. Dallas has lost six straight road games for the first time in five years.
CANUCKS 3, HURRICANES 2 (OT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Bo Horvat scored his second goal with 1:35 left in overtime and Vancouver beat Carolina.
Horvat also had two goals against Carolina in a 3-2 win nine days earlier and has scored four of his eight goals this season against the Eastern Conference foe.
Linden Vey also scored and Jacob Markstrom made 38 saves for Vancouver.
Carolina's John-Michael Liles made it 2-2 with 2:10 left in the third period. Kris Versteeg also scored for the Hurricanes, and Cam Ward made 19 saves.
JETS 1, WILD 0
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Winnipeg rookie Connor Hellebuyck became the first goalie to shut out Minnesota this season, and the Jets used an early goal by Blake Wheeler to beat the Wild.
Hellebuyck won his NHL debut at Minnesota on Nov. 27 with a 3-1 decision and made 24 saves in this one. Detroit is now the only remaining NHL team that hasn't gone scoreless in a game this season.
With Alexander Burmistrov called for tripping with 2:42 left, the Wild had a power play that went to a 6-on-4 when coach Mike Yeo pulled Devan Dubnyk. But the two-man advantage wasn't enough to keep the Wild from falling to 2-5-1 in their last eight home games.
Just 3:07 into the game, the Jets were on the rush as Wheeler patiently worked on Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin before toe-dragging into the slot and sending a wrist shot past Dubnyk.
BRUINS 4, SABRES 1
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Zdeno Chara floated in the go-ahead goal from the left point 29 seconds into the third period and Boston beat Buffalo.
Ryan Spooner scored an insurance goal with 9:07 left and added two assists, and Brett Connolly scored into an empty net with 1:09 remaining. Matt Beleskey had a goal and an assist, and Boston snapped a 0-2-1 skid and improved to 2-4-1 in its past seven.
The Bruins beat Buffalo by overcoming a 1-0 first-period deficit and after squandering third-period leads in losing each of their past two: A 3-2 loss at Philadelphia on Wednesday night and a 2-1 loss at the New York Rangers on Monday night.
Backup Jonas Gustavsson stopped 33 shots, including the final 24 he faced.
Fourth-line center David Legwand scored for Buffalo.
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