TORONTO (AP) — Dylan Larkin scored 3:07 into overtime as the Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 on Wednesday night.
Simon Edvinsson also scored for Detroit. John Gibson made 30 saves. Larkin added an assist for a two-point performance.
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Scott Laughton scored for Toronto and Joseph Woll stopped 39 shots.
The Red Wings improved to 7-1-0 over their last eight games. The Maple Leafs fell to 1-2-2 in their last five games after an 8-0-2 streak.
Laughton opened the scoring at 4:46 of the first period before Edvinsson answered with 17.7 seconds left, moments after Woll made a huge pad save during a scrum.
Larkin won it in the overtime after Detroit defenseman Moritz Seider stole the puck from Maple Leafs winger Easton Cowan.
MAMMOUTH 5, FLYERS 4, OT
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Clayton Keller scored twice to help Utah overcome a three-goal deficit and beat the Philadelphia Flyers in overtime.
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Keller forced overtime when he scored on an unassisted backhand shot with 34.2 seconds left in regulation. He followed with the game-winner at 2:01 of overtime, recovering the puck on a pass from Dylan Guenther.
JJ Peterka, Lawson Crouse and Barrett Hayton also scored for Utah, which earned its fourth straight victory. Karel Vejmelka made 25 saves for the Mammoth.
Christian Dvorak had two goals and an assist to lead the Flyers. Cam York and Bobby Brink also scored. Samuel Ersson made 22 saves for Philadelphia, which lost for the seventh time in eight games.
Philadelphia scored twice in the first five minutes. York got the Flyers on the board 29 seconds into the game when Dvorak fed him the puck and he made a one-timer. Dvorak increased the lead on his first goal at 4:36, attacking Vejmelka and sending a wrist shot around his skate.
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DUCKS 2, AVALANCHE 1, SO
DENVER (AP) — Mikael Granlund and Cutter Gauthier scored in the shootout and Lukas Dostal stopped 40 shots as Anaheim beat NHL leader Colorado for its fifth straight victory.
Jeffrey Viel scored in his second straight game as the Ducks began a six-game road trip.
Artturi Lehkonen scored for Colorado and Scott Wedgewood made 16 saves.
Alex Killorn played his 1,000th career NHL game. He spent 11 years in Tampa Bay, winning the Stanley Cup twice, before signing with Anaheim as a free agent in 2023.
Colorado forward Valeri Nichushkin is back after missing Monday night’s victory against the Washington Capitals. He was involved in a car accident on his way to the rink and was detained as a precaution.
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The Avalanche played without Gabriel Landeskog (upper body), defenseman Devon Toews (upper) and forward Joel Kiviranta (lower body). Forward Logan O’Connor has yet to play this season as he recovers from offseason hip surgery.
PENGUINS 4, FLAMES 1
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Tommy Novak and Evgeni Malkin each scored a goal and had an assist as Pittsburgh beat Calgary.
Yegor Chinakhov and Bryan Rust also scored for Pittsburgh (24-14-11). The Penguins have points in five straight games (3-0-2) and are 9-2-2 in their last 13 games. Stuart Skinner made 18 saves in his sixth win in seven starts and improved to 17-12-4. Skinner is 6-2-1 against the Flames in his career.
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Penguins captain Sidney Crosby had an assist and extended his point streak to four games (two goals, five assists).
Yegor Sharangovich scored for Calgary (21-24-5). Dustin Wolf made 21 saves while losing for the sixth time in seven games. It fell to 15-20-2.
The Flames have been held to two goals in two games since Sunday’s trade that sent defenseman Rasmus Andersson to the Vegas Golden Knights. At the time, Andersson was third on the team in scoring.
KRAKEN 4, ISLANDS 1
SEATTLE (AP) — Vince Dunn and Jared McCann each had a goal and an assist and Seattle ended a four-game skid with a victory over New York.
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Matty Beniers and Kaapo Kakko also scored goals for Seattle, while Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves and the secondary assist on McCann’s empty-net goal late in the third period.
Anthony Duclair scored on the power play just 2:38 into the game for the Islanders, who finished a seven-game road trip with a 3-3-1 record.
It was the seventh time in their last eight games that the Kraken allowed the first goal.
Ilya Sorokin, who had won four of his previous five starts in goal for the Islanders, made 21 saves and fell to 16-12-2 overall.
After Duclair gave the Islanders the lead with his fifth goal in his last five games, Beniers deflected a Dunn shot while on a five-on-three power play with 9:20 left in the first period to make it 1-1. The teams combined for six penalties in the first.
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Dunn put the Kraken ahead for good with his seventh goal of the season with 6:23 left in the second. He scored on a wrist shot, with Ryan Winterton and Ben Meyers each getting an assist on the goal.
