AROUND THE NHL Thursday’s games

Penguins 4, Islanders 2

PITTSBURGH

Sidney Crosby scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a victory. Patric Hornqvist, Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel also scored — each getting his third of the season — to help the Penguins win for the third time in four games and improve to 5-0-1 at home. Crosby, playing for the second straight game after missing the first six with a concussion, scored with 2:25 left as he caught a pass from Scott Wilson at the top of the crease and quickly turned to his forehand to put the puck behind Islanders goalie Jaroslav Halak. Kessel added a power-play goal to cap the scoring 32 seconds later. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 35 shots while starting for the eighth straight game. Travis Hamonic and Shane Prince scored for the Islanders, and Halak finished with 31 saves.

Coyotes 5, Flyers 4

PHILADELPHIA

Martin Hanzal and Brad Richardson scored the decisive goals to help the Arizona Coyotes beat the Philadelphia Flyers to snap a five-game road losing streak. Jamie McGinn, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Ryan White also scored for Arizona. The Coyotes have their only two wins this season against the Flyers. The Coyotes salvaged one victory on a season-long, six-game road trip. Louis Domingue stopped 28 shots and won his first game of the season. He had been 0-4 with a 5.03 goals against average and had stopped only 85 percent of his shots. Nick Cousins, Brayden Schenn, Andrew MacDonald and Wayne Simmonds scored for the Flyers.

Canadiens 3, Lightning 1

MONTREAL

Max Pacioretty scored the tiebreaking goal in Montreal’s three-goal third period as the Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning for their sixth straight win. Alex Galchenyuk and Torrey Mitchell also scored to help Montreal improve to 7-0-1. Carey Price made 29 saves to win for the fourth time in four starts this season. Alex Killorn scored the lone goal for the Lightning, who lost against an Eastern-Conference opponent for the first time this season. Ben Bishop stopped 23 shots. With the scored tied 1-1, Pacioretty got the go-ahead goal at 10:23 by beating Bishop glove-side. Blown coverage by the Lightning left the Canadiens’ captain all alone on the edge of the face-off circle, and Bishop couldn’t see the shot with Andrew Shaw posted firmly in front of goal. Montreal remains the only NHL team still undefeated in regulation.

Wild 4, Sabres 0

BUFFALO, N.Y.

Devan Dubnyk made 38 saves for his second straight shutout to lead Minnesota. Ryan Suter had a goal and an assist, and Joel Ericsson Ek, Jason Zucker and Mikko Koivu also scored. The Wild went 2-1-1 on a four-game road trip to improve to 5-2-1. Anders Nillson made 18 saves in his second straight start for the Sabres, losers of four in a row. Minnesota built a two-goal lead in the first period, but Buffalo controlled the action in the second. Dubnyk made 19 saves, including 15 in the first 6:11 of the period, and the Wild killed two penalties. Suter scored his third goal of the season 2:58 into the third period, sending a wobbly wrist shot from the right circle over Nillson’s glove. Koivu added an empty-net goal with 1:09 left.

Red Wings 2, Blues 1, SO

ST. LOUIS

Henrik Zetterberg scored in the eighth round of a shootout to lift Detroit past St. Louis for the Red Wings’ sixth straight win. In the shootout, St. Louis’ first shooter, Alexander Steen, scored but then Vladimir Tarasenko, Kevin Shattenkirk, David Perron, Nail Yakupoc, Robby Fabbri, Patrick Burgland and Dmitrjij Jaskin all came up short. Gustav Nyquist scored on Detroit’s second attempt but Frans Nielsen, Dylan Larkin, Andreas Athanasiou, Tomas Tatar, Riley Sheehan and Darren Helm all missed. St. Louis’ Jaden Schwartz missed a wide-open net early in overtime, and Jori Lehtera was stopped on a breakaway midway through the extra period by Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek.

Jets 4, Stars 1

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Patrik Laine scored twice on the power play to help Winnipeg beat Dallas. Defenseman Tyler Myers got the Jets on the scoreboard 15 seconds into the game and rookie Kyle Connor got his first NHL goal. Connor Hellebuyck had 38 saves. Winnipeg, which lost at Dallas in the opener of the home-and-home on Tuesday, has scored five power-play goals this season, with the 18-year-old Laine getting four.

Associated Press