AROUND THE NHL | Recaps of Thursday’s games

Penguins 3, Senators 1

OTTAWA, ONTARIO

Patric Hornqvist and Jake Guentzel each scored in the second period and the Pittsburgh Penguins held on for a win over the Ottawa Senators. Riley Sheahan scored into an empty net at 19:29 of the third for the Penguins. Matt Murray made 21 saves and faced just 12 shots over the final two periods. Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored in the third period for the Senators, who won their previous two games. Craig Anderson turned aside 26 shots. The teams went into the second period scoreless and it appeared they would go into the third the same way until a couple of late redirects in front of Anderson gave Pittsburgh a 2-0 lead after 40 minutes. Hornqvist tipped Olli Maata’s shot from the right point past Anderson at 16:10, and then a shot from the left point by Brian Dumoulin hit Guentzel before going over Anderson’s shoulder at 19:51. The Penguins had a chance to open the scoring eight minutes into the period but Anderson made a right pad save against Carl Hagelin on a breakaway. The teams were playing a tight-checking game through the first half of the third period as both sides had just one shot on goal. The Senators finally got on the board with their second shot of the third when Pageau beat Murray high on a breakaway at 10:29. Murray later stopped Mike Hoffman from point-blank range. Murray also made a nice save on Hoffman in the first period by diving across to knock a shot off the goal line with his glove. The play was reviewed but the call on the ice stood as the puck never crossed the line and barely rolled to the outside of the post. Hoffman hit the crossbar behind Murray eight minutes into the game.

Islanders 6, Hurricanes 4

NEW YORK

Johnny Boychuk scored the tiebreaking goal on a slap shot with 4:25 remaining and the New York Islanders rallied to beat the Carolina Hurricanes. Mathew Barzal had a goal and two assists, and Nick Leddy, Josh Bailey and Cal Clutterbuck each had a goal and an assist to help the Islanders remain one of two NHL teams without a regulation loss at home this season at 6-0-2. Jordan Eberle added an empty-netter, Anders Lee had two assists and Thomas Greiss finished with 28 saves. Sebastian Aho had a goal and an assist, and Elias Lindholm, Noah Hanafin and Derek Ryan also scored for Carolina, which was 3-0-2 in its last five. Teuvo Teraivainen and Jordan Staal had two assists each, and Scott Darling stopped 30 shots.

Maple Leafs 1, Devils 0

TORONTO

William Nylander scored with 2.2 seconds left in overtime and Frederik Andersen made 42 saves in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ victory over the New Jersey Devils. The Maple Leafs have won five straight to improve to 13-7-0. Corey Schneider stopped 24 shots for New Jersey. The Devils dropped to 11-4-3.

Lightning 6, Stars 1

TAMPA, FLA.

Steven Stamkos had two goals and two assists, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves to beat his mentor Ben Bishop, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Dallas Stars. Vasilevskiy was Bishop’s backup in Tampa Bay for parts of three seasons until Bishop was dealt to Los Angeles last February. Bishop holds the Lightning career wins record with 131, while Vasilevskiy has gone 26-5-3 since taking over the starting role. This was Bishop’s first game against Tampa Bay since the trade. Stamkos has 10 goals and an NHL-best 35 points after missing most of last season with a lateral meniscus tear. Mikhail Sergachev, Brayden Point, Jake Dotchin and Nikita Kucherov also scored for the Lightning, who have the NHL’s best record at 15-2-2.

Coyotes 5, Canadiens 4

MONTREAL

Derek Stepan and Christian Fischer scored power-play goals in the third period and the Arizona Coyotes rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens for their first regulation victory of the season. Brad Richardson, Christian Dvorak and Tobias Rieder also scored for the Coyotes, and Antti Raanta made 33 saves. Arizona snapped a five-game losing streak to improve to 3-15-3. Brendan Gallagher, Paul Byron, Joe Morrow and Shea Weber scored for the Canadiens.

Associated Press