RECAPS OF FRIDAY’s NHL GAMES

Blue Jackets 2, Jets 1, OT

COLUMBUS

Josh Anderson scored 2:38 into overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied to beat the Winnipeg Jets. Anderson beat backup goalie Steve Mason with a snap shot from the slot to get his third goal of the season and cap the comeback victory. Cam Atkinson scored for Columbus midway through the third period to tie it. The winner by Anderson came shortly after Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky blocked and fell on a point-blank shot from Blake Wheeler. Bobrovsky made 29 saves. Mason, who played in Columbus for the first five seasons of his career, stopped 35 shots as Winnipeg lost for the second straight night. The Jets fell to Pittsburgh 2-1 in OT on Thursday. Winnipeg’s Brandon Tanev scored 4:52 into the first period. Bobrovsky stopped Tanev’s initial wrist shot but lost track of the puck, which trickled between his legs and behind him into the blue paint. Tanev spied it, charged in and netted a backhander for his second goal of the season and just the fourth of his career. Atkinson tied it 10:23 into the third when he backhanded a tumbling puck past Mason from the slot for his fourth goal. Winnipeg failed to score on six power plays. Columbus looked better on their four, but also didn’t score. The Blue Jackets (7-3-0) completed the best 10-game start in franchise history.

Devils 5, Senators 4, SO

NEWARK, N.J.

Jesper Bratt and Drew Stafford scored in the shootout, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Ottawa Senators after blowing a two-goal lead in the final 1:15 of regulation. Stafford kept the Devils in it by netting a backhand on their third shootout chance and then Bratt totally faked out Mike Condon on the fourth attempt for the game-winner. Tom Pyatt had scored for Ottawa on its second attempt. Keith Kinkaid stopped Mike Hoffman on the Senators’ last try to give the Devils their seventh win in nine games. Jimmy Hayes, Adam Henrique, Brian Gibbons and Damon Severson scored for New Jersey, which rallied from a 2-0 deficit with four straight goals. Trailing 4-2 with less than two minutes to play, the Senators pulled their goaltender and tied the game on goals by Mark Stone and Christopher DiDomenico. Stone got Ottawa within one by tapping a floating rebound behind Kinkaid with 1:15 to play. DiDomenico got his first career goal with 37 seconds left in regulation after being set up in close by Derick Brassard.

Hoffman and Johnny Oduya also scored for Ottawa, which lost on the road for the first time in four games. The Devils seemed in control when Gibbon broke a 2-all tie with a goal late in the second period and Severson snapped a 73-game goal drought.

Golden Knights 7, Avalanche 0

LAS VEGAS

Oscar Dansk got his third win in his third career game, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche to extend the best start ever by an NHL expansion team. The Golden Knights improved to 8-1-0. They’ve won five straight, matching the longest winning streak ever by a team in its inaugural season, joining the New York Rangers (1926-27) and Edmonton Oilers (1979-80), according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Dansk stopped 32 shots in his second career start. The 23-year-old has been thrust into action after injuries to starter Marc-Andre Fleury and backup Malcolm Subban and has allowed three goals on 74 shots — a .960 save percentage. James Neal got his seventh goal, and David Perron, Oscar Lindberg, Cody Eakin, Jonathan Marchessault, Erik Haula and William carrier also scored. Nate Schmidt had two assists. Semyon Varlamov allowed all seven goals on 21 shots. After a scoreless first period, Colorado outshot Vegas 10-1 during the first eight minutes of the second. The Golden Knights then scored four goals over the final 11:10 of the period. Perron began the barrage after intercepting Nail Yakupov’s pass and using a nifty deke to backhand the puck over Varlamov’s stick. Three minutes later, Lindberg made it 2-0 when he stole the puck in the neutral zone, beat three Avalanche defenders and then bested Varlamov.

Blues 2, Hurricanes 1

RALEIGH, N.C.

Dmitri Jaskin scored his first goal of the season and Brayden Schenn added the game-winner, giving the St. Louis Blues a victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. It was the second straight win for the Blues, who are 3-0 at home and return there Saturday against Columbus. Jeff Skinner had the Carolina goal. St. Louis goalie Carter Hutton (3-0) stopped 25 shots. Cam Ward (1-1) made the start in goal for Carolina, his 626th appearance, to give him sixth place on the team career list. It was the 2006 Conn Smythe Award winner’s second start of the season as the backup to Scott Darling, and he finished with 32 saves.

Predators 2, Blackhawks 1

CHICAGO

Pekka Rinne made 43 saves and Nashville killed off six power plays, helping the Predators edge the Chicago Blackhawks. Calle Jarnkrok and Craig Smith scored in the second period for the Predators, who were coming off consecutive losses to Calgary and the New York Rangers. Nashville also lost 2-1 to Chicago in overtime in their first meeting of the season on Oct. 14. Corey Crawford had 28 stops for Chicago, but the Blackhawks lost for the fourth time in five games. Coach Joel Quenneville tweaked his lines in search of more offense and Chicago generated plenty of opportunities, but couldn’t finish with Rinne on top of his game in net.

Associated Press