RECAPS OF SATURDAY’S NHL GAMES

Wild 2, Penguins 1

ST. PAUL, MINN.

Mikko Koivu scored midway through the third period to lift the Minnesota Wild over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Daniel Winnik also scored for Minnesota and Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves. Evgeni Malkin scored for Pittsburgh, which is starting a five-game trip that includes a swing through Western Canada. Murray lost for the first time in regulation this season, having won seven straight starts since an overtime loss on opening night. He had 27 saves.

Blues 4, Blue Jackets 1

ST. LOUIS

Jake Allen made 36 saves and Scottie Upshall had a goal and two assists as the St. Louis Blues beat the Columbus Blue Jackets. Vladimir Sobotka, Joel Edmundson and Kyle Brodziak also scored for St. Louis. Dmitrij Jaskin had two assists as well. Matt Calvert scored for the Blue Jackets, and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 38 shots. The Blues (9-2-1) earned at least one point for the sixth straight game and improved to 4-0 at home. They are the only NHL team that hasn’t lost at home this season.

Sharks 3, Sabres 2

BUFFALO, N.Y.

Logan Couture scored with 3:52 remaining in the third period, sending the San Jose Sharks to a victory over the Buffalo Sabres. Joonas Donskoi and Chris Tierney also scored for the Sharks to back goalie Aaron Dell, who made 30 saves. Ryan O’Reilly and Jason Pominville had goal for the Sabres, and Robin Lehner stopped 28 shots. Couture scored the winner on a wrist shot from the left circle that went over Lehner’s shoulder. Pominville scored his sixth goal to put the Sabres ahead 2-1 with 5:09 left in the second period. Eichel chipped the puck back to the high slot, where Pominville wristed a shot between Dell’s blocker and the near post.

Flyers 4, Maple Leafs 2

TORONTO

Valtteri Filppula and Claude Giroux scored, Brian Elliott had 28 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs. Filppula made it 3-1 with his fifth goal in the second period, and Giroux made it 4-2 with his sixth goal four minutes later. Brandon Manning and Jakub Voracek also scored for the Flyers. Nazem Kadri scored twice for the 14th multigoal game of his career. Frederik Andersen, who entered 6-0-0 with a .923 save percentage in six career games against the Flyers, made 26 saves. Josh Leivo, who was making his regular-season debut, picked up the second assist on the goal.

Kings 2, Bruins 1, OT

BOSTON

Tyler Toffoli scored off a faceoff — his second goal of the game — just before time expired in overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a win over the Boston Bruins. Jonathan Quick made 29 saves for the Kings, who are off to their best start in franchise history at 9-1-1. Brad Marchand scored for the Bruins and Tuukka Rask, playing his first game after missing the previous three with a concussion sustained in practice, stopped 28 shots.

Ducks 4, Lightning 1

TAMPA, FLA.

Rickard Rakell and Brandon Montour had rare power-play goals, John Gibson made 31 saves and the Anaheim Ducks rebounded from a one-sided loss by beating the Tampa Bay Lightning. Ryan Getzlaf had three assists. Tampa Bay, which lost for just the second time in regulation (9-2-1), got a goal from Chris Kunitz. Backup goalie Peter Budaj stopped 17 shots in his second game of the season. Lightning stars Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov both snapped franchise record-tying 11-game point streaks to start the season.

Red Wings 3, Panthers 2, SO

SUNRISE, FLA.

Gustav Nyquist scored the tying goal in the second period then got the winner in a shootout, lifting the Detroit Red Wings over the Florida Panthers to snap a six-game skid. Andreas Athanasiou also scored and Jimmy Howard stopped 44 shots for Detroit. Howard also was perfect in the shootout. Jonathan Huberdeau and Evgenii Dadonov scored for the Panthers. James Reimer made 36 saves. Nyquist beat Reimer in the third round of the shootout.

Devils 4, Coyotes 3

NEWARK, N.J.

Jesper Bratt’s tiebreaking goal on a power play with 4:13 left sent the New Jersey Devils to a victory over the winless Arizona Coyotes, who became the second NHL team to start a season with 11 consecutive losses. Taylor Hall scored twice and Bratt also had an assist as New Jersey improved to 8-2-0 with its fifth win in six games. Brian Gibbons added a goal on a short-handed penalty shot for the Devils. Cory Schneider made 33 saves after missing two games due to a lower-body injury and the birth of his daughter. Christian Fischer, Brendan Perlini and Clayton Keller scored for Arizona. Louis Domingue finished with 21 saves.

Islanders 6, Predators 2

NASHVILLE, TENN.

John Tavares scored a natural hat trick in the third period, leading the New York Islanders to a victory over the Nashville Predators. Jordan Eberle scored twice and Ryan Pulock had a goal for New York. Anders Lee, Brock Nelson and Anthony Beauvillier each had two assists to help the Islanders win for the fourth time in five games. Jaroslav Halak made 28 saves. Filip Forsberg and Craig Smith scored for the Predators, who have lost three of four.

Associated Press