NHL roundup: Jeff Skinner tallies 4 targets as Sabres beat Canadiens

Jeff Skinner scored 4 targets and had an help in a 5-3 win for the visiting Buffalo Sabres over the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday.

Tage Thompson additionally scored and Craig Anderson made 29 saves for the Sabres, who snapped a three-game shedding streak.

Skinner accomplished the hat trick on a delayed penalty at 8:16 of the third interval to interrupt a 3-3 tie when the puck went in off his skate as he broke towards the web. He scooped up a free puck in entrance of Montreal’s objective and scored his fourth of the sport and twentieth of the season to make it 5-3 at 18:14.

Mike Hoffman, Jeff Petry and Joel Armia scored for the Canadiens, who’re 0-8-2 of their previous 10 video games and winless in three video games underneath interim coach Martin St. Louis. Sam Montembeault, making his second begin in as many days, made 27 saves.

Penguins 4, Devils 2

Brian Boyle scored the game-winning objective towards one in all his former groups early within the third interval as visiting Pittsburgh moved into first place within the Metropolitan Division by beating New Jersey in Newark, N.J.

Boyle, who performed for the Devils from 2017-2019, put again the rebound of a shot by Mike Matheson to snap a tie 6:58 into the third. Matheson, Bryan Rust and Jake Guentzel collected an empty-netter because the Penguins moved one level forward of the idle Carolina Hurricanes within the Metropolitan. Sidney Crosby had two assists and remained one objective shy of 500 targets for his profession.

Jack Hughes, who missed the earlier three video games whereas in COVID-19 protocol, scored within the second and Nico Hischier tied the sport within the third for the Devils, who had a two-game successful streak snapped.

Senators 4, Capitals 1

Anton Forsberg made 33 saves and Connor Brown and Brady Tkachuk every had a objective and an help to guide visiting Ottawa previous Washington.

Alex Formenton had a short-handed objective and Adam Gaudette additionally scored for Ottawa, which snapped a 10-game shedding streak to Washington courting to a 3-0 victory Jan. 24, 2017. Chris Tierney added two assists.

Nicklas Backstrom scored for Washington, which suffered its fifth consecutive house regulation loss. Ilya Samsonov completed with 22 saves.

Avalanche 4, Stars 0

Gabriel Landeskog had two targets, Darcy Kuemper stopped 23 pictures for his second shutout of the season and twenty second of his profession, and visiting Colorado beat Dallas.

Nazem Kadri and Nicolas Aube-Kubel additionally scored and Cale Makar had two assists for the Avalanche. Colorado is 17-0-2 since its final regulation loss, Dec. 16 at Nashville.

Braden Holtby made 26 saves for the Stars, who had their two-game successful streak snapped.

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