Pontus Holmberg set a career high with four points on a goal and three assists, Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli each had a goal and two assists, and the Tampa Bay Lightning remain unbeaten at home with a 6-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.
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Lightning → set → night
Brayden Point, John Carlson and Conor Geekie all scored for Tampa Bay.
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Point → score → Bay
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 17 shots.
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Vasilevskiy → stop → shots
The Lightning improved to 6-0 at home to tie a franchise record to start a season.
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Lightning → improve → season
Neil Pionk, playing his 600th game, scored twice.
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Pionk → play → game
Kyle Connor and Dylan Samberg also scored for the Jets and Mark Scheilffele had three assists.
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Scheilffele → score → assists
Stuart Skinner allowed five goals on 21 shots before being replaced by Nico Daws to start the third period.
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Skinner → allow → period
Daws finished with nine saves in his Winnipeg debut.
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Daws → finish → debut
Winnipeg is winless (0-5-2) in the past seven games, including three consecutive regulation losses since trading goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to New Jersey.
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Winnipeg → include → Jersey
The Jets’ last victory came on Oct. 13.
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victory → come → Oct.
Mark Jankowski scored in the third period for a three-goal lead, Pyotr Kochetkov made 24 saves and Carolina beat Columbus.
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Carolina → score → Columbus
Kochetkov improved to 9-0-0 and set the franchise record for longest season-opening winning streak.
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Kochetkov → improve → streak
Jordan Martinook and Logan Stankoven also scored and Seth Jarvis added two assists as the defending Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes won for the fourth time in five games.
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Hurricanes → score → games
Jet Greaves stopped 24 shots for Columbus.
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Greaves → stop → Columbus
Denton Mateychuk and Kent Johnson scored in the third period.
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Mateychuk → score → period
Jankowski’s goal, 16 seconds into the third period, felt like added insurance, but turned out to be the difference in the game.
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goal → feel → game
Martinook beat Greaves from the left circle to give the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead with 4:09 left in the first period.
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Martinook → beat → period
Stankoven made it 2-0 with his team-leading ninth goal of the season, 7:47 into the second period.
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it → make → period
Stankoven has five goals in six home games this season.
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Stankoven → have → games
Logan Cooley completed a hat trick against his hometown team with a second left, Mikhail Sergachev scored at 3:27 of overtime and Utah stunned Pittsburgh.
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Utah → complete → Pittsburgh
After Ben Kindel put Pittsburgh ahead 3-2 with 25 seconds left, Cooley — playing his third NHL game in Pittsburgh — batted the puck in from the left side of the net for sixth goal in four games and seventh of the season.
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Cooley → put → season
Cooley became the third Pittsburgh native with a hat trick against the Penguins, joining Brandon Saad and R.J. Umberger.
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Cooley → become → Saad
At age 5, Cooley took part in Sidney Crosby’s first Little Penguins Learn to Play Hockey program.
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Cooley → take → program
Cooley scored for the first time in seven games against Pittsburgh.
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Cooley → score → Pittsburgh
He had two first-period goals to give the Mammoth an early 2-0 lead, and scored in the third for his third career hat trick.
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In overtime, Sergachev beat Arturs Silovs off a rebound in front.
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Sergachev → beat → front
Sebastian Cossa stopped 31 shots for the Mammoth, who have won three of their last five games overall.
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who → stop → games
Utah is 5-0-0 after a loss and 8-0-0 when leading after two periods.
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Utah → lead → periods
Rickard Rakell had a short-handed goal, and Erik Karlsson also scored for Pittsburgh.
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Karlsson → have → Pittsburgh
Silovs made 30 saves.
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Silovs → make → saves
Viktor Arvidsson scored his sixth career hat trick and added an assist as Detroit Red overcame the suspension of former captain Dylan Larkin with a victory over Chicago.
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Red → score → Chicago
The third four-point game of Arvidsson’s career gave Detroit a 5-1-1 record over its last seven games.
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game → give → games
Lucas Raymond added a power-play goal and Alex DeBrincat had two assists.
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DeBrincat → add → assists
John Gibson made 18 saves, including one on Frank Nazar’s second-period penalty shot.
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Gibson → make → shot
Connor Bedard scored for the Blackhawks, who are 0-5 on the road this season.
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who → score → road
Spencer Knight stopped 25 shots.
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Knight → stop → shots
The Red Wings suspended Larkin without pay prior to the game.
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Wings → suspend → game
Larkin, who requested a trade during the offseason, through his agent said would no longer play for the organization.
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who → request → organization
Larkin has two goals and six assists in 10 games this season, including the tying goal during a shootout victory at Edmonton on Monday.
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Larkin → have → Monday
Cole Caufield and Alex Newhook scored two goals each as Montreal beat Dallas.
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Montreal → score → Dallas
…and 34 more, not listed.
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