Patrik Laine scored his first hat trick with the Montreal Canadiens, leading them to a 6-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres and extending the Sabres' winless streak to 11 games.
MONTREAL (AP) — Patrik Laine scored his first hat trick with Montreal and the Canadiens extended the Buffalo Sabres ’ winless streak to 11 games with a 6-1 victory on Tuesday night. Juraj Slafkovsky, Joel Armia and Josh Anderson also scored for Montreal while Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki and Lane Hutson provided two assists each and Sam Montembeault stopped 20 shots. Dylan Cozens scored for struggling Buffalo and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 15 saves on 21 shots.
Backup James Reimer stopped all six shots that he faced after entering to start the third. The loss came a day after Sabres owner Terry Pegula flew to Montreal for a team meeting. Armia scored only 19 seconds into the game, capitalizing on a wide-open net after Sabres defenceman Owen Power mishandled the puck off the end boards. Laine scored three goals for the 11th time in his career, bringing the winger’s season total to six in seven games since returning from a knee injury. Elsewhere in the NHL on Tuesday: --- PENGUINS 3 KINGS 2 (OT) PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rickard Rakell scored at 1:44 of overtime and Pittsburgh rallied to beat Los Angeles. Rakell deflected Erik Karlsson’s point shot behind Darcy Kuemper for the game-winner. Evgeni Malkin scored, while Matt Grzelcyk forced overtime with 5:35 left in the third period with his first goal as a Penguin. Michael Bunting had two assists in his 300th NHL game. Alex Nedeljkovic made 29 saves. Adrian Kempe scored 33 seconds into the game for Los Angeles, and Alex Turcotte also scored. Vladislav Gavrikov added two assists. Kuemper stopped 28 shots. --- LIGHTNING 5 BLUE JACKETS 3 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nick Paul had a goal and two assists to lead Tampa Bay to a victory over Columbus. Jake Guentzel, Luke Glendening, Brayden Point and Mitchell Chaffee also scored for Tampa Bay, which has won five of six. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 28 saves. Adam Fantilli, Cole Sillinger and Mikael Pyyhtia scored for the Blue Jacket
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