Boston enters the matchup on a four-game points streak (3-0-1), having climbed back above the Eastern Conference playoff cut line with its 6-3 win Monday over the visiting San Jose Sharks.

While David Pastrnak scored for a fourth straight game, secondary scoring helped the Bruins over the finish line in their last outing. Playing with a new linemate in captain Brad Marchand, recent AHL recall Matt Poitras fed veteran Charlie Coyle for the tying and winning goals in the third period.

"You can't just rely on one or two players or one line to produce most of your offense," Bruins interim coach Joe Sacco said. "We need secondary scoring. We need other guys to chip in when they can."

For Coyle, the late effort against San Jose ended a 10-game goal drought.

"It can create some confidence, but it's not like you go into games saying, ‘Hey, I've got to score, I've got to do this,'" Coyle said. "I think as long as we play the right way, that's just what I try to do, day in and day out."

Sacco hopes for the same, noting that his team has at times gotten away from the defense-first style of play that makes it successful.

In order to strengthen their playoff standing, finding consistency will be important. Defensemen Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm returning soon should help, but the Bruins will be tested with four of their final five January games scheduled against current playoff teams.

"I think there's always a sense of urgency, but for us, I know that this is repetitive, this is the game that's in front of us, right?" Sacco said. "We know there's runway left, but it's getting smaller. ... We have to make sure our guys are ready to play (the next game)."

The Bruins, though, will not have forward Mark Kastelic, who was injured Monday. Patrick Brown and Max Jones were recalled from AHL affiliate Providence.

The Devils have scored just one goal in each of their last two losses and are 1-2-3 since their last regulation win on Jan. 6, and the slide has caused them to slip into third place in the Metropolitan Division.

Most recently, New Jersey took a 2-1 loss Sunday to the Ottawa Senators, who had come from behind for a 6-5 shootout win over Boston the previous day.

The Devils hope a strong finish to their three-game homestand can help spark a turnaround.

"It's a new day. The past is the past," defenseman Brett Pesce said. "Obviously, we know we've been slumping a little here. Every team goes through adversity. ... We're coming (into Wednesday) with a fresh mindset."

Tomas Tatar scored the Devils' lone goal against Ottawa. It came in the second period after holding a dominant 16-2 shooting advantage in a scoreless first.

"When you're in this position you just have to simplify things, play very good structurally, it's going to come eventually," New Jersey coach Sheldon Keefe said. "But we can't just be doing whatever out there. We have to simplify it a lot."

While the Bruins found some secondary scoring in their last game, the Devils are searching for more from their best, including Jesper Bratt and Timo Meier.

"Our best players have to be better," Keefe said. "It's that simple. End of statement."

The Canucks are coming off a 3-2 victory against the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. Vancouver scored three times in less than four minutes in the first period before the Oilers inched closer with a pair of goals in the second.

It was just Vancouver's second win the past eight games (2-4-2), and the hope is the Canucks have learned their lesson from their other victory during the slump.

After skating away with a 3-0 triumph at the Toronto Maple Leafs on Jan. 11, Vancouver dropped its next two games -- getting outscored by a combined 11-2 margin against the Winnipeg Jets and Los Angeles Kings.

"Great game for us (against Edmonton) but, to me, you park it," Canucks coach Rick Tocchet said. "We've got another game. It's the same thing in Toronto. Big win, and obviously we didn't come down from it and it affected us. It's something we should learn from."

The Canucks sit one point behind the Calgary Flames for the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Injuries have been a factor in Vancouver's struggles this season, along with the reported rift between centers J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson. Miller, who snapped a five-game point drought Saturday with a pair of assists, reportedly was going to be held out of the game for a potential trade before it fell through.

"At times it can be tough to block everything out," forward Brock Boeser said. "Sometimes it's hard, sometimes I feel it affects our team in some games. We've got to do our best to learn from that and make sure that we can block it out and really focus on these games, because last game was such a big win, it's something that can spark us. ... We haven't been playing great hockey at all, and we're still right there in a wild-card spot."

The Sabres arrive in Vancouver looking to bounce back after a 6-4 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Monday. After opening the scoring, Buffalo fell behind 3-1 before forging a tie. The Sabres, however, surrendered a go-ahead goal just 56 seconds after pulling even.

"I thought most of the goals, every goal there was a lost battle," Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. "You're not going to win games. You lose the net-front battle for goals, you lost below-the-goal-line battles. Almost 90 percent of their opportunities were on the hands of us not winning a battle."

The Sabres appeared to be turning a corner after a 13-game losing streak (0-10-3), going 5-2-1 in the eight games that followed. But it has been a struggle since then, with Buffalo posting just one win in its past four games and getting outscored 17-8 in the three losses.

"I think when we've had success this year, we're playing fast," forward Jason Zucker said. "We're a quick team, we move pucks quick, we can put teams on their heels, and we can get after them a little bit. ... Ultimately, I think that's something we've got to carry into (Vancouver)."

For the Carolina Hurricanes, it's largely coming from familiar sources.

Those will be on display in some form when the Hurricanes visit the Stars on Tuesday night.

Carolina has found enough encouraging results, even when its overall performances have been shaky at times.

That was the case when the Hurricanes pulled out a 4-3 overtime victory in Chicago on Monday night.

"We were digging," Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "We were digging hard."

The Stars also will be looking to build on success after winning 4-1 on Sunday night against visiting Detroit. Dallas is 10-3-1 in its past 14 games.

The Hurricanes are almost certain to have goalie Pyotr Kochetkov in the net Tuesday night after Frederik Andersen made a return from a months-long absence to play versus the Blackhawks.

Sebastian Aho's goal gave Carolina its latest victory as he continued to be a clutch performer on offense. But the contributions from captain Jordan Staal, who scored earlier for the Hurricanes, continue to help set a tone for the team.

"It's the same stuff every night," Brind'Amour said of Staal. "Without him, I'm not sure where we'd be. He just drags us in it every night."

Staal's game-tying goal in the third period marked his 700th career point in the NHL.

Due to injuries, Dallas has been forced to find alternate contributors, and it has worked out well at times. Goalie Jake Oettinger said the Stars have shown the ability to maintain a high level of play, even with a revamped lineup.

"Our record has been great since we lost some of our best players, so that's just a testament to the guys who have stepped up," Oettinger said. "When they get called up, it's up to them to make their mark and make the coaches have a hard time taking them out. I'm happy for them."

Dallas has called upon relative newcomers Matej Blumel and Justin Hryckowian for offensive boosts. They're part of a fourth line, which logged more than normal ice time against Detroit.

"They allowed me to play them that way," Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. "They started quickly, they got a goal early in the game, and I thought they had good detail to their game defensively. I felt comfortable putting them out there."

The influx of new energy has been necessary with Roope Hintz, Mason Marchment and Tyler Seguin out with injuries. It means a revised approach for the Stars.

"We're not going to outscore teams with Roope and Marchment and Seguin out of the lineup, so we've got to play a tight, detailed game," DeBoer said.

DeBoer said his team was running on fumes by the weekend, so a day off might prove beneficial against a Carolina team that played Monday night and then had to travel.

The Hurricanes won 6-4 against the Stars on Nov. 25 at home. Carolina wiped out a two-goal deficit with a five-goal third period. Spencer Martin, who's now in the minor leagues, was the winning goalie.

Filip Forsberg scored twice and added two assists as the Predators defeated the Minnesota Wild 6-2 on Saturday night. Colton Sissons, Fedor Svechkov, Brady Skjei and Steven Stamkos also scored for Nashville.

Captain Roman Josi added two assists and Juuse Saros made 27 saves.

"I think it's certainly proof that we can play any style of game, really," Forsberg said. "They wanted to come in here and play physical -- we obviously knew that was going to happen -- and I thought we answered the bell really well and it's definitely a step forward for us."

Forsberg, the NHL's second star of the week, has goals in five straight games. The Predators leader with 42 points in 45 games, Forsberg has points in seven consecutive contests (six goals, six assists).

Stamkos, the team leader with 16 goals in 45 games, has four goals over his past three outings. Josi has points in five straight games (one goal, six assists).

On Monday, the Predators announced that Mark Jankowski would be sidelined week-to-week due to an upper-body injury suffered during the win over the Wild. The center was injured during a first-period fight with Minnesota forward Ryan Hartman.

Forward Cole Smith (lower-body injury), who has been out of the lineup since Dec. 21 after blocking a shot against the Los Angeles Kings, is now considered day-to-day.

Saros is 11-18-6 with a .905 save percentage and a 2.72 goals-against average in 35 starts this season. In 15 career appearances against the Sharks, Saros is 12-2-1 with a .937 save percentage and a 1.79 GAA.

Tuesday is the first of three meetings between the two clubs, who occupy two of the bottom three places in the Western Conference. Nashville won all three meetings last season, outscoring San Jose 17-5.

The Sharks enter Tuesday's contest following a 6-3 loss to the Boston Bruins on Monday afternoon.

Will Smith had a goal and an assist, and Fabian Zetterlund and Barclay Goodrow also scored for San Jose, which has lost three in a row and six of seven.

Yaroslav Askarov stopped 27 shots.

San Jose led 3-2 entering the third period before surrendering four unanswered to the Bruins in the final 20 minutes.

"I thought for the majority of the game, I liked our game. We just got very immature in the third period," Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky said. "Just a young team that got scrambly. They put us on our heels, and we couldn't relieve the pressure by making some plays. We got back to flipping pucks into the middle of the ice, and they just feed off that stuff."

Tyler Toffoli (lower body), the Sharks leader with 17 goals in 47 games, missed Monday's game.

Goaltender Alexandar Georgiev is 2-8-0 in 10 starts with the Sharks this season, posting an .888 save percentage and a 3.56 GAA. In 11 career games against the Predators, Georgiev is 6-4-0 with a .909 save percentage and a 2.70 GAA.

San Jose activated Nikolai Kovalenko off injured reserve on Monday, but the forward did not play in the loss to the Bruins. Kovalenko has been sidelined since Jan. 7 with an upper-body injury.

The Sharks and Predators meet again Thursday in San Jose before concluding the season series on March 11 in the Bay Area.

The Canadiens will try to boost their chances Tuesday night when they host the Tampa Bay Lightning in the second of three matchups between the Atlantic Division rivals this season.

Dating to a 6-1 home win over the Buffalo Sabres on Dec. 17, Montreal has a 12-3-1 mark in the past 16 matches.

Before beating Buffalo, the Canadiens were 11-16-3, sitting last in the Eastern Conference and gridding as the NHL's third-worst club, ahead of only the Chicago Blackhawks and Nashville Predators.

The Canadiens now are only two points out of the conference's final wild-card playoff spot.

On Saturday, in the start of six home matches in a stretch of seven, the Canadiens bolted to a 3-0 lead in an Original Six clash against Toronto before the Maple Leafs netted seven unanswered times in a 7-3 rout.

"I think it's sometimes good to get a little punch in the teeth and kind of remind us how good every team is in the league," Montreal defenseman Mike Matheson said. "And while saying that, also not losing our confidence or anything like that.

"I think we can realize that we've been playing some really good hockey and that we just need to get back to that."

That attitude may have carried over Sunday, as the Canadiens rallied to beat the visiting New York Rangers 5-4 behind Patrik Laine's overtime goal.

Defenseman Lane Hutson extended his streaks in points and assists to eight games (one goal, 11 assists) by setting up Juraj Slafkovsky's goal in the third period.

Hutson, 20, matched Barry Beck of the 1977-78 Colorado Rockies for the second-longest assist streak by a rookie blue-liner, a record set by Shayne Gostisbehere (nine straight) for the 2015-16 Philadelphia Flyers.

In their third matchup with the division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs Monday night, the Lightning opened their four-game road trip with the first of two back-to-back sets.

Tampa Bay trailed for nearly 56 minutes, cut the deficit to one goal on three occasions, but fell 5-3 to the Leafs.

Nick Paul had two tallies to reach 12 for the season, while Darren Raddysh stretched his point streak to four games (one goal, five assists) with two assists.

Lightning coach Jon Cooper said his group was plagued by a recent problem: Getting behind by not starting on time.

"Too many times in the last couple of weeks here we're basically playing a two-period game," Cooper said. "We've gotten away with it at times, but for the most part, we haven't.

"Tonight, it was a two-period game again for us. Against good teams like that, you don't have much of a chance."

With backup goaltender Jonas Johansson facing Toronto, the Lightning likely will turn to Andrei Vasilevskiy for his 36th start of the season on Tuesday.

The 30-year-old Vasilevskiy sports a 20-13-2 record with a 2.35 goals-against average, a .916 save percentage and two shutouts.

Vasilevskiy is 5-4-1 in his past 10 starts but has won his two previous outings, against the Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Red Wings.

On Dec. 29 in Tampa, Montreal's Sam Montembeault stopped 21 shots, and five different Canadiens scored a goal in the visitors' 5-2 win over the Lightning.

Evgeni Malkin and Cody Glass also scored and Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for the Penguins, who had lost four of their previous five games and eight of their last 10 (2-5-3).

Adrian Kempe scored and David Rittich made 27 saves for the Kings, who have dropped four of five following a five-game winning streak. Los Angeles had not lost at home since a 1-0 setback to Buffalo on Nov. 20.

The Penguins scored on their only power play, Hayes' goal to open the scoring at 10:09 of the first period. The Penguins played without the team's leading goal scorer, Rickard Rakell, who returned to Pittsburgh for personal reasons.

Maple Leafs 5, Lightning 3

Matthew Knies had two goals and an assist as Toronto defeated visiting Tampa Bay for the Maple Leafs' third straight win.

Mitchell Marner had a goal and two assists and Auston Matthews added a goal and an assist for Toronto while Joseph Woll stopped 27 shots for Toronto, which is 3-0 against Tampa Bay this season.

Nick Paul scored two goals and Darren Raddysh had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who had won their two previous games. Jonas Johansson made 23 saves for the Lightning in the opener of a four-game road trip.

Utah Hockey Club 5, Jets 2

Barrett Hayton registered a goal and two assists as the Utah Hockey Club built a rare winning streak with a victory over Winnipeg in Salt Lake City.

Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist while Josh Doan and Nick Schmaltz each had two assists for Utah, which has won back-to-back games for the first time since a four-game run from Dec. 12-20. Both of its latest victories have come on home ice, where the club has won only eight times in 23 games (8-11-4).

Connor Ingram stopped 23 shots in a much-needed quality outing for the Utah goalie. Ingram struggled to a 3.38 goals-against average in his first 15 games of the season before taking almost two months off to be with his ailing mother, who died Dec. 3.

Bruins 6, Sharks 3

Charlie Coyle scored the tying and winning goals in the third period as part of a three-point effort -- all coming in the final period -- to help host Boston surge past San Jose.

David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand and Elias Lindholm each registered a goal and an assist, while Vinni Lettieri also scored for Boston, which is 3-0-1 in its last four games.

Rookie Will Smith, a native of nearby Lexington, Mass., led the Sharks with a goal and an assist in his first NHL game in Boston. San Jose has lost three in a row and six of seven.

Wild 3, Avalanche 1

Yakov Trenin and Brock Faber scored goals 1:35 apart early in the third period as Minnesota beat Colorado in Denver.

Jake Middleton had a goal and an assist, Liam Ohgren contributed two assists and Marc-Andre Fleury turned away 26 shots for Minnesota, which snapped a three-game skid and improved to 17-5-3 on the road. They have the most road wins in the NHL.

Nathan MacKinnon scored the only goal for Colorado, which is 2-2 on its five-game homestand that finishes Wednesday against Winnipeg. Mackenzie Blackwood had 23 saves in the loss.

Blues 5, Golden Knights 4 (SO)

Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn both scored in the shootout as visiting St. Louis prevailed despite blowing a two-goal lead in the final 3:10 of regulation in Las Vegas.

Schenn, Neighbours, Nathan Walker and Cam Fowler each scored goals and Jordan Kyrou had two assists for the Blues, who moved within one point of the idle Calgary Flames for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Jordan Binnington made 28 saves and stopped two of three shots in the shootout.

Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist, Shea Theodore had four assists and Tomas Hertl and Brett Howden also scored goals for Vegas, which suffered its season-high fourth straight loss and sixth in seven games. Adin Hill finished with 24 saves.

Kraken 6, Sabres 4

Defensemen Jamie Oleksiak and Adam Larsson scored key goals as Seattle defeated visiting Buffalo to improve to 2-0 in a 10-game stretch that includes nine home games.

Jared McCann had a goal and two assists while Joey Daccord made 25 saves to win for the third time in his past four starts.

Four different players -- including Jack Quinn and Tage Thompson -- scored for Buffalo. Devon Levi, recalled Saturday from the American Hockey League with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen dealing with some nagging injuries, stopped 28 of 33 shots in the loss.

Islanders 3, Blue Jackets 1

Bo Horvat scored twice in the second period for host New York, which scored three times in a 5:04 span to beat Columbus in Elmont.

Simon Holmstrom's short-handed goal in the second proved to be the game-winner for the Islanders, who have won two straight to improve to 2-2-0 on a season-high seven-game homestand.

Kent Johnson scored early in the first period for the Blue Jackets, who have lost two in a row (0-1-1) following a six-game winning streak. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 22 shots.

Hurricanes 4, Blackhawks 3 (OT)

Sebastian Aho scored the game-winning goal in overtime and Jaccob Slavin collected three assists as Carolina came back to win in Chicago.

Seth Jarvis, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Jordan Staal also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won four of their last six games. Frederik Andersen, playing in his 500th career game and his first since Oct. 26 (knee surgery), made 22 saves for Carolina.

Aho rocketed a one-timer from the right circle to net his 15th career overtime goal 59 seconds into the extra period. Aho has netted all four of Carolina's overtime winning goals this season.

Evgeni Malkin and Cody Glass also scored and Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for the Penguins, who had lost four of their last five games and eight of their last 10 (2-5-3).

Adrian Kempe scored and David Rittich made 27 saves for the Kings, who have dropped four of five following a five-game winning streak. Los Angeles had not lost at home since a 1-0 setback to Buffalo on Nov. 20.

The Penguins went on the first power play of the game at 8:38 of the first period. Hayes carried the puck through the right circle and briefly appeared like he would bring the puck behind the net, but he cut toward the crease. Los Angeles defenseman Joel Edmundson poked the puck off his stick and into his own net for the game's first goal at 10:09.

Crosby was in the left circle when he deflected a one-timer from Matt Grzelcyk past Rittich for a 2-0 lead at 14:09 of the first.

The Penguins stretched the lead to 3-0 at 8:26 of the second period when Philip Tomasino drove through the left circle and made a backhand feed to Malkin, who swept the puck into the net from the bottom of the right circle.

Pittsburgh committed two minor penalties 57 seconds apart late in the second period and Kempe scored on the 5-on-3 when he banked a one-timer off the cross bar to cut it to 3-1 at 16:02.

The Penguins re-established their three-goal lead with one minute left in the period when Hayes centered a pass in front of the crease to Glass, who redirected the puck past Rittich to make it 4-1.

Rittich lost track of the puck after making a save and Beauvillier swept the puck into the net from the crease to make it 5-1 at 6:57 of the third.

The Penguins played without the team's leading goal scorer, Rickard Rakell, who returned to Pittsburgh for personal reasons.

Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist, while Josh Doan and Nick Schmaltz each had two assists for Utah. Olli Maatta, Logan Cooley and Matias Maccelli also scored in the win.

Utah is on a two-game win streak, its first since a four-game run from Dec. 12-20. Both of its latest victories have come on home ice, where the club has won only eight times in 23 games (8-11-4).

Connor Ingram stopped 23 shots in a much-needed quality outing for the Utah goalie. Ingram struggled to a 3.38 goals-against average in his first 15 games of the season and also missed close to two months recovering from an upper-body injury.

Nino Niederreiter and Dylan DeMelo scored for Winnipeg and Nikolaj Ehlers recorded two assists. Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves as the Jets dropped their second straight game.

The contest was scoreless until exactly 16 minutes into the second period, when Maatta's long-range shot beat a screened Hellebuyck. It was Maatta's first goal since he scored two for Detroit against the New York Islanders on Feb. 29, 2024.

The Utah Hockey Club struck again on Cooley's late dagger 18 seconds before the second intermission. A Winnipeg turnover set up a 2-on-1 chance for Utah, with Cooley converting Hayton's feed.

Cooley has scored in four consecutive games, with six total points (four goals, two assists) during that streak.

Doan's tremendous hustle play set up Utah's next goal 4:53 into the third period. He beat Neal Pionk to a loose puck deep in Winnipeg's zone and sent a touch pass to a streaking Hayton for the conversion.

A stumble from Jets defenseman Dylan Samberg set up an outstanding three-touch passing play for Utah at 8:04 of the third period, finished by Maccelli for the tally.

Niederreiter responded 28 seconds later with Winnipeg's first goal. DeMelo further narrowed the deficit with a goal 11:48 into the third period, but Keller sealed Utah's win with an empty-netter at the 17:55 mark.

Jets captain Adam Lowry (undisclosed injury) didn't play in the last two periods.

Seth Jarvis, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Jordan Staal also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won four of their last six games.

Frederik Andersen, playing in his 500th career game and his first since Oct. 26 (knee surgery), made 22 saves for Carolina.

Aho rocketed a one-timer from the right circle to net his 15th career overtime winning goal 59 seconds into the extra period. Aho has netted all four of Carolina's overtime winning goals this season.

Philipp Kurashev and Ryan Donato both collected one goal and one assist while Tyler Bertuzzi added a goal for the Blackhawks, who are 1-3-2 over their last six games. Petr Mrazek tallied a season-high 44 saves.

Kurashev opened the scoring just before the midway point of the first period when he neatly redirected Donato's crossing pass to snap his 16-game goal-scoring drought.

Bertuzzi doubled the lead at 16:55 of the opening frame when he gained the puck near the end boards and sent it off Andersen's back and into the cage for his third goal and fifth point in three games.

Jarvis put the visitors on the board 1:25 into the second period by completing a deke to his backhand on a short-handed breakaway. Kotkaniemi tied the clash six minutes later when he converted Eric Robinson's cross-crease pass while at the doorstep.

Donato restored the Chicago lead with 19 seconds remaining in the second period, burying a golden chance set up when Taylor Hall slipped a pass to the front of the net.

Staal tied the game with his 700th point in his 1,300th regular-season game at 13:37 of the third when he found the loose puck in a scramble.

Simon Holmstrom's short-handed goal in the second proved to be the game-winner for the Islanders, who have won two straight to improve to 2-2-0 on a season-high seven-game homestand. New York (45 points) is within seven points of an Eastern Conference wild-card spot.

Mathew Barzal had the primary assist on both of Horvat's goals and Jean-Gabriel Pageau set up Holmstrom's tally. Ilya Sorokin made 25 saves for the Islanders.

Kent Johnson scored early in the first period for the Blue Jackets, who have lost two in a row (0-1-1) following a six-game winning streak. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 22 shots.

New York's Anders Lee was whistled for tripping at 4:16 of the first period to generate the power play that yielded Johnson's goal 36 seconds later. Johnson's shot sailed glove side of Sorokin as he was screened by 6-foot-5 Columbus left winger Dmitri Voronkov.

The Islanders took control early in the second by scoring three times in a 5:04 span. Barzal and Horvat connected for the first time 43 seconds into the period, when Barzal shuffled the puck behind the net before sending a pass to Horvat, who went to one knee and fired a shot over Merzlikins' glove.

New York generated the go-ahead and insurance goals on special teams.

The Blue Jackets got their second power play when Casey Cizikas was called for tripping 1:31 into the middle period, but Columbus defenseman Zach Werenski slipped at the blue line at the edge of the Blue Jackets' zone.

Pageau picked up the puck and raced up the ice before dishing to Holmstrom, who beat a sprawling Merzlikins for the short-handed tally at the 2:57 mark.

Barzal and Horvat hooked up again at the end of a power play at 5:47. Barzal started at the left faceoff circle and skated around the ice, shedding Werenski and Sean Kuraly along the way, before he passed from behind the net to Horvat, who again went to one knee before scoring.

Mitchell Marner had a goal and two assists and Auston Matthews added a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs, who have won three in a row. William Nylander also scored and Joseph Woll stopped 27 shots for Toronto.

Nick Paul scored two goals and Darren Raddysh had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who had won their two previous games. Victor Hedman added two assists.

Jonas Johansson made 23 saves for the Lightning in the opener of a four-game road trip.

The Maple Leafs have won the first three games this season between the teams.

Matthews opened the scoring at 4:06 of the first period to extend his scoring streak to four games (five goals, one assist). He picked up a pass from Knies in the neutral zone and his shot from the left circle squeezed between Johansson's pads. Oliver Ekman-Larsson also earned an assist.

Nylander scored on a breakaway at 13:45 of the second period after a Lightning turnover in the Toronto zone. Morgan Rielly's pass sprung Nylander. It was Toronto's ninth straight unanswered goal starting with seven in a row in a 7-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.

The Lightning trimmed the lead to one goal when Paul deflected a shot by Raddysh from the right barrier at 16:07 of the second period.

Knies restored the two-goal lead when he scored from the slot on a pass from Marner at 19:37 of the second period.

Raddysh cut the lead to one again with a goal at 8:07 of the third period with assists from Hedman and Nikita Kucherov.

Knies scored with a close-range wrist shot at 10:09 of the third on a power play on a pass from Marner. Emil Lilleberg was serving a tripping penalty.

Tampa Bay answered with a power-play goal by Paul at 12:05 with David Kampf off for tripping.

Marner scored into an empty net at 18:55.

It's the back half of a home-and-home with the Ducks. Florida, second in the Atlantic Division, blanked Anaheim 3-0 on Saturday in Sunrise, Fla., as goaltender Spencer Knight made 34 saves for his second shutout of the season and also picked up an assist on Gustav Forsling's game-clinching empty-net goal.

The Panthers bring a nine-game point streak against the Ducks (8-0-1) into Tuesday's meeting. Florida faces the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday and, following a two-day break, ends its trip with games against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday and the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday.

"I've done this for a long time, and I've never seen it before," Panthers coach Paul Maurice said of playing bookend road back-to-backs with a two-day break. "I've never seen a four-game road trip with double back-to-backs and two days off in between. I don't ever remember it."

Should the Panthers, who are 14-8-1 on the road this season, find a way to win all four games on the trip, Maurice would hit the 900-win mark for his coaching career.

The good news for Florida is that after this West Coast trip, the Panthers -- who in November made a trip to Finland to play in the Global Series -- won't play another game in the Pacific or Mountain time zones for the rest of the regular season.

"It's good to get those trips out of the way," Florida forward Carter Verhaeghe said. "It definitely takes a toll on your body going out West and playing all those games with a lot of travel. For the second half (of the season), it'll be nice going down the stretch here."

The Panthers will be facing an Anaheim team that just returned from a 1-4-1 road trip, where the Ducks scored a grand total of just eight goals and got shut out three times.

Anaheim ranks last in the NHL in goals scored (109) with an average of 2.37 per game. The lone win on the recent road trip came in overtime against the Carolina Hurricanes, 3-2.

"I like the way we're playing, we played hard, but we're just coming up empty in some of these games we're playing," Anaheim coach Greg Cronin said. "I think we're playing well enough to get a point or two, but the puck is just not going in."

On the trip, the Ducks were blanked by Logan Thompson and the Washington Capitals, 3-0, then lost 4-3 in a shootout against the Tampa Bay Lightning before ending the trip with another shutout loss, this time to the Panthers.

The Ducks could get an offensive boost for Tuesday's contest. Center Trevor Zegras, who has missed six-plus weeks due to a torn meniscus, took part in practice on Monday and skated on a line with Leo Carlsson and Alex Killorn.

Schenn, Neighbours, Nathan Walker and Cam Fowler each scored goals and Jordan Kyrou had two assists for St. Louis, which won for the third time in four games.

Jordan Binnington made 28 saves and stopped two of three shots in the shootout for the Blues, who moved within one point of the idle Calgary Flames for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist, Shea Theodore had four assists and Tomas Hertl and Brett Howden also scored goals for Vegas, which suffered its season-high fourth straight loss and sixth in seven games. Adin Hill finished with 24 saves.

Trailing 4-2, the Golden Knights pulled Hill for an extra attacker with 3:23 remaining and Eichel cut the deficit to one goal just 13 seconds later with a one-timer from the left circle.

Hill was pulled again with 1:55 to go and Dorofeyev tied it with a one-timer from the middle of the right circle with 29.6 seconds left for his team-leading 20th goal.

Eichel, who scored the only shootout goal for Vegas, had a chance to win it in overtime but his tip-in try of a Mark Stone pass missed a wide-open net. Stone also had a chance to win when he went in on a breakaway but shot it wide.

St. Louis took a 1-0 lead at the 8:25 mark of the first period when Schenn finished a rush with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle over Hill's glove.

Vegas tied it on a power-play goal by Hertl, who swept a rebound of a Dorofeyev shot away from under Binnington's left pad and into an open right side of the net for his team-leading ninth power-play goal of the season.

The Blues regained the lead with just 16.4 seconds left in the period when Walker tucked in a rebound of Phillip Broberg's shot past Hill's blocker side.

Neighbours, left alone in the left circle, extended the lead to 3-1 early in the second period when he crept in and roofed a wrist shot past Hill's blocker side. But the Golden Knights answered just 54 seconds later when Howden put in a spinning wrist shot from the slot on a rebound of a shot by Theodore.

St. Louis restored its two-goal lead with just 31 seconds left in the period on a power-play goal by Fowler, who blasted a slap shot from the left point through traffic and over Hill's left pad.

The Capitals have won four games in a row and earned points in 10 straight (7-0-3), while the Oilers had a four-game winning streak snapped in a 3-2 loss at the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.

Edmonton will be without McDavid, its captain and seven-time All-Star, who was suspended for three games for crosschecking Canucks forward Conor Garland late in the game Saturday.

The Oilers fell behind 3-0 against the Canucks and their rally came up short. It was the third straight game Edmonton fell behind by two or more goals.

"Third game in a row we chased from behind, and that makes it a little more difficult," Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. "I thought we had a pretty good push down three to make it 3-2 after the second period and we just couldn't generate enough to get that third one."

Leon Draisaitl scored twice and Stuart Skinner made 24 saves for the Oilers, who are 8-2-0 in their past 10 games.

Draisaitl extended his point streak to six games (four goals, six assists) -- his third point streak of six games or more this season. He has 33 goals this season.

"Leon's exceptional and he's having an incredible season," Knoblauch said. "Incredible career, but this year, especially, not only playing good 200-foot game but being able to score the goals that he has been able to do on the power play and even strength. He's a big part of our success that we've had these last two or three months."

McDavid had one assist to extend his point streak to four games (four goals, three assists). The Oilers will miss their No. 2 scorer (20 goals, 45 assists this season).

The Capitals pulled away late for a 4-1 win against the rival Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, extending their home point streak to 12 games (9-0-3). The Penguins had cut a 2-0 deficit in half before the Capitals scored twice late.

"The whole year kind of no matter what type of game it is, we've found a way to win," forward Tom Wilson said. "There's games where we have a lot of goals and we have some cushion. Then, there's games where it's tight. We gave them a little bit of life there, but then kind of squashed it and had a good answer. So, good win."

Aliaksei Protas and Pierre-Luc Dubois each had a goal and an assist, and Connor McMichael and Nic Dowd each had two assists for the Eastern Conference-leading Capitals.

Logan Thompson made 18 saves for the Capitals and took his bid for a third consecutive shutout into the third period before Bryan Rust scored.

"Yeah, it was fun. I don't play for that," Thompson said of the shutout streak. "My goal at the end of the day is to help this team get two points and I thought I did my job (Saturday). The guys were excellent all day. This was probably one of our best games in a couple of months now, so credit to them."

Thompson was the NHL's First Star of the Week after going 3-0-0 with a 0.33 goals-against average and a .984 save percentage.

With Charlie Lindgren back from an upper-body injury, the question is whether coach Spencer Carbery returns to alternating his goalies or rides Thompson's hot hand.

Alex Ovechkin enters Tuesday with 874 goals, 21 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's record (894).

Jared McCann had a goal and two assists and John Hayden, Chandler Stephenson and Matty Beniers also scored for Seattle, which improved to 2-0 in its stretch of nine home games over its next 10 overall. Ryker Evans had two assists and Joey Daccord made 25 saves to win for the third time in his past four starts.

Jason Zucker, Jack Quinn, Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch scored and Peyton Krebs had two assists for the Sabres, who opened a four-game Western swing that continues Tuesday in Vancouver. Devon Levi, recalled Saturday from the American Hockey League with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen dealing with some nagging injuries, stopped 28 of 33 shots.

With the score tied at 3-3, Oleksiak restored Seattle's lead at 16:34 of the second period. McCann skated down the left wing and around the Buffalo net. He sent a pass behind the net to Shane Wright, who spotted Oleksiak cruising into the high slot and fed him for a one-timer that beat Levi to the far post.

Larsson scored on a slap shot that deflected off Thompson's skate at 10:25 of the third to give the Kraken a two-goal advantage. Tuch tallied following a goalmouth scramble at 18:39 with the goalie pulled to pull the Sabres within 5-4.

McCann scored into an empty net at 18:56 to help clinch the victory.

The Sabres opened the scoring at 5:07 of the first period as Quinn took a shot from just inside the blue line that deflected off a Kraken defenseman and into the net.

Seattle tied it just 27 seconds later as Hayden swept a rebound past Levi and just inside the right post. The Kraken took the lead at 11:06 of the period as Stephenson pounced on a rebound and fired a shot off the near post and in.

Seattle extended its lead to 3-1 on the power play at 6:41 of the second as Stephenson found Beniers with a pass in the high slot and Beniers beat Levi with a wrist shot.

The Sabres scored twice to tie it at 3-all. Zucker tallied with a man advantage at 9:31, tipping Rasmus Dahlin's shot from the blue line past Daccord. Thompson evened it at 15:38, ripping a wrist shot off the left post and in.

Meanwhile, the New York Rangers didn't expect to be on the outside looking in at the playoff picture beyond the halfway point of the season.

Both teams will aim to extend point streaks Tuesday night when the Senators visit the Rangers in the second clash of the season between the teams.

Each club was off Monday after playing Sunday. Ottawa began a three-game Eastern Conference road trip with a 2-1 win over New Jersey and New York fell at Montreal 5-4 in overtime.

The Senators' second straight win extended their point streak to six games (5-0-1) and ensured they'd take the ice Tuesday no worse than tied for a wild-card spot.

Ottawa and Boston occupy the two spots with 52 points each after the Bruins beat San Jose 6-3 on Monday. Both teams could fall behind Columbus for the top wild-card spot if the Blue Jackets win their road game against the Islanders on Monday night.

The Senators' six-game point streak is their longest since a seven-game streak from March 2-14, 2017 (6-0-1), weeks before Ottawa advanced to the Eastern Conference finals in its most recent playoff appearance. Only the Buffalo Sabres (13 years) and Detroit Red Wings (eight years) have longer postseason droughts.

The Senators have outscored their opponents 18-9 amid their current point streak. Josh Norris and Tim Stutzle have each scored three times during that span, while Claude Giroux and Shane Pinto have each supplied six points.

"During this stretch, I think the commitment to playing has been key," Ottawa coach Travis Green said. "Not just away from the puck, but with the puck. We've talked a lot from day one about being a 200-foot team and that takes not a commitment by half your team, but by everybody."

The Rangers collected at least a point for the eighth straight game (5-0-3) on Sunday but squandered a quartet of one-goal leads. They were left lamenting their inability to close out the win against the Canadiens, who moved two points ahead of New York with the victory.

The Rangers have 48 points, leaving them two behind the Blue Jackets ahead of their game against the Islanders.

New York entered this season as one of the favorites to contend for the Stanley Cup after winning the Presidents' Trophy last season. But after racing out to a 12-4-1 start, New York went 5-16-0 from Nov. 21 through Jan. 4, a stretch in which it briefly fell into last place in the Metropolitan Division and traded former captain Jacob Trouba to the Anaheim Ducks.

"Obviously (Montreal) is a team that we're right there with in the standings, so that extra point is important," said Rangers defenseman Adam Fox, who had a pair of assists Sunday.

"Any time you don't grab that extra point, those are the differences down the road. Obviously the margins are thin and now we've got to find a way to be getting these two points."

Fox is second on the team with 36 points (two goals, 34 assists) behind wing Artemi Panarin, who has 48 (19 goals, 29 assists).

New York beat visiting Ottawa 2-1 in the teams' first meeting Nov. 1.

Jake Middleton had a goal and an assist, Liam Ohgren contributed two assists and Marc-Andre Fleury turned away 26 shots for Minnesota. The Wild, who continue to play without leading scorer Kirill Kaprizov and captain Jared Spurgeon, snapped a three-game skid and improved to 17-5-3 on the road. They have the most road wins in the NHL.

Nathan MacKinnon scored the only goal for Colorado, which is 2-2 on its five-game homestand that finishes Wednesday against Winnipeg.

Mackenzie Blackwood had 23 saves, including several big ones through the first two periods that kept the Avalanche in the game.

Play went mostly unimpeded for the first seven-plus minutes until Middleton's shot from the point got by a screened Blackwood to give Minnesota 1-0 lead at 12:18.

The Wild went on the power play twice in the final 4:39 of the first but converted neither time. Their best chance came when David Jiricek got a pass through the slot and had a wide-open net before Blackwood slid over and made a pad save.

Blackwood continued to keep it a one-goal game through the second period, denying Joel Eriksson Ek on a point-blank chance and then made two saves on Minnesota's fourth power play of the afternoon.

MacKinnon capitalized on Blackwood's play late in the second period. He stickhandled in the Wild zone, which sent Middleton to the ice, sent the puck to Samuel Girard, took the return pass down the slot and beat Fleury with a wrister at 18:52.

Minnesota took back the lead early in the third period when Jiricek sent a pass in the slot to Trenin, whose snap shot beat Blackwood at 2:08. The Wild added another goal soon after when Faber got a drop pass from Ryan Hartman, skated in between the circles and sent a shot over Blackwood's left shoulder at 3:43.

Blackwood came off for an extra skater with 3:27 left but Colorado couldn't score.

Coyle was the beneficiary of Matthew Poitras' primary assists on both late-game goals, including the deciding tally at 14:11.

David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand and Elias Lindholm each registered a goal and an assist, while Vinni Lettieri also scored for Boston, which is 3-0-1 in its last four games.

Bruins goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made 25 saves.

Rookie Will Smith, a native of nearby Lexington, Mass., led the Sharks with a goal and an assist in his first NHL game in Boston.

Barclay Goodrow and Fabian Zetterlund also scored and Yaroslav Askarov stopped 27 shots for San Jose, which has lost three in a row and six of seven.

Performing well with new linemate Marchand, Coyle took a Poitras feed off the rush and banked the go-ahead goal off Askarov's pads. The game-tying goal came several minutes earlier at 8:22 when Poitras fed Coyle a backhand pass, who sniped a shot past Askarov from the slot.

Marchand and Lindholm iced the game with empty-netters in the final 1:15.

The Sharks had scored twice in the second period to turn around a 2-1 deficit, with Smith bringing them back even at 8:52. The local native capitalized on a neutral-zone turnover by placing a perfect glove-side wrist shot off a give-and-go with Mikael Granlund.

Smith's goal was his seventh and the 25th goal by Sharks rookies this season, the most in the NHL.

A successful penalty kill helped vault San Jose to its first lead when Zetterlund scored with 4:42 left before the second intermission. After Smith's shot was blocked, Zetterlund picked up the puck, skated down the wing and buried his own rebound after a net drive.

Boston's opening goal came as Vinni Lettieri tipped Jordan Oesterle's shot from the right point five-hole on Askarov at 9:21 of the first. It was his second tally in as many games.

Goodrow evened the score for San Jose at 13:16, charging down the middle of the ice to snap home Nico Sturm's centering pass from behind the end line.

The Bruins' power play converted for the fourth time in as many games at 7:02 of the second. Pavel Zacha circled the cage and fed Pastrnak for a one-time goal from close range just below the right circle for a 2-1 Boston lead.

The seven-time All-Star was assessed a match penalty for cross-checking Canucks forward Conor Garland in the face during the final seconds of the Oilers' 3-2 loss on Saturday in Vancouver. The incident led to a scrum of players on the ice.

McDavid, 28, has 65 points (20 goals, 45 assists) through 43 games. The three-time Hart Trophy winner earned 15 penalty minutes on Saturday after entering the night with only 14 on the season.

"Connor gets frustrated, and he gets his stick up," Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. "He's frustrated because we're down one goal and the best player in the league is getting held for 15 seconds."

Garland held McDavid and the pair wrestled to the ice before McDavid retaliated with the cross check.

"I'm just holding him," Garland told reporters after the game. "I mean, he's the best player to ever do it. So, the time's running out. And I just thought that was maybe the best way for us to win a game was to do that. I don't want to hurt him.

"You know, I don't want to hurt him, want to hold him and hurt him in that way. So, just try to get up and hold him down," he said.

"But he's a passionate guy. He's a good dude. I mean, I don't think he was just his passion. It's a tight game late in the game. Everybody has the fire in their belly trying to win a hockey game. So that's the stuff that happens."

McDavid's only suspension so far in his 10-year career was a two-game ban in February 2019 after an illegal check to the head against New York Islanders defenseman Nick Leddy.

Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube said after Pacioretty missed practice on Monday morning that the 17-year veteran won't play and his status for returning is day-to-day.

Pacioretty, 36, took a slap shot to the side of his head from teammate Auston Matthews during Toronto's 7-3 road victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. Pacioretty played 10:19 and was able to finish the game.

The Maple Leafs will replace Pacioretty with center Fraser Minten on a line with Max Domi and Nicholas Robertson.

Minten, 20, has been a healthy scratch for two games since being recalled Thursday from the team's AHL affiliate. He has two goals and two assists in 11 games with the Maple Leafs.

Pacioretty signed a one-year, $873,770 contract with Toronto in October. He has 12 points (five goals, seven assists) in 32 games this season.

An All-Star in 2020, he has 680 points (335 goals, 345 assists) in 934 games with the Canadiens (2008-18), Vegas Golden Knights (2018-22), Carolina Hurricanes (2022-23), Washington Capitals (2023-24) and Maple Leafs.