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Montreal Canadiens stage yet another comeback, triumph over the Jets

Chris John
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Montreal Canadiens stage yet another comeback, triumph over the Jets

Joel Armia scored the tying goal early in the third period and Jake Allen stopped 42 shots, including three saves, as the Montreal Canadiens scored two more goals to beat the Winnipeg Jets 4-3 Saturday evening.

With Montreal trailing 3-2, veteran Armia, in his debut season after the opening of the AHL campaign, found himself in the middle of the duo with his teammate Kaiden Guhle and beat Jets goalkeeper Laurent Brossoit (26 saves) just 1:54 into the third. . Thanks to the hard work from Allen, the game eventually went to a shootout, where Nick Suzuki scored the only goal.

The Canadians have won two games in a row and four of five. Adam Lowry scored twice and Nino Niederreiter had a goal and an assist for the Jets, who have won three straight games.

Golden Knights 4, Kings 3 (SO)

Logan Thompson made 36 saves and stopped all three attempts, and Jack Eichel celebrated his 27th birthday by scoring the deciding goal in the shootout as visiting Vegas rallied to beat Los Angeles. Mark Stone, Michael Amadio and William Carrier also scored goals for the Golden Knights, who rallied from a 2-0 deficit to extend their season opener to nine games (8-0-1).

Drew Doughty, Alex Laferriere and Trevor Lewis scored for the Kings, who won both games.

Eichel, after Thompson guarded Trevor Moore to open the shot, fired a wrister past Talbot's side for what proved to be the deciding game. Thompson scored a pad stop on Pierre-Luc Dubois in the second round and sealed the win with a stoppage effort on Kevin Fiala in the third round.

Rangers 4, Canucks 3 (OT)

Mika Zibanejad scored on a three-point play and K'Andre Miller scored the game-winner in overtime as visiting New York earned a win in Vancouver.

Artemi Panarin and Adam Fox both had a goal and an assist for the Rangers, who are on a four-game winning streak. Goalie Igor Shesterkin made 30 saves, including three against Andrei Kuzmenko in recovery.

JT Miller, Tyler Myers and Carson Soucy responded for the Canucks, who snapped their three-game winning streak. Goalie Casey DeSmith stopped 20 shots. In the winning goal, Miller participated in a rush on the ice and buried a time set by Chris Kreider at 3:48 of overtime.

Ducks 7, Flyers 4

Frank Vatrano scored a hat trick, Ryan Strome added a goal and two assists as Anaheim defeated visiting Philadelphia.

Adam Henrique had a goal and an assist while Trevor Zegras and Brett Leason scored for the Ducks, who won their third straight game. Anaheim goaltender Lukas Dostal made 27 saves.

Travis Konecny scored twice and Cam Atkinson and Joel Farabee each had a goal for the Flyers, who won at home for the first time in four games. Bobby Brink had two assists.

Panthers 3, Kraken 2

Nick Cousins scored the go-ahead goal into an empty net with 5:52 left in the third period as Florida defeated Seattle in Sunrise,

The net was open because Kraken goalie Joey Daccord went to retrieve a puck in the corner to his right. However, the puck took an odd bounce and went right to Cousins, who scored his first goal of the season.

Seattle's Jared McCann scored a goal against his former team, teammate Eeli Tolvanen also tallied and the Kraken got 35 saves from Daccord (2-1-2), who lost in regulation for the first time this season.

Chris John