Jordan Eberle tallied twice in the third period as the Seattle Kraken stunned the host Anaheim Ducks 3-1 Monday night.
Frederick Gaudreau also scored for Seattle, which won consecutive games for the first time in a month, and Kaapo Kakko had two assists. Goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 40 saves as the Kraken won for just the third time in their past 13 games (3-9-1) and moved out of the Pacific Division cellar.
Mikael Granlund scored the lone goal for the division-leading Ducks, who dropped to 2-4-1 in their past seven games. Goalie Lukas Dostal stopped 18 of 20 shots.
The tiebreaking goal came on an odd-man rush at 10:04 of the third. Matty Beniers fed Eberle on the left wing, and Eberle put a shot over Dostal’s shoulder and into the far upper corner of the net from just inside the faceoff dot.
Blue Jackets 3, Kings 1
Mason Marchment scored two power-play goals in the first period and Columbus skated away with a win at Los Angeles.
Kirill Marchenko added a power-play goal and Jet Greaves made 23 saves as the Blue Jackets won for just the second time in nine games (2-6-1). Damon Severson had two assists as Columbus earned its first road victory since Dec. 1, ending an 0-3-1 road skid.
Marchment, who was acquired in a trade with Seattle on Friday, has three goals in two games with his new team. He had just four goals in 29 games to start the season with the Kraken. The Kings lost for the fifth time in their past six games (1-3-2).
Flyers 5, Canucks 2
Dan Vladar made 23 saves and Philadelphia received two goals from its fourth line as the host Flyers ended Vancouver’s four-game winning streak.
Fourth-liners Nikita Grebenkin and Carl Grundstrom scored for Philadelphia, while Rodrigo Abols assisted on both of those tallies. Philadelphia earned just its second win in seven games (2-1-4).
Max Sasson and Drew O’Connor scored for Vancouver, which had won the first four games of its five-game road trip. Thatcher Demko turned aside 34 shots as the Canucks took their first loss since trading star defenseman Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild 10 days ago.
Lightning 4, Blues 1
Defenseman Darren Raddysh produced a goal and two assists, Oliver Bjorkstrand reached a milestone of international proportions, and Tampa Bay capped its four-game homestand with a win over St. Louis.
Bjorkstrand became just the fourth Dane to reach 400 NHL points, also scoring on the man advantage. He joined countrymen Nikolaj Ehlers, Frans Nielsen and Lars Eller in the 400-point club.
Pontus Holmberg and Anthony Cirelli each chipped in with a goal and Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel posted two helpers apiece as the Lightning finished 2-2-0 on the homestand. Tampa Bay goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 shots.
–Field Level Media
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