Mikael Granlund scored with one-tenth of a second remaining in regulation and then netted the winner 1:20 into overtime as the Nashville Predators defeated the visiting Calgary Flames 4-3 Thursday night. In overtime, Granlund took a pass from Ryan Ellis between the bottom of the faceoff circles and floated a shot over Rittich’s blocker. Colton Sissons and Roman Josi also scored for the Predators, who improved to 6-1-1 in their past eight games. Goaltender Juuse Saros made 36 saves.
Mikael Backlund had a goal and two assists, and Rasmus Andersson and Andrew Mangiapane also scored for the Flames, who had their two-game winning streak snapped. David Rittich stopped 34 of 38 shots. Mangiapane gave the Flames a 3-2 lead with 43 seconds left in the third period. But in the final seconds of regulation, Nashville’s Filip Forsberg got the puck behind the Calgary net and found Granlund at the top of the crease, from where he shoveled the puck under Rittich’s right pad just before the buzzer.
Blues 3, Islanders 2 (OT) Colton Parayko scored a wraparound goal in overtime to lift St. Louis over visiting New York. The Blues won their sixth consecutive game after rallying from a 2-0 deficit HOW LONG TO BOIL CORNS force the extra time. Brayden Schenn and Vince Dunn also scored for the Blues, and goaltender Jordan Binnington made 15 saves. Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Jordan Eberle scored for the Islanders and Thomas Greiss, making his first start in seven games, stopped 29 of 32 shots.
Bruins 4, Stars 3 Brad Marchand, David Pastrnak and Nick Ritchie each had a goal and an assist and Boston held off visiting Dallas as Charlie Coyle also scored, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 31 shots in net. John Klingberg, Denis Gurianov and Miro Heiskanen scored for the Stars, who lost for just the third time in their last 10 games (7-2-1). Ben Bishop made 24 saves. The score was tied 1-1 when Boston’s David Krejci dropped the gloves with Joe Pavelski at 11:24 of the second period.
Krejci, in just the third fight of his 14-year career and first since February 2011, landed several blows to Pavelski’s helmet before the two were separated. Pavelski logged his fourth NHL fight, first since November 2017. Maple Leafs 5, Panthers 3 William Nylander scored the go-ahead goal with 11 minutes left in the third period as Toronto rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat Florida in Sunrise, Fla. Toronto also got goals from Zach Hyman, Kasperi Kapanen, Auston Matthews and Justin Holl (empty-netter).
For Matthews, who also had an assist, it was his 44th goal of the season. Frederik Andersen made 24 saves for Toronto. He was flawless after allowing three goals in the first 12-plus minutes. Florida got goals from Mark Pysyk, Mike Hoffman and Noel Acciari. Hoffman has a team-high 26 goals. Sergei Bobrovsky (24 saves) took the loss.