Jake DeBrusk scores hat trick, including OT game-winner, as Canucks top Red Wings 5-4

Talbot left the game in the second period with a lower-body injury after making 12 saves. Ville Husso replaced him and made 15 saves, allowing three goals.

STARS 3, JETS 1

DALLAS (AP) — Mason Marchment scored the winning goal on a spinning backhander with 7:37 to play with an assist from Jake Oettinger, who made 26 saves, as Dallas beat Winnipeg.

Marchment took a slow-rolling pass made by Thomas Harley from near Dallas’ goal line at the opposite blue line, skated on net while closely defended by Josh Morrissey, spun to his left and shot with his back to goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to break a 1-1 tie.

Oettinger earned his fifth career assist starting the play and remained perfect at American Airlines Center this season at 9-0-0.

Hellebuyck, who leads the NHL with 15 wins, stopped 28 shots.

DUCKS 4, SENATORS 3, SO

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Troy Terry tied a career high with three assists and scored the go-ahead goal in the shootout as Anaheim beat Ottawa.

Terry — who has a four-game point streak with seven assists — scored in the second round of the shootout to put Anaheim in front. Trevor Zegras added another goal in the third round after Lukas Dostal stopped Ottawa’s Tim Stützle and Josh Norris.

Anaheim’s Frank Vatrano had two goals and an assist and Jackson LaCombe also scored. Ryan Strome had two assists and Dostal stopped 29 shots.

Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk had his second two-goal game of the season. Nick Cousins had the Senators’ other goal and Linus Ullmark made 32 saves.

Stützle had an assist and extended his point streak to seven games to match his career high.

BRUINS 6 CANADIENS 3

BOSTON (AP) — Charlie McAvoy scored twice and Boston exploded for three goals in a 70-goal span in the first period as the Bruins celebrated the 100th anniversary of their first NHL game with a win over Montreal.

Charlie Coyle also had two goals — one during the outburst — for the Bruins, who posted a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Maroons in their initial NHL game on Dec. 1, 1924, at the then-Boston Arena.

Cole Caufield scored twice and Emil Heineman once for Montreal, which has lost four of five.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was in attendance as the Bruins closed a year of celebrating different eras during their first 100 years.

BLUE JACKETS 6, BLACKHAWKS 3

CHICAGO (AP) — Sean Monahan had a goal and assist, and Columbus extended their points streak to six games with a win over Chicago.

Kent Johnson scored for the second straight game to run his points streak to nine games, and Ivan Provorov, Dante Fabbro, Kirill Marchenko and Dmitri Voronkov also connected for Columbus. Zach Werenski’s two assists extended his points streak to eight games.

Connor Bedard had a power-play goal and assist for Chicago, which dropped its second straight. Craig Smith and Nick Foligno also scored power-play goals.

Elvis Merzlikins made 28 saves in his sixth straight start. Petr Mrazek blocked 30 shots.

Bedard, the NHL’s leading rookie scorer last season, has two goals and two assists in three games after a 12-game goal-scoring drought.

The Associated Press

by Canadian Press

Jake DeBrusk scores hat trick, including OT game-winner, as Canucks top Red Wings 5-4

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