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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Sidney Crosby had five assists, and the Pittsburgh Penguins earned their seventh straight win with a 6-1 rout of the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night. Patric Hornqvist and Kris Letang had two goals each for the Penguins, and Evgeni Malkin and Roberto Bortuzzo also scored. Letang and Chris Kunitz both added two assists. Zemgus Girgensons scored the only goal for the Sabres, who lost their third straight and fell to an NHL-worst 3-11-2. It took only 1:21 for Crosby to continue his mastery of the Sabres. He recorded a point against the Sabres for a 19th consecutive game when he made a behind-the-net feed to Letang for the game's opening goal. Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves in the win. LIGHTNING 7, BLUE JACKETS 4 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Tyler Johnson scored twice and Ryan Callahan added a goal and two assists to lead Tampa Bay over Columbus. The Lightning won their fifth straight and extended the Blue Jackets' losing streak to eight games. Cedric Paquette, Anton Stralman and Brian Boyle also had goals, and J.T. Brown added a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who have outscored opponents 27-15 during their streak. Jonathan Drouin had two assists. For the second straight night, Scott Hartnell had two goals for the Blue Jackets. Ryan Johansen added a goal and an assist, Nick Foligno also scored, and James Wisniewski had two assists. Columbus had lost six in a row in regulation before earning a point in a 3-2 overtime loss at Carolina on Friday. FLYERS 4, AVALANCHE 3 PHILADELPHIA -- Claude Giroux had two goals and an assist, and Philadelphia held off Colorado for its their third straight win. Wayne Simmonds and Brayden Schenn also scored for the Flyers, and Jakub Voracek added three assists to his NHL-leading total to help Philadelphia win its fifth straight at home. Steve Mason stopped 36 shots. The Avalanche trailed 4-0 after two periods, but Maxime Talbot, Alex Tanguay and Zach Redmond scored in the third to make it close. However, Colorado lost its sixth straight on the road. Reto Berra stopped 23 shots. MAPLE LEAFS 5, RANGERS 4 TORONTO -- Leo Komarov snapped a tie with 5:34 left, and Toronto beat the New York Rangers in a game in which both teams struggled with the lead. Roman Polak also scored in the third period to lift the Maple Leafs into a 4-4 tie. Phil Kessel, Peter Holland, Richard Panik added goals for Toronto, which squandered a 3-1 lead. Jonathan Bernier made 31 saves. Chris Kreider, Mats Zuccarello, Carl Hagelin and Rick Nash scored for New York, and backup goalie Cam Talbot stopped 26 shots. FLAMES 6, PANTHERS 4 SUNRISE, Fla. -- Lance Bouma scored the go-ahead goal to lift Calgary over Florida. Bouma's one-timer from the slot came with 2:18 left and broke a 4-4 tie, giving the Flames their fourth win in five games. Johnny Gaudreau added an empty-net, power-play goal with 1:05 left. Sean Monahan, Jiri Hudler, Mark Giordano and David Jones also scored for Calgary. Karri Ramo, making his first start in six games, gave up four goals on 22 shots for the Flames before being replaced by Jonas Hiller with 6:29 left in the second. Hiller stopped eight shots. Scottie Upshall scored two goals and had an assist for Florida. Jimmy Hayes and Nick Bjugstad also scored for the Panthers. Al Montoya made 19 saves. Aaron Ekblad and Dmitri Kulikov each had two assists. JETS 2, SENATORS 1, SO OTTAWA -- Mathieu Perreault scored in the sixth round of the shootout to give Winnipeg a victory over Ottawa. Perreault had the only goal in the shootout and helped the Jets to improve to 6-0-2 in their past eight games. Toby Enstrom scored Winnipeg's only goal in regulation, and Ondrej Pavelec stopped 37 shots through overtime and all six Ottawa skaters in the shootout -- including a huge glove save on David Legwand's attempt. Chis Neil scored in regulation for the Senators. Crag Anderson finished with 36 saves. Neil put Ottawa ahead on a power-play goal with 8:12 remaining in the first period. Enstrom tied it just about 6 minutes later. ISLANDERS 1, COYOTES 0 GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Frans Nielsen scored the lone goal with 2:31 left in the third period, Jaroslav Halak made 19 saves, and the New York Islanders held on to beat Arizona. The Islanders finished their five-game Western trip with three consecutive wins. Arizona had its three-game winning streak snapped. Nielsen took a centering pass from Mikhail Grabovski, who had worked the puck behind the net, and fired a shot under goalie Mike Smith's glove. The Coyotes got a late power play and pulled Smith in the final 90 seconds, but were unable to force overtime with a two-man advantage. Smith finished with 31 saves. Smith, who struggled at the start of the season, has stopped 152 of 162 shots in his last five games. CANADIENS 4, WILD 1 MONTREAL -- Lars Eller scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period, and Montreal beat Minnesota. Brendan Gallagher, Jiri Sekac and Max Pacioretty also scored for Montreal, and Carey Price stopped 30 shots. Jason Pominville scored for Minnesota and Darcy Kuemper had 27 saves. With the score tied 1-1, Eller gave Montreal the lead for good with 50 seconds left in the second period, beating Kuemper glove side with a screened snap shot from the faceoff circle. The goal came just inches from the spot where Gallagher had scored earlier in the period. The Canadiens beat Minnesota for the fifth time in six meetings in Montreal. Before the game, the Canadiens retired defenseman Guy Lapointe's No. 5. Lapointe played 14 seasons with Montreal between 1968 and 1982 before brief stints with St. Louis and Boston. SHARKS 5, STARS 3 DALLAS -- Brent Burns scored two third-period goals, and San Jose overcame Tyler Seguin's hat trick and rallied to beat Dallas. San Jose scored four goals in the third period -- three against backup goalie Anders Lindback, who made 24 saves. Joe Thornton sealed the win with an empty-net goal at 19:18. The Stars lost their seventh straight game (0-5-2). They had led 3-1 after two periods, with Seguin scoring all three goals. Seguin's sixth career hat trick, his second this season, came on his first three shots. Patrick Marleau's power-play goal at 3:51 cut San Jose's deficit to 3-2. Burns tied it at 6:38 and added the go-ahead goal at 10:23. Marleau and James Sheppard each had a goal and an assist. Logan Couture had three assists. Alex Stalock made 37 saves. CAPITALS 4, HURRICANES 3, OT WASHINGTON -- Nicklas Backstrom scored off the rebound of Alex Ovechkin's shot at 4:46 of overtime to lift Washington over Carolina. Ovechkin skated in and let loose a blast from the right point. Anton Khudobin made the save, but the puck went to Backstrom in the left circle, and he fired in his fourth goal of the season. It was Ovechkin's 400th NHL assist. The Capitals squandered a 3-1 lead in the third period on goals by Carolina's Eric Staal and Elias Lindholm. Troy Brouwer, Jay Beagle and Eric Fehr scored for Washington, and John Carlson had two assists. Justin Peters stopped 24 shots in his first game against his former team. Riley Nash had a goal and an assist, and Justin Faulk had two assists for Carolina, which had won four straight. Khudobin made 35 saves. PREDATORS 2, BLUES 1 ST. LOUIS -- James Neal and Filip Forsberg each had a goal and an assist, and Nashville snapped St. Louis' seven-game winning streak. Forsberg has five goals in five games, and his 15 points and nine assists lead all NHL rookies. Pekka Rinne made 28 saves for Nashville, which passed St. Louis for first place in the Central Division. The Predators won in St. Louis for the first time in seven trips and for the second time in the teams' last 12 meetings overall. Jori Lehtera scored for St. Louis and Brian Elliott had 33 saves. Vladimir Tarasenko had his four-game, goal-scoring streak snapped, but he earned an assist on Lehtera's goal, giving him 12 points in seven games. KINGS 5, CANUCKS 1 LOS ANGELES -- Tyler Toffoli had a goal and two assists, and Jonathan Quick made 18 saves in Los Angeles' victory over Vancouver. Marian Gaborik, Anze Kopitar, Jeff Carter and Jake Muzzin had a goal and an assist apiece in the defending Stanley Cup champions' second win in seven games. Los Angeles abruptly returned to top form to demolish the Canucks, who had won six of seven. Ryan Miller yielded four goals on 22 shots before Eddie Lack replaced him to start the third period. Vancouver avoided its first shutout loss of the season on Chris Higgins' goal with 7:53 to play. Alec Martinez had a career-high three assists for Los Angeles, which dressed just five defensemen when Robyn Regehr sat out with an injury.
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