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Raffl scores late, Flyers beat Oilers for 7th straight win

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mi- ers. Steve Mason stopped
chael Raffl scored with 1:29 28 shots to win his sixth
remaining to cap Philadel- straight and improve to 11-
phia’s rally from two goals 8-3.
down in a 6-5 victory over Leon Draisaitl had a goal
the Edmonton Oilers on and two assists, Connor
Thursday night for the Fly- McDavid had a goal and
ers’ seventh straight win. an assist, and Andrej Se-
Claude Giroux had two kera, Benoit Pouliot and
goals and one assist, and Oscar Klefbom also scored
Mark Streit, Pierre-Edouard for the Oilers, who have
Bellemare and Jakub Vora- blown leads in four straight
cek also scored for the Fly- games. Jonas Gustavsson

New York Rangers’ J.T. Miller (10), left back, Nicklas Jensen (39), Kevin Hayes (13) and Nick Hold-
en (22) celebrate Hayes’s goal against Winnipeg Jets goaltender Michael Hutchinson (34), Ben
Chiarot (7) and Dustin Byfuglien (33) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016.
Associated Press
finished with 25 saves. four straight and five of tory to own his team’s re-
CANADIENS 5, DEVILS 2 their past six. cords for games played,
MONTREAL (AP) — Carey Jaromir Jagr scored his goals, assists, points, game-
Price lost his temper after 755th career goal, and Ro- winning goals and power-
being bumped twice in his berto Luongo stopped 25 play goals.
crease and made 19 saves shots for the Panthers. Lu- ISLANDERS 3, BLUES 2
to help Montreal beat ongo allowed three goals NEW YORK (AP) — Anders
New Jersey. Torrey Mitch- on Pittsburgh’s first five Lee’s second goal of the
ell scored twice and Phillip shots. game with just over seven
Danault, Artturi Lehkonen Panthers coach Tom Rowe, minutes remaining lifted
and Max Pacioretty also who replaced Gerard Gal- New York over St. Louis.
had goals for the Cana- lant on Nov. 28, made his Lee’s go-ahead score on
diens in their return from a home debut. The Panthers a slap shot came after
five-game trip. have lost five of six under Casey Cizikas won a fa-
Adam Henrique scored Rowe, but managed a ceoff in the Blues zone and
a goal and set up one by point in three of those loss- sent the puck back to Lee,
Taylor Hall for New Jersey, es. who rifled it past Allen with
which ended a two-game FLAMES 2, COYOTES 1, OT 7:18 left. Lee, who started
winning streak. GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — the season slowly, now has
Montreal had a season- Dougie Hamilton scored seven goals in his last eight
high 49 shots on Cory Sch- 1:09 into overtime, Chad games.
neider. A wild first period Johnson stopped 27 shots John Tavares also scored
included three goals, four and Calgary beat Arizona. and Thomas Greiss stopped
goal reviews and Price’s Mark Giordano scored 24 shots to help the Island-
meltdown. for the Flames in a chippy ers improve their season-
With 18 seconds left in the game filled with big hits best stretch to 5-0-1 in their
first period, Kyle Palmieri slid and multiple fights. last six games.
into Price’s knees, and the Hamilton capped a fast- Robby Fabbri and Kyle
goaltender jumped on him paced overtime by deking Brodziak had goals for the
and started pummeling Arizona’s Mike Smith with Blues, who fell to 3-7-1 away
him with his blocker. Price a forehand before flipping from home while going 12-
was pulled away in the en- in a backhander. Calgary 1-3 at Scottrade Center.
suing melee. has won five straight and Jake Allen, who came in
PENGUINS 5, PANTHERS 1 eight of 11 (8-2-1). with eight straight wins, fin-
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sidney Max Domi scored before ished with 24 saves.
Crosby got his 18th goal leaving with an upper-body HURRICANES 3, KINGS 1
and added an assist to lead injury and Smith stopped 33 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) —
Pittsburgh over Florida. shots for the Coyotes, who Derek Ryan scored twice,
Conor Sheary, Tom have lost six straight and 11 Cam Ward made 21 saves
Kuhnhackl, Matt Cul- of 14 (3-7-4). and Carolina beat Los An-
len and Carl Hagelin also Arizona captain Shane geles.
scored for Pittsburgh. Matt Doan became Arizona’s Ryan had his first multigoal
Murray made 28 saves. all-time assist leader and is performance in 20 NHL
The Penguins have won the fifth player in NHL his- games. q