Read the reports of the games played Wednesday in the NHL.
Pavel Zacha scores twice in Bruins win
Pavel Zacha scored twice in the third period as the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 on Wednesday night.
Derek Forbort and Brandon Carlo hit the mark in the second period to help the Bruins snap a three-game losing streak.
AJ Greer added a goal for the Boston squad, which saw Linus Ullmark make 33 saves.
Mitch Marner threaded the needle on the power play and Calle Jarnkrok scored on one chance for the Maple Leafs.
Ilya Samsonov stopped 24 pucks in his eighth consecutive game in front of the net for the Torontonians.
Samsonov was 5-1-1 in his last seven starts with a .925 save percentage and a 2.24 goals-against average.
John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press
Hurricanes edge Sabers 5-1
PHOTO ADRIAN KRAUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brent Burns
Stefan Noesen had a goal and an assist as he guided the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-1 win over the Buffalo Sabers on Wednesday night.
Sebastian Aho, Brent Burns, Derek Stepan and Jordan Martinook also found the back of the net for the Hurricanes, winners of their last seven games. Antti Raanta stopped 29 pucks in front of the nets of the winners.
Alex Tuch scored the lone goal for the Sabers, while goaltender Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 29 saves.
The Hurricanes completely dominated the Sabers early in the game, and they quickly took a 3-0 lead.
Aho opened the scoring at 2:35 of the first period on a power play, deflecting a pass from Teuvo Teravainen. Suddenly, Aho scored a goal in a sixth game in a row.
Halfway through the period, Noesen also deflected a pass, this one from Martin Necas to double the visitors’ lead. Burns made it 3-0 with 7:13 left in the first period, following a superb pass from Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
Tuch allowed the Sabers to reduce the Hurricanes’ lead with 5:15 remaining in the first period, thanks to a wrist shot from the right face-off circle. It was his 24e goal of the season.
Things didn’t improve for the Sabers late in the second period when Tage Thompson, the team’s leading scorer, left the game and didn’t return due to an upper-back injury. body.
Thompson had been trying to play through injuries lately, and he didn’t participate in the Sabers’ practice on Monday. Thompson has 34 goals and 68 points in 50 games.
This injury jeopardizes his status for the weekend of the stars.
The Sabers outshot the Hurricanes 8-1 early in the third period, but were unable to close the Hurricanes’ lead.
Stepan made it 4-1 and Martinook added an empty-netter with 1:41 remaining.
Mark Ludwiczak, Associated Press