ST. PAUL, Minn. — Devan Dubnyk posted his third straight shutout with 30 saves and Nino Niederreiter scored 12 seconds into the game for the Minnesota Wild in a 3-0 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night.

Dubnyk’s third shutout of the season stretched his scoreless streak to 195:05, breaking his mark of 183:16 set last season for the longest in team history. Dubnyk has stopped the last 103 shots he’s faced.

Eric Staal and Jason Zucker each scored an empty-net goal for Minnesota, which has won a season-best three straight.

Brian Elliott made 17 saves for Philadelphia, shut out for an NHL-high fifth time this season.

Niederreiter broke Zucker’s streak of six straight goals for the Wild, one shy of the NHL record for consecutive goals scored by a player for one team.

PENGUINS 5, SABRES 4: Sidney Crosby ended a long goal drought and assisted on Conor Sheary’s winner 16 seconds into overtime as Pittsburgh won at home.

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Crosby, who scored for the first time in 11 games, got his sixth of the season, Sheary had a pair of goals and Patric Hornqvist added one for Pittsburgh. Phil Kessel got his eighth of the season and has goals in four straight games.

Matt Murray made 28 saves for the Penguins, who won their sixth in a row at home.

Jack Eichel ended an eight-game scoring drought with his fifth goal of the season.

BLUE JACKETS 2, CANADIENS 1: Zach Werenski scored 1:09 into overtime, lifting Columbus to a win at Montreal.

Josh Anderson had a goal 2:29 into the game for Columbus, and Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 saves, allowing only a goal to Paul Byron early in the third period.

Charlie Lindgren, making his fifth consecutive start for Montreal, stopped 23 shots. Werenski beat him with a wrist shot to the roof of the net on his glove side.

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PANTHERS 4, STARS 3: Jonathan Huberdeau had two power-play goals and Vincent Trocheck scored the winner in a shootout to lift Florida over visiting Dallas.

NOTES

COYOTES-LIGHTNING: Arizona traded goalie Louis Domingue to Tampa Bay for forward Tye McGinn and goalie Michael Leighton, who played in 16 games with the Portland Pirates in 2006-07. Domingue played in Portland from 2013 to 2016

OILERS-KINGS: Edmonton acquired Mike Cammalleri from Los Angeles in exchange for Jussi Jokinen.


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