Carolina’s Jesper Fast tangles with Montreal’s Alexander Romanov , left,) and Christian Dvorak in the first period Thursday night at Raleigh, N.C. Karl B DeBlaker/Associated Press AP
RALEIGH, N.C. — Frederik Andersen made 32 saves for his fourth shutout of the season, Andrei Svechnikov scored twice and the Carolina Hurricanes dominated the Montreal Canadiens 4-0 on Thursday night.
Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen each had a goal and an assist as the Hurricanes stretched their points streak to six games with their third win in the last four outings. Svechnikov’s second goal went into an empty net.
Tony DeAngelo and Jaccob Slavin both assisted on two goals. Andersen faced 14 shots in the third period, when the Hurricanes killed off three penalties.
The Canadiens were blanked for the fifth time this season, the last one coming on Dec. 30 in the same building against Carolina. Jake Allen stopped 40 shots for Montreal, which has won just once in its last six games (1-3-2).
PANTHERS 4, BLACKHAWKS 0: Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 37 shots for his third shutout of the season, leading Florida over visiting Chicago.
Aleksander Barkov scored twice, Gustav Forsling had a goal and an assist and Ryan Lomberg scored his fourth goal in three games as the Panthers won their 28th home game, a club record for a season.
Jonathan Huberdeau got his 71st assist, an NHL record for assists by a left winger. Huberdeau has 94 points, tied with Pavel Bure. He is closing in on the club record of 96 set by Barkov in the 2018-19 season.
The Panthers could clinch a playoff spot as early as Saturday.
Collin Delia stopped 40 shots for the Blackhawks, who lost their third straight game.
ISLANDERS 5, BLUE JACKETS 2: Kyle Palmieri scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period to lift New York over visiting Columbus.
Mathew Barzal had a goal and an assist, and Sebastian Aho, Oliver Wahlstrom and Ryan Pulock also scored as New York improved to 7-1 in their last eight home games dating to a 6-0 win against the Blue Jackets on March 10.
Semyon Varlamov made 30 saves in his second consecutive start and third straight appearance with Ilya Sorokin sidelined with an upper-body injury.
Emil Bemstrom and Justin Danforth scored for Columbus, which lost its fifth straight. Elvis Merzlikins made 31 saves.
MAPLE LEAFS 7, JETS 3: Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 50th goal of the season and Toronto won at home.
Matthews scored Toronto’s sixth goal of the game into an empty net with 2:06 left in regulation. He moved past Leon Draisaitl (49 goals) of idle Edmonton for the league goal lead and became the first Maple Leafs player to reach the milestone since Dave Andreychuk scored 53 in 1993-94.
PENGUINS 4, WILD 3: Evgeni Malkin scored at 3:57 of overtime as Pittsburgh won at St. Paul, Minnesota.
Rickard Rakell scored twice for the Penguins.
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