Toronto: Patrick Kane had three goals for his first hat-trick of the season and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1 Friday night for their 10th straight win.
Artemi Panarin also scored and assisted on two of Kane’s goals for the Blackhawks. Scott Darling made 28 saves to earn the win in net for Chicago while Corey Crawford took the night off after a 2-1 win in Montreal the night before.
Kane, who added an assist for a four-point night, now has an NHL-leading 28 goals on the season.
The win puts Chicago in first in the Central Division, a point ahead of the Dallas Stars, who played at Anaheim later Friday night.
Morgan Rielly scored for Toronto, which has lost four in a row. James Reimer stopped 25 shots.
In Tampa, Florida, Vladislav Namestnikov completed a hat-trick in overtime and Tampa Bay beat Pittsburgh 5-4 to extend a season-high four-game winning streak.
Valtteri Filppula and Anton Stralman also scored for Tampa Bay and Steven Stamkos had two assists. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 36 saves.
Pittsburgh got goals from Kris Letang, Patric Hornqvist, Trevor Daley and Chris Kunitz. Evgeni Malkin had two assists, giving him 23 assists and 42 points in 31 games against Tampa Bay.
Namestnikov scored the winner from in close 2:11 into the extra session. Marc-Andre Fleury made 20 saves for the Penguins.
Jakob Silfverberg had a goal and an assist and the NHL’s lowest-scoring team blasted the highest-scoring team for four goals in the first period. After Silfverberg and Sami Vatanen scored 31 seconds apart in the opening minutes, Hampus Lindholm and Corey Perry scored 33 seconds apart later in the first period while the Ducks shredded the Stars’ defense and goalie Kari Lehtonen in a 12:32 stretch.
Frederik Andersen made 22 saves for the Ducks, who have won seven of 10.
Mattias Janmark scored a short-handed goal and captain Jamie Benn had a power-play goal for the Stars. Dallas have lost six straight road games for the first time in five years.
