Philadelphia: Evgeni Malkin scored twice, including the tiebreaker in the third period, and Sidney Crosby also had two goals to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
Matt Cullen also scored for the Penguins, who scored three times in a 55-second span in the first period while opening a four-game trip with their fourth win in the last five. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 38 shots while making his ninth straight start (6-2-1).
Malkin’s game-winner was his 300th career goal.
Jakub Voracek scored twice for the Flyers, and Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds each had one for Philadelphia. Steve Mason started and gave up three goals on 13 shots in the first period. Michal Neuvirth replaced him to start the second and finished with 12 saves on 14 shots.
In Montreal, Shea Weber scored a power-play goal in the third period, lifting Montreal 2-1 to their seventh straight victory. Alex Galchenyuk also scored for Montreal, which is 8-0-1 and the only NHL club without a regulation loss this season.
Nazem Kadri scored for the Leafs, who were coming off a 3-2 win Thursday over Florida.
Toronto outshot Montreal 37-31, but Carey Price made 37 saves for the Canadiens. Frederik Andersen had 29 stops for the Leafs.
Devan Dubnyk stopped 29 shots for his third straight shutout and 22nd of his career to lift Minnesota 4-0. Mikael Granlund, Nino Niederreiter, Eric Staal and Tyler Graovac scored for Minnesota, which improved to 6-2-1.
Kari Lehtonen made 11 saves for Dallas, which has just four goals in its last four games.
Dubnyk didn’t have to make any spectacular saves in establishing a new personal best scoreless stretch of 180 minutes. The last goal he allowed was in overtime last Saturday.
Joe Pavelski and Tommy Wingels scored 17 seconds apart and San Jose went on to beat Nashville 4-1 in a rematch of last season’s seven-game, second-round playoff series won by the Sharks. Joonas Donskoi also scored and Joe Thornton added an empty-nester as the Sharks picked up where they left off last spring from that all-home team series against the Predators. Martin Jones made 27 saves to help San Jose finish off a 3-0 homestand.
