Brock Boeser produced his seventh career regular-season hat trick and added an assist as the Vancouver Canucks recovered from blowing a four-goal lead to beat the Colorado Avalanche 8-6 in Denver on Wednesday night.
Teddy Blueger scored twice for the Canucks (22-44-8, 52 points), who set a season high for goals while ending a six-game skid. Vancouver’s Marcus Pettersson had a goal and two assists, Max Sasson contributed a goal and an assist, Jake DeBrusk also scored, and Drew O’Connor and Marco Rossi had two assists apiece.
Kevin Lankinen turned away 24 shots for Vancouver, which owns the lowest point total in the NHL. Colorado has the highest point total in the league.
The Avalanche (49-15-10, 108 points) rallied from a 6-2 deficit to tie it on Sam Malinski’s second goal of the night at 13:58 of the third period. Pettersson answered 23 seconds later, and Boeser scored an empty-net goal at 18:31. Nathan MacKinnon scored his league-leading 50th goal of the season, Malinski also had an assist, Brent Burns recorded a goal and an assist and Gabriel Landeskog and Parker Kelly also scored for the Avalanche.
Kings 2, Blues 1 (OT)
Trevor Moore scored 1:56 into overtime as Los Angeles edged visiting St. Louis.
Adrian Kempe scored in regulation and Anton Forsberg made 23 saves as the Kings leapfrogged the Nashville Predators and moved into the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Los Angeles is just 2-2-3 in the past seven games.
Robert Thomas tallied for the Blues, who have dropped back-to-back games following a four-game winning streak. Jordan Binnington stopped 24 shots.
Sharks 4, Ducks 3
Macklin Celebrini and Alexander Wennberg scored in the final two minutes to give San Jose a come-from-behind win against visiting Anaheim.
The Sharks pulled goalie Yaroslav Askarov for the extra skater, and Celebrini scored with a wrist shot from just above the left circle to tie it 3-3 with 1:39 left. The goal gave the second-year star his first 40-goal campaign. Wennberg then scored from the high slot off a feed from Celebrini with 31 seconds remaining.
Celebrini finished with two goals and two assists, Will Smith had a goal and two assists and Askarov made 28 saves for the Sharks, who are one point back of the West’s second wild-card spot. Ryan Poehling, Alex Killorn and Troy Terry scored, Drew Helleson had two assists and Lukas Dostal stopped 17 shots for the Ducks, who lead the Pacific Division.
