Blue jackets 5, bruins 1
Mathieu Olivier scored short-handed in a three-goal first period that ended with the Boston fans booing their own team off the ice, and last-place Columbus beat the Bruins on Monday night.
Justin Danforth also scored a short-handed goal, making it 4-1 midway through the third period.
Yegor Chinakhov made it 5-1 with about six minutes left, bringing out more boos and sending most of the remaining fans to the exits.
James van Riemsdyk and Dmitri Voronkov also scored for Columbus, and Elvis Merzikins stopped 29 shots.
Avalanche 3, Flyers 2
Cale Makar scored two goals, Casey Mittelstadt scored one and Justus Annunen had 24 saves to lead Colorado to a win over Philadelphia in a game where a referee was stretchered off the ice. Makar is off to a sensational scoring start for a defenseman.
He beat Aleksei Kolosov for his seventh and eighth goals of the season and now has 27 points in 19 games.
Ducks 4, stars 2
Brett Leason had a goal and two assists for a career-high three points, Lukas Dostal stopped 34 shots and Anaheim held on to beat Dallas.
Olen Zellweger, Cutter Gauthier and Jackson LaCombe also scored for the Ducks, who saw a 3-0 lead in the third period shrink to one goal before getting consecutive wins for the first time this season.
Capitals 6, Utah 2
Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin tied one NHL record in his pursuit of another before leaving during the third period of Washington’s win over Utah with an apparent left leg injury.
Ovechkin scored twice on Utah goaltender Connor Ingram on Monday night, making Ingram the 178th different goaltender he has scored on in his 20-year NHL career. He is tied for the league record with Jaromir Jagr.
Karel Vejmelka replaced Ingram in the net for Utah immediately following Ovechkin’s second goal.
Ovechkin went to the Capitals’ bench with an apparent lower leg injury 5:30 into the third after colliding with Utah forward Jack McBain and crumpling to the ice.
CANADIENS 3, OILERS 0
Sam Montembeault stopped 30 shots as Montreal blanked Connor McDavid and Edmonton.
Brendan Gallagher, Kaiden Guhle and Jake Evans — into an empty net — scored for Montreal, which matched its longest winning streak of the season with a second consecutive victory.