Devon Toews scored twice, including the go-ahead goal with 11:06 remaining, and the host Colorado Avalanche beat the Florida Panthers 3-1 on Monday night.

Mikko Rantanen added a late empty-net goal to help the Avalanche wrap up a four-game homestand at 3-0-1.

Mackenzie Blackwood finished with 25 saves as he continues to shine in net since being acquired in a deal with San Jose last month. He’s now 7-1-1 with Colorado.

Carter Verhaeghe staked the Panthers to a 1-0 lead in the first period.

SABRES 4, CAPITALS 3 (SO): JJ Peterka had a goal and an assist and had the deciding goal in the shootout to help lead Buffalo to a win against visiting Washington.

Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was kept off the scoresheet. He needs 23 goals to pass Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record of 894.

Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 25 saves and stopped three of four shooters in the shootout to end a three-game losing skid.

Peterka opened the scoring with his 11th of the season 4:42 into the first period. He assisted on Thompson’s second-period power-play goal that put the Sabres ahead 3-2.

Tom Wilson scored twice, Aliaksei Protas added a goal and an assist, and Charlie Lindgren made 24 saves for the Capitals.

CANADIENS 5, CANUCKS 4 (OT): Nick Suzuki scored a power-play goal 48 seconds into overtime and also had two assists as Montreal edged visiting Vancouver.

Lane Hutson also had a goal and two assists, Cole Caufield had a goal and an assist, and Kaiden Guhle and Kirby Dach also scored for Montreal. Sam Montembeault stopped 16 shots to help the Canadiens win for the fifth time in six games.

J.T. Miller had two goals and two assists, and Jake DeBrusk and Jonathan Lekkerimaki also scored for Vancouver, which has lost seven of its last nine.

Canucks captain Quinn Hughes, last year’s Norris Trophy winner as the NHL’s top defenseman, had two assists in his return from a four-game absence.

CUP-WINNING COACH MACNEIL DIES: Al MacNeil, a former NHL player who won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Montreal Canadiens, died Sunday. He was 89.

MacNeil was a defenseman who played 524 NHL games for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins between 1955 and 1968.

He compiled 17 goals, 75 assists and 615 penalty minutes during his career.

MacNeil was a first-year coach of the Canadiens when the team won the Stanley Cup in 1971. He was Montreal’s director of player personnel for Stanley Cup wins in 1978 and 1979.

MacNeil won three Calder Cups as general manager and head coach of the Canadiens’ farm team, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs, in 1972, ’76 and ’77.

He was the last coach of the Atlanta Flames and the first coach of the Calgary Flames for their first two seasons after relocation and was an assistant general manager of the Flames for their Stanley Cup victory in 1989.