Cale Makar scored two goals, Casey Mittelstadt scored one and Justus Annunen had 24 saves to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-2 win over the Flyers on Monday night at 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.

Referee Mitch Dunning was involved in a violent collision with Colorado defenseman Josh Manson early in the first period. Dunning is fully communicative and can move his extremities. The NHL said Dunning was taken to a hospital for precautionary reasons and that all neurological signs are normal.

Manson skated alone on the ice when he slammed into Dunning near the blue line early in the first period. Dunning went down in a heap and lay prone on the ice for several minutes.

CAPITALS 6, UTAH HC 2: Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin tied one NHL record in his pursuit of another before leaving during the third period with an apparent left leg injury.

Ovechkin scored twice on Utah goaltender Connor Ingram, making Ingram the 178th different goaltender he has scored on in his 20-year NHL career. Ovechkin is tied for the league record with Jaromir Jagr. His first goal came with 8:55 left in the first period. He struck again 5:38 into the second.

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.

On Sunday night, he tied Patrick Marleau for the second most in NHL history by scoring on former Capitals goalie Ilya Samsonov.

With Monday’s goals, Ovechkin needs only 27 goals to surpass Wayne Gretzky for the NHL career-goals record. The 39-year-old Russian has tallied 15 goals through 18 games, moving him up to 868 career goals in his 20th season.

CANADIENS 3, OILERS 0: Sam Montembeault stopped 30 shots as Montreal blanked Connor McDavid and visiting 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.

Montembeault earned his second shutout of the campaign after a 48-save showing against Toronto in the season-opener.

The Oilers lost their second in a row after falling 4-3 in overtime to Toronto on Saturday.

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.

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.