maple leafs 3, rangers 2

Matthew Knies broke a third-period tie, Anthony Stolarz made 33 saves and Toronto beat New York on Friday.

Knies scored his 22nd goal at 6:21 of the third, less than three minutes after Will Cuylle tied it for New York with a short-handed goal.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson and William Nylander also scored to help Toronto win its fourth straight game since the 4 Nations Face-off break.

Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Rangers. They had won two in a row.

Ekman-Larsson opened the scoring on a power play 1:47 into the contest. Zibanejad tied it with 6:52 left in the period, deflecting a pass from defenseman Will Borgen.

Nylander scored 51 seconds into the second, jamming a loose puck past goalie Igor Shesterkin for his team-leading 34th goal.

Cuylle tiedit at 3:47 of the third with the short-handed score.

Stolarz made a dazzling glove save just after Rangers tied it at 2. Knies scored the winning goal shortly thereafter. Stolarz improved to 13-5-2 in a backup role to starter Joseph Woll.

stars 6, kings 2

Logan Stankoven scored twice, Roope Hintz had a career-high four assists and Dallas beat Los Angeles.

Jason Robertson had his 25th goal and an assist for the Stars, who were home for the first time in 26 days. Matt Duchene and Wyatt Johnston had power-play goals and Sam Steel scored a short-hander.

Dallas led for good after Duchene made it 2-1 in the first period, scoring his 24th of the season off a nifty pass by Hintz and a secondary assist from Robertson.

Jake Oettinger stopped 29 shots while getting his 28th win, matching the second-most in the NHL.

Darcy Kuemper had 26 saves while Dallas also had at least two other pucks ricochet off the post.

The Kings got goals from Warren Foegele and Trevor Moore, who poked a wraparound shot past Oettinger’s extended right skate.

Oettinger preserved a 2-1 Stars lead by rejecting Foegele’s short-handed breakaway shot after Matt Dumba’s turnover. Seconds after that four-minute power play ended, Stankoven scored to put Dallas up 3-1.

Key stat

The Kings entered the game allowing a league-low 34 goals in the first period. Dallas had three to make it 37, still one fewer than Winnipeg’s 38 while playing three more games.

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