NHL Review Tuesday January 30 2018

TUESDAY’S RESULTS

Home Team in Caps

Anaheim 3, BOSTON 1

New Jersey 3, BUFFALO 1

Florida 4, NY ISLANDERS 1

PITTSBURGH 5, San Jose 2

CAROLINA 2, Ottawa 1

Minnesota 3, COLUMBUS 2 (SO)

ST. LOUIS 3, Montreal 1

Chicago 2, NASHVILLE 1

WINNIPEG 3, Tampa Bay 1

Los Angeles 3, DALLAS 0

Vegas 4, CALGARY 2

VANCOUVER 4, Colorado 3 (OT)

MALKIN SCORES HAT TRICK IN MURRAY’S EMOTIONAL RETURN TO CREASE

Evgeni Malkin (3-0—3) scored his first hat trick of the season and Matt Murray made 40 saves in his first appearance since his father passed away earlier this month to guide the Penguins to their sixth straight win at PPG Paints Arena.

“For sure this one meant a little more to me personally, but still, that’s all you can really do is just take things one shot at a time and just play your heart out on every single shot. That’s what I tried to do.” – Matt Murray

 Malkin netted his 12th career regular-season hat trick and boosted his 2017-18 totals to 26-29—55 (48 GP), tied for the fifth-most goals in the NHL this season. Only Alex Ovechkin has scored more hat tricks since Malkin made his NHL debut in 2006-07.

Sidney Crosby collected one helper to extend his assist/point streak to 10 games (3-17—20), the longest active runs in the NHL.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS RALLY TO MATCH ANOTHER NHL RECORD

The Golden Knights scored three times in a span of 53 seconds in the final two minutes of regulation to erase a 2-1 deficit and improve to 33-12-4 (70 points) this season. Vegas matched the NHL record for most wins by a team in its inaugural season – with 33 games remaining in its 2017-18 campaign.

The Golden Knights own the best record in the Western Conference standings and moved within one point of the League-leading Lightning (34-13-3, 71 points), who suffered a 3-1 loss on Tuesday. Vegas also improved to 14-9-2 (30 points) as visitors, five road wins shy of the NHL record for most by a team in its inaugural season.

NHL Schedule for Wednesday Jan 31 2018

Matchup	Time
NY Islanders@ Toronto	7:30 PM ET
San Jose@ Detroit	8:00 PM ET
Philadelphia@ Washington	8:00 PM ET