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01/31/2018 at 6:44am EST

NHL Morning Skate


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.

DUCKS SNAP BRUINS’ POINT STREAK

Adam Henrique scored twice to extend his point streak to six games (6-2—8) and help the Ducks snap the Bruins’ point streak at 18 contests (14-0-4). Anaheim improved to 9-0-1 in its last 10 games against Boston dating to Oct. 31, 2013 (BOS: 1-8-1), including nine consecutive wins.

* The Bruins were the sixth team in the past 20 seasons to register a point streak of at least 18 games, joining the Lightning (14-0-4 in 2003-04; 18 GP), Red Wings (17-0-3 in 2005-06; 20 GP), Sharks (18-0-2 in 2007-08; 20 GP), Blackhawks (21-0-3 in 2012-13; 24 GP) and Blue Jackets (17-0-1 in 2016-17; 18 GP).

HUTCHINSON BACKSTOPS JETS TO SEVENTH STRAIGHT HOME WIN

After appearing in the AHL All-Star Classic on Monday, Michael Hutchinson made 23 saves in his NHL season debut to backstop the Central Division-leading Jets (30-13-8, 68 points) to their seventh straight home win and an 18-3-1 (37 points) record at Bell MTS Place overall. Winnipeg matched its longest home win streak of the season, a mark set from Nov. 14 – Dec. 11, 2017 (7-0-0).

* Did You Know? Winnipeg began a 10-game homestand on Tuesday, tied for the third-longest in NHL history.

ICYMI:Rickard Rakellhosted 17-year-old cancer fighter Katie Hawley as an honorary Duck at 2018 Honda NHL All-Star Weekend where she attended all on-ice events, took part in media day and walked the red carpet with her favorite player.

QUICK CLICKS

· Jaromir Jagr's work ethic, NHL career was epic (via Nick Cotsonika)

· Flames appreciative of short time with Jaromir Jagr (via Lisa Dillman)

· Tomas Plekanec on Jaromir Jagr: 'He's a hero' (via Dave Stubbs)

· Islanders to play 12 games at Nassau Coliseum in 2018-19

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