
Islanders beat Stars in overtime to win Roy's debut
The New York Islanders returned to their winning ways in new coach Patrick Roy's debut.
Bo Horvat scored 41 seconds into overtime and the Islanders beat the visiting Dallas Stars 3-2 on Sunday to make Roy a winner in his first game with New York.
The Hall of Fame goaltender was hired on Saturday after the team fired Lane Lambert following the conclusion of a 0-3-1 road trip.
Roy, who was 130-92-24 in three seasons coaching the Colorado Avalanche from 2013-16, and won the Jack Adams Award in 2014 as coach of the year, had spent the last five years as the coach and GM of his home-town junior team, the Quebec Ramparts.
Ilya Sorokin finished with 40 saves, while Alexander Romanov and Hudson Fasching scored regulation goals for New York (20-15-11).
Horvat's goal was his 19th of the season, giving the Islanders just their third win in 11 games (3-6-2).
First win as an Islander pic.twitter.com/5EzuxDFV0e
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) January 22, 2024
The Stars (27-13-6) lost for the second time in three games after winning four of their previous five.
Dallas' Jason Robertson scored his 16th goal of the season for his team-leading 48th point, while Nils Lundqvist scored his second.
Scott Wedgewood finished with 25 saves to lose for the first time in four starts.
Matthews scores NHL-leading 38th goal to lift Maple Leafs over Kraken
Auston Matthews scored in the first period in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 3-1 win over the Seattle Kraken.
The goal was Matthews' fifth in the last four games and league-leading 38th on the season.
Matthews has five more goals than the next-closest goal-scorer, the Florida Panthers' Sam Reinhart.
Nicholas Robertson also scored for the Maple Leafs (23-14-8), while Jake McCabe added an empty-net goal with 21 second remaining.
On the other end of the ice, goaltender Ilya Samsonov was sensational, making several spectacular saves.
Samsonov stopped 16-of-17 shots to earn his first win since December 9 after going 0-2-3 with a 5.32 goals-against average in his previous five starts.
LARCENY!! pic.twitter.com/XCvzVirEx5
— Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) January 22, 2024
Joey Daccord made 23 saves for Seattle, while Jordan Eberle scored the team's only goal - his seventh of the season and third in the last five games.
The Kraken (19-18-9) have now lost four in a row immediately following a franchise-record nine-game winning streak.
Kaprizov's hat trick helps Wild beat Hurricanes
Kirill Kaprizov scored three goals in the Minnesota Wild's 5-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.
It was the second career hat trick for Kaprizov, who was coming off a two-goal game and has 10 goals and seven assists in his last 10 contests.
KIRILL KAPRIZOV HAT TRICK!!! pic.twitter.com/0tMHzayw2p
— NHL (@NHL) January 22, 2024
Joel Eriksson Ek had the go-ahead goal midway through the third period to lead the Wild to their third win in four games after they had lost eight of their previous nine.
Kaprizov scored his final goal - his 18th of the season - into an empty net and Jake Middleton added an empty-netter just over a minute later.
Filip Gustavsson finished with 40 saves for Minnesota (20-21-5), as Martin Necas and Michael Bunting were the only two Carolina skaters to find the back of the net.
Antti Raanta stopped 14-of-17 shots for the Hurricanes (25-25-5), who lost for the second time in three games after going 7-0-1 in their previous eight.