MONTREAL

Max Pacioretty scored the tiebreaking goal in Montreal’s three-goal third period as the Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-1 Thursday night for their sixth straight win.

Alex Galchenyuk and Torrey Mitchell also scored to help Montreal improve to 7- 0-1, remaining the only NHL team without a regulation loss. Carey Price made 29 saves to win for the fourth time in four starts this season.

Alex Killorn scored the lone goal for the Lightning, who lost against an Eastern- Conference opponent for the first time this season. Ben Bishop stopped 23 shots.

Penguins 4, Islanders 2

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period to lead defending champion Pittsburgh.

Patric Hornqvist, Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel also scored — each getting his third of the season — to help the Penguins win for the third time in four games and improve to 5-0-1 at home.

Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 35 shots while starting for the eighth straight game.

Leafs 3, Panthers 2

TORONTO (AP) — Mitch Marner had three assists and goalie Frederik Andersen bounced back from a horrid outing as Toronto won for the second time this season.

Marner set up Tyler Bozak for two goals and also assisted James van Riemsdyk. Andersen, who gave up a career-worst seven goals on Tuesday, stopped 29 of 31 shots for the Maple Leafs (2- 2-3).

Coyotes 5, Flyers 4

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Martin Hanzal and Brad Richardson scored the decisive goals to help Arizona snap a five-game road losing streak.

Jamie McGinn, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Ryan White also scored for the Coyotes, whose two wins this season are both against the Flyers.

The Coyotes salvaged one victory on a season-high, six-game road trip.

Louis Domingue stopped 28 shots and won his first game of the season. He had been 0-4 with a 5.03 goals against average and had stopped only 85 percent of his shots.

Red Wings 2, Blues 1

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Henrik Zetterberg scored in the eighth round of a shootout to lift Detroit past St. Louis for the Red Wings’ sixth straight win.

In the shootout, St. Louis’ first shooter, Alexander Steen, scored but then Vladimir Tarasenko, Kevin Shattenkirk, David Perron, Nail Yakupoc, Robby Fabbri, Patrick Burgland and Dmitrjij Jaskin all came up short.

Kings 3, Predators 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Carter tipped a shot past Pekka Rinne at 4:31 of overtime to lift Los Angeles to its fourth straight win.

Jake Muzzin and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the Kings and Nic Dowd and Alec Martinez each had two assists. Peter Budaj stopped 24 shots while making his third straight start in place of the injured Jeff Zatkoff.

Jets 4, Stars 1

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Patrik Laine scored twice on the power play to help Winnipeg beat Dallas.

Defenseman Tyler Myers got the Jets on the scoreboard 15 seconds into the game and rookie Kyle Connor got his first NHL goal. Connor Hellebuyck had 38 saves.

Wild 4, Sabres 0

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Devan Dubnyk made 38 saves for his second straight shutout to lead Minnesota.

Ryan Suter had a goal and an assist, and Joel Ericsson Ek, Jason Zucker and Mikko Koivu also scored. The Wild went 2-1-1 on a four-game road trip to improve to 5-2-1.

Sharks 3, B-Jackets 1

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Tomas Hertl had two goals and Joonas Donskoi also scored to lead San Jose past Columbus.

Martin Jones stopped 24 shots to help the Sharks improve to 3-0 at home.

Scott Hartnell scored for the Blue Jackets, who lost for the second straight game. Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 26 saves.

Hartnell spoiled Jones’ shutout bid with 2:50 remaining as the puck skipped off Jones’ skate and onto Hartnell’s stick and he put it in to make it 2-1.