Sergei Murashov stopped all 21 shots he faced to help the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-0 win against the Nashville Predators in the second and final game of the 2025 NHL Global Series on Sunday in Stockholm, Sweden.
Murashov, a 21-year-old Russia native, faced 19 of those shots over the final two periods to earn his first NHL win in his second career start.
Parker Wotherspoon, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Blake Lizotte scored for the Penguins, who snapped a three-game skid (0-1-2) and won for just the second time in seven games.
Juuse Saros stopped 18 of 21 shots for the Predators, who have lost eight of 10 (2-6-2).
Avalanche 4, Islanders 1
Brock Nelson had a goal and an assist, Ross Colton and Victor Olofsson scored goals 1:19 apart in the second period, and surging Colorado scored four straight goals to top New York in Denver.
Martin Necas also scored and Scott Wedgewood turned away 28 shots for Colorado, which has won six straight while earning points in each of its last 10 games and has just one loss in regulation this season. NHL leading scorer Nathan MacKinnon was held off the scoresheet, snapping his 11-game point streak.
Emil Heineman scored for New York and Ilya Sorokin made 24 saves. The Islanders had their four-game winning streak stopped and are 4-1-0 on their seven-game road trip that continues in Dallas on Tuesday night.
Wild 3, Golden Knights 2 (OT)
Kirill Kaprizov scored the winning goal with 9.7 seconds remaining in overtime to lift Minnesota over Vegas in Saint Paul, Minn.
Kaprizov notched the decisive goal on a hard-angle shot from the right side of the crease. Mats Zuccarello set up the game-winner and finished with two assists for the Wild, who won for the fourth time in its past five games. Joel Eriksson Ek and Yakov Trenin added one goal apiece.
Pavel Dorofeyev and Reilly Smith each scored a goal for the Golden Knights, who finished with one win and one loss on a two-game road trip. Mitch Marner was among four players to tally an assist.
Canucks 6, Lightning 2
Vancouver’s Kiefer Sherwood, Linus Karlsson and Drew O’Connor scored in a 100-second span in the third period as the visitors scored six unanswered goals to rally past Tampa Bay.
Quinn Hughes made his mark with a career-high-tying four assists. Jake DeBrusk scored his seventh marker of the season in the second period, while Mackenzie MacEachern notched his first tally of the season and Marcus Pettersson potted an empty-netter as part of the Canucks’ five-goal third.
Nikita Kucherov scored his 365th career goal for the Lightning, tying Martin St. Louis for third in franchise history. Jake Guentzel scored the other Tampa Bay goal, while Jonas Johansson stopped 12 shots.
Red Wings 2, Rangers 1
Lucas Raymond scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:47 remaining in the third period and Detroit overcame a stellar performance by Jonathan Quick to edge host New York.
Raymond had a goal and an assist after getting three assists Saturday in a loss to Buffalo. Alex DeBrincat scored a power-play goal in the second period for the Red Wings, who ended a seven-game losing streak to the Rangers. Detroit’s Cam Talbot stopped 18 shots against his original team.
Quick made 40 saves, including 15 on the Red Wings’ five power plays. Mika Zibanejad scored on the power play in the second for the Rangers, who were unable to get a fourth straight win as coach Mike Sullivan missed the contest due to personal reasons.
–Field Level Media
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