December 13, 2025; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini (left) and defenseman John Klingberg (right) celebrate Klingberg’s overtime winning goal to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins at the PPG Paints Enviornment. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Photos
John Klingberg’s second goal of the game, 2:57 into overtime, gave the San Jose Sharks a remarkable 6-5 comeback victory over the host Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Sharks trailed 5-1 with 13 minutes left in the game.
Tyler Toffoli scored two goals and two assists, Macklin Celebrini added a goal and two assists and William Eklund had a goal and an assist. Alexander Wennberg had three assists and Yaroslav Askorov made 38 saves.
Klingberg converted a cross-court pass from Celebrini for the winner in overtime after Toffoli forced overtime with 1:38 left.
Bryan Rust and Anthony Mantha each had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who lost their fourth straight game. Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist, and Rutger McGroarty and Kevin Hayes scored goals. Arturs Silovs stopped 26 shots.
Devils 4, Ducks 1
Stefan Noesen scored a goal and Paul Cotter added the go-ahead score as New Jersey earned a victory against visiting Anaheim.
Cody Glass and Connor Brown also scored goals, Juho Lammikko and Ondrej Palat each had two assists, and Jake Allen made 30 stops for the Devils, who had lost six of seven.
Troy Terry scored for the Geese and Lukas Dostal made 18 saves after being unavailable the previous nine games due to an upper-body injury.
Savages 3, Senators 2
Joel Eriksson Ek scored with 24 seconds left to lift Minnesota over Ottawa in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Wild goalie Jesper Wallstedt stopped 34 of 36 shots to take the win. Eriksson Ek’s tight-angle shot from near the barriers gave Minnesota its third straight victory. Tyler Pitlick and Ryan Hartman also scored for the Wild.
Tim Stutzle and Dylan Cozens finished with a goal and an assist each for Ottawa. The Senators lost for the fourth time in their last five games.
Golden Knights 3, Blue Jackets 2
Brayden McNabb scored the go-ahead goal at 13:13 of the third period, and Carter Hart made 27 saves as visiting Vegas took sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division with a win over Columbus.
Pavel Dorofeyev and Ben Hutton also scored goals, and Mitch Marner had three assists, his second three-point game of the season, for Vegas, which extended its point streak to seven games (6-0-1), tying a season high.
Charlie Coyle and Yegor Chinakhov scored goals and Jet Greaves made 22 saves for Columbus, which lost its fifth straight game.
Rangers 5, Canadians 4 (overtime)
JT Miller scored a power-play goal in overtime as New York erased a three-goal deficit and earned victory over visiting Montreal.
After Jake Evans was ejected for cutting Artemi Panarin, the Rangers captain fired a shot past Canadiens rookie goalie Jacob Fowler to snap New York’s three-game losing streak and improve their home record to 4-8-3. Noah Laba and Panarin scored 11 seconds apart in the first period for the Rangers, and Will Cuylle and Miller scored 36 seconds apart in the second. New York goaltender Igor Shesterkin made 13 saves.
For Montreal, Zachary Bolduc and Arber Xhekaj scored 89 seconds apart in the first period before Evans completed the three-goal flurry. Josh Anderson scored the Canadiens’ fourth goal in the second. Fowler stopped 21 shots in his second NHL start as Montreal fell to 6-1-3 in its last 10 road games.
Islanders 3, Lightning 2 (SO)
Mathew Barzal and Emil Heineman scored in the shootout for New York, which completed a perfect three-game homestand by beating Tampa Bay in Elmont, New York.
Matthew Schaefer and Calum Ritchie scored in the first for the Islanders, who won despite being outshot 34-17. The shots were the fewest for New York in a win since taking 14 shots in a 2-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Feb. 4. Goaltender Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves as the Islanders won for the sixth time in seven games.
Darren Raddysh scored in the second and JJ Moser got the tying goal in the third for the Lightning, whose two-game winning streak was snapped. Goalie Jonas Johansson, starting with Andrei Vasilevskiy on injured reserve, made 15 saves.
Hurricanes 4, Flyers 3 (SO)
Jackson Blake scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lead Carolina to a road victory over Philadelphia.
Pyotr Kochetkov stopped all four of the Flyers’ attempts before Blake’s first goal in the shootout secured Carolina’s victory. Nikolaj Ehlers, Alexander Nikishin and Seth Jarvis scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who have won six of their last eight games overall.
Bobby Brink, Trevor Zegras and Carl Grundstrom scored in regulation for the Flyers, who will try to get revenge on Sunday when the teams meet in Raleigh, North Carolina. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves for Philadelphia, while Kochetkov finished with 15 saves for the visitors.
Llamas 2, Reyes 1 (AT)
Morgan Frost scored his first career goal in overtime to give visiting Calgary a victory over Los Angeles.
Blake Coleman also scored for the Flames, who won four of five games. Goalie Dustin Wolf stopped 20 shots.
Adrian Kempe answered for the Kings, who have lost two games in a row and have lost five of their last 11 in overtime (4-2-5). Goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper put in a brilliant performance with 36 saves, 13 of them in a perfect first half.
Jets 5, Capitals 1
Gabriel Vilardi scored two goals and the Jets beat Washington in Winnipeg.
Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves in his return from arthroscopic knee surgery. In his first game since Nov. 15, Hellebuyck held a shutout until the final minutes. Vilardi has three goals in his last two games. Morgan Barron and Alex Iafallo scored in their second straight game and Iafallo added an assist for the Jets, who had lost three straight and five of six. Adam Lowry, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Josh Morrissey each had two assists.
Jakob Chychrun scored for the Capitals, who saw their nine-point streak end (7-0-2). They are 1-1-2 in their last four. Logan Thompson made 30 saves.
Alas Rojas 4, Blackhawks 0
Alex DeBrincat scored twice and had an assist and Patrick Kane added a goal and an assist to back up a 26-save shutout by John Gibson and lead Detroit to a victory over host Chicago.
Skating against their old team, DeBrincat and Kane scored in the first 4:35 to give the Purple Wings an early lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Chicago outshot Detroit 26-24, but struggled to solve Gibson as it fell to 2-4-1 in its last seven games.
Blackhawks leading scorer Connor Bedard, whose 44 points ranked fourth in the league entering the night, did not play after suffering an upper-body injury in the final seconds of Friday’s 3-2 loss at St. Louis.
Oilers 6, Maple leaves 3
Connor McDavid continued his scoring streak with two goals and an assist as visiting Edmonton defeated Toronto.
McDavid has seven goals and eight assists in his last five games. Vasily Podkolzin also scored twice, while Darnell Nurse and Zach Hyman each scored one for the Oilers, who won two in a row. Tristan Jarry stopped 25 shots in his Oilers debut after being acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.
Easton Cowan, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Steven Lorentz scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost two straight.
Panthers 4, Stars 0
Brad Marchand scored twice and added an assist, leading Florida to a shutout victory over host Dallas.
Anton Lundell added a goal and an assist and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers, who improved to 5-5-1 in their last 11. Sam Reinhart added a pair of assists for his seventh multi-point game of the season. Sergei Bobrovsky made 15 saves for his third shutout of the season and 52nd of his career.
Jake Oettinger stopped 19 shots to fall to 1-7-1 in nine starts against the Panthers. The loss drops Dallas to 8-2-1 over its last 11 and 10-5-1 at home this season.
Avalanche 4, Predators 2
NHL scoring leader Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and an assist, Scott Wedgewood turned away 27 shots and the surging Colorado Avalanche topped visiting Nashville.
Valeri Nichushkin, Jack Drury and Victor Olofsson also scored and Samuel Girard had two assists for Colorado, which has won 11 in a row at home, where it remains undefeated in full time this season (13-0-2).
Tyson Jost and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Justus Annunen made 38 saves for Nashville, which had won four of its last five, including a shootout victory over Colorado on Tuesday night. That game was a rare loss for the Avalanche, who have earned at least one point in 23 of their last 24 games and have only two regulation losses this season.
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