NHL capsules: Vegas continues best start by expansion team

Oscar Dansk got his third win in his third career game, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-0 Friday night in Las Vegas to extend the best start by an NHL expansion team.

The Golden Knights improved to 8-1-0. They’ve won five straight, matching the longest winning streak ever by a team in its inaugural season, joining the New York Rangers (1926-27) and Edmonton Oilers (1979-80), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Dansk stopped 32 shots in his second career start. The 23-year-old has been thrust into action after injuries to starter Marc-Andre Fleury and backup Malcolm Subban and has allowed three goals on 74 shots – a .960 save percentage.

James Neal got his seventh goal, and David Perron, Oscar Lindberg, Cody Eakin, Jonathan Marchessault, Erik Haula and William carrier also scored. Nate Schmidt had two assists.

Semyon Varlamov allowed all seven goals on 21 shots.

Blue Jackets 2, Jets 1: In Columbus, Ohio, Josh Anderson scored 2:38 into overtime and Columbus rallied to beat Winnipeg.

Anderson beat backup goalie Steve Mason with a snap shot from the slot to get his third goal of the season and cap the comeback victory. Cam Atkinson scored for Columbus midway through the third period to tie it.

The winner by Anderson came shortly after Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky blocked and fell on a point-blank shot from Blake Wheeler. Bobrovsky made 29 saves.

Devils 5, Senators 4 (SO): In Newark, New Jersey, Jesper Bratt and Drew Stafford scored in the shootout, and New Jersey beat Ottawa after blowing a two-goal lead in the final 1:15 of regulation.

Stafford kept the Devils in it by netting a backhand on their third shootout chance and then Bratt totally faked out Mike Condon on the fourth attempt for the game-winner. Tom Pyatt had scored for Ottawa on its second attempt.

Keith Kinkaid stopped Mike Hoffman on the Senators’ last try to give the Devils their seventh win in nine games.

Jimmy Hayes, Adam Henrique, Brian Gibbons and Damon Severson scored for New Jersey, which rallied from a 2-0 deficit with four straight goals.

Blues 2, Hurricanes 1: In Raleigh, North Carolina, Dmitri Jaskin scored his first goal of the season and Brayden Schenn added the game-winner, giving St. Louis a victory over Carolina.

It was the second straight win for the Blues, who are 3-0 at home and return there Saturday against Columbus.

Jeff Skinner had the Carolina goal.

St. Louis goalie Carter Hutton (3-0) stopped 25 shots.

Predators 2, Blackhawks 1: In Chicago, Pekka Rinne made 43 saves and Nashville killed off six power plays, helping the Predators edge Chicago.

Calle Jarnkrok and Craig Smith scored in the second period for the Predators, who were coming off consecutive losses to Calgary and the New York Rangers. Nashville also lost 2-1 to Chicago in overtime in their first meeting of the season on Oct. 14.

Corey Crawford had 28 stops for Chicago, but the Blackhawks lost for the fourth time in five games. Coach Joel Quenneville tweaked his lines in search of more offense and Chicago generated plenty of opportunities, but couldn’t finish with Rinne on top of his game in net.

Stars 2, Flames 1: In Calgary, Alberta, Alexander Radulov scored a power-play goal in the third period to lead Dallas over Calgary.

Defenseman Esa Lindell also scored for the Stars (6-5-0), who had lost two straight games including a 5-4 decision to the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday. It was Lindell’s second goal in as many games and third of the season.

Making just his second start in goal for the Stars, Kari Lehtonen made 29 saves to improve his record to 1-4. He lost his only other start of the season and was also tagged with two other losses in relief appearances of Ben Bishop.

Johnny Gaudreau scored for Calgary (5-6-0), while Mike Smith finished with 22 saves.