ANAHEIM, Calif. -- — Andrei Kuzmenko scored three goals, Nazem Kadri had a goal and two assists, and the Calgary Flames withstood Anaheim's third-period rally for a 6-3 victory over the Ducks on Friday night.

Kuzmenko got his second career hat trick with two goals in the final 5:38 after Anaheim had trimmed Calgary's 4-0 lead to one goal. Andrew Mangiapane and Connor Zary also scored for the Flames, who won for only the third time in 12 games. Dustin Wolf made 19 saves.

“The first 40 minutes, we played a pretty exceptional game,” said Wolf, a California native who grew up partly in nearby Tustin. “Then they scored a couple of nice goals, and I was just battling. Made a couple of saves when I needed to.”

Sam Colangelo scored a goal in his NHL debut for the Ducks early in the third period, and Frank Vatrano and Olen Zellweger scored shortly afterward. But Kuzmenko deflected Jonathan Huberdeau's shot to keep the Flames ahead with 5:38 to play on a power play, and he added another less than three minutes later.

Kuzmenko acknowledged he wasn't sure whether he deserved the credit for his second goal, but he'll take it.

“A hat trick is a hat trick,” Kuzmenko said with a grin. “It's more important we win.”

The game was the last at Honda Center for longtime Ducks forward Jakob Silfverberg, who announced his impending retirement this week after a 12-year NHL career. Silfverberg said after the game that he will play “another couple of years” in his native Sweden.

John Gibson stopped 21 shots in the final home game of the sixth consecutive non-playoff season for the Ducks, who have lost 15 of 18. Anaheim finished with just 12 home victories this season, fewer than every team except NHL-worst San Jose with 11.

Mangiapane tapped in his 14th goal to cap an impressive sequence of short-handed forechecking by Calgary in the first period. Kadri doubled the lead six minutes later with his 27th goal, and Kuzmenko scored his 19th of the season from inside Gibson’s goal crease in the second period.

The Ducks trailed 4-0 before Colangelo easily tapped in his goal in the third period when a puck trickled underneath Wolf and sat in the crease. The Ducks drafted Colangelo in the second round in 2020, and the 22-year-old forward from Massachusetts turned pro this month after his senior season at Western Michigan.

“It felt incredible,” said Colangelo, who had his parents and two close friends in the stands. “I kind of blacked out for a second there. Just tried to get a little celly in and enjoy it with the teammates. They were great to me all day, the last couple of days. It was a great feeling.”

Vatrano scored on a spectacular no-look pass from Trevor Zegras behind the Flames' net, and Zellweger made it 4-3 just 48 seconds later with a shot through traffic for his second career goal.

The 33-year-old Silfverberg spent the last 11 seasons of his 12-year NHL career with the Ducks, playing a key supporting role as a two-way forward on a series of five consecutive Pacific Division champions from 2013-17. Anaheim made two Western Conference finals during that stretch with Silfverberg, who rebounded from a potentially serious blood clot in his leg two seasons ago to finish out his contract this year.

“It's been a different day with a lot of emotions,” Silfverberg said. “Unfortunately we couldn't make it all the way (back in the game), but I really appreciate what the team has done for me and my family today. It's been an awesome day that me and my kids and my wife will remember forever.”

Noah Hanifin and the Vegas Golden Knights have agreed to an eight-year contract extension worth $7.35 million annually, the team announced Thursday.

Re-signing Hanifin, who was set to become a pending unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, to a long-term deal comes a little more than a month after the defending Stanley Cup champion Golden Knights acquired the 27-year-old defenseman in a three-team trade with the Calgary Flames and the Philadelphia Flyers just days before the NHL trade deadline.

Getting a new deal done for Hanifin means the Golden Knights now have nine players on their roster who have more than two more years remaining on their current deals. It's a group that includes center Jack Eichel, captain and left winger Mark Stone and forward William Karlsson.

Hanifin's time with the Golden Knights has led to him scoring two goals and nine points in 16 games while averaging more than 23 minutes per contest.

What he's done with his new team has also added to a season that could be the strongest of his nine-year career. Hanifin has scored a career-high 13 goals while his 44 points are four shy of tying the personal best he set back in the 2021-22 campaign.

Attempting to become the fourth team since 1990 to repeat as Stanley Cup champions was part of the motivation for why the Golden Knights got Hanifin. It also came with the potential they could sign him to a long-term contract and take what would have been one of the most sought-after players in free agency off the market.

Hanifin's arrival was one of three significant trades the Golden Knights executed just days before the NHL trade deadline. It began by getting forward Anthony Mantha from the Washington Capitals and ended with them stunning the hockey landscape by pulling off a deal to get forward Tomas Hertl, who has six years left on his contract after this season, from the San Jose Sharks.

Mantha, a pending UFA, also has nine points in 16 games while Hertl, who was recovering from left knee surgery, has a point in two games having just made his debut with the Golden Knights on Monday.

Hanifin and Pietrangelo had logged nearly 77 minutes of 5-on-5 ice time while allowing five goals in seven games before Pietrangelo came down with an illness that has kept him out of the lineup since April 2.

Entering Thursday, the Golden Knights were in the final Western Conference wild-card spot. They held a three-point lead over the St. Louis Blues while having played one fewer game.

Boston College routs Michigan to reach Frozen Four championship game

LOS ANGELES -- — Viktor Arvidsson scored two goals and the Los Angeles Kings clinched a playoff berth with a 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.

Kevin Fiala and Akil Thomas also scored in a workmanlike win for the Kings, who will be in the postseason for the third consecutive spring. Los Angeles lost to Edmonton in the first round in both of the previous trips, and a third straight matchup is possible with the Kings currently sitting third in the Pacific Division behind the second-place Oilers.

“(Making the playoffs) was our goal starting training camp, so one step at a time, and I think we did a good job in the regular season to get to this point," Arvidsson said. "“I don’t think seeding matters in the playoffs, if I’m honest. I came in (with) Nashville.

We were the last team in, the last game of the season, and we went to the (Stanley Cup) finals. I don’t think it matters. It depends on the group and how you tackle the games moving forward.”

Cam Talbot made 23 saves and captain Anze Kopitar had two assists as the Kings opened a four-game homestand to end the regular season under interim coach Jim Hiller. Los Angeles missed the chance to clinch by losing at Anaheim on Tuesday, but quickly got back into form by beating Calgary for its fourth win in five games.

“I think everybody should be proud of that,” Hiller said about the Kings' playoff berth. "It’s a hard thing to do. And more importantly, it’s exciting because now you get to take the next step. You’ve earned the right to take the next step.”

Kopitar echoed Arvidsson's thoughts about playoff seeding, saying it's not as important as hitting the playoffs in a rhythm. In 2012, Kopitar and the Kings famously went 16-4 in the postseason and became the first No. 8 seed to win the Stanley Cup.

“Obviously it wasn’t an easy game (against Calgary), and with the game we showed in Anaheim, we weren’t very pleased,” Kopitar said. “So tonight was kind of a redemption. I thought for the most part, we did a pretty good job and essentially got the job done.”

Jonathan Huberdeau scored in the third period for the Flames, who have lost nine of 11 as they wrap up a non-playoff season.

Jacob Markstrom stopped 26 shots for the Flames, who beat Los Angeles in Calgary on March 30.

“I don’t think we were quite ready for them tonight,” defenseman Daniil Miromanov said. “They came out hard and they were on top of us, really. We weren’t efficient on our transition game and breakouts. They were on top of our sticks and bodies, and also I feel like we were turning over the puck in the gray zones a lot.”

After Miromanov committed an early penalty by moving the puck with his hand after losing his stick, the Kings scored 26 seconds into the ensuing power play when Fiala wired a wrist shot through traffic for his 28th goal. The Swiss forward's 11th power-play goal was also his 30th point on power plays this season, making him the first Los Angeles player to hit that mark since 2010.

Arvidsson doubled the lead early in the second period, snapping a sharp-angled shot past Markstrom for the third goal of his injury-shortened season. The veteran forward has played in only 15 games, sitting out until mid-February while recovering from back surgery and then missing another month with a lower-body injury.

Thomas scored seven minutes later, expertly batting down a slap shot from the point by Matt Roy and bouncing it past Markstrom for his third goal in the past four games and the first home goal of his career.

Thomas spent most of this season in the AHL, but the Kings' second-round pick from 2018 has made an immediate impact since his NHL debut 10 days ago, perhaps even playing his way into a postseason role. Thomas is the first Kings skater to score three goals within his first five NHL games since Brian Boyle did it in 2008.

Arvidsson added an empty-net goal with 3:14 to play, earning his first multi-goal game since March 26, 2023.

Hobey Baker Award finalist and University of North Dakota forward Jackson Blake signed his entry-level contract with the Carolina Hurricanes, the club announced Wednesday.

Blake's contract will start this season.

He'll make $775,000 at the NHL level this season and earn $832,500 at the NHL level in the 2024-25 and the 2025-26 seasons. He'll earn $80,000 at the AHL level for all three seasons, and his deal also includes a $277,500 signing bonus.

"Jackson is an explosive playmaker who has played a key role in North Dakota's success over the past two seasons," Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell said in a statement. "Hockey is in his blood, and we can't wait to see how his game continues to grow at the next level."

Jackson's dad, Jason Blake, played in 871 NHL games from 1998-99 through 2011-12, and also represented Team USA in the World Championships and Olympic Games in 2006.

Blake was a fourth-round pick by the Hurricanes in 2021 who used his two seasons at UND to emerge into one of the nation's premier collegiate players.

He scored 16 goals and led the Fighting Hawks with 42 points in 39 games as a freshman during the 2022-23 season, a campaign that saw UND miss out on the NCAA Division I men's tournament.

A year later, Blake was one of the major reasons why UND was among the nation's top 10 teams. His 22 goals and 38 assists for 60 points was not only the most on the UND roster, but he was only one of four players nationally to have 60 points at the time of his signing.

North Dakota finished the season winning the NCHC regular-season title before losing in the finals of the conference tournament. UND returned to the tournament where it lost to Michigan in the opening game of the Midwest Regional Semifinal in Maryland Heights, Mo.

Blake's performance also led to him being named a Hobey Baker Award finalist alongside Boston University star freshman center Macklin Celebrini and Boston College star sophomore winger Cutter Gauthier.

Celebrini is expected to be the No. 1 pick of this summer's NHL Draft while Gauthier was the fifth pick of the 2022 NHL Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers before he was traded to the Anaheim Ducks this season.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- — Andrei Kuzmenko scored a power-play goal 2:58 into overtime and the Calgary Flames came back to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Kuzmenko put in the puck off a scramble in front for the Flames, who had lost three straight and eight of nine. Rasmus Andersson and Nazem Kadri also scored for Calgary, which converted two of its three power-play opportunities.

“We’re scoring goals, and they’re crucial goals in these hockey games,” Kadri said. “As a group, I think we take pride in trying to give our group a boost of energy. When things aren’t going too well, we’re accountable with one another. I think that’s important. When you’re playing with confidence, obviously it’s a lot smoother.”

William Eklund and Jacob MacDonald had the goals for San Jose.

The last-place Sharks have dropped four of five. San Jose would clinch the worst record in the NHL and have a 25.5% chance of winning the top pick in the draft lottery if Chicago wins at St. Louis on Wednesday.

“We just cheated the game," Sharks coach David Quinn said. "I thought in the second and third, we were wanting it to be easy. We were hoping that things were going to happen instead of approaching the game the honest way and the right way. I thought we were fortunate to get into overtime.”

Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf, starting against his hometown team, made 20 saves. The 22-year-old Gilroy native had family in attendance, including his grandmother, who got to see him play in the NHL for the first time.

“Coming from a small town, and playing against your hometown team, is something you obviously dream of, and pretty cool,” Wolf said.

Calgary coach Ryan Huska said the Flames knew it was an important night for Wolf.

“I thought when he had to make some saves, he did a good job,” Huska said. “And he looked calm and composed.”

Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 38 shots for the Sharks.

Eklund scored on a backhand after a lead pass from Fabian Zetterlund to give the Sharks a 1-0 lead after one period. Eklund, who had a hat trick on Saturday, has points in 10 of his last 11 home games.

MacDonald scored early in the second to double the San Jose lead, but Calgary responded with goals by Andersson at even strength and Kadri on the power play to tie the game going into the third.

Kadri said the Flames had a “below-average first period.”

“For the next 40 (minutes), we dominated,” he said. “I think we deserved that one.”

Sharks forward Filip Zadina missed the game with a lower-body injury.

BOSTON -- — Andrei Svechnikov opened the scoring with a lacrosse-style goal and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 on Tuesday night.

Svechnikov, who also had an assist, surprised goalie Jeremy Swayman by cradling the puck with his stick blade and flicking it into the net about midway through the second period. It was his 19th goal of the season on a dazzling move that isn't new to his coach.

"He's kind of revolutionized it," Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “That one was impressive — how fast it was. And again, that's a big goal in the game.”

Teuvo Teravainen, Jake Guentzel and Seth Jarvis also scored as the Hurricanes pulled away for their third straight win and fifth in their last six. Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 22 shots.

The Hurricanes reached 50 wins and pulled within three points of the New York Rangers for the top spot in the Metropolitan Division and Eastern Conference.

“I've said this for years, what a great group it is,” Brind’Amour said, adding that they “just keep seeming to find new guys that” fit into the culture. “It's just special for me because I get to come to work with these guys every day. We're pushing through something special and we'll see where it goes.”

Charlie McAvoy scored the only goal for the Bruins, whose four-game winning streak came to an end. Boston still leads the Atlantic Division at 46-18-15 with three games to go. Swayman finished with 22 saves.

Guentzel's goal midway through the third put Carolina up 3-1, then Jarvis sealed it 13:22 into the final period with a short-handed goal.

“That probably put the game away there," Brind’Amour said. "It could go a different way if they got a power-play goal there."

After splitting the first two meetings of the season, the Hurricanes took the season series and dominated the Bruins on their home ice, outshooting Boston 15-6 in the second and controlling much of the third after McAvoy pulled the Bruins within 2-1 late in the second period.

Despite the loss, McAvoy said the Bruins got a stern reminder of what's ahead after three more regular-season games.

“If there's anything to learn from this or use sort of in context, it's that this is playoff hockey,” McAvoy said. “We're going to se these teams again and it's who's going to adapt and who's going to be able to elevate from the beginning of the series to the end.”

Carolina opened a four-game road trip that will wrap up the Hurricanes’ regular-season schedule.

BOSTON -- — Jesper Boqvist scored 2:05 into overtime, Linus Ullmark stopped 28 shots and the Boston Bruins beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Saturday in a matchup of the top two teams in the Atlantic Division.

First-place Boston moved five points ahead of second-place Florida. Both teams have four games left in the regular season — with the Panthers’ all at home.

“It's another big game, another playoff-type game against a team that's going to be there and those games aren't hard to get up for,” said Boston center Charlie Coyle, who had a power-play goal in the second period. “It makes you feel good. It gives you confidence to win those ones, first off, but just to do it and play the way we want to play and know how to play.”

Charlie McAvoy also scored for the Bruins, who improved to 5-1 since coach Jim Montgomery blasted the team during practice on March 25 for their lack of attention to details and not being prepared for the playoffs.

“I just think that was a wake-up call that our group needed that day,” Montgomery said. “I think why we're 5-1 is because our team is growing and maturing, and we have great leaders.”

Matthew Tkachuk and Aleksander Barkov scored for the Panthers, who lost for the fifth time in seven games. Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves.

The Bruins swept the four-game season series between the teams and moved a point behind the New York Rangers for the NHL’s best overall record.

The Panthers knocked out Boston in the opening-round of the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring after the Bruins set NHL records for wins (65) and points (135).

In the extra period, Boqvist skated down the left wing on a partial breakaway after taking a loose puck near center ice and fired a wrister inside the left post for the win.

With the Panthers trailing 2-1 and the teams skating 4-on-4 due to matching minor penalties, Barkov snapped a rebound past Ullmark 5:24 into the third period.

“I thought we got better in the third period,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “We had nothing in the tank to do it. They pushed through it. I was happy with the effort. I wasn’t happy with the result, but happy with the effort.”

With Tkachuk in the penalty box for interference, Brad Marchand sent a pass from the left wing to Coyle, who was hustling down the slot. He redirected it inside the left post for his 25th goal, making it 2-1 with 4:15 remaining in the second to end Boston’s 0-for-13 power-play drought.

Bobrovsky made a sprawling left-pad save on Marchand’s bid from in close with just under a minute left in regulation.

Florida outshot Boston 13-5 in the third period.

Ullmark made a glove stop on Evan Rodrigues at the end of a 2-on-1 break with just over six minutes left in the third.

“Linus was again really good,” Montgomery said. “He just continues a lot of impressive starts in a row here, making real desperation saves look easy.”

Tkachuk took advantage of a crazy bounce when Vladimir Tarasenko’s entry pass hit high off the back glass and directly to him in the slot, where he slipped a wrister past Ullmark to make it 1-0 just 37 seconds into the opening period.

The teams showed a bit more intensity than a normal regular-season game, with tussles and scrums after whistles numerous times.

“It's fun, it's emotional,” McAvoy said. “I thought both teams played hard today and it was a really good hockey game.”

RALEIGH, N.C. -- — David Pastrnak and Danton Heinen each had a goal and an assist in the first period and the Boston Bruins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on Thursday night.

Brad Marchand had the game’s first goal for the 400th of his career, Hampus Lindholm added an empty-netter and Jeremy Swayman made 27 saves for Boston.

The Bruins won their third game in a row and moved four points in front of the Hurricanes, who have a game in hand, in a matchup of Eastern Conference playoff-bound teams. Boston finished a six-game road stretch at 4-2-0.

“You have to be able to win on the road,” Marchand said. “It’s the way you want to play. You want to play these tough games coming down the stretch.”

It was the first loss in more than five months for Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen, who had gone 7-0-0 since returning to action following a health issue that kept him off the ice since early November. He made 24 saves.

Andersen, in his 100th game as a Hurricane, fell to 11-2-0 this season.

Carolina’s Jake Guentzel scored on a 5-on-3 power play in the second period, but the Hurricanes were left without a point for just the second time in their last 11 games.

“We let their best players kind of get behind us and give them all that open ice,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “They’re not going to give us too much after that.”

Marchand, in his 1,024th game took Morgan Geekie’s pass to go in on Andersen, who initially blocked the shot, but the puck got under his pads and into the net just 2:12 into the game. He had gone 10 games without a goal.

“Kind of the elephant in the room,” Marchand said about reaching a milestone. “Nice to get it and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.”

It was Marchand’s 19th goal this season. Geekie, a former Hurricane, increased his career-high assists total to 20.

Pastrnak skated in patiently from the left side and wasn’t challenged before popping the puck over Andersen from close range for his team-leading 47th goal of the season.

Heinen one-timed a pass from Pastrnak for his 16th goal, giving the Bruins a 3-0 edge less than 11 minutes into the game.

“In the first period, we executed really well,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “Caught them on some odd-man rushes, made some high-end plays.”

Swayman stopped all nine shots he faced in the third.

“It is important to us when we do get leads that we maintain them,” Swayman said.

The Bruins played without winger Justin Brazeau, who was injured Tuesday night in Nashville and returned to Boston for evaluation. He hadn’t missed a game in more than a month.

Hurricanes forward Jesper Fast was back on the ice after missing six games with an injury.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- — Linus Ullmark made 32 saves and had an assist on Charlie Coyle’s short-handed goal in the third period that led the Boston Bruins to a 3-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.

David Pastrnak and Pavel Zacha each recorded a goal and an assist in the big final period as the Bruins won for the third time in four games and extended their lead in the Atlantic Division to four points over Florida, which lost at Montreal.

“You’ve got to look at the team game we had in front of me,” Ullmark said. “We played a full 60 minutes, showed we don’t get frustrated easily.”

Juuse Saros made 30 saves for Nashville, which has lost three straight. The skid follows a franchise-record 18-game point streak (16-0-2).

“I actually thought we got better as the game went on,” Predators coach Andrew Brunette said. “I really liked our second and third period where I thought we were taking over the game. We put ourselves in a great position for somebody to make a play. Unfortunately we made a play going the wrong way.”

The shutout was the second of the season and eighth of Ullmark’s career.

Coyle broke the tie with 6:42 remaining. Ullmark stopped a Nashville dump-in behind the net and rimmed a pass up ice to Brad Marchand, who was just inside the Nashville blue line. From the left boards, he found Coyle skating through the slot and he beat Saros high to the glove side.

“Playing that puck on the PK and getting it up there around their guy to spring us, that’s huge,” Coyle said. “You don’t really expect those plays from your goalie to make those big-time plays and assist one like that, but it sure helped. He played a heck of a game even besides that.”

Boston’s tenacious penalty kill denied Nashville on all four of their power plays, limiting the Predators to three shots on goal with the man advantage.

“I thought we won a decent amount of faceoffs, and I thought our forecheck up ice, I don’t think we gave them easy entries,” Boston coach Jim Montgomery said.

Zacha doubled the Boston lead with 2:42 remaining and Pastrnak closed out the scoring with his 46th of the season.

The Predators maintain the top spot in the battle for the Western Conference’s two wild-card berths, leading the second-place Los Angeles Kings by three points and the third-place St. Louis Blues by six.

“I thought it was a good game,” Josi said. “It was fast. It felt intense, kind of like a playoff game. I felt like we went toe-to-toe. Obviously that short-handed goal was costly for us. Just looking back, our power play has got to be a lot better.”