Hurricanes leave Finland with sweep of Kraken

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Hurricanes leave Finland with sweep of Kraken

2026-11-15 16:49 Last Updated At：16:50

HELSINKI (AP) — Jordan Staal returned from injury, Andrei Svechnikov and Mark Jankowski each scored twice and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Seattle Kraken 5-1 on Saturday to sweep the NHL’s Global Series in Finland’s capital.

The Hurricanes (16-3-2) followed on their dominant 4-1 victory on Thursday and extended their winning streak to four.

Carolina became the first NHL franchise to win each of its first four regular-season games played outside North America following a sweep of a 2010 series against the Minnesota Wild, also in Helsinki.

Jackson Blake also scored for the Hurricanes, Nikolaj Ehlers had three assists and Shayne Gostisbehere had two assists and Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 12 shots for his 12th win in 13 games.

Svechnikov scored on power plays with two identical goals from the right circle in the middle period, one-timing a precise snap shot to make it 3-0 and another for a 4-1 advantage. He has five goals in his four-game point streak and has 11 goals on the season.

His second goal with 9:55 left in the second period prompted the Kraken to pull Joey Daccord after he allowed four goals on 14 shots. Philipp Grubauer made 22 saves in relief.

JETS 5, BLACKHAWKS 4 (SO)

CHICAGO (AP) — Mark Scheifele had a goal and three assists, Kyle Connor scored a goal in regulation and had the deciding shootout goal, and Winnipeg rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat Chicago.

The Jets’ sixth straight win was their second comeback from four goals down this season. They scored four times in 2:07 to beat Montreal 5-4 in overtime on Nov. 3.

Gabriel Vilardi’s shot from the right slot tied the game 4-all with 1:13 left in regulation and goalie Nico Daws pulled for an extra attacker.

Scheifele also scored in the shootout. Daws stopped Roman Kantserov to lock up the victory.

WILD 6, BRUINS 2

BOSTON (AP) — Ryan Hartman and Danila Yurov scored two goals each, Jesper Wallstedt stopped 30 shots, and Minnesota beat Boston to extend their road winning streak to eight games.

Kirill Kaprizov extended his point streak to 11 games (six goals, 14 assists) with two assists for the West-leading Wild, who have earned at least a point in 11 straight games (9-0-2).

Quinn Hughes and Blake Coleman scored 67 seconds apart in the opening two minutes of the second period for Minnesota, which cruised to its NHL-best 10th road victory. Yurov scored both of his in the third period, the second an empty-netter.

David Pastrnak and Fraser Minten scored for Boston, which lost its second straight home game after winning seven in a row at TD Garden. Both losses came wearing their new mostly brown “varsity jerseys” with bright yellow numbers, trim and helmets that they debuted Thursday.

OILERS 1, MAPLE LEAFS 0

TORONTO (AP) — Connor McDavid extended his season-opening points streak to 21 games with an assist, Devon Levi made 19 saves for his first NHL shutout and Edmonton beat Toronto to hand the Maple Leafs their sixth straight home loss.

Defenseman Evan Bouchard scored his 12th goal of the season for Edmonton (15-3-3). The Oilers are 7-1-1 in their last nine games.

McDavid picked up an assist to give him 50 points (11 goals, 39 assists) and add to his NHL lead.

Oilers coach Mike Babcock faced his former team in Toronto for the first time since being fired in November 2019.

Anthony Stolarz stopped 22 shots for Toronto (8-12-2), which suffered its sixth consecutive regulation loss to complete a disastrous six-game stretch at Scotiabank Arena.

AVALANCHE 4, CANADIENS 1

MONTREAL (AP) — Artturi Lehkonen had a goal and an assist and short-handed Colorado beat Montreal without injured stars Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar.

MacKinnon and Makar both sustained lower-body injuries Thursday night in a 4-3 overtime loss in Ottawa. Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said MacKinnon will be out at least a month, while Makar is expected to miss two weeks.

Fedor Svechkov, Brock Nelson and Nicolas Roy also scored for Colorado (12-6-3). Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 25 shots.

Nick Suzuki replied with a highlight-reel goal for Montreal (12-4-4), which had gone 12 consecutive games without losing in regulation (9-0-3).

Jakub Dobes made 22 saves in his first start in nine days.

RED WINGS 2, LIGHTNING 0

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Daniil Tarasov stopped 31 shots for his second shutout of the season, Lucas Raymond had a goal and two points and Detroit beat Tampa Bay.

Michael Brandsegg-Nygard also scored to help the Red Wings snap a five-game losing streak.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 20 shots for Tampa Bay, which was shut out for the first time since December 8, 2025 at Toronto.

The Lightning lost for the first time at home this season, ending a franchise record eight-game home winning streak to start the season.

SENATORS 4, PENGUINS 1

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Claude Giroux scored a goal and Ottawa beat Pittsburgh.

Giroux, the longtime Philadelphia Flyer, has 79 points in 74 career games against Pittsburgh. He’s two points away from tying Sergei Fedorov (1,179) for 58th-place in NHL history.

Tim Stutzle scored his 11th goal of the season, and Michael Amadio and Thomas Chabot also had goals for the Senators, who have won five of their last seven games.

Linus Ullmark made 16 saves for his 200th NHL win.

Ullmark joined Martin Gerber as the only goalies in franchise history to start a season with nine wins in their first 10 appearances. Ullmark, who is 9-0-1 in 10 career games vs. Pittsburgh, has allowed two goals or fewer in 12 of his last 13 regular season starts.

Tommy Novak scored the lone goal for the Penguins, who have lost six of their last eight games.

DEVILS 7, CAPITALS 4

WASHINGTON (AP) — Connor Hellebuyck recovered from a shaky start to make 43 saves, remaining unbeaten in net with New Jersey as the surging Devils defeated Washington.

Evan Rodrigues scored twice for the Devils, who earned their second win against Washington in three days. Jesper Boqvist, Connor Brown and Lenni Hameenaho each had a goal and two assists, and defenseman Luke Hughes added three assists.

Nico Hischier and Timo Meier also scored to help New Jersey improve to 11-2 since Oct. 20 with its seventh victory in eight games. Meier’s power-play goal late in the second period gave the Devils their first lead, 4-3, and Hischier’s short-handed goal made it 5-3 early in the third.

Rodrigues scored at 3:18 to make it 6-4 and added an empty-netter with 3:15 left.

FLYERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 3

COLUBUS, Ohio (AP) — Denver Barkey scored twice and Philadelphia rallied to beat Columbus, sending the Blue Jackets to their fourth consecutive loss and third straight at home.

Trevor Zegras and Matvei Michkov also scored, and Joseph Woll stopped 28 shots for Philadelphia, which won for the second time in its last six games and finished its five-game trip with points in four straight.

Dmitri Voronkov, Matthew Knies and Adam Fantilli scored for Columbus. Jet Greaves stopped 17 shots in his sixth straight loss.

Voronkov scored his first of the season at 3:19 of the first and Knies added a goal a minute later to give Columbus a 2-0 lead. Luca Del Bel Belluz, who replaced the injured Sean Monahan, notched his first assist of the season.

PANTHERS 4, BLUES 1

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brady and Matthew Tkachuk participated in a pregame ceremony to honor their father, then led Florida to a win over St. Louis.

Brady Tkachuk scored the opening goal, and each brother had an assist in a dominant homecoming. Dmitry Kulikov, Anton Lundell and Sam Reinhart also scored, and Jacob Markstrom stopped 23 shots for Florida.

Dylan Holloway scored a power-play goal with 2:06 remaining as the Blues avoided being shut out in regulation for the second straight game. They defeated Utah 1-0 in a shootout Thursday night.

Brady Tkachuk scored 5:12 into the first period, beating goalie Joel Hofer on the glove side during an extended shift on the power play. His brother, Matthew, had the secondary assist after also drawing the high stick that gave Florida a 5-on-3 advantage following an early too-many-men penalty on St. Louis.

Keith Tkachuk, who concluded his 18-year career with the Blues, was honored in a pregame ceremony recognizing his induction last weekend into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His two sons, playing together in their hometown for the first time in the NHL, used two of Keith’s old sticks during a ceremonial puck drop before the game. Then they showed why they’re All-Stars in their own right.

STARS 2, BUFFALO 0

DALLAS (AP) — Jake Oettinger made 22 saves to lead Dallas to a win over Buffalo, just two days after being pulled after allowing a season-high six goals.

It’s Oettinger’s fourth shutout this season and first since Oct. 17. Oettinger posted shutouts in three of Dallas’ first six games — including a 4-0 win against Buffalo on Oct. 8 — but had allowed 14 goals in his past three starts, including six in an 8-3 loss to Winnipeg on Thursday.

Stars captain Jamie Benn snapped a scoreless game late in the second period with a goal for the 1,000th point of his 18-year career to give Dallas a 1-0 lead.

Wyatt Johnston took an assist from Mikko Rantanen and Roope Hintz and scored on a power play with 40 seconds remaining for the final score.

SHARKS 6, MAMMOTH 5 (SO)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mason Marchment flicked in a wrist shot in the fifth round of a shootout to lift San Jose to a win over Utah.

Tyler Toffoli, Adam Gaudette, Zack Ostapchuk, Eric Pohlkamp, and Dmitry Orlov all scored goals for San Jose in regulation. Yaroslav Askarov made 27 stops for the Sharks.

Zac Jones scored a pair of goals to lead Utah and Kailer Yamamoto had three assists. Mikhail Sergachev, Jack McBain, and Barrett Hayton also scored for the Mammoth. Karel Vejmelka tallied 16 saves.

ISLANDERS 6, DUCKS 2

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Simon Holmstrom had his first career hat trick, Matthew Schaefer added three assists and New York rolled to a victory over Anaheim.

Ben Hutton scored in the opening two minutes while Bo Horvat and Mitchell Chaffee also scored as the Islanders won for the second time in three days in the Los Angeles area after a 5-2 victory over the Kings on Thursday night.

Mathew Barzal had an assist in his season debut for New York and Semyon Varlamov made 25 saves.

Cutter Gauthier scored for the Ducks to extend his goals streak to eight games. Nikita Nesterenko also had a goal for Anaheim and Lukas Dostal made 19 saves.

FLAMES 3, KINGS 2

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matvei Gridin scored the go-ahead goal with 8:39 remaining and Calgary held off Los Angeles.

Yegor Sharangovich had an empty-net goal and an assist, and Morgan Frost also scored for Calgary. Dustin Wolf made 29 saves, helping the Flames improve to 2-0-1 in their last three road games after winning just one of their first six away from the Saddledome.

Sharangovich’s empty-netter with 1:14 left gave Calgary a 3-1 lead. Mats Zuccarello scored his first goal for Los Angeles just 18 seconds later as the Kings skated with a 6-on-5 advantage.

Wolf, a Northern California native who moved to suburban Los Angeles and then Orange County to participate in the Kings’ youth hockey program during his formative years, has won five of six games against them in his NHL career.

Joel Armia also scored and Anton Forsberg stopped 21 shots for the Kings, who lost five of seven games on their homestand. It concluded with four straight defeats in which they totaled six goals.

Israel kills a top Hamas commander as Jordan sentences 3 in church attack, and other Mideast news

Israeli forces killed a top commander of the militant Hamas group in an overnight airstrike on southern Gaza, Israel said Sunday.

Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain. The U.S. military command did not immediately comment on the claim.

Jordan sentenced three men to death for a deadly shooting at a Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Karak last month, state-run Al Mamlaka TV said. And in Yemen, health authorities with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said an airstrike on Sanaa wounded two women and two children, and blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack, without offering evidence.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Sunday. Read our full coverage here.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed early on Sunday that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

The U.S. military’s Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, did not immediately comment. The development comes after CENTCOM said on Friday that it intercepted two Iranian drones headed toward Bahrain and denied Iran’s claim at the time that it had struck a U.S. early-warning radar system there.

Bahrain's military said Sunday that its air defense systems had intercepted a number of Iranian projectiles before they reached their targets.

Earlier Sunday, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry issued two nationwide alerts warning of a threat, the first such alerts since September. It did not specify the nature of the threat or say whether anything had been hit.

“Iran continues its systematic hostile approach through its sinful attacks targeting the Kingdom of Bahrain,” the statement added.

Israel said it killed a top Hamas commander in an airstrike on southern Gaza. A Hamas statement confirmed the killing of Samir Mahmoud Hassan Abu Younis, commander of the group's Rafah Brigade, and said a funeral would be held for him later in the day.

The Israeli military said Abu Younis was killed in a strike just after midnight Saturday. It said he had been working to build up Hamas and directing plans “to advance and carry out terror attacks.” Two months earlier, his predecessor was also killed in an Israeli strike.

The military said it targeted other Hamas militants in Sunday’s strike but provided no additional details.

Jordan’s State Security Court on Sunday sentenced three men to death for a deadly shooting at a Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Karak last month, state-run Al Mamlaka TV said. The men were charged with “carrying out terrorist acts.” The Oct. 23 attack was one of the deadliest on Jordan’s Christian minority in decades, with nine people killed and dozens more wounded. The attackers targeted mourners attending a funeral at St. George’s Church in Karak, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of the capital, Amman. The three defendants, identified by authorities as two brothers and their brother-in-law, were arrested three days after the attack following a shootout with security forces in Karak. All three were wounded.

Jordanian authorities described the men as followers of an extremist ideology but said they were not affiliated with an organized group. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Days later, Jordan launched airstrikes in southern Syria, saying they targeted militant groups linked to the attack. Syrian authorities disputed Jordan’s account and reported civilian deaths.

Houthi health officials say an airstrike on Sanaa, Yemen's capital, wounded two women and two children.

The strike hit a residential neighborhood in northeastern Sanaa early Sunday, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, without providing further details or saying what was hit in the strike. It said the wounded were taken to the Muayyad Hospital for treatment.

Ministry spokesman Anees al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for the strike. There was no immediate comment from the kingdom.

A Saudi military spokesman, meanwhile, said air defense systems intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis early on Sunday toward Riyadh, the Saudi capital.

Two drones were also shot down over the Saudi oil-rich Eastern Region, said the spokesman, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki.

The airstrike in Sanaa and the missile and drone attacks in Saudi Arabia were the latest in a monthslong escalation between the Houthis and the kingdom that has seen a return of fighting in Yemen’s civil war after more than four years of ceasefire.

This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.