NHL-Highlights of Saturday's NHL games

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Highlights of Saturday's National Hockey League games: - - Canadiens 3, Maple Leafs 2 (shootout) Montreal's Lars Eller scored the decisive goal in the shootout as the Canadiens defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2. Eller was the fifth Montreal shooter after each team had scored a goal in the first four rounds. David Desharnais and Tomas Fleischmann scored for the Canadiens in regulation time. - - Penguins 5, Canucks 4 Evgeni Malkin scored his 10th career hat-trick as the Pittsburgh Penguins twice rallied from two-goal deficits to edge the Vancouver Canucks 5-4. The Penguins scored four consecutive goals in the third period to overcome Jannik Hansen's hat-trick for Vancouver. - - Sharks 4, Wild 3 Joe Pavelski scored the tiebreaking goal at 18:36 of the third period as the San Jose Sharks beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 at SAP Center. Pavelski's 23rd goal of the season, his NHL-leading eighth game-winner, came on a wrist shot from above the left circle after Joe Thornton won an offensive-zone draw. - - Devils 3, Jets 1 Former Winnipeg winger Lee Stempniak came back to haunt his former team by scoring a pair of goals in a 3-1 victory for the New Jersey Devils. Stempniak played a crucial role in the Jets' playoff drive last year, but was not offered a contract by the team in the off-season. - - Ducks 4, Red Wings 3 Corey Perry and Ryan Kelser each scored twice as the Anaheim Ducks held on for a 4-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. Rickard Rakell and Jakob Silfverberg each had two assists and goalie John Gibson made 24 saves for Anaheim. - - Panthers 5, Lightning 2 In a game between the top two teams in the Atlantic Division, Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist as the first-place Florida Panthers defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 at the BB&T Center. Florida (28-15-5) completed a thrilling weekend in which they went 2-0, outscoring the 2015 Stanley Cup finalists -- the Chicago Blackhawks and the Lightning -- by a combined 9-2. - - Bruins 3, Blue Jackets 2, (shootout) Boston blew a two-goal lead in the second period but managed to pull out a 3-2 shootout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Ryan Spooner and Torey Krug scored and goaltender Jonas Gustavsson stopped both shots in the shootout as the Bruins won for the fourth time in their last five. - - Avalanche 3, Stars 1 Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog scored the game-winning goal and goaltender Semyon Varlamov stopped 42 of 43 shots in a 3-1 win over the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center. Landeskog scored a shorthanded goal, Colorado's second of the game, with 9:48 remaining in the second period. Carl Soderberg had scored a shorthanded goal late in the first period for the Avalanche (26-21-3), who won their fourth straight game. - - Coyotes 3, Kings 2 Arizona winger Jordan Martinook scored 22 seconds into the third period and goalie Louis Domingue made 26 saves as the Coyotes defeated the Kings 3-2 at Gila River Arena. Arizona completed their seven-game homestand 3-3-1 while improving to 11-2-2 against the Pacific Division and 3-0-1 against the Kings. - - Predators 4, Oilers 1 The Nashville Predators are halfway to sweeping Western Canada after scoring a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers. - - (Editing by Peter Rutherford)