NHL-Highlights of Thursday's NHL games

Feb 12 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Thursday's National Hockey League games: Flames 6, Sharks 5 (SO) Center Joe Colborne and left winger Jiri Hudler scored shootout goals to lift the Calgary Flames to victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday. The Flames led 4-1 after the first period but allowed two goals in the second and two in the third to fall behind 5-4. Calgary defenseman Kris Russell's power-play goal at 8:08 of the final period evened the score. Center Logan Couture was the lone San Jose player to convert in the shootout. In regulation, Couture had one goal and three assists. Oilers 5, Maple Leafs 2 The Toronto Maple Leafs could not find a way to stop the Edmonton Oilers' top line of Connor McDavid, Jordan Eberle and Benoit Pouliot. McDavid scored two goals and added three assists, Eberle had three goals and an assist and Pouliot chipped in four assists, spearheading the Oilers to victory over the Maple Leafs on Thursday at Rexall Place. It was the first five-point night of McDavid's career and first hat trick for Eberle. Josh Leivo and Jake Gardiner scored for the Maple Leafs. Islanders 5, Kings 2 The New York Islanders scored three goals in less than eight minutes in the first period and maintained their season-long mastery of Pacific Division foes at Barclays Center with a victory over Los Angeles. Casey Cizikas, Anders Lee, John Tavares, Travis Hamonic and Johnny Boychuk scored for the Islanders, while Thomas Greiss made 28 saves. Kyle Clifford and Milan Lucic scored for the Kings, while Jhonas Enroth, starting in place of the injured Jonathan Quick, recorded 25 saves. Flyers 5, Sabres 1 A four-goal, second-period eruption carried Philadelphia to a dominating win over Buffalo at Wells Fargo Center. R.J. Umberger, Brayden Schenn, Wayne Simmonds, Michael Raffl and Nick Cousins all scored for the Flyers while Shayne Gostisbehere tied the franchise rookie point-streak at 10 games, which also is the longest active streak in the NHL. The Sabres' goal was scored by Jamie McGinn. Blue Jackets 4, Ducks 3 (SO) Cam Atkinson and Alexander Wennberg scored shootout goals, and Columbus came back to beat Anaheim at Nationwide Arena. Joonas Korpisalo had 24 saves while Brandon Saad, Brandon Dubinsky and William Karlsson scored goals. David Perron, Mike Santorelli and Ryan Garbutt scored for the Ducks, while Ryan Getzlaf had two assists and Frederik Andersen finished with 31 saves. Avalanche 4, Senators 3 Colorado scored three power-play goals to snap a four-game losing streak, beating Ottawa at Canadian Tire Centre. Jerome Iginla paced the Avalanche with two goals, with Nathan MacKinnon and Blake Comeau adding the others. Mark Stone and Mike Hoffman each scored on the power play for the Senators, who also had a late goal from Chris Neil. Dion Phaneuf had two assists in his first game at Canadian Tire Centre as a Senator. Erik Karlsson also had two assists. Bruins 6, Jets 2 Patrice Bergeron scored a pair of goals and Brad Marchand added his team-leading 26th to spark Boston over Winnipeg. Loui Eriksson, David Pastrnak and Jimmy Hayesalso scored for the Bruins, while Tuukka Rask made 34 saves. Bryan Little and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for the Jets. Capitals 4, Wild 3 Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick to lead Washington over Minnesota. Braden Holtby had 33 saves and Jason Chimera scored an empty net goal in the final minute for the Capitals, who won their fifth consecutive game. The hard-luck Wild got goals from Charlie Coyle, Mikael Granlund and Ryan Suter, but could not find a way out of the slump that has plagued them for a month. Devan Dubnyk had 29 saves in the loss as the Wild fell to 23-12-10. Stars 4, Blackhawks 2 Patrick Eaves scored a hat trick in the first period, leading Dallas over Chicago. John Klingberg added a goal and an assist for the Stars. Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane each scored in third period for the Blackhawks, who lost back-to-back games at home for the first time this season.