Buffalo center Dylan Cozens celebrates his goal during the the Sabres’ 7-4 win over the Capitals on Sunday in Buffalo, New York. Jeffrey T. Barnes/Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Dylan Cozens had the first three-goal game of his career and added an assist, and the Buffalo Sabres won their third straight in routing the Washington Capitals 7-4 on Sunday.

The Sabres enjoyed their second seven-goal outing in 11 days despite missing two of their leading scorers, forward Alexander Tuch and defenseman Rasmus Dahlin, who are sidelined by injuries.

Buffalo had 12 players register at least a point, including Tage Thompson, with his team-leading 40th goal. Jeff Skinner, Zemgus Girgensons and Vinnie Hinostroza also scored in a game the Sabres broke open by scoring four times in a seven-minute span in the second period. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 26 shots for Buffalo.

WILD 3, BLUE JACKETS 2: Kirill Kaprizov scored with 20 seconds left in overtime, completing a natural hat trick and lifting Minnesota past Columbus in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 22 of 24 shots for the Wild, who trailed 2-0 heading into the third period.

Mathieu Olivier and Liam Foudy scored for Columbus, while Elvis Merzlikins made 42 saves.

ISLANDERS 4, JETS 0: Semyon Varlamov picked up a shutout with a 23-save effort and New York handed Winnipeg its third straight loss, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Bo Horvat scored a short-handed goal, and Alexander Romanov, Brock Nelson and Adam Pelech scored for New York.

David Rittich stopped 20 shots for Winnipeg.

RANGERS 5, KINGS 2: Vincent Trocheck had two goals and an assist, Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves and New York ended a four-game losing streak with a win over visiting Los Angeles.

Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin each had a goal and an assist, Alexis Lafreniere also scored and Adam Fox had two assists for New York.

Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller was given a match penalty and ejected after spitting at Kings defenseman Drew Doughty late in the first period, leaving the Rangers with just five defensemen the remainder of the game.

PENGUINS 7, LIGHTNING 3: Sidney Crosby started a second-period surge and Pittsburgh won at home.

Crosby’s power-play goal with 4 1/2 minutes left in the period broke a 2-2 tie and started a sequence in which Pittsburgh scored five goals in 4:27, the second-fastest five goals scored in team history. Pittsburgh’s outburst highlighted a six-goal second period and helped the Penguins win their second straight following a four-game losing streak.

Crosby scored his 26th goal of the season and became the first active player – and 14th in NHL history – to record 13 or more 70-point seasons. Evgeni Malkin scored his 23rd goal and added an assist, while Drew O’Connor, Teddy Blueger, Jeff Carter, Jason Zucker and Brian Dumoulin also scored for Pittsburgh. Casey DeSmith stopped 26 shots.

PREDATORS 6, COYOTES 2: Roman Josi scored two goals night and Nashville won its third in a row, beating the Coyotes in Tempe, Arizona.

Josi scored on a wrist shot early in the second period, and the Predators captain made it 5-2 with a power-play goal six minutes into the third period after Nick Ritchie was penalized for holding. Josi, who also had an assist, has 17 goals this season.

Juuse Saros stopped 26 shots for the Predators, who are currently 10th in the Western Conference standings. Connor Ingram, who broke into the NHL with Nashville, had 28 saves for Arizona.

MAPLE LEAFS 5, KRAKEN 1: Auston Matthews had two goals and Mark Giordano scored in his first game back in Seattle since being traded to Toronto last season as the Maple Leafs beat the Kraken.

Timothy Liljegren had a goal and an assist for Toronto, and John Tavares also scored. Mitchel Marner haded three assists; William Nylander and Michael Bunting had two each. Ilya Samsonov made 26 saves.

Vince Dunn scored for Seattle. Phillip Grubauer started and gave up four goals on 21 shots before he was replaced early in the second period by Martin Jones, who had 11 saves.

NOTES

STARS: The Dallas Stars acquired Evgenii Dadonov from the Montreal Canadiens for Denis Gurianov in a swap of Russian forwards designed to give the Central Division leaders an offensive boost.

Montreal is retaining half of Dadonov’s $5 million salary cap hit for the rest of the season as part of the trade. That saves Dallas some money while it sheds Gurianov’s $2.9 million.
Dadonov, 33, has 18 points in 50 games this season for Montreal, which is in the middle of a rebuild. He does have a track record of producing offense in the NHL.

DEVILS The New Jersey Devils have acquired Timo Meier from the San Jose Sharks, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
It was not immediately clear what San Jose sent New Jersey in exchange for the rugged forward under team control for at least next year.

PREDATORS: Barry Trotz is rejoining the Nashville Predators in their front office, succeeding David Poile, the only general manager in the NHL franchise’s history.

The team announced the change Sunday, effective the end of June. Poile will retire from the role he has been in for more than 25 years and step into a position as an adviser to ownership, business and hockey operations.