Phoenix: Columbus pummelled Mike Smith with a franchise-record 60 shots, Alexander Wennberg scored with 2:16 left in the third period and the Blue Jackets beat the Arizona Coyotes 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday night.
Smith set a franchise record with 58 saves, but the Coyotes still lost their third straight.
Columbus is the first NHL team with 60 shots in a game since Toronto against the New York Islanders on Nov. 23, 2009, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Jackets’ previous high was 54 shots on April 3, 2012 — a 2-0 loss to Smith and the Coyotes.
Cam Atkinson and Sam Gagner scored on Smith in the shootout while Curtis McElhinney stopped both Arizona shooters. Boone Jenner also scored for Columbus, which has won three straight.
Shane Doan got his 399th career goal and Radim Vrbata also scored for Arizona, which was playing its eighth overtime game in 23 contests.
In Nashville, Tennessee, Michael Cammalleri’s second goal of the game with 18 seconds remaining in overtime capped New Jersey’s comeback from three goals down in the third period and gave the Devils a 5-4 win over the Nashville Predators.
Taylor Hall took a pass from Cammalleri and brought the puck up the right side into the offensive zone on a 2-on-1 break, passed it back to Cammalleri cutting up the middle and he fired it past Predators goalie Pekka Rinne.
Leon Draisaitl scored 3:16 into overtime and Edmonton came away with a 3-2 victory over Anaheim. Drake Caggiula and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers, who have won two in a row. Jordan Eberle assisted on all three goals.
Ryan Kesler and Rickard Rakell scored for the Ducks, who had a three-game winning streak come to an end. Anaheim’s John Gibson turned away 29 shots, and Cam Talbot stopped 31 for the Oilers.
