MONTREAL (AP) — After a whirlwind couple of days, Ryan Greene made his NHL debut with the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night.
Greene skated for almost 13 minutes in a 4-3 shootout win at Montreal. Greene, who centred a line between captain Nick Foligno and rookie Oliver Moore, went 3-for-9 in the faceoff circle.
He also is expected to play when the Blackhawks (24-46-11) close out their schedule in Ottawa on Tuesday.
Greene had 13 goals and 25 assists in 40 games for Boston University this season. The Terriers lost to Western Michigan in the in St. Louis on Saturday night.
Frank Nazar scored in the shootout and the Blackhawks edged the Canadiens. Lukas Reichel, Tyler Bertuzzi and Nazar scored in regulation.
Ivan Demidov (Ee-VAHN Deh-MEE-duhf), making his N-H-L debut, had a goal and assist for the Canadiens. Alex Newhook and Juraj Slafkovsky also scored for Montreal, which could have clinched a playoff berth with a win.
Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday:
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RED WINGS 6 STARS 4
DETROIT (AP) — Moritz Seider had a tiebreaking, power-play goal early in the third, Lucas Raymond scored midway through the period and Vladimir Tarasenko added an empty-net goal to lift Detroit to a 6-4 win over Dallas.
Wyatt Johnston scored to pull the Stars within a goal with 7:04 left and shortly after they pulled goaltender Jake Oettinger to add an extra skater, Tarasenko scored to seal the win with 1:56 remaining.
Detroit’s Jonatan Berggren tied the game a few minutes before Seider’s go-ahead goal and Cam Talbot stopped 25 shots in the team’s final home game of the regular season.
Albert Johansson scored early in the game and Alex DeBrincat had a goal later in the first to put the Red Wings ahead.
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RANGERS 5 PANTHERS 3
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Vincent Trocheck scored a short-handed goal early in the third period against his former team, and New York beat Florida 5-3.
Trocheck, playing in his 800th game, got the go-ahead goal during a Rangers comeback like none other this season. The Rangers were 0-30-1 in games where they trailed by two or more goals, the NHL’s only winless team this season in such a scenario.
But they got goals from Juuso Parssinen and J.T. Miller 1:38 apart late in the second to tie the game, erasing a 3-1 deficit. Matt Rempe and Jonny Brodzinski also scored for the Rangers.
Sam Reinhart scored twice and Carter Verhaeghe also had a goal for Florida, which got two assists from Aleksander Barkov.
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UTAH HOCKEY CLUB 7 PREDATORS 3
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clayton Keller had two goals and two assists, and the Utah Hockey Club beat the Nashville Predators 7-3.
Logan Cooley had a goal and two assists, Michael Kesselring had a goal and an assist, and Nick Schmaltz, Nick Bjugstad and Kevin Stenlund also scored for Utah. Alexander Kerfoot had two assists and Matt Villalta finished with 27 saves to get his first career win in his second NHL start.
Ryan O’Reilly, Luke Evangelista and Michael Bunting scored for Nashville, and Juuse Saros had 29 saves.
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CANUCKS 2 SHARKS 1 (OT)
VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) — Jake DeBrusk scored in overtime and Vancouver defeated San Jose 2-1.
DeBrusk scored for the Canucks with 18 seconds left in overtime on a wrist shot. Brock Boeser and Quinn Hughes each had an assist on the goal.
Linus Karlsson also scored for the Canucks. Karlsson’s third-period backhand shot tied the game 10:57 into the third period.
Macklin Celebrini scored the only goal for the Sharks.
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KINGS 5 OILERS 0
EDMONTON, Alta. (AP) — Adrian Kempe had a goal and two assists and Warren Foegele and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist as Los Angeles beat the depleted Edmonton Oilers 5-0.
Quinton Byfield and Vladislav Gavrikov also scored for the Kings, who have won seven of their last eight and officially clinched home-ice against the Oilers in the first round of the playoffs.
Darcy Kuemper had 16 saves before being replaced by David Rittich before the midway mark of the third period, seemingly for precautionary reasons. Rittich finished with five saves.
