Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 25 shots for his first shutout of the season and Ross Colton scored a goal in his NHL debut to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-0 victory over the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday afternoon.
It was the 22nd career shutout for Vasilevskiy, who improved to 11-3-1 for the season, tied for first in the NHL for wins along with Toronto’s Frederik Andersen. 
Blake Coleman and Barclay Goodrow also scored goals for the Lightning, who won for the 10th time in their past 11 home games against the Hurricanes.
Tampa Bay also improved to 7-1 at Amalie Arena this season and moved into a tie for second place in the Central Division with Carolina. 
Alex Nedeljkovic, who registered his first career shutout on Saturday in a 4-0 win over the Lightning, finished with 25 saves.
Colton, a fourth-round pick out of the University of Vermont in 2016, needed just two shifts to become the ninth player in Lightning history to score a goal in his debut. 
Victor Hedman circled behind the net on a rush and found the 24-year-old center, who was called up from Syracuse of the AHL, alone in front of the net. 
Colton then fired a wrist shot under Nedeljkovic to give Tampa Bay a quick lead. Coleman made it 2-0 late in the first period with a power-play goal.
 The score was set up by Yanni Gourde, who sped down the right wing and found Coleman alone in the slot with a pass that Coleman redirected past Nedeljkovic’s blocker side for his fourth goal of the season.
The Lightning, who held Carolina without a shot on goal for nine minutes in the second period and just 16 total over the first two periods, missed two chances to blow the game open in the middle period when Gourde’s breakaway try was turned away by Nedeljkovic and Hedman missed the net on a 2-on-1 rush with Gourde.
Carolina pulled Nedeljkovic for an extra attacker with 3:07 remaining and Goodrow sealed the win with an empty-net goal with 35 seconds to go.
Again down 3-0 to Ducks, 
Coyotes again rally for win
The Arizona Coyotes rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 in a shootout on Wednesday night in Glendale, Ariz. Conor Garland and Christian Dvorak scored in the shootout for the Coyotes, who also came back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Ducks 4-3 in regulation on Monday.
Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist, and Tyler Pitlick and Jakob Chychrun also scored for Arizona. Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland notched two assists apiece.
Darcy Kuemper made 18 saves for the Coyotes before leaving early in the third period with an apparent injury. He was replaced by Adin Hill, who stopped all 14 shots he faced in regulation and overtime after entering the game with the Coyotes trailing 3-0.
Max Comtois had a goal and an assist, Josh Mahura and Max Jones also scored and Ryan Miller made 25 saves to lead the Ducks, who are winless in their past five games (0-4-1). Trevor Zegras was the only Anaheim player to score in the shootout. Kessel tied it at 3-3 with 3:21 remaining in the third period off a feed from Garland.
Miller was on track for his first shutout in just over two years, but Arizona scored twice in just under two minutes midway through the third period to make it a one-goal game. Pitlick bounced in a deflection at 10:05, and Chychrun’s shot went off two Anaheim players and into the net to cut it to 3-2 at 11:49. The Ducks took a 1-0 lead with 12 seconds left in the first period on the team-leading eighth goal of the season by Comtois, twice as many as the next closest Anaheim player. Comtois was hit in the midsection with a point shot as he tried to screen Kuemper. The puck fell at Comtois’ skates, and he quickly backhanded it through his legs and past Kuemper. Mahura, playing his third straight game in place of one of Anaheim’s top defenseman, Hampus Lindholm (lower-body injury), made it 2-0 at 7:58 of the second. 
Jones scored a power-play goal on a loose puck in close for the second straight game to extend the lead to 3-0 at 15:46 of the second period.