PHILADELPHIA — Auston Matthews scored his NHL-leading 51st goal, Morgan Rielly had a goal and two assists, and the Toronto Maple Leafs won their fourth straight with a 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.

John Tavares, Wayne Simmonds, Timothy Liljegren and Pierre Engvall also scored for the Maple Leafs, who have netted 24 goals during their streak.

Ivan Provorov had two goals and an assist and Kevin Hayes also scored for the Flyers, who have lost five of six. Philadelphia entered tied for last with New Jersey in the Metropolitan Division.

The Flyers scratched defenseman Keith Yandle, ending his NHL record for consecutive games at 989.

Matthews put Toronto ahead 3-2 with 12:19 remaining to pull within four goals of passing Rick Vaive for the club’s single-season goals record. Vaive netted 54 in the 1981-82 season.

Mitchell Marner got Flyers goalie Carter Hart to commit to playing the shot, and then quickly skated around the net and passed in front to Matthews, who fired into the vacated net. He has a two-goal league lead over Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl.

Matthews’ tally began a frenetic stretch of five goals in the span of about eight minutes. Engvall’s short-handed goal gave the Leafs a two-goal lead with 8:17 remaining before Provorov’s second of the night on a long slap shot pulled the Flyers within 4-3 with 7:37 left. Rielly all but iced the game with a goal from a sharp angle with 6:13 to play.

The Maple Leafs opened a four-game trip by improving to 19-12-3 away from Toronto.

Yandle, 35, started his streak on March 26, 2009, with Phoenix. He passed retired center Doug Jarvis for the mark of 965 games on Jan. 25 against the Islanders. Yandle was a healthy scratch.

“We’re at the point in the season where as an organization it’s important we get some young players in,” interim coach Mike Yeo said before the game. “We have to have an eye on the future and what’s coming down the road. We have to give some new guys an opportunity.”

Rookie defenseman Ronnie Attard made his NHL debut for Philadelphia.

Yandle has only one goal and 15 assists in 67 games.

“It’s kind of been one of those things toward the end of the year when you’re signing young guys and getting free agents out of college, they’re going to give them a chance to play,” Yandle said before the game. “It’s tough to have a bad day in the NHL. But getting the news you’re not playing is not what you want to hear.”

Arizona Coyotes forward Phil Kessel now has the longest active streak at 968 consecutive games.

CANADIENS 5, LIGHTNING 4: Nick Suzuki scored in the shootout, and Montreal won at Tampa Bay.

Suzuki beat Brian Elliott on a nifty backhander in the third round as Montreal won for just the fourth time in 13 games (4-5-4).

Cole Caufield, Corey Schueneman, Josh Anderson and Jesse Ylonen scored in regulation for Montreal, and Jake Allen stopped 37 shots.

Nikita Kucherov had a goal and two assists, and Steven Stamkos, Anthony Cirelli and Brayden Point also scored for the Lightning. Elliott made 27 saves as the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions had a four-game winning streak end.

Ylonen knotted it at 4 from the left circle at 2:18 of the third.

AVALANCHE 3, PENGUINS 2: Devon Toews scored with 4:26 remaining, Darcy Kuemper stopped 38 shots and Colorado tied the franchise record for home wins in a season with a victory over Pittsburgh.

It was win No. 28 at Ball Arena, matching Colorado’s marks from 2000-01 and 2017-18. At 28-4-3, Colorado possesses the league’s top home record.

Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Mikko Rantanen also scored for Colorado in a fast-paced game that had just one penalty and featured two of the best scorers in the business, Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon.

Mike Matheson and Crosby had goals for the Penguins. Crosby’s goal gave him 1,397 career points – one point away from joining Jari Kurri and Alex Ovechkin in a three-way tie for 21st-most in NHL history.

PANTHERS 7, DEVILS 6: Gustav Forsling scored twice, including at 1:45 of overtime, and Florida overcame a four-goal deficit in a win at Newark, New Jersey.

Aleksander Barkov also had two goals. Defenseman Radko Gudas, Ben Chiarot and Brandon Montour also scored for Florida, which won its third straight game.

Spencer Knight stopped six shots, picking up the victory in relief of goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who was pulled after allowing six goals on 25 shots in the first two periods.

New Jersey forward Yegor Sharangovich had his first career hat trick. Jack Hughes, Janne Kuokkanen and Andreas Johnsson also scored for the Devils, who fell for the eighth time in 11 games. Andrew Hammond took the loss, his first of the season, allowing seven goals on 41 shots in his Devils debut.

The Devils led 6-2 after two periods after a four-goal second period that included two goals from Sharangovich. He completed his hat trick with a short-handed goal that gave New Jersey a 5-2 lead.

WILD 3, HURRICANES 1: Marc-Andre Fleury made 37 saves in another victory since joining Minnesota less than two weeks ago as the Wild won in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mats Zuccarello and Kirill Kaprizov each had a goal and an assist for the Wild, who won for the eighth time in their last nine games and extended their points streak to nine. Dmitry Kulikov also scored.

Fleury is 3-0-0 since he was acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks. He has stopped 92 of 96 shots.

KINGS 3, JETS 2: Anze Kopitar recorded a goal and an assist in his 1,200th career game to help Los Angeles win at Winnipeg.

Adrian Kempe also had a goal and assist and Gabriel Vilardi notched his third goal of the season for the Kings, who have just three regulation losses in their last 18 road games.

Cal Petersen stopped 25 shots for Los Angeles, which ended a three-game trip going 2-0-1.

Nikolaj Ehlers and Adam Lowry scored for the Jets.

NOTES

COYOTES: Arizona forward Nick Ritchie will be suspended for a game without pay for slashing against the Anaheim Ducks.

In the final seconds of the first period of Friday night’s game with Arizona down 3-0, Ritchie checked defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk into the boards. Shattenkirk pushed Ritchie, and Ritchie used his stick to hit Shattenkirk on the right side of his head with what the NHL called “a lack of force.”