ISLANDERS 6, MAPLE
LEAFS 1
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Casey Cizikas scored
twice and the New York
Islanders beat the Toronto Maple
Leafs 6-1 Thursday night in former captain John Tavares'
first time back as a visiting player.
Anthony
Beauvillier, Anders Lee and Valtteri
Filppula also scored for the Islanders, who had lost three of
their last four. Robin Lehner stopped
34 shots to help New York move two points ahead of Washington atop the
Metropolitan Division one night before hosting the Capitals. The Islanders' 81
points are one more than they had all of last season.
Islanders fans, vocal on social media about their lingering
displeasure with Tavares' departure via free agency last summer after he
repeatedly said he wanted to stay, booed loudly when Tavares and the Maple
Leafs hit the ice for pregame warmups, and when they came back out for the
start of each period. They also serenaded the No. 1 overall pick in 2009 with
choruses of "We Don't Need You!" and other derisive chants throughout
the game, including around a video tribute midway through the first period.
Zach Hyman scored
for the Maple Leafs, who had won three straight.
BRUINS 4, LIGHTNING 1
BOSTON -- The Bruins scored three times in less than three
minutes in the third period and snapped Eastern Conference-leading Tampa Bay's
franchise-best 10-game winning streak.
Jake DeBrusk, Noel Acciari, Patrice
Bergeron and Brad Marchand all
had goals for the Bruins (38-17-9), who have won nine of their last 10 games
and earned at least one point in 15 straight.
The game was the first in NHL history in which teams faced
off while each owning simultaneous point streaks of 14 or more contests.
A goal by Tampa Bay's Anthony
Cirelli's with 7:08 remaining prevented the Lightning (49-12-4) from
being shut out for the first time since losing 1-0 in overtime to St. Louis on
Feb. 7.
COYOTES 5, CANUCKS 2
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Brad
Richardson scored four goals to power the Arizona
Coyotes to their fifth straight victory.
Alex
Galchenyuk also scored for the Coyotes, who completed a
four-game season sweep of the Canucks. Vinnie
Hinostroza and Richard Panik had
three assists apiece -- all on goals by Richardson -- and Oliver
Ekman-Larsson had two assists.
Richardson, who has a single-season career-high 16 goals,
scored twice in the first period and completed his second career hat trick in
the second period after a deft drop pass from Richard Panik. He tipped in a
pass from Hinostroza for his final goal at 8:03 of the third period. It was the
Coyotes' first four-goal game since Keith Tkachuk did
it on March 20, 1997.
Tanner
Pearson and Antoine
Roussel scored for the Canucks, who have lost five of six.
BLUE JACKETS 4, FLYERS 3, OT
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Seth Jones scored
4:27 into overtime, lifting Columbus past Philadelphia.
As the back-and-forth extra period wound down, Artemi
Panarin wove his way through the defense and fed Jones, who
knocked the winner past Brian Elliott.
Jones got his third overtime goal this season and set a franchise record with
the seventh of his Blue Jackets career.
Panarin, Oliver
Bjorkstrand and Scott
Harrington also scored for the Blue Jackets, who rebounded from
a loss Tuesday night to Pittsburgh and hopped over the idle Penguins and Carolina
Hurricanes into third place in the Metropolitan Division. Sergei
Bobrovsky made 28 saves.
Travis
Sanheim had two goals, Jakub Voracek also
scored and Elliott had 36 saves as his two-game winning streak came to an end.
Elliott is the seventh goalie used by Philadelphia this season, and the Flyers
will set an NHL record when recently acquired Cam Talbot starts
Saturday at New Jersey to raise that number to eight.
OILERS 4, SENATORS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario -- Connor
McDavid scored a slick goal, Mikko
Koskinen made 35 saves and Edmonton
Oilers beat league-worst Ottawa.
Sam Gagner, Colby Cave and Zack Kassian also
scored for the Oilers, who stopped a two-game skid.
Chris Tierney and Mark
Borowiecki scored for the Senators, who lost their sixth
straight, and Craig
Anderson stopped 22 shots in his ninth straight defeat.
It was the first home game for Ottawa since Mark Stone was
traded to Vegas, but thanks to McDavid the Senators had one of their biggest
crowds of the season.
STARS 4, KINGS 3, OT
LOS ANGELES -- Roope Hintz scored
3:19 into overtime and Dallas moved into a wild-card spot in the Western
Conference.
Hintz scored in a mad scramble in front of the net
after Alexander
Radulov's shot bounced off Los Angeles goalie Jonathan
Quick. Tyler Seguin, Mattias
Janmark and Radek Faksa also
scored for Dallas, while Ben Lovejoy and Blake Comeau each
had two assists. Anton
Khudobin made 27 saves.
Anze Kopitar scored
two goals and had an assist for Los Angeles, which has dropped 10 straight --
the second-longest losing streak in franchise history. Brendan
Leipsic had a goal and Quick stopped 29 shots.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 6, PANTHERS 5, SO
LAS VEGAS -- Shea Theodore's
goal in the second round of the shootout lifted the Vegas Golden
Knights past Florida.
Malcolm
Subban, who made 32 saves, stopped all three of Florida's attempts
in the shootout.
Reilly Smith scored
twice, while Paul Stastny, Jon Merrill and Colin Miller scored
for Vegas.
Mike Hoffman scored
two goals for Florida, with Aaron Ekblad, Aleksander
Barkov, Jonathan
Huberdeau also scoring for the Panthers.
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