PENGUINS 3, PANTHERS 2, OT
PITTSBURGH -- Jake Guentzel scored
on a breakaway 2:44 into overtime to lift Pittsburgh past Florida.
Guentzel took a lead pass from Sidney Crosby and
slipped a backhand by Roberto
Luongo for his second goal of the night and 33rd this season.
Pittsburgh picked up two vital points as it tries to create some breathing room
in its pursuit of a playoff berth.
Crosby finished with a goal and two assists on the night he
became the 48th player in NHL history to reach 1,200 points. Matt Murray had
32 saves for the Penguins.
Henrik
Borgstrom and Vincent
Trocheck scored for the Panthers but Florida dropped its fifth
straight, four of them in overtime.
LIGHTNING 5, JETS
2
TAMPA, Fla. -- Nikita
Kucherov tied the Lightning's single-season points record with
a pair of assists to lead Tampa Bay to a 5-2 victory against the Winnipeg Jets on
Tuesday night.
Kucherov's two points gave him 108 on the season to tie the
single-season mark set by Vincent
Lecavalier in the 2006-07 season when he finished with 52 goals
and 58 assists.
The league-leading Lightning improved to 14-1-2 in the past
17 games.
Steven
Stamkos scored his 34th goal of the season and 382nd of his
career and is one shy of tying Lecavalier's career franchise record.
Brayden Point, Adam Erne and Yanni Gourde also
scored for Tampa Bay.
Andrei
Vasilevskiy finished with 30 saves for his 10th consecutive
victory and improved to 11-0-2 in his past 13 starts.
Blake Wheeler and Jacob Trouba scored
for Winnipeg, which fell to 2/3 in the past five games.
ISLANDERS 5, SENATORS 4, SO
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Jordan Eberle and Mathew Barzal scored
in the shootout and New York gave Coach Barry Trotz his 800th win.
Brock Nelson, Anders Lee, Devon Toews and Ross Johnston scored
in regulation to help the Islanders recover after giving up a two-goal lead in
the third period and snap a two-game skid. Robin Lehner stopped
21 shots before leaving with an injury late in the third period. Thomas Greiss came
on, stopped both shots he faced through overtime and denied Thomas Chabot and Bobby Ryan in
the shootout.
The Islanders pulled into a tie with Washington atop the
Metropolitan Division.
Oscar
Lindberg, Ryan, Zack Smith and Jean-Gabriel
Pageau scored for the Senators, who went to their first
shootout this season and lost for the ninth time in 11 games. Craig
Anderson finished with 34 saves.
BLUE JACKETS 2, DEVILS 1, SO
NEWARK, N.J. -- Cam Atkinson and Artemi
Panarin scored in the shootout and Sergei
Bobrovsky stopped both New Jersey attempts to give Columbus the
win.
Atkinson also scored the Columbus goal in regulation.
Bobrovsky had 29 saves as the Blue Jackets beat the Devils for the seventh
straight time, including all four this season.
Travis Zajac scored
for New Jersey in regulation and Cory
Schneider had 17 saves as the Devils lost their fourth in a
row.
BRUINS 4, HURRICANES 3, SO
BOSTON -- David Krejci scored
1:46 into overtime, and Boston ended Carolina's five-game winning streak.
Jake DeBrusk had
a goal and an assist, setting up the game-winner after making a steal in the
corner and sending a crossing pass to Krejci in the slot.
Chris Wanger and Patrice
Bergeron also scored for the Bruins, who have earned at least a
point in 17 straight games. Jaroslav
Halak stopped 35 shots for Boston.
Sebastian Aho scored
twice for Carolina. Justin
Williams also scored for the Hurricanes, and Curtis
McElhinney finished with 34 saves.
DUCKS 3, COYOTES 1
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Adam Henrique and Troy Terry scored
power-play goals in the third period, Anaheim ended Arizona's NHL-long six-game
winning streak.
Jakob
Silfverberg had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who had
scored only seven goals while losing five of their previous six.
Lawson Crouse scored
his career-high 11th goal for the Coyotes, who had won the first four games of
a season-long seven-game homestand.
Ducks backup goaltender Ryan Miller made
22 saves. He had lost his previous two starts.
PREDATORS 5, WILD 4, SO
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ryan Johansen scored
the lone goal in a shootout and Nashville got its second win against Minnesota
in three nights.
Johansen also got the game-winner in the fourth round of a
shootout Sunday when the Predators edged the Wild 3-2 in Minnesota. This time,
he scored after Kyle Turris, Ryan Ellis
and Filip
Forsberg all were stopped.
Viktor
Arvidsson had a goal and an assist. Roman Josi, Brian Boyle and Craig Smith also
scored for Nashville.
Kevin Fiala scored
two goals in his first multi-goal game this season against his old team, the
second forcing OT to earn the Wild a point in their seventh straight
game. Pontus Aberg and Eric Fehr each
scored for Minnesota, which entered in the second wild-card slot in the Western
Conference.
AVALANCHE 4, RED WINGS 3, OT
DENVER -- Nathan
MacKinnon scored 2:29 into overtime and also had an assist to
help Colorado rally past skidding Detroit.
MacKinnon's 34th goal of the season gave Colorado two
valuable points in the Western Conference wild-card chase. The Avalanche kept
pace with Dallas and gained a point on Minnesota, which lost in a shootout at
Nashville.
Mikko
Rantanen had a goal and two assists for Colorado, and Tyson Barrie tied
it late in the third period. He also had an assist.
Filip Zadina, Niklas
Kronwall and Danny
DeKeyser scored for Detroit, and Jonathan
Bernier made 30 saves.
STARS 1, RANGERS 0
DALLAS -- Ben Bishop made
28 saves in his 28th career shutout, John
Klingberg scored a second-period goal and Dallas beat New York.
Dallas won its third straight to move one point ahead of
Minnesota for the first wild card from the Western Conference.
Klingberg provided the offense 1:16 into the second period.
He took a cross-ice pass from Miro
Heiskanen at the blue line, skated to the top of the right
circle and sent a wrist shot into the net off the left goalpost.
Alexandar
Georgiev had 31 saves for New York, which hasn't won in five
games.
CANADIENS 3, KINGS 1
LOS ANGELES -- Carey Price tied
Jacques Plante for most career wins by a Montreal goalie, making 26 saves in a
victory over Los Angeles.
Price won his 314th game in 611 appearances for the
Canadiens, matching the total Plante had in 556 games with the team.
Montreal remained tied with Pittsburgh for the first Eastern
Conference wild card, two points ahead of Columbus.
Brendan
Gallagher extended his scoring streak to four games. Jordan Weal scored
in his Canadiens debut and Shea Weber made
it 3-0 early in the third period.
Matt Luff scored
and Jonathan
Quick stopped 21 shots for the Kings, who lost for the 11th
time in 12 games.
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