Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Recaps of last night's NHL games

FLYERS 4, LIGHTNING 2

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Shayne Gostisbehere scored twice to lead the Philadelphia Flyers past Tampa Bay 4-2 on Monday night and snap the Lightning's franchise-best nine-game winning streak.

Gostisbehere, Brayden Schenn and Wayne Simmonds each scored third period goals for the Flyers.

The Flyers have 73 points and moved within two of idle Detroit for the final wild-card playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. The Flyers went 5-1 on their homestand and earned 10 of 12 possible points to key their surge in the standings.

There are 17 games left for the Flyers and two of them are against Detroit.

Ondrej Palat and Vladislav Namestnikov scored for Tampa Bay in its first loss since February 16 against San Jose. The Lightning had won six straight on the road.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 36 shots for the Lightning.

BRUINS 5, PANTHERS 4, OT

SUNRISE, Florida (AP) — Lee Stempniak scored his first goal as a Bruin in overtime as Boston beat Florida 5-4 while Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr moved into third on the NHL career points list.

Jagr assisted on Aleksander Barkov's goal, passing Gordie Howe with 1,851 points.

Bruins coach Claude Julien moved past Art Ross to become Boston's career coaching wins leader with 388 regular-season victories.

Stempniak, acquired from New Jersey at the trade deadline, also had two assists and Patrice Bergeron scored twice for the Bruins. Brett Connolly and David Pastrnak also had goals, Brad Marchand had two assists and Tuukka Rask made 47 saves.

Jiri Hudler scored twice for the Panthers. Jussi Jokinen also scored and Jonathan Huberdeau had two assists. Roberto Luongo allowed four goals on 16 shots before being replaced by Al Montoya to start the second period. Montoya stopped 15 shots.

SABRES 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3, SO

TORONTO (AP) — Sam Reinhart scored in the shootout to help Buffalo beat Toronto.

Jack Eichel and Evander Kane scored less than 4 minutes apart in the third period to bring the Sabres back from a 3-1 deficit. It was the 22nd loss in the past 27 games for the league-worst Leafs and fifth straight one-goal defeat.

For Buffalo, the victory snapped a string of six straight shootout losses.

Rookie Zach Hyman scored his first career NHL goal for Toronto, and Leo Komarov and Brad Boyes also scored.

Mark Pysyk had the other Buffalo goal, and Chad Johnson stopped 30 of 33 shots.

Garret Sparks made 24 saves for the Leafs, who remain last in the NHL with 53 points.

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