CAPITALS 4, RANGERS 3 (OT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Alexander Ovechkin scored his second goal of the game and the 499th of his career at 1:25 of overtime and the Washington Capitals rallied to beat the New York Rangers 4-3 on Saturday.
Nicklas Backstrom forced overtime by sliding the rebound of Justin Williams’ shot under Henrik Lundqvist with 5.7 seconds left in regulation.
Braden Holtby prevented the Rangers from winning just seconds before Ovechkin scored. The Washington goaltender stopped Rick Nash in close and then combined with defenseman Nate Schmidt to stop Derek Stephan on the rebound attempt.
Ovechkin got the puck, skated the length of the ice on the left side before cutting across the middle and beating Lundqvist. Ovechkin will try to reach the 500-goal milestone on Sunday at home against Ottawa.
Williams also scored for the Capitals and Holtby made 23 saves.
Viktor Stalberg, Kevin Hayes and Oscar Lindberg scored for the Rangers.
BLUES 2, KINGS 1 (SO)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Alex Pietrangelo tied it in the second period and Troy Brouwer got the dediding goal in the seventh round of the shootout to help St. Louis beat Los Angeles.
Brian Elliott made 26 saves as the Blues snapped a five-game losing streak that included back-to-back overtime defeats to Ottawa and Colorado and a 4-3 shootout loss at Anaheim the previous night.
St. Louis did it without center Paul Stastny and defenseman Jay Bouwmeester, who received upper body injuries in the first period of the game against the Ducks.
Anze Kopitar scored for the Kings, who lead Arizona by nine points atop the Pacific Division.
SENATORS 2, BRUINS 1 (OT)
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) - Mark Stone scored 4:22 into overtime to lift Ottawa past Boston.
Stone was able to put in his own rebound over a sprawling Tuuka Rask after being stopped the first time on a wraparound attempt.
Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Senators and Craig Anderson finished with 33 saves.
David Pastrnak got his third goal of the season and Rask stopped 38 shots for the Bruins.
HURRICANES 4, BLUE JACKETS 3 (OT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jordan Staal scored in overtime to help Carolina recover after giving up a three-goal lead.
Andrej Nestrasil, Kris Versteeg and John-Michael Liles scored and Staal added an assist for Carolina. Cam Ward made 21 saves and the Hurricanes swept the home-and-home series after beating Columbus 4-1 on Friday night. Carolina is 5-0-1 in their last six games against the Blue Jackets, including four straight wins in Columbus.
Cam Atkinson, Alexander Wennberg and Josh Anderson scored for Columbus to erase a 3-0 deficit, and defenseman Seth Jones made his first home appearance. The Blue Jackets have lost both games since they acquired Jones from Nashville on Wednesday for center Ryan Johansen. Joonas Korpisalo made 26 saves.
LIGHTNING 3, CANUCKS 2 (OT)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Nikita Kucherov scored 3:50 into overtime to lift Tampa Bay.
After an end-to-end 3-on-3 extra period, Kucherov finished it on a breakaway against Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom for his 16th of the season.
Alex Killorn and Valtteri Filppula also scored for Tampa Bay, and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 21 shots.
Bo Horvat had a goal and an assist, and Sven Baertschi also scored for Vancouver. Markstrom finished with 32 saves in his seventh straight start.
PENGUINS 3, CANADIENS 1
MONTREAL (AP) - Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 shots, Bryan Rust scored his first goal of the season to put Pittsburgh ahead in the second period, and the Penguins beat Montreal.
Patric Hornqvist and Eric Fehr also scored for the Penguins, who are 3-1-2 in their last six games.
P.K. Subban scored for Montreal and Mike Condon, playing for the injured Carey Price, finished with 29 saves.
Subban tied the score with 9:21 left in the second period with his second of the season - and first in 34 games - on a one-timer from the point.
Rust put the Penguins in front for good, beating Condon top shelf on a breakaway with his second career goal about 3 1/2 minutes later.
Fehr added a short-handed empty-netter with 10 seconds left in regulation.
FLYERS 4, ISLANDERS 0
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Steve Mason stopped 20 shots for his third shutout of the season and led Philadelphia over New York.
Michael Raffl, Evgeny Medvedev, Matt Read and Sean Couturier scored to help the Flyers beat the Islanders for the first time in three games this season.
Mason had his 29th career shutout and the Flyers won their third straight.
Read picked up assists on Philadelphia’s first two goals, then added his sixth goal of the season in the third period.
WILD 2, STARS 1
DALLAS (AP) - Devan Dubnyk made 34 saves, Thomas Vanek scored and Minnesota beat Dallas.
Vanek and Ryan Carter had goals in the second period for the Wild. Dallas didn’t score until Jamie Benn got his 25th goal with 3:13 left in the third.
Dubnyk stopped another shot by Benn with 1:00 left, after the Stars pulled goalie Antti Niemi for an extra skater.
Minnesota beat Dallas for the first time in four games this season. The Wild had lost the two most recent meetings despite taking leads of 3-0 and 2-0.
Dallas had an apparent goal disallowed in the first period when video review indicated that Antoine Roussel had interfered with Dubnyk.
The Western Conference-leading Stars have lost four of their past five games. Niemi made 23 saves.
SHARKS 7, MAPLE LEAFS 0
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Brent Burns started a four-goal, second-period outburst with a highlight-reel move and Matt Nieto scored a short-handed goal following a botched Toronto line change in San Jose’s most lopsided shutout since 2001.
Tomas Hertl added two goals and Joe Pavelski, Melker Karlsson and Joonas Donskoi also scored to help the Sharks end a lackluster homestand on a bright note. San Jose went 2-3 during a two-week stretch at the Shark Tank and has the worst home record in the league at 6-12-0.
Martin Jones made 28 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and San Jose won its seventh straight against Toronto. The Sharks’ last 7-0 win was over Chicago on Feb. 14, 2001.
Jonathan Bernier made 24 saves for the Maple Leafs and Toronto lost the final two games of its three-game California swing.
COYOTES 4, PREDATORS 0
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Rookie goalie Louis Domingue got his sixth win in eight starts and Tobias Rieder had two goals and an assist to lead Arizona.
Domingue became the first rookie in franchise history to win three straight games. He’s 6-0-2 as a starter and earned his second shutout with 26 saves.
Rieder’s first goal came 55 seconds into the third period. He deflected Martin Hanzal’s slap shot past Carter Hutton for a 2-0 Coyotes’ lead and his ninth goal of the season.
Hutton had 25 saves in his sixth appearance of the season.
The Predators pulled Hutton with 3 minutes left and Rieder sent in an empty-goal with 2:23 to play. Rieder has five points in three games.
Anthony Duclair scored with 13.3 seconds left on a wrist shot. Antoine Vermette also scored.
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