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Will be updated. By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Brad Richards scored 2:37 into overtime to give the New York Rangers a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night. New York's Brian Boyle tied it at 10:13 of the third period, pouncing on a loose puck and driving it past Mathieu Garon. Steven Stamkos scored his NHL-best 36th goal of the season in the first period and added an assist for Tampa Bay, which has lost three of four. Defenseman Bruno Gervais and Vincent Lecavalier also scored. Derek Stepan had a goal and an assist, and captain Ryan Callahan added a goal for the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers, who have earned at least one point in six of seven games. FLYERS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Claude Giroux and Brayden Schenn scored 1:14 apart in the second period to lift Philadelphia over Toronto. Scott Hartnell and Max Talbot also had goals for Philadelphia, which snapped a three-game losing streak. Tyler Bozak scored two goals and Joffrey Lupul had one for the resurgent Maple Leafs, who were 6-2-1 in their previous nine games. Coming off a 1-0 shootout loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday night, the Flyers needed this victory to strengthen their hold on fourth place in the Eastern Conference. Sergei Bobrovsky made 24 saves, including a pad stop on Bozak's hard shot during a 4-on-2 rush with five minutes left. JETS 3, CAPITALS 2, SO WASHINGTON (AP) - Winnipeg overcame a two-goal deficit in the final 2:15 of regulation and then prevailed in a shootout for a victory over Washington. Evander Kane and Dustin Byfuglien awoke a pedestrian Jets attack with power-play goals to get Winnipeg into a tie. Blake Wheeler and Bryan Little scored in the shootout. Alex Ovechkin had the lone shootout goal for the Capitals. Winnipeg goalie Ondrej Pavelec stopped shots by Alexander Semin and Mathieu Perreault. All of the game's goals came in the final 10 1/2 minutes of the third period, and all were on power plays. Ovechkin broke a scoreless tie with 10:14 to play, and Semin made it 2-0 with 7:30 remaining. Pavelec made 32 saves for the Jets. Tomas Vokoun stopped 25 for the Capitals. BLUES 4, DEVILS 3, SO NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - T.J. Oshie scored the only goal in the shootout and relief goalie Brian Elliott was perfect as St. Louis snapped New Jersey's five-game winning streak. Oshie, the first shooter in the tiebreaker for the Blues, fooled Johan Hedberg with an off-speed shot that trickled through his pads. Elliott, who replaced Jaroslav Halak in the second period, stopped Ilya Kovalchuk, Patrik Elias and Zach Parise. Elliott also stopped all 15 shots in regulation and overtime. Chris Stewart, David Perron and Patrik Berglund scored for the Blues, who are 11-0-2 against the Eastern Conference. Parise, Adam Henrique and Elias had New Jersey's goals. Hedberg made 23 saves, getting the start because Martin Brodeur sat out after twisting his right ankle on Tuesday in a 1-0 shutout of the Rangers in New York. CANADIENS 4, ISLANDERS 2 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Max Pacioretty had three goals, Scott Gomez netted his first in more than a year, and Montreal beat the New York Islanders for its third straight win. Pacioretty scored in all three periods, and the Canadiens (22-24-9) moved one point ahead of the Islanders (22-23-8) in the tightly packed non-playoff section of the Eastern Conference. Carey Price made 31 saves for his fifth win in seven games. The Islanders scored twice in the last three minutes, but couldn't get even. Gomez, who hadn't scored in 24 games this season and since last Feb. 5 overall, tallied 9:50 into the third. Matt Moulson made it 3-1 with 2:41 remaining on a power play, with an assist from John Tavares, who earned the 100th helper of his NHL career. Islanders captain and defenseman Mark Streit made it 3-2 just 48 seconds later. STARS 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jamie Benn scored two goals and Kari Lehtonen had 26 saves to make an early lead stand up in Dallas' victory over Columbus. Alex Goligoski and Stephane Robidas each had a goal and an assist, and Mike Ribeiro added two assists for the Stars. Dallas led 3-0 barely 21 minutes in and then hung on behind Lehtonen to win its fourth in the last six games. Vinny Prospal and Rick Nash scored, and Fedor Tyutin and Derick Brassard had two assists apiece for Columbus, which was trying for its first three-game winning streak of the season. PANTHERS 3, KINGS 1 SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Sean Bergenheim and Mike Santorelli scored in the second period, sending Florida past Los Angeles. Matt Bradley also scored for the Panthers and Scott Clemmensen stopped 22 shots. Florida beat the Kings for the first time in eight tries, snapping a seven-game losing streak in the series that dated to Nov. 27, 2002. Drew Doughty scored for the Kings and Jonathan Quick made nine saves. Quick was replaced by Jonathan Bernier to start the third period, and stopped 11 shots. The Kings have scored one goal or fewer six times in 10 games. They are the lowest-scoring team in the NHL with 119 goals. SENATORS 4, PREDATORS 3 OTTAWA (AP) - Chris Phillips scored his first two goals of the season in his 1,000th NHL game, Jason Spezza also scored twice, and Ottawa ended a seven-game losing streak by topping Nashville. Phillips scored his first goal in 75 games 7:50 into the second. He lay on his back on the ice after adding a power-play goal 13:35 into the third to put Ottawa up by two. It was his fourth two-goal game - his first since Nov. 19, 2009, in a 6-2 win over Pittsburgh. That was his 800th career game. |
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