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Oshie scores 2 to help Capitals beat Islanders 7-3

By The Associated Press and an assist, and Vincent
NEW YORK (AP) — T.J. Oshie Trocheck and Aaron Ek-
scored twice, Dmitry Or- blad also scored. Evgenii
lov and Nicklas Backstrom Dadonov added two as-
each had a goal and two sists. Florida moved within
assists, and the first-place three points of idle New
Washington Capitals beat Jersey for the final playoff
the struggling New York Is- spot in the Eastern Confer-
landers 7-3 Thursday night. ence. The Panthers, who
Andrei Burakovsky added have won 11 of their last
a goal and an assist, and 13 home games, have
Lars Eller and John Carlson two games in hand on
also scored to help Wash- the Devils. Anton Khudo-
ington improve to 10-4-3 bin stopped 25 shots for
in its last 17 games against the Bruins, shut out for the
the Islanders. Evgeny first time since their second
Kuznetsov had three assists game of the season, a 4-0
and Philipp Grubauer fin- loss to Colorado on Oct. 9.
ished with 35 saves for his The Bruins are four points
11th win of the season. behind Atlantic Division
Brock Nelson, Andrew Ladd leader Tampa Bay, with
and Ryan Pulock scored for one game in hand on the
the Islanders, who lost for Lightning.
the ninth time in 10 games AVALANCHE 4, BLUES 1
(1-5-4). Christopher Gib- ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nathan
son started and gave up MacKinnon had two goals
five goals on 12 shots be- Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) gets his stick out in front of New York Islanders and an assist, Semyon Var-
fore he was pulled midway defenseman Thomas Hickey (14) during the third period of an NHL hockey game in New York, lamov stopped 44 shots
through the second pe- Thursday, March 15, 2018. and Colorado won its third
riod. Jaroslav Halak came Associated Press straight to move into the
on and finished with eight first wild card spot int he
saves. tan Division. The Capitals, James van Riemsdyk had falo, and Robin Lehner fin- Western Conference.
The Islanders have allowed however, currently hold the two goals and an assist to ished with 33 saves. Mikko Rantanen also
a league-high 252 goals tiebreaker with two games lead Toronto. BLUE JACKETS 5, FLYERS 3 scored twice to help the
and are 15-23-8 since finish- in hand. Connor Carrick, Tyler Bo- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cam Avalanche move a point
ing November at 15-7-2. Tristan Jarry made 17 saves zak and Patrick Marleau Atkinson scored a hat trick ahead of idle Dallas — and
PENGUINS 5, CANADIENS 3 for his 14th win of the sea- also scored for the Maple to lead surging Columbus five ahead of St. Louis. The
MONTREAL (AP) — Patric son while starter Matt Mur- Leafs, and Curtis McElhin- to its sixth straight victory. Avalanche, who won 10 in
Hornqvist's second goal of ray remains sidelined with a ney stopped 38 shots. Oliver Bjorkstand and a row from Dec. 29-Jan. 22,
the game gave Pittsburgh concussion. Van Riemsdyk has five goals Boone Jenner also scored are 6-0-3 in their last eight
the lead in the third period, Artturi Lehkonen, Paul By- in two games after scoring and Sergei Bobrovsky games. Joel Edmundson
and the Penguins went on ron and Nicolas Deslauri- a hat trick in Wednesday's made 27 saves for the Blue scored for St. Louis, and
to beat Montreal. ers scored for Montreal, 6-5 shootout win over the Jackets, who tied Philadel- Jake Allen finished with 19
Phil Kessel, Evgeni Malkin and Antti Niemi stopped 34 Dallas Stars. Van Riemsdyk phia for third place in the saves. MacKinnon scored
and Bryan Rust also scored shots in his first regulation set a new single-season ca- Metropolitan Division. The twice in a span of 2:53
for Pittsburgh, which remain loss since Feb. 14. reer-high for goals with 31. Flyers currently hold the in the first period to give
tied with Washington in MAPLE LEAFS 5, SABRES 2 Sam Reinhart and Jason tiebreaker with one more Colorado a 2-0 lead with
points atop the Metropoli- BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Pominville scored for Buf- regulation/overtime win just under seven minutes
with 11 games remaining remaining. He has 11 goals
Kovalchuk aiming for NHL for both. and 13 assists in 13 games
Claude Giroux, Andrew
since returning from a
MacDonald and Shayne
shoulder injury on Feb. 18.
return after 5 years away Gostisbehere scored for JETS 6, BLACKHAWKS 2
the slumping Flyers, who
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP)
dropped their seventh in
the last eight games. — Kyle Connor scored
twice to reach 25 goals this
MOSCOW (AP) — Former St. Petersburg, "but in the Philadelphia and Colum- season and Winnipeg re-
NHL forward Ilya Kovalchuk summer I'm going to exam- bus, which is in the first wild bounded from a quick def-
says he wants to return to ine offers" from the NHL. card spot in the Eastern icit. Bryan Little and Jack
the league this summer and He adds that he wants to Conference, are one point Roslovic each had a goal
play there for "several more match Russian teammate ahead of idle New Jersey, and an assist as all four
years." Kovalchuk tells Rus- Pavel Datsyuk as a mem- which holds the second Jets lines produced goals.
sian state sports channel ber of the so-called triple wild card. Joel Armia and Paul Stast-
In this Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 Match TV that if he doesn't gold club of players who PANTHERS 3, BRUINS 0 ny also scored. Connor
file photo, Russia national try again to win a Stanley have won the Olympic SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — James Hellebuyck turned away
ice hockey team captain Cup, "I won't forgive myself gold medal, world cham- Reimer tied a season high 25 shots in his 36th win, in-
Ilya Kovalchuk listens to a for it when I get older." pionship, and Stanley Cup. with 46 saves to lead Flori- creasing his franchise re-
journalists question during a Kovalchuk, who won the Kovalchuk walked out on da past Boston. cord for goaltenders.
news conference followed an Olympic gold medal last the New Jersey Devils in Making his first start in six Patrick Laine extended his
Russian Olympic committee month, says he's focused 2013 to return to Russia, games, Reimer earned his
meeting in Moscow, Russia. club-record point streak to
Associated Press on winning the Kontinental where he has since won third shutout of the season. 14 games with an assist on
Hockey League with SKA two KHL titles.q Nick Bjugstad had a goal Stastny’s goal. q