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Thursday 22 March 2018
Lightning erase 3-goal deficit, rally past Maple Leafs 4-3
By The Associated Press goal and an assist, and Erik Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Alex Killorn (17) fires the puck past Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Johnson added an empty- Frederik Andersen (31) for a goal during the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March
Killorn broke a tie midway netter. The Avalanche (40- 20, 2018, in Tampa, Fla.
through the third period 25-8) snapped a tie with
and the Tampa Bay Light- Anaheim for the top spot Associated Press
ning scored the final four in the Western Conference
goals to rally past the To- wild-card race and moved Western Conference and play goals and Kevin Hayes Conor Sheary scored for
ronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on within two points of Minne- could need 14 of a possible had a short-handed goal Pittsburgh, which was 5-1-
Tuesday night. sota for third place in the 18 points before the end of for the Rangers. Henrik Lun- 1 in its previous seven but
Victor Hedman, Ryan Mc- Central Division. the season to get in. dqvist made 26 saves in his fell four points behind first-
Donagh and Nikita Kuch- Chicago (30-35-9) lost Braden Holtby stopped 24 first start since March 10 place Washington in the
erov also scored as Tampa for the sixth time in seven of the 27 shots he faced. against Florida. tight Metropolitan Division.
Bay reached 50 wins for the games. Defenseman Brent BLUE JACKETS 5, RANGERS 3 ISLANDERS 4, PENGUINS 1 Columbus pulled into a tie
second time in franchise Seabrook scored his fifth NEW YORK (AP) — Artemi NEW YORK (AP) — Mathew with the Penguins for sec-
history. Yanni Gourde had goal of the season for the Panarin had three goals Barzal and Adam Pelech ond at 87 points — Pitts-
two assists for the Atlan- Blackhawks, and Anton and an assist, Sergei Bo- scored in the first period burgh holds the tiebreaker
tic Division leaders, who Forsberg made 35 stops in brovsky made 29 saves and New York went on to over the Blue Jackets.
moved five points ahead his first start since he was and Columbus extended beat Pittsburgh. Matt Murray, returning after
of second-place Boston for pulled in the first period of its winning streak to nine Anders Lee had a goal in missing nine games due to
the top spot in the Eastern Thursday night's 6-2 loss at games with a victory over the third period and Jordan a concussion, finished with
Conference. Andrei Vasi- Winnipeg. The last-place New York. Eberle added an empty- 36 saves for the Penguins.
levskiy made 27 saves and Blackhawks were eliminat- Markus Nutivaara and Al- netter to help the Islanders RED WINGS 5, FLYERS 4, SO
set a Lightning record with ed from postseason con- exander Wennberg also snap a three-game skid DETROIT (AP) — Frans
his 41st victory of the sea- tention with the loss. They scored for the Blue Jackets, with just their second win in Nielsen scored his NHL-re-
son. James van Riemsdyk had made the playoffs in who have surged into play- 13 games (2-7-4). cord 22nd shootout winner
scored twice for Toronto, nine straight seasons, win- off position in the Eastern Christopher Gibson, pulled and Detroit edged Phila-
which fell to 28-2-2 when ning three Stanley Cups. Conference. It is Colum- in his last start after giv- delphia to end its 10-game
leading after two periods. CAPITALS 4, STARS 3 bus' longest winning streak ing up five goals on 12 losing streak.
Fredrik Andersen returned WASHINGTON (AP) — John since its 16-game run last shots against Washington Dylan Larkin scored twice,
after missing two games Carlson scored with five season from Nov. 29, 2016, last Thursday, stopped 36 Luke Glendending had a
with an upper-body injury minutes remaining to help to Jan. 3, 2017. shots and has both wins for goal and Evgeny Svech-
and stopped 21 shots. Washington beat Dallas Chris Kreider and Mika New York during its recent nikov got his first in the NHL
The Lightning played the fi- and extend its lead atop Zibanejad scored power- stretch. for the Red Wings. q
nal two periods without for- the Metropolitan Division.
ward Ryan Callahan, who T.J. Oshie, Matt Niskanen
exited at 16:04 of the first and Alex Ovechkin also
favoring his right arm and scored for Washington,
shoulder area. which leads the tight Met-
AVALANCHE 5, BLACK- ropolitan by four points over
HAWKS 1 Pittsburgh and Columbus.
CHICAGO (AP) — Nathan The Capitals are on pace
MacKinnon had two assists, for their third consecutive
extending his point streak division title and playoff ap-
to a career high-tying 13 pearance with nine games
games, and Colorado beat remaining.
Chicago. Carlson's goal tied him with
Alexander Kerfoot scored the Stars' John Klingberg for
twice and Semyon Var- the NHL lead among de-
lamov made 44 saves as fensemen with 61 points. It
Colorado won for the fifth was also a dagger to Dal-
time in six games and im- las' fading playoff hopes.
proved to 8-1-3 in their last The Stars finished their road
12. Mikko Rantanen and trip 0-4-2 and sit outside the
Tyson Barrie each had a final playoff position in the
