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Penguins spoil Fleury's homecoming with 5-4 win over Vegas

By The Associated Press ll and Ondrej Kase also Metropolitan Division and
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Third- scored for the Ducks, who Eastern Conference races.
period goals by Evgeni ended an 0-2-1 slide. Ryan Elias Lindholm scored a
Malkin and Phil Kessel ru- Miller stopped 30 shots in power-play goal for the
ined former teammate facing his former team for Hurricanes, who have lost
Marc-Andre Fleury's home- the fourth time since the Sa- three in a row to fall to 2-3
coming as the Pittsburgh bres traded him to St. Louis on an eight-game homes-
Penguins defeated the Ve- during the 2013-14 season. tand. Brian Elliott, making his
gas Golden Knights 5-4 on Jack Eichel and Zemgus first start since missing four
Tuesday night. Girgensons scored for the games with a lower-body
Fleury, who won three Stan- Sabres, who squandered injury, stopped 27 shots for
ley Cups with the Penguins two one-goal leads. They the Flyers, who had gone
— including the last two are 0-3-1 in their past four 0-3-1 in a four-game stretch
seasons — returned to Pitts- games and 4-9-2 since Jan. that followed a run of eight
burgh for the first time since 1. Robin Lehner stopped 29 wins in nine games.
Vegas selected him in the shots. Cam Ward made 28 saves
expansion draft last sum- CAPITALS 3, BLUE JACKETS 2 for Carolina, which had
mer. Fleury, who stopped COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — a great chance to win it
33 shots, beat his former Nicklas Backstrom scored in the final minute of OT
teammates in December in the winning goal with 43 when Jordan Staal couldn't
Las Vegas. seconds left, Braden Holtby score into an open net and
Malkin gave the Penguins a made 37 saves and Wash- Claude Giroux laid out to
4-2 lead with his 30th of the ington beat Columbus. block Jeff Skinner's follow-
season at 3:09 of the third Brandon Dubinsky tied the up attempt.
period. Malkin, who scored score for the Blue Jack- PANTHERS 3, CANUCKS 1
in his fifth straight game, Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby (87) celebrates assisting on ets late in the third period SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Alek-
became the fifth player a goal by Ian Cole as Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc- and the game appeared sander Barkov scored
in team history to score 30 Andre Fleury (29) collects himself during the second period of headed to overtime be- twice, including the go-
goals six times. an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. The fore Backstrom jumped on ahead goal late in the sec-
Kessel extended the lead Penguins won 5-4. Associated Press a pass from T.J. Oshie and ond period, to lead Florida
to 5-2 a little more than beat Sergei Bobrovsky for past Vancouver. Jamie
three minutes later on a cit. Heinen scored with 11:39 his 200th career goal. McGinn also scored for
one-touch, backdoor feed BRUINS 3, RED WINGS 2 remaining in the third to put John Carlson and Tom the Panthers. Harri Sateri
from Malkin. DETROIT (AP) — Sean Kuraly Boston up by two. Wilson also scored as the made 26 saves for his fourth
Jake Guentzel, Ryan and David Krejci scored With their goalie pulled, the Capitals rallied to break a consecutive win. Markus
Reaves and Ian Cole also in the second period, and Red Wings moved within two-game skid and hang Granlund scored for the
scored for Pittsburgh, which surging Boston rallied for a one when Frans Nielsen onto first place in the Met- Canucks, and Jacob Mark-
won for the fifth time in six victory over Detroit. scored with 1:24 to play, ropolitan Division. strom stopped 37 shots.
games. Boston is 17-1-4 in its last but Boston held on. Bobrovsky had 22 saves for Barkov has 14 points in his
Matt Murray, Fleury's former 22 games and only three DUCKS 4, SABRES 3, OT the Blue Jackets, who have last 13 games. He added
understudy in Pittsburgh, points behind NHL-leading BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — lost four in a row and nine an empty-net goal with
made 21 saves to top his Tampa Bay in the Atlan- Adam Henrique scored of 11. 41.5 seconds left to make
mentor. tic Division. The Red Wings 1:36 into overtime and FLYERS 2, HURRICANES 1, OT it 3-1. SENATORS 5, DEVILS 3
William Karlsson scored his never mounted much sus- Anaheim snapped a three- RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jor- OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) —
28th of the season for the tained pressure on goal- game skid with a win over dan Weal scored with 3.1 Matt Duchene had a goal
Golden Knights. James ie Tuukka Rask, who im- Buffalo. seconds left in overtime and two assists as under-
Neal, who spent four sea- proved to 19-0-2 in his last The Ducks rebounded in and Philadelphia topped manned Ottawa beat New
sons in Pittsburgh, got his 21 games. the extra period after al- Carolina. Jersey.
23rd. Ryan Carpenter and Martin Frk scored a power- lowing the Sabres to tie the Wayne Simmonds also Mike Hoffman, Chris DiDo-
Jonathan Marchessault play goal in the second game on Ryan O'Reilly's scored to help the Flyers menico, Colin White and
scored in the third period for Detroit, but the Bruins goal with 15 seconds re- snap a four-game losing Zack Smith also scored for
for Vegas, which nearly ral- quickly wiped out that lead maining in regulation. streak and earn two impor- Ottawa. Craig Anderson
lied from a three-goal defi- later in the period. Danton Corey Perry, Rickard Rake- tant points in the crowded made 30 saves. q

Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin

out 3-4 weeks with broken hand

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Min- er with a plus-19 rating. Bro- Now Brodin will be out of
nesota Wild defenseman din was hurt in the second action until March, with the
Jonas Brodin will miss the period at St. Louis on Tues- Wild right on the cusp of the
next three to four weeks day night. The Wild beat playoff cut in a crowded
recovering from a broken the Blues 6-2 in their third Western Conference race.
left hand. The Wild an- straight game with their The Wild are 18-4-4 at home
Minnesota Wild's Jonas Brodin, right, of Sweden, chases Colum- nounced Brodin had sur- entire lineup available, af- this season. They will begin
bus Blue Jackets' Matt Calvert behind the net during the second
period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, in Co- gery Wednesday. He's one ter a number of injuries to a five-game homestand
lumbus, Ohio. of the top four blue-liners their forwards scattered Thursday against NHL-worst
Associated Press and by far the team's lead- throughout the season. Arizona.q