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Zibanejad scores 5 goals, Rangers knock Caps from 1st place

By The Associated Press It was the fourth straight
NEW YORK (AP) — Mika victory for the Blackhawks,
Zibanejad scored five goals who climbed within four
to match the New York points of the second wild-
Rangers’ record, capping card spot in the Western
the scoring spree 33 sec- Conference.
onds into overtime in a wild Patrick Kane and Jona-
6-5 victory over the Wash- than Toews also scored for
ington Capitals on Thurs- Chicago. Corey Crawford
day night. made 20 saves.
Zibanejad is the second Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Josh
player in NHL history to Archibald and Kailer Yama-
score his fifth goal in OT, moto scored for Edmonton,
joining Detroit’s Sergei Fe- which had its three-game
dorov, who accomplished winning streak ended.
the feat on Dec. 26, 1996 The Oilers remained two
— also against Washington. points behind Pacific Divi-
The Rangers center is also sion leader Vegas. Leon
the first player with five Draisaitl had two assists,
goals in a game since Win- New York Rangers center Mika Zibanejad, upper left, scores in overtime against Washington Cap- pushing his league-leading
itals goaltender Ilya Samsonov as Capitals right wing Tom Wilson (43) defends during an NHL
nipeg’s Patrik Laine did it hockey game Thursday, March 5, 2020, in New York. points total to 110.
in an 8-4 win over St. Louis Associated Press KINGS 1, MAPLE LEAFS 0, SO
on Nov. 24, 2018. Zibane- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anze
jad joined Don Murdoch Ivan Provorov, Michael Raf- all. ip Forsberg and Matt Duch- Kopitar and Adrian Kempe
(Oct. 12, 1976) and Mark fl, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and LIGHTNING 4, CANADIENS 0 ene each scored power- scored in the shootout, and
Pavelich (Feb. 23, 1983) as Sean Couturier scored for TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei play goals, and Nashville Los Angeles beat Toronto
Rangers with five goals in a the Flyers, who won their Vasilevskiy made 32 saves, shut out Dallas to snap a for its fourth consecutive
game. 24th home game (24-5-4). Victor Hedman scored three-game losing streak. victory.
Zibanejad’s 38th of the sea- They won on consecutive twice and Tampa Bay Forsberg also ended his Jonathan Quick made 36
son helped New York end a nights after beating the blanked Montreal. own 16-game skid with saves in his 52nd career
three-game skid. He is the Washington Capitals 5-2 Vasilevskiy completed his his first goal since Jan. 30, shutout for the Kings, while
first Rangers center with at and have positioned them- 21st career shutout to help and Duchene scored his Frederik Andersen made
least 35 goals in a season selves as a serious threat Tampa Bay win for the sec- first since Feb. 15 to move 30 saves in his 19th career
since Hall of Famer Eric Lin- to make run in the Eastern ond time in five games. Ni- the Predators back to the shutout for the Leafs. The
dros in 2001-02. Conference playoffs. kita Kucherov had a goal Western Conference’s sec- Maple Leafs were shut out
Tony DeAngelo had a goal The Flyers moved into a tie and an assist, and Alex ond wild-card spot, at least for the first time all season,
and two assists, Artemi Pan- for first place in the Metro- Killorn also scored for the for the moment. while the Kings were shut
arin had three assists and politan Division with Capi- Lightning. Juuse Saros made 32 saves out for the sixth time this
Alexandar Georgiev made tals, who lost 6-5 in overtime Carey Price finished with 19 for his third shutout this sea- season.
29 saves for New York. to the New York Rangers. saves for Montreal, which son and the 10th of his ca- WILD 3, SHARKS 2
Alex Ovechkin had two Hart earned his 23rd win of was shut out for the first reer. SAN JOSE (AP) — Zach
goals, including the tying the season. time this season. SENATORS 4, ISLANDERS 3 Parise and Ryan Suter each
score with 43 second re- Justin Williams scored his PENGUINS 4, SABRES 2 OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — had a goal and assist and
maining to force overtime. fourth goal of the season BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Pat- Craig Anderson made 37 Minnesota extended its
That came after Zibanejad early in the third period for ric Hornqvist scored twice saves and the Senators mastery on the road, beat-
scored on a rebound with Carolina’s lone goal. in leading Pittsburgh to a beat the Islanders, spoiling ing San Jose.
1:42 remaining to give New BRUINS 2, PANTHERS 1, OT win over Buffalo, extend- Jean-Gabriel Pageau’s re- Alex Galchenyuk also
York a brief 5-4 lead. SUNRISE, Fla (AP) — Torey ING the Sabres’ skid to five turn to Ottawa. scored for Minnesota,
Ilya Kovalchuk had a goal Krug scored 4:08 into over- straight. Connor Brown, Mikkel which won its sixth con-
and an assist, and Carl time, Patrice Bergeron also Sidney Crosby and Marcus Boedker, Anthony Duclair secutive road game and
Hagelin and Garnet Hatha- had a goal and Boston Pettersson also scored, and and Brady Tkachuk scored moved ahead of Vancou-
way also scored for Wash- beat Florida for its fourth the Penguins won consec- for the Senators, who ver for the second wild-
ington. Samsonov had 33 straight win. utive games after losing six hadn’t beaten the Island- card spot in the Western
saves for the Capitals. Moments before he scored, in a row. Evgeni Malkin had ers since Dec. 1, 2017. Conference.
FLYERS 4, HURRICANES 1 Krug led a 2-on-1 rush with two assists to follow a four- Pageau was making his re- The Sharks, who had their
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cart- David Pastrnak that was assist outing in a 7-3 win turn to Ottawa after being three-game winning streak
er Hart stopped 28 shots disrupted by MacKenzie over Ottawa on Tuesday. traded to the Islanders 11 snapped, got goals from
and four players scored Weegar’s poke check. Pas- Matt Murray stopped 28 days ago. Stefan Noesen and Joe
to lead Philadelphia to its trnak recovered the puck shots to improve to 3-4-1 in Anders Lee, Mathew Barzal Thornton.
eighth straight win. in the corner and passed to his past eight starts. and Ryan Pulock scored for Alex Stalock, a former
Krug, who wheeled into the Jake McCabe and Marcus the Islanders, who are 0-3-2 Shark, made 40 saves in the
high slot and slapped the Johansson scored for Buf- in their last five games. The net for the Wild on a night
winner past Chris Driedger. falo, and rookie Jonas Jo- Islanders have been out- Minnesota was outshot 42-
Jaroslav Halak stopped 32 hansson stopped 28 shots. scored 14-5 in the last three 27. The game was played in
shots for the NHL-leading Sabres captain and lead- games. Semyon Varlamov front of the Sharks’ smallest
Bruins. ing scorer Jack Eichel was stopped 25 shots. home crowd of the season
Driedger made 25 saves held without a point for a BLACKHAWKS 4, OILERS 3 (14,517), on the same day
and Weegar scored, but sixth-consecutive game to CHICAGO (AP) — Alex De- that Santa Clara County
Florida dropped a fran- mark the longest drought Brincat scored two goals, officials recommended the
chise-worst eighth straight of his five-year NHL career. rookie Adam Boqvist had team cancel the game
home game and lost its PREDATORS 2, STARS 0 two assists, and Chicago due to growing concerns
fourth game in a row over- NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fil- beat Edmonton. over the coronavirus.q