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Hayes scores in OT, Flyers sweep home-and-home with Columbus

By The Associated Press Wednesday, tied the game
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — late in the first period. It was
Kevin Hayes scored 3:51 Martinez’s second goal of
into overtime, and the Phil- the season; he also scored
adelphia Flyers beat the at Vegas on Jan. 9.
Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 Paul Stastny, Mark Stone,
on Thursday night to sweep Ryan Reaves and Max Pa-
the home-and-home series cioretty also scored for the
between Metropolitan Divi- Golden Knights. Marc-An-
sion contenders. dre Fleury made 24 saves
Philadelphia trailed 3-1 be- while improving to 21-13-4
fore Nicolas Aube-Kubel against Tampa Bay.
and Claude Giroux scored Vegas earned its fourth
1:26 apart in the second straight win and improved
period. After a scoreless to 8-3-2 under coach Pete
third, Hayes snapped a DeBoer, who took over for
shot from the slot past Elvis the fired Gerard Gallant
Merzlikins for his 19th of the on Jan. 15. The win pushed
season. the Golden Knights into first
The Flyers, who routed the place in the Pacific Divi-
Blue Jackets 5-1 on Tues- sion, one point ahead of
day, are in third place in Edmonton.
the Metro with 75 points, Steven Stamkos had two
five behind Pittsburgh and goals for Tampa Bay, and
Washington. Columbus has Kevin Shattenkirk also
dropped seven in a row, scored.
but it has the first wild-card Philadelphia Flyers' Kevin Hayes, right, carries the puck across the blue line as Columbus Blue KINGS 5, PANTHERS 4
Jackets' Eric Robinson defends during the third period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Feb. 20,
spot, one point ahead of 2020, in Columbus, Ohio. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ga-
the New York Islanders and Associated Press briel Vilardi had a goal and
Carolina. an assist in his NHL debut
Travis Konecny had a goal tory to get to 700 as Wash- Antti Raanta stopped 45 of Kyle Connor and Niko- and Los Angeles opened a
and an assist for Philadel- ington lost its third straight. the Blues’ season-high 46 laj Ehlers also scored for five-game homestand with
phia, which improved to Washington has lost five of shots on goal and fell to 13- the Jets, who improved to a win over Florida.
12-5-2 in its last 19 games its past six games and sev- 14-13. 7-2-1 over their last 10 and Vilardi, who was the 11th
dating to Jan. 7. Brian Elliott en of 10, falling out of first MAPLE LEAFS 4. PENGUINS 0 moved into the first wild- overall pick in the 2017
had 28 saves. place in the Metropolitan TORONTO (AP) — Jake card spot in the Western draft, scored the fastest
Oliver Bjorkstrand and Nick Division. The Capitals are Muzzin had a goal and two Conference. Laurent Bros- rookie debut goal in Kings
Foligno each had a goal also 1-4-1 at home since assists, Frederik Andersen soit made 29 saves for his history when he fired a wrist
and an assist for Columbus. the All-Star break. made 24 saves and Toron- sixth win of the season. shot past Florida’s Sergei
Stefan Matteau scored his Goaltender Braden Holtby to dealt Pittsburgh its most Nick Paul scored for the Bobrovsky 86 seconds into
first goal in more than four allowed goals to Shea We- lopsided loss of the season. Senators. Marcus Hogberg the game.
years, and Merzlikins had 29 ber, Brendan Gallagher Toronto had dropped three stopped 29 shots. Drew Doughty, Trevor
saves. and two to Chiarot on 32 of its last four, including DEVILS 2, SHARKS 1 Moore, Martin Frk and Ben
CANADIENS 4, CAPITALS 3, shots. a 5-2 loss at Pittsburgh on NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Hutton also scored for Los
OT Also scoring for Washington Tuesday. It was Andersen’s Mackenzie Blackwood Angeles. Jonathan Quick
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben were Lars Eller and Tom Wil- second shutout of the sea- made 36 saves in winning made 25 saves as the Kings
Chiarot scored his second son, who forced the over- son and No. 18 for his ca- his fifth straight start and snapped a three-game los-
of the game 58 seconds time with a goal with 20.1 reer. New Jersey beat San Jose ing streak to Florida.
into 3-on-3 OT to win it for seconds left. William Nylander, Kasperi in a matchup of struggling Aleksander Barkov had two
Montreal as Washington’s BLUES 1, COYOTES 0 Kapanen and Zach Hyman franchises. goals, and Jonathan Hu-
Alex Ovechkin scored his ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan also scored for Toronto. Defenseman P.K. Sub- berdeau (three assists) and
699th career goal and O’Reilly scored and Jordan John Tavares added two ban scored the winner on Mike Hoffman also scored
closed in on another mile- Binnington made 14 saves assists. a power play early in the for Florida. Bobrovsky fin-
stone. to lead St. Louis past Ari- Matt Murray made 26 stops third period. Jesper Bratt ished with 35 saves.q
Ovechkin fired up the zona. for Pittsburgh. had the other New Jersey
crowd by scoring in seven Binnington recorded his JETS 5, SENATORS 1 goal. Nikita Gusev had as-
minutes in and came close second consecutive shut- OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — sists on both.
to reaching 700 goals on out and the eighth of his Mark Scheifele snapped a Defenseman Tim Heed
a bang-bang play in the career. He had allowed at 12-game scoring drought scored for San Jose in the
third period. Instead, he’ll least three goals in eight with three power-play opener of its four-game
have to wait to become straight starts prior to his goals, helping Winnipeg trip. Martin Jones had 23
the eighth player in NHL his- shutout performances. beat Ottawa. saves.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, LIGHT-
NING 3
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alec
Martinez had a goal and
an assist in his Vegas debut,
and the Golden Knights
stopped Tampa Bay’s 11-
game win streak.
Martinez, acquired in a
trade with Los Angeles on