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Wednesday 27 March 2019

Murray stays unbeaten in NYC as Pens top Rangers 5-2

By The Associated Press an empty-net goal on a
NEW YORK (AP) — Teddy length-of-the-ice shot.
Blueger scored two goals, Sam Reinhart scored his
Matt Murray made 33 saves 20th of the season for the
and the Pittsburgh Pen- Sabres and had his 21st tak-
guins surged to a 5-2 win en away by a Devils' chal-
over the New York Rangers lenge. Linus Ullmark made
on Monday night. 18 saves as the Sabres fell
Justin Schultz, Nick Bjugs- to 1-9-1 in their last 11.
tad and Matt Cullen also PREDATORS 1, WILD 0
scored for Pittsburgh. Phil ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) —
Kessel and Marcus Petters- Juuse Saros made 29 saves
son each added two as- for his third shutout of the
sists. season and Ryan Johan-
Murray improved to 6-0-0 sen scored a short-handed
against the Rangers in the goal to lead Nashville past
regular season and 5-0-0 at Minnesota.
Madison Square Garden. With the victory, the Pred-
Pittsburgh pulled into a tie ators clinched a spot in
with the New York Island- the Western Conference
ers for second place in the playoffs. They are in sec-
Metropolitan Division with ond place in the Central
95 points. Both teams trail Division, two points behind
Washington by one point Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray (30) blocks a shot by New York Rangers center Brett Winnipeg.
for first. Howden (21) with his body during the third period of an NHL hockey game in New York, Monday, Devan Dubnyk stopped
Brendan Lemieux and Vinni March 25, 2019. 18 of 19 shots for the Wild,
Lettieri scored for the Rang- Associated Press who remain two points out
ers. Alexandar Georgiev, of the last playoff spot in
coming off a 44-save ef- previous 13. and Mike Matheson also time this season. the West with five games to
fort in a 2-1 overtime win The Sharks lost their season- scored. Evgenii Dadanov Nikita Kucherov scored play.
Saturday night at Toronto, high sixth (0-5-1) straight and Mike Hoffman each his 38th goal to record his STARS 5, JETS 2
stopped 31 shots. game. It's their longest skid had two assists. 121st point of the year, the WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP)
KINGS 3, FLAMES 0 since going 0-6-0 in March Rookie Sam Montembeault second-most by a Russian — Tyler Seguin and Radek
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — 2017. allowed two goals on four player in NHL history behind Faksa each scored a pair of
Backup goaltender Jack Andreas Athanasiou and shots before getting pulled Alex Mogilny, who had 127 goals and Dallas snapped
Campbell made 42 saves Christoffer Ehn also scored just over four minutes into in 1992-93. Victor Hedman a two-game losing streak.
in his second shutout of the for Detroit. game. Roberto Luongo also scored. Esa Lindell also scored and
season and Los Angeles Evander Kane and Tomas made 28 saves in relief. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped Alexander Radulov had
beat Western Conference- Hertl scored for the Sharks. LIGHTNING 5, BRUINS 4 13 shots for Tampa Bay. two assists for the Stars (39-
leading Calgary. Martin Jones finished with TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Steven Brad Marchand scored 31-6), who maintained their
Jonny Brodzinski and de- 20 saves. Stamkos scored twice and twice while Brandon Car- hold on the first wild-card
fenseman Derek Forbort MAPLE LEAFS 7, PANTHERS 5 finished with four points, lo and Charlie Coyle also spot in the Western Confer-
scored, and Tyler Toffoli TORONTO (AP) — John Ta- and Tampa Bay became scored for Boston. Tuukka ence.
added an empty-net goal vares had the first four-goal the fourth NHL team to win Rask finished with 23 saves. Ben Bishop stopped 21
for Los Angeles, which won game of his career, lead- at least 59 games in a sea- DEVILS 3, SABRES 1 shots.
its third straight. ing Toronto to the win over son, rallying from two goals NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Cory Kyle Connor had a goal
Campbell earned his first Florida. down to beat Boston. Schneider overcame an and an assist and Patrik
win since Feb. 5 for the Zach Hyman had a goal With five games left, Tampa embarrassing early, bad- Laine ended a 12-game
Kings, who won't qualify for and two assists, and Patrick Bay (59-14-4) has a chance hop goal from center ice, scoring drought with his
the postseason. Marleau and Jake Muzzin to surpass the NHL record made 45 saves and got the 30th goal of the season.
Flames goaltender Mike also scored for Toronto. of 62 wins, set by the 1995- benefit of having a game- Connor Hellebuyck made
Smith made 18 saves. Mitch Marner had three 96 Detroit Red Wings. The tying, third-period tally nulli- 32 saves for the Jets (45-
RED WINGS 3, SHARKS 2 assists, while Morgan Rielly only other franchise to win fied for goaltender interfer- 27-4), who are in first place
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — and William Nylander each at least 59 was the Montre- ence in leading New Jersey in the Central Division, two
Dylan Larkin scored in the finished with two assists. al Canadiens in 1976-77 (60 past Buffalo. points ahead of Nashville,
first minute, Jonathan Berni- Frederik Andersen made 31 wins) and 1977-78 (59). Blake Coleman and Pavel with a game in hand.
er had 38 saves and Detroit saves for the Leafs. Anthony Cirelli scored the Zacha scored power-play BLUES 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1
beat San Jose. Jayce Hawryluk scored winning goal with 52.4 sec- goals as New Jersey won ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ivan Bar-
The Red Wings have won twice and added an assist onds left as Tampa Bay its second straight and for bashev, Zach Sanford and
four of their last five games for Florida. Jonathan Hu- won when trailing after the the fourth time in 14 games Ryan O’Reilly scored to
after going 1-9-3 over their berdeau added two goals second period for the ninth (4-9-1). Miles Wood added help St. Louis beat Vegas.q