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Henrique, Getzlaf help Ducks win again, beat Penguins 4-2

By The Associated Press empty-netter as the Island-
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Adam ers began a four-game
Henrique and Ryan Get- trip in fine fashion. Greiss
zlaf each had a goal and made 30 saves and helped
an assist, and the Ana- put an end to Mikko Ran-
heim Ducks rallied past the tanen's string of 14 straight
Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on games with at least a point.
Monday night. The streak was tied for the
The Ducks won for the ninth Avalanche's third-longest
time in 10 games despite since the team moved to
spotting the Penguins a town in 1995-96.
two-goal lead. Henrique Gabriel Landeskog scored
started the comeback with Colorado's only goal.
a power-play goal early Semyon Varlamov strug-
in the second period and gled yet again, allowing
Getzlaf's empty net tally three goals on 20 shots.
in the final minute pushed He's surrendered 21 over his
Anaheim to its sixth straight last five appearances.
road win. Ondrej Kase SENATORS 4, PREDATORS 3,
and Kiefer Sherwood also OT
scored for the Ducks. OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) —
John Gibson, a Pittsburgh Thomas Chabot scored 21
native, stopped 28 shots, seconds into overtime and
including the final 24 he Ottawa recovered after Anaheim Ducks' Ryan Getzlaf (15) scores an empty net goal as Pittsburgh Penguins' Jake Guentzel
faced to pick up the vic- blowing a three-goal lead. (59) defends during the third period of an NHL hockey game, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in Pittsburgh.
tory in his hometown. Ottawa led 3-0 after the The Ducks won 4-2.
Evgeni Malkin got his 11th first period, but Roman Josi Associated Press
goal of the season for got two goals and Craig
Pittsburgh and Bryan Rust Smith also scored to tie it
added his sixth but the Pen- for Nashville.
guins couldn't cool off the Maxime Lajoie, Brady Tka-
Ducks. Casey DeSmith fin- chuk and Ryan Dzingel
ished with 32 saves but lost scored for the Senators,
for only the third time in his who handed Nashville its
last 11 starts. first loss against an Eastern
BLUE JACKETS 1, GOLDEN Conference opponent.
KNIGHTS 0 Craig Anderson stopped
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — 31 shots.
Nick Foligno scored 40 sec- Pekka Rinne started in net
onds into the third period, for Nashville but was pulled
Sergei Bobrovsky made 28 after allowing three goals
saves and Columbus beat on 11 shots. That ended
Vegas. his seven-game unbeaten
Foligno found the rebound streak against the Senators.
after Seth Jones' shot and Juuse Saros relieved and
knocked it past goalie made 11 saves.
Malcolm Subban from the BRUINS 4, CANADIENS 0
doorstep. MONTREAL (AP) — Jaroslav
Bobrovsky got his 25th ca- Halak stopped 22 shots for
reer shutout and first this his third shutout of the sea-
season. son and Boston beat Mon-
He repelled a late attack treal.
by the Golden Knights after Joakim Nordstrom, Colby
Subban was pulled for an Cave, David Krejci and
extra skater with a minute Brad Marchand scored for
left. the Bruins, who snapped a
Subban performed well two-game skid. Boston was
starting in place of Marc- on the second game of a
Andre Fleury in the second back-to-back after losing
game of a back-to-back. 4-2 in Buffalo on Sunday.
He made 30 saves. Halak improved to 5-0-0
ISLANDERS 4, AVALANCHE when facing former team-
1 mate Carey Price, and
DENVER (AP) — Goalten- helped the Bruins leapfrog
der Thomas Greiss bottled the Canadiens for the first
up Colorado's fast-flying of- wild-card spot in the East-
fense and Johnny Boychuk ern Conference.
scored his first goal of the Price, vying for his 300th ca-
season for New York. reer victory, finished with 31
Jordan Eberle and An- saves as the Canadiens lost
ders Lee also scored while for just the second time in
Valtteri Filppula added an seven games.q