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Ovechkin’s milestone goal leads Capitals past Toronto 3-2

By The Associated Press by Pittsburgh Penguins. snapped. James Reimer for Arizona, and Darcy gave up three goals on
TORONTO (AP) — Alex Brent Burns picked up his stopped 21 shots in his Keumper had 30 saves. nine shots before being
Ovechkin scored the 650th 12th of the season, and fourth consecutive start. Adam Gaudette tied it pulled 10:33 into the game.
goal of his career and Evander Kane added a DEVILS 4, SENATORS 0 late in the third period for It was the second straight
Braden Holtby made 40 game Hart was yanked. Bri-
saves as the Washington an Elliott stopped 29 of 31
Capitals defeated the To- shots in relief.
ronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on PREDATORS 2, KINGS 1
Thursday night. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Tom Wilson had a goal and Roman Josi had a goal and
an assist, and Brett Con- an assist as the Nashville
nolly also scored for Wash- topped Los Angeles and
ington, which won con- moved atop the Central
secutive games for the first Division with its third win in
time in two weeks. Lars Eller four games. The Predators
added two assists. have 77 points, one more
Andreas Johnsson and than Winnipeg (76), though
John Tavares scored for the Jets have three games
Toronto. Frederik Andersen in hand on Nashville.
made 25 stops. Kyle Turris scored for Nash-
The Leafs, who were play- ville, which also swept the
ing at home for the first season series with Los An-
time since Feb. 6 following geles. Goalie Pekka Rinne
a season-long six-game made 28 saves for the win.
trip that ended with a 3-2-1 Michael Amadio scored for
record, entered 7-2-2 over the Kings, who are 0-4-2 in
their last 11, but had also losing their sixth straight.
dropped two straight. STARS 5, BLUES 2
The Capitals, meanwhile, Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) celebrates his goal with teammates on the DALLAS (AP) —Jamie Benn
were 6-3-1 over their previ- bench during second-period NHL hockey game action against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto, had his first multi-goal
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019.
ous 10 after a 0-5-2 stretch Associated Press game since early October
that culminated with a 6-3 and Dallas ended St. Louis’
loss at Scotiabank Arena short-handed goal for the NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Cory Vancouver. Bo Horvat also franchise-record 11-game
on Jan. 23. Sharks, who beat Casey Schneider made 30 saves scored, and Markstrom winning streak.
LIGHTNING 2, SABRES 1 DeSmith three times in the in posting his first shutout stopped 35 shots. When Benn scored the
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nikita opening 14 minutes and since November 2017 and WILD 4, RANGERS 1 game’s first goal 3:46 into
Kucherov became the kept the Penguins in check New Jersey beat under- NEW YORK (AP) — Zach the second period, the
fastest player to 100 points the rest of the way to sweep manned Ottawa in a game Parise had a goal and an Blues trailed for the first time
in a season since Mario the season series from the in which both teams gave assist, and Minnesota end- since Feb. 5 — a span of
Lemieux, and he and Ste- team that edged them in indications they were get- ed a five-game skid with a more than 517 minutes on
ven Stamkos scored in the six games in the 2016 Stan- ting ready to make trades win over New York. the ice over 10 games.
shootout to lift Tampa Bay. ley Cup Final. in the next few days. Mikael Granlund and Jared Radek Faksa and Alexan-
Kucherov became the The Sharks have won eight Travis Zajac, Steven San- Spurgeon also scored and der Radulov put Dallas up
league’s first 100-point of 10 overall and pulled tini, Kurtis Gabriel and Miles Jordan Greenway added 3-0 with goals in a 65-sec-
player this season with his within one point of Calgary Wood scored for the Devils, an empty-netter. Devan ond span midway through
30th goal. He got there in for the top spot in the Pa- who won for the third time Dubnyk made 33 saves for the second period. Ty-
62 games, one more than it cific Division. in four games. Anders Nils- the Wild, who earned their ler Seguin also scored for
took Lemieux in 1996-97. DeSmith finished with 29 son had 27 saves for the first victory since Feb. 9 at the Stars, who snapped a
Andrei Vasilevskiy had 29 saves, but Pittsburgh stum- Senators, whose 22-33-5 re- New Jersey. three-game losing streak
saves and stopped both bled out of the gate and cord is the worst in the NHL Pavel Buchnevich scored in which they were shut
shootout attempts he never recovered to lose for this season. Mark Stone, for the Rangersm and out twice. Anton Khudo-
faced. The Lightning have just the second time in six Matt Duchene and Ryan Henrik Lundqvist made 31 bin stopped 43 shots while
won eight straight and games. Dzingel, the Senators’ first, saves. starting his seventh consec-
earned points in 12 in a row HURRICANES 4, PANTHERS 3 second- and fourth-lead- CANADIENS 5, FLYERS 1 utive game for the Stars.
(10-0-2). SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Justin ing scorers, were all healthy MONTREAL (AP) — Brendan Vladimir Tarasenko and
Rasmus Dahlin scored for Williams had two goals and scratches. Gallagher earned his first Ryan O’Reilly scored for St.
Buffalo, and Carter Hutton an assist and Carolina ral- COYOTES 3, CANUCKS 2, OT career hat trick and Mon- Louis.
stopped 39 shots. lied for two goals down to VANCOUVER, British Co- treal defeated Philadel- OILERS 4, ISLANDERS 3, OT
Kucherov is the first player in beat Florida. lumbia (AP) — Alex Gal- phia. EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) —
Lightning franchise history Nino Niederreiter had a chenyuk scored 1:54 into Rookie Jesperi Kotkani- Connor McDavid scored in
to record multiple 100-point goal and an assist, and Jus- overtime on an impressive emi and Tomas Tatar also overtime and added an as-
seasons and is the seventh tin Faulk also scored a goal individual effort to lift Ari- scored for the Cana- sist as Edmonton snapped
player in the past 20 years Florida, which has won sev- zona over Vancouver. diens, who won their sec- a five-game losing streak.
with back-to-back such en of its last nine games. Galchenyuk used a sweep- ond straight. Carey Price Leon Draisaitl, Sam Gagner
campaigns. Peter Mrazek made 27 ing deke to get around a stopped 29 shots for his 25th and Oscar Klefbom also
SHARKS 4, PENGUINS 0 saves. defender, faked a move victory of the season. scored for the Oilers, who
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tomas Aleksander Barkov, Evgenii behind the net that fooled Michael Raffl scored in the have won two games out
Hertl scored a pair of first- Dadonov and Jonathan goalie Jacob Markstrom third period for the Flyers, of their last 13.
period power-play goals, Huberdeau each had a and stuffed the puck in who have dropped two Anders Lee, Brock Nelson
Martin Jones stopped 26 goal and an assist for the against the near post. straight after winning three and Cal Clutterbuck scored
shots and San Jose took Panthers, whose three- Jakob Chychrun and Law- in a row. for the Islanders, who have
advantage of sloppy play game winning streak was son Crouse also scored Flyers goalie Carter Hart lost two straight.q