SPORTSINBRIEF
LIGHTNING 5, OILERS 2
TAMPA, Fla. — Nikita Kucherov had two goals and an assist, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 33 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Tuesday night. Steven Stamkos had a goal and two assists, and Brayden Point and Yanni Gourde also scored for the Lightning.
Edmonton got goals from Ryan Strome and Leon Draisaitl, and Mikko Koskinen stopped 30 shots. Connor McDavid was kept off the scoresheet for just the second time this season as his eight-game point streak ended (six goals, five assists).
Kucherov has eight goals and 14 points in nine career games against Edmonton.
Vasilevskiy has allowed two or fewer goals in eight of 11 games. The Lightning have won seven in a row at home against Edmonton.
LEAFS 3, KNIGHTS 1
TORONTO — Frederik Andersen made 36 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 3-1 on Tuesday.
Connor Brown, Mitch Marner and Nazem Kadri, into an empty net, scored for Toronto (10-5-0). Brown also had an assist.
Cody Eakin replied for Vegas (6-8-1), which got 18 stops from Marc-Andre Fleury.
The Knights were by far the better team through two periods and had a couple of opportunities to tie the score early in the third when trailing 21, only to watch Andersen shut the door. The Knights, who got winger Max Pacioretty back from an upper-body injury but are still without centre Paul Stastny, lost another forward when Erik Haula went down with an apparent right leg injury five minutes into the third. Haula, who collided with Patrick Marleau along the boards, stayed down for a few minutes before being stretchered off.
SENATORS 7, DEVILS 3
OTTAWA — Mark Stone had two goals and three assists and Colin White also scored twice as the Ottawa Senators beat the New Jersey Devils 7-3 on Tuesday.
Thomas Chabot, Ryan Dzingel and Magnus Paajarvi, into an empty net, had the other Senators (6-6-3) goals. Craig Anderson made 30 saves before he was replaced by Mike McKenna (six saves) for the final five minutes. Chabot also had two assists, while Matt Duchene had three.
Taylor Hall, Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac scored for the Devils (6-6-1), who haven’t won consecutive games since starting the season with four straight wins.
Cory Schneider started in goal for the Devils but was replaced by Keith Kinkaid in the second period after allowing four goals on 22 shots. Kinkaid turned aside 17 shots in relief.
Stone scored his second of the game to chase Schneider from the New Jersey net.
RANGERS 5, HABS 3
NEW YORK — Neal Pionk scored the tiebreaking goal on a sensational, end-to-end rush late in the third period and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Tuesday night for their fourth straight win.
Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider each had a goal and an assist, Tony DeAngelo and Pavel Buchnevich also scored, and Kevin Hayes had three assists for the Rangers. Henrik Lundqvist made 31 saves.
New York trailed 3-1 early in the second period before scoring the last four goals — three in the third.
On the go-ahead goal, Pionk brought the puck from behind the Rangers’ net, spun around one Montreal player, skated up the left side, cut in toward the front of the Canadiens’ net and put it past goalie Carey Price while falling to the ice with 2:44 left.