Rangers stymie Bruins again
Canadiens’ late goal beats Preds
BOSTON — Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves on his 35th birthday and the New York Rangers got thirdperiod goals from Pavel Buchnevich and Oscar Lindberg to beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday night.
New York, which has beaten Boston five straight times, outscored the Bruins 12-5 while sweeping the three-game season series.
Lundqvist stymied the Bruins on several outstanding chances and improved to 25-12-2 against Boston with a 1.93 goalsagainst average. He earned his 403rd NHL win, tying Grant Fuhr for 10th on the career list.
Brad Marchand scored his team-leading 29th goal for the Bruins to cut it to 2-1 at 12:56 of the third. But David Backes just about extinguished any final hopes for Boston when he was whistled for goaltender
interference with 2:22 remaining. CANADIENS 2, PREDATORS 1: In Montreal, Paul Byron scored the tie-breaking goal with 9 seconds left as Montreal edged Nashville in P.K. Subban’s first game against the Canadiens since they traded him last summer.
Brendan Gallagher also scored and Carey Price made 24 saves as Montreal extended its winning streak to four games.
Ryan Ellis scored for the Predators, with an assist from Subban, before leaving with a lower-body injury. Pekka Rinne stopped 24 shots but Nashville saw its four-game winning streak snapped. BLUE JACKETS 1, WILD
0: In Columbus, Ohio, Brandon Saad scored in the third period and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 38 shots to lift Columbus over Minnesota.
Saad got his 19th goal of the season at 4:32 when he charged in to get his own rebound and poked it past Devan Dubnyk, who played an otherwise excellent
game. Dubnyk made 39 saves for the Wild, which lost for the first time in three games.
Bobrovsky was every bit as outstanding for the Blue Jackets in the battle of the All-Star goalies, collecting his fourth shutout this season and the 16th of his career. CAPITALS 1, DEVILS 0:
In Washington, the NHLleading Capitals won their franchise-record 14th consecutive home game, beating New Jersey thanks to rookie forward Jakub Vrana’s power-play goal with about 12½ minutes left in the third period.
Capitals goalie Braden Holtby needed to make only 15 saves for his eighth shutout of the season. New Jersey lost its fifth in a row. FLYERS 2, PANTHERS 1 (SO): In Philadelphia, newly acquired Valtteri Filppula scored in regulation and Jakub Voracek and Jordan Weal netted goals in the shootout to lead Philadelphia over Florida.
Aaron Ekblad scored for the Panthers, who were trying to tie a franchise record with their sixth straight road victory.
SABRES 6, COYOTES 3: In Buffalo, Evander Kane scored the go-ahead goal with 5:36 remaining as Buffalo beat Arizona.
Ryan O’Reilly had a goal and two assists, including a no-look backhand pass to set up Kane’s goal. Marcus Foligno scored twice and Jack Eichel had a goal and two assists to help Buffalo snap an 0-3-1 skid.
ISLANDERS 5, STARS 4: In Dallas, Ryan Strome had a goal and two assists, and New York rallied with four straight goals to beat Dallas.
Strome scored the game’s first goal, then assisted on Andrew Ladd’s secondperiod goal and Dennis Seidenberg’s tiebreaker at 7:46 of the third. SENATORS 2, AVALANCHE 1: In Ottawa, Alex Burrows scored twice in his debut with Ottawa and led his new club to a win over Colorado.
Burrows was traded by the Vancouver Canucks to Ottawa on Monday for prospect Jonathan Dahlen.