Columbus stuns Washington in overtime; Lightning romps
Predators win opener vs. Avs
WASHINGTON — Artemi Panarin scored 6:02 into overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals on Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
Panarin made an incredible individual move to drive by Dmitry Orlov and went backhand-toforehand to beat Philipp Grubauer top shelf.
Game 2 is Sunday night in Washington.
Alexander Wennberg, Thomas Vanek and Seth Jones scored in regulation, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 27 shots for Columbus.
Wennberg left the game with an upper-body injury in the third period and didn’t return. Jones, son of former NBA player Popeye Jones, drew a penalty late in the third period, almost put the puck in his own net and tied it on the ensuing power play with 4:26 left in regulation to send the game to OT. LIGHTNING 5, DEVILS 2: In Tampa, Fla., the host Lightning got two early goals before holding off New Jersey.
Ondrej Palat, Tyler Johnson and Yanni Gourde scored, helping Tampa Bay build a 3-0 lead that New Jersey trimmed to one goal before Alex Killorn and Nikita Kucherov, who added an empty-netter,
finished off the win. PREDATORS 4, AVALANCHE 2: In Nashville, Tenn., Filip Forsberg scored twice in the third period as Nashville beat Colorado in Game 1 of the first-round Western Conference series.
Pekka Rinne made 25 saves, including a handful on Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon.
Austin Watson had a goal and an assist for Nashville.
BRUINS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 1: In Boston, Brad Marchand, David Backes and David Krejci each scored a power-play goal, and Tuukka Rask stopped 26 shots in Boston’s victory over Toronto.
David Pastrnak also scored for Boston, and Sean Kuraly bunted one out of the air and into the net over goalie Frederik Andersen.
SHARKS 3, DUCKS 0: In Anaheim, Calif., Evander Kane got two goals midway in the second period to open the scoring as San Jose earned a Game 1 victory over Anaheim.
Martin Jones made 25 saves for the Sharks.