Celtics’ winning streak reaches 15

SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE Calgary 5, PHILADELPHIA 4 Arizona 3, OTTAWA 2 (OT) DALLAS 6, Edmonton 3 WINNIPEG 5, New Jersey 2 LOS ANGELES 4, Florida 0 N.Y. Islanders 5, TAMPA BAY 3 Chicago 2, PITTSBURGH 1 Carolina 3, BUFFALO 1 Toronto 6, MONTREAL 0 WASHINGTON 3, Minnesota 1 NASHVILLE 5, Colorado 2 St. Louis at Vancouver, late Boston at San Jose, late SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE N.Y. Islanders at Carolina, 5 Colorado at Detroit, 6 Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 7 Los Angeles at Vegas, 8 Florida at Anaheim, 8 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Columbus at Buffalo, 7 Arizona at Toronto, 7 Calgary at Washington, 7 Winnipeg at Nashville, 8 New Jersey at Minnesota, 8 Anaheim at San Jose, 10:30 WEDNESDAY’S SCHEDULE Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 Edmonton at Detroit, 7 Toronto at Florida, 7 Boston at New Jersey, 7 Philadelphia at N.Y. Islanders, 7 Vancouver at Pittsburgh, 7 Ottawa at Washington, 7 N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, 7 Calgary at Columbus, 7 Chicago at Tampa Bay, 7:30 Montreal at Nashville, 8 Dallas at Colorado, 9 San Jose at Arizona, 9 Vegas at Anaheim, 10 Winnipeg at Los Angeles, 10:30 FRIDAY’S RESULTS Columbus 2, N.Y. Rangers 0 DETROIT 3, Buffalo 1 Nikita Kucherov TB Alex Ovechkin Wash. J. Tavares Islanders Mark Stone Ottawa Sean Couturier Phila. C. Keller Ari. M. Scheifele Winnipeg Jason Zucker Minn. Jamie Benn Dallas Logan Couture SJ Evander Kane Buffalo Anthony Mantha Det. Auston Matthews Tor. James Neal Vegas David Pastrnak Bos. Jaden Schwartz STL Steven Stamkos TB Vladimir Tarasenko STL A. Anisimov Chicago T.J. Oshie Wash.

Caps end Wild streak; Ovechkin OK

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WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin returned from taking a puck to the face, T.J. Oshie had a goal and an assist and the Washington Capitals snapped the Minnesota Wild’s winning streak at four with a 3-1 victory Saturday night.

Behind goals from Oshie, Dmitry Orlov and Evgeny Kuznetsov and 30 saves by goaltender Braden Holtby, the Capitals stopped their skid at two and won their fifth consecutive game at home.

Ovechkin was bloodied in the second period when a puck ramped off his stick and into his face, but Washington’s captain got some repairs and was back on the ice for the start of the third. He set up Kuznetsov’s goal late in the period.

Nino Niederreiter scored for Minnesota, which lost for the first time since Nov. 8.

After back-to-back bad road losses, the Capitals got a boost from scoring first. A boarding penalty to Kyle Quincey opened the door, and Oshie gave them a 1-0 lead 9:42 in with his seventh power-play goal of the season, tied with Steven Stamkos for the most in the NHL.

It was the first power-play goal the Wild had allowed in seven games.

Bryant McIntosh scored 21 points and Scottie Lindsey added 20 to lead No. 20 Northwestern to an 82-74 victory over La Salle in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Tournament on Saturday in Uncasville, Conn.

The Wildcats (3-1) will face Texas Tech in Sunday’s championship. Northwestern has not won an inseason tournament since the 2013 South Padre Island Invitational.

Dererk Pardon had 14 points and seven rebounds for the Wildcats, and Aaron Falzon scored 11.

Northwestern made 12 of 21 3-point attempts and shot 56 percent.

After suffering its first loss of the season to Creighton, falling 92-88 Wednesday, Northwestern struggled early against the Explorers (3-1). Tied 13-13, the Wildcats loosened up with a 9-1 run that was capped by Lindsey’s layup at 9:38 to make it 22-14.

B.J. Johnson led the Explorers with 22 points. Long-range bombers: No. 19 Purdue hit 19 of 31 from 3-point range and crushed Fairfield 106-64 in West Lafayette, Ind.

Dakota Mathias finished with a game-best 23 points, and Vince Edwards had 21 points and 11 rebounds for the Boilermakers (4-0). The Stags fell to 2-1. Hall stays perfect: Desi Rodriguez scored 19 points and No. 22 Seton Hall used an 18-2 second-half run to shake off pesky NJIT for an 82-53 win in Newark, N.J.

Sophomore Myles Powell added 13 points to help the Pirates (4-0) win their 20th straight nonconference game at the Prudential Center. NJIT is 1-2. Always in control: Daxter Miles scored a career-high 32 points to lead No. 24 West Virginia to a 111-48 rout of visiting Morgan State (2-2).

The Mountaineers (2-1) shot 45 of 77 (58 percent). Layups: Isaiah Reese posted the first triple-double in Canisius’ 114-year history with 23 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds in a 104-84 win over Youngstown State . ... Pennsylvania set a school record for margin of victory with a 99-40 rout of Penn State Brandywine, a member of the U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association. SATURDAY’S RESULTS CHARLOTTE 102, L.A. Clippers 87 Utah 125, ORLANDO 85 Boston 110, ATLANTA 99 Golden State 124, PHILA. 116 Houston 105, MEMPHIS 83 Milwaukee at Dallas, late Sacramento at Portland, late SUNDAY’S SCHEDULE Washington at Toronto, 3:30 Indiana at Miami, 5 Golden State at Brooklyn, 6 Detroit at Minnesota, 7 Chicago at Phoenix, 8 Denver at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 MONDAY’S SCHEDULE Minnesota at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 7 p.m. Indiana at Orlando, 7 p.m. Utah at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. L.A. Clippers

at New York, 7:30 p.m. Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m. Wash. at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Okla. City at N. Orleans, 8 p.m. Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Atlanta at San Ant., 8:30 p.m. Denver at Sacramento, 10 p.m. FRIDAY’S RESULTS INDIANA 107, Detroit 100 Miami 91, WASHINGTON 88 BROOKLYN 118, Utah 107 CLEVE. 118, Clippers 113 (OT) TORONTO 107, New York 84 CHICAGO 123, Charlotte 120 SAN ANT. 104, Okla. City 101 Minnesota 111, DALLAS 87 SACRAMENTO 86, Portland 82 DENVER 146, New Orleans 114 Phoenix 122, L.A. LAKERS 113 CALENDAR Feb. 8: Trade deadline. Feb. 16-18, 2018: All-Star Weekend, Los Angeles SCORING Harden, HOU Antetokounmpo, MIL James, CLE Porzingis, NYK Cousins, NO Davis, NO Lillard, POR Durant, GS DeRozan, TOR Beal, WAS Curry, GS Booker, PHX Walker, CHA Griffin, LAC Oladipo, IND Embiid, PHL McCollum, POR 509 31.8 428 30.6 463 28.9 389 27.8 434 27.1 376 25.1 372 24.8 347 24.8 370 24.7 361 24.1 336 24.0 399 23.5 327 23.4 323 23.1 369 23.1 276 23.0 312 22.3

Kyrie Irving scored 30 points, Jaylen Brown added a career-high 27 and the Celtics won their 15th consecutive game with a 110-99 victory over the Hawks on Saturday night in Atlanta.

At 15-2, Boston leads the NBA and matched the best start in franchise history through 17 games. The winning streak is the club’s fifth-longest, four behind the 2008-09 team that set the franchise mark.

The Celtics erased a 16-point deficit to take their first lead on Brown’s 3-pointer midway through the third quarter. It marked Boston’s fourth victory when trailing by at least 16 during the streak.

will miss a week with a left knee injury, the latest setback for a Cavaliers point guard. With and out with injuries, Shumpert has been starting for the Cavs . ... The Bulls’ will miss Sunday’s game against the Suns with an ankle injury. It will be the sixth straight game missed by Nwaba.