Nylander rallies Leafs past Flames
William Nylander tied it with 1:28 left in regulation and scored 1:06 into overtime to give the NHL-leading Toronto Maple Leafs a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.
Michael Hutchinson stopped 21 shots in his second consecutive start with Frederik Andersen out with a lowerbody ailment. Auston Matthews had two assists to help Toronto split the two-game series and improve to 15-4-2.
Andrew Mangiapane scored for Calgary with 3:27 left in the third.
David Rittich made 37 saves in his second straight start with Jacob Markstrom sidelined by an upper-body injury. He beat the Maple Leafs 3-0 on Monday night.
Nylander took a pass from Matthews in the extra period and beat Rittich high for his seventh of the season.
Stars 3, Panthers 0 — Anton Khudobin made 43 saves for his second shutout of the season, leading the Dallas Stars to a 3-0 victory over the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night that ended their six-game winless streak.
Defensemen John Klingberg, Esa Lindell and Joel Kiviranta scored for the Stars, who are 1-3-3 in their last seven. They hadn’t won since beating Columbus on the road 6-3 on Feb. 2.
Khudobin has shut out Florida three times in nine career starts. He has 10 career shutouts overall.
Chris Driedger made his fifth start in Florida’s last six games and stopped 23 shots in the loss.
The goaltending pairing of Khudobin and Driedger was a rematch from Monday, when the Panthers had 52 shots on goal. That included 29 shots in the second period — a franchise record for one frame — and Khudobin matched his career best with 49 saves in Florida’s 3-1 win.
Lightning 3, Hurricanes 0 — Ross Colton scored in his NHL debut and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 saves in the Tampa Bay Lightning’s victory over Carolina in the third of four straight games between the teams.
Blake Coleman and Barclay Goodrow also scored, and Alex Killorn had two assists. Vasilevskiy had his 22nd career shutout and first since March 2020.
Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves for the Hurricanes after shutting out the Lightning in his previous start. Carolina has lost consecutive games for the first time this season.
Colton put Tampa Bay on the board on his first career shot on goal during his second career shift. As Victor Hedman cut down the right wing side and circled behind the net, Colton whittled his way to the top of the crease where he was able to push the puck under the pads of Nedeljkoviv at 6:43.
Flyers 4, Rangers 3 — James van Riemsdyk and Shayne Gostisbehere each scored a power-play goal and Claude Giroux had three assists in his return from a COVID-19 absence to lead Philadelphia past New York.
Chris Kreider had a hat trick for the Rangers on three tap-ins in front.
Giroux, the Flyers’ captain, sat out two weeks after testing positive for coronavirus and missed their loss Sunday to Boston at Lake Tahoe. He played his 903rd career game to tie with Bill Barber for most in the regular season with the Flyers.
Erik Gustafsson and Kevin Hayes also scored for the Flyers, and Brian Elliott stopped 24 shots.