Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Hornqvist, Penguins top Red Wings
PITTSBURGH >> Patric Hornqvist had two goals and an assist and the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings 5-1 on Sunday.
Hornqvist has 14 goals this season. Sidney Crosby scored his 11th of the season, Kris Letang added his 14th on the power play and Sam Lafferty also scored for Pittsburgh, which moved within one point of firstplace Washington in the Metropolitan Division.
Crosby continued a fourgame point streak on Sunday. He has six goals and 19 points in 12 games since returning from core muscle surgery on Jan. 14.
Matt Murray made 27 saves for Pittsburgh, which has won 11 of its past 15 games.
Valtteri Filppula scored his fifth of the season for Detroit, which lost its fourth straight game. The Red Wings have been outscored 16-5 in their past four games and 59-23 in their past 16. Detroit has lost 14 of its past 16 games.
Sunday’s loss was the third straight game, and the second time in as many days, that the Red Wings gave up four unanswered goals after taking a 1-0 lead. The Red Wings lost 4-1 at Boston on Saturday.
Jimmy Howard made 12 saves, but was pulled after Crosby’s goal gave Pittsburgh a 4-1 lead in the second period. Jonathan Bernier stopped 18 of 19 shots.
Filppula opened the scoring at 5:37 of the first period before Lafferty tied it at 1-1 a couple of minutes later. BRUINS 3, RANGERS 1 >> Charlie McAvoy, Charlie Coyle, Patrice Bergeron each scored, and the Boston Bruins began a four-game road trip with a win against New
York Sunday.
Jaroslav Halak made 25 saves as Boston picked up its ninth win in 10 games.
Mika Zibanejad scored, but the Rangers’ fourgame winning streak was snapped. Alexandar Georgiev made his third start in a row for New York and had 31 saves.
Coyle scored the game winner with a short-handed goal at 18:42 of the second period. The forward stole a puck from Jacob Trouba at the blueline, then out skated everyone on the ice before converting a breakaway for his 14th of the season.
McAvoy opened the scoring at 19:18 of the first period after a puck took an odd bounce over the head of Georgiev.
McAvoy tossed a shot near the net and the puck bounced off two Rangers skaters before finding the back of the net.
McAvoy also scored in the Bruins’ 4-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday. DUCKS 5, CANUCKS 1 >> Adam Henrique scored twice, Derek Grant had a goal and an assist, and Anaheim beat Vancouver Canucks Sunday.
Brendan Guhle and Sam Steel also scored for the Ducks, who have wins in two of their last three games.
The Ducks scored twice on the power play after going 1 for 21 with the extra man over their previous eight games. Anaheim was coming off a 6-0 loss to Calgary at home Thursday night.
Elias Pettersson scored for the Canucks, who ended a two-game winning streak and are 2-4-1 in their last seven games.
The loss leaves the Canucks one point behind the Edmonton Oilers in the race for first place in the Pacific Division and one point ahead of the Vegas Golden Knights. The Ducks remain 11 points out of a playoff spot.
Anaheim goaltender John Gibson made 37 saves.
Vancouver’s Thatcher Demko stopped 23 shots.
Steel put Anaheim ahead 4-1 at 5:12 of the third with a shot through a crowd of players.
Guhle padded the lead at 13:44, scoring his second of the season on a 2-on-1 with Grant.
The teams exchanged second-period goals. PREDATORS 2, BLUES 1 >> Kyle Turris scored with 2:12 left, and Nashville beat St. Louis Sunday night to take the season series from the defending Stanley Cup champs.
Better yet, Nashville improved to 13-11-4 at home where the Predators have struggled all season. They now have won seven of their last 10, climbing a point out of the Western Conference’s second wild card.
Craig Smith also scored for Nashville, his sixth in five games.
Pekka Rinne, pulled from his last start Feb. 10 in Vancouver, made 38 saves for the win. Rinne made 14 of those in the third, keeping the game tied until Filip Forsberg chased the puck along the boards. He pushed it over to Turris, who beat goalie Jordan Binnington with a wrister for his ninth of the season.
Tyler Bozak scored for St. Louis, and Binnington finished with 22 saves.
The Blues currently lead both the Central Division and the Western Conference, but they managed only one point in four games against Nashville in a shootout loss on Nov. 25. St. Louis now has lost four straight and is 2-7-3 over the last 12 games. DEVILS 4, BLUE JACKETS 3 >> Mackenzie Blackwood made a career-high 52 saves and stopped six of seven attempts in the shootout to lead New Jersey past the scuffling Columbus Blue Jackets.
Nikita Gusev and Jesper Bratt scored in the tiebreaker for New Jersey, which beat the Blue Jackets for the first time in 10 meetings.
The previous Devils victory over Columbus came in
December 2017.
Pierre-Luc Dubois had the only shootout goal for the Blue Jackets, who dropped to 0-2-3 in their last five games.
Joey Anderson, Nicholas Merkley and Kyle Palmieri scored for the Devils in regulation.
Andrew Peeke, Zach Werenski and Kevin Stenlund provided the goals for the Blue Jackets. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 23 shots in losing his second straight.
Merzlikins stopped Damon Severson and Jack Hughes twice in close in the opening 1:26 of overtime.
The game was played a little more than two hours after the Devils announced they had traded defenseman and captain Andy Greene to the New York Islanders for a prospect and a second-round draft pick in 2021.
In the third period, the Devils announced they had been able to send 21-goal scorer Blake Coleman to the Tampa Bay Lightning for junior hockey prospect Nolan Foote and a first-round pick this year. SENATORS 4, STARS 3 >> Artem Anisimov scored at 3:48 of overtime to give Ottawa a victory over Dallas on Sunday night.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Brady Tkachuk and Tyler Ennis also scored for the Senators. Craig Anderson stopped 36 shots.
John Klingberg, Stephen Johns and Joe Pavelski scored for the Stars, and Anton Khudobin finished with 42 saves.
Dallas finished a threegame road trip at 2-0-1.
Both teams were playing their third game in four nights. Ottawa was coming off a 4-2 loss to Toronto on Saturday, while the Stars beat the Canadiens 4-3 in