Capitals end 6-game losing skid
Tom Wilson scored against the team he's ruffled the most during his NHL career, T.J. Oshie had two goals with a fight mixed in and the Washington Capitals beat the visiting New York Rangers 6-3 on Saturday, snapping their six-game skid.
The Rangers' rough run continued in their fourth consecutive loss, with a costly injury coming on top of another defensive letdown. Top-pairing defenseman Ryan Lindgren left in the first period after taking a hard hit from Oshie into the boards and did not return.
All-Star goaltender Igor Shesterkin gave up five goals on 22 shots before getting pulled after two periods.
Evgeny Kuzntesov scored two goals — one each against Shesterkin and backup Jaroslav Halak — and Sonny Milano had the other. Beyond scoring twice, Oshie fought Barclay Goodrow, who was unhappy with the hit on Lindgren, and assisted on Milano's goal to give him a Gordie Howe Hat Trick. Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves for the Capitals.
Jack Roslovic scored twice in the third period on his way to a fourpoint game, and Columbus beat visiting Edmonton despite giving up a four-goal lead.
Kirill Marchenko also scored twice for the Blue Jackets, Patrik Laine contributed a goal and two assists, and Boone Jenner had a goal and one assist. Joonas Korpisalo stopped 48 shots — including 24 in the third period — to help Columbus snap a two-game losing streak.
Connor McDavid had two
The Capitals' T.J. Oshie skates by his bench after scoring one of his two goals against the Rangers.
goals and two assists for Edmonton.
Bryan Rust scored the winning goal 1:16 into overtime, lifting Pittsburgh at St. Louis.
Marcus Pettersson's first goal of the season game on a wrist shot at 14:32 of the third period gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead. But the Blues came back on Justin Faulk's goal at 17:33 to tie it.
Evgeni Malkin also scored for Pittsburgh, and Tristan Jarry made 25 saves to improve to 5-0 in five career games against St. Louis.
Pavel Buchnevich had the other goal for St. Louis and Jordan Binnington had 46 saves, but the Blues dropped their fifth straight since the trades of Ryan O'Reilly and Noel Acciari.
Goaltender Linus Ullmark scored into an empty net in the final minute and NHL-leading Boston won at Vancouver for its sixth straight victory.
Ullmark made a save and fired a high wrist shot the length of the ice.
Defenseman Hampus Lindholm and Brad Marchand had first-period goals for the Bruins, and Ullmark made 26 saves.
Dawson Mercer scored in his sixth straight, Akira Schmid made 24 saves in posting his first shutout and New Jersey beat visiting Philadelphia, handing Flyers goaltender Samuel Ersson his first loss.
Jonas Siegenthaler, Jack Hughes, Nico Hischier, Dougie Hamilton, Jesper Bratt and Nathan Bastian also scored as the Devils improved to 15-3-2 in their last 20 games.
Austin Watson and Drake Batherson scored in a 47-second span in the third period to help Ottawa win at Montreal.
Watson broke a tie at 4:31 with a deflection of Travis Hamonic's point shot and Batherson fired a wrist shot from the slot past past goalie Sam Montembeault at 5:18.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 45 saves for his 30th NHL shutout and visiting Tampa Bay beat Detroit, which had won seven of eight. Nikita Kucherov reached 699 points with a goal and an assist, Brayden Point also had a goal and an assist and Alex Killorn added an empty-net goal to help the Lightning win for the second time in five games.
Nathan MacKinnon had a goal to extend his points streak to seven games, Alexandar Georgiev stopped 28 shots and Colorado beat visiting Calgary for its fifth straight victory.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Boston Toronto Tampa Bay Buffalo Detroit Florida Ottawa Montreal
GP W
58 59 58 57 58 61 58 59
CENTRAL DIVISION
45 36 37 30 28 29 28 25
GP W
L OT Pts GF GA
8 15 17 23 22 26 26 30
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
Carolina
New Jersey N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh Washington Philadelphia Columbus
GP W
58 59 59 62 58 61 61 59 39 39 33 30 28 29 23 19
L OT Pts GF GA
18 19 20 20 21 31 30 34 5 8 4 4 8 6 4 4 6 8 8 6 12 5 11 7 95 219 124 80 202 157 78 209 169 64 213 199 64 179 184 64 210 213 60 177 185 54 163 214
L OT Pts GF GA
11 15 17 25 21 26 28 35 8 5 9 7 9 6 10 5
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Dallas Colorado Winnipeg Minnesota Nashville St. Louis Arizona Chicago 59 57 59 59 56 59 58 57
PACIFIC DIVISION
Vegas Kings Edmonton Seattle Calgary Vancouver San Jose Ducks 31 33 35 32 28 26 20 20
GP W
59 60 60 58 60 59 59 60
Saturday's results
35 33 32 32 27 23 18 19 86 198 151 83 208 157 75 196 166 67 179 174 65 185 187 64 184 180 56 161 202 43 152 219
L OT Pts GF GA
16 19 23 21 22 28 29 32 12 5 1 6 6 5 9 5
Ducks 3, Carolina 2
Columbus 6, Edmonton 5 Washington 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 2, OT Boston 3, Vancouver 1 Ottawa 5, Montreal 2
New Jersey 7, Philadelphia 0 Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 0 Colorado 4, Calgary 1
Dallas 3, Vegas 2, SO
Chicago at San Jose, late
Today's games
74 191 154 71 182 157 71 183 155 70 172 164 62 163 169 57 180 215 49 158 205 45 143 206 76 192 166 74 203 201 72 230 202 70 202 184 66 193 188 51 200 239 47 176 219 45 152 250
Washington at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Columbus at Minnesota, 11 a.m. N.Y. Islanders at Winnipeg, noon Kings at N.Y. Rangers, 2 p.m. Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Nashville at Arizona, 4 p.m. Toronto at Seattle, 4 p.m.
Monday's games
Detroit at Ottawa, 4 p.m. Boston at Edmonton, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Vegas at Colorado, 6 p.m. Chicago at Ducks, 7 p.m.