Lehkonen shines as Avs snap 4-game skid
Artturi Lehkonen had two goals and two assists, and his line led the way as the Colorado Avalanche ended a four-game losing streak by beating the Washington Capitals 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Ross Colton scored on a 2-on-1 rush off a pass from Miles Wood in the first period and assisted on Lehkonen’s first goal in the second. It was the first big showing for Lehkonen since he returned Jan. 24 from a 35-game absence because of injury.
“It’s not just a game or two when you feel normal,” said Mikko Rantanen, who scored Colorado’s first power-play goal since the NHL All-Star break off a no-look, through-thelegs pass from Lehkonen. “It probably takes five to seven, eight games to feel that the timing is there, and he probably played his best game since he was back.”
Alex Ovechkin extended his goal streak to six. With his longest such streak since December 2018, Ovechkin has 14 goals this season and 836 in his career — 59 from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, BLUES 1 »
Bobby McMann registered the first hat trick of his NHL career as-Toronto defeated St. Louis.
LIGHTNING 3, BRUINS 2, SO »
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 36 shots and three more in the shootout, and Brayden Point scored the only goal of the shootout to lead Tampa Bay over Boston.Brad
Marchand had a pair of assists in his 1,000th career NHL game — all of them for Boston.
SENATORS 6, BLUE JACKETS 3 »
Brady Tkachuk recorded the second hat trick of his career to lead Ottawa.
KRAKEN 2, ISLANDERS 1, SO »
Tomas Tatar scored the lone goal in a shootout and Seattle snapped a three-game losing streak.
STARS 4, HURRICANES 2
»Jason Robertson scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period and Dallas defeated Carolina. Roope Hintz, Mason Marchment at Matt Duchene also scored for the Stars, who are 6-1-0 in their last seven games.
DEVILS 4, PREDATORS 2 »
Nico Hischier scored twice to lead New Jersey past Nashville.
CANUCKS 4, BLACKHAWKS 1»
Conor Garland scored twice, Dakota Joshua added a goal and two assists and Vancouver beat Chicago .
Edmonton scored five thirdperiod goals to break at 3-3 tie and rout Detroit. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins posted two goals and an assist, and Connor McDavid registered six assists.
Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly was suspended five games for cross-checking Senators forward Ridly Greig in the final seconds of Ottawa’s 5-3 win Saturday. Rielly took exception to Greig firing a slap shot into an empty net with 5.1 seconds left. He cross-checked Greig in the head and left shoulder. Rielly will forfeit $195,313 in salary.
OILERS 8, RED WINGS 4 »
NOTES »
WESTERN CONFERENCE
PACIFIC DIVISION
Vancouver Vegas Edmonton Kings Calgary Seattle Ducks
San Jose
Dallas Colorado Winnipeg St. Louis Nashville Minnesota Arizona Chicago
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION
Boston Florida Tampa Bay Toronto Detroit Montreal Buffalo Ottawa
N.Y. Rangers Carolina Philadelphia New Jersey N.Y. Islanders Washington Pittsburgh Columbus
GP W
54 53 49 50 53 53 52 51
CENTRAL DIVISION
53 54 50 52 53 52 51 53
GP W
53 52 54 51 52 53 52 49 53 52 54 52 53 52 49 52
Tuesday’s results
Today’s games
Thursday’s games
36 31 31 24 25 22 18 14
GP W
33 33 31 28 27 24 23 14 32 33 29 27 27 22 23 22
GP W
34 30 29 27 22 23 23 16
L OT Pts GF GA
12 16 17 16 23 21 32 32
L OT Pts GF GA
14 17 14 22 24 23 24 36
L OT Pts GF GA
11 15 20 16 19 23 25 25
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
16 17 19 21 18 21 19 26 6 6 1 10 5 10 2 5 6 4 5 2 2 5 4 3 10 4 5 8 6 8 4 2 3 5 6 4 13 8 7 10
Buffalo 7, Kings 0
Montreal 5, Ducks 0
Toronto 4, St. Louis 1
Ottawa 6, Columbus 3 Colorado 6, Washington 3 Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2, SO Seattle 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Dallas 4, Carolina 2
New Jersey 4, Nashville 2 Vancouver 4, Chicago 2 Edmonton 8, Detroit 4 78 199 141 68 172 146 63 174 138 58 156 139 55 163 163 54 145 154 38 132 180 33 107 199 72 196 161 70 202 172 67 151 117 58 152 160 56 160 168 53 159 172 50 152 160 31 111 187 74 180 138 70 167 131 63 185 177 62 180 163 60 184 172 52 150 187 50 155 160 46 169 176
L OT Pts GF GA
71 172 147 65 173 153 64 161 155 58 176 180 57 155 177 54 127 164 53 144 131 42 153 194
Florida at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. San Jose at Winnipeg, 4:30 p.m. Minnesota at Arizona, 6:30 p.m.
Ducks at Ottawa, 4 p.m. Colorado at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. Florida at Buffalo, 4 p.m.
Kings at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Toronto, 4 p.m. Seattle at Boston, 4 p.m.
Dallas at Nashville, 5 p.m. Edmonton at St. Louis, 5 p.m. Pittsburgh at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. San Jose at Calgary, 6 p.m. Detroit at Vancouver, 7 p.m.