Daily Times (Primos, PA)

Pens rally to end Islanders’ 10-game winning streak

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NEW YORK » Bryan Rust scored his second goal of the game in overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied past the Islanders

4-3 Thursday night to end New York’s 10game winning streak.

Rust took the puck from Islanders center Brock Nelson behind the net and beat goalie Semyon Varlamov on a wraparound

3:25 into the extra session. Rust extended his points streak to five games.

Pittsburgh erased a three-goal deficit in the third period and ended a three-game skid. Jared McCann had a goal and two assists, Evgeni Malkin also scored, and Matt Murray made 20 saves.

Casey Cizikas, Cal Clutterbuc­k and Adam Pelech scored for New York. Varlamov made 35 saves.

CAPITALS 5, PANTHERS 4 » Tom Wilson scored twice, the second 17 seconds into overtime to lift Washington past Florida for its fifth consecutiv­e victory.

Alex Ovechkin also scored twice and added an assist, John Carlson had a goal and Braden Holtby stopped 32 shots. The Capitals have won nine of 10 and are 8-1-1 on the road this season.

Aleksander Barkov. Evgenii Dadonov, Brett Connolly and Frank Vatrano scored for Florida.

MAPLE LEAFS 2, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1 » John Tavares scored at 2:33 of overtime to push

Toronto past Vegas.

Playing his second game after missing seven with a broken finger, Tavares took a pass from Mitch Marner on a 2-on-1 and scored his fourth goal of the season, beating goalie Malcolm Subban with a high shot.

Auston Matthews also scored and Frederik Andersen made 37 saves to help Toronto win its third straight game. Max Pacioretty scored for Vegas. Subban made 35 saves in his first NHL start in his hometown.

SENATORS 3, KINGS 2 » Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored 3:12 into overtime in Ottawa’s victory over Los Angeles.

After Tyler Toffoli tied it for Los Angeles with 8 seconds left in regulation, Pageau scored off his own rebound for his teamleadin­g seventh goal of the season.

Anthony Duclair and Artem Anisimov also scored for Ottawa, and Anders Nilsson made 30 saves. Dustin Brown also scored for the Kings, and Jack Campbell made 25 saves.

RANGERS 4, HURRICANES 2 » Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist and Henrik Lundqvist made a season-high 45 saves in New York’s victory over Carolina.

Artemi Panarin, Brendan Lemieux and Adam Fox also scored for the Rangers. Dougie Hamilton and Sebastian Aho scored for Carolina. The Hurricanes had a 47-18 shots advantage, including 22-6 in the first period.

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