Capitals get road win over NHL-best Bruins

Nicklas Backstrom and Garnet Hathaway each scored a goal and the visiting Washington Capitals beat NHL-best Boston 2-1 on Saturday, sending the Bruins to just their second regulation loss at home this season.

The Bruins are 22-2-3 at home. Their other regulation loss at TD Garden came on Jan. 12, a 3-0 setback against Seattle.

Darcy Kuemper made 27 saves for the Capitals, who have won three of their past four games.

His team down 2-0, Nick Foligno scored for Boston at 16:34 of the second period.

Washington star Alex Ovechkin was held without a point for a season-high matching third straight game.

RANGERS 6, HURRICANES 2 >>

Artemi Panarin scored four goals, three in the third period, to help visiting New York blow the game open late. Vincent Trocheck added two assists to help stop his former team's seven-game winning streak. Teuvo Teravainen and Jesperi Kotkaniemi both scored in the second for the Hurricanes.

LIGHTNING 3, STARS 1 >> Anthony Cirelli scored twice, including the winner with 43 seconds to play, to lift visiting Tampa Bay. Brandon Hagel had a goal and an assist and Alex Killorn had two assists. Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy had 28 saves, allowing only Jamie Benn's 21st goal this season in the second period.

FLAMES 7, SABRES 2 >> Visiting Calgary scored four times in just over five minutes in the second period to rally and eventually beat Buffalo. Dillon Dube had a goal and three assists for the Flames and Tyler Toffoli had two goals and an assist. Tage Thompson and Casey Mittelstadt scored for the Sabres.

BLUE JACKETS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3 >> Kent Johnson scored what proved to be the winning goal at 5:46 of the third period for Columbus, stunning host Toronto, which entered tied for second in the Eastern Conference, in which the Blue Jackets are last. Morgan Rielly tied the game 3-3 for the Maple Leafs at 1:20 of the third.