Bobrovsky, Panthers beat Blue Jackets

Patric Hornqvist and Owen Tippett scored power-play goals in the second period, Sergei Bobrovsky made 40 saves and the Florida Panthers beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2 on Tuesday night.

Juho Lammikko and Carter Verhaeghe also scored for the Panthers, who have won three of their past four games.

Bobrovsky, the former Blue Jacket, improved to 9-2-2 while splitting time in the net this season with Chris Driedger.

Michael Del Zotto and Oliver Bjorkstrand had goals for the Blue Jackets, and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 29 shots. Columbus has lost five of the past seven.

At Washington, Jakub Vrana scored his second goal of the game in overtime after Washington squandered a three-goal lead. Vitek Vanecek made 27 saves on 31 shots.

Teddy Blueger and Jake Guentzel scored backing Tristan Jarry, who finished with 33 saves — including a couple of scrambling stops on his belly in the final minutes to preserve a one-goal lead.

At Philadelphia, Shayne Gostisbehere tied the game late in regulation, Sean Couturier and Nolan Patrick scored shootout goals to hand Philadelphia its eighth straight lost.

At Toronto, Andrew Copp had a goal and an assist to back Connor Hellebuyck, who finished with 36 saves.

At

Uniondale, N.Y., Anthony Beauvillier scored the deciding goal in the shootout and Semyon Varlamov stopped 32 shots as Barry Trotz became the third coach in NHL history to reach 1,700 games behind the bench.

At Raleigh. N.C., Jordan Staal scored his second goal of the game with 34.9 seconds left in overtime to give Carolina its first six-game win streak in 10 years.

At Detroit, Blake Coleman scored 2:17 into overtime backing Andrei Vasilevskiy, who stopped 20 shots.

At Dallas, Joel Kiviranta scored 100 seconds in and added an assist, rookie Jason Robertson had four assists for his first four-point game. Joe Pavelski got his teambest 13th goal.