Vegas sweeps Kings in 1st playoff series

Brayden McNabb scored against his former team, lifting Vegas to a 1-0 victory over the Kings in Los Angeles Tuesday night, making the Golden Knights the first expansion team in NHL history to sweep its first playoff series.

Marc-Andre Fleury turned in another stellar performance, stopping 31 shots as the Knights finished off their fourth one-goal victory of the series. It was his second shutout of the series.

The Knights poured into the net to hug Fleury at the final horn. Vegas fans in the crowd chanted the goalie’s name in celebration.

The Knights became the second team to win its first four playoff games, joining the 1970 Pittsburgh Penguins.

McNabb scored from the right circle, beating Jonathan Quick’s glove, at 4:04 of the second for his first career playoff goal. The Kings left the defenseman exposed in last year’s expansion draft and the Knights grabbed him. Capitals 3, Blue Jackets 2: Lars Eller scored in the second overtime period and visiting Washington tightened its firstround playoff series.

The Capitals won at Nationwide Arena after Columbus won the first two games — both in overtime — in Washington. It was the Capitals’ turn to prevail in OT, this time on the Blue Jackets’ ice, to pull to 2-1 in the best-of-seven series.

Eller tapped a rebound past Sergei Bobrovsky nine minutes into the second extra period for his first goal in the series.

Tom Wilson and John Carlson also scored, and Braden Holtby stopped 33 shots for the Capitals, who were in danger of falling into a nearly insurmountable hole had they let the game slip away. Jets 2, Wild 0: Mark Scheifele scored both goals and Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves for his seventh shutout this season as visiting Winnipeg took a 3-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.

Scheifele scored with 28 seconds left in the first period and tacked on an empty-netter with 11 seconds remaining, pushing the Wild to the brink of elimination.

Devan Dubnyk stopped 26 shots for the Wild, who played without left wing Zach Parise because of a broken sternum suffered in Game 3. Calgary cans coach: The Flames fired head coach Glen Gulutzan after two years with the club. Calgary missed the postseason this year after making it in Gulutzan’s first year behind the bench.