Chychrun goal lifts Coyotes to win
Jakob Chychrun scored a tiebreaking powerplay goal with a minute left, and the Arizona Coyotes topped the Canadiens 32 in Montreal on Monday.
Derek Stepan and Taylor Hall also scored for the Coyotes, who put up three unanswered goals after going down 20 early. Antti Raanta made 26 saves.
Jake Evans and Brendan Gallagher scored for the Canadiens, who had won three in a row. Carey Price stopped 31 shots.
With Joel Armia in the box for hooking, Chychrun beat Price with a slap shot from the point for his 12th on the season.
Arizona finished 1for6 with the man advantage.
The Coyotes had dropped seven of eight.
Despite Montreal’s powerplay opportunities, the Coyotes outshot the Canadiens 173 in the second period. Arizona was rewarded with Hall’s equalizer at 16:36. Hall has 20 points in 23 games since joining Arizona.
“There’s 5on3s and then there’s full twominute 5on3s with a bit of powerplay time hanging on at the end,” Hall said. “Good job by our killers. Raanta did a fantastic job.”
Islanders 5, Capitals 3: Anthony Beauvillier scored twice, assists Islanders Josh and kept Bailey the Alex New had Ovechkin York three stuck winning at in 698 Washington. career goals With in all eyes on Ovechkin’s attempt to become the eighth member of the NHL’s 700goal club, the Islanders jumped out to a 5-1 lead and held on to hand the Capitals a second consecutive regulation loss at home. Washington also lost center Evgeny Kuznetsov to a scarylooking upper-body injury when he was crunched into the boards in the second period.
Flyers 3, Panthers 1: James van Riemsdyk had a goal and assist, Carter Hart stopped 30 shots in his return from injury and Philadelphia won on home ice. Travis Sanheim, Ivan Provorov and Claude Giroux also had goals for Philadelphia, which is 6-1-1 in the last eight. The Flyers improved to 19-5-4 at home.
Lightning 2, Blue Jackets 1: Nikita Kucherov scored his second goal of the game 31 seconds into overtime and visiting Tampa Bay won its seventh straight.
Canucks 6, Predators 2: Jacob Markstrom stopped 36 shots, and Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller each had a goal and an assist to lead Vancouver to victory at home. Zack MacEwen, Brandon Sutter, Jordie Benn and Jake Virtanen also scored on a night Vancouvber retired the numbers of former stars Daniel and Henrik Sedin.
Trade: acquired The Pittsburgh veteran Penguins forward Jason Zucker from Minnesota, giving the Penguins’ top-six forward group a jolt as they prepare for a postseason push. Pittsburgh sent forward Alex Galchenyuk, defenseman prospect Calen Addison and a conditional 2020 first-round draft pick to the Wild in exchange for Zucker.