Ottawa downs Colorado in Sweden
STOCKHOLM — Mark Stone scored in regulation and again in overtime to give the Ottawa Senators a 4- 3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night in the first of two regular- season games in the Swedish capital.
Swedish defenseman Fredrik Claesson and Christopher DiDomenico also scored for the Senators.
Nail Yakupov, Alexander Kerfoot and Nathan MacKinnon scored for Colorado.
Stone scored 59 seconds into overtime for his 11th of the season. MacKinnon tied it for Colorado with 7: 07 remaining in regulation.
The teams will complete the NHL Global Series in Stockholm on Saturday night. It’s for the fifth time the NHL has played regular- season games in Europe, but the first since 2011.
The capacity crowd of 13,000 spectators at Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe cheered loudly for both teams, each led by Swedish captains — Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog and Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson — and some other Swedish players were on the ice to please the fans.
John Carlson and T. J. Oshie scored rare home power- play goals, Braden Holtby became the secondfastest goaltender in NHL history to 200 victories and the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins. Holtby stopped 27 of the 28 shots he faced to pick up victory No. 200 in his 319th game, second only to Hockey Hall of Famer and six- time Stanley Cup winner Ken Dryden, who did it in 311. Roberto Luongo broke a tie with Curtis Joseph for fourth place on the NHL career victory list with 455, making 24 saves in the Florida Panthers’ win over the Buffalo Sabres. Evgenii Dadonov and Aleksander Barkov each had a goal and an assist, and Ian McCoshen and Vincent Trocheck also scored to help the Panthers snap a fi ve- game skid.
Patrick Marleau scored in overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a victory over the Boston Bruins in the fi rst game of a home-andhome series. James van Riemsdyk scored twice, the second to tie it with a minute left in regulation, and Frederik Andersen made 33 saves. The Maple Leafs have won three in a row to improve to 11- 7- 0.
Ben Bishop made 14 saves in his 20th career shutout, and the Dallas Stars beat the New York Islanders. John Klingberg had a goal and two assists for Dallas, and fellow defenseman Esa Lindell added a goal and an assist. Klingberg leads NHL defensemen with 18 points.