Brown’s overtime goal caps Kings’ comeback over Vegas
Anze Kopitar tied the game with 10.8 seconds left in the third period and Dustin Brown scored a power-play goal 3:14 into overtime, rallying the Los Angeles Kings past the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2 on Monday night.
Jeff Carter, in his second game back after missing 55 with a cut tendon, scored the Kings’ first goal.
• First-place Vegas acquired three-time 20-goalscoring forward Tomas Tatar from Detroit for three draft picks.
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Seth Jones and Cam Atkinson each had a goal and two assists for Columbus. Mark Letestu, acquired by the Blue Jackets in a trade Sunday, also tallied.
Alex Ovechkin got his league-leading 39th goal for Washington.
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Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist for Colorado, which won for the 11th time in 12 home games.
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Sean Couturier scored in the sixth round of the shootout to lift Philadelphia to its season-best sixth straight victory.
• The Canadiens acquired defenseman Mike Reilly from Minnesota.
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Brayden Point scored the deciding goal in a shootout for the second consecutive game for the NHL-leading Lightning, who played most of the game without Nikita Kucherov after the league’s top scorer was injured.
• The Lightning acquired Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh and forward J.T. Miller for Vladimir Naestnikov, prospects Libor Hajek and Brett Howden, a first-round draft pick this year and a conditional pick in 2019. The deal came a day after New York landed two draft picks, including a first-rounder, and three players in trading forward Rick Nash to Boston. In other deadline deals:
• Winnipeg gave up a firstround draft pick as part of a trade to acquire six-time 20-goal-scoring forward Paul Stastny from St. Louis.
• The Nashville Predators traded a first-round pick as part of a deal to land forward Ryan Hartman from the Chicago Blackhawks.