Golden Knights rally for playoff win over Stars

Will Carrier scored the tiebreaker with 5:12 left in the game, Robin Lehner had 24 saves, and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Dallas Stars 5-3 in Western Conference round-robin play on Monday.

Carrier backhanded a rebounded shot through the legs of Stars goaltender Ben Bishop after the Knights rallied from a 3-1 third period deficit. Vegas scored three times in 5:02 to turn the game around.

Joe Pavelski, Jamie Oleksiak and Corey Perry scored for Dallas.

LIGHTNING 3, CAPITALS 2 >> Nikita Kucherov scored the shootout winner to give Tampa Bay Lightning the victory against Washington in Eastern Conference round-robin play at Toronto.

HURRICANES 4, RANGERS 1 >> Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov scored three times for the first postseason hat trick in franchise history and Carolina beat New York for a 2-0 lead in their Stanley Cup qualifier series.

The 20-year-old Svechnikov beat Henrik Lundqvist for the game’s first goal less than 5 minutes into the game. He followed with a power-play one-timer early in the second off a feed from Sami Vatanen, then buried a third at 14:02 of the third off a feed from Sebastian Aho — who assisted on all three of Svechnikov’s goals.

WILD 3, CANUCKS 0 >> Jared Spurgeon scored twice, and Alex Stalock stopped 28 shots to get his first career postseason win, leading Minnesota over Vancouver in Game 1 of their qualifying series late Sunday night in Edmonton, Alberta.

LEAGUE REPORTS NO POSITIVE TESTS FROM ACTIVE TEAMS >> The NHL reports there have been zero positive coronavirus test results since 24 teams entered quarantined bubbles in Toronto and Edmonton, Alberta. The league announced it had administered more than 7,000 tests over the past week.