Ovechkin scores to lead Capitals

Alex Ovechkin scored his 28th and 29th goals of the season in the third period, Nicklas Backstrom pounced on a turnover to get the winner 1:13 into overtime and the Washington Capitals rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night.

Backstrom also assisted on Ovechkin’s second goal, which tied Chris Kreider of the New York Rangers for the NHL lead.

Backstrom then took the puck off a Senators defender deep in Ottawa’s zone and beat goaltender Matt Murray with a breakaway backhand to give Washington just its third win in nine games.

Vitek Vanecek made 20 stops for the Capitals, who trailed 2-0 after two.

Thomas Chabot and Zach Sanford scored for Ottawa.

Marcus Foligno scored with 37.9 seconds left in overtime to send the Minnesota Wild to a win over the Chicago Blackhawks.

Minnesota twice trailed in the third period but got goals from Kirill Kaprizov and Kevin Fiala to force overtime and, eventually, sweep the back-to-back with the Blackhawks after a 5-1 win in Chicago a night earlier.

Joel Eriksson Ek also scored for the Wild, and Kaapo Kahknonen made 33 saves.

Jeff Skinner, Tage Thompson and Peyton Krebs each scored twice, and Buffalo handed Philadelphia its 11th consecutive loss.

Rasmus Dahlin and Alex Tuch each had two assists for the Sabres, who ended a nine-game home slide.

David Pastrnak scored a tiebreaking power-play goal early in the third period to lead surging Boston.

Charlie Coyle and Oskar Steen also scored for the Bruins.

Morgan Rielly had a goal and an assist, Petr Mrazek stopped 25 shots and Toronto beat New York.

Mitch Marner and Pierre Engvall also scored as the Maple Leafs finished a sixgame road trip at 3-2-1.

Zach Parise got his second of the season for New York, and Semyon Varlamov made 20 saves. The Islanders lost in regulation at home for the second time in 10 games (7-2-1)..

Chris Kreider had a hat trick to set his career high with 29 goals, tying for the NHL lead, and New York scored six unanswered to get its eighth win in 11 games.

Rangers defenseman

Jacob Trouba scored twice the Rangers improved to 12-3-2 at home and recovered from an early 3-1 deficit after being outshot 16-4 in the first period by the last-place Coyotes.

Igor Shesterkin made 25 saves for his sixth straight win and 10th victory in 11 games, improving to 19-4-2 this season.

Jesper Bratt scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period and New Jersey rallied to beat Carolina.

Nathan Bastian scored twice, Andreas Johnsson had a goal and two assists, Michael McLeod and Pavel Zacha each added a goal and an assist and Jack Hughes also scored for New Jersey, which snapped a three-game skid. Ryan Graves had three assists and Dawson Mercer added two.

Jon Gillies finished with 31 saves.

Matt Duchene had two goals and an assist to lead Nashville.

Nick Cousins and Filip Forsberg also scored and Juuse Saros made 28 saves for Nashville, winners of two straight. Matt Tennyson had two assists.

Adam Erne scored for Detroit, and Alex Nedeljkovic made 21 saves. The Red Wings have lost two in a row.