Hurricanes continue to win
Brady Skjei and Sebastian Aho scored as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 on Sunday night for their sixth win in seven games.
Frederik Andersen made 31 saves and earned his sixth straight win since returning from injury on March 7 as the Hurricanes picked up points in their seventh straight game.
Nicholas Robertson scored and Joseph Woll stopped 41 shots for Toronto, which had a twogame winning streak halted.
The Maple Leafs had a late power play after a Brent Burns’ tripping penalty, and pulled Woll for an extra skater, but failed to score.
SENATORS 5, OILERS 3
Defenseman Jakob Chychrun broke a tie with 3:03 left with his second powerplay goal of game to help Ottawa beat Edmonton.
With Edmonton’s Mattias Ekholm off for holding, Chychrun scored on the second of Ottawa’s three thirdperiod shots, with the third coming on Parker Kelly’s empty-netter.
Tim Stutzle and Drake Batherson also scored and Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves.
Zach Hyman scored his 50th goal for Edmonton, and Connor Mcdavid had two assists to push his season total to 91 and join Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey as the only Oilers to reach 90.
CAPITALS 3, JETS 0
Alex Ovechkin scored twice to reach 26 goals this season, Charlie Lindgren stopped all 27 shots he faced and Washington beat Winnipeg to move back into a playoff position.
The Capitals have won four of their past five games, a stretch in which Ovechkin has scored eight goals. He had just eight goals in his first 43 games.
Ovechkin getting hot has fueled Washington’s surge up the standings and reignited talk of him breaking Wayne Gretzky’s career goals record. He is 46 back.
The offensive explosion in the third period — John Carlson’s tie-breaking goal on a power-play blast 1:21 in and Ovechkin’s two — came after Lindgren was the best player on the ice for much of the afternoon. Lindgren outdueled Connor Hellebuyck, the front-runner for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’S top goaltender.
DEVILS 4, ISLANDERS 0
Jack Hughes and Timo Meier each had a goal and an assist, Kaapo Kahkonen made 37 saves in his first shutout of the season and New Jersey beat the New York Islanders.
Alexander Holtz and Chris Tierney also scored for New Jersey. Kahkonen, acquired at the trade deadline, earned his first win as a member of the Devils.
Ilya Sorokin finished with 26 saves for the Islanders, who lost for the seventh time in eight games. New York is four points behind Washington in the race for the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with 11 games left in the regular season.
PANTHERS 4, FLYERS 1
Sam Reinhart scored two goals to reach 50 on the season, Brandon Montour added three assists and Florida snapped a fourgame losing streak with a victory over Philadelphia.
Vladimir Tarasenko and Carter Verhaeghe also scored for the Panthers, who tied Boston with 97 points atop the Eastern Conference’s Atlantic Division.
Bobby Brink scored for the Flyers. STARS 4, COYOTES 2
Miro Heiskanen broke a tie with 5:28 left and Dallas won its fourth consecutive game, beating Arizona.
Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin and Matt Duchene also scored, with Duchene getting an empty-netter with 1:30 to play. Duchene also had two assists to help the Stars keep pace with Colorado for the Central Division lead.
Jake Oettinger made 26 saves for Dallas.
Clayton Keller scored his 30th goal for Arizona.