Vatrano & Bergeron lead Bruins past Penguins 6-2

Little scores two as Jets top Rangers

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PITTSBURGH, Dec 19, (AP): Frank Vatrano scored three goals for his first career hat trick and Patrice Bergeron scored twice as the Boston Bruins beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 Friday night to sweep the teams’ home-andaway series.

Loui Eriksson also scored for Boston, which is 4-0-1 in its past five games, 10-1-3 in its past 14 games. Ryan Spooner added three assists and Brad Marchand added two.

Conor Sheary Vatrano’s college teammate at UMass got his first two NHL points with a goal and an assist, and Trevor Daley scored his first goal with the Penguins, who are 0-3 since Mike Sullivan replaced Mike Johnston as the team’s head coach last weekend.

Overall, Pittsburgh has lost four in a row (0-3-1) and six of its past seven to sit 12th in the Eastern Conference.

Sidney Crosby had two assists for the Penguins to break a three-game pointscoring drought.

Capitals 5, Lightning 3 In Washington, Alex Ovechkin and T.J. Oshie both finished with two goals and two assists, and Marcus Johansson got the tiebreaking goal with 5:44 left to help Washington rally from three goals down and beat Tampa Bay. Drew Stafford #12 of the Winnipeg Jets gets crushed between Chris Kreider #20 and Dominic Moore #28 of the New York Rangers in third period action in an NHL game at the MTS Center on Dec 18, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Wideman got the eventual winner and Karlsson provided some insurance with goals later in the period.

Canucks 4, Red Wings 3, SO In Detroit, Linden Vey, making his season debut, scored in the seventh round of the shootout to give Vancouver a win over Detroit.

Jared McCann, Sven Baertschi and Radim Vrbata scored in regulation for the Canucks, who were without injured captain Henrik Sedin. Ryan Miller had 25 saves through overtime.

Joakim Andersson, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored for the Red Wings, and Jimmy Howard had 37 saves.

Zetterberg tied the game at 3 with 1:07 to play, taking a Pavel Datsyuk pass and beating Miller on the stick side. Detroit dominated the 3-on-3 overtime, but Miller stopped Gustav Nyquist and Datsyuk hit the post.

Vrbata also scored in the second round of the tiebreaker, and Brad Richards tied it for Detroit in the third.

Jets 5, Rangers 2 In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Bryan Little scored two first-period goals, Blake Wheeler had four assists and Winnipeg beat New York.

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Little scored his 11th and 12th goals of the season in a 2:31 span for a 2-0 lead.

His line with wingers Andrew Ladd and Wheeler combined for nine points after only recording four points as a line over the past four games.

Winnipeg also got goals from blue liners Dustin Byfuglien and Tyler Myers, as well as Ladd on the empty net.

J.T. Miller and Dan Boyle scored the Rangers.

Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck picked up his fifth win in seven starts with a 26-save effort. Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist made 31 saves and fell to 15-8-3 on the year.

Panthers 2, Hurricanes 0 In Raleigh, North Carolina, Roberto Luongo made 24 saves and Willie Mitchell scored 4:09 into the third period as Florida beat Carolina for its third straight win.

Mitchell got his first goal of the season on a slap shot to put Florida up 1-0. He beat goalie Cam Ward to the glove side, and Jonathan Huberdeau and Aleksander Barkov picked up assists. It was just the 34th goal for Mitchell in 894 NHL games.

Reilly Smith added an empty-net goal with 21 seconds left. Smith has scored in four straight games.

The Panthers have outscored opponents 12-2 during their three-game streak and have beaten Carolina five straight times, including 4-1 in the teams’ first meeting Oct 13.

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