Galchenyuk scores in OT as Canadiens edge Blue Jackets 1-0
MONTREAL: Alex Galchenyuk scored in overtime for the second straight night while Carey Price made 26 saves as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 on Tuesday night to extend their winning streak to three games.
Price got his third shutout this season while Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 29 shots for the Blue Jackets.
Montreal’s Max Pacioretty thought he had scored 1:11 into overtime after a beautiful pass by Andrei Markov. The puck crossed the line on Pacioretty’s rebound, but the play was whistled dead first, and a lengthy video review did not overturn the call.
CAPITALS 4, RANGERS 1: Marcus Johansson had two goals and an assist to help Washington beat New York in Kevin Shattenkirk’s first game with the Capitals.
Brett Connolly and Nicklas Backstrom also scored and Braden Holtby stopped 29 shots as the NHL-best Capitals gave Barry Trotz his 700th career victory. Evgeny Kuznetzov and Matt Niskanen had two assists each.
WILD 6, JETS 5: Jason Zucker scored with 2:10 left in the third period to lift Minnesota over Winnipeg.
Erik Haula set up Zucker’s 20th goal of the season by racing after a loose puck and sending a backhand pass across the slot. Zucker scored right as a Winnipeg power play ended.
Haula, Mikael Granlund, Tyler Graovac, Ryan White and Marco Scandella also scored for the Wild, and Granlund while Winnipeg’s Joel Armia and Mark Scheifele scored in the third period to erase a two-goal deficit before Zucker’s winner.
SHARKS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 1: Tomas Hertl scored the tiebreaking goal with 1:24 remaining as San Jose beat Toronto for the ninth straight time.
Patrick Marleau started the winning play when he skated in alone on three defenders. Marleau fed Hertl, who then beat Frederik Andersen with a quick shot to the short side for his eighth goal of the season.
STARS 3, PENGUINS 2: Antoine Roussel capped Dallas’ three-goal third period as the Stars rallied for a win over Pittsburgh.
The loss dropped second-place Pittsburgh seven points behind Eastern Conference and Metropolitan Division leader Washington.
Dallas entered nine points behind the second wild card in the West and in a selling mode that had sent three veteran players to contenders in trades.
BRUINS 4, COYOTES 1: Riley Nash scored a short-handed goal after Colin Miller was ejected for a bone-rattling hit that sent Arizona’s Alexander Burmistrov to the hospital as Boston pulled away with a three-goal second period.
Miller was given a five-minute major and game misconduct for knocking Burmistrov out of the game in the second period. The Coyotes center remained motionless on the ice for several minutes but gave a thumbs-up with both hands as he was wheeled off on a stretcher.
OILERS 2, BLUES 1: Milan Lucic and Mark Letestu scored and Cam Talbot made 25 saves to lead Edmonton over St. Louis.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins assisted on both goals for the Oilers.