Vatrano lifts Panthers over Stars
Frank Vatrano scored the go-ahead goal with 3:10 remaining and the Florida Panthers stunned the Dallas Stars 3-2 with a late comeback Thursday night.
Aleksander Barkov and Anton Stralman also scored in the final 6 1/2 minutes as the Panthers overcame a 2-0 deficit. Sergei Bobrovsky made 37 saves.
Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn had the goals for Dallas. Rookie netminder Jake Oettinger stopped 32 shots.
Florida scored three times in 3:11 after a nine-minute delay to repair a section of the boards.
Barkov poked in a loose puck that bounced behind Oettinger and sat in the paint near the goal line with 6:21 left. Stralman tied the score on a drive from the right circle. Vatrano put the Panthers ahead with a shot from the slot.
Devils 4, Sabres 3 — Pavel Zacha converted Jesper Bratt’s drop pass to score 1:17 into overtime and New Jersey rallied to beat Buffalo.
Bratt, Miles Wood and Nico Hischier also scored for the Devils, and Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 29 shots. Zacha had two assists to extend his points streak to eight games in which he has three goals and seven assists.
Buffalo’s Sam Reinhart forced overtime by tipping in Taylor Hall’s centering pass for a power-play goal with 4:30 remaining.
Capitals 5, Penguins 2 — Tom Wilson scored the goahead goal on a power play with 7:20 left and Washington beat Pittsburgh.
Nicklas Backstrom scored his team-leading ninth goal of the season, and T.J. Oshie had one for the highlight reel in the third period when he dived one-handed to poke the puck past Tristan Jarry.
Carl Hagelin and Lars Eller each scored an empty-netter, and Vitek Vanecek made 26 saves.
Blackhawks 2, Blue Jackets 0 — Patrick Kane broke a scoreless tie in the third period with his 399th goal, Malcolm Subban got his first shutout of the season and Chicago beat Columbus to sweep the two-game series.
Carl Soderberg added an empty-net goal with 50 seconds left in the game. Subban had 26 saves.
Lightning 3, Hurricanes 1 — Curtis McElhinney stopped 31 shots and had an assist in Tampa Bay’s victory over Carolina.
Mikhail Sergachev, Yanni Gourde and Barclay Goodrow scored for Tampa Bay. The Lightning have won three of the four straight meetings between the teams.
Senators 6, Flames 1 — Colin White scored twice, Matt Murray made 29 saves and Ottawa routed Calgary for its third straight victory.
Drake Batherson, Erik Gudbranson, Connor Brown and Erik Brannstrom also scored for Ottawa, with Batherson running his goals streak to four games.
Milan Lucic scored for Calgary.
Jets 6, Canadiens 3 — Kyle Connor scored twice and the Winnipeg Jets spoiled Dominique Ducharme’s debut as Montreal’s coach, beating the Canadiens.
Nate Thompson scored the go-ahead goal in the third period, Blake Wheeler had a goal and two assists, and Pierre-Luc Dubois and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist. Connor Hellebuyck made 18 saves.
Montreal fired coach Claude Julien and associate coach Kirk Muller on Wednesday, promoting Ducharme to interim head coach. The Canadiens dropped their fourth game in a row.