Hamilton boosts Devils in OT
Dougie Hamilton scored 11:36 into overtime Saturday night and New Jersey beat New York, 2-1, at Madison Square Garden to cut its series deficit to 2-1.
Jack Hughes scored and Jesper Bratt had two assists for New Jersey, which lost the first two games at home by 5-1 scores. Akira Schmid got the start in goal in place of Vitek Vanecek and finished with 35 saves.
Chris Kreider scored for New York. Igor Shesterkin stopped 26 shots.
Game 4 is Monday night at Madison Square Garden.
Knights take 2-1 lead over Jets
Michael Amadio scored at 3:40 of the second overtime to give the Vegas Golden Knights a 5-4 victory over the Winnipeg Jets and a 2-1 lead in the first-round series.
Dylan Sandberg's clearing attempt for Winnipeg from the back boards, deflected off Vegas forward Ivan Barbashev's skate to Amadio for a one-timer that went into the top right corner — going between goalie Connor Hellebuyck’s head and glove.
Adam Lowry tied it for Winnipeg with 21.9 seconds left in regulation, beating goalie Laurent Brossoit of a rebound to cap a three-goal, thirdperiod comeback.
Nino Niederreiter scored at 2:04 of the third and Mark Scheifele connected on a power play with 5:52 left to cut it to 4-3.
Jack Eichel had two power-play goals and added an assist for Vegas. Chandler Stephenson had a goal and an assist, and Keegan Kolesar also scored. Brossoit, who spent three seasons with the Jets, made 30 saves.
Kyle Connor had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg, and Hellebuyck stopped 43 shots.
A sold-out crowd of 15,325 at Canada Life
Centre continued the “whiteout” playoff tradition of wearing white and waving white towels. Game 4 of the Western Conference series is Monday night in Winnipeg.
Winnipeg All-Star defenseman Josh Morrisey left four minutes into the first period with a lower-body injury. Morrissey collided knee-on-knee with Vegas defenseman Zach Whitecloud and appeared to be favoring his right knee.
Maple Leafs beat Lightning in OT
Morgan Reilly scored at 19:15 of overtime to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 3 of the firstround NHL playoff series.
Ilya Samsonov stopped 36 shots for Toronto. He had eight saves in the extra period, one on Lightning star Nikita Kucherov from point-blank range, to help give the Maple Leafs a 2-1 series lead. Game 4 is Monday night at Amalie Arena.
Auston Matthews and Noel Acciari also scored for Toronto, which forced overtime when
Ryan O’Reilly slipped a shot past goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy with a minute left in regulation.
Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel scored for Tampa Bay, which took a 3-2 lead on rookie Darren Raddysh’s first career playoff goal in the second period.
Moore helps Kings grab lead
Trevor Moore scored a power-play goal at
3:24 of overtime to give the Kings a 3-2 victory over the Oilers at Los Angeles in Game 3 of their Western Conference first-round series Friday.
After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was called for high-sticking at 1:44, Moore, who grew up in nearby Thousand Oaks, Calif., took Gabriel Villardi’s pass from behind the net and put it between the pads of Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner to give the Kings their second OT victory of the series.