Krejci moves up Bruins’ scoring list in 6-3 win
David Krejci had a goal and an assist to move past Hall of Famer Cam Neely for 10th on the Bruins’ all-time scoring list, and Boston snapped a threegame losing streak with a 6-3 win over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.
Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson, David Backes, Ryan Donato, Torey Krug and Danton Heinen also scored for the Bruins. Jaroslav Halak stopped 29 shots.
Toronto goalie Frederik Andersen was pulled early in the third after giving up six goals on 28 shots. He entered with an 11-1 record and 2.08 goals against in his career against Boston. Auston Matthews, Travis Dermott and Andreas Johnsson each had a goal.
Earlier in the week, Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said teams “could be” playing more physical against his more skilled players with a pair of bigger defensemen — Zdeno Chara and Kevan Miller — sidelined by injuries. They seemed to respond.
Leading 1-0, the Bruins appeared to be more physical and determined when they scored twice in the second period.
Less than a minute after Charlie McAvoy hit the post— Boston’s second shot off iron in about a 3 1⁄2- minute span — Brad Marchand set up Backes in the slot, where he fired a rising shot past Andersen’s glove and inside the right post for a power-play goal at 8:54.
Krug’s first goal first of the season made it 3-0 just under nine minutes later. After a flurry of chances, he scored on a wrister from the left point.
Heinen collected a puck along the boards early in the third, split a pair of Toronto players before flipping a shot over Andersen to make it 4-0 at 1:47.
Dermott beat Halak with a shot from the mid-slot area 4:03 into the third, but Krejci made it 5-1 only 34 seconds later. Donato scored at 6:13, sending Andersen to the bench to a chorus of jeers and cheers. Garret Sparks replaced him and stopped all four shots he faced.
The Bruins had taken a 1-0 edge 11:20 into the game when Forsbacka-Karlsson redirected a pass and tapped in his own rebound.
Rangers 5, Panthers 4: At Sunrise, Fla., Kevin Hayes had the game-deciding goal in the third round of the shootout, giving the New York Rangers the win.
After Mika Zibanejad and Kevin Shattenkirk scored in the shootout for New York and Jonathan Huberdeau tallied for Florida, Hayes beat goalie Roberto Luongo as the Rangers broke their threegame losing streak.
Hayes also had a pair of assists. Zibanejad, Vladislav Namestnikov, Matt Beleskey and Fredric Claesson scored for the Rangers, who improved to 4-1 in overtime and swept the season series from Florida 3-0.
Kei t h Ya n d l e, Hu - berdeau, Aaron Ekblad and Aleksander Barkov had goals for the Panthers, who finished 3-2-3 in their eightgame homestand. Huberdeau added a pair of assists.
New York’s Henrik Lundqvist had 27 saves, and Luongo finished with 22. Lundqvist stopped the Panthers’ first attempt in the shootout, by Barkov.
The Panthers were looking to finish strong in the finale of the two-week stretch at home, but the Rangers, whose last game was on Sunday, jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period.
Zibanejad grabbed a rebound off a long shot by Hayes and slid it past Luongo at 3:37 of the first period for his ninth goal.
With New York on the penalty kill late in the period, Hayes won a race to the puck near the end boards and fed Namestnikov, who slipped in the short-handed goal, his third tally this season, at 18:10.
Yandle blasted in a power-play goal 57 seconds into the second period for his fifth goal, and Huberdeau scored his ninth goal off a turnover in the neutral zone at 4:14 to tie it at 2.