Third-period goals by Wilson, Ovechkin help Caps beat Pens

Tom Wilson broke a tie with 8:25 left and the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 on Saturday.

Alex Ovechkin tied it for Washington on a power play at 4:49 of the third period with his 44th goal of the season, and Wilson matched his career high with his 22nd — sending a wrist shot over Tristan Jarry’s glove from the left circle during a two-onone.

The Capitals have won two second straight to move four points behind Pittsburgh for third place in the Metropolitan Division. Washington has won five road games in a row.

Marcus Johansson, Dmitry Orlov, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Martin Fehervary also scored for Washington, and Ilya Samsonov stopped 29 shots to become the 10th goalie in team history with 50 career victories.

Bryan Rust, Jeff Carter and Brian Boyle scored for Pittsburgh, and Jarry made 39 saves. The Penguins have lost four in a row and and seven of nine.

Pittsburgh had a late power-play, but Kuznetsov scored an empty-net goal with 1:41 left to put the game away. Kuznetsov has points in 15 of his last 16 games. The Capitals are 32-13-4 when Kuznetsov records a point this season.

Devils 3, Stars 1: Nico Hischier and Pavel Zacha scored 10 seconds apart in the third period, and New Jersey won at Dallas.

Ty Smith also scored in the third for New Jersey, which had dropped five in a row. Fabian Zetterlund had two assists, and Nico Daws made 27 saves.

Dallas defenseman Ryan Suter scored his 100th career goal 13:31 into the second. Jake Oettinger made 20 stops, but the Stars (40-27-4) missed out on a chance to strengthen their playoff positioning in the Western Conference.

Smith tied it at 1 when he converted a wrist shot from the top of the right circle at 4:26. It was Smith’s fifth goal of the season.

Hischier put New Jersey

Aahead to stay with 1:11 left. He skated past the goal to the right, and then stepped back across to beat Oettinger for his

20th goal this season.

After the faceoff, Zacha skated into the left faceoff circle and sent the puck into the net. It was Zacha’s 14th on the season.

The Stars had taken the lead on Suter’s seventh of the year, stopping a 0for-13 drought on the power play. Suter scored with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.

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Islanders: New York forward Casey Cizikas has been suspended for one game without pay for boarding Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Brendan Smith, the NHL announced Saturday. The incident occurred in the third period of a game Friday night at Carolina. Smith tried to control a loose puck in a corner and was hit from behind by Cizikas, who had closed in to forecheck. The force of the hit sent Smith’s helmet hard into the plexiglass and Cizikas was assessed a minor penalty on the play.

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