Panarin rallies, lifts Rangers over Panthers in SO

Artemi Panarin scored twice in regulation and netted the game-winner in the second round of the shootout as the New York Rangers rallied for a 4-3 victory over the visiting Florida Panthers on Saturday night.

Panarin scored New York’s final two goals — including the tying goal with 3:25 remaining in the third period -- after it trailed 2-0 early in the second period. He finished off the Rangers’ comeback by deking Sergei Bobrovsky and lifting a shot over the Florida goaltender’s glove.

Adam Fox started the comeback with a powerplay goal and Vincent Trocheck collected three assists before making a game-saving defensive play in overtime as the Rangers (47-20-4, 98 points) improved to 18-4-1 in their past 23 games.

Carter Verhaeghe gave the Panthers (45-20-5, 95 points) a 3-2 lead at 15:52 of the third with a shot from the left circle over Igor Shesterkin.

Panarin responded 42 seconds later. His shot from above the left circle through traffic banked off Florida defenseman Kevin Stenlund’s left skate. The game stayed tied thanks to both teams making key plays in the extra period.

Chris Kreider nearly scored on a 2-on-1 with 3:42 left in overtime but Bobrovsky lost his stick making a sprawling pad save. Verhaeghe nearly slid in a loose puck with 2:22 remaining but Trocheck cleared the crease in time.

Matthew Tkachuk scored midway through the first and Eetu Luostarinen tallied on the opening shift of the second for Florida (45-20-5), which matched a season worst with its fourth straight loss.

Shesterkin made 27 saves and sealed the win with a pad save on Vladimir Tarasenko in the third round of the shootout.

Bobrovsky stopped 34 shots.

Tkachuk opened the scoring with 11:42 left in the first when he got by New York defenseman

Erik Gustafsson and tipped in a right point shot by

Josh Mahura.

Luostarinen used his stick to shovel the puck past a sprawled out Shesterkin in the crease 21 seconds into the second to finish off an odd-man rush.

Fox cashed in on the man advantage by lifting a shot from between the circles over Bobrovsky’s right shoulder at 6:22 of the second.

Following a turnover in the right corner by Florida’s Anton Lundell, Panarin buried a one-timer from the right circle into the upper right corner a little over two minutes after Fox scored.

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Capitals 3, Jets 0: Alex Ovechkin scored twice to help Washington beat visiting Winnipeg.

T.J. Oshie had two assists and Charlie Lindgren made 27 saves for the Capitals (35-26-9, 79 points), who moved into the second wild card from the Eastern Conference.

Connor Hellebuyck, who started after being pulled against the New York Islanders on Saturday, made 16 saves for the Jets (44-22-5, 93 points), who have lost three in a row after winning four of five.

After a quiet first period for both teams, Washington had a chance early in the second on a one-timer by Dylan Strome from the slot off a feed from Rasmus Sandin, but his attempt went wide.

From there, Winnipeg

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Atlantic

Boston Florida Toronto Tampa Bay Detroit Buffalo Ottawa Montreal Metropolitan

N.Y. Rangers Carolina Philadelphia Washington N.Y. Islanders New Jersey Pittsburgh Columbus

Central

Colorado Dallas Winnipeg Nashville St. Louis Minnesota Arizona Chicago Pacific

72 41 16 15 97 241 200 70 45 20 5 95 227 172 69 40 20 9 89 257 218 70 38 25 7 83 247 233 71 36 29 6 78 242 236 71 33 33 5 71 212 215 69 29 36 4 62 220 246 69 25 32 12 62 189 243 GP W L OT Pts GF GA

98 240 194 95 245 194 81 211 216 79 194 221 75 212 235 72 231 244 70 205 213 58 205 260

71 46 20 5 97 269 212 71 43 19 9 95 260 214 71 44 22 5 93 218 173 71 42 25 4 88 231 206 71 38 30 3 79 207 215 71 34 28 9 77 220 230 70 29 36 5 63 205 230 71 20 46 5 45 157 256 GP W LOT Pts GF GA

Vancouver 71 45 18 8 98 249 189 Edmonton 68 42 22 4 88 245 196 Los Angeles 70 37 22 11 85 220 183 Vegas 70 38 25 7 83 226 208 Calgary 69 33 31 5 71 215 224 Seattle 69 28 28 13 69 184 201 Anaheim 70 24 43 3 51 175 252 San Jose 70 16 46 8 40 155 285

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

MONDAY

Vegas at St. Louis, 8

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 9

SUNDAY

Florida at Philadelphia

Washington 3, Winnipeg 0

Colorado 5, Pittsburgh 4 (OT)

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders

Edmonton at Ottawa

Toronto at Carolina

Dallas at Arizona

Tampa Bay at Anaheim

Buffalo at Calgary

Montreal at Seattle

SATURDAY

N.Y. Rangers 4, Florida 3 (SO)

N.Y. Islanders 6, Winnipeg 3

Philadelphia 3, Boston 2

St. Louis 5, Minnesota 4 (OT)

Nashville 1, Detroit 0

Ottawa 5, New Jersey 2

Toronto 6, Edmonton 3

Vancouver 4, Calgary 2

Los Angeles 4, Tampa Bay 3 (OT)

Vegas 4, Columbus 2

Chicago 5, San Jose 4 (OT)

Florida New York

GP W LOT Pts GF GA

71 47 20 4 71 44 20 7 71 36 26 9 70 35 26 9 70 30 25 15 71 34 33 4 70 30 30 10 71 23 36 12

NY Rangers won shootout 2-1

First Period—1, Florida, M.Tkachuk 23 (Mahura, Verhaeghe) 8:18.Penalties— Gustafsson, Nyr (slashing), 4:03; EkmanLarsson, Fla (tripping), 13:46.

Second Period—2, Florida, Luostarinen 12 (Reinhart, Balinskis) 0:21 3, NY Rangers, Fox 14 (Trocheck, Zibanejad) 6:22 (pp) 4, NY Rangers, Panarin 42 (Trocheck, Fox) 8:23.Penalties—Okposo, Fla (holding), 5:16; Verhaeghe, Fla (slashing), 9:26; Goodrow, Nyr (roughing), 11:44.

Third Period—5, Florida, Verhaeghe 31 (Montour, M.Tkachuk) 15:52 6, NY Rangers, Panarin 43 (Z.Jones, Trocheck) 16:35.Penalties—None.

Overtime—None.Penalties—None. Shootout—Florida 1 (Reinhart G, Lundell NG, Tarasenko NG), NY Rangers 2 (Zibanejad G, Panarin G, Trocheck NG).

Shots on Goal—Florida 11-12-3-4—30. NY Rangers 8-15-10-4—37.

Power-play opportunities—Florida

2; NY Rangers 1 of 3.

Goalies—Florida Bobrovsky 32-15-3 (37 shots-34 saves). NY Rangers Shesterkin 30-15-2 (30-27).

A—18,006 (18,200).T—2:44. 0 of took control, putting pressure on and creating opportunities while outshooting the Capitals 11-3.

Avalanche 5, Penguins 4 (OT): Jonathan Drouin scored 54 seconds into overtime, his second goal of the game, and Colorado rallied to beat Pittsburgh.

The Penguins led 4-0 with 4:20 remaining in the second period.

Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists to extend his point streak to 18 games and his home point streak to 34 games. It is the second-longest in NHL history, behind Wayne Gretzky’s 40-game streak in 1988-89.

MacKinnon now has 122 points, the most by an Avalanche player since the team relocated to Denver.

Sean Walker and Yakov Trenin also scored, Devon Toews had two assists, and Alexandar Georgiev had 30 saves for Colorado (46-20-5, 99 points). Drouin added an assist.

Sidney Crosby had a goal and three assists. Bryan Rust, Pierre-Olivier Joseph and Jesse Puljujarvi had goals for the Penguins (30-30-10, 70 points).

Pittsburgh goalie Alex Nedeljkovic had 20 saves and left for 10 minutes after a collision with Casey Mittelstadt early in the third. Tristan Jarry allowed the tying goal before Nedeljkovic came back in.