Fehr, Penguins even series with Capitals
Eric Fehr scored the tiebreaking goal against his former team with about 41⁄ minutes remaining Saturday, 2 giving the Penguins a 2-1 victory over the Capitals that tied their Eastern Conference second-round series at a game each.
Fehr redirected a pass out of a corner from Evgeni Malkin, sending the puck off the right post and past goalie Braden Holtby. Fehr played parts of nine seasons for the Capitals across two stints before leaving as a free agent last summer to join the Penguins.
CarlHagelin put thePenguins ahead in the second period of Game 2, before Marcus Johansson pulled the Capitals even on a power play with about 16 minutes to go in the third.
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Tyler Johnson had two goals and an assist and the Lightning beat the Islanders to even their Eastern Conference second-round series at a game each.
Lightning goalie Ben Bishop rebounded after being pulled in the second period ofGame 1 to make 19 saves. He gave up four goals on 13 shotsWednesday in a 5-3 loss.
Jonathan Drouin and Victor Hedman each had a goal and an assist for the Lightning. NikolayKulemin scored for the Islanders, and Thomas Greiss stopped 27 shots.
After Islanders teammates Cal Clutterbuck and Nick Leddy collided at the Lightning blue line, the Lightning got an odd-man rush that resulted in Johnson’s backhander that opened the scoring 6:03 into the game.
Johnson extended the Tampa Bay advantage to 4-1 with a late empty-netter.
Drouin made it 2-0 on another backhander that trickled past Greiss at 11:55 of the first. It was the first career playoff goal, coming in his 13th game, for the third overall pick in the 2013 draft.