RIELLY PUTS AWAY SENATORS LATE
TORONTO» Morgan Rielly broke a tie midway through the third period and the Maple Leafs beat the Senators 5-4 on Wednesday night.
Rielly started a rush after an Ottawa turnover, passed to Zach Hyman, and took Hyman’s backhand pass alone in front of the goal for his 14th of the season. It also was Rielly’s career-high 53rd point.
Toronto scored three goals in four minutes late in the second period to take a 4-2 lead. Auston Matthews, fresh off news of a contract extension, scored to make it 3-2, and Mitch Marner set up goals by Andreas Johnsson and John Tavares.
Thomas Chabot and Magnus Paajarvi scored for Ottawa early in the third to tie it.
Hyman opened the scoring for Toronto in the first, and Paajarvi tied it late in the period.
Matt Duchene also scored for Ottawa.
Toronto won its third straight and handed Ottawa its fifth straight loss.
Marner has 45 assists this season. He had his 14th multi-assist and 20th multi-point game.
Newly acquired Maple Leafs defenseman Jake Muzzin played his 500th NHL game.
Rangers 4, Bruins 3, SO.
ORK» Tony DeAngelo
N E W Y scored the decisive goal in the seventh round of the shootout and the Rangers rallied from two goals down in the third period to beat the Bruins.
Mika Zibanejad, Kevin Hayes and Filip Chytil scored for New York and Alexandar Georgiev finished with 27 saves. The Rangers won for the second time in five games (2-2-1) after a stretch in which they won four of five.
Danton Heinen, David Pastrnak and Patrice Bergeron scored for Boston, Brad Marchand had two assists, and Jaroslav Halak stopped 36 shots. The Bruins had a two-game winning streak end, but earned a point for the fifth straight game (20-3).
Zibanejad and Marchand each scored in the third round of the tiebreaker, and the Rangers won it when David Krejci missed on the Bruins’ last attempt.
Each team had chances as they alternated odd-man rushes in the 3-on-3 overtime, with Halak making a sensational save to deny Zibanejad with 1:06 left. Halak earlier thwarted Chytil in front. On the other end, Georgiev stopped Sean Kuraly’s tip try with 1:23 to go.