Flyers rally from three down, beat Penguins
Claude Giroux scored his second goal of the night on a tap-in with 2:08 remaining and the Philadelphia Flyers recovered from an early Pittsburgh deluge to slip by the Penguins 4-3 on Thursday night.
The Flyers trailed by three following a 71-second first-period onslaught by host Pittsburgh but kept chipping away and finally moved in front on Giroux’s easy flip into an open net late in the third.
Giroux’s first goal pulled the Flyers within one in the second period, like his winner a simple shot from in front.
JETS 4, CANADIENS 3 >> PierreLuc Dubois scored at 4:29 of overtime to give Winnipeg the victory at Montreal in the opener of two-game series. Dubois fired a rolling puck past goalie Jake Allen for his fifth of the season. Winnipeg improved to 5-0 in overtime this season, and Montreal fell to 0-4.
RANGERS 6, DEVILS 1 >> Red hot Chris Kreider recorded his second hat trick in five games and New York beat slumping New Jersey.
IS LANDERS 5, SA B RES 2>> Matt Martin scored twice and New York beat visiting Buffalo in the opener of a three-game series. Noah Dobson, Anthony Beauvillier and Jordan Eberle also scored for New York, and rookie Ilya Sorokin stopped 16 shots. The Islanders improved to 5-0-1 in their last six overall and 8-0-2 at the Nassau Coliseum to remain the only team without a regulation loss at home.
HURRICANES 5, RED WINGS 2 >> Jordan Staal and Jesper Fast scored a pair of goals early in the third period to help Carolina take over and beat visiting Detroit. Staal’s goal 45 seconds into the period broke a 2-all tie, while Fast — who assisted on Staal’s goal when a shot attempt bounced off him to set up that rebound putaway — followed by finishing at the crease off a perfect pass from Andrei Svechnikov at 2:50.
CAPITALS’ OVECHKIN FINED $5K FOR SPEARING >> Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was fined $5,000 by the NHL on Thursday for spearing Boston Bruins rookie Trent Frederic, an amount that is the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement.