Ok’Andre Miller’s tiebreaking aim helped the New York Rangers pull off a uncommon third-period comeback to beat the visiting Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Sunday evening, making Jonathan Fast the primary American-born goaltender to achieve 400 profession regular-season victories.
The Rangers stopped a three-game shedding streak and improved to 8-3-3 of their previous 14. They’re 2-20-1 this season when trailing after two intervals. Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin every had a aim and two assists, and Alexis Lafreniere additionally scored for the Rangers.
Fast made 34 saves. He joined Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky and Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury because the third lively goalie to achieve 400 wins. He’s the fifteenth participant in NHL historical past with not less than 400 victories.
Jack Eichel scored each objectives for Vegas, and Adin Hill made 24 saves. The Golden Knights misplaced their third straight recreation and dropped to 3-7-3 of their previous 13.
Pink Wings 3, Canucks 2 (OT)
Alex DeBrincat scored two objectives, together with the game-winner in extra time, as Detroit prolonged its profitable streak to 6 video games by edging host Vancouver.
Ben Chiarot additionally scored for Detroit, which climbed right into a wild-card spot within the Japanese Convention. Goaltender Alex Lyon stopped 25 pictures. DeBrincat has 23 objectives, tying him with Dylan Larkin for the group lead. The decisive aim got here with 42 seconds left within the further session, as DeBrincat led an odd-man rush from one finish of the ice to the opposite and made good on a give-and-go with Lucas Raymond within the Vancouver zone.
Filip Chytil and Pius Suter scored for Vancouver, which misplaced its second straight recreation. Kevin Lankinen made 15 saves.
Panthers 6, Islanders 3
Carter Verhaeghe scored his fourth profession hat trick and added an help to guide Florida previous visiting New York in Dawn, ending the Islanders’ season-high seven-game profitable streak.
Sam Reinhart and Matthew Tkachuk every had a aim and an help for the Panthers, who’ve received three straight. Aleksander Barkov had three assists, Gustav Forsling had two, and Spencer Knight made 31 saves.
Kyle MacLean, Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Marc Gatcomb scored for the Islanders, who bought 27 saves from Jakub Skarek in his NHL debut.
Stars 5, Blue Jackets 3
Evgenii Dadonov scored two objectives within the third interval to elevate Dallas over visiting Columbus for its fifth straight win.
Mason Marchment, Logan Stankoven and Wyatt Johnston additionally tallied for Dallas, which did not lead till Dadonov redirected the puck off a drive from defenseman Thomas Harley (two assists) previous Columbus netminder Elvis Merzlikins with 8:38 left in regulation. Dadonov added some insurance coverage with 4:13 left because the Stars, who’re 15-4-1 since Dec. 23. Casey DeSmith finishes with 27 saves for Dallas.
Cole Sillinger, Adam Fantilli and Ivan Provorov scored for the Blue Jackets, who had received three straight however could not maintain three completely different one-goal leads Sunday. Columbus misplaced main aim scorer Kirill Marchenko after he took a puck to the face whereas on the bench late within the second interval and didn’t return. Merzlikins made 34 saves.
Avalanche 2, Flyers 0
Mackenzie Blackwood made 24 saves for his second straight shutout whereas Philadelphia failed to attain for a 3rd straight recreation as Colorado beat the Flyers in Denver.
Blackwood bought his third shutout of the season — his second with the Avalanche — and the thirteenth of his profession. It’s the third time he has had shutouts in consecutive video games.
Nathan MacKinnon and Samuel Girard equipped the objectives for Colorado. Samuel Ersson made 30 saves for Philadelphia, which has not scored in its final 180 minutes, 15 seconds.
Sabres 4, Devils 3
Tage Thompson, JJ Peterka and Ryan McLeod scored three straight objectives within the first interval for host Buffalo, which fended off a third-period comeback by New Jersey.
Jason Zucker scored what proved to be the game-winning aim late within the second interval for the Sabres, who equaled a season excessive with their third straight win. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 21 saves.
Paul Cotter scored twice earlier than Jack Hughes added a aim within the third for the Devils, who’ve misplaced 11 of 16 (5-8-3) since Dec. 28. Jake Allen made 23 saves earlier than being pulled after the second interval for Nico Daws, who stopped all seven pictures he confronted within the third
Geese 3, Canadiens 2
Alex Killorn scored the go-ahead aim within the third interval and added an help as host Anaheim scored three unanswered objectives to rally for a victory over Montreal.
Mason McTavish and Frank Vatrano additionally scored objectives and Leo Carlsson had two assists for Anaheim, which received for the fourth time in its final 5 video games. Lukas Dostal completed with 21 saves because the Geese improved to 21-0-2 when scoring three objectives or extra in a recreation.
Joel Armia and Christian Dvorak scored objectives and Sam Montembeault made 19 saves for Montreal, which misplaced its fifth straight recreation.
Blues 2, Utah Hockey Membership 1
Jordan Binnington made 24 saves as St. Louis snapped its four-game shedding streak by edging Utah in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Alexandre Texier and Jordan Kyrou scored for the Blues, who have been outscored 16-4 of their shedding streak. Michael Kesselring scored and Connor Ingram made 27 saves for Utah, which is winless (0-3-2) in its final 5 video games.
Blues defenseman Tyler Tucker left the sport through the third interval after taking a tough shoulder-first fall into the boards.
Flames 3, Kraken 2
Morgan Frost scored his first aim together with his new group as Calgary held on to defeat host Seattle.
Yegor Sharangovich had a aim and an help and Jonathan Huberdeau additionally scored for the Flames, who received for simply the second time of their previous 5 video games. Goaltender Dan Vladar made 29 saves to earn his first victory since Dec. 10.
Kaapo Kakko and Brandon Tanev scored for Seattle, which dropped 10 factors behind the Flames within the race for the Western Convention’s second and remaining wild-card spot. Joey Daccord stopped 32 of 35 pictures.
–Area Degree Media
