John Klingberg’s second goal of the game, 2:57 into overtime, gave the San Jose Sharks a remarkable 6-5 victory over the host Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Sharks led 5-1 with 13 minutes left.
Tyler Toffoli had two goals and two assists, Macklin Celebrini added a goal and two assists and William Eklund had a goal and an assist. Alexander Wennberg had three assists and Yaroslav Askorov made 38 saves.
Klingberg converted a crosscourt pass from Celebrini for the overtime winner after Toffoli forced overtime with 1:38 to play.
Bryan Rust and Anthony Mantha each had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who lost their fourth straight game. Sidney Crosby contributed a goal and an assist, and Rutger McGroarty and Kevin Hayes scored goals. Arturs Silovs stopped 26 shots.
Devils 4, Ducks 1
Stefan Noesen scored a goal and Paul Cotter added the go-ahead score as New Jersey earned a victory against visiting Anaheim.
Cody Glass and Connor Brown also scored goals, Juho Lammikko and Ondrej Palat had two assists each and Jake Allen made 30 saves for the Devils, who had lost six of seven.
Troy Terry scored for the Ducks and Lukas Dostal made 18 saves after being unavailable the previous nine games with an upper-body injury.
Wild 3, Senators 2
Joel Eriksson Ek scored with 24 seconds left to put Minnesota past Ottawa in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt stopped 34 of 36 shots to earn the victory. Eriksson Ek’s hard-angled shot from near the sides gave Minnesota its third straight victory. Tyler Pitlick and Ryan Hartman also scored for the Wild.
Tim Stutzle and Dylan Cozens each finished with a goal and an assist for Ottawa. The Senators lost for the fourth time in their last five games.
Golden Knights 3, Blue Jackets 2
Brayden McNabb scored the go-ahead goal at 13:13 of the third period, and Carter Hart made 27 saves as visiting Vegas took sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division with a victory over Columbus.
Pavel Dorofeyev and Ben Hutton also scored, and Mitch Marner had three assists, his second three-point game of the season, for Vegas, which extended its point streak to seven games (6-0-1), tying a season high.
Charlie Coyle and Yegor Chinakhov scored goals and Jet Greaves made 22 saves for Columbus, which lost its fifth straight game.
Rangers 5, Canadiens 4 (overtime)
JT Miller scored a power play goal in overtime as New York erased a three-goal deficit and earned the victory against Montreal.
After Jake Evans was ejected for hitting Artemi Panarin, the Rangers captain fired a slapshot past Canadiens rookie goalie Jacob Fowler to end New York’s three-game losing streak and improve its home record to 4-8-3. Noah Laba and Panarin scored 11 seconds apart in the first period for the Rangers, and Will Cuylle and Miller scored 36 seconds apart in the second. New York goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin made 13 saves.
For Montreal, Zachary Bolduc and Arber Xhekaj scored 89 seconds apart in the first period before Evans completed the three-goal streak. Josh Anderson scored the Canadians’ fourth goal in the second. Fowler stopped 21 shots in his second NHL start as Montreal fell to 6-1-3 in its last 10 road games.
Islanders 3, Lightning 2 (SO)
Mathew Barzal and Emil Heineman scored in the shootout for New York, which completed a perfect three-game homestand by edging Tampa Bay in Elmont, N.Y.
Matthew Schaefer and Calum Ritchie scored in the first period for the Islanders, who won despite being outshot 34-17. Shots were New York’s fewest in a win since they had 14 shots in a 2-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Feb. 4. Goaltender Ilya Sorokin made 32 saves as the Islanders won for the sixth time in seven games.
Darren Raddysh scored in the second and JJ Moser had the tying goal in the third for the Lightning, whose two-game winning streak was snapped. Goalkeeper Jonas Johansson, starting with Andrei Vasilevskiy on the injured list, made 15 saves.
Hurricanes 4, Flyers 3 (SW)
Jackson Blake scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lift Carolina to a road victory over Philadelphia.
Pyotr Kochetkov stopped all four of the Flyers’ attempts before Blake’s first career shootout goal clinched the victory for Carolina. Nikolaj Ehlers, Alexander Nikishin and Seth Jarvis scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, who have won six of their last eight games overall.
Bobby Brink, Trevor Zegras and Carl Grundstrom scored in regulation for the Flyers, who will look for revenge Sunday when the teams meet again in Raleigh, North Carolina. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves for Philadelphia, while Kochetkov finished with 15 saves for the visitors.
Flames 2, Kings 1 (OT)
Morgan Frost scored his first career goal in overtime to give Calgary a victory over Los Angeles.
Blake Coleman also scored for the Flames, who have won four of five games. Goaltender Dustin Wolf stopped 20 shots.
Adrian Kempe answered for the Kings, who have lost two straight and lost five of their last 11 games in overtime (4-2-5). Goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper provided a sparkling performance with 36 saves, including 13 in a perfect first period.
Jets 5, Capitals 1
Gabriel Vilardi scored two goals and the Jets beat Washington in Winnipeg.
Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves in his return from arthroscopic knee surgery. Playing his first game since November 15, Hellebuyck recorded a shutout in the final minutes. Vilardi has scored three goals in his last two matches. Morgan Barron and Alex Iafallo scored in their second straight game and Iafallo added an assist for the Jets, who had lost three straight and five of six. Adam Lowry, Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor and Josh Morrissey each had two assists.
Jakob Chychrun scored for the Capitals, who saw their streak of nine consecutive games with at least one point end (7-0-2). They are 1-1-2 in their last four games. Logan Thompson made 30 saves.
Red Wings 4, Blackhawks 0
Alex DeBrincat scored twice and had an assist and Patrick Kane added a goal and an assist to support a 26-save shutout from John Gibson and propel Detroit to a victory over host Chicago.
Skating against their former team, DeBrincat and Kane scored in the opening 4:35 to give the Red Wings an early lead they didn’t want to relinquish. Chicago outshot Detroit 26-24, but struggled to solve Gibson while falling to 2-4-1 in its last seven games.
Blackhawks leading scorer Connor Bedard, whose 44 points ranked fourth in the league entering the night, did not play after suffering an upper-body injury in the final seconds of Friday’s 3-2 loss at St. Louis.
Oilers 6, Maple Leafs 3
Connor McDavid continued his progress with two goals and an assist as visiting Edmonton beat Toronto.
McDavid has seven goals and eight assists in his last five games. Vasily Podkolzin also scored twice while Darnell Nurse and Zach Hyman scored one each for the Oilers, who have won two in a row. Tristan Jarry stopped 25 shots in his Oilers debut after being acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.
Easton Cowan, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Steven Lorentz scored for the Maple Leafs, who have lost two straight.
Panthers 4, Stars 0
Brad Marchand scored twice and added an assist, leading Florida to a shutout victory over host Dallas.
Anton Lundell added a goal and an assist and Sam Bennett also scored for the Panthers, who improved to 5-5-1 in their last 11 games. Sam Reinhart added two assists for his seventh multi-point game of the season. Sergei Bobrovsky made 15 saves for his third shutout of the season and the 52nd of his career.
Jake Oettinger stopped 19 shots to fall to 1-7-1 in nine starts against the Panthers. The loss drops Dallas to 8-2-1 in its last 11 and 10-5-1 at home this season.
Avalanche 4, Predators 2
NHL scoring leader Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and an assist, Scott Wedgewood stopped 27 shots as the Colorado Avalanche dominated their visit to Nashville.
Valeri Nichushkin, Jack Drury and Victor Olofsson also scored and Samuel Girard provided two assists for Colorado, which has won 11 in a row at home, where it remains undefeated in regulation this season (13-0-2).
Tyson Jost and Jonathan Marchessault scored and Justus Annunen made 38 saves for Nashville, which had won four of its last five games, including a shootout victory over Colorado on Tuesday night. This game was a rare loss for the Avalanche, who have collected at least a point in 23 of their last 24 games and have suffered just two regulation losses this season.
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