K’Andre Miller’s tiebreaking goal helped the New York Rangers to pull off a rare third period comeback to beat the visiting Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Sunday evening, making Jonathan Quick the first American-born goalkeeper to reach 400 careers regular The season wins.
Rangers stopped a three-game losing line and improved to 8-3-3 in the last 14. They are 2-20-1 this season when they beat after two periods. Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin each had a goal and two assists, and Alexis Lafreniere also did for Rangers.
Quickly made 34 rescues. He joined Floridas Sergei Bobrovsky and Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury as the third active goalkeeper to reach 400 wins. He is the 15th player in the NHL history with at least 400 wins.
Jack Eichel scored both goals for Vegas, and Adin Hill made 24 rescues. Golden Knights lost their third straight match and fell to 3-7-3 in the last 13.
Red Wings 3, Canucks 2 (OT)
Alex DeBrincat scored two goals, including the game winner in overtime, as Detroit extended his winning line to six matches by edging the host Vancouver.
Ben Chiarot also scored for Detroit, which climbed into a wild card at the eastern conference. The goal Alex Lyon stopped 25 shots. Debrincat has 23 goals and binds him with Dylan Larkin for the team. The decisive goal came with 42 seconds left in the extra session, as Debrincat led an odd man-rushing from one end of the ice to the other and did well on a GE-and-Go with Lucas Raymond in the Vancouver zone.
Filip Chytil and Pius Suter made for Vancouver, who lost their second straight match. Kevin Lankinen made 15 rescues.
Panthers 6, Islanders 3
Carter Verhaeghe made his fourth career hat trick and added an assist to lead Florida earlier to visit New York in Sunrise and ended the islanders’ season high seven match winning line.
Sam Reinhart and Matthew Tkachuk each had a goal and an assist for Panthers, who have won three straight. Aleksander Barkov had three assists, Gustav Forsling had two, and Spencer Knight made 31 rescues.
Kyle Maclean, Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Marc Gatcomb made for the islands, who received 27 rescues from Jakub Skarek in their NHL debut.
Stars 5, Blue Jackets 3
Evgenii Dadonov scored two goals during the third period to lift Dallas to visit Columbus for his fifth straight victory.
Mason Marchment, Logan Stankoven and Wyatt Johnston also counted for Dallas, who did not lead until Dadonov redirected the puck from a drive from defender Thomas Harley (two assists) past the Columbus Netminder Elvis Merzlikins with 8:38 in regulation. Dadonov added some insurance with 4:13 left as the stars, which are 15-4-1 since December 23. Casey Desmith ends with 27 rescues for Dallas.
Cole Sillinger, Adam Fantilli and Ivan Provorov scored Blue Jackets, who had won three straight but could not hold three different single -goal lines on Sunday. Columbus lost the leading goal scorer Kirill Marchenko after taking a puck to his face while he was on the bench late in the second period and did not return. Merzlikins made 34 rescues.
Avalanche 2, Flyers 0
Mackenzie Blackwood made 24 rescues for her second straight suspension while Philadelphia failed to score for a third straight match when Colorado beat Flyers in Denver.
Blackwood got his third suspension of the season – his second Med Avalanche – and the 13th career. This is the third time he has had ends in consecutive games.
Nathan Mackinnon and Samuel Girard delivered the goals for Colorado. Samuel Ersson made 30 rescues for Philadelphia, which has not scored in the last 180 minutes, 15 seconds.
Sabers 4, Devils 3
Tage Thompson, JJ Peterka and Ryan McLeod scored three straight goals during the first period for host Buffalo, which shielded a third period comeback by New Jersey.
Jason Zucker did what turned out to be the winning goal late in the second period for Sabers, who leveled a season high with his third straight victory. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 21 rescues.
Paul Cotter did twice before Jack Hughes added a goal in the third for Devils, which has dropped 11 out of 16 (5-8-3) since December 28. Jake Allen made 23 saves before he was drawn after the second period for Nico Daws, who stopped all seven shots he met in the third
Duck 3, Canadiens 2
Alex Killorn scored the forward goal during the third period and added an assist that host Anaheim scored three unanswered goals to rally for a victory over Montreal.
Mason Mctavish and Frank Vatrano also scored and Leo Carlsson had two assists for Anaheim, who won for the fourth time in their last five matches. Lukas Dostal finished with 21 rescues when the ducks improved to 21-0-2 when they scored three goals or more in one game.
Joel Armia and Christian Dvorak scored and Sam Montembeault made 19 rescues for Montreal, who lost their fifth straight match.
Blues 2, Utah Hockey Club 1
Jordan Binnington made 24 rescues when St. Louis snapped his four-game losing row by lined Utah in Salt Lake City.
Alexandre Texier and Jordan Kyrou made for blues, which was outscored 16-4 in his losing line. Michael Kesselring scored and Connor Ingram made 27 rescues for Utah, which is Winless (0-3-2) in his last five matches.
Blues defender Tyler Tucker left the game during the third period after taking a hard shoulder-first case in the boards.
Flames 3, the Crake 2
Morgan Frost scored his first goal with his new team as Calgary continued to defeat the host Seattle.
Yegor Sharangovich had a goal and an assist and Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for Flames, who won for just the second time in the last five games. The goal Dan Vladar made 29 rescues to earn his first victory since December 10.
Kaapo Kakko and Brandon Tanev scored Seattle, who dropped 10 points behind the flames in the race for Western Conference’s second and last jok card. Joey Daccord stopped 32 out of 35 shots.
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