K’Andre Miller’s tiebreaking goal helped the New York Rangers pull off a rare third-period comeback to beat the visiting Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Sunday night, making Jonathan Quick the first American-born goaltender to reach 400 career regular-season victories.
The Rangers stopped a three-game losing streak and improved to 8-3-3 in their past 14. They are 2-20-1 this season when trailing after two periods. Mika Zibanejad and Artemi Panarin each had a goal and two assists, and Alexis Lafreniere also scored for the Rangers.
Quick made 34 saves. He joined Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky and Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury as the third active goalie to reach 400 wins. He is the 15th player in NHL history with at least 400 victories.
Jack Eichel scored both goals for Vegas, and Adin Hill made 24 saves. The Golden Knights lost their third straight game and dropped to 3-7-3 in their past 13.
Red Wings 3, Canucks 2 (OT)
Alex DeBrincat scored two goals, including the game-winner in overtime, as Detroit extended its winning streak to six games by edging host Vancouver.
Ben Chiarot also scored for Detroit, which climbed into a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. Goaltender Alex Lyon stopped 25 shots. DeBrincat has 23 goals, tying him with Dylan Larkin for the team lead. The decisive goal came with 42 seconds left in the extra session, as DeBrincat led an odd-man rush from one end of the ice to the other and made good on a give-and-go with Lucas Raymond in the Vancouver zone.
Filip Chytil and Pius Suter scored for Vancouver, which lost its second straight game. Kevin Lankinen made 15 saves.
Panthers 6, Islanders 3
Carter Verhaeghe scored his fourth career hat trick and added an assist to lead Florida past visiting New York in Sunrise, ending the Islanders’ season-high seven-game winning streak.
Sam Reinhart and Matthew Tkachuk each had a goal and an assist for the Panthers, who have won 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 got 27 saves from Jakub Skarek in his NHL debut.
Stars 5, Blue Jackets 3
Evgenii Dadonov scored two goals in the third period to lift Dallas over visiting Columbus for its fifth straight win.
Mason Marchment, Logan Stankoven and Wyatt Johnston also tallied for Dallas, which didn’t lead until Dadonov redirected the puck off a drive from defenseman Thomas Harley (two assists) past Columbus netminder Elvis Merzlikins with 8:38 left in regulation. Dadonov added some insurance with 4:13 left as the Stars, who are 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 won three straight but couldn’t hold three different one-goal leads Sunday. Columbus lost leading goal scorer Kirill Marchenko after he took a puck to the face while on the bench late in the second period and did not return. Merzlikins made 34 saves.
Avalanche 2, Flyers 0
Mackenzie Blackwood made 24 saves for his second straight shutout while Philadelphia failed to score for a third straight game as Colorado beat the Flyers in Denver.
Blackwood got his third shutout of the season — his second with the Avalanche — and the 13th of his career. It is the third time he has had shutouts in consecutive games.
Nathan MacKinnon and Samuel Girard supplied the goals for Colorado. Samuel Ersson made 30 saves for Philadelphia, which has not scored in its last 180 minutes, 15 seconds.
Sabres 4, Devils 3
Tage Thompson, JJ Peterka and Ryan McLeod scored three straight goals in the first period for host Buffalo, which fended off a third-period comeback by New Jersey.
Jason Zucker scored what proved to be the game-winning goal late in the second period for the Sabres, who equaled a season high with their third straight win. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 21 saves.
Paul Cotter scored twice before Jack Hughes added a goal in the third for the Devils, who have lost 11 of 16 (5-8-3) since Dec. 28. Jake Allen made 23 saves before being pulled after the second period for Nico Daws, who stopped all seven shots he faced in the third
Ducks 3, Canadiens 2
Alex Killorn scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and added an assist as host Anaheim scored three unanswered goals to rally for a victory over Montreal.
Mason McTavish and Frank Vatrano also scored goals and Leo Carlsson had two assists for Anaheim, which won for the fourth time in its last five games. Lukas Dostal finished with 21 saves as the Ducks improved to 21-0-2 when scoring three goals or more in a game.
Joel Armia and Christian Dvorak scored goals and Sam Montembeault made 19 saves for Montreal, which lost its fifth straight game.
Blues 2, Utah Hockey Club 1
Jordan Binnington made 24 saves as St. Louis snapped its four-game losing streak by edging Utah in Salt Lake City.
Alexandre Texier and Jordan Kyrou scored for the Blues, who were outscored 16-4 in their losing streak. Michael Kesselring scored and Connor Ingram made 27 saves for Utah, which is winless (0-3-2) in its last five games.
Blues defenseman Tyler Tucker left the game during the third period after taking a hard shoulder-first fall into the boards.
Flames 3, Kraken 2
Morgan Frost scored his first goal with his new team as Calgary held on to defeat host Seattle.
Yegor Sharangovich had a goal and an assist and Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for the Flames, who won for just the second time in their past five 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 points behind the Flames in the race for the Western Conference’s second and final wild-card spot. Joey Daccord stopped 32 of 35 shots.
–Field Level Media
