Noah Cates had two goals and one assist to lift the host Philadelphia Flyers past the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Sunday.

Morgan Frost added one goal and one assist and Travis Konecny also scored for the Flyers (25-43-11, 61 points), who snapped a five-game home losing streak.

Keith Yandle contributed two assists and goaltender Martin Jones stopped 37 shots.

Sidney Crosby scored the lone goal for the Penguins. Pittsburgh goaltender Louis Domingue made 39 saves.

The loss didn’t hurt the Penguins (45-24-11, 101 points), who already had clinched a berth in the postseason for the 16th straight season.

The Flyers went ahead 1-0 when Frost took advantage of a bouncing puck in front and tapped it past Domingue at 15:49 of the first period.

The Penguins were quite active in the opening 20 minutes with 14 shots on goal, one fewer than the Flyers. Late scoring chances by Danton Heinin and Kris Letang were denied by Jones.

Cates redirected a slap shot from the point by Yandle at 6:49 of the second for a 2-0 Philadelphia advantage.

Following a turnover, Pittsburgh’s Jake Guentzel skated in all alone and fired a shot just wide at 9:06.

The game became chippy as the second period ended as Jeff Carter and Philadelphia’s Travis Sanheim were entangled in a scuffle.

Domingue made a stellar pad save on a point blank shot by Kevin Hayes on the power play in the first minute of the third period.

Guentzel came right back with a wrist shot in front. But Jones was able to stop the high shot and clear the puck.

Letang stayed aggressive and ripped a slap shot at 7:20 which wound up being Jones’ 31st consecutive save.

The Flyers took a 3-0 lead at 9:38 when Cates scored his second goal of the game and fifth of the season, this time on the power play. The initial shot was taken by Ivan Provorov and Cates got his stick on the puck while shielding Domingue.

Domingue was pulled for an extra skater with just under five minutes remaining and Crosby connected at 16:27 to close within 3-1. It was Crosby’s 31st goal of the season.

Konecny then responded with an empty-net goal at 17:26 to regain the three-goal lead.

–Field Level Media

Nick Blankenburg’s first NHL goal broke a tie near the halfway mark of the third period, and the Columbus Blue Jackets scored four times in the final frame to cool off the visiting Edmonton Oilers — and overshadow Connor McDavid setting a career high for points — with a 5-2 victory on Sunday.

Edmonton led 2-1 after two periods, but Columbus (36-36-7, 79 points) tied it 1:36 into the third, when Oliver Bjorkstrand backhanded home a rebound to snap an 11-game point drought. Then, on the power play, Bjorkstrand (two assists) set up Blankenburg, who drove the puck from the point, through traffic and by Oilers netminder Mikko Koskinen (26 saves) with 10:46 left in regulation.

Playing in his sixth NHL contest, Blankenburg also posted his first multi-point game after assisting on Eric Robinson’s first-period goal.

Jack Roslovic added some late insurance with his fourth goal in three games, Cole Sillinger had an empty-netter, Jakub Voracek recorded three assists and Elvis Merzlikins made 33 saves for the Blue Jackets, who snapped an 0-3-1 slide by winning for just the fourth time in 16 games.

Meanwhile, McDavid assisted on Evander Kane’s fifth goal in three games and Leon Draisaitl’s 55th of the season to sit at a career-high 118 points for the Oilers (46-27-6, 98 points), who had won four in a row and 10 of the previous 12. With those two assists, McDavid also tied a career high with 75, but the Oilers failed in their chance to clinch home-ice in the first-round of the playoffs.

His milestone point came just 3:08 into the game, on a drop pass for Kane, who blazed the puck past Merzlikins. However, Edmonton couldn’t take advantage of that early momentum, and Columbus tied the contest with 4:02 left in the opening period when Robinson got enough of his stick on an active puck in front of Koskinen.

McDavid’s second assist gave Edmonton back the lead at 5:30 into the second when he delivered a circle-to-circle pass to Draisaitl, who one-timed the puck, on one knee, for his 24th power-play goal of the season.

–Field Level Media

Max Domi scored the game-winning goal 5:40 into the third period as the visiting Carolina Hurricanes moved closer to clinching the Metropolitan Division with a 5-2 win over the New York Islanders on Sunday in Elmont, N.Y.

Derek Stepan and Seth Jarvis scored in the first period and Jesper Fast and Brendan Smith converted into the empty net in the third for the Hurricanes (52-20-8, 112 points).

Carolina won its fourth straight game to increase its lead to four points over the idle New York Rangers (51-22-6, 108 points) in the Metropolitan. The teams will square off on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Carolina will clinch the division with a win.

Pyotr Kochetkov, who won his NHL debut in Saturday’s 3-2 overtime win over the New Jersey Devils, made seven saves in relief of Antti Raanta. Raanta stopped 17 of 18 shots before exiting with a lower-body injury in the second period.

Ross Johnston scored in the first period and Ryan Pulock tied the game in the second for the Islanders (35-34-10, 80 points), who have lost five straight games (0-4-1). Semyon Varlamov recorded 29 saves in the loss.

The Hurricanes scored on their first shot after Stepan needed one motion to pick off Noah Dobson’s no-look pass intended for Zdeno Chara deep in the New York zone. Stepan then beat Varlamov at the 2:25 mark.

Jarvis, stationed to the left of Varlamov, took a pass from Andrei Svechnikov and flicked a shot over Varlamov’s glove and off the top of the net for a power-play goal with 11:51 left.

Johnston redirected Matt Martin’s shot with 1:35 remaining to begin the Islanders’ comeback attempt. Pulock tied the score with 4:33 left in the second by firing a shot that sailed past Kochetkov, who was screened by New York’s Zach Parise.

Teuvo Teravainen set up the game-winning goal by passing from behind the net to Domi, who beat Varlamov from point-blank range. Fast iced the game with 2:07 left before Smith added another empty-net goal.

–Field Level Media

Alex Nedeljkovic made 17 saves for his fourth shutout of the season to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-0 road win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday afternoon in Newark, N.J.

The Red Wings (31-39-10, 72 points), who entered the game allowing the most goals in the NHL, outshot New Jersey by a 24-17 margin.

Andrew Hammond stopped 21 shots and allowed only one goal in defeat for New Jersey (27-44-8, 62 points), which has lost five of its last six games (1-3-2).

The Red Wings took a 1-0 lead with 4:12 remaining in the first period on a goal by Oskar Sundqvist, who took advantage of a turnover by the Devils.

New Jersey’s Andreas Johnsson tried to bring the puck up the middle of the ice from deep in his own zone but lost control. Sundqvist ultimately fired a quick shot from the right faceoff circle that beat Hammond above his stick.

New Jersey pulled Hammond with 2:47 remaining but couldn’t generate possession in the Detroit zone off of a faceoff. The Red Wings worked it out of the zone and claimed a 2-0 lead with 2:09 left after Tyler Bertuzzi fired a shot from just beyond the New Jersey blue line into the empty net.

Michael Rasmussen added another empty-net goal on a backhand from near beyond the New Jersey blue line with 12.6 seconds remaining to round out the scoring.

Each team had an apparent goal overturned.

New Jersey thought it had tied the game late in the second period on a goal by Yegor Sharangovich, but the tally was overturned after a video review determined the Devils were offsides entering the zone.

Detroit thought it had made it 2-0 with 7:56 remaining in the game after a shot by defenseman Danny DeKeyser got through traffic and went past Hammond. Officials, however, ruled that Adam Erne bumped into Hammond while Erne was tangled up with New Jersey defenseman Ryan Graves.

–Field Level Media

The Detroit Red Wings signed defenseman Simon Edvinsson to a three-year entry-level contract on Sunday.

The deal will begin with the 2022-23 season for Edvinsson, who was selected by the Red Wings with the sixth overall pick of the 2021 NHL Draft.

UPDATE: The #RedWings today signed defenseman Simon Edvinsson to a three-year entry-level contract beginning with the 2022-23 season. pic.twitter.com/oInqZKpZFN

– Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) April 24, 2022

Edvinsson, 19, recorded 19 points (two goals, 17 assists) and a plus-13 rating in 44 games this season for Frolunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League.

The 6-foot-4 Swede was named a finalist for the SHL Rookie of the Year Award.

–Field Level Media