Alex Ovechkin had an assist in what might have been his final NHL game, Jakob Chychrun scored the go-ahead goal and the Washington Capitals beat the host Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 in the season finale for teams on Tuesday. Neither team will be in the playoffs.

Chychrun scored on a power play with about four minutes left in regulation.

The secondary assist went to Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time leading goal-scorer who has completed his 21st NHL season and a five-year contract. The 40-year-old left winger, who has scored 929 regular-season goals, said recently he will not decide his future until the offseason.

Anthony Beauvillier also scored for the Capitals, who got 27 saves from Clay Stevenson. Boone Jenner scored for the Blue Jackets, and Jet Greaves stopped 19 shots.

Bruins 4, Devils 0

Mark Kastelic scored two of Boston’s four first-period goals as the Bruins wrapped up the first Eastern Conference wild card with a shutout of visiting New Jersey.

Boston’s Jeremy Swayman made 21 saves in the regular-season finale for both teams. Morgan Geekie and Viktor Arvidsson also lit the lamp for the Bruins, who will meet the Buffalo Sabres in the first playoff round. Sean Kuraly notched two assists, and David Pastrnak had one, securing his fourth consecutive 100-point season.

Nico Daws, in his second straight start for the Devils, stopped 22 shots.

Mammoth 5, Jets 3

Nick Schmaltz scored twice as Utah held on late to defeat Winnipeg in Salt Lake City and secure the first Western Conference wild-card spot with one game remaining in the regular season.

Logan Cooley had a goal and an assist, Alex Kerfoot scored a goal and Karel Vejmelka made 21 saves for the Mammoth, who snapped a two-game skid.

Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor each had a goal and an assist, Isak Rosen added a goal and Gabe Vilardi had two assists for the Jets, who were eliminated on Monday and finished their season on a three-game losing streak. Eric Comrie made 31 saves.

Flyers 4, Canadiens 2

Matvei Michkov had a goal and two assists for Philadelphia in a win against visiting Montreal.

Porter Martone and defenseman Oliver Bonk, in his NHL debut, each had a goal and an assist. Samuel Ersson made 27 saves for the Flyers, who won their last three games of the regular season and finished third in the Metropolitan Division. They play the rival Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Brendan Gallagher and Jake Evans scored for the Canadiens, who finished third in the Atlantic Division. Jakub Dobes made 21 saves.

Wild 3, Ducks 2

Hunter Haight scored his first NHL goal and Minnesota held on for a win over Anaheim in Saint Paul, Minn.

Danila Yurov and Robby Fabbri also scored one goal apiece for Minnesota, which wrapped up its regular season. The Wild will face the Dallas Stars in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt made 35 saves.

Mason McTavish scored two goals to lead Anaheim, which also is headed to the postseason. Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal allowed three goals on 20 shots.

Hurricanes 2, Islanders 1

Mark Jankowski scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:22 left for Carolina, which tuned up for the playoffs with a win over New York in the regular season finale for both clubs at Elmont, N.Y.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored in the first for the Hurricanes, who won the Metropolitan Division and earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Carolina will play the Ottawa Senators in a first-round series beginning this weekend. Brandon Bussi made 28 saves.

Bo Horvat scored his 300th career goal for the Islanders, who missed the postseason for a second straight year. David Rittich recorded 19 saves.

Avalanche 3, Flames 1

Gabriel Landeskog scored a tiebreaking goal late in the third period, Martin Necas had an assist to reach 100 points for the first time in his career and visiting Colorado beat Calgary.

Artturi Lehkonen and Nathan MacKinnon scored goals and Mackenzie Blackwood turned away 30 shots. The Avalanche have 119 points, tying the franchise record. MacKinnon notched his NHL-leading 53rd goal, and Cale Makar logged three assists in his return after missing seven games due to an upper-body injury.

Blake Coleman had a goal and Dustin Wolf made 36 saves for Calgary.

Canucks 4, Kings 3 (OT)

Jake DeBrusk scored twice, including the overtime winner, as Vancouver edged visiting Los Angeles.

DeBrusk tapped in an Elias Pettersson feed at the side of the net at 2:58 of the extra frame. Elias Pettersson and Zeev Buium also scored for Vancouver, who have won three straight. Kevin Lankinen made 31 saves as the Canucks finished the season 9-27-5 on home ice.

Quinton Byfield and Alex Laferriere each scored and added an assist, Adrian Kempe had the other goal for the Kings and Darcy Kuemper stopped 21 shots. Los Angeles, currently in the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference, still has a shot of finishing second or third in the Pacific Division. The Kings wrap up the regular season on Thursday in Calgary.

Blues 7, Penguins 5

Jimmy Snuggerud had two goals and two assists to help St. Louis rally for a win against visiting Pittsburgh.

Dylan Holloway had two goals and an assist, Logan Mailloux added a goal and an assist, Jake Neighbours produced two assists and Jordan Binnington made 18 saves for the Blues, who rallied from a three-goal deficit to win their third in a row.

Avery Hayes scored two goals, Anthony Mantha had a goal and an assist and Kevin Hayes had two assists in the regular-season finale for the Penguins. Stuart Skinner made 17 saves through two periods before Arturs Silovs stopped seven shots in the third for Pittsburgh, which had already clinched second place in the Metropolitan Division.

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Jake DeBrusk scored twice, including the overtime winner, as the Vancouver Canucks edged the visiting Los Angeles Kings 4-3 on Tuesday night.

DeBrusk tapped in an Elias Pettersson feed at the side of the net at 2:58 of the extra frame.

Defenseman Elias Pettersson and Zeev Buium also scored for Vancouver (25-48-8, 58 points), who have won three straight.

Kevin Lankinen made 31 saves as the Canucks finished the season 9-27-5 on home ice. Vancouver wraps up the regular season on Thursday in Edmonton.

Quinton Byfield and Alex Laferriere each scored and added an assist, and Adrian Kempe had the other goal for the Kings (35-26-20, 90 points).

Darcy Kuemper stopped 21 shots.

Los Angeles, currently in the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference, still has a shot of finishing second or third in the Pacific Division. The Kings wrap up the regular season on Thursday in Calgary.

The Canucks outshot the Kings 7-4 as the two teams were tied 1-1 after 20 minutes.

Pettersson opened the scoring at 9:21 of the first, putting his shot from the point under the blocker of a screened Kuemper for his third of the season.

Los Angeles tied it 1-1 as Byfield redirected a Laferriere feed past Lankinen for his 23rd of the season — matching his career best.

The Canucks took a 2-1 lead on a power play 52 seconds into the middle frame, with DeBrusk banging home the loose puck off Brock Boeser’s shot past Kuemper for his 22nd.

Kempe responded 12 seconds later, chipping an Anze Kopitar feed up and over the pad of Lankinen for his 36th of the season.

Los Angeles took its first lead at 2:17 of the second as Laferriere put home the rebound off Drew Doughty’s point shot for his 21st.

Buium tied it 3-3 at 9:20 of the second, completing a give-and-go with Nils Hoglander for his sixth of the season.

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Jimmy Snuggerud had two goals and two assists to help the St. Louis Blues rally for a 7-5 win against the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night.

Dylan Holloway had two goals and an assist, Logan Mailloux had a goal and an assist, Jake Neighbours had two assists and Jordan Binnington made 18 saves for the Blues (36-33-12, 84 points), who rallied from a three-goal deficit to win their third in a row.

Avery Hayes scored two goals, Anthony Mantha had a goal and an assist and Kevin Hayes had two assists in the regular-season finale for Pittsburgh.

Stuart Skinner made 17 saves through two periods before Arturs Silovs made seven saves in the third for the Penguins (41-25-16, 98 points), who had already clinched second place in the Metropolitan Division.

Rutger McGroarty scored on a one-timer from the inside edge of the left circle off a faceoff win by Kevin Hayes to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead at 10:14 of the first period.

Avery Hayes forced a turnover at the St. Louis blue line and scored on a breakaway for a 2-0 lead at 16:40.

The Penguins forced another turnover as the Blues were trying to exit their zone and Mantha scored from the left hashmarks to make it 3-0 at 17:23.

St. Louis got on the scoreboard at 18:44 of the first when Snuggerud scored off a feed from below the goal line from Robert Thomas to cut it to 3-1.

Elmer Soderblom re-established a three-goal cushion when he got behind the defense and waited out Skinner as he dragged the puck in front and scored to make it 4-1 at 2:58 of the second.

The Blues answered with three straight goals in the period to tie it entering the third.

Oskar Sundqvist scored a rebound off a rush to make it 4-2 at 4:51.

Mailloux scored from the high slot to cut it to 4-3 at 10:37, and Snuggerud put in a rebound while on a power play to tie it at 15:49.

Holloway was left wide open in the slot and he gave the Blues their first lead, 5-4, at 4:11 of the third period.

Pavel Buchnevich scored on a breakaway 43 seconds later to make it 6-4, but Avery Hayes tallied his own rebound just after a power play expired to cut it to 6-5 at 12:20.

Holloway sealed it with an empty-net goal for a 7-5 lead with 1:43 left.

The Blues conclude their season on Thursday against the Utah Mammoth in Salt Lake City.

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Gabriel Landeskog scored a tiebreaking goal late in the third period, Martin Necas had an assist to reach 100 points for the first time in his career, and the visiting Colorado Avalanche beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Tuesday.

Artturi Lehkonen and Nathan MacKinnon scored goals and Mackenzie Blackwood turned away 30 shots for Colorado (54-16-11). The Avalanche have 119 points, tying the franchise record set during the 2021-22 season, when they won the Stanley Cup.

MacKinnon notched his NHL-leading 53rd goal of the season in his battle for the Rocket Richard Trophy. He has a two-goal lead over the Montreal Canadiens’ Cole Caufield, whose season is complete, and a five-goal edge on the Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid, who has one game remaining. Colorado also has one game left.

Cale Makar logged three assists for the Avalanche in his return to the lineup after missing seven games due to an upper-body injury. Devon Toews and Brock Nelson were healthy scratches, and Nazem Kadri (finger) and Josh Manson (upper-body injury) remain sidelined.

Colorado coach Jared Bednar missed his second consecutive game. Bednar didn’t travel on the two-game trip due to facial fractures and a corneal abrasion sustained when he was hit by a puck during the Avalanche’s Saturday game against the Vegas Golden Knights.

Blake Coleman had a goal and Dustin Wolf made 36 saves for Calgary (33-39-9, 75 points).

The Avalanche got the winner when Landeskog won an offensive-zone faceoff back to Makar, who sent it to Brett Kulak. Landeskog, stationed in front of the crease, deflected Kulak’s shot past Wolf at 15:07.

Wolf came off for an extra skater and MacKinnon scored into the empty net at 19:43. Necas got the second assist on the goal to reach his personal milestone.

After a scoreless first period, the Flames broke through early in the second. Mikael Backlund had the puck at the point and sent a shot to the front of the net. Coleman, batting in the slot, got his stick on the puck as it glided on the ice, and it deflected over Blackwood’s shoulder at 7:22.

It was Coleman’s 20th goal of the season.

The Avalanche tied it when Makar fed Lehkonen for a one-timer at 11:25 of the second.

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Nick Schmaltz scored twice as the Utah Mammoth held on late to defeat the visiting Winnipeg Jets 5-3 on Tuesday night.

Logan Cooley had a goal and an assist, Alex Kerfoot scored a goal and Karel Vejmelka made 21 saves for the Mammoth (43-32-6, 92 points), who snapped a two-game skid.

With the win, Utah secured the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference with one game remaining in the regular season before the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Mammoth also swept the three-game season series with the Jets.

Mark Scheifele and Kyle Connor each had a goal and an assist, Isak Rosen added a goal and Gabe Vilardi had two assists for the Jets (35-33-12, 82 points), who were eliminated on Monday and finished their season on a three-game losing streak. Eric Comrie made 31 saves.

Cooley put Utah ahead 1-0 at 8:05 of the first period. Schmidt set Cooley up with a stretch pass, and the young forward caught a break before scoring on a backhanded shot.

Schmaltz increased the lead to 2-0 at 4:54 of the second period. Comrie stopped a shot by Mikhail Sergachev on a Utah power play, and Schmaltz scored on the rebound attempt with a wrist shot.

Connor cut the deficit to 2-1 at 17:10 when Vilardi set him up for a wrist shot on a Winnipeg power play.

Schmaltz made it 3-1 Mammoth at 7:16 of the third period when Cooley set him up for a wrist shot on a Utah power play. JJ Peterka added to the tally with a wrist shot on the next shift at 7:42.

Scheifele got the Jets back in the game with a snap shot set up by Connor to make the score 4-2 at 12:36. On the following Jets power play, Rosen found the back of the net on a snap shot to cut the deficit to 4-3 at 14:23.

Kerfoot scored into an empty net with 23 seconds remaining in regulation to seal the win.

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Hunter Haight scored his first NHL goal and the Minnesota Wild held on for a 3-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

Danila Yurov and Robby Fabbri also scored one goal apiece for Minnesota (46-24-12, 104 points), which wrapped up its regular season. The Wild will face the Dallas Stars in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.

Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt made 35 saves on 37 shots.

Mason McTavish scored two goals to lead Anaheim (42-33-6, 90 points), which also is headed to the postseason. The Ducks learned Monday night that they clinched a Western Conference playoff berth for the first time in eight years, but the Tuesday loss cost them any chance of winning the Pacific Division.

Ducks goaltender Lukas Dostal allowed three goals on 20 shots. Anaheim closes the regular season Thursday against the Nashville Predators before opening the postseason against either the Vegas Golden Knights or the Edmonton Oilers.

The Ducks opened the scoring with a power-play goal 10:27 into the first period. McTavish handled the puck in the middle of the left circle and unleashed a wrist shot through traffic that beat Wallstedt.

Minnesota evened the score at 1-all with 3:18 remaining in the first period. After the Ducks committed a turnover in their defensive zone, Yurov got the puck in the right circle and took advantage by scoring on a wrist shot.

Haight put the Wild on top 2-1 midway through the second period. Nick Foligno handled the puck behind the net and passed it toward the slot for Haight, who fired a shot just inside the right post and into the net.

Haight, 22, grinned wide as teammates celebrated with him along the boards after his first goal, which came in the ninth game of his rookie campaign. The Wild selected Haight in the second round (No. 47 overall) of the 2022 draft.

Minnesota made it 3-1 with 6:57 remaining in the third period. Fabbri spotted a loose puck near the front of the crease and tapped it across the goal line.

Anaheim cut the deficit to 3-2 with 46 seconds to go. McTavish deflected a shot by Mikael Granlund for his second goal of the game and his 17th of the season.

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Matvei Michkov had a goal and two assists for the Philadelphia Flyers in a 4-2 win against the visiting Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.

Porter Martone and defenseman Oliver Bonk, in his NHL debut, each had a goal and an assist. Samuel Ersson made 27 saves for the Flyers (43-27-12, 98 points), who won their last three games of the regular season and finished third in the Metropolitan Division. They play the rival Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Brendan Gallagher and Jake Evans scored for the Canadiens (48-24-10, 106 points), who finished third in the Atlantic Division. Jakub Dobes made 21 saves.

Martone scored on a delayed penalty to give Philadelphia a 1-0 lead at 8:08 of the first period. Michkov took a short pass from Bonk to the middle of the blue line and moved up above the circles for a shot that Martone tipped through Dobes’ pads.

Bonk made it 2-0 at 14:42. Michkov retrieved the puck along the left well and dished it to Bonk high above the slot for a wrist shot that beat Dobes stick side. The play began with defenseman Hunter McDonald, also making his NHL debut, laying a hit on Evans to separate the Montreal center from the puck along the wall.

Gallagher, back in the lineup after being scratched the previous four games, cut the deficit in half at 6:50 of the second period. Kaiden Guhle received a pass from Alexandre Texier at the top of the left circle and directed it toward the net for an oncoming Gallagher for the tap-in.

Michkov capitalized on a misplay by the Canadiens to push it to 3-1 at 13:52. Neither Dobes nor Evans could corral a loose puck in front, and it rolled off Dobes’ left pad to Michkov, who quickly buried it into an open net.

Evans pulled the visitors within one late in the second frame. Arber Xhekaj’s shot from the blue line squeaked through Ersson, and Evans was first to get to it to narrow it to 3-2 with 11 seconds left.

Alex Bump snapped a shot over Dobes’ glove from the slot to push it to 4-2 at 12:00 of the third period.

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Mark Jankowski scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:22 left Tuesday night for the Carolina Hurricanes, who tuned up for the playoffs with a 2-1 win over the New York Islanders in the regular season finale for both clubs in Elmont, N.Y.

Nikolaj Ehlers scored in the first for the Hurricanes (53-22-7, 113 points), who won the Metropolitan Division and earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Carolina will play the Ottawa Senators in a first-round series beginning this weekend.

The trip to the playoffs is the eighth in a row for Carolina, breaking the franchise record set by the then-Hartford Whalers from 1986-92. But the Hurricanes have yet to appear in the Stanley Cup Final during their current run. They fell to the Florida Panthers in the Eastern Conference finals in both 2023 and 2025.

Goalie Brandon Bussi made 28 saves in the win.

Bo Horvat scored his 300th career goal for the Islanders (43-34-5, 91 points), who missed the postseason for a second straight year despite occupying a playoff spot for most of the four months before a season-ending 4-10-0 skid that started March 19.

The ill-timed slump resulted in the firing of head coach Patrick Roy on April 5. Peter DeBoer went 1-3-0 in the Islanders’ final four games.

Goalie David Rittich recorded 19 saves.

A turnover by Islanders rookie and Calder Trophy favorite Matthew Schaefer led to Ehlers’ goal 3:05 into the first. Schaefer’s pass from behind the Hurricanes’ net sailed through the slot and to Ehlers, who streaked up the right side of the ice before beating Rittich stick side.

Horvat and rookie Victor Eklund collected milestones when the Islanders tied the score with 6:46 left in the second. Eklund, playing in his first NHL game, recorded his first assist when he passed across the ice to Mathew Barzal, who fed Horvat for a point-blank goal.

Jankowski, stationed in the right faceoff circle, scored the game-winner when he sent a shot over Rittich’s glove.

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Alex Ovechkin had an assist in what might have been his final NHL game, Jakob Chychrun scored the go-ahead goal and the Washington Capitals beat the host Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 in the season finale for teams on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Neither team will be in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Chychrun took a pass at the center point from Tom Wilson during a power play, skated down the slot and beat goalie Jet Greaves with a wrist shot for his 26th goal of the season with about four minutes left in regulation.

The secondary assist went to Ovechkin, the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer who has completed his 21st NHL season and a five-year contract. The 40-year-old left wing, who has scored 929 regular-season goals, said recently he will not decide his future until the offseason.

Anthony Beauvillier also scored for the Capitals (43-30-9, 95 points), who closed with a four-game winning streak. Clay Stevenson made 27 saves in the win.

Ovechkin became just the fifth player in NHL history to play all 82 games at age 40 or older and the first since Jaromir Jagr in 2016-17.

Boone Jenner scored for Columbus (40-30-12, 92 points), which lost three of four to end the season. Greaves made 19 saves.

Washington will look back with regret on Jan. 1-27, during which the team went 4-8-2. Columbus seemed well-positioned for the postseason until a 0-5-1 stretch in late March-early April.

Washington swept the season series 4-0.

After outshooting Washington 11-4 in a scoreless first period, Jenner gave Columbus a 1-0 lead just 27 seconds into the second period. Mason Marchment entered the zone, carried into the left circle and passed to Jenner, who scored on a wrist shot from the edge of the circle.

Beauvillier tied it at 10:46 when he took a stretch pass from Trevor van Riemsdyk, came in alone on Greaves, deked and slid the puck past the goaltender’s right skate.

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