Roope Hintz’s second goal of the night came with 52.3 seconds left in regulation to break a tie game, and gave the visiting Dallas Stars a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.

Hintz, who also put Dallas ahead with a goal early in the second period, pounced on a loose puck amid a net-front scrum late in the third for his fifth score in the last three games. Jamie Benn assisted on the play and opened the scoring with career goal 343 to sit alone in second place on the franchise list for the Central Division-leading Stars, who are amid a 7-2-1 overall stretch and won all three 2022-23 meetings with Nashville.

Filip Forsberg and Yakov Trenin each had a goal and Juuse Saros made 30 saves for the Predators, who are mired in a 1-3-1 home stretch. Nashville played without Matt Duchene, the team’s co-leader with 26 points entering the night, following the birth of his daughter.

Dallas wasted no time opening the scoring. Just 1:19 into the contest, Nashville had trouble clearing its zone, and the puck ultimately made its way to Benn, who beat Saros with a wrister for the milestone tally that also extended his point streak to six games. The Stars also had two power-play opportunities in the opening frame, but failed both times.

The Predators answered 56 seconds into the second period. With a 4-on-4 situation, Jack Oettinger’s pad-save rebound of Alex Carrier’s shot went right to Forsberg, who buried the puck for his 10th goal of the season. However, Dallas regained the lead 1:19 later, when Hintz deflected Jason Robertson’s shot from the point for a power-play score.

Nashville, though, tied it again with 11:45 remaining in the second. With the Predators short-handed, Trenin skated from his own end and kept the puck via a partial 2-on-1 break to beat Oettinger (26 saves). Nashville held a 13-4 shots-on-goal advantage in the middle frame.

Dallas is 4-0-1 in its last five road contests.

–Field Level Media

Anders Lee and Mathew Barzal scored twice apiece Tuesday night for the New York Islanders, who rolled to a 5-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Elmont, N.Y.

The two-goal game was the second of the season for both Lee and Barzal.

Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist and Brock Nelson added two assists for the Islanders, who earned their most lopsided win over the Penguins since a 9-3 rout on Feb. 11, 2011.

Ilya Sorokin made 20 saves as the Islanders won their second straight — their first winning streak since a four-game run from Nov. 21-26.

Pierre-Olivier Joseph scored for the Penguins, who have lost three of four (1-2-1). Tristan Jarry recorded 37 saves.

A turnover by the Penguins led to Lee’s first goal just 63 seconds after the opening faceoff. Brian Dumoulin’s clearing pass was picked off by Nelson, who dished to Lee before the Islanders captain sent a shot beyond Jarry’s stick.

The Penguins tied the score a little more than 15 minutes later, when Joseph’s shot sailed beyond the stick of teammate Brock McGinn and Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho and past Sorokin’s glove.

The Islanders took the lead for good with another early-period goal in the second. Barzal began the go-ahead sequence by winning a faceoff with Teddy Blueger deep in the New York zone. Barzal skated back in front of Jarry and was battling for position with Dumoulin when he got his stick on a shot by Hudson Fasching 50 seconds into the period.

A nifty pass by Noah Dobson set up Bailey’s goal shortly beyond the midway point of the second. Dobson, with McGinn in front of him, wound up as if he were going to shoot before dishing across the ice to a wide-open Bailey, who sent a shot beyond Jarry’s stick with 8:28 left in the period.

Barzal scored an unassisted goal with 3:18 left in the second following a lengthy battle for the puck between the teams near the Penguins’ net. Bailey lost the puck to Bryan Rust, but the puck then clipped off Pittsburgh’s Marcus Pettersson and to Barzal, whose shot bounced in off Jarry’s shoulder.

Lee added an insurance goal 3:33 into the third, when he put back a rebound of a shot by Nelson to end a sequence in which the Islanders had four shots.

–Field Level Media

Darcy Kuemper made 32 saves and the surging Washington Capitals scored twice in the final 2:59 of the second period to pull away for a 4-0 victory over the host New York Rangers on Tuesday night.

The Capitals matched a season high with their fifth straight win and won for the 10th time in 11 games thanks to Kuemper, who posted his third shutout of the season and the 28th of his career.

Alex Ovechkin remained at 802 career goals after passing Gordie Howe for second on the NHL’s all-time list on Friday. The superstar contributed to Washington’s latest win by drawing the holding penalty on New York’s Chris Kreider that gave the Capitals a five-on-three power play, leading to Marcus Johansson’s first-period goal.

Erik Gustafsson and Lars Eller scored for the Capitals, who also are 13-3-1 in their past 17. Conor Sheary added a short-handed, empty-net tally with 3:02 remaining. Gustafsson and Sheary also had one assist apiece.

New York lost for the second time in three games following a seven-game winning streak. The Rangers missed the net 23 times and also had 16 shots blocked while being blanked for the second time this season and getting booed off the ice after the final buzzer.

Kuemper made 13 saves on five New York power plays and improved to 7-1-0 in eight career starts against the Rangers. He made 13 saves in the first period, seven in the second and 12 in the third.

New York’s Igor Shesterkin stopped 26 shots.

With the Rangers’ Ryan Lindgren in the penalty box for slashing in the first period, Kreider was penalized for holding Ovechkin in the right faceoff circle. Washington then went ahead at 8:44 on a fluky play in front of the net.

Evgeny Kuznetsov’s shot from the slot was stopped by Shesterkin but not controlled to create a faceoff. The puck caromed to the right side of the crease, and Johansson was credited with the rebound goal when the puck banked off New York defenseman Jacob Trouba’s stick.

The Capitals took a 2-0 lead when Gustafsson scored off a rush at 17:01 of the second period. He trailed the play as Shesterkin was unable to control the rebound of a shot by Sheary and sent the puck over the goalie’s stick.

After the Rangers lost a challenge for goaltender interference on Sheary and Gustafsson’s goal was allowed, Eller made it 3-0 by putting the puck under Trouba’s legs and past Shesterkin from the middle of the slot with 37 seconds left in the middle period.

–Field Level Media

Antti Raanta registered his first shutout of the season, and the Carolina Hurricanes used a strong opening period to set the tone to stretch their franchise-record point streak to 15 games by defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 3-0 on Tuesday night in Raleigh, N.C.

Martin Necas, Jesper Fast and Jordan Martinook scored goals for Carolina, which won its ninth game in a row.

Raanta’s 24 saves got the job done, seeing seven shots in each the first and third periods.

Chicago fell for the ninth time in its last 10 outings. It has been a shutout victim three times during that stretch. The Blackhawks were trying to win back-to-back games for the first time since late October.

Blackhawks goalie Petr Mrazek, a former Hurricanes goalie, made 46 saves.

The Hurricanes cranked out 23 shots in the first 20 minutes, scoring twice in the opening nine minutes.

Necas’ goal came as he camped in front of the net and benefited from getting his stick on the puck, which barely trickled across the line. It was his 15th goal of the season, with Brent Burns and Paul Stastny notching assists.

Necas had just 14 goals all of last season, when he played in 78 games.

Fast’s goal came at 8:53 of the first period. After Mrazek failed to glove an initial shot, the puck bounced around and eventually went off Chicago defenseman Connor Murphy and into the net. Fast was credited with the goal, giving him three of his five goals this season in the past two games. Brett Pesce and Brady Skjei posted assists on the marker.

Martinook’s goal came shortly after the Hurricanes’ second power play of the game expired. His goal was recorded at 4:55 of the third period, with Jordan Staal notching an assist.

Stastny, playing on his 37th birthday for the Hurricanes, has compiled seven points in 11 career outings on his birthday.

Carolina improved to 11-3-1 in home games with its seventh straight win on home ice.

–Field Level Media

Cam Talbot made a season-high 49 saves and Alex DeBrincat scored the only goal in the shootout to help the Ottawa Senators end a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the visiting Boston Bruins on Tuesday.

DeBrincat and Tim Stutzle scored in regulation for Ottawa, which raised its home record to 9-8-1. Drake Batherson assisted on each goal, both of which came in the second period.

Jake DeBrusk and Pavel Zacha provided the goals for Boston. Zacha’s goal tied the game 2-2 with 3:33 remaining in regulation.

Talbot stopped shots by Charlie Coyle and DeBrusk in the shootout before David Pastrnak missed the target on the Bruins’ final attempt. Boston put 27 shots on goal in the third period, including eight during a two-minute power play.

The Bruins, whose four-game winning streak ended, had scored at least three goals in 12 of their previous 13 games.

Jeremy Swayman made 30 saves for Boston through regulation and overtime, then stopped Stutzle and Batherson in the shootout.

The game was scoreless after the first period, but Ottawa led 2-1 after 40 minutes.

Stutzle gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead when he scored a power-play goal at 8:11 of the second while Trent Frederic was in the penalty box for closing his hand on the puck. It was the third straight game the Bruins have allowed the game’s first goal.

Boston made it 1-1 when DeBrusk scored at 10:33 of the second. It was his third goal in as many games.

The Senators regained the lead on a DeBrincat goal at 13:37 of the second.

Boston’s Patrice Bergeron appeared to open the scoring 2:25 into the second period, but Ottawa challenged the play and the goal was negated because the Bruins were offside.

Ottawa played with five defensemen for most of the game. Defenseman Nikita Zaitsev sustained a lower-body injury in the opening period and did not return to the ice.

–Field Level Media

The Los Angeles Kings placed forward Arthur Kaliyev on injured reserve Tuesday amid four roster moves.

The Kings recalled forwards Quenton Byfield and Rasmus Kupari, while also bringing back defenseman Jordan Spence. All three were at Ontario of the AHL.

Kaliyev’s IR move is retroactive to Dec. 20. He has an undisclosed injury but did block a shot late in a Dec. 20 game against the Anaheim Ducks and did not play in the following two games against the Calgary Flames and Arizona Coyotes.

Kaliyev, 21, has 19 points (nine goals, 10 assists) in 34 games this season. In November, during his 98th career game, he became just the sixth Kings player in 25 years with 20 goals in 100 NHL games or less.

Byfield, 20, opened the season on the Kings’ roster but had just three points in eight games. Kupari, 22, has five points (two goals) in 21 games with the Kings this season. Spence, 21, played in just three games with the Kings this season and has 27 games of NHL experience over the past two seasons.

The Kings have points in five-consecutive games (4-0-1) but are coming off a 2-1 shootout defeat at Arizona on Friday.

–Field Level Media

The Tampa Bay Lightning were looking to end a two-game skid before an unexpected schedule break just before Christmas and will have to try and do it against the same team it faced to open their recent road trip.

In their second meeting in 12 days, the Lightning and Montreal Canadiens will square off on Wednesday night. The game will be Montreal’s first of two at Tampa this season.

During their first matchup on Dec. 17, the Lightning scored twice in each of the first two periods — getting a pair of goals from Brandon Hagel in a three-point effort – and easily breezed past the Canadiens 5-1 to open a four-game road trip.

Tampa Bay failed to generate any momentum from there.

Coach Jon Cooper’s club dropped back-to-back decisions — 4-1 to the Toronto Maple Leafs and 7-4 against the Detroit Red Wings — as a season-high five-game winning streak ended.

Friday’s scheduled game at Buffalo was postponed in advance of the weekend’s brutal winter storm. That contest was rescheduled for March 4.

That left the Lightning to mull over the last two games, particularly the most recent defeat to the Red Wings, who are pursuing them in the Atlantic Division standings. Holding third place, the Lightning possess a six-point lead over fourth-place Detroit.

In the game at Detroit, the Red Wings broke open a 3-3 tie after 40 minutes and scored four times in the third period. The last two goals were scored into an empty net over the final 2:33.

Ross Colton and Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist each, but the Lightning couldn’t score on an early two-man advantage that lasted nearly two minutes.

“If you let a two-minute, 5-on-3 slide by, it is going to change the game,” Cooper said. “They got momentum off of it and we felt sorry for ourselves. What did Ted Lasso say? You have to have the memory of a goldfish.”

In nearly a month of play, Montreal and coach Martin St. Louis have struggled to get on the right track and are just two points ahead of the last-place Ottawa Senators in the Atlantic Division.

Dating back to a 5-3 road loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 3, the Canadiens are 3-6-2 across their last 11 games. In that span, they have scored two goals or fewer in seven of the 11 games and are only 2-1-1 in the games in which they netted three or more goals.

The Canadiens, who will by playing for the fourth time during a season-long seven-game road swing, are coming off Friday’s 4-2 loss at the Dallas Stars and are 1-4-1 over their past six outings.

Fourth-liner Michael Pezzetta scored and assisted on linemate Jake Evans’ early goal Friday, but Pezzetta’s tripping penalty with the game tied 2-2 in the third period led to Wyatt Johnston’s game-winning, power-play goal with five minutes left.

“You know what you’re going to get from (Pezzetta),” St. Louis said. “Tonight, he got rewarded for some quality plays, and unfortunately that penalty costs. And I know he’s going to take it to heart.”

Over the past 14 head-to-head matchups in the regular season since Feb. 24, 2018, Tampa Bay has produced a dozen victories and a 12-1-1 mark.

–Field Level Media