The Washington Capitals re-signed defenseman Nick Jensen on Tuesday, giving the seven-year veteran a three-year extension worth an average of $4.05 million per season.

Jensen, 32, has notched 100 assists over his career, with 63 of those (along with nine goals) coming during his 4 1/2-year Washington tenure.

After being selected by the Red Wings in the fifth round of the 2009 draft, the Minnesota native tallied six goals and 37 assists over 2 1/2 seasons in Detroit before finishing the 2018-19 season in Washington following a February trade.

He has appeared in all 62 contests for the Capitals this season. Overall, he has played in 279 of a possible 289 games for Washington.

The Capitals are 29-27-6 (64 points) and sixth in the Metropolitan Division this season.

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Morgan Geekie scored twice as the visiting Seattle Kraken snapped their three-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday.

Jared McCann, Jamie Oleksiak and Brandon Tanev also scored for the Kraken. Eeli Tolvanen had three assists, Daniel Sprong had two assists and Martin Jones made 22 saves for Seattle.

Pavel Buchnevich and Robert Thomas had a goal and an assist for the Blues, who are winless (0-4-2) in their last six games. Brandon Saad also scored, and Jordan Binnington made 21 saves.

The Blues put the first seven shots on goal during the first period, but Seattle eventually took a 1-0 lead. Geekie burst up the left wing on a 2-on-1 break and beat Binnington at the 9:30 mark.

Kasperi Kapanen had two excellent scoring chances in his first game since the Blues claimed him off waivers from Pittsburgh. But Jones stopped his drive coming down the middle and his spinning backhand shot from the right circle.

Thomas tied the game 1-1 with a short-handed rush up the left wing 5:11 into the second period.

The Kraken responded just 1:46 later after their power play ended. McCann’s one-time shot from the left circle put them back on top 2-1.

Saad took a 100-foot outlet pass from Nick Leddy and scored from the high slot to tie the game 2-2.

Geekie restored Seattle’s lead with 6:28 left in the period. Justin Schultz shot from the right point, and Sprong redirected the puck across to Geekie at the open right side of the net.

Oleksiak pushed the Kraken’s lead to 4-2 with 10:14 left. He snapped a point shot through heavy traffic that found its way past Binnington.

Buchnevich trimmed that advantage to 4-3 by burying Thomas’ drop pass to the lower left circle with 5:31 left. Tanev made it 5-3 with an empty-net goal with seven seconds left.

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Jason Zucker scored the go-ahead goal with 1:39 left in regulation Tuesday as the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins topped the Nashville Predators 3-1.

Zucker scored from near the bottom of the right circle on a shot that went in off goaltender Juuse Saros’ skate. Bryan Rust added an empty-netter with 6.4 seconds left.

Sidney Crosby also scored for the Penguins, who won their third straight.

Pittsburgh goaltender Tristan Jarry, in his fourth game back from a nine-game injury absence, made 24 saves, while Saros made 31.

Mark Jankowski scored for the Predators, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Friday’s looming NHL trade deadline had an impact on the teams’ lineups, particularly Nashville.

The Predators, already busy this week, traded away defenseman Mattias Ekholm to Edmonton hours before the game. Defenseman Cal Foote made his Predators debut after being acquired from Tampa Bay.

Pittsburgh has not made a trade in recent days, but earlier Tuesday the club placed winger Brock McGinn on waivers. Teams have until Wednesday afternoon to claim McGinn, yet, as league rules allow, he was in the lineup. He had an assist.

It was a goalie duel from the start, thanks in part to Jarry stopping Predators center Mikael Granlund with a blocker save on a breakaway in the game’s first minute.

Jarry made 17 saves, Saros nine in the first period. That pretty much flipped in the second, when Saros made 17 saves and Jarry had five as nobody scored in the game’s first 50-plus minutes.

Finally, the Predators broke through at 7:01 of the third.

Penguins defenseman Kris Letang, from the far side of the left circle, attempted a cross-ice pass that hit the body of Jankowski, who was in the slot. Jankowski, a former Penguins forward called up because of the Nashville trades, collected the puck moved toward the crease, deked right, then beat Jarry stick side.

Crosby tied it at 11:00 of the third. McGinn, with his first point in 27 games, set up the Penguins captain for a breakaway in the high slot. Crosby beat Saros between the pads.

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Frederick Gaudreau scored the only goal in a shootout Tuesday night for the Minnesota Wild, who remained hot by edging the New York Islanders 2-1 in Saint Paul, Minn.

Wild goalie Filip Gustavsson and Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin turned back the first four shots of the shootout before Gaudreau deked several times and fired a shot that glanced off Sorokin’s glove and trickled into the right corner of the net.

Gustavsson stopped Kyle Palmieri to lock up the win for the Wild, who are 7-3 in games determined in the shootout this season.

Gustavsson made 39 saves in regulation and overtime and Ryan Reaves scored in the first as the Wild won for the sixth time in seven games (6-1-0). Minnesota (74 points) moved one point ahead of the idle Colorado Avalanche and within one point of the first-place Dallas Stars in the Central Division.

Josh Bailey scored in the first for the Islanders, who lead the Eastern Conference wild-card race with 70 points. New York moved four points ahead of the Buffalo Sabres — who sit third in the wild-card standings — by virtue of the Sabres’ 5-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Sorokin recorded 30 saves.

Reaves and Ross Johnston fought 2:06 into the first before they showed off their offensive skills as the teams traded goals in a span of 3:45 late in the period.

Otto Koivula swooped into the slot before Calen Addison slid in front of him to cut off a potential shooting lane. Koivula then skated around the net and passed to Scott Mayfield at the blue line. With Johnston serving as a screen in front of Gustavsson, Mayfield fired a shot that glanced off Gustavsson and skittered off the skate of Bailey, who collected the puck and tucked home the rebound as Jon Merrill crashed into him with 5:45 left.

A turnover deep in the Islanders’ zone by Noah Dobson led to Reaves’ first goal of the season with two minutes left. Reaves picked off a no-look backhand pass by Dobson and dished a drop pass to Jordan Greenway, whose shot bounced off the chest of Sorokin. Reaves bore in on Sorokin and batted the puck under Sorokin’s armpit.

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Anze Kopitar recorded his second-career four-goal game, and the visiting Los Angeles Kings rallied from three two-goal deficits to beat the reeling Winnipeg Jets 6-5 in shootout on Tuesday night.

Los Angeles was down 5-3 after two periods when Kopitar posted his first four-goal contest since March 2018, with a slapper just 1:26 into the third. The Kings tied it with 4:06 left in regulation when Gabriel Vilardi broke free, after the Jets’ Dylan Samberg fell, and beat Connor Hellebuyck (32 saves). Adrian Kempe had the lone goal in the shootout for Los Angeles, which finished a 2-2-1 trip.

Josh Morrissey had a career-high four points with two goals and two assists, while Kevin Stenlund also scored twice for the Jets, who have dropped four straight while mired in a 1-5-1 rut.

Winnipeg entered without a goal in five straight periods but had two over a span of 1:43 of the first. Blake Wheeler recorded his 600th career assist as Morrissey successfully poked the puck over the goal line from underneath Kings netminder Pheonix Copley (26 saves) with 4:08 remaining in the first. Moments later, Morrissey unleashed a spot-on laser from the circle for his career-high 13th.

Things then opened up in the second. After Winnipeg’s Neal Pionk was whistled for holding 20 seconds into the period, Kopitar cashed in 6 seconds later via a one-timer.

Winnipeg regained its two-goal edge when Kyle Connor found the top-right corner from a tough angle at 6:08 into the middle frame. However, Kopitar tied it by posting back-to-back redirected goals — with 10:46 and 9:17 to go, respectively — while in front of the net.

The Jets, though, got the lead back when Stenlund went top corner to beat Copley with 12 minutes gone in the second. After Nino Niederreiter, in his Winnipeg debut following a deal with Nashville, drew a check-to-the-head penalty, Stenlund converted on a two-on-one with Adam Lowry, in his 600th game, for the short-handed goal with 1:34 remaining to cap the six-goal second period.

The Jets played minus forward Pierre-Luc Dubois, who was scratched due to a lower-body injury.

The Toronto Maple Leafs continued their busy week of deals on Tuesday, acquiring defenseman Luke Schenn from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for a third-round pick in this year’s draft.

Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said in a statement, “We would like to thank Luke for his contributions to the organization. He was a leader on our hockey team and helped several of our players during his time here. We are excited to get a third-round pick as we continue to build out the depth of our prospect pool.”

Schenn joins a Toronto blue-line crew that also includes Erik Gustafsson and Jake McCabe, who arrived in separate trades this week.

Gustafsson was acquired on Tuesday from the Washington Capitals along with a 2023 first-round draft pick in exchange for defenseman Rasmus Sandin.

Toronto picked up McCabe, forward Sam Lafferty and two draft picks from the Blackhawks on Monday, sending forwards Joey Anderson and Pavel Gogolev to Chicago.

The Maple Leafs also shipped forward Pierre Engvall to the New York Islanders on Tuesday in exchange for a 2024 third-round pick.

Schenn, 33, is headed back to his first NHL team. Selected fifth overall in the 2008 draft by the Maple Leafs, Schenn made his NHL debut for Toronto that fall and spent four seasons with the team, producing 14 goals and 61 assists in 310 games.

He subsequently played for the Philadelphia Flyers (2012-13 to 2015-16), the Los Angeles Kings (2015-16), the Arizona Coyotes (2016-17 to 2018-19), the Canucks (2018-19 and 2021-22 to 2022-23) and the Tampa Bay Lightning (2019-20 to 2020-21).

Schenn was part of Stanley Cup-winning teams in both of his seasons with Tampa Bay. In 918 career NHL games, he has 41 goals and 149 assists.

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Two division leaders will square off Wednesday night when the Metropolitan Division-best Carolina Hurricanes face the Pacific Division’s Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas.

Carolina, which has 10 more points in the standings than the Golden Knights, has lost just four times in regulation in 28 road games (18-4-6) and is 8-2-0 in its last 10 games overall.

But the Hurricanes had a five-game winning streak snapped on Saturday with a 3-2 home loss to Anaheim despite finishing with 90 shot attempts and an eye-popping 53-16 edge in shots on goal. John Gibson made 51 saves for the Ducks.

“If we played that game 10 times, you’re going to win nine of them,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “This was the one (and) that’s unfortunate. We gave up some chances but you’ve got to give up some in a game.

“Their goalie was good. Pretty much everybody had a chance. There was a bunch of great opportunities. Just didn’t put it in. It’s just the way it went.”

Carolina added forward Jesse Puljujarvi in a trade with Edmonton for prospect Patrik Puistola just before departing on the trip out west Tuesday morning.

Puljujarvi, who had five goals and nine assists in 58 games with the Oilers, was the No. 4 pick of the 2016 NHL Draft after starring on a line with Carolina center Sebastian Aho and Winnipeg’s Patrik Laine for a Finland team that won the 2016 World Junior Championship.

“Everyone knows that he has that upside in him,” Aho said. “Hopefully we can get him to his full potential here.”

According to the Raleigh News & Observer, it is unclear when Puljujarvi will join the team. He still has to apply for and be granted a visa to work in the United States since he’s Finnish and had been in Canada.

The Carolina game begins a brutal eight-game stretch for the Golden Knights, who will play four games against teams with more points than they have. The final five games are on the road, including stops at Tampa Bay and Carolina.

Vegas had a nine-game point streak snapped on Monday night with a 3-0 loss at Colorado, just the second time this season the Golden Knights have been shut out. Alexandar Georgiev finished with 31 saves for the Avalanche.

Mikko Rantanen scored his first of two goals just 14 seconds into the game when Vegas goalie Adin Hill, trying to clear the puck from the end boards, instead passed the puck right to him and Rantanen quickly fired it into an open net.

“They checked us really well,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We weren’t hard enough on pucks in the (offensive) zone, so I give them a lot of credit for that. … We obviously spot them a goal. That never helps.

“A team like Carolina is going to play similar, right? They’re in your face. They close quick. Man-to-man. Listen, if you want to score goals in this league you have to separate and be hard on it or you’ve got to execute at a high level. Tonight we did not do that. That was very evident.”

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The Anaheim Ducks will shoot for their fourth straight win when they host the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.

Anaheim’s streak started with a 4-2 victory last week at Washington. The Ducks, still near the bottom of the NHL with 47 points, followed that up with a 3-2 upset win at the Carolina Hurricanes and a 4-2 victory Monday against the visiting Chicago Blackhawks.

Troy Terry scored in his third straight game since returning from an upper-body injury and added an assist.

“I didn’t have a whole lot of puck luck for a while,” Terry said. “The last couple games I’ve been getting the bounces.”

Max Jones had a goal and an assist, Mason McTavish had three assists and Frank Vatrano had two assists for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal made 24 saves as Anaheim won a third straight game for just the second time this season.

Defenseman John Klingberg (assist vs. Chicago) has nine points (two goals, seven assists) in his past nine games.

Jones broke a 2-2 tie in the second period and Terry added third-period insurance.

“That’s a hard game for those guys to play,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. “We flew home the other night (from Carolina). Guys probably got in their beds by maybe 4 a.m. … Good on our guys for being ready, getting over that mental hump and finding a way to get the points.”

Washington’s loss to Anaheim last week was its sixth straight (0-5-1). The Capitals responded with a 6-3 win against the New York Rangers on Saturday but then suffered a 7-4 defeat in a clunker at the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday.

“It’s tough because it’s kind of been the story for the last month or so where after a good stretch of hockey we’re playing, we just can’t kind of seem to find it,” Nick Jensen said. “Pucks just keep finding their way into the back of our net, guys are getting discouraged and confidence is starting to shrink more and more as that happens.”

T.J. Oshie scored his fourth goal in three games against the Sabres, but Washington didn’t do nearly enough on defense in front of goalie Darcy Kuemper, who was lifted after Buffalo’s fifth goal and smashed his stick over the goalpost before departing.

“It’s just not good enough,” Oshie said after the loss. “The consistency of attention to detail for us right now has to be at an all-time high. (Saturday) it was there for us. Today it wasn’t, so you’re not going to last much longer being inconsistent like this.”

Though they remain on the fringes of the Eastern Conference wild-card race, the Capitals have dropped seven of their past eight games and have played more games than all but one of the five teams tied with or ahead of them.

The Capitals made a pair of trades Tuesday. They sent forward Marcus Johansson to the Minnesota Wild for a 2024 third-round draft pick, and traded defenseman Erik Gustafsson and Boston’s first-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft to Toronto for defenseman Rasmus Sandin.

Gustafsson, 30, has seven goals and 31 assists this season, including 11 assists in his past 10 games. Sandin, 22, has recorded 20 points (four goals, 16 assists) in 52 games with Toronto this season.

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