Toronto Maple Leafs captain John Tavares drew a $5,000 fine for slashing Edmonton Oilers defenseman Vincent Desharnais on Saturday night.

The NHL Player Safety announced the fine on Sunday. It is the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement.

Tavares had two goals and an assist in the Maple Leafs’ 7-4 win in Toronto. The 32-year-old center received a two-minute slashing penalty at the 3:41 mark of the third period.

Tavares has recorded 65 points (30 goals, 35 assists) through 64 games this season, his fifth campaign with Toronto and 14th in the NHL.

–Field Level Media

In a disappointing season that has them treading water at the bottom of the Western Conference standings, the Anaheim Ducks have learned to play the role of spoiler.

After ending a three-game road trip with a win in Calgary, the Ducks will open an eight-game homestand against the Nashville Predators on Sunday.

The stretch will be Anaheim’s second-longest this season. It hosted 10 consecutive matches from Dec. 21 to Jan. 13 — posting a 3-6-1 mark.

In a strong road performance against Calgary on Friday, Anaheim goaltender John Gibson and the Ducks hampered the Pacific Division foe’s postseason hopes in a 3-1 win.

Gibson was fierce against the Flames, making 36 saves and moving his record to 14-24-7 in 45 games.

“To me, he’s probably a top-five, top-three goalie in the league,” said teammate Max Comtois, who had a goal and an assist. “He’s always coming up with those big saves and keeping us in it. Even when we play really good teams and teams like today fighting for their lives in a playoff spot, they throw everything at him, and he just comes up with the saves.”

In the victory, the 29-year-old Pittsburgh native a set a franchise record for saves. His 36 stops increased his total to 11,837 with the club as he passed Guy Hebert for the record.

“It’s cool to be in the same category as those guys, some of the greats that have been here. It’s an honor,” said Gibson, who leads the NHL with 1,518 saves.

On the road last month, Anaheim also put a dent in the Washington Capitals’ playoff hopes, beating the Eastern Conference club 4-2 on Feb. 23.

Across their past eight outings, the Ducks are 5-1-2 with a three-game winning streak.

Nashville presents the same type of opponent as Calgary: On the outside looking in at the playoffs but needing points in the biggest way to earn the second wild-card.

And like the Flames, Nashville blew a great opportunity Thursday against a team it expected to beat, losing 4-1 at the Arizona Coyotes.

On Saturday night in Los Angeles in the fifth of their six-game road trip, the Predators snapped the Kings’ five-game winning streak, beating them 2-1 in a shootout.

Matt Duchene netted the shootout’s only goal, and goalie Kevin Lankinen (26 saves) won for the fifth time in his past six starts. Tommy Novak tallied on the power play in regulation.

The second line, featuring left winger Kiefer Sherwood, center Novak and right winger Luke Evangelista, has special qualities for the Predators, according to assistant coach Dan Lambert.

“They’re dangerous players,” Lambert said. “Evangelista sees the ice extremely well, and it seems like the puck follows him around. Novak obviously has ice in his veins and is a real good, effective player. And Woody’s got great speed. They really complement each other well.”

Egor Afanasyev, 22, made his NHL debut as the fourth-line left winger and had two shots in 8:24.

In the last minute of regulation, defenseman Ryan McDonagh was struck in the face by a deflected shot and left the game.

With three games in hand, Nashville entered Sunday six points behind the Winnipeg Jets for the final playoff berth and is currently 3-1-1 on the road swing.

–Field Level Media

The Minnesota Wild will try to match the longest point streak in franchise history on Sunday night when they face the Arizona Coyotes in Tempe, Ariz.

The Wild extended their point streak to 12 games (10-0-2), the longest active streak in the NHL and the second longest in franchise history, with a 5-2 victory at San Jose on Saturday night. The franchise record is 13 games set in 2016-17.

The win over the Sharks kept second-place Minnesota two points behind Dallas in the Central Division. It also marked the first time since a 6-5 overtime loss at Buffalo on Jan. 7 that the Wild scored five goals in a game.

Mats Zuccarello, Matt Boldy, Marcus Johansson and Jared Spurgeon each had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Hartman added two assists to back another strong goaltending performance by Marc-Andre Fleury. He finished with 35 saves, including 18 in the first period, when the Wild managed just five shots on goal.

“They obviously came out with a lot of jump,” Minnesota coach Dean Evason said. “We didn’t handle it real well at the start. Obviously, (Fleury) kept us in the hockey game and made some incredible saves to allow us to get our legs under us and maybe more so our minds straight. When we started playing the way we’re supposed to play and we know we can play, it got better and better.”

Fleury is 5-0-0 in his last five starts with a 1.38 goals-against and a .956 save percentage, allowing two or fewer goals in all five contests.

The timing of the offensive outburst couldn’t have been better for the Wild, who were playing their first game since an injury to top scorer Kirill Kaprizov in a win at Winnipeg on Wednesday. Kaprizov leads the team with 39 goals and 74 points and is expected to miss three to four weeks with a lower-body injury.

Evason credits his team’s defensive game for its point streak.

“It wasn’t that great tonight, but that’s probably been our signature here of late,” he said. “It needs to be moving forward. Although we scored a few goals tonight, we didn’t defend as well as we can and have. We need to get back to that.”

Arizona has a four-game point streak (2-0-2) but comes in off a 3-2 overtime loss against the Colorado Avalanche in Denver on Saturday.

Jack McBain and Clayton Keller scored to give the Coyotes a 2-1 first-period lead. Nathan MacKinnon tied it at the 11:25 mark of the second period, but Arizona, despite being outshot 18-0 in the third period, picked up a point by getting the contest into overtime when Cale Makar scored the game-winner.

Connor Ingram finished with 41 saves.

“The guys fought really hard,” Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said. “Really good team, they got an unbelievable push in the second half of the game. I think we hung in there. (Ingram) made the difference, but I think we blocked a lot of shots, we fought around the net, we cleared the net for rebounds and stuff like that.”

Right wing Christian Fischer, who has 11 goals and 13 assists this season, left the game in the first period with a lower-body injury and didn’t return.

“He’s an important player,” Tourigny said. “He can play against anybody in the league and skate, and he has a veteran presence. So it’s a big loss, but it’s lower-body and he’ll be day-to-day for now.”

This is the fourth meeting between the two teams this season, with all three of the previous contests being decided by one goal. Minnesota won 4-3 and 2-1 on their home ice in Saint Paul while the Coyotes won the most recent meeting on Feb. 6 in Tempe, 3-2.

–Field Level Media

The parallels between the Ottawa Senators and Calgary Flames are easy to spot as they prepare to clash Sunday night in Calgary, Alberta.

Both clubs sit six points out of a playoff position. Both must vault more than one team to push into a wild-card spot. Lastly, both are coming off disappointing defeats.

While the Senators lost 5-2 to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday, the Flames will look to regroup from a dismal 3-1 home defeat to the Anaheim Ducks on Friday.

“Big game, especially with both teams are in the same position,” said Flames forward Milan Lucic. “Both teams need the two points, so it’s going to make for a really good, competitive, hard game.”

Calgary is winless in its past five games at home. The Flames have lost 19 times this season in games they have outshot the opposition by 10 or more, an NHL record.

It gets worse, too. The Flames have only two tallies in their past two outings.

Among the attempts to find some offensive touch, coach Darryl Sutter put struggling forward Jonathan Huberdeau back to his natural left-wing position on a line with Tyler Toffoli and Dillon Dube during Saturday’s practice.

For the past couple of months, Huberdeau has been skating as a right winger, possibly among the reasons the 115-point player last season with the Florida Panthers has only 12 goals and 30 assists this season.

“I think when you play right wing when you’re a shooter, it’s easier to get some one-timer passes and stuff like that, but for me, that’s not really my type of game,” he said. “Hopefully, it’s going to help my game.”

The Senators have lost two of three games following their season-best five-game winning streak that pulled them into the playoff race. They arrive in Calgary a half-dozen points behind the New York Islanders, who currently hold the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, albeit with three games in hand.

The loss Saturday in Vancouver, though, was tough to swallow, especially with how the Senators hurt themselves.

“We took six penalties on the road. You’re not going to win. Tripping, stick penalties, not physical penalties,” coach D.J. Smith said.

“We’ve got to go (to Calgary) and be disciplined, stick with what we do and grind out. We lost focus in the second period and have to be better.”

The Senators started well in the first period against the Canucks but lost momentum every time they were called for an infraction. They had a strong push in last half of the third period, but it was too little, too late.

“It’s frustrating,” veteran forward Claude Giroux said. “I don’t think we played that bad. We did a lot of good things, and it was kind of a weird game. You think you’re playing good and you’re down 4-0.”

Ottawa’s penalty parade has not been the only problem of late. The power play has been blanked in the past five games, failing to convert in 16 chances, and even surrendered a short-handed goal to the Canucks.

“That’s how it goes. With 82 games, you’re going to be hot and you’re going to be cold,” Giroux said. “You need to find ways to put the puck in the net.”

–Field Level Media

The New Jersey Devils have held serve with the Carolina Hurricanes from afar for more than two months.

On Sunday night, the Devils will get their last chance to directly deliver an impact to the Hurricanes when they host Carolina in Newark, N.J., in a battle of the top two teams in the Metropolitan Division.

Both teams will be completing a back-to-back set after the division race grew closer Saturday when the Devils beat the host Montreal Canadiens 3-1, and the Hurricanes lost to the visiting Vegas Golden Knights 4-0.

The results Saturday pulled the Devils (92 points) within two points of the Hurricanes — the same margin separating the teams following their most recent meeting on Jan. 10, when New Jersey earned a 5-3 victory.

“It’s a huge game,” Devils defenseman Ryan Graves said. “You circle these ones on your calendar. You’re looking forward to it.”

The Hurricanes have two wins and four points against the Devils this season by virtue of their 4-1 triumph on Dec. 20 and their 5-4 shootout victory on Jan. 1. New Jersey has three points against Carolina, and Sunday’s game will be the final regular-season meeting between the teams.

“Both teams coming in on a back-to-back,” Graves said. “This is going to be a good test for our group. I’m sure they’re kind of thinking the same thing.”

The back-to-back is the second since the All-Star break for both the Devils and Hurricanes.

“They played too, so that excuse is out the window,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “This time of year, there’s a lot of hockey.”

After Sunday, the Devils will have one game in hand on the Hurricanes.

Each squad has kept the pressure on the other over the past month. The Devils improved to 9-3-1 since Feb. 13 on Saturday, when Nathan Bastian and Nico Hischier staked New Jersey to a 2-0 lead in the first period before Tomas Tatar added an insurance goal in the third against the Canadiens.

“I think we’re doing a lot of good stuff right now,” Tatar said. “Obviously, in some games you get certain puck luck when we bring the points home. But I think overall, we’re very happy with where the game is.”

The Hurricanes were the victims of Jonathan Quick’s first shutout outside of a Los Angeles Kings uniform on Saturday, when the two-time Stanley Cup winner stopped all 33 shots he faced for the Golden Knights. Quick was acquired just before the trade deadline this month.

The loss for the Hurricanes snapped their four-game winning streak and dropped them to 9-3-0 since Feb. 13.

Carolina — which scored 16 goals in the first three wins of the streak before edging the Philadelphia Flyers 1-0 on Thursday — was blanked for just the third time this season and the first time since a 4-0 loss to the Arizona Coyotes on Nov. 23.

“There was enough chances to win the game, so we can’t dwell on that,” Hurricanes center Jordan Staal said. “Their goalie played well. We have a big game (Sunday).”

–Field Level Media

The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to pad their already impressive record at Amalie Arena on Sunday night when they conclude a four-game homestand against the Winnipeg Jets.

The Lightning answered a five-game winless skid (0-4-1) by improving to 2-0-1 on their current stretch at home.

Brayden Point capped a two-goal performance by scoring with one minute remaining in the third period of Tampa Bay’s 3-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.

Point has 11 goals in his past 11 games to boost his career-high total to 43 tallies this season for the Lightning, who boast a 24-5-5 record at home.

Former Hart Trophy recipient Nikita Kucherov notched an assist by setting up Point’s second goal of the night to extend his franchise-record home point streak to 24 games.

“(Point’s) been the straw that stirred the drink many nights,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “He and (Kucherov) have such chemistry, and they’re a dynamic group together. Just look at the play they made at the end on the winning goal. You put Point in that spot, and more often than not he’s going to finish.”

While the Lightning gave the home fans a thrill, captain Steven Stamkos gave them a scare after exiting Saturday’s game late in the first period with a left-leg injury. Cooper, however, expressed a bit of optimism about his star’s health after the contest.

“I think he’s going to be OK,” Cooper said of Stamkos, who is Tampa Bay’s all-time leader in goals (508) and points (1,038). “We just kept him out for precaution. We’ll check him out tomorrow, but we’re hopeful he’ll be OK.”

Like Point, Mark Scheifele of the Jets capped a two-goal performance with the game-winning tally Saturday against the Florida Panthers.

Scheifele boosted his team-leading goal total to 38 on the season after scoring 4:31 into overtime to lift the Jets to a 5-4 victory.

“The last two games, we thought we played really well and didn’t get rewarded with the win,” Scheifele said. “It was a big win, and that’s just the way the game of hockey works, and now we’ve just got to go on to the next one.”

Scheifele notched two assists in Winnipeg’s 4-2 triumph over Tampa Bay on Jan. 6.

Former Lightning first-round draft pick Vladislav Namestnikov collected two goals and an assist Saturday, and Nikolaj Ehlers had one and two, respectively. Kyle Connor notched three assists for the Jets, who are just 2-5-2 in their past nine games.

“We’ll take a win any time we can get it, any way we can get it,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “I think a lot of our problems tonight were self-inflicted with puck management. That really hurt us. We spent some unnecessary time in our zone. The good news is we scored the five goals, which was huge.”

Also like Tampa Bay, Winnipeg was hit by injuries on Saturday.

Defenseman Josh Morrissey and center Adam Lowry exited the game in the third period due to reported lower-body injuries, with Bowness deeming both players as “very, very doubtful” for Sunday’s game.

–Field Level Media

The Vegas Golden Knights have overcome a slew of goaltending injuries to remain atop the Pacific Division.

They will try to continue that trend Sunday when they visit the St. Louis Blues.

No. 1 Vegas goaltender Robin Lehner is out this season while recovering from hip surgery. Logan Thompson, Laurent Brossoit and Adin Hill are sidelined with lower-body injuries.

The Golden Knights acquired veteran Jonathan Quick this month to fill in for the injured goalies, and they recalled Jiri Patera their AHL team in Henderson for their ongoing five-game trip.

Quick bounced quickly from the Los Angeles Kings to the Columbus Blue Jackets, then to the Golden Knights before the NHL trade deadline.

He earned a 33-save shutout as Vegas blanked the Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 in Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday.

“Just grateful for the opportunity they’re giving me here,” Quick told AT&T Sportsnet after the game. “Just trying to help these guys win some games.”

Quick is 3-0-0 with a .939 save percentage in his first three starts for the Golden Knights.

“They compete, they find ways to win,” he said. “It’s a fun team to play on.”

Patera became the sixth goaltender to dress for Vegas this season and could become the fifth to start if he gets the call Sunday.

The Golden Knights will catch the Blues in the early stages of a major retooling. Blues coach Craig Berube continues to experiment with his forward lines and defensive pairings.

He has gained positive results by putting young power forward Alexey Toropchenko with playmaking center Robert Thomas and speedy winger Jordan Kyrou on a new No. 1 line.

Kyrou scored a hat trick Saturday, Thomas had two assists, and Toropchenko had one helper as the Blues earned a 5-2 road victory over the Blue Jackets. Kyrou put five shots on goal was a constant threat.

“He attacked and shot the puck,” Berube said. “He could have had more than that, probably, with some of the chances he had. He’s a dangerous player. When he’s skating and he’s on his toes and attacking, a lot of good things (happen).”

The Blues also have received better play recently from defenseman Colton Parayko, who was minus-21 during the first four months of the season but plus-6 since then despite the team’s overall struggles.

“I think it’s just natural when sometimes things don’t go right, you obviously overthink things,” Parayko said. “Hockey’s a funny game, it happens fast. Sometimes, the more that you overthink, sometimes the things tend to get worse. You’re wondering why when you’re trying to solve the problem, you’re trying to figure out.”

Thomas Greiss started for the Blues on Saturday, so Berube is likely to come back with Jordan Binnington against Vegas.

The Golden Knights and Blues split their first two games this season. The Blues won 3-2 on Nov. 12 in Las Vegas, with Brandon Saad and the since-departed Ryan O’Reilly and Ivan Barbashev scoring the goals.

Vegas won the second meeting 5-4 at home on Dec. 23, with Chandler Stephenson enjoying a four-point game (goal, three assists) and Michael Amadio adding a goal and two assists.

–Field Level Media

The Pittsburgh Penguins and visiting New York Rangers have met just once this season entering their game Sunday, but they figure to get very familiar with each other very quickly.

Sunday’s game will be the first of three meetings between the Metropolitan Division teams in a span of seven days — they also will play in New York on Thursday and Saturday.

The Penguins won the only game between them to this point, 3-2 at home on Dec. 20.

The three head-to-head matchups this week could help define how the Metropolitan stacks up at the end of the season. Pittsburgh, which currently holds the top wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, sits seven points behind the Rangers, who are third in the division.

The Penguins are 6-1-1 in their past eight games; the Rangers are 4-5-1 in their past 10.

Pittsburgh shook up all four of its forward lines Saturday for a 5-1 win at home against the Philadelphia Flyers. That was in part because newly acquired center Nick Bonino is out week-to-week after having a procedure for a lacerated kidney he suffered during a game Thursday.

But it also was something calculated.

“We’re playing a lot of really important games, and we have a lot of games in a short period of time,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “We need four lines to get this done here, and so we put combinations together (Saturday) that we thought gave us balance throughout the lineup, that we could utilize guys that could play to their strengths in different situations.”

That it did, as five different players, all forwards, scored against Philadelphia. Jason Zucker was one of them, and he, has goals in three straight games and eight goals over the past seven games.

It’s not clear whether Pittsburgh will stick with its newly configured lines against the Rangers, but there seems little reason to make significant changes overnight.

“It’s a deep team, and every line can score,” said another newly acquired Penguins forward, Mikael Granlund, who had a goal and an assist Saturday for his first points with his new club.

While Pittsburgh is 2-0-1 three games into a five-game homestand, New York has been strong on the road this season. After a 2-1 overtime win Saturday at Buffalo, the Rangers are 20-8-5 away from home.

Winger Patrick Kane, acquired in one of the bigger moves in the NHL leading up to the trade deadline, has his first three points with his new team over the past two games, including the tying goal Saturday in his hometown of Buffalo.

While Pittsburgh scored three goals in the third period to put away the Flyers, the Rangers were not thrilled with their effort against Buffalo despite the win.

“Late in the (third) period like that of a 1-1 hockey game, to give (up strong) chances, it’s not acceptable for our group,” New York coach Gerard Gallant said. “A lot of guys … should be thankful Igor (Shesterkin, the goalie) made those saves for them.”

The Penguins probably can expect to face backup Rangers goaltender Jaroslav Halak after Shesterkin played against Buffalo.

Conversely, Pittsburgh started backup Casey DeSmith against Philadelphia and seems likely to go with Tristan Jarry on Sunday.

–Field Level Media

Garnet Hathaway scored with 6:06 remaining in regulation as the Boston Bruins overcame an early two-goal deficit to down the visiting Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Saturday afternoon, becoming the fastest team to 50 wins in NHL history.

The Bruins reached 50 wins in 64 games, bettering the mark of 66 shared by the 1995-96 Red Wings and 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning.

Hathaway’s first goal as a Bruin capped a strong overall performance by Boston’s fourth line, as he drove hard to the net and buried the rebound of an A.J. Greer shot that popped out to the left crease.

Hampus Lindholm and Patrice Bergeron also scored for Boston, which bounced back from a Thursday loss that broke a 10-game win streak. Boston’s Linus Ullmark made 29 saves, including 15 in the third period. Andrew Copp and Alex Chiasson scored for the Red Wings, who fell to 1-6-1 in their last eight games. Magnus Hellberg stopped 35 Bruins shots.

Lightning 3, Blackhawks 1

Brayden Point scored the game-winning goal — his second of the game — with 59.7 seconds left in a victory over visiting Chicago, but Tampa Bay lost star center Steven Stamkos to an injury.

Point, who has 11 goals in the past 11 games, extended his career-high mark to 43 this season by blistering a shot from the high slot off a pass from Nikita Kucherov for the winner. Brandon Hagel scored his 23rd goal of the season into an empty net with two seconds remaining. Taylor Raddysh scored a goal for Chicago, and Petr Mrazek was strong in net with 34 saves.

In a largely uneventful first period, the news became bad for the home side with just under three minutes remaining. Stamkos, 33, injured his left leg after getting fallen on by a Blackhawks player and getting up awkwardly during his sixth shift. As the team’s captain regained his feet, his left knee buckled. The two-time Maurice Richard Trophy winner then clutched the knee, left for the tunnel and headed to the dressing room.

Stars 4, Kraken 3 (OT)

Miro Heiskanen scored at 3:26 of overtime as Dallas rallied for a victory against host Seattle.

That came after the Stars’ Joe Pavelski tallied at 18:50 of the third period to tie the score with the Dallas net empty and an extra attacker on the ice. Roope Hintz and Mason Marchment also scored for Dallas, which improved to 6-1-1 in its past eight games. Goaltender Jake Oettinger made 28 saves.

Jordan Eberle, Ryan Donato and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored for Seattle, which lost for just the second time in its past seven games (5-1-1). Vince Dunn added two assists. Philipp Grubauer stopped 21 of 25 shots.

Predators 2, Kings 1 (SO)

Kevin Lankinen made 26 saves and stopped all three attempts in a shootout to help visiting Nashville to a victory against Los Angeles.

Tommy Novak scored in regulation and Matt Duchene had the lone goal in the shootout for the Predators, who improved to 6-2-1 in their past nine games.

Mikey Anderson scored and Pheonix Copley made 29 saves for the Kings, who had their season-long, five-game winning streak snapped in the opener of a seven-game homestand.

Colorado 3, Arizona 2 (OT)

Cale Makar scored 1:38 into overtime, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and an assist and the Avalanche beat the Coyotes in Denver.

Denis Malgin also scored, Mikko Rantanen had two assists and Alexandar Georgiev turned away 18 shots for the Avalanche.

MacKinnon set a franchise record with a goal in his ninth consecutive home game. Clayton Keller and Jack McBain each had a goal and Connor Ingram made 41 saves for Arizona, which was held without a shot in the third period and overtime.

Jets 5, Panthers 4 (OT)

Mark Scheifele scored two goals – including the game-winner with 28 seconds left in overtime – as Winnipeg defeated host Florida in Sunrise, Fla.

Vladislav Namestnikov also scored twice and added one assist for Winnipeg. The Jets also got one goal and two assists from Nikolaj Ehlers, 44 saves by Connor Hellebuyck, three assists by Kyle Connor and two helpers by Blake Wheeler. Scheifele, who has a team-high 38 goals, rebounded his own shot for the winner past Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (22 saves).

Florida, which had its season-high-tying, three-game win streak snapped, got two goals from Matthew Tkachuk and one each from Sam Reinhart and Marc Staal. Tkachuk has 30 goals, second-best on the team behind Carter Verhaeghe (32). The Panthers got two assists each from Brandon Montour and Aleksander Barkov.

Maple Leafs 7, Oilers 4

John Tavares had two goals and an assist and host Toronto came back to score five straight goals to defeat Edmonton.

Noel Acciari added two goals and Mitchell Marner had a goal and three assists for the Maple Leafs, who were playing their first game after a 3-2 trip. William Nylander and Auston Matthews each had a goal and an assist. Matt Murray made 24 saves.

Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists for the Oilers, who completed a 2-2 road trip. Mattias Ekholm, Evander Kane and Leon Draisaitl also scored. Stuart Skinner stopped 31 shots.

Golden Knights 4, Hurricanes 0

Jonathan Quick made 33 saves for his second shutout of the season to lead Vegas over host Carolina in Raleigh, N.C.

Quick, obtained at the trade deadline from Los Angeles, improved to 3-0-0 with the Golden Knights with the 58th shutout of his career, moving him into a tie with John Roach for 21st place on the NHL’s all-time shutout list. Jonathan Marchessault, Reilly Smith, Paul Cotter and Brett Howden scored goals.

Frederik Andersen stopped 20 of 23 shots for Metro Division-leading Carolina, which suffered just its eighth regulation home loss (23-8-2) of the season.

Rangers 2, Sabres 1

Artemi Panarin scored a power-play goal with 2:58 remaining in overtime as New York beat host Buffalo.

The Rangers controlled possession for the entire overtime and gained a power play with 3:48 remaining when Mika Zibanejad drew a hooking penalty on Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Dahlin.

Jeff Skinner scored for Buffalo, which has lost four games in a row but played significantly better defensively than Thursday’s 10-4 home loss to the Dallas Stars.

Devils 3, Canadiens 1

Nico Hischier collected one goal and one assist to lead visiting New Jersey to a victory over Montreal.

Nathan Bastian and Tomas Tatar also scored for the Devils, who are on a 6-1-1 run that has them two points back of the Carolina Hurricanes in the chase for top spot in the Metropolitan Division. Dawson Mercer collected one assist to run his point streak to 12 games. It is the longest point streak in franchise history for a player under 22. Goalie Akira Schmid made 23 saves.

Denis Gurianov scored for the injury-plagued Canadiens, who are winless in six games, five of them by one goal, and near the bottom of the league standings. Goalie Jake Allen stopped 34 shots in a strong outing that gave his club a chance.

Penguins 5, Flyers 1

Jake Guentzel and Mikael Granlund each had a goal and an assist as Pittsburgh downed visiting Philadelphia.

Pittsburgh’s Mike Sullivan became the 40th NHL coach to reach 400 career wins (400-234-15-87). Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Jason Zucker also scored, and Marcus Pettersson had two assists for the Penguins, who are 6-1-1 in their past eight games.

Kieffer Bellows scored for the Flyers, who have lost three straight. Goaltender Carter Hart made 27 saves. Pittsburgh goaltender Casey DeSmith made 31 saves.

Blues 5, Blue Jackets 2

Jordan Kyrou scored a three-goal hat trick as visiting St. Louis defeated Columbus.

Sammy Blais had a goal and two assists for the Blues, who won for just the third time in their last 11 games.

St. Louis got two-point games from Brandon Saad (goal, assist), Brayden Schenn (two assists) and Robert Thomas (two assists). Thomas Greiss made 37 saves to earn the victory. Patrik Laine and Boone Jenner scored for the Blue Jackets, who lost their fourth straight game. Johnny Gaudreau had two assists and Michael Hutchinson made 19 saves.

Capitals 5, Islanders 1

Anthony Mantha, Nic Dowd and Nicklas Backstrom scored in the third period for visiting Washington, which bolstered its playoff hopes by pulling away for a win over New York in Elmont, N.Y.

Dylan Strome and T.J. Oshie scored in the first period for the Capitals, who won for just the fourth time in 13 games (4-8-1). Washington is five points behind the Islanders and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the race for Eastern Conference wild-card berths. Goalie Darcy Kuemper made 18 saves.

Pierre Engvall scored for the Islanders, who had their three-game winning streak snapped. Goalie Semyon Varlamov recorded 22 saves.

Wild 5, Sharks 2

Jared Spurgeon, Marcus Johansson, Mats Zuccarello and Matt Boldy all collected one goal and one assist to lead visiting Minnesota to a victory over San Jose.

Frederick Gaudreau also scored for the Wild, who are on a 10-0-2 roll and sit two points behind the Dallas Stars for the top spot in the Central Division. Marc-Andre Fleury made 35 saves, 18 of them in the first period, while Ryan Hartman and John Klingberg both posted two assists.

Logan Couture and Tomas Hertl both netted one goal and one assist for the Sharks, who have one win in nine games (1-7-1) and sit at the bottom of the Western Conference. Goalie James Reimer stopped 24 shots.

Canucks 5, Senators 2

Andrei Kuzmenko scored two goals and Vancouver defeated visiting Ottawa for its fourth straight win.

J.T. Miller and Nils Aman each had a goal and an assist for the Canucks. Dakota Joshua had two assists and Thatcher Demko made 18 saves.

Claude Giroux and Nick Holden scored third-period goals for the Senators, who have lost two of their past three games after winning five straight. Tim Stutzle had two assists and Mads Sogaard made 25 saves for the Senators.

–Field Level Media