Chris Kreider’s breakaway goal with 52.8 seconds left in overtime lifted the New York Rangers to a 1-0 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.

After the teams were scoreless in regulation, Mika Zibanejad collected a loose puck in the Rangers’ end and flipped it to Kreider, who was streaking down the middle of the ice. Kreider took the pass and slipped a backhander past goalie Carter Hart for his fourth goal of the season.

Kreider’s goal extended the Rangers’ winning streak to three games and dealt the Flyers their third loss in the past four games, though the past two setbacks came in overtime.

Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin and Hart were solid, finishing with 19 and 35 saves, respectively. Hart, however, was much busier and benefited by the Rangers hitting the post four times.

The Rangers outshot the Flyers 36-19, including 30-19 in regulation. Kreider had a team-high seven shots, while Kaapo Kakko, Zibanejad and Adam Fox each had four apiece, with Zibanejad adding his seventh assist of the year.

Travis Konecny and Kevin Hayes each had a team-high four shots for the Flyers, while Justin Braun, Lukas Sedlak and Scott Laughton each had two.

Tony DeAngelo paced the Flyers in ice time at 25:44, while Fox logged a game-high 27:35 for the Rangers.

The Rangers and Flyers each went 0-for-3 on the power play.

New York controlled the first two periods, outshooting the Flyers 23-11, including 14-4 in the second period.

New York hit the post once in the first period and twice in the second, including Kreider striking iron on a breakaway while the Rangers were short-handed.

Midway through the third period, New York’s Alexis Lafreniere fired a low backhanded shot that skipped off the bottom of the post, keeping the game scoreless.

While the Rangers kept Hart busy, Shesterkin didn’t face many serious scoring threats in the first 40 minutes.

The Flyers continue their three-game road trip when they face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday. The Rangers’ four-game homestand continues on Thursday against the Boston Bruins.

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Nikita Kucherov scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period Tuesday as the Tampa Bay Lightning opened their four-game homestand with a 4-3 comeback win over the Ottawa Senators.

With the teams locked in a 3-all tie, Kucherov — who also had two assists — one-timed a shot from the right circle off a feed from Mikhail Sergachev for the game-winning marker with 2:30 remaining.

Ottawa captain Brady Tkachuk missed a point-blank chance with one second to go as the visitors lost their third straight game, while Tampa Bay won its third consecutive.

Kucherov’s three-point showing stretched his point streak to eight games and helped his club win for the ninth time in the past 12 outings against Ottawa.

Sergachev and Brayden Point each had a goal and an assist and Alex Killorn also scored for the Lightning. Steven Stamkos had two assists and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 12 shots.

The Lightning played without former Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Victor Hedman, who is listed as day-to-day with an upper-body injury.

Ottawa’s Dylan Gambrell scored in his season debut but was later ejected. Mathieu Joseph and Claude Giroux tallied, and Anton Forsberg made 30 saves as Ottawa went 7-for-8 on the penalty kill.

In the first period, Lightning defenseman Nick Perbix sent a pass that bounced to Gambrell. The Ottawa center beat Vasilevskiy at 5:44 on the Senators’ first of three shots in the frame.

But Ottawa allowed the home side to cash in on its third power play at 3:17 of the second. Sergachev blasted home a shot for his second tally to tie it at 1.

Gambrell was ejected with a match penalty after a side hit on Erik Cernak struck the defenseman in the head. However, the Lightning could not take advantage of the five-minute major infraction, which included 95 seconds of a five-on-three advantage.

It got worse for the Lightning. Late in the two-man advantage, Joseph — who played three-plus seasons for Tampa Bay — won a race with Stamkos to a loose puck and scored short-handed on a breakaway at 12:21.

With 8:56 left in the match, Killorn netted his third goal to knot it at 2, but Tkachuk’s thievery of Vasilevskiy from behind the net allowed Giroux to notch his third of the season 40 seconds after Killorn’s.

Point streaked through the slot 1:11 later and tied it for a third time with his fifth tally.

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Washington Capitals forward Connor Brown will be sidelined six to eight months after reconstructive knee surgery on his torn ACL.

Brown suffered the injury Oct. 17 against the Vancouver Canucks and was placed on injured reserve two days later. The team did not say when he had the surgery.

Brown, 28, was injured after taking a hit from Canucks defenseman Noah Juulsen along the boards. Brown headed straight to the dressing room limping and favoring his right leg.

Brown is in his first season with the Capitals, who acquired him from the Ottawa Senators in July for a second-round pick in the 2024 draft. Brown had 10 goals and 39 points in 64 games for Ottawa last season.

Brown played his first four NHL seasons for Toronto (2015-2019), where he had 43 goals and 99 points in 253 games. In the past three seasons with the Senators, he totaled 47 goals and 117 points in 191 games.

The Capitals also lost forward T.J. Oshie indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the team said Monday.

The Capitals are already playing without forwards Tom Wilson (knee) and Nicklas Backstrom (hip), who are also on IR. Forward Carl Hagelin (hip) is also out indefinitely.

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New Jersey Devils forward Ondrej Palat underwent successful groin surgery Tuesday and is expected to make a full recovery.

The team said a timeline for his return would be provided at a later time, “as they become available.”

The Devils placed Palat on injured reserve Saturday. Palat had missed two games prior to the move with what the team called a lower-body injury.

Palat, 31, met with doctors Monday to make “a final determination” on next course of action.

Palat, who won back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning, signed a five-year, $30 million contract with the Devils in July.

Palat had three goals in six games this season.

The Lightning selected Palat in the seventh round of the 2011 NHL Draft. In 628 regular-season games for Tampa Bay, the Czech Republic native tallied 143 goals and 280 assists.

He also appeared in 138 playoff games for the Lightning, registering 94 points (48 goals, 46 assists). He has 12 career game-winning goals in the playoffs.

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The family of late Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk is exploring a sale of the team, multiple outlets reported Tuesday.

Sportico reported that the Senators have retained New York-based Galatioto Sports Partners to advise on a potential sale. The investment bank provides lending, advisory, capital raising and other services to pro sports clients.

Melnyk died in March, and his two daughters inherited the team. A three-person board currently is running the Senators, per Sportico.

Sportico valued the Senators at $655 million, up 21 percent in the past year. Melnyk purchased the team in 2003 for $92 million, according to Forbes.

Fenway Sports Group bought the majority interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins for about $900 million last December. The Nashville Predators are in the process of being sold for $775 million to former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, who is set to take controlling ownership of the team by July 2025.

While NHL fans took to social media on Tuesday to encourage a new owner to relocate the team to their hometowns, the Senators are expected to remain in Ottawa. The team signed a memorandum of understanding last June to build a new downtown arena and have about 10 months to execute a lease for the land, the Ottawa Citizen reported.

The newspaper said that with a lease agreement in place, the selling price of the team likely would approach $900 million or more.

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Gabriel Vilardi wasn’t even assured of a roster spot when the Los Angeles Kings opened training camp in September.

However, the 23-year-old center has exceeded expectations right from the start this season, and the Kings will look for him to stay hot when they visit the Dallas Stars on Tuesday night.

The Kings have won three of their past four games while the Stars have dropped three of their past four.

Vilardi had a goal and an assist in Los Angeles’ 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Monday night to open the Kings’ three-game road trip.

Vilardi has recorded a goal in four straight games and has eight overall this season, tied for second most in the NHL. He has found a home on the top line with Anze Kopitar and Adrian Kempe.

Kings coach Todd McLellan noted that Vilardi is oozing with confidence.

“It’s really refreshing to see him walk into the rink, he’s sticking his chest out a little, he’s smiling more, he seems to be enjoying the whole package,” McLellan said after Vilardi scored a goal in a 4-2 win against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. “He’s earned the opportunity to feel that way, and as a result, he’s playing that way.”

Vilardi, who was selected 11th overall in the 2017 NHL Draft, scored 10 seconds into his first shift with the Kings on Feb. 21, 2020, setting a franchise record for the fastest goal to start a career.

The COVID-19 outbreak ended that season shortly afterward, and Vilardi had difficulty gaining traction in the lineup with the Kings, splitting last season between Los Angeles and the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League.

As a restricted free agent, Vilardi signed a one-year, $825,000 contract extension with the Kings on July 23.

“I had more to prove this year,” Vilardi said. “I just worked hard this summer and I’ve taken the same mentality into the season. So far it’s been good, but a small sample size. I want to be a good player for a long time.”

The Stars won’t have goalie Jake Oettinger against the Kings. He sustained a lower-body injury against the visiting New York Rangers on Saturday when his skate got caught on a post. His injury will be re-evaluated in a week.

After Oettinger departed with the score tied 2-2 in the second period, the Rangers scored four goals on 17 shots against his replacement, Scott Wedgewood, in a 6-3 victory.

Oettinger went 30-15-1 in 46 starts last regular season with a 2.53 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage. He was even sharper in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, going 3-4 with a 1.82 GAA and a .954 save percentage.

“He’s obviously a big part of our team, if not the biggest,” Stars forward Jason Robertson said of Oettinger.

Because of salary-cap limitations, Dallas could not recall veteran goalie Anton Khudobin from Texas of the American Hockey League, so they signed 24-year-old Matt Murray to an entry-level contract on Monday. Murray, not to be confused with the two-time Stanley Cup-winning goalie of the same name who is now with the Toronto Maple Leafs, likely will serve as the backup against the Kings.

The Stars received some positive injury news when defenseman Miro Heiskanen returned to practice on Monday after missing the past three games with an upper-body injury.

Stars general manager Jim Nill also announced that 19-year-old center Wyatt Johnston would remain with the Stars beyond the ninth game, which will burn the first year of his entry-level contract, regardless of whether or not he returns to the junior level at a later date.

Johnston, the 23rd overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft, has three goals and an assist through his first nine NHL games.

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Tage Thompson recorded his second career hat trick and had three assists while Jeff Skinner scored the 300th goal of his career as the Buffalo Sabres beat the visiting Detroit Red Wings 8-3 on Monday night.

Thompson is one of six players in franchise history to tally six points in a game, becoming the first to accomplish the feat since Pat LaFontaine did so on Feb. 10, 1993. The franchise record is seven points, set by Gilbert Perreault on Feb. 1, 1976. Skinner also had two assists while Rasmus Dahlin added a goal and an assist for Buffalo during its highest-scoring game since a 9-2 win over the Ottawa Senators on Nov. 3, 2018. Jack Quinn also found the net, and Kyle Okposo notched two assists.

Detroit trailed 4-2 after two periods but made things interesting when Dylan Larkin beat Eric Comrie (15 saves) for a short-handed goal 4:19 into the third. However, the Sabres’ defense clamped down and Dahlin, Dylan Cozens, Thompson and Rasmus Asplund each followed with goals.

Olli Maatta and David Perron also scored for Detroit, which is 2-3-2 since winning its first two games of the season. The Red Wings won all four games against the Sabres during the 2021-22 season.

Hurricanes 3, Capitals 2 (SO)

Andrei Svechnikov scored the decisive goal in a shootout as host Carolina beat Washington.

Stefan Noesen and Svechnikov scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, and Martin Necas had two assists. Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen made 18 saves before stopping the last two Washington attempts in the shootout.

Dylan Strome and Alex Ovechkin had goals for the Capitals. Goalie Darcy Kuemper collected 33 saves through regulation and overtime but just one in the shootout.

Kings 5, Blues 1

Carl Grundstrom scored twice and Kevin Fiala had three assists as visiting Los Angeles rolled over slumping St. Louis.

Gabriel Vilardi, Anze Kopitar and Arthur Kaliyev also scored for the Kings. Jonathan Quick made 27 saves and Todd McLellan earned his 100th victory as Kings coach.

Alexey Toropchenko scored for the Blues. Jordan Binnington allowed five goals on 19 shots before departing midway through the game. Thomas Greiss entered and stopped all 11 shots he faced.

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The Vegas Golden Knights take a four-game winning streak into the opener of a five-game road trip on Tuesday night when they face the Washington Capitals in a rematch of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals.

Alex Ovechkin was the MVP of that series won by Washington in five games. The 37-year-old left wing will try to achieve another milestone on Tuesday when he tries to break Gordie Howe’s NHL record for most goals with one team.

Howe scored 786 goals in 1,687 games with the Detroit Red Wings from 1946-71. Ovechkin, who scored his fifth goal of the season in a 3-2 shootout loss at Carolina on Monday night, has 785 goals in 1,284 games with the Capitals.

“I’m always saying to stay on one team for all my career is my goal,” Ovechkin told NHL.com. “Obviously, I’m lucky enough to be able to do that kind of stuff so it’s pretty cool.”

Barring injury, Ovechkin will also pass Howe for another milestone later this season. Howe’s 801 career goals rank second to Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career record 894.

Washington is 3-1-1 over its past five games despite a lengthy injury list that includes center Nicklas Backstrom (hip) and wingers Carl Hagelin (hip), Tom Wilson (knee) and Connor Brown (lower-body). Right wing T.J. Oshie (lower-body) and defenseman John Carlson (lower-body) both left the team’s 3-0 win at Nashville on Saturday in the first period. Oshie is listed as being out indefinitely while Carlson is day-to-day.

The short-handed Capitals now have to try to bounce back from a physical shootout loss to Carolina less than 24 hours later.

“We’ll wake up and deal with that tomorrow,” Washington coach Peter Laviolette said. “You can’t coach a game saying that we’ll kind of play hard because we have to save it for tomorrow, especially in this building against that team. Our guys had to leave a lot out there tonight. We’ll get some rest tonight. We’ll wake up tomorrow and we’ll deal with tomorrow when it comes.”

Vegas, which missed making the playoffs for the first time in franchise history last season, has won eight of its first 10 games under head coach Bruce Cassidy and leads the Pacific Division and also the Western Conference with 16 points.

The Golden Knights have done it with a stingy defense yielding a league-low 17 goals. Only Eastern Conference-leading Boston (plus-18) has a better goal differential than Vegas (plus-15).

The Golden Knights come in off an emotional 2-1 overtime victory over Winnipeg on Sunday. Jack Eichel scored the game-winner with just seven seconds left in overtime.

“It’s important to find a way to get two points there,” Eichel said after scoring his first overtime winner with the Golden Knights and ninth of his career. “It’s big. We’re going on the road for 10 or 11 days now. We’re definitely going to miss playing here. It was good to get two points before we head out.”

The Golden Knights will also visit Ottawa on Thursday, Montreal on Saturday and Toronto on Tuesday before finishing the trip in Buffalo on Nov. 10.

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Carl Grundstrom scored twice and Kevin Fiala had three assists as the visiting Los Angeles Kings rolled over the slumping St. Louis Blues 5-1 on Monday night.

The Kings won for the third time in their past four games while the Blues lost their fifth consecutive game.

Gabriel Vilardi, Anze Kopitar and Arthur Kaliyev also scored for the Kings. Jonathan Quick made 27 saves and Todd McLellan earned his 100th victory as Kings coach.

Alexey Toropchenko scored for the Blues. Jordan Binnington allowed five goals on 19 shots before departing midway through the game. Thomas Greiss entered and stopped all 11 shots he faced.

Blues defenseman Torey Krug exited the game with an upper-body injury after taking a hard hit into the boards early in the third period.

The Kings took a 1-0 lead 13:12 into the game while playing six-on-five, with Quick off for an extra attacker during a delayed penalty against the Blues.

Fiala made a diagonal pass from atop the left circle to Vilardi at the right post for his redirection goal — his fourth goal in his past four games.

The Kings scored three times in less than five minutes of the second period to push their lead to 4-0. First Fiala made a pass from the right circle to the left post to set up Grundstrom’s redirection goal at 3:44.

Kopitar converted Vilardi’s cross-ice pass for a tap-in goal at the left post at 5:06.

Los Angeles made it 4-0 at 7:39 by scoring just before its power play expired. Binnington stopped Viktor Arvidsson’s shot from the left, but Trevor Moore swiped the rebound over to Kaliyev, who scored into the open right side of the net.

Grundstrom made it 5-0 — and chased Binnington from the game — by scoring from the left wing midway through the second period on a shot off the stick of Blues defenseman Justin Faulk.

Toropchenko put the Blues on the board 43 seconds later by jamming in the rebound of his point-blank shot.

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Andrei Svechnikov scored the decisive goal in a shootout as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Monday night in Raleigh, N.C.

Stefan Noesen and Svechnikov scored in regulation for the Hurricanes, and Martin Necas had two assists. Carolina goalie Frederik Andersen made 18 saves before stopping the last two Washington attempts in the shootout.

Dylan Strome and Alex Ovechkin had goals for the Capitals. Goalie Darcy Kuemper collected 33 saves through regulation and overtime but just one in the shootout.

It was the first shootout this season for both teams. Carolina’s Brent Burns and Washington’s Evgeny Kuznetsov began the tiebreaking competition by converting before Svechnikov had the only other tally in the second round.

The Hurricanes had a power play for the final 1:55 of regulation because of Marcus Johansson’s tripping penalty but failed to convert. They also had a two-minute advantage in overtime after Lars Eller’s tripping penalty.

Washington ended up in overtime for the first time this season. The Capitals finished with a season-low 20 shots despite the extra five minutes.

Ovechkin, who has made a habit of troubling the Hurricanes, buried a power-play shot from the left side of the net for a 2-1 lead approaching the midway mark of the second period. He has 47 career goals in 86 games against Carolina.

Svechnikov posted his team-high eighth goal with 4:18 to play in the second period to tie the game at 2-2.

Both teams were buzzing at times during a four-on-four stretch in the third period. Another four-on-four setup for two minutes later in the period wasn’t nearly as entertaining.

Noesen tipped in Burns’ shot on a power play 4:27 into the game for the first goal. It was Noesen’s first goal in 10 games with the Hurricanes over parts of two seasons.

The Capitals were without right winger T.J. Oshie and defenseman John Carlson. Both players went out with lower-body injuries Saturday night at Nashville. While Carlson is day-to-day, Oshie is sidelined indefinitely. Among the lineup adjustments, defenseman Matt Irwin made his season debut.

Carolina secured its first home win since the Oct. 12 opener against the Columbus Blue Jackets, though the Hurricanes were in just their third home game overall.

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