Nate Thompson scored twice, including the winner at 4 minutes, 36 seconds of overtime, to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
Ben Bishop stopped 28 shots for Tampa Bay, who ended a two-game losing streak.
Daniel Briere scored for Montreal. Carey Price made 34 saves.
The Lightning have a five-point advantage over the Canadiens in the Atlantic Division.
Philadelphia’s Steve Mason posted his second shutout in three games with 35 saves, while Wayne Simmonds scored his 100th NHL goal to lead the Flyers over the Los Angeles Kings 2-0.
It was the 22nd career shutout and third this season for Mason, who stopped 33 shots in a 5-0 win against Detroit on Tuesday last week after getting pulled by coach Craig Berube in two of his previous three starts.
Mason got a break with less than 3:30 left when Justin Williams tried a wraparound and hit the left post.
Claude Giroux added his 17th goal on a power play with 1:58 left, converting a cross-ice pass at the left of the crease from Scott Hartnell while Matt Greene was serving an interference penalty.
In Denver, Colorado, Jamie McGinn had two goals and an assist, while Gabriel Landeskog also had two goals as the Colorado Avalanche trounced the Buffalo Sabres 7-1.
Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists, while Semyon Varlamov had 27 saves for the Avalanche, who have won three straight.
Marc-Andre Cliche scored his first NHL goal and Tyson Barrie also scored for the Avalanche. Matt D’Agostini scored for Buffalo.
The Boston Bruins blanked the Edmonton Oilers 4-0 after David Krejci scored a second-period power-play goal and Chad Johnson made 22 saves for his second career shutout, while Phoenix’s Zbynek Michalek scored against his former team, his first goal in 83 games, as the Coyotes downed the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1.
Linemates Ryan Johansen and Boone Jenner each had a goal and an assist in the first period to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets past the Florida Panthers 4-1, while Phil Kessel scored three goals in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 6-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators.
In other games, the St Louis Blues edged the Nashville Predators 4-3 after a shootout, the Dallas Stars shut out the Anaheim Ducks 2-0, the Calgary Flames beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 in overtime and the San Jose Sharks were 2-1 winners over the Chicago Blackhawks after a perfect shootout.
Shohei Ohtani and his wife arrived in South Korea with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates yesterday ahead of their season-opening games with the San Diego Padres next week. Ohtani, wearing a black training suit and a cap backwards, was the first Dodgers player who showed up at the arrival gate of Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. His wife, Mamiko Tanaka, walked several steps behind him. As a crowd of fans, many wearing Dodgers jerseys, shouted his name and cheered slogans, Ohtani briefly waved his hand, but did not say anything before he entered a limousine bus with his wife. Fans held placards
Taiwan’s Tai Tzu-ying yesterday advanced to the quarter-finals at the All England Open, beating Kim Ga-eun of South Korea 21-17, 21-15. With the win, Tai earned a semi-final against China’s He Bingjiao, who beat Michelle Li of Canada 21-9, 21-9. Defending champion An Se-young defeated India’s P.V. Sindhu 21-19, 21-11. An on Wednesday cruised into the second round, unlike last year’s men’s winner, Li Shifeng, who suffered a shock defeat. South Korea’s An, the world No. 1, overcame Taiwan’s Hsu Wen-chi 21-17, 21-16 to set up the match against Sindhu. In other women’s singles matches, Taiwan’s Sung Shuo-yun lost 21-18, 24-22 against Carolina Marin of
EYEING TOP SPOT: A victory in today’s final against Storm Hunter and Katerina Siniakova would return 38-year-old Hsieh Su-wei to the world No. 1 ranking Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens on Thursday secured a spot in the women’s doubles finals at the BNP Paribas Open after dispatching Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the US and Australia’s Ellen Perez 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) at Indian Wells. Hsieh and her Belgian partner Mertens, who won the Australian Open in late January, coasted through the first set after breaking their opponents’ serve twice, but found the going tougher in the second. Both pairs could only muster one break point over 12 games, neither of which were converted, leaving the set to be decided by a tiebreaker. Hsieh and Mertens took a 6-3 lead,
DOUBLES PAYBACK: Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Martens avenged their defeat in the quarters at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open against Demi Schuurs and Luisa Stefani Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei on Wednesday advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s doubles at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California. Hsieh and partner Elise Mertens of Belgium dispatched Demi Schuurs and Luisa Stefani 6-1, 6-4 to set up a clash against Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the US and Australia’s Ellen Perez for a spot in the final of the WTA 1000 tournament. Hsieh and Martens made a blistering start to their rematch after they lost to Schuurs and Stefani in the quarter-finals at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open last month, winning three games without reply at the start of the first set