Evgeni Malkin scored his first goal in nearly seven months and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 22 shots for his 39th career shutout as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 2-0 on Thursday night.
Rookie Daniel Sprong picked up the first goal of his career for Pittsburgh, who won for the first time this season.
Craig Anderson made 34 saves for Ottawa, who failed to muster significant momentum a night after dropping seven goals on Columbus.
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Ottawa went zero for three on the power play and rarely tested Fleury over the final two periods as the Senators lost on the road for the first time in four tries.
STARS 5, LIGHTNING 3
In Tampa, Florida, Jason Spezza scored a momentum-shifting goal in the third period and had an assist to lead Dallas to the win.
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Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Cody Eakin and Jason Demers also scored for the Stars.
Steven Stamkos had two goals and an assist, and Vladislav Namestnikov also scored for the Lightning.
Namestnikov and Stamkos scored 1 minute, 38 seconds apart in the third to get the Lightning within 4-3.
Spezza, coming off a three-goal game in Tuesday’s 4-2 win over Edmonton, responded and gave Dallas a 5-3 lead at 10 minutes, 29 seconds.
ISLANDERS 4, PREDATORS 3
In New York, John Tavares and Nikolay Kulemin scored in the third period as New York handed Nashville their first loss of the season.
Anders Lee and Kyle Okposo scored in the second period to tie the score for the Islanders after they fell behind by two, and Thomas Greiss finished with 44 saves.
Tavares and Lee also had an assist and Mikhail Grabovski added two as New York won their second straight and improved to 2-0-1 in their new Brooklyn home.
Austin Watson, Filip Forsberg and James Neal scored for the Predators, who had opened the season 3-0-0. Pekka Rinne had 24 saves.
Tavares’ goal with 8 minutes, 11 seconds left in the third period gave the Islanders a 4-2 lead. Neal pulled the Predators within one less than three minutes later, but they could not get the tying goal past Greiss.
CAPITALS 4, BLACKHAWKS 1
In Washington, Braden Holtby stopped 26 shots and Alex Ovechkin scored a goal in his return to the Washington lineup as the Capitals beat punchless Chicago.
John Carlson, T.J. Oshie and Matt Niskanen also scored for the Capitals, who welcomed back Ovechkin following a one-game disciplinary absence.
Coming off a 3-0 loss to Philadelphia one night earlier, the Blackhawks trailed by three goals before Viktor Svedberg got his first goal of the season at 3 minutes, 13 seconds of the third period. That ended a scoreless drought of 107 minutes, 46 seconds for the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Ovechkin sealed the victory at 14 minutes, 18 seconds, scoring from the left side of the net after a back-and-forth with teammate Evgeny Kuznetsov.
In other results, it was:
‧ Panthers 3, Sabres 2
‧ Canadiens 3, Rangers 0
‧ Blues 4, Oilers 2
‧ Wild 4, Coyotes 3
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