Dan Girardi on Sunday broke a deadlock late in the second period before the New York Rangers beat the Calgary Flames 4-1.
Oscar Lindberg, Kevin Klein and Derick Brassard also scored on a night when Girardi passed Mark Messier for 10th on the Rangers’ all-time games played list.
Antti Raanta made 22 saves in New York’s third of 17 back-to-back sets this season — the Rangers lost to the Flyers in a shootout on Saturday night. New York have won six of their past seven against the Flames.
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In his 769th game with New York, Girardi scored his first goal this season to put the Rangers ahead 2-1 with 3 minutes, 3 seconds left in the second. Recently demoted to the third defense pairing with Keith Yandle, Girardi snuck down to the right circle and snapped a rebound of Emerson Etem’s shot past Jonas Hiller.
Jiri Hudler scored the Flames’ lone goal.
Winnipeg’s Drew Stafford scored twice and Blake Wheeler had two assists as the Jets edged the Minnesota Wild 5-4.
Jason Zucker scored 10 seconds into the game, but then Winnipeg got five consecutive goals.
Bryan Little tied it 1 minute, 22 seconds into the first, Andrew Ladd scored about 2 minutes later and Nikolaj Ehlers made it 3-1 for the Jets midway through the period.
Stafford scored 51 seconds into the second, chasing Wild goalie Darcy Kuemper. Stafford scored again on Devan Dubnyk just less than 4 minutes later for his team-leading fifth goal this season.
Mikko Koivu, Justin Fontaine and Zach Parise also scored for Minnesota.
The Los Angeles Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 after Tanner Pearson broke a deadlock late in the third period with his first goal since breaking his leg last season.
Pearson’s power-play goal put the Kings ahead with 3 minutes, 26 seconds left. He found the rebound from Jake Muzzin’s shot and slapped it past goalie Cam Talbot.
Connor McDavid nearly tied it for Edmonton with 5.2 seconds left, but Jonathan Quick sprawled to catch his backhander right at the goal line. A replay review upheld the no-goal call.
Pearson’s score came less than 3 minutes after Taylor Hall leveled it for Edmonton on the power play. Hall redirected a pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for his third of the season.
Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter also scored for the Kings. Drew Doughty had two assists.
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