Justin Williams had two goals and an assist and Marcus Johansson had a goal and two assists as the Washington Capitals closed with six straight goals to beat the struggling New York Rangers 7-3 on Sunday night.
Washington trailed 3-1 after one period, but rallied for their fifth straight win. The Capitals are 24-6-2 and tied with Dallas for the NHL lead with 50 points.
Evgeny Kuznetsov, T.J. Oshie, Alex Ovechkin and Jason Chimera also scored for the Capitals.
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Nicklas Backstrom added three assists and Braden Holtby made 33 saves.
J.T. Miller, Chris Kreider and Dan Boyle scored for New York. Henrik Lundqvist made 19 saves before being pulled, and then Magnus Hellberg made four saves in his NHL debut.
LIGHTNING 5, SENATORS 2
In Tampa, Florida, Mike Angelidis scored his first NHL goal in almost four years as Tampa Bay beat Ottawa.
The Lightning also got a pair of goals from Steven Stamkos, including one of two late empty-netters. Nikita Nesterov and Alex Killorn had the other Tampa Bay goals.
Zack Smith and Erik Karlsson scored for the Senators, who have lost six of their past seven road games.
Angelidis, playing in his second NHL game this season and 12th overall, made it 3-1 at 2 minutes, 45 seconds of the second period when he beat Andrew Hammond during a goalmouth scramble. It was the second career goal for Angelidis, with the other coming against Columbus on Jan. 24, 2012.
BLACKHAWKS 4, SHARKS 3, OT
In Chicago, Jonathan Toews scored at 2 minutes, 21 seconds of overtime to give surging Chicago a victory over San Jose.
Toews skated in with Patrick Kane for a two-on-one and tipped home a nice pass for his 11th goal.
Kane scored his 21st in the first period to help the Blackhawks win for the second straight day and seventh time in nine games overall. The star forward has two goals and two assists in three games since his 26-game point streak ended on Tuesday last week against Colorado.
Joonas Donskoi had a goal and an assist for San Jose, who have dropped eight of 10. Tommy Wingels and Joe Pavelski also scored.
BRUINS 2, DEVILS 1, SO
In Boston, Ryan Spooner scored the lone shootout goal and Jonas Gustavsson made 29 saves to lift Boston over New Jersey.
Loui Eriksson had a goal in the first period for the Bruins, who improved to 11-1-3 in their past 15 games and pulled within one point of first-place Montreal in the Atlantic Division.
Andy Greene scored in the second for the Devils, who have managed only five goals in the past five games. They have dropped three straight and four of five.
In other results, it was:
‧ Red Wings 4, Flames 2
‧ Panthers 5, Canucks 4
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