Alexander Ovechkin on Saturday scored his second goal of the game and the 499th of his career at 1 minute, 25 seconds of overtime as the Washington Capitals rallied to beat the New York Rangers 4-3.
The Capitals’ Nicklas Backstrom forced overtime by sliding the rebound of Justin Williams’ shot under Henrik Lundqvist with 5.7 seconds left in regulation.
Braden Holtby prevented the Rangers from winning just seconds before Ovechkin scored. The Washington goaltender stopped Rick Nash in close and then combined with defenseman Nate Schmidt to stop Derek Stephan on the rebound attempt.
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Ovechkin got the puck, skated the length of the ice on the left side before cutting across the middle and beating Lundqvist.
Williams also scored for the Capitals and Holtby made 23 saves.
Viktor Stalberg, Kevin Hayes and Oscar Lindberg scored for the Rangers.
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SENATORS 2, BRUINS 1, OT
In Ottawa, Mark Stone scored 4 minutes, 22 seconds into overtime to lift Ottawa past Boston.
Stone was able to put in his own rebound over a sprawling Tuuka Rask after being stopped the first time on a wraparound attempt.
Mika Zibanejad also scored for the Senators and Craig Anderson finished with 33 saves.
David Pastrnak got his third goal of the season and Rask stopped 38 shots for the Bruins.
HURRICANES 4, BLUE JACKETS 3, OT
In Columbus, Ohio, Jordan Staal scored in overtime to help Carolina recover after giving up a three-goal lead.
Andrej Nestrasil, Kris Versteeg and John-Michael Liles scored and Staal added an assist for Carolina.
Cam Ward made 21 saves and the Hurricanes swept the home-and-home series after beating Columbus 4-1 on Friday night. Carolina are 5-0-1 in their past six games against the Blue Jackets, including four straight wins in Columbus.
Cam Atkinson, Alexander Wennberg and Josh Anderson scored for Columbus to erase a 3-0 deficit, and defenseman Seth Jones made his first home appearance. The Blue Jackets have lost both games since they acquired Jones from Nashville on Wednesday last week for center Ryan Johansen.
Joonas Korpisalo made 26 saves.
PENGUINS 3, CANADIENS 1
In Montreal, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 33 shots and Bryan Rust scored his first goal of the season to put Pittsburgh as the Penguins defeated Montreal.
Patric Hornqvist and Eric Fehr also scored for the Penguins, who are 3-1-2 in their past six games.
P.K. Subban scored for Montreal and Mike Condon, playing for the injured Carey Price, finished with 29 saves.
Subban tied the score with 9 minutes, 21 seconds left in the second period with his second of the season — and first in 34 games — on a one-timer from the point.
Rust put the Penguins in front for good, beating Condon top shelf on a breakaway with his second career goal about three-and-a-half minutes later.
Fehr added a short-handed empty-netter with 10 seconds left in regulation.
In other results, it was:
‧ Flyers 4, Islanders 0
‧ Sharks 7, Maple Leafs 0
‧ Wild 2, Stars 1
‧ Coyotes 4, Predators 0
‧ Lightning 3, Canucks 2
‧ Blues 2, Kings 1
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