Chris Drury scored a power-play goal 1:46 into overtime, giving the New York Rangers a 2-1 victory over Pittsburgh that kept the Penguins from clinching their first NHL division title in 10 years on Monday.
The Rangers were given the advantage in the opening minute of the extra session when Sergei Gonchar held Jaromir Jagr as he drove to the net.
Pittsburgh is still in prime position to win the Atlantic Division, leading New Jersey by seven points. The Penguins, with 100 points, are two ahead of Montreal in the race for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
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They have two games remaining, Montreal has three, and New Jersey holds four.
New York, eliminated from the division race on Sunday when it lost in Pittsburgh, jumped to fifth in the East -- one point ahead of the Ottawa Senators and behind the fourth-place New Jersey Devils based on a tiebreaker.
The Rangers and Devils will close the regular season on Sunday in New Jersey.
Thrashers 2, Lightning 0
At Tampa, Florida, Ilya Kovalchuk scored two third-period goals and Kari Lehtonen stopped 36 shots for his fourth shutout.
Kovalchuk tied his career-high in goals with 52, matching his total for the 2005-2006 season.
He has 16 points (11 goals, five assists) in 15 games last month, and has eight goals in the past seven games against Tampa Bay.
Mike Smith, who made his first start for Tampa Bay in three games due to a sprained left knee, had 23 saves on 24 shots.
Major League Baseball (MLB) star Shohei Ohtani wants his former interpreter to hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of baseball cards he says were fraudulently bought using his money. The Los Angeles Dodgers star is also requesting Ippei Mizuhara, who previously pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud for stealing nearly US$17 million from the unsuspecting athlete, return signed collectible baseball cards depicting Ohtani that were in Mizuhara’s “unauthorized and wrongful possession,” court documents filed on Tuesday said. The legal filing alleges Mizuhara accessed Ohtani’s bank account beginning in about November 2021, changing his security protocols so that he
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