Canadiens’ rally past Lightning in 3-2 victory
MONTREAL (AP) — Jake Evans scored the winning goal with 2:15 remaining to rally the Montreal Canadiens past the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Evans finished a feed from Joel Armia to break the tie with his 11th goal. Juraj Slafkovsky and Alex Newhook also scored, and Sam Montembeault stopped 33 shots to help Montreal win for the 13th time in 17 games.
Rookie defenseman Lane Hutson extended his points streak to nine games. Patrik Laine added two assists.
Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel scored for Tampa Bay, which opened a four-game road trip with a 5-3 loss to Toronto on Monday. Kucherov pushed his points streak to 10 games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.
RANGERS 5, SENATORS 0
NEW YORK (AP) — Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves, Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist and New York beat Ottawa.
Arthur Kaliyev, Matt Rempe, Artemi Panarin and Will Cuylle also scored for the Rangers, who are 7-1-3 since Jan. 2 and have won three straight at home.
The shutout was Shesterkin’s third this season and the 18th of his career.
Lafreniere beat Ottawa netminder Leevi Merilainen for his 13th goal at 18:48 of the first.
Kaliyev made it 2-0 at 1:50 of the middle period with his second goal as a Ranger since being claimed off waivers from Los Angeles on Jan. 6.
Kaliyev appeared to score again at 4:59 but the goal was waved off for offside. Rangers forward Sam Carrick had a goal negated for the same reason just before Lafreniere’s goal.
Anton Forsberg replaced Merilainen in net for Ottawa after the challenge on Kaliyev’s play.
Merilainen made 14 saves before his departure. Forsberg finished with 10 saves.
FLYERS 2, RED WINGS 1, OT
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rasmus Ristolainen scored in overtime and Philadelphia defeated Detroit.
Ristolainen tapped a loose puck just across the goal line with at 4:34 in overtime. Detroit defenseman Moritz Seider tried to clear the puck from in front of the goal but happened to pin it against the post, allowing Ristolainen to have the easy tap-in.
Joel Farabee scored for the Flyers and Samuel Ersson made 27 saves.
Ben Chiarot scored for the Red Wings, who lost their third straight game and fourth in the last five games.