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additions. Travis Boyd played on
the fourth line in place of Leipsic,
who was a healthy scratch for the
first time this season.
[email protected]ASSOCIATED PRESSJake muzzin had a goal a nd t wo
assists, and frederik Andersen
made 24 saves as the To ronto ma-
ple Leafs beat the visiting Pitts-
burgh Penguins, 4-0, on T hursday
night.
To ronto bounced back nicely
after it dropped three of four, in-
cluding a 5-2 loss at Pittsburgh on
Tuesday. It was Andersen’s second
shutout o f the s eason and the 1 8th
of his career.
William Nylander, Kasperi
Kapanen and Zach Hyman also
scored for the maple Leafs, and
John Tavares added two assists.
matt murray made 26 stops for
the Penguins, who suffered their
most lopsided loss of t he s eason.
To ronto went ahead to stay
when muzzin’s point shot pinged
in off the post 7:45 into the second
period for his fifth goal. Newly
acquired Denis malgin helped out
by providing traffic in front of
murray.
The maple Leafs got a five-on-
three power play for 1:53 midway
through the second — deploying
five forwards for the second
straight game — and cracked the
Penguins’ penalty kill when Ny-
lander beat murray through the
pads for h is 27th.
Kapanen then made it 3-0 with
his 12th at 13:04 when he was
sprung by Alexander Kerfoot and
fired p ast murray’s b locker.
To ronto spent Wednesday af-
ternoon and Thursday morning
answering questions about the
team’s work ethic and level of ur-
gency in a season that could be
slipping away. But t he m aple Leafs
showed plenty o f pushback Thurs-
day night — and not only between
the w histles.
Penguins winger Patric Horn-
qvist t ook a couple of runs at r ook-
ie defenseman rasmus Sandin
late in the second. Kapanen inter-
vened and got a cross-check up
high for his troubles before drop-
ping the gloves with Pittsburgh’s
Jared mcCann.
Penguins captain Sidney Cros-
by and Leafs counterpart Ta vares
jawed at each other after a scrum
that saw Hornqvist land o n Ander-
sen, and the two continued the
conversation as the teams headed
off for t he second i ntermission.
Hyman made it 4-0 3:56 into
the third when he collected his
own rebound off a deflection and
slid home h is 1 9th.
l FlYERs 4 , BlUE JacKEts
3 (Ot): Kevin Hayes scored 3:51
into overtime, and visiting Phila-
delphia beat Columbus to sweep
the home-and-home series be-
tween metropolitan Division con-
tenders.
The flyers trailed 3-1 before Ni-
colas Aube-Kubel and Claude Gir-
oux scored 1:26 apart in the sec-
ond p eriod. After a scoreless t hird,
Hayes s napped a shot from the s lot
past Elvis merzlikins.
Travis Konecny had a goal and
an assist for Philadelphia, which
improved to 12-5-2 in its past
19 games. Brian Elliott made
28 saves.
oliver Bjorkstrand and N ick f o-
ligno e ach h ad a goal and an assist
for Columbus. Stefan matteau
scored his first goal in more than
four y ears.
l BlUEs 1, cOYOtEs 0: ryan
o’reilly scored, and Jordan Bin-
nington made 1 4 saves t o lead h ost
St. L ouis past Arizona.
Binnington recorded his sec-
ond consecutive shutout and the
eighth of his career. He had al-
lowed at least three goals in eight
straight starts before his shutout
performances.
C oyotes counterpart Antti
raanta stopped 45 of the Blues’
season-high 4 6 shots o n goal.
l DEVils 2, sHaRKs 1: In
Newark, mackenzie Blackwood
made 36 saves in winning his fifth
straight s tart for New Jersey.
P .K. Subban scored the winner
on a power play early in the third
period. Jesper Bratt had the Dev-
ils’ other goal, and Nikita Gusev
had a ssists o n both.
T im H eed scored for San Jose in
the o pener o f its four-game t rip.
l JEts 5, sENatORs 1: mark
Scheifele snapped a 12-game scor-
ing d rought with three power-play
goals to propel visiting Winnipeg
past ottawa.
Kyle C onnor and Nikolaj Ehlers
also scored for the Jets, and Lau-
rent Brossoit m ade 2 9 saves.
Nick Paul scored for the Sena-
tors, and marcus Hogberg
stopped 29 shots.nhl roundupPittsburgh
is handed
worst loss
of season
Maple leafs 4,
penguins 0toni L. sandys/the Washington Postalex Ovechkin (8) can’t get the puck past canadiens goaltender carey price in the third period. He had 2 2:22 of ice time with six shots on goal thursday at capital One arena.
hockey
cause of an upper-body injury. He
slotted right back in as the team’s
second-line center and got an
assist on Wilson’s late equalizer.
Brendan Leipsic and Jonas
Siegenthaler were healthy
scratches to make room for thepercentage during that span.
Dillon slotted in on the top
defensive pairing with John Carl-
son, and while he was on the ice
for ovechkin’s goal, Dillon and
Carlson were on the ice for all
three Canadiens goals in regula-
tion.
“Just a few pucks bouncing,”
Dillon said of the mishaps. “on
two of them, the defensemen
[got] shots through. maybe we
can try and block or get into the
lane or try and help out to get
those ones obviously not going in.
I think at the end of the day it’s
just going to get better from here.
Just another day of practice [fri-
day] and continue to build that
chemistry.”
Center Evgeny Kuznetsov
made his return to the lineup
after he missed three games be-period until Lars Eller tallied his
15th goal of the season to give the
Capitals a 2-1 lead with 2:57 left i n
the middle frame. It was Eller’s
sixth goal in 12 games against his
former team since the Canadiens
traded him to the Capitals in
2016.
While Eller’s goal gave the
Capitals a brief advantage, mon-
treal came right back 1:34 later
with a goal from Brendan Gal-
lagher at the front of the net, an
area where the Capitals contin-
ued to struggle defensively.
Holtby made 28 saves after
earning his fourth consecutive
start and appears to have found a
bit of a rhythm. Entering Thurs-
day, Holtby had stopped 97 of
104 shots over his previous four
appearances, posting a 2.08 goals
against average and .933 savepulled for an extra attacker.
“Give them credit a little bit,”
Wilson said. “They play a difficult
brand to play against. They got
some skill and speed. But I think
we started pretty well. Just those
goals that are going in kind of at
the wrong times of the games...
kill our momentum.”
The Capitals twice took the
lead only to let the Canadiens
pull even. After ovechkin’s early
goal, montreal tied things up on a
slap shot from Shea Weber that
got through traffic and beat Holt-
by with 2:17 left in the first
period.
Washington struggled to get
many more offensive chances,
and the Canadiens controlled the
pace for much of the second
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Ovechkin scores No. 699 as Caps fall in overtime
Capitals’ next t hreeat n ew J ersey devilstomorrow 1nBCsWvs. pittsburgh penguinssundaynoon nBCvs. Winnipeg Jetstuesday 7nBCsWRadio: WJFK (106.7 FM),
WFED (1500 AM)Canadiens 4, Capitals 3 (ot)
Montreal ........................ 1 111 —4
Washington ................... 1 110 —3
First PerioD
scoring: 1 , Washington, Ovechkin 41 (Backstrom), 7:29.
2, Montreal, Weber 14 (Danault), 17:43.
seConD PerioD
scoring: 3 , Washington, Eller 15 (Panik, Hagelin), 17:03.
4, Montreal, Gallagher 20, 18:37.
thirD PerioD
scoring: 5 , Montreal, Chiarot 8 (Tatar), 0:30. 6, Washing-
ton, Wilson 18 (Backstrom, Kuznetsov), 19:39.
oVertiMe
scoring: 7 , Montreal, Chiarot 9 (Domi, Petry), 0:58.
shots on goal
Montreal ........................ 7 17 71 —32
Washington ................... 9 12 11 0— 32
Power-play opportunities: Montreal 0 of 1; Washington
0 of 1. goalies: Montreal, Price 25-22-5 (32 shots-29
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