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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored his 1,000th career NHL goal combining the regular season and playoffs, but the league-leading Colorado Avalanche beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 in overtime on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ovechkin\u2019s goal, his 26th of the season, came from his traditional spot on the power play and tied the score with 5:43 left in regulation. He extended his career record to 923, nearly a year since passing Wayne Gretzky<\/a> for the most in league history.<\/p>\n

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Gretzky has NHL 1,016 goals: 894 in the regular season and 122 in the playoffs, the latter being a record the \u201cGreat One\u201d still holds.<\/p>\n

U.S. Olympic gold medal winner Brock Nelson<\/a> scored 82 seconds into 3-on-3 OT off a pass from Martin Necas, his 32nd goal of the season. Gabriel Landeskog and Nicolas Roy scored earlier for the Avalanche, who have won back-to-back games and on Friday became the first team this season to clinch a playoff spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Justin Sourdif also scored for the Capitals, whose two-game winning streak came to an end. It was Sourdif\u2019s 14th goal of his first season with Washington following a late-June trade from back-to-back Stanley Cup champion Florida.<\/p>\n

JETS 3, RANGERS 2, SO<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Gabriel Vilardi tied his career high with his 27th goal of the season and won the game in a shootout, captain Adam Lowry ended his lengthy scoring drought and Winnipeg ended its three-game losing streak by beating the New York.<\/p>\n

Vilardi and Kyle Connor scored in the shootout to spoil the NHL debut of Rangers goaltending prospect Dylan Garand. The 23-year-old impressed by stopping 35 of the 37 shots he faced in regulation and overtime and was arguably one of the best players on the ice.<\/p>\n

Garand\u2019s biggest save came midway through the second period when he denied Connor on a shorthanded 2-on-0 breakaway. He was fortunate minutes later when Cole Perfetti\u2019s shot from in tight clanked off the crossbar and out.<\/p>\n

Lowry scored on a tic-tac-toe passing play from Perfetti and Lowry 13 minutes in that Garand had little chance of preventing. Lowry\u2019s goal was his first since Jan. 13, which was 25 games ago.<\/p>\n

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HURRICANES 5, PENGUINS 1<\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Seth Jarvis scored on a power play and assisted on two other man-advantage goals as Carolina beat Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Aho and Nikolaj Ehlers also scored on power plays for the Hurricanes, who beat the league\u2019s best penalty kill team for three goals.<\/p>\n

Aho, who scored his 25th goal of the season, became the first player in Hurricanes or Hartford Whalers history with eight 25-goal seasons.<\/p>\n

Jalen Chatfield and Mark Jankowski also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won seven of their last 10 games. Carolina has points in 24 of its last 29 games. Frederik Andersen made 18 saves for his fifth straight win. He\u2019s 6-1 in his last seven starts.<\/p>\n

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Jarvis has a goal and six points in his last three games. Ehlers has six goals and 14 points in his last 11 games.<\/p>\n

PREDATORS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, OT<\/p>\n

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Filip Forsberg scored his second goal of the game at 1:05 of overtime to lift Nashville to a win over Chicago.<\/p>\n

Forsberg stole the puck from Andre Burakovsky behind the Chicago net, skated to the left side and fired a high shot past Spencer Knight for his 32nd goal, giving the Predators their longest winning streak of the season at four games.<\/p>\n

Forsberg also set up Steven Stamkos\u2019 team-leading 34th goal that tied it at 2 at 9:43 of the third period, about 11 seconds after a high-sticking penalty to Connor Bedard expired. Stamkos notched his third goal in two games by redirecting Forsberg\u2019s pinpoint pass off the right post and in.<\/p>\n

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Bedard scored his team-leading 29th goal and Nick Lardis connected as the Blackhawks lost their second straight.<\/p>\n

ISLANDERS 1, BLUE JACKETS 0<\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ilya Sorokin made 26 saves for his NHL-leading seventh shutout of the season, Bo Horvat scored the only goal on the first shot of the game and New York moved back into a playoff spot with a victory over Columbus.<\/p>\n

Sorokin bounced back a night after he allowed six goals on 32 shots before being pulled in New York\u2019s 7-3 loss<\/a> at Montreal. The shutout was his franchise-record 29th and Sorokin tied his single-season high set in 2021-22.<\/p>\n

Horvat scored 1:25 into the game, taking a pass from Anders Lee and beating Jet Greaves with a snap shot. It was the earliest goal scored in an Islanders 1-0 victory in franchise history.<\/p>\n

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The Islanders snapped a two-game skid that knocked them briefly out of a playoff spot. With 85 points, they\u2019re in the second wild-card position in the Eastern Conference and tied with the Blue Jackets. Columbus is in third place in the Metropolitan Division because it has played one fewer game than New York.<\/p>\n

Greaves finished with 21 saves for Columbus, which had its four-game winning streak and 12-game points streak stopped.<\/p>\n

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3, STARS 2<\/p>\n

DALLAS (AP) \u2014 Reilly Smith scored the tiebreaking goal<\/a> with 3:38 left in the third period and Vegas beat Dallas, denying the Stars\u2019 bid to clinch a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

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Vegas\u2019 Mitch Marner skated into the high slot and his shot ricocheted off two Dallas players and landed near Smith, who scored from close range past a defenseless Casey DeSmith. The deciding goal came after the teams played more than seven minutes without a whistle.<\/p>\n

Brayden McNabb and Ivan Barbashev also scored for Vegas, which snapped a three-game skid and won for just the third time in nine games. Adin Hill made 13 saves for the Golden Knights, who outshot Dallas 33-15.<\/p>\n

Dallas\u2019 Wyatt Johnston set a franchise single-season record with his NHL-leading 23rd power-play goal. Johnston held the mark for the most in a season since the Stars moved to Dallas in 1993-94. His latest moved him past Dino Ciccarelli (1986-87) for the most for the Minnesota-Dallas franchise.<\/p>\n

FLAMES 4, LIGHTNING 3, OT<\/p>\n

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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Ryan Strome scored 26 seconds into overtime and Calgary beat Tampa Bay Lightning for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Victor Olofsson, Morgan Frost, with his team-leading 17th, and Mikael Backlund also scored for Calgary. Devin Cooley made 32 saves.<\/p>\n

Ryan McDonagh, Darren Raddysh and Pontus Holmberg scored for Tampa Bay, and Nikita Kucherov had an assist to push his NHL-leading points total to 119. Second in the Atlantic Division, the Lightning had won three in a row.<\/p>\n

Jonas Johansson stopped 25 shots for Tampa Bay, coming off a 5-2 victory in Edmonton on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

DUCKS 6, SABRES 5, OT<\/p>\n

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Troy Terry scored on a breakaway 1:29 into overtime for his second goal of the game after Mikael Granlund tied it late in regulation and Anaheim rallied to defeat Buffalo.<\/p>\n

Anaheim ended Buffalo\u2019s seven-game road winning streak when Tage Thompson couldn\u2019t keep in the puck in the Ducks\u2019 zone and Terry held on a 2-on-0 break to score on a backhander.<\/p>\n

Granlund tied the game at 5 with 1:44 remaining in the third period on a power play with Ville Husso pulled for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n

Chris Kreider and Jackson LaCombe had power-play goals in the first period, Beckett Sennecke also scored, Husso made 24 saves and the Ducks have won consecutive games as part of a four-game points streak.<\/p>\n

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MAMMOTH 4, KINGS 3, OT<\/p>\n

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Nick Schmaltz scored his second goal of the game on a break at 1:46 of overtime to give Utah a victory over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Schmaltz carried the puck in on a 2-on-1 with defenseman Mikhail Sergachev on his left and fired a snap shot between goalie Darcy Kuemper\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n

After Los Angeles controlled play in the 3-on-3 overtime and nearly ended it on Alex Laferriere\u2019s shot that went off the right post, Kevin Stenlund won a faceoff against Quinton Byfield to set up Schmaltz\u2019s seventh winning goal of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Alex Ovechkin scored his 1,000th career NHL goal combining the regular season and playoffs, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[1746,1042,10969,426,8493,4253,1199,521,3644,3669,1598,1034,191,4808,1542,2000,144,508,50070,2580,6864,3670,198,3577,62,1239,7,3937,6816,149,5,277,1259,1709,1447,693,5630,15094,10078,186,1290,793,1649,513,1740,1271,1255,533,264,4527,2409,4,20307,5619,1337,1335,794,3727,506,1295,1260,4085,6496,1108,1174,1177,488,1489,1712,540,92,3689,74,3699,8173,190,109,5222,279,8040,77,1531],"class_list":["post-519017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-capitals","tag-adam-lowry","tag-adin-hill","tag-alex-laferriere","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-anders-lee","tag-andre-burakovsky","tag-beckett-sennecke","tag-blackhawks","tag-blue-jackets","tag-bo-horvat","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-brock-nelson","tag-capitals","tag-casey-desmith","tag-chris-kreider","tag-cole-perfetti","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-connor-bedard","tag-darcy","tag-darren-raddysh","tag-devin-cooley","tag-dylan-garand","tag-edmonton","tag-filip-forsberg","tag-florida","tag-frederik-andersen","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-gabriel-vilardi","tag-goal-of-the-season","tag-golden-knights","tag-hockey","tag-ilya-sorokin","tag-ivan-barbashev","tag-jackson-lacombe","tag-jalen-chatfield","tag-jet-greaves","tag-jonas-johansson","tag-justin-sourdif","tag-kevin-stenlund","tag-kings","tag-kyle-connor","tag-los-angeles","tag-mark-jankowski","tag-martin-necas","tag-mikael-backlund","tag-mikael-granlund","tag-mikhail-sergachev","tag-mitch-marner","tag-montreal","tag-morgan-frost","tag-nashville","tag-nhl","tag-nick-lardis","tag-nick-schmaltz","tag-nicolas-roy","tag-nikita-kucherov","tag-nikolaj-ehlers","tag-pontus-holmberg","tag-power-play","tag-quinton-byfield","tag-reilly-smith","tag-ryan-mcdonagh","tag-ryan-strome","tag-sabres","tag-sebastian-aho","tag-seth-jarvis","tag-spencer-knight","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-tage-thompson","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-troy-terry","tag-vegas","tag-victor-olofsson","tag-ville-husso","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals","tag-wayne-gretzky","tag-winning-streak","tag-winnipeg","tag-wyatt-johnston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}