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Highlights of Tuesday's NHL games

[December 28, 2016] Dec 27 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of National Hockey League games on Tuesday:

Blue Jackets 4, Bruins 3

The Columbus Blue Jackets squandered a three-goal lead but recovered to win their 13th game in a row on Tuesday when Nick Foligno scored a power-play goal in the third period for a 4-3 home victory over the Boston Bruins.

Scott Hartnell, Seth Jones and Matt Calvert also scored for the Blue Jackets. Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky won his 13th straight game, finishing with 37 saves.

The Blue Jackets extended their franchise-record and the NHL's longest winning streak this season.

David Backes, Austin Czarnik and David Krejci had goals for Boston.

Wild 3, Predators 2 (overtime)

The Minnesota franchise-record winning streak improved to 11 games in dramatic fashion when defenseman Jared Spurgeon scored in overtime to lift the Wild past the Nashville Predators.

Spurgeon ripped a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle past Pekka Rinne off a feed from Jordan Schroeder as the Wild improved to 22-8-4 with their 10th road win of the season.

Devan Dubnyk (18-6-3) came up with 28 stops for the Wild.

Penguins 5, Devils 2

Sidney Crosby recorded three points and Evgeni Malkin had a pair, including the 800th point of his NHL career, as Pittsburgh rallied for a road victory over New Jersey.

The Penguins, who also beat the Devils last Friday in Pittsburgh, erased a pair of early deficits by scoring the final four goals and raised their record to a perfect 52-0 the past two seasons when leading after two periods of play.

Rangers 4, Senators 3

Nick Holden's second goal of the night, a tiebreaking tally early in the third period, helped the New York Rangers snap Ottawa's four-game winning streak.

Holden's winner came on a wraparound, as Ottawa goalie Mike Condon allowed the shot to slide under his left leg. Derek Stepan also scored twice for the Rangers, goaltender Antti Raanta made 33 saves and Ryan McDonagh contributed three assists.

Islanders 4, Capitals 3

Andrew Ladd and Anders Lee scored 43 seconds apart in the third period as the New York Islanders beat Washington.

The crowd was still celebrating Ladd's goal when Lee picked up a loose puck at center ice and beat Braden Holtby on a breakaway.

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Ladd also scored in the second period while Cal Clutterbuck scored in the first for the Islanders, who have won three straight.

Sabres 4, Red Wings 3

Evander Kane scored twice, including the winning goal in the third period, and Buffalo beat Detroit to end a four-game losing streak.

Kane has eight goals this season, all coming in his past 10 games.

Detroit is 3-10-3 in its past 15 home games.

Jets 3, Blackhawks 1

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 34 shots to defeat Chicago for the third time this season as Winnipeg secured a road win over the Blackhawks.

The Jets (17-17-3) have won four of their last five.

Artem Anisimov returned for Chicago (22-10-5) after missing three games with an upper-body injury to post his 15th goal, but the Blackhawks have lost three in a row for the first time this season.

Sharks 3, Ducks 2 (overtime)

Brent Burns scored in overtime off a centering pass from Joe Pavelski and San Jose beat Anaheim.

Anaheim fell to 1-6-1 in overtime this season, including 0-6 in the five-minute overtime period, while San Jose improved to 6-1.

Flames 6, Avalanche 3

Johnny Gaudreau and Mikael Backlund had two goals and an assist apiece, and Calgary beat slumping Colorado.

Colorado has lost nine straight home games and is in danger of going 0-7 in December.

Stars 3, Coyotes 2

Jason Spezza and Jamie Benn each had a goal and an assist to lift Dallas over Arizona.

Dallas improved to 6-4-1 in its last 11 games since a gut-check 6-2 loss to Pittsburgh on Dec. 1.

(Editing by Andrew Both)

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