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Crosby, playing in his 1,100th game, tipped a feed from Rickard
Rakell inside the left post. It was Crosby's third point of the
game, along with an earlier goal and an assist.
Pittsburgh goaltender Casey DeSmith made 33 saves.
Matt Duchene and Nick Cousins scored for the Predators, who have
lost two straight.
Jets 4, Senators 3
Nikolaj Ehlers collected one goal and two assists as visiting
Winnipeg beat Ottawa and kept their faint playoff hopes alive.
Paul Stastny, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Kyle Connor all netted one
goal and one assist for the Jets (34-28-11, 79 points), who
snapped a four-game losing skid. Goaltender Connor Hellebuyck
made 31 saves. Winnipeg sits seven points outside a playoff spot
with nine games remaining.
Brady Tkachuk scored twice in a three-point game and Josh Norris
posted one goal and one assist for the Senators (26-40-6, 58
points), who have lost three straight. Mads Sogaard stopped 21
shots.
Wild 6, Kings 3
Kirill Kaprizov equaled a franchise record for goals while Matt
Boldy and Jared Spurgeon collected one goal and one assist as
Minnesota collected six unanswered tallies to claim a home win
over Los Angeles.
Mats Zuccarello, Marcus Foligno and Nick Bjugstad also scored
for the Wild, who erased a 3-0 deficit. Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury
made 31 saves after a difficult start for Minnesota, which moved
up to second place in the Central Division.
Rasmus Kupari, Carl Grundstrom and Adrian Kempe scored for the
Kings, who have lost three straight games. Goalie Cal Petersen
stopped 27 shots.
Lightning 5, Sabres 0
Tampa Bay ended a four-game slide with a win against visiting
Buffalo.
Ondrej Palat had a goal and an assist and Brian Elliott made 28
saves for the Lightning, who jumped the Boston Bruins to take
over third place in the Atlantic Division.
Craig Anderson made 23 saves for the Sabres, who have lost three
straight for the first time since a six-game losing streak Feb.
17-27.
Capitals 4, Bruins 2
Washington scored two goals in both the second and third periods
to top visiting Boston.
Lars Eller gave Washington a 3-2 lead at the 7:18 mark of the
third period as he sent a puck toward goal from the left side
that deflected off Erik Haula and past Boston goaltender Linus
Ullmark. Captain Alex Ovechkin ensured the victory with an
empty-net goal in the final seconds of regulation.
The win was the third straight for Washington, while Boston has
lost two of three.
Hurricanes 5, Ducks 2
Jordan Staal had the first hat trick of the season for Carolina
in a win against in Raleigh, N.C.
Andrei Svechnikov had a goal and an assist, Nino Niederreiter
had two assists, and Frederik Andersen made 23 saves for the
Hurricanes (47-18-8, 102 points), who moved two points ahead of
the New York Rangers for first place in the Metropolitan
Division with nine games left.
Josh Mahura and Troy Terry scored as John Gibson made 38 saves
for the Ducks (29-33-12, 70 points), who were coming off a 5-3
win at the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night.
Stars 6, Blackhawks 4
Jason Robertson buoyed Dallas' playoff hopes, scoring two goals
in the second period to help beat host Chicago.
Roope Hintz finished with a goal and two assists, Joe Pavelski
and Tyler Seguin each had a goal and an assist, Jamie Benn also
scored, and Ryan Suter had two assists. Jake Oettinger made 36
saves for the Stars, who moved two points ahead of the Vegas
Golden Knights for the second wild-card berth in the Western
Conference.
Kirby Dach had a goal and an assist, Philipp Kurashev, Jonathan
Toews and Boris Katchouk also scored, and Patrick Kane had two
assists for the Blackhawks. Kevin Lankinen allowed five goals on
20 shots before he was replaced by Collin Delia, who stopped
nine of 10 shots.
--Field Level Media
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