SUNRISE Adidas Matt Hunwick Jersey , Fla. (AP) Alex Ovechkin added to his NHL lead with two goals on the night he tied the Washington record for most games played, and the Capitals beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-1 on Saturday.Evgeny Kuznetsov scored 50 seconds into the game and had two assists. Andre Burakovsky and Lars Eller also had goals for Washington, which leapfrogged Pittsburgh and moved back into first place in the Metropolitan Division. The Capitals had lost two in a row and five of seven.Ovechkin’s 37th goal came on the power play with 9:47 remaining after Buffalo closed to 2-1 on Sam Reinhart’s goal 14 seconds into the third period. Ovechkin redirected a shot past Sabres goaltender Robin Lehner with 1:24 left for his 38th goal.The 32-year-old Ovechkin played in his 983rd NHL game, tying Calle Johansson for most in Capitals history. Ovechkin holds franchise records for goals (596) and points (1,105).Philipp Grubauer made 28 saves for his third win in three starts. Grubauer’s previous victory came against Buffalo, 3-2 on Monday.PANTHERS 6, PENGUINS 5SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) – Evgenii Dadonov scored with 1:53 to play to complete a hat track and give Florida the victory over Pittsburgh.Dadonov beat goalie Matt Murray on a one-timer off Aleksander Barkov’s pass for the winner. Dadonov has 18 goals this season.Vincent Trocheck, Jamie McGinn and Derek MacKenzie also scored. Barkov had three assists, Keith Yandle added two, and Roberto Luongo made 24 saves.Evgeni Malkin had two goals and an assist for the Penguins, and Carl Hagelin, Patric Hornqvist and Bryan Rust added goals. Tristan Jarry made 13 saves for Pittsburgh before he was replaced in the second period. Murray had 11 saves in relief.LIGHTNING 4, CANADIENS 3, SOMONTREAL (AP) – Brayden Point scored in regulation and added the shootout winner and Tampa Bay regained the top spot in the NHL with the victory over Montreal.Nikita Kucherov and Ryan Callahan also scored in regulation to help the Lightning (42-17-3) win their third straight and move a point ahead of idle Vegas for the overall NHL lead.Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves for his league-leading 36th victory of the season.Byron Froese, Joe Morrow and Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal.MAPLE LEAFS 4, BRUINS 3TORONTO (AP) – Ron Hainsey broke a tie with 1:23 left to give Toronto its franchise record-tying ninth straight home victory.Hainsey’s one-timed William Nylander’s pass past goalie Tuuka Rask for his fourth goal of the season.Toronto moved a point ahead of Boston for the second seed in the Atlantic Division.Nazem Kadri scored twice, Mitch Marner had a goal and three assists, and Nylander had two assists. Frederik Andersen made 23 saves to improve to 10-1-0 against the Bruins.Brad Marchand scored twice, and Jake DeBrusk also connected for Boston.RED WINGS 3, HURRICANES 1DETROIT (AP) – Henrik Zetterberg scored the go-ahead goal in the second period to tie Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay on Detroit’s career list and the Red Wings went on to beat Carolina.Zetterberg’s ninth goal this season was the 335th of his career. In the franchise’s record books, he trails just four greats: Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Alex Delvecchio and Sergei Fedorov.Danny DeKeyser gave Detroit a 1-0 lead late in the first period and Trevor Daley scored to provide a two-goal cushion late in the second period. Jimmy Howard made 28 saves for the Red Wings, allowing only Noah Hanifin’s second-period goal.JETS 5, STARS 3DALLAS (AP) – Patrik Laine scored two goals, Dustin Byfuglien had three assists and Winnipeg scored five goals in the second period.Michael Hutchinson, who has won both of his NHL starts this season, gave up Tyler Pitlick’s goal just 10 seconds into the game, but finished with 33 saves.Winnipeg moved into a tie with Nashville atop the Central Division. The Jets have outscored opponents 29-12 in winning five of their last six.Nikolaj Ehlers Adidas Jeff Skinner Jersey , Toby Enstrom and Mark Scheifele added goals for the Jets. Tyler Seguin and Alexander Radulov also scored for Dallas.FLAMES 5, AVALANCHE 1CALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Rookie Jon Gillies made 28 saves for his second straight victory, and Mikael Backlund had a goal and two assists in Calgary’s victory over Colorado.Troy Brouwer added a goal and an assist to help the Flames move past idle St. Louis into the final Western Conference wild-card spot. Michael Frolik, Mark Giordano and Sean Monahan also scored, and Matthew Tkachuk had two assists.Called up from Stockton of the AHL with starting goalie Mike Smith sidelined by a lower-body injury, Gillies made his second straight start and fourth appearance of the season. The 6-foot-6 former Providence College goalie beat Arizona 5-2 on Thursday night. Before the game, Smith was placed on injured reserve.Nathan MacKinnon scored for Colorado.DEVILS 2, ISLANDERS 1NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Kyle Palmieri scored two third-period goals and New Jersey opened some daylight on New York in the race for a wild-card playoff berth.Taylor Hall extended his NHL-best points streak to 14 games with two assists, and Keith Kinkaid made 30 saves as the Devils maintained a five-point lead over Columbus in the race for the top wild-card spot, and increased their lead over the ninth-place Islanders to seven points.The win snapped a two-game losing streak and allowed the sellout crowd to go home happy after the career scoring leader Patrik Elias’s No. 26 jersey was retired in a pregame ceremony.Jordan Eberle scored in the second period for the Islanders.COYOTES 2, DUCKS 0GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Antti Raanta made 26 saves for his second shutout in three games and Arizona held off Anaheim.Max Domi’s empty-net goal sealed the win long after Jason Demers gave the Coyotes the lead less than six minutes into the game.Arizona won for the sixth time in eight games and ended the Ducks‘ four-game winning streak. The Coyotes had won four straight before falling to Calgary at home Thursday night.FLYERS 5, SENATORS 3OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – Brandon Manning had a goal and two assists and Philadelphia beat Ottawa for its fifth consecutive victory.Ivan Provorov, Robert Hagg, Claude Giroux and Nolan Patrick also scored, and Petr Mrazek made 25 saves in his second start since being acquired in a trade with Detroit.Mike Hoffman, Ryan Dzingel and Matt Duchene scored for Ottawa.BLUE JACKETS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Josh Anderson scored in the third period, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 31 shots and Columbus beat Chicago.Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and an assist, and Cam Atkinson also scored for the Blue Jackets.David Kampf and Tomas Jurco scored for last-place Chicago in the second leg of a back-to-back. Rookie Anton Forsberg had 26 saves against his former team.OILERS 4, KINGS 3LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ryan Strome’s empty-net goal at 19:01 of the third period and a successful coach’s challenge with less than 10 seconds left gave Edmonton a victory over Los Angeles.Dustin Brown tipped in Drew Doughty’s shot to cut it to 4-3 with 18 seconds remaining, and the Kings appeared to tie it on another goal by Brown with 9.9 seconds to go. The play was initially ruled no goal on the ice and changed after a video review, but the Oilers challenged for goaltender interference and the goal was waived off.Anton Slepyshev, Leon Draisaitl and Jujhar Khaira scored for the Oilers, who kept the Kings from moving back into playoff position. Cam Talbot made 30 saves.Michael Cammalleri, who started the season with the Kings before being traded to the Oilers on Nov. 14 Adidas Tage Thompson Jersey , recorded three assists and has 10 in his last 11 games.Tyler Toffoli and Tobias Rieder also scored for the Kings, who are two points behind Calgary for third place in the Pacific Division and two points behind Anaheim for the second Western Conference wild card.— NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — John Tavares scored twice and hit the 300-goal mark in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 4-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night.Defenseman Ron Hainsey also scored in Toronto’s three-goal first period and third-string goaltender Michael Hutchinson made 27 saves. Mitch Marner added an empty-net goal.Blake Coleman and Brian Boyle scored in a 26-second span for the Devils late in the second period to get New Jersey within a goal. Keith Kinkaid made 39 saves, including two on Tavares that prevented his hat trick and 30th goal of the season.Acquired from Florida on Dec. 29, Hutchinson made his fourth straight start with Frederik Anderson and Garret Sparks out with injuries.CAPITALS 4, BRUINS 2BOSTON (AP) — Nicklas Backstrom scored in the third period after missing a game with an illness, helping Washington beat Boston for the 14th straight time.Backstrom ripped a left-circle wrister past Jaroslav Halak for the go-ahead goal with 14:14 remaining.Alex Ovechkin scored his NHL-leading 31st and 32nd goals, and also had the highlight hit of the game when he sent Zdeno Chara — the NHL’s tallest player ever at 6-foot-9 — flipping head over heels into the Capitals‘ bench on a shove late in the first period.Braden Holtby made 39 saves, improving to 12-0-0 against Boston during the Capitals’ streak, and 16-2 in his career against the Bruins. Jakub Vrana also had a goal for Washington.Ryan Donato and David Krejci scored for Boston.LIGHTNING 3, HURRICANES 1TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brayden Point had a tiebreaking power-play goal in the third period and added a late empty-netter in NHL-leading Tampa Bay’s comeback victory over Carolina.After Point scored from in-close with 3:15 left, he got his 28th goal into the empty net during the final minute. Ondrej Palat also scored, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 26 saves. Point also had an assist. The Lightning, 17-1-1 over the last 19 games, tied a team mark with their ninth consecutive home win.Justin Williams picked up his 300th NHL goal for the Hurricanes, who had a five-game winning streak end. Petr Mzarek 27 stopped shots.ISLANDERS 4, RANGERS 3NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Bailey scored with 1:26 remaining to lift the New York Islanders over the Rangers 4-3 at Madison Square Garden.Cal Clutterbuck found Bailey cutting to the back post, and he beat Henrik Lundqvist to help the Islanders improve to 13-2-0 in the last 15 meetings between the Big Apple rivals.Matt Barzal had a goal and two assists, and Robin Lehner made 27 saves. Jordan Eberle and Anders Lee also scored for the Islanders, and Johnny Boychuk had two assists.Ryan Strome, Kevin Shattenkirk and Jesper Fast scored for the Rangers. They dropped their fifth straight to open 2019.OILERS 4, PANTHERS 3, SOEDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had two goals — including the tying score with 8 seconds left in regulation — and also scored in the shootout, helping Edmonton beat Florida.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored in the shootout, and Darnell Nurse had the other goal in regulation for the Oilers, They have won three of their last five on the heels of a six-game losing streak.Frank Vatrano, Denis Malgin and Henrik Borgstrom scored for the Panthers. They have lost four in a row.SHARKS 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2LAS VEGAS (AP) — Melker Karlsson and Joonas Donskoi scored third-period goals 39 seconds apart to lift San Jose over Vegas.San Jose won its fifth straight and ended the Golden Knights‘ seven-game winning streak. The Sharks (59 points) leapfrogged Vegas in the Pacific Division standings and are one point behind Calgary for the top spot.Tomas Hertl also scored for the Sharks Adidas Rasmus Andersson Jersey , and goaltender Martin Jones made 36 saves. Tomas Nosek and Jon Merril scored for Vegas, while Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves.SENATORS 4, KINGS 1LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Tierney scored twice and Ottawa beat Los Angeles.Bobby Ryan had a power-play goal and Christian Wolanin also scored for the Senators, who won on back-to-back nights at Anaheim and Los Angeles for their first consecutive road victories this season. Anders Nilsson made 33 saves.Kyle Clifford scored and Jonathan Quick made 23 saves for the Kings, who have lost four of five.BLUE JACKETS 4, PREDATORS 3, OTCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Artemi Panarin scored his second goal of the night 1:22 into overtime to lift Columbus past Nashville.Panarin won it on a 4-on-3 power play. Boone Jenner also had two goals, and Zach Werenski had a pair of assists for the Blue Jackets in the 600th career coaching win for John Tortorella.Joonas Korpisalo had 32 saves for Columbus. He got the start because Sergei Bobrovsky was scratched because of an unspecified “incident,” according to the team, with no clear idea of when the Vezina Trophy-winner might be back. Mattias Ekholm had a goal and an assist, and Nick Bonino and Viktor Arvidsson also scored in the third period for the Predators.WILD 3, JETS 2ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Jason Zucker scored twice, giving Minnesota’s lagging power play a lift with his first goal and getting one later just after leaving the penalty box, and the Wild beat Winnipeg.Jordan Greenway also scored and Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves. The Wild have won all three games against the Jets so far this season by a combined 10-5 score after losing to their Central Division rival in five games in the first round of the playoffs last spring.Brandon Tanev and Mark Scheifele scored for the Jets.BLUES 4, CANADIENS 1ST. LOUIS (AP) — Oskar Sundqvist had a goal and an assist and rookie Jordan Binnington made 28 saves to lead St. Louis past Montreal.Robert Thomas, Jay Bouwmeester and Sammy Blais also scored for St. Louis. Binnington improved to 2-0 after becoming the 35th goalie in NHL history to record a shutout in his first career start on Monday night at Philadelphia. Brendan Gallagher scored for the Canadiens.FLYERS 2, STARS 1PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carter Hart stopped 37 shots and Philadelphia beat Dallas to end an eight-game losing streak.James van Riemsdyk had a goal and an assist, and Travis Konecny also scored for Philadelphia. Jamie Benn scored for Dallas. Tyler Seguin had an assist to extend his points streak to seven games. He has at least one point in every contest since he and Benn were harshly criticized by CEO Jim Lites on Dec. 28.COYOTES 4, CANUCKS 3, OTVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Richard Panik scored his second goal of the game 4:10 into overtime to lift Arizona over Vancouver.Panik added an assist, and Nick Cousins and Conor Garland also scored for the Coyotes, who got 33 saves from Darcy Kuemper.Sven Baertschi scored twice and Adam Gaudette added a goal for the Canucks, who erased one-goal deficits three times but couldn’t pull off the victory. Jacob Markstrom stopped 18 of 22 shots.