Shane Pinto scored twice for the Ottawa Senators, who stored the Montreal Canadiens from clinching a playoff spot with a 5-2 victory on Friday that additionally snapped a six-game profitable streak for the guests.
The 24-year-old heart’s two targets give him 50 for his profession. Ridly Greig scored a objective and assisted on Pinto’s first whereas Dylan Cozens ended a 10-game stretch and not using a objective. Linus Ullmark earned his sixth win in his previous seven begins by turning away 20 pictures.
Christian Dvorak and Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal, which acquired 28 saves from Sam Montembeault however noticed his private five-game profitable streak got here to an finish.
Ottawa followers had been already celebrating earlier than the sport because the Senators performed their first residence recreation since clinching a playoff spot earlier this week. Pinto solely added to their jubilation as he scored from the slot on the primary shift simply 28 seconds after the opening faceoff.
Oilers 4, Sharks 2
Corey Perry broke a tie within the third interval, Connor McDavid had 4 assists and host Edmonton defeated San Jose to clinch a playoff spot for the sixth consecutive season.
Evan Bouchard had a objective and an help and Ty Emberson and Connor Brown additionally scored for the Oilers. Adam Henrique had two assists and Calvin Pickard made 22 saves. McDavid reached 70 assists for the seventh time in his profession, becoming a member of Wayne Gretzky (16 occasions) and Mario Lemieux (eight occasions) as the one gamers to perform that feat.
Will Smith and Henry Thrun acquired the targets for the Sharks, who misplaced their eighth in a row. Georgi Romanov stopped 30 pictures.
Flames 4, Wild 2
Calgary supplied an enormous enhance to its slim playoff hopes with a home-ice victory over Minnesota.
Mikael Backlund, Yegor Sharangovich, Nazem Kadri and Ryan Lomberg all scored and Dustin Wolf made 16 saves for the Flames, who improved to 3-0-2 up to now 5 video games. Calgary is three factors again of the Wild and St. Louis Blues, who maintain the 2 Western Convention wild-card positions. The Flames have a recreation in hand.
Yakov Trenin and Gustav Nyquist replied with late targets for Minnesota, which had a two-game profitable streak snapped. Wild beginning goalie Filip Gustavsson surrendered 4 targets on 29 pictures earlier than being pulled within the last body. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped all three pictures he confronted in aid.
Crimson Wings 4, Lightning 3 (OT)
Detroit rookie Marco Kasper netted the tying and profitable targets, and the Crimson Wings stayed alive within the playoff race with a comeback win over host Tampa Bay.
After leveling the rating at 3-3 with a objective at 12:59 of the third interval, Kasper collected the puck within the impartial zone in OT and sped in from the left facet to beat Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy at 3:22.
The Crimson Wings ended a two-game skid, however their solely hope of reaching the postseason is to win their final three video games whereas the Canadiens drop their last three.
Penguins 4, Devils 2
Sidney Crosby scored a power-play objective to snap a tie with 6:39 remaining within the third interval, fueling Pittsburgh to a victory in Newark, N.J.
Bryan Rust, Crosby and Evgeni Malkin completed with a objective and an help apiece and Tristan Jarry made 26 saves for the Penguins, who overcame an early two-goal deficit to enhance to 4-1-1 of their final six video games.
Ondrej Palat and Erik Haula scored for the Devils, and Jake Allen stopped 20 pictures. New Jersey has misplaced two in a row.
–Area Stage Media