AROUND THE NHL

AROUND THE NHL

Thursday’s games

Jets 4, Blue Jackets 3

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Kyle Connor (Youngstown Phantoms 2012-15) scored with 1:14 remaining to give Winnipeg a victory over slumping Columbus. Winnipeg won its sixth consecutive home game and handed the Blue Jackets their fourth straight loss overall. Mark Scheifele scored his team-leading 26th goal of the season for the Jets, with captain Blake Wheeler getting his 54th assist. Mason Appleton and Jack Roslovic also scored, and Jacob Trouba had two assists. Connor Hellebuyck made 28 saves in the opener of a three-game homestand. Artemi Panarin got his 20th goal and added an assist for Columbus. Josh Anderson had a power-play goal and Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored. Seth Jones contributed a pair of assists. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 22 shots for the Blue Jackets. Columbus leading scorer Cam Atkinson was hit in the face by a puck during warmups and replaced by Mark Letestu. The Blue Jackets led 2-1 after the first period and 3-2 after two, but Roslovic tied it at 8:47 of the third when his hit shot went into the corner with 17 seconds left on a Winnipeg power play. Winnipeg killed off a penalty with six minutes left and then Bobrovsky made a big save on Mathieu Perreault. Wheeler helped open the scoring after a Columbus turnover when he set up Scheifele.

Flyers 3, Bruins 2, OT

BOSTON

Travis Sanheim scored a power-play goal 2:56 into overtime and Philadelphia beat Boston to extend its season-best winning streak to six. Sanheim assisted on Oskar Lindblom’s tying goal with 9:24 left in the third period, then beat Tuukka Rask with a long wrist shot in the final seconds of a power play after Brad Marchand was sent off for tripping. Claude Giroux also scored for Philadelphia, and Jakub Voracek had two assists. Carter Hart made 23 saves for the resurgent Flyers, who have won seven of eight to improve to 22-23-6 and took the season series against the Bruins 2-1.

Rangers 4, Devils 3

NEWARK, N.J.

Mika Zibanejad capped his second career hat trick with the winning goal with 4:36 to play and New York rallied from an early two-goal deficit to beat New Jersey. Zibanejad also had an assist on Chris Kreider’s goal, and linemate Mats Zuccarello had three assists, including the backhand pass that set up Zibanejad’s backhand winner. The line had eight points. Henrik Lundqvist made 19 saves, including a stop on a tip by Brian Boyle after the Devils pulled their goaltender. Nico Hischier, Marcus Johansson and Egor Yakovlev scored for New Jersey. Kinkaid finished with 21 saves. Kreider gave the Rangers a 3-2 lead early in the third period with a shot from the right circle that Kinkaid should have stopped. Yakovlev got his second career goal after being set up by Johansson between the circles less than a minute after Kreider scored.

Associated Press