WASHINGTON — Pierre-Luc Dubois scored in his first sport since Halloween, Jakob Chychrun added a pair of objectives and Washington beat Nashville.
Logan Thompson returned in aim from an harm of his personal and made a number of glowing saves, and the Capitals received for the fourth time in 5 video games getting into the Olympic break. Tom Wilson, who’s on Canada’s roster for these Olympics, additionally scored for the Caps.
Jonathan Marchessault and Michael McCarron scored for Nashville, which had its five-game factors streak snapped.
Dubois had no factors in his first six video games this season and underwent surgical procedure on accidents to his stomach and adductor muscle groups. He hadn’t performed since Oct. 31.
Wilson opened the scoring for Washington, after which Dubois made it 2-0. The flashiest aim belonged to Chychrun, nevertheless. The defenceman left Nashville’s Tyson Jost behind with a 360-degree spin close to the boards, then entered the offensive zone and scored.
TAMPA, Fla. — Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 33 pictures to enhance to 16-0-1 in his previous 17 video games, serving to the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 6-1 on Thursday evening within the ultimate sport for each groups earlier than the Olympic break.
Brandon Hagel, Oliver Bjporkstrand, Jake Guentzel, Erik Cernak, Pontus Holmberg and Zemgus Girgensons — who will all take part within the Olympic Video games — scored for Tampa Bay. The Lightning are 19-1-1 of their final 21 video games.
Lightning ahead Nikita Kucherov prolonged his scoring streak to 10 video games, his thirteenth profession scoring streak of at the least 10 video games — which is tied for fifth in NHL historical past.
Mackie Samoskevich scored for the Panthers. Danil Tarasov completed with 20 saves for Florida earlier than leaving resulting from harm within the third interval. Sergei Bobrovsky completed the sport for the Panthers, who performed with out regulars Brad Marchand, Aaron Ekblad, Evan Rodrigues. All of them sat out after enjoying Wednesday towards Boston.
NEW YORK — Rookie Brandon Bussi made 16 saves for his second shutout, Andrei Svechnikov gave Carolina an early lead within the first interval and Carolina topped New York to increase its factors streak to 10 video games.
Jordan Staal scored into an empty web with 54 seconds left to seal it for the Hurricanes within the ultimate sport for each groups earlier than the Olympic break.
The Japanese Convention-leading Hurricanes are 8-0-2 since Jan. 16 and 12-1-3 since Jan. 4.
Jonathan Fast made a season-high 41 saves for the Rangers, who have been shut out for the ninth time this season and the seventh at dwelling. New York has misplaced 4 in a row.
Svechnikov made it 1-0 sport 6:26 into the primary interval on a wrist shot off an help from Mark Jankowski. And Bussi, who has received his final seven begins, made that aim maintain up.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Avery Hayes scored twice in his NHL debut, Arturs Silovs made 26 saves and Pittsburgh beat Buffalo within the ultimate sport for each groups earlier than the Olympic break.
Referred to as up from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League with the Penguins hit by a collection of accidents, Hayes tied at 1 at 9:18 of the interval on his first shot on aim. He raced to beat defenceman Jacob Bryson to the puck and put a wrister previous goalie Alex Lyon.
Hayes made it 2-1 with 1:13 left within the interval, taking Anthony Mantha’s brief, backward go and knocking it in. He’s the third Penguins participant to attain twice in his NHL debut, becoming a member of Rob Brown (two objectives on Oct. 21, 1987) and Jake Guentzel (two objectives on Nov. 21, 2016).
Hayes has 13 objectives and 10 assists in 31 video games this season within the AHL. He made his NHL debut with Blake Lizotte out for the start of his first little one, Rickard Rakell nursing a lower-body harm and Noel Acciari sidelined by an sickness.
NEWARK, N.J. — Bo Horvat broke a tie late within the third interval and New York went into the Olympic break with a win over New Jersey.
Horvat went to his backhand off the draw, slipping the puck previous goalie Jake Allen, with solely 3:27 left to play. Casey Cizikas scored within the second interval for the Islanders and Mathew Barzal scored an empty-net aim to seal the win for New York.
Cizikas put the Islanders up 1-0 at 6:30 within the second interval, cleansing up a rebound in entrance of the web. From behind the web, Allen despatched the puck across the boards proper to Marc Gatcomb whereas the Devils have been in a line change. Gatcomb fired the puck to the slot, the place Kyle MacLean received a stick on it, tipping it to Cizikas. Allen made the save on the primary tip by Cizikas, however couldn’t management the rebound.
PHILADELPHIA — Tim Stutzle charged previous Philadelphia defenceman Travis Sanheim and scored on a back-hand shot 47 seconds into additional time, giving Ottawa the win.
It was Stutzle’s twenty eighth aim of the season. The Senators received their fifth sport in six outings heading into the Olympic break.
Flyers defenceman Jamie Drysdale scored on a wrist shot from the left circle with 1:14 remaining in regulation.
That got here on solely the 14th Philadelphia shot of the sport towards sudden Ottawa beginning goalie James Reimer.
Reimer, 37, was enjoying in his seventh sport since signing with the Senators final month. Would-be Ottawa starter Linus Ullmark just lately returned from a private depart of absence, however he was a late scratch Thursday, reportedly resulting from sickness.
Former Flyer Nick Cousins scored a second-period aim and Reimer made 15 saves for the Senators.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, KINGS 1
LAS VEGAS — Mark Stone had a aim and two assists and Vegas took management early by scoring 4 occasions on its first six pictures for a victory over Los Angeles.
Vegas heads into the Olympic break with back-to-back victories after dropping seven of eight video games. The Kings have misplaced 4 of 5.
Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev every had a aim and an help for the Golden Knights. Mitch Marner scored a aim for his 799th profession level and Ivan Barbashev prolonged his factors streak to 5 video games with two assists.
Barbashev’s four-game aim streak, nevertheless, ended. Eichel prolonged his factors streak to 4 video games and now has 200 assists in a Golden Knights uniform.
Vegas’ Adin Hill made 32 saves for his one centesimal profession victory, his most stops since having 34 on March 15, 2025, towards Buffalo.
Trevor Moore scored for the Kings and Anton Forsberg stopped 18 pictures. Adrian Kempe’s eight-game factors streak ended.
