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NEWARK Sam Reinhart Jersey , N.J. (AP) — Brett Connolly has been doing his best Alex Ovechkin imitation the past six weeks and it is coming just in time to help the defending champion Washington Capitals gear up for another Stanley Cup run.Connolly sparked a three-goal second period and the Capitals moved into first place in the Metropolitan Division with a 4-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.“I have been playing the best hockey probably of my career right now,” the 26-year-old forward said after scoring his career-best 20th goal. “I just really want to focus on being good going into the postseason. We have a good team and we are right there again. We’re getting close to the level we need to be at.”Since returning from the All-Star break, Connolly has 11 goals. The only other player on the Caps with that many is Ovechkin.Connolly snapped a 1-all tie at 5:57 of the middle period, redirecting Christian Djoss’ cross-ice pass into an open net past rookie goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood.“I went right to ‘Juicer’ and gave him a big hug. He made a great play on the goal,” said Connolly, who also said he would not attend the Capitals’ White House trip on Monday in support of a player no longer with the team. “It’s been a good season. We have a lot of good players and good guys. It’s a good fit for me here and we’ll see what happens in the future.”Capitals coach Todd Reirden said Connolly has had a strong season.“Extremely consistent, confident, playing his best hockey,” Reirden said. “He gets an assist as well. It was just a matter of time until he got 20. He has put himself in good spots to create offense and his mind thinks offensively, putting himself in dangerous areas. He’s got a good shot and quick release and that will be key for us moving forward and having depth throughout our lineup.”Evgeny Kuznetsov and Tom Wilson also scored in the second as the Capitals won for the 10th time in 13 games. Andre Burakovsky got the other goal and backup goalie Pheonix Copley made 20 saves in winning his sixth straight since the All-Star break.Washington started the day tied with the Islanders for first place in the division, but took over with the win and New York’s 5-0 loss to Boston. The Capitals and Islanders each have nine games left in the regular season.Kenny Agostino scored for the third time in five games for New Jersey. MacKenzie Blackwood made 18 saves as the Devils lost to the Capitals for the third time in four meetings this season.Kuznetsov gave Washington a two-goal lead at 12:16, beating Blackwood on a 2-on-1 break for his 19th goal.Wilson got his 21st a little more than a minute later with his shot hitting off the rookie goaltender’s pad and going into the net.Nicklas Backstrom got his 50th assist on the play. The Swede is the only NHL player with 50 assists in each of the last six seasons.Devils captain Andy Greene said all three goals were preventable. The first came off a faceoff. The second was an odd-man rush and the last one was a line rush.“Against that team, that’s their biggest strength, minus their power play, are the chances they create off the line rush,” Greene said. “Just gift-wrapped three of them and that’s all that team needs right there and they’re able to lock it down pretty well.”New Jersey had tied the game with a second left in the first period when Agostino took advantage of a Washington turnover and beat Copley with a low shot to the corner of the net.Burakovsky opened the scoring at 2:52 of the first with a perfect shot from the left circle to the upper corner of the net.NOTES: The Capitals gave 38-year-old defenseman Brooks Orpik his first night off since Feb. 1. Djoos replaced him after sitting out the previous 10 games. … Devils leading goal scorer Kyle Palmieri was hurt in the first period and did not return. … Washington has not lost consecutive games since Jan. 22-23. …. Referee Jake Brenk was shaken up in the third period when a Capitals player crashed into his right knee. … The Capitals are 16-6-2 against Metropolitan Division opponents. They have earned a point against New Jersey in 14 of 15 games (12-1-2).UP NEXTCapitals: Host the Lightning on Wednesday night. Tampa Bay beat Washington 6-3 on Saturday.Devils: Host the Boston Bruins on Thursday night. BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak had three goals and an assist to lead the Boston Bruins to a 5-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.Patrice Bergeron had a goal and two assists, Joakim Nordstrom also scored and Brad Marchand had two assists as the Bruins ended the Maple Leafs’ three-game winning streak and handed Toronto its first road loss of the season. Jaroslav Halak stopped 40 shots.John Tavares scored the only goal for Toronto, and Garret Sparks finished with 29 saves.Pastrnak’s second hat trick of the season gave him the NHL scoring lead with 15 goals after he entered in a four-way tie for the most.After assisting on Bergeron’s goal late in the first period, Pastrnak scored twice in the second and completed got his third of the night with a one-timer from the left circle with 5:56 left to play.RANGERS 5, BLUE JACKETS 4, SOCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Jimmy Vesey scored in the fifth round of the shootout to give New York it’s fifth win in six games.Vesey beat goalie Joonas Korpisalo after the Blue Jackets‘ Oliver Bjorkstrand was stopped by Alexander Georgiev as the Rangers improved to 5-0-1 in its recent stretch.Kevin Shattenkirk and Mika Zibanejad also scored in the shootout for New York. Artemi Panarin and Anthony Duclair tallied for Columbus.Vesey and Pavel Buchnevich each had a goal and an assist in regulation, and Zibanejad and Chris Kreider also scored for the Rangers. Georgiov stopped 34 shots.Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and assist for Columbus Womens Zemgus Girgensons Jersey , and Cam Atkinson, Alexander Wennberg and Nick Foligno also scored. Seth Jones had three assists. Korpisalo finished with 15 saves.RED WINS 4, HURRICANES 3, SORALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Anthony Mantha scored twice and Frans Nielsen got the deciding goal in the shootout to lead Detroit.Andreas Athanasiou also scored for the Red Wings, who came back from a two-goal deficit for the third straight game and have won six of their last seven.Brock McGinn, Micheal Ferland, Dougie Hamilton scored for Carolina, who squandered a 3-1, third-period lead. The Hurricanes have won once in their last seven games. Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen led the Hurricanes with two assists each.The Hurricanes built a 52-32 advantage in shots, but Detroit goalie Jonathan Bernier stopped all three shots he faced in the shootout.The Hurricanes got two acrobatic saves from goalie Scott Darling in overtime and failed to capitalize on a power play in the final 15 seconds of OT.PREDATORS 5, STARS 4DALLAS (AP) — Mattias Ekholm scored 2:27 into overtime, and Nashville rallied to beat Dallas.Nashville killed off a Dallas power play for the first part of OT, and then Ekholm took a cross-ice pass from Kyle Turris and sent the puck over Stars goalie Ben Bishop for the win.The Predators (13-3-0) improved to 8-0 on the road this season. They rallied to tie the game three times, the last on Roman Josi’s power-play goal with 43 seconds left in the third period.Tyler Seguin, Jason Spezza, Tyler Pitlick and rookie Denis Gurianov scored for Dallas (9-6-2), which lost for the third time in four games. Bishop finished with 29 stops.Josi and Ryan Johansen each had a goal and an assist for Nashville. Ryan Hartman and Yannick Weber also scored, and Juuse Saros had 20 saves.FLYERS 4, BLACKHAWKS 0PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sean Couturier had two goals and an assist, Brian Elliott made 33 saves and the Flyers continued their dominance over slumping Chicago in Philadelphia.Claude Giroux tallied a goal and two assists and Nolan Patrick added an empty-netter for the Flyers, who have won five of six overall and 15 in a row at home in the regular season against the Blackhawks. Chicago last won a regular-season game in Philadelphia on Nov. 9, 1996.The Blackhawks have lost six straight games and two in a row under coach Jeremy Colliton. The 33-year-old Colliton replaced Joel Quenneville http://www.officialflames.com/authentic-adidas-jaromir-jagr-jersey , the NHL’s second-winningest regular-season coach who was fired on Tuesday after 10 seasons at the helm.Elliott was solid all game and made some key saves in the third period, including stopping Patrick Kane from close range on a Blackhawks power play, while recording his 38th career shutout. He also denied Dominik Kahun and Nick Schmaltz on shots from the slot that came right after the other early in the third.SABRES 4, CANUCKS 3, SOBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jeff Skinner and Sam Reinhart rallied Buffalo with goals late in the third period, and Jack Eichel and Casey Mittelstadt scored in the shootout to beat Vancouver.With goalie Carter Hutton pulled for an extra attacker, Skinner got Buffalo within 3-2 with 2:27 left in the third, and Reinhart tied it 40 seconds later. Nathan Beaulieu also scored, and Rasmus Ristolainen and Rasmus Dahlin each had two assists in the Sabres’ second straight overtime win.Hutton made 36 saves and stopped two shots in the shootout, including a final denial moments after Mittelstadt’s go-ahead score.Loui Eriksson had a goal and an assist for the Canucks, who are 4-0-2 in their last six games. Jake Virtanen and Erik Gudbranson also scored, Antoine Roussel had two assists and Jacob Markstrom stopped 34 shots in the third leg of a six-game trip.PENGUINS 4, COYOTES 0PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby had a goal and an assist, Casey DeSmith stopped 39 shots and Pittsburgh snapped a five-game losing streak.The skid was the Penguins‘ longest since it lost five in a row from Dec. 11-19, 2015, which included the first four games under coach Mike Sullivan. The Penguins haven’t lost six straight since 2006. Pittsburgh also ended a four-game home losing streak and continued a six-game points streak against Arizona.DeSmith had his second shutout of the season and third of his career.Crosby scored his eighth goal, and Dominik Simon also had a goal and an assist. Patric Hornqvist scored his fifth, and Brian Dumoulin had his first goal in 22 games for Pittsburgh.Darcy Kuemper stopped 28 shots for the Coyotes, who lost their third straight.PANTHERS 4, ISLANDERS 2SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Aleksander Barkov scored the go-ahead goal in the third period to lead Florida.Troy Brouwer, Mike Hoffman and Denis Malgin also scored for the Panthers Johnny Gaudreau Jersey Kids , who won their third straight. Roberto Luongo made 29 saves for his third straight win after missing nearly a month with a knee injury.Brock Nelson and Mathew Barzal scored for New York, which has lost three in a row after winning its previous five. Robin Lehner stopped 27 shots.Brouwer had an empty-netter with less than a second remaining to seal the winSENATORS 6, LIGHTNING 4TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rookie Brady Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Dzingel scored a tiebreaking goal during Ottawa’s four-goal third period to rally the Senators past Tampa Bay.Matt Duchene, Bobby Ryan, Colin White and Mark Stone also scored for the Senators. Craig Anderson stopped 24 shots.Mathieu Joseph had two goals and an assist for the Lightning, and Victor Hedman scored in his return from an injury. Braydon Coburn also scored and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves.Tkachuk, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2018 draft, was credited with his fourth goal of the season when Lightning defenseman Dan Girardi’s clearing attempt near the goal line wound up in the net early in the third.CANADIENS 5, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4MONTREAL (AP) — Andrew Shaw scored twice, Tomas Tatar had the go-ahead goal and Montreal spoiled Max Pacioretty’s homecoming.Charles Hudon and Jesperi Kotkaniemi also scored to help the Canadiens snap a two-game skid and improve to 9-5-3. Max Domi had two assists to extend his points streak to six games, and Antti Niemi made 34 saves.Former Canadiens captain Pacioretty was kept off the scoresheet despite taking nine shots on goal in his first game at the Bell Centre as a visiting player. Pacioretty was dealt to the Golden Knights in the offseason in return for Tatar, prospect Nick Suzuki and a second-round draft pick. The 29-year-old was given a standing ovation following a video tribute prior to puck drop.Brad Hunt, Jonathan Marchessault, Alex Tuch and William Karlsson scored for Vegas, and Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 21 shots.FLAMES 1, KINGS 0LOS ANGELES (AP) — David Rittich stopped 21 shots for his first career shutout and Travis Hamonic scored to help Calgary win for the fifth time in six games.Jack Campbell made 35 saves for the Kings, who have been held to one goal or fewer in six of their first 16 games.The Flames went in front 2:26 into the first period. Hamonic got his second goal, with Garnet Hathaway setting a screen that kept Campbell from seeing the shot to the far post. Austin Czarnik and Noah Hanifin had assists, with Hanifin picking up his third in the past four games.