Rangers Fall to Lightning; Islanders Win in Overtime
Ryan Callahan scored twice against his former team for the second time in 10 days, and the host Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Rangers, 4-3, on Wednesday night.
Martin St. Louis, a former Lightning captain, was playing at Tampa Bay for the first time since requesting a trade and being dealt to the Rangers for Callahan in March in a rare swap of captains.
Tampa Bay went ahead, 3-2, when Steven Stamkos skated behind the net and got his second assist of the game by setting up Callahan, who beat Henrik Lundqvist from in close 10 minutes 17 seconds into the second period.
3, 2 John Tavares scored a power-play goal late in overtime to lift the Islanders over visiting Washington.
The Islanders have set a franchise record by winning 16 of their first 22 games. They are 10-1-0 in their last 11 games and are 7-0 this season in games that went to overtime.
Jaroslav Halak made 25 saves for his eighth straight win.
Alex Ovechkin scored twice for the Capitals.
PENGUINS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3 Blake Comeau completed his second career hat trick with a slap shot past Jonathan Bernier 2:07 into overtime, lifting Pittsburgh at home. Sidney Crosby had two assists to become the third Penguins player to reach 800 points.
RED WINGS 5, FLYERS 2 Pavel Datsyuk scored twice in his return from an injury to lead Detroit past visiting Philadelphia.
PANTHERS 1, HURRICANES 0 Nick Bjugstad scored early, and Florida won at home despite an injury to goalie Roberto Luongo.
JETS 2, SABRES 1 Bryan Little and Michael Frolik scored to lead Winnipeg past Buffalo for its second road victory in two nights.
KINGS 4, WILD 0 A goal and an assist from Dustin Brown helped Los Angeles record a four-goal first period at Minnesota. Martin Jones earned his fifth career shutout.
BRODEUR GETS A LOOK Martin Brodeur will practice starting Friday with the St. Louis Blues, who have lost goalie Brian Elliott indefinitely with a lower-body injury. Brodeur, 42, said this month that he had been working out and hoped to land a job.
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