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Bruins take Presidents' Trophy with OT win over Blue Jackets

Thu, Mar 30, 2023
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BOSTON (AP) - David Pastrnak scored his 53rd goal of the season 41 seconds into overtime and the Boston Bruins wrapped up the Presidents' Trophy with their franchise-record 58th victory, 2-1 over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night,

Hampus Lindholm sent a pass to Pastrnak for the backhand winner.

The Presidents' Trophy goes to the NHL regular-season points leader. Boston broke a tie with the 1970-71 team for the franchise victory mark and moved four away from tying the NHL record of 62 set by Detroit in 1995-96 and matched by Tampa Bay in 2018-19.

Tyler Bertuzzi had a tying power-play goal in the second and Linus Ullmark made 25 saves to help the Bruins win for the eighth time in nine games.

Jack Roslovic scored for Columbus and Michael Hutchinson stopped 29 shots. The Blue Jackets have lost six of eight.

LIGHTNING 5, CAPITALS 1

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Pat Maroon scored twice in the third period, Steven Stamkos had a goal and an assist and Tampa Bay beat slumping Washington.

Stamkos assisted on Alex Killorn's goal midway through the opening period, then scored his 32nd of the season with 2.8 seconds left to put Tampa Bay up by two.

Maroon, who entered the game with three goals this season, scored early in the third period to give Tampa Bay a 3-1 lead, then put the game away with his second with 3:32 to go. Erik Cernak added a short-handed, empty-net goal with 1:54 remaining.

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Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves for the Lightning.

Craig Smith scored for the Capitals. They are 1-4-2 in their past seven games.

PNATHERS 5, CANADIENS 2

MONTREAL (AP) - Matthew Tkachuk had his fifth career hat trick and an assist in Florida's victory over Montreal.

With his second goal, Tkachuk became the fourth player in NHL history to have 100 or more points in consecutive seasons after changing teams in the offseason. He joined Wayne Gretzky (1987-88, 1988-89), Jimmy Carson (1987-88, 1988-89) and Mike Rogers (1980-81, 1981-82) in achieving the feat.

Anton Lundell added two goals and one assist and Alex Lyon made 18 saves while helping the Panthers to its second win in a row and a season series sweep of Montreal

Sean Farrell scored his first career goal and Rafael Harvey-Pinard had a goal for the Canadiens.

PENGUINS 2, PREDATORS 0

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Tristan Jarry turned away 27 shots to outduel Juuse Saros and Pittsburgh beat Nashville.

Jason Zucker scored his 26th goal in the second period to give Jarry all the help he would need in his 13th career shutout. Jake Guentzel added a power-play goal in the third period.

Pittsburgh held on to the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with the victory. The Penguins are one point ahead of Florida, which won in Montreal on Thursday.

DEVILS 2, RANGERS 1

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Erik Haula and Timo Meier scored and Vitek Vanecek made three big third-period saves to lead New Jersey past New York.

Vanecek finished with 24 saves as the Devils won the season series 3-1 and opened a four-point lead over the Rangers in the Metropolitan Division with two weeks left in the season. He stopped Vincent Trocheck in close twice and Vladimir Tarasenko in the final 12 minutes in picking up his 30th win.

Chris Kreider scored his 33rd goal for the Rangers.

RED WINGS 3, HURRICANES 2

DETROIT (AP) - Defenseman Jake Walman scored with 3.2 seconds left to lift Detroit past Carolina.

Dominik Kubalik and captain Dylan Larkin also scored for the Red Wings and Alex Nedeljkovic made 31 saves to beat his former team.

Carolina defense partners Brent Burns and Jaccob Slavin scored 3:36 apart in the second.

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