OTTAWA, Ontario — Jean-Gabriel Pageau got his fourth goal of the game in the second overtime after scoring twice late in regulation, lifting the Ottawa Senators over the New York Rangers 6-5 Saturday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Ottawa leads the series 2-0 despite trailing by two goals after Brady Skjei’s score with 14:50 left in the third. Pageau cut it to 5-4 with 3:19 left in the period, then tied it with 1:02 remaining.
Pageau scored again 2:54 into the second OT, snapping in a shot during a 2-on-1 rush alongside Tommy Wingels. Pageau is the first Senator ever with four goals in a playoff game.
Marc Methot and Mark Stone also scored for Ottawa, and Craig Anderson had 43 saves.
Skjei had two goals for New York and Michael Grabner, Chris Kreider and Derek Stepan also scored. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 28 shots.
PENGUINS 6, CAPITALS 2: Phil Kessel scored twice, Sidney Crosby set up more goals and Pittsburgh chased Braden Holtby on the way to a victory at Washington for a 2-0 lead in the second-round series.
Marc-Andre Fleury was brilliant again in stopping 34 of the 36 shots he faced for Pittsburgh, which also got goals from Matt Cullen, Jake Guentzel and Evgeni Malkin. The Penguins scored three goals on 14 shots against Holtby, who was pulled in favor of Philipp Grubauer after the second period.
Grubauer didn’t fare much better, allowing two goals on nine shots. Matt Niskanen and Nicklas Backstrom scored for the Capitals, who outshot the Penguins 36-23 but still face an uphill task of trying to become just the 19th team to win a series after losing the first two games at home.
Guentzel added an empty-net goal to seal it for the Penguins, his playoff-best seventh.
NOTES
DRAFT LOTTERY: The New Jersey Devils won the draft lottery, vaulting four teams, including the last-place Colorado Avalanche and expansion Vegas Golden Knights, for the right to the first pick in the draft.
The Philadelphia Flyers and Dallas Stars both made huge jumps in winning the second and third lottery drawings.
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