PHILADELPHIA — Sean Couturier scored 18 seconds into overtime and the Philadelphia Flyers rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Thursday night after retiring the No. 88 jersey of Hall of Fame center Eric Lindros.

Couturier took a feed from Travis Konecny and beat Frederik Anderson with a wrist shot to give the Flyers their fifth win in six games.

Nolan Patrick and Wayne Simmonds scored early in the third period for the Flyers. Michal Neuvirth stopped 29 shots, including a sprawling pad save on Patrick Marleau with 2:48 left in regulation.

Fourth-liners Connor Brown and Frederik Gauthier scored 28 seconds apart in the second period for Toronto in its season-high fourth straight loss. Andersen made 34 saves.

The big and skillful Lindros, who grew up watching the hometown Maple Leafs in Ontario, spent eight seasons with the Flyers. He won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP in 1995 and helped Philadelphia reach the Stanley Cup Final two years later.

Back on good terms with the organization after an ugly 2001 departure, Lindros received several standing ovations before his number was hoisted to the rafters in a ceremony that delayed the start by an hour.

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As Lindros watched from a suite, the Flyers controlled the third period and improved to just 3-8 in overtime.

DEVILS 4, CAPITALS 3: Taylor Hall scored on a breakaway 34 seconds into overtime as New Jersey beat visiting Washington.

Sami Vatanen collected his third assist of the game on the winning goal, a shot over the shoulder of goaltender Braden Holtby.

Drew Stafford, Andy Greene and Miles Wood also scored for the Devils, who have won two straight after breaking a six-game losing streak (0-3-3). Keith Kinkaid had 16 saves and the Devils killed off all five Washington power plays.

Brett Connolly scored twice and Dmitry Orlov had a goal for the Capitals, who lost for only the second time in eight games. The Capitals, however, extended their streak of getting a point against New Jersey to 14 games (12-0-2).

Holtby made 28 saves, but gave up three breakaway goals.

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GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, LIGHTNING 1: Marc-Andre Fleury made 28 saves, David Perron had a goal and an assist, and visiting Vegas won in a matchup of conference leaders.

James Neal, Nate Schmidt and William Karlsson also scored for the Golden Knights, who swept the two-game season series with the NHL-leading Lightning.

Tampa Bay, coming off its bye week, got a goal from Ondrej Palat, and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 26 shots.

Vasilevskiy, an All-Star this season, has allowed 19 goals over his last four games.

BLUES 4, SENATORS 1: Vladimir Tarasenko, Alex Pietrangelo and Brayden Schenn each scored in the second period, helping visiting St. Louis top Ottawa.

Alexander Steen scored into an empty net at 18:42 to close out the scoring for St. Louis, which got 20 saves from Carter Hutton.

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Bobby Ryan scored for the Senators.

BLUE JACKETS 2, STARS 1: Artemi Panarin scored in the second round of a shootout, and Columbus beat visiting Dallas.

RANGERS 4, SABRES 3: Pavel Buchnevich scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period, lifting New York over visiting Buffalo.

Rick Nash scored twice for the second straight game and Henrik Lundqvist made 34 saves for the Rangers, who won their second straight after three consecutive losses.

Buchnevich knocked the puck past Robin Lehner at 16:02, a minute after the Sabres had tied it for the third time on a goal by Rasmus Ristolainen. The goal was the 12th of the season for Buchnevich, who also had two assists.

The Rangers have won 11 of their last 14 games against Buffalo, which fell to an Eastern Conference-worst 11-25-9.


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