Kasperi Kapanen celebrates his game-winning goal in overtime with defenseman John Marino, 6, and Teddy Blueger, Tuesday night at Washington. The Penguins won 3-2.
WASHINGTON — Kasperi Kapanen scored on a one-timer 1:43 into overtime, lifting the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night.
The Penguins won for the fourth time in five games against the Capitals this season, including two in overtime and one in a shootout. They also won for the eighth time this season after entering the third period tied or trailing.
Kapanen and Jake Guentzel each had a goal and an assist for Pittsburgh, and Evgeni Malkin scored his fifth goal of the season.
Conor Sheary and Richard Panik scored for Washington, which only led for 22 seconds all night. Vitek Vanecek made 34 saves.
SENATORS 5, CANADIENS 4: Josh Norris scored the shootout winner to give host Ottawa a win over Montreal.
Tim Stutzle also beat Montreal goalie Carey Price in the shootout. Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk opened with a miss and Senators netminder Matt Murray stopped Corey Perry and Jonathan Drouin.
BLACKHAWKS 6, BLUE JACKETS 5: Patrick Kane scored career goal No. 398 and collected three assists, helping Chicago to a shootout win Columbus.
Alex DeBrincat had the only successful attempt in the tiebreaker. Cam Atkinson, Patrik Laine and Jack Roslovic came up empty for Columbus in the shootout against Kevin Lankinen.
Carl Soderberg had a goal and two assists for Chicago, which won for the fourth time in five games. Dominik Kubalik had a goal and an assist, and Lankinen had 25 saves.
SABRES 4, DEVILS 1: Victor Olofsson scored his sixth power-play goal, Linus Ullmark was magnificent in making 41 saves and visiting Buffalo beat slumping New Jersey, which has lost three straight.
Rasmus Asplund and Dylan Cozens broke the game open early in the third period with goals in a 1:34 span. Cody Eakin scored an empty-net goal with less than a second to play.
The win was the Sabres’ second over the Devils in three days and only their second in the last seven games (2-5-0). They lost to the Islanders on Monday night.
Nikita Gusev scored with 28 seconds to play for New Jersey.
PREDATORS 2, RED WINGS 0: Pekka Rinne made 24 saves in his first shutout of the season, leading Nashville to a win at Detroit.
Filip Forsberg and Eeli Tolvanen scored power-play goals in the third period as Nashville improved to 2-1 on its four-game trip. Roman Josi finished with two assists.
Detroit lost for the fourth time in five games. Jonathan Bernier had 31 saves.
NOTES
SABRES: Defenseman William Borgen will miss up to two months with a broken right forearm, further depleting Buffalo’s injury-thinned blue line.
Borgen had the fracture surgically repaired on Tuesday, the team announced hours before it completes a four-game trip at New Jersey. The rookie was hurt during a 3-2 win at New Jersey on Saturday.
The news of Borgen’s injury comes a day after the Sabres announced that veteran defenseman Jake McCabe will miss up to eight months after tearing two ligaments and damaging the meniscus in his right knee against the Devils.
Buffalo is already playing without top defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, who remains out indefinitely while recovering from the aftereffects of testing positive for COVID-19 three weeks ago.
BLUES: Defenseman Carl Gunnarsson won’t play again this season and forward Ivan Barbashev is out at least six weeks.
Gunnarsson injured his right knee when he got tangled up with Kings forward Gabe Vilardi midway through a 3-0 loss to Los Angeles on Monday night. Barbashev had surgery on his left ankle Tuesday morning and will be re-evaluated in early April.
HURRICANES: Coach Rod Brind’Amour says winger Teuvo Teravainen is sidelined with a concussion.
The 26-year-old Teravainen has two goals and seven assists in 12 games, though he took a hard hit from Chicago defenseman Nikita Zadorov in Friday’s win and missed the last two games. Brind’Amour said Tuesday that Teravainen won’t travel with the team for a five-game trip that begins with games at Tampa Bay on Wednesday and Thursday.
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