Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov celebrates with the bench after his goal against in the third period lifted Tampa Bay to a 4-3 win over Ottawa on Tuesday in Tampa, Florida. Chris O’Meara/Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Nikita Kucherov had a goal and two assists, and the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied to beat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Tuesday night.
Tampa Bay went ahead to stay when Kucherov scored from the low right circle with 2:30 remaining off a cross-ice pass by Mikhail Sergachev.
Kucherov has a four-game goal streak and an eight-game point streak overall.
Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk had his shot during a breakaway with 1 second to play go just wide.
Sergachev, Alex Killorn and Brayden Point also scored for Tampa Bay, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 12 saves. The Lightning went 1 for 8 on the power play.
Tampa Bay played without star defenseman Victor Hedman, who is considered day to day after he was scratched an upper-body injury.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3, CAPITALS 2: Shea Theodore scored at 1:35 of overtime to lead Vegas to a win in Washington.
William Carrier and Jack Eichel also scored for the Golden Knights, who extended their winning streak to five games. Eichel added an assist, and Alex Pietrangelo helped set up all three Vegas goals, raising his assist total this season to nine. Logan Thompson made 19 saves.
Marcus Johansson and Trevor van Riemsdyk scored for Washington. Charlie Lindgren stopped 28 of 31 shots.
After Washington and Vegas exchanged power-play goals in the opening period, van Riemsdyk broke the tie just 1:42 into the second, beating Thompson with a shot off the faceoff to make it 2-1. The goal was van Riemsdyk’s first of the season and his first in 42 games dating to Jan. 28.
With under six minutes to go in regulation, Carrier evened the score on a shot that banked off the right post and in.
In overtime, Eichel made a great pass to Theodore, who walked in and beat Lindgren from close range for the winner and his third goal of the season.
RANGERS 1, FLYERS 0: Chris Kreider scored on a breakaway at 4:07 of overtime and Igor Shesterkin made 19 saves as New York won its third straight game with a victory over Philadelphia in New York.
Philadelphia netminder Carter Hart had stopped all 35 shots he faced before Kreider deposited a backhand behind him after taking a pass from Mika Zibanejad, sending the Madison Square Garden crowd into a frenzy. Hart made five saves in overtime before Kreider scored his fourth goal of the season.
The Flyers began the third period on a power play after defenseman Ryan Lindgren was assessed an extra two-minute roughing penalty after a scrum behind the Rangers net to conclude the second, but Philadelphia could not covert.
The Rangers had two power plays in the third – including one at 15:25 when former New York defenseman Tony DeAngelo was called for delay of game – but also failed to score.
WILD 4, CANADIENS 1: Kirill Kaprizov had two goals and Mason Shaw scored his second career goal in as many games, leading Minnesota to a win over Montreal in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves for Minnesota, which has earned points in six of its last seven games. The Wild have five wins in that stretch after losing the first three games of the season. Matt Boldy added an empty-net goal.
Kaprizov’s second multi-goal game of the season gives him eight for the season. He has scored four times in the last four games. Joel Eriksson Ek had a pair of assists for the Wild.
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