Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang, right, celebrates his overtime goal against the New York Rangers with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin Sunday in Pittsburgh. Philip G. Pavely/Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Kris Letang’s power-play goal 1:38 into overtime lifted the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers on Sunday.
Letang’s ninth goal of the season came after New York’s Artemi Panarin was called for tripping Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin early in the extra period. Letang’s blast from the point helped the Penguins strengthen their hold on the first wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Jason Zucker scored for the ninth time in eight games for Pittsburgh and Rickard Rakell added his 23rd. Tristan Jarry made 27 saves as the Penguins improved to 3-0-1 during a five-game homestand.
Barclay Goodrow picked up his 11th goal of the season for New York and Chris Kreider’s goal midway through the third period tied it. Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves for the Rangers, including a glove save on Alex Nylander to snuff out a 2-on-1 break with less than a minute to go in regulation.
DEVILS 3, HURRICANES 0: Jack Hughes stole a puck and scored early and set up two goals by Jesper Bratt to lead New Jersey past visiting Carolina to tie the Hurricanes for first place in the Metropolitan Division.
Vitek Vanecek had 32 saves for his third shutout of the season.
New Jersey and Carolina both have 94 points, although the Hurricanes have played one fewer game.
Pyotr Kochetkov made 20 saves for the Hurricanes, who were coming off a 4-0 loss to Vegas on Saturday. The consecutive shutout losses were the first for Carolina since January 2014. The Hurricanes are scoreless in their last eight periods.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 5, BLUES 3: Pavel Dorofeyev scored his first NHL goal and Jiri Patera made 30 saves in his debut to help Vegas win at St. Louis.
Michael Amadio, Jonathan Marchessault, William Karlsson and Alex Pietrangelo also scored to help Vegas win for the sixth time in seven games to expand its lead over Los Angeles atop the Pacific Division to three points.
Jordan Kyrou, Jakub Vrana and Tyler Pitlick scored for St. Louis, and Jordan Binnington stopped 26 of 30 shots as the Blues dropped to 3-7-2 since Feb. 18.
JETS 3, LIGHTNING 2: Nino Niederreiter and Morgan Barron scored second-period goals, Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves and Winnipeg won at Tampa, Florida.
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