Tampa Bay’s Alex Killorn celebrates his second goal of the game against the Philadelphia Flyers in the second period Tuesday night in Tampa, Fla. Mike Carlson/Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Killorn and Nikita Kucherov each had two goals and an assist and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-2 on Tuesday night to snap a five-game losing streak.
Ross Colton also scored, Mikhail Sergachev had two assists and Alexei Vasilevskiy made 33 saves for the Lightning. They had been 0-4-1 since a 3-0 victory in Detroit on Feb. 25.
Morgan Frost and Brendan Lemieux scored for Philadelphia, and Carter Hart made 34 saves. The Flyers have lost 5 of 6.
The Lightning played without their best defenseman, Victor Hedman, who left midway through a 6-0 road loss to Carolina on Sunday after crashing into the boards and injuring his back.
Tampa Bay improved to 12-1-0 in its last 13 games against the Flyers.
MAPLE LEAFS 4, DEVILS 3: Auston Matthews scored on a power play with 2:53 remaining and visiting Toronto beat New Jersey.
Michael Bunting tied the game on a rebound with 4:50 to play, and Calle Jarnkrok and Mitch Marner also scored for the Leafs. Ilya Samsonov was outstanding, making 30 saves.
Erik Haula had two goals and an assist and a stitched-up Ondrej Palat had a goal and two assists for New Jersey, which is 17-4-3 since Jan. 7. Vitek Vanecek had 21 saves for the Devils.
PANTHERS 2, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1: Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves as host Florida ended Vegas’ three-game winning streak.
Ryan Lomberg and Aleksander Barkov each scored a goal for the Panthers.
Florida is 4-1-0 all time against the Golden Knights in Sunrise, Florida.
Shea Theodore scored for Vegas.
PENGUINS 5, BLUE JACKETS 4: Sidney Crosby’s power-play goal 2:45 into overtime finished off a frantic rally as Pittsburgh slipped by visiting Columbus.
The Penguins trailed the Blue Jackets, who began the night with the NHL’s worst record, by four early in the second period but found a way to win for the fifth time in six games.
Jake Guentzel, Jason Zucker and Danton Heinen scored in a 3:38 span early in the third period to pull the Penguins even. Crosby’s 28th goal of the season — a blast from the left circle — in the extra period allowed Pittsburgh to escape.
HURRICANES 4, CANADIENS 3: Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored the deciding goal in the sixth round of the shootout, and Carolina rallied to win at Montreal.
Brent Burns and Teuvo Teraivainen also scored in the tiebreaker for the Hurricanes, and Rem Pitlick and Nick Suzuki tallied for the Canadiens.
Jaccob Slavin, Brady Skjei and Jesper Fast had goals in regulation, and Brett Pesce had two assists for the Metropolitan Division-leading Hurricanes, who won their third straight and eighth in the last 10.
Antti Raanta started and gave up two goals on 10 shots in the first period before leaving with an apparent injury. Frederik Andersen started the second and finished with 13 saves.
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