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PITTSBURGH (AP) Justin Schultz took a pass from Phil Kessel and buried it in the wide-open net 2:36 into overtime to give the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday night.Tristan Jarry made several key stops for the Penguins early in the extra period Zach Bogosian Jersey Womens , and Schultz’s fourth goal of the season helped Pittsburgh improve to 10-1 in overtime at home this season.Evgeni Malkin scored his 37th goal for the Penguins and added an assist. Kris Letang and Chad Ruhwedel also scored for Pittsburgh. Jarry finished with 35 saves as the Penguins pulled within one point of Washington for first in the crowded Metropolitan Division.Mark Giordano, Mikael Backlund and Troy Brouwer scored for the Flames, who outplayed the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions for long stretches before dropping their fourth straight. Jon Gillies stopped 28 shots but had no chance when Kessel slid a cross-ice pass to a wide-open Schultz.SABRES 5, MAPLE LEAFS 3BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Ryan O’Reilly and Zemgus Girgensons scored 2:05 apart in the second period, and Buffalo sent Toronto to its fourth straight loss.Sam Reinhart, Jason Pominville and Johan Larsson also scored for Buffalo. Rasmus Ristolainen had two assists on consecutive shots from the right point that were deflected in during the opening four minutes.The Sabres improved to 7-5-2 in their last 14, a stretch in which the Eastern Conference’s last-place team continues playing havoc with playoff contenders. Buffalo has now defeated each of the Atlantic Division’s three top teams, including Boston twice, over the past three weeks.Leo Komarov had two goals and Mitch Marner also scored for Toronto. The Maple Leafs dropped to 0-2-2 in their past four to match their longest skid of the season.OILERS 4, COYOTES 3, OTEDMONTON Scott Wedgewood Jersey Womens , Alberta (AP) – Oscar Klefbom’s first goal in 34 games came in overtime, giving Edmonton the victory over Arizona.Klefbom scored for the first time since Dec. 9.Jujhar Khaira, Milan Lucic and Jesse Puljujarvi also scored for the Oilers, who snapped a three-game skid.Jason Demers, Christian Dvorak and Niklas Hjalmarsson replied for the Coyotes, whose two-game winning streak ended.SENATORS 3, STARS 2, OTDALLAS (AP) – Erik Karlsson scored on a breakaway with 2:19 left in overtime and Ottawa beat Dallas.Karlsson picked up a loose puck after a missed Dallas opportunity and beat goalie Kari Lehtonen.Stars goalie Ben Bishop left because of a lower-body injury after making 12 saves in the first period. Lehtonen replaced Bishop and had 15 saves.Ottawa’s Craig Anderson made 31 saves.Dallas’ Tyler Seguin scored twice, on the power play in the first period and from the top of the right faceoff circle with 1:02 left in the third period to tie it.Goals by Mike Hoffman on the power play in the second period and Matt Duchene in the third gave Ottawa a 2-1 lead.CANUCKS 4, ISLANDERS 3, OTVANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Brendan Leipsic scored his second goal of the game 2:47 into overtime to lift Vancouver over New York.Darren Archibald scored on a penalty shot Conor Sheary Jersey Womens , and Jake Virtanen also had a goal as Vancouver snapped a three-game skid. Jacob Markstrom stopped 31 shots.Josh Bailey, John Tavares and Jordan Eberle scored for New York, which lost a season-worst seventh straight game. The Islanders remain five points behind Columbus for the second wild card in the Eastern Conference playoffs.Jaroslav Halak made 19 saves for the Islanders. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist is at his best against the Carolina Hurricanes.The veteran goalie was at it again as he stopped 43 shots to help the New York Rangers beat the Hurricanes 2-1 on Tuesday night. It was Lundqvist’s 21st win in his last 25 starts against Carolina.“Some teams, the matchup just works for you for some reason,” Lundqvist said. “I have some teams where it works the other way. It’s hard to explain sometimes. I think the big thing is to not overthink it, good or bad.”Vladislav Namestnikov got the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, and fourth-line forward Connor Brickley also scored for the Rangers, who split a four-game trip.The Hurricanes, who are 16-6-1 since Dec. 31, got a second-period goal from Jordan Martinook and peppered Lundqvist with 18 shots in the third period but couldn’t get anything past him. He had a spectacular pad save on Carolina captain Justin Williams with 1:37 left from point-blank range.“We survived and he was a big piece of it,” Rangers coach David Quinn said of Lundqvist. “Boy Tage Thompson Jersey Womens , he had a real good night.”Curtis McElhinney finished with 24 saves for the Hurricanes, who had won six of their last seven games. They outshot the Rangers 44-26 and were in control much of the game.“It was the best game we’ve played, probably of the last seven or eight,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “it just didn’t work out.”The Hurricanes weren’t exactly thrilled with the quality of their scoring chances on Lundqvist.“He played well but I don’t know if we did enough to get anything by him,” Martinook said.After a scoreless first period, Martinook gave Carolina a 1-0 lead at 9:53 in the second. He was able to gather a rebound of Dougie Hamilton’s shot and beat Lundqvist.Just 47 seconds later, the Rangers tied the game on Brickley’s first goal of the season. Filip Chytil flipped a backhand shot at McElhinney and the puck bounced off the goalie’s right shoulder. Brickley was charging the net and it caromed off of his upper body and in. The goal was originally ruled no good on the ice but overturned on video replay.The Hurricanes had killed off a two-man advantage by the Rangers but Namestikov scored just 2 seconds after the second penalty expired at 6:10 in the third period. McElhinney stopped the first shot by defenseman Tony DeAngelo and the rebound effort by right wing Pavel Buchnevich but couldn’t deny Namestikov.The Hurricanes have been the talk of the NHL this week for the attention, and criticism, they’ve drawn for their postgame celebrations.But Lundqvist made sure there wasn’t any reason to celebrate with another win over the Hurricanes.“It was a fun game to win, the way we battled,” Lundqvist said.NOTES: The Hurricanes ended a 16-game losing streak at New York on Feb. 8. It was their first win on the Rangers’ home ice since Oct. 2010. It didn’t take the Rangers long to return the favor. … Carolina C Jordan Staal returned to practice this week but sat out his 26th straight game with a concussion. Staal has 11 points in 29 games and hasn’t played since Dec. 22. … New York D Brady Skjel returned to the lineup after missing one game with a lower-body injury.UP NEXTRangers: Host Minnesota on Thursday night.Hurricanes: At Florida on Thursday night.