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Ottawa tied atop division
Associated Press

Craig Anderson made 14 saves to set the franchise wins mark and Ottawa defeated the Colorado, 4-2, for its sixth consecutive victory.

Alex Burrows and Mike Hoffman each had a goal and an assist for visiting Ottawa, which tied Montreal atop the Atlantic Division with 84 points.

Anderson earned win No. 147 with Ottawa and passed Patrick Lalime for the top spot.

Fredrik Claesson and Ryan Dzingel also had goals for the Senators.

Calvin Pickard stopped 27 shots and Matt Nieto and Sven Andrighetto scored for the Avalanche.

Maple Leafs 3, Hurricanes 2 — Morgan Rielly scored 2:13 into overtime to lift visiting Toronto over the Carolina.

Rielly’s wrist shot past Cam Ward gave Toronto its third straight victory and moved them 1 point ahead of the New York Islanders for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Mitch Marner and James van Riemsdyk also scored for Toronto, and Frederik Andersen made 36 saves.

Victor Rask and Teuvo Teravainen scored for Carolina, which has lost 11 of 15 games. Ward made 23 saves but couldn’t steer aside Rielly’s shot, which bounced off his left leg pad and angled into the back corner of the net.

Sabres 5, Blue Jackets 3 — In Buffalo, Evander Kane scored a power-play goal with 2:29 remaining and Buffalo rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat Columbus.

Sam Reinhart, Matt Moulson, and Jake McCabe scored to tie it and Jack Eichel added an empty-netter for Buffalo. The Sabres snapped an 0-3-1 skid and improved to 2-6-2 in their past 10. Robin Lehner stopped all 24 shots he faced after taking over for Anders Nilsson to start the second period. Nilsson was yanked after giving up three goals on 12 shots.

Nick Foligno, Oliver Bjorkstrand, and David Savard scored for Columbus. Joonas Korpisalo stopped 26 shots.

Lightning 3, Panthers 2 — In Tampa, Ondrej Palat scored with 2:23 left to give Tampa Bay a victory over Florida.

Palat redirected Andrej Sustr’s shot to complete Tampa Bay’s comeback from a two-goal deficit.

Andrei Vasilevskiy made 32 saves, and Nikita Kucherov and Yanni Gourde also scored for the Lightning. They are 10-2-3 in their past 15 games,

Tampa Bay played without centers Tyler Johnson, Cedric Paquette, and Vladislav Namestnikov, who all left Thursday night’s 4-1 win over Minnesota with lower-body injuries. They join Steven Stamkos, out since November after right knee surgery but now practicing.

Jaromir Jagr and Mark Pysyk scored for Florida, and James Reimer stopped 31 shots. The Panthers have lost eight of nine (1-7-1).

Flames 3, Jets 0 — Brian Elliott made 31 saves for his second consecutive shutout and visiting Calgary extended its winning streak to nine games.

Mikael Backlund and Michael Frolik each scored on the power play as the victory also gave the Flames points in 11 straight games.

Elliott’s second shutout of the season, and 36th of his career, followed up Thursday’s 24 saves in a 5-0 win over Montreal on Thursday.

The Flames also jumped in the NHL standings. Their 80 points tied them with Anaheim, but Calgary moves into second place in the Pacific Division because they have three more wins than the idle Ducks.

Calgary’s climb also dropped the idle Edmonton Oilers into the first Western Conference wild-card spot with 79 points.

The nine victories also set a record since the franchise moved from Atlanta in 1980. The franchise record is 10 games in 1978.

Alex Chiasson also scored, while Frolik added one assist and Dougie Hamilton, a game-time decision, had three assists.

Predators 3, Sharks 1 — Ryan Johansen and James Neal scored goals to help visiting Nashville snap a four-game losing streak. Paul Martin scored the lone goal for the first-place Sharks, who lost for just the second time in seven games.

After starting their California swing with a shootout loss in Anaheim and an overtime defeat in Los Angeles, the Predators head home on a high note by beating the defending Western Conference champions. Backup goalie Juuse Saros made 25 saves.

San Jose still has a 7-point lead over Anaheim and Calgary in the Pacific Division with a game in hand. Martin Jones made 22 saves.

Coyotes 5, Devils 4 — Tobias Reider and Anthony DeAngelo each had a goal and assist and host Arizona survived a furious New Jersey rally to hand the Devils their 10th consecutive loss.

The Coyotes led, 4-0, early in the second period, but needed the goal from the rookie DeAngelo with 6:29 to play for what proved to be the winning margin.

DeAngelo’s goal put Arizona up, 5-3, before John Moore’s backhanded upper shelf shot past goalie Mike Smith cut it to 5-4 with 4:58 remaining.

Smith preserved the victory by blocking Taylor Hall’s penalty shot with 2:38 to play.

Devils goalie Cory Schneider was lifted after allowing four goals on 10 shots in the first 24:13 of the game.

Blues 4, Islanders 3 — Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice to lead host St. Louis over New York. Alexander Steen and Patrik Berglund also scored, and the Blues won their fourth straight game.

Carter Hutton stopped 21 of 24 shots.

New York’s Thomas Greiss stopped 14 of 18 shots in the first two periods before being pulled in favor of Jean-Francois Berube to start the third with the Islanders trailing, 4-1.

Brock Nelson, Anthony Beauvillier, and Nick Leddy scored for the Islanders, who finished their nine-game trip 5-3-1.