WASHINGTON – Marian Hossa scored on a power-play goal with 4:23 remaining, lifting the Ottawa Senators into a 1-1 tie with the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night.

Sergei Gonchar scored his first goal for the Capitals since returning from a shoulder injury.

The game also featured the return of Capitals owner Ted Leonsis, who watched from the owner’s box for the first time since his one-week NHL suspension for a scuffle with a taunting fan. This was Washington’s first home game since the suspension ended Feb. 4.

The Senators had their four-game winning streak snapped, but they remain unbeaten in five games since the All-Star break.

Hossa scored his 26th goal of the season with a short backhand under goaltender Olaf Kolzig’s left leg after the puck caromed in front of a crowded crease. The goal came 45 seconds after Gonchar was sent to the penalty box for hooking.

Lightning 5, Flyers 2

TAMPA, Fla. – Brad Richards and Cory Stillman each had a goal and two assists for the Tampa Bay Lightning in a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night.

Fredrik Modin, Martin St. Louis and Dan Boyle scored the other goals for Tampa Bay. The Southeast Division-leading Lightning, who swept the four-game season series with Philadelphia, are 10-1-1 in the past 12 games.

Richards gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead with 4:27 left in the second when he redirected a waist-high pass from Cory Stillman past goaltender Sean Burke during a two-on-one.

Boyle scored at 6:07 of the third period and Stillman at 13:55 to make it 5-2.

Mark Recchi and Tony Amonte scored for the Flyers, who have dropped two straight after a five-game winning streak. Atlantic Division-leading Philadelphia also had its seven-game road unbeaten streak end (6-0-1).

Modin put the Lightning up 1-0 just 2:56 into the first. He had missed practice Monday because of back spasms.

Thrashers 4, Canadiens 1

MONTREAL – Ilya Kovalchuk had a goal and an assist, and Frantisek Kaberle, Patrik Stefan and Dany Heatley also scored to lead the Atlanta Thrashers to a 4-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens.

Kovalchuk scored his 31st goal to tie the game midway through the first and made a fine pass to set up Kaberle’s goal early in the second.

Pasi Nurminen made 29 saves for Atlanta, which won for the second time in three games following a 10-game winless streak.

Montreal’s Jan Bulis opened the scoring but the Canadiens allowed four straight goals to extend their losing streak to a season-high four games.

Jose Theodore stopped 21 of 25 shots and made a huge blunder on a clearing attempt that led directly to Stefan scoring a power-play goal into an unguarded net.

Trailing 2-1 after Kaberle scored 3:06 into the second, Theodore tried to play a puck behind his net while Patrice Brisebois was in the penalty box for interference, but he flipped his backhand pass off the back of the mesh.

Wild 4, Devils 4, OT

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Brian Gionta scored his second goal with 6:27 remaining in regulation Tuesday night to lift the New Jersey Devils into a 4-4 tie with the Minnesota Wild.

Eric Rasmussen and Paul Martin also scored, and Scott Gomez had three assists for the Devils.

Marian Gaborik had his sixth career hat trick, and Sergei Zholtok scored for the seventh time in the last seven games for Minnesota.

With the game tied at 3 after two periods, Gaborik completed his hat trick with a power-play goal at 12:12 of the third on a feed from Alexandre Daigle.

Gionta pulled out the tie for the Devils as he tipped Scott Niedermayer’s shot past Wild goalie Manny Fernandez.

Rasmussen scored the only goal of the first period with 4:07 remaining, and the two normally defensive-minded teams combined for five second-period goals.

Gaborik pulled Minnesota even 2:02 into the period. Daigle eluded a Devils defenseman behind the New Jersey goal, and slid the puck to Gaborik who whipped a shot from the slot.

past Martin Brodeur.

New Jersey reclaimed the lead at 5:28 as intense power-play pressure paid off with Martin’s goal for a 2-1 lead.

Brodeur, known for his strong puck-handling, was victimized for the second time in three games by his own poor clearing attempt. He fired the puck off the boards only to have it intercepted by Zholtok who fired it into the net before Brodeur could get back into position at 6:38.

Brodeur gave up a similar goal to Carolina’s Jeff O’Neill in the Devils 4-1 win Saturday.

Gionta put the Devils back in front 3-2 at 10:06, before Gaborik tied the game again with 1:59 remaining.

Notes: Wild G Fernandez made his first start in nine games. … Before the game, the Devils announced former coach Robbie Ftorek had rejoined the organization as coach of their AHL farm team in Albany. … The tie was Minnesota’s league-leading 16th of the season. The Wild are 0-2-16 in overtime.

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