Boston’s captain Patrice Bergeron was scratched for Wednesday’s game against the Wild in St. Paul, Minnesota, and will also miss at least Friday’s game in Winnipeg after an arm injury “re-emerged,” presenting a risk of infection, said Coach Bruce Cassidy.

Bergeron, who had missed time in January after falling and suffering a head laceration in a game against Pittsburgh, returned to Boston to get looked after. The Bruins are scheduled to come home after the Winnipeg game before going back out on the road for a game in Montreal on Monday.

Cassidy said that Bergeron, who had taken a maintenance day on Monday before playing in Chicago and scoring a goal in a 2-1 overtime win on Tuesday, originally suffered the injury in practice sometime.

“We’re just trying to be cautious about it at the end of the day. We don’t want anything to come of it,” said Cassidy.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

MAPLE LEAFS 3, HURRICANES 2: Erik Kallgren made 35 saves and Toronto beat visiting Carolina for the rookie goalie’s second straight victory.

Mitch Marner, Ilya Mikheyev and Ondrej Kase scored for Toronto. The Maple Leafs were again without NHL goals leader Auston Matthews as he served the second of a two-game suspension.

Ethan Bear and Vincent Trocheck scored for Carolina, and Frederik Andersen stopped 18 shots.

ISLANDERS 2, RANGERS 1: Kyle Palmieri scored the tie-breaking goal with less than three minutes left in the third period and Ilya Sorokin made 29 saves as the Islanders won at Madison Square Garden.
Anders Lee also scored for the Islanders, who are 4-0-1 in their last five games.

Chris Kreider scored his 40th goal – and league-best 21st on the power play – and Igor Shesterkin had 26 saves for the Rangers, who had won two straight.

Palmieri got his 11th goal of the season with 2:44 left with assists to defensemen Adam Pelech and Ryan Pulock. Palmieri has points in six straight games and in nine of his last 10.

STARS 4, CANADIENS 3: John Klingberg scored late in regulation and overtime to give Dallas a win at Montreal.

Klingberg tied it with 4:46 left in regulation and ended it with 10 seconds to go in overtime.
Radek Faksa and Jamie Benn also scored for Dallas. Jake Oettinger stopped 28 shots.

Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki and Corey Schueneman scored for Montreal. Jake Allen made 31 saves.

CAPITALS 7, BLUE JACKETS 2: Anthony Mantha scored twice, and Alex Ovechkin and Connor Sheary each had a goal and an assist as visiting Washington won its third straight.

Martin Fehervary, Connor McMichael and Evgeny Kuznetsov also scored, and Nikolas Backstrom added two assists as Washington improved to 6-0-1 in its last seven games. Vitek Vanecek stopped 39 shots for the Capitals, who pulled one point behind Boston for the top wild card in the Eastern Conference and increased their lead over Columbus to 13 points for the second wild card.

Oliver Bjorkstrand and Patrik Laine scored for the Blue Jackets, who scored twice on their own net and broke a three-game win streak. Joonas Korpisalo stopped 6 of 9 shots before being replaced in the second period by Elvis Merzlikins, who finished with 20 saves.

FLYERS 5, PREDATORS 4: Kevin Hayes scored a tying goal late in the third period, then assisted Joel Farabee’s game-winner with 1:19 remaining to lead Philadelphia to a win at home after captain Claude Giroux was honored for playing in his 1,000th career regular-season game.

Travis Sanheim had a goal and an assist and James van Riemsdyk and Cam York also scored for Philadelphia, which snapped a three-game losing streak while winning for just the sixth time in the last 30 contests. After a moving pregame ceremony, Giroux was held off the scoresheet.

Filip Forsberg scored to tie the Predators’ all-time goals record with his 210th and Roman Josi had three assists for Nashville. Tanner Jeannot, Philippe Myers and Ryan Johansen also scored for the Predators, who remained tied with Minnesota for third place in the Central Division.

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