
NEW YORK — Mark Scheifele scored twice and Connor Hellebuyck made 50 saves as the Winnipeg Jets beat the surging New York Rangers 4-1 on Monday night.
Kyle Connor and Pierre-Luc Dubois also scored for the Jets, who are 6-3-0 in their past nine visits to Madison Square Garden. Connor, Josh Morrissey and Mason Appleton each had two assists for Winnipeg, which had lost two straight.
Hellebuyck, playing on back-to-back nights after a 4-2 loss at New Jersey on Sunday, stopped all 20 shots he faced in the first period and 30 more the rest of the way to improve to 26-16-1. He made two key stops on Rangers forward Chris Kreider in the third.
Vincent Trocheck scored for the Rangers, who lost in regulation for the first time since Jan. 19 when they fell 4-0 at home to Boston. New York was 8-0-2 in their previous 10 games. Igor Shesterkin finished with 17 saves.
ISLANDERS 4, PENGUINS 2: Bo Horvat and Anders Lee scored less than 2 minutes apart in the third period to spark New York to a win at Pittsburgh.
The Islanders pulled off their second late comeback over the Penguins in three days when Horvat beat Tristan Jarry to the short side with 11:26 remaining to tie it. Jarry turned it over behind the Pittsburgh net moments later, kickstarting a sequence that ended with Lee jamming it home to give the injury-ravaged Islanders the lead.
Brock Nelson’s second goal of the game, an empty-netter with 25 seconds left, sealed it for the Islanders.
PANTHERS 4, DUCKS 3: Carter Verhaeghe scored 1:42 into overtime to lead Florida over visiting Anaheim.
Florida has won six of its past nine games. Anaheim has lost its past five.
The Panthers also got goals from Eric and Marc Staal as well as Ryan Lomberg. Sergei Bobrovsky had 24 saves.
Mason McTavish, Frank Vatrano and Dmitry Kulikov scored for the Ducks. John Gibson made 50 saves.
SHARKS 4, KRAKEN 0: James Reimer stopped 26 shots for his second shutout of the season and San Jose won at home.
Logan Couture, Evgeny Svechnikov, Noah Gregor and Michael Eyssimont scored for San Jose, which snapped a three-game skid. Erik Karlsson had two assists.
Martin Jones made 19 saves against his former team but lost his fourth straight start as Seattle was shut out for the third time this season.
FLYERS 4, FLAMES 3: Wade Allison scored the game-winner and fellow rookie Samuel Ersson made 32 saves to maintain his perfect record as Philadelphia won at Calgary, Alberta.
Travis Konecny and Tony DeAngelo each had a goal and an assist for Philadelphia. Nicolas Deslauriers also scored as the Flyers snapped a four-game losing streak.
Mikael Backlund and Andrew Mangiapane had a goal an assist each for Calgary and Tyler Toffoli scored his team-leading 23rd.
The Flames remain two points back of Minnesota, which occupies the second wild card spot in the Western Conference. The Wild also hold a game in hand.
Ersson, 23, is the eighth goaltender in NHL history to start his career 6-0-0.
NOTES
ISLANDERS: Center Mat Barzal is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the team announced, a devastating blow to its playoff pursuit.
He was injured on a hit from Boston’s Craig Smith early in a 6-2 loss at the Bruins on Saturday. Barzal appeared to take a knee-on-knee hit and left the ice immediately.
Barzal, 25, is second on the team with 51 points. The Islanders hold the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference with less than two months to go in the NHL regular season.
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