WASHINGTON – Peter Bondra had a power-play goal and an assist to lead the Washington Capitals to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.

Bondra, who missed Saturday’s game in New Jersey because of the flu, scored from the right faceoff circle off a pass from Sergei Gonchar, beating Sebastien Caron and giving Washington the lead for good at 9:47 of the second period.

Robert Lang scored his 23rd goal of the season and had three assists for Washington. Jason Doig and Jeff Halpern also scored for the Capitals.

Thrashers 5, Hurricanes 2

RALEIGH, N.C. – Randy Robitaille scored two power-play goals off assists from Ilya Kovalchuk to lift the Atlanta Thrashers past the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 on Sunday.

Daniel Tjarnqvist had a big third period for the Thrashers, scoring a short-handed goal with Carolina on a 5-on-3 power play and making a key defensive play that kept Atlanta in the lead.

Zdenek Blatny added a second-period goal and Kovalchuk had an empty-net score for the Thrashers, who won for the first time in 2004.

Kings 2, Blackhawks 1

CHICAGO – Alexander Frolov scored with 8:26 left, and the Los Angeles Kings snapped a 14-game winless streak with a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night.

After cutting in from the right wing and slipping past Chicago defenseman Jonathan Aitkin, Frolov slid a shot under the pads of goalie Craig Anderson, who went down to make the save.

Oilers 4, Blue Jackets 4

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Rick Nash scored his NHL-leading 28th goal and added an assist to help the Columbus Blue Jackets tie the Edmonton Oilers 4-4 on Sunday night.

The puck was behind Nash after he took a pass from David Vyborny a minute into the third period. Nash regained control by tapping the puck back between his skates with a defenseman draped on his back.

before jamming it past goaltender Ty Conklin to give Columbus a 4-3 lead.

The Oilers’ Eric Brewer scored his second goal of the season 5:45 into the third to tie it.

There were plenty of prime scoring chances the rest of the way – the best coming when Nash fed fellow 19-year-old Nikolai Zherdev and his shot was just wide with 41 seconds left in overtime.

Mike York, Ethan Moreau and Brad Isbister also had goals for Edmonton, while Steve Staios matched his career high with three points and Radek Dvorak added two assists.

Vyborny also tied a career high with three points on a goal and two assists. Zherdev added his sixth goal and Tyler Wright had his third of the season for the Blue Jackets.

Goals came in bunches throughout the game, the third of four meetings between the teams this season.

Vyborny got his 13th goal off a centering pass from behind the goal line from Nash at 3:21 of the opening period. York then circled around the net and slipped a backhander past Columbus goaltender Marc Denis for his 15th of the season.

The Blue Jackets built a 3-1 lead on goals by Wright and Zherdev’s sixth – the latter coming on a five-on-three at the 7:12 mark of the second.

The Oilers pulled even with two goals within 15 seconds later in the period. Moreau redirected a shot in the slot for his ninth goal before Isbister scored a quick goal on Radek Dvorak’s pretty no-look, behind-the-back feed from behind the net.

The Blue Jackets had 1:38 with a two-man advantage in the second period, then started the third with another five-on-three on which Nash scored.

Brewer’s one-timer from the right dot after a cross-ice pass from Ales Hemsky evened it for the final time.

Nash’s drive from just inside the blue line evaded Conklin but hit the far post with 10:08 left in regulation.

Notes: Columbus D Darryl Sydor was slammed into the boards midway through the third period and needed help to leave the ice. … It was the sixth sellout of the season for the Blue Jackets. … Edmonton remained winless in the second game of back-to-backs (0-4-2-1). … Zherdev extended his points streak to four games (3-3-6).

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