Washington: Alexander Wennberg’s last-minute power play goal gave the Columbus Blue Jackets their fourth straight win, 3-2 over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Washington’s Nicklas Backstrom was called for high-sticking Nick Foligno with 1:34 remaining. Wennberg took a pass from Foligno and slammed it past Capitals goalie Braden Holtby. It was Wennberg’s third goal of the season.
Alex Ovechkin’s ninth goal of the season midway through the second period gave the Capitals a 2-1 lead, but the Blue Jackets tied it 14 seconds into the third period on Brandon Dubinsky’s second goal of the season.
Meanwhile, Vincent Trocheck and Aleksander Barkov scored in the shoot-out to lift Florida over New York 3-2.
James Reimer made 33 saves and two more in the shoot-out after Keith Yandle and Aaron Ekblad scored for Florida.
Henrik Lundqvist made 28 saves in his 700th start, while Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad scored for New York.
Jeff Carter scored twice and got his 600th career point while Peter Budaj made 28 saves as Los Angeles beat Anaheim 3-2.
Carter assisted on Drew Doughty’s score early in the second period and then added power-play goals 71 seconds apart to make it 3-0. The first goal got him to 600 points.
Antoine Vermette and Rickard Rakell scored for Anaheim while John Gibson made 26 saves.
