SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Montour scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:32 remaining and the Florida Panthers beat the Ottawa Senators 5-3 on Saturday.
Carter Verhaeghe had two goals and an assist for the Panthers, Aleksander Barkov and Matthew Tkachuk each had a goal and two assists, and Montour also had two assists. Spencer Knight made 23 saves to help Florida snap a two-game skid.
Shane Pinto, Brady Tkachuk and Nick Holden scored for the Senators, who have lost two straight. Anton Forsberg stopped 53 shots.
After Montour gave the Panthers a 4-3 lead with his third of the season, Matthew Tkachuk sealed the win with an empty-netter with 14 seconds left.
The Tkachuk brothers had a reunion on the ice Saturday with Matthew meeting younger brother Brady for the first time as a member of the Panthers. The two are in the same division for the first time since Calgary and Ottawa shared the North because of the pandemic in 2021.
RANGERS 6, STARS 3
DALLAS (AP) — Zac Jones and Julien Gauthier scored 19 seconds apart in the third period after Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger left because of an injury, and New York beat the Stars.
Vincent Trocheck had two goals, including the last in a three-goal third period for New York and fourth against Scott Wedgewood, who replaced Oettinger in the second.
The Stars were already without standout defenseman Miro Heiskanen with an upper-body injury when Oettinger was sidelined by a lower-body injury in a 2-2 game.
Mika Zibanenad had a goal and two assists, and Chris Kreider also scored for the Rangers. Igor Shesterkin made 30 saves. Jason Robertson, Mason Marchment and Roope Hintz scored for Dallas.
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LIGHTNING 4, SHARKS 3
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov broke a tie with 56 seconds left and Tampa Bay beat San Jose.
Tomas Hagel set up Kucherov for a tap-in on a 2-on-1. Victor Hedman, Ross Colton and Alex Killorn also scored for the Lighting and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves.
Erik Karlsson scored twice for San Jose, Nico Sturm added a goal and James Reimer made 22 saves.
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