UNDATED (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning are the new leaders in the NHL’s Atlantic Division, sliding ahead of the Florida Panthers.
Brayden Point had a goal and three assists while the Lightning were scoring the last five goals in a 5-2 comeback over the Senators. Point has five goals and 11 points during a seven-game point streak, and has a goal in three straight games.
Steven Stamkos extended his goal streak to five games, his longest since 2019. Nikita Kucherov, Corey Perry and Mikhail Sergachev also scored for Tampa Bay.
Elsewhere on NHL ice:
— Andre Burakovsky scored the tiebreaking goal and had an assist as the Avalanche held off the Islanders, 5-3. Burakovsky’s goal came 59 seconds after the Islanders had a go-ahead goal disallowed. Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog and Devon Toews also had goals for the Avalanche, and Darcy Kuemper made 28 saves.
— The Red Wings pulled out a 4-3 win over the Hurricanes on Lucas Raymond’s power-play goal with eight seconds left on the clock in overtime. Michael Rasmussen and Dylan Larkin scored in regulation and Alex Nedeljkovic made 27 saves in Detroit’s first win in three games.
— Trevor Zegras scored a power-play goal with 21.6 seconds remaining to give the Ducks a 4-3 win over the Bruins. Rickard Rakell, Isac Lundestrom and Adam Henrique tallied in the first period, and John Gibson made 31 saves for Anaheim.
— Matthew Tkachuk scored 72 seconds into the game and the streaking Flames beat Minnesota, 5-1. Andrew Mangiapane, Elias Lindholm, Tyler Toffoli and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames, who have won 12 of 13.
— Reilly Smith scored twice and the Golden Knights stayed six points behind the Pacific Division-leading Flames by winning at San Jose, 3-1. The victory snapped a two-game skid for the Golden Knights and gave coach Peter DeBoer his 500th career win.
— Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid combined for five points and and Mikko Koskinen made 39 saves to lead the Oilers to a 3-0 win over the Flyers. Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, and McDavid added a goal and a helper, leaving them tied for the league lead with 77 points.
— Boone Jenner and Patrik Laine both scored and had an assist as the Blue Jackets nipped the Devils, 4-3 to end a two-game skid. Jake Christiansen notched his first career goal and Elvis Merzlikins stopped 30 shots in his 19th win.
— The Jets mowed down the Canadiens, 8-4 as Mark Scheifele scored twice and had an assist. Pierre-Luc Dubois also had a goal and two assists to help Winnipeg overcome Josh Anderson’s hat trick.
Davidson loses ‘interim’ GM tag
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks have hired Kyle Davidson as general manager, dropping his interim tag instead of going outside the floundering franchise for new leadership. The 33-year-old from Sudbury, Ontario, joined the Blackhawks in 2010 as an intern and also has worked as a video analyst, hockey operations manager and assistant GM.
Davidson was elevated to the interim job after Stan Bowman resigned in October in the wake of a report by an outside law firm that found the organization mishandled allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player in 2010.
