National Hockey League results | Friday

Ducks 5, Rangers 4, OT ANAHEIM Mason McTavish scored 59 seconds into overtime, and the Anaheim Ducks overcame a two-goal deficit in the final six minutes of regulation for a 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers on Friday night.

After Olen Zellweger tied it with 1:45 left, McTavish scored his 20th goal on Jackson LaCombes pass to finish a stirring comeback by the Ducks, who are all but certain to miss the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season.

Leo Carlsson had a goal and three assists in the former No.

2 overall picks first career four-point game for Anaheim.

Cutter Gauthier scored the Ducks first goal in the third, and Alex Killorn got an early short-handed goal.

Lukas Dostal made 27 saves.

J.T.

Miller, Alexis Lafreniere and Adam Fox had a goal and an assist apiece for New York, which has lost five of six.

Mika Zibanejad scored a power-play goal in the third period.

Igor Shesterskin stopped 28 shots.

Hurricanes 4, Canadiens 1 RALEIGH, N.C.

Sebastian Aho and Taylor Hall scored 2:24 apart in the second period, and Carolina beat the slumping Montreal.

Jackson Blake had a goal and two assists, Andrei Svechnikov also scored, and Seth Jarvis had two assists for Carolina in its 10th win in 12 games.

Frederik Andersen stopped 14 shots.

Josh Anderson scored for Montreal, which has lost five straight (0-3-2).

Sam Montembeault had 21 saves.

Panthers 2, Utah 1 SUNRISE, Fla.

Brad Marchand capped his Florida debut by setting up Sam Bennetts winner with 41.1 seconds left in overtime, and the Panthers defeated the Utah Hockey Club 2-1 on Friday night.

Bennett had both goals for Florida, including one in the second with Mackie Samoskevich and Aleksander Barkov assisting.

Utah tied it early in the third on Sean Durzis third of the year.

The win pushed Florida back into first in the Atlantic Division at 44-25-3 with 91 points, one more than Toronto and two more than Tampa Bay.

All three of those teams have 10 games remaining, and Florida faces those clubs three times two with Toronto, one with the Lightning down the stretch.

Blue Jackets 7, Canucks 6, SO COLUMBUS Boone Jenner had two goals, Kent Johnson had the lone score of the shootout and Columbus rallied from a pair of multi-goal deficits to beat Vancouver and move into a tie for the final wild card in the Eastern Conference.

The Blue Jackets trailed 3-0 less than 14 minutes into the game, but evened it midway through the second period.

Vancouver scored the next two to go up 5-3 before Columbus rallied again.

Jenner, who also had an assist, has scored in three straight games.

The Blue Jackets are tied with Montreal for the second wild card with 75 points.

It is the first time since 2016 Columbus has trailed 3-0 after the first period and come back to win.

Columbus Dante Fabbro had a goal and two assists while Olivier, Denton Mateychuk and Kirill Marchenko each had a goal and an assist.

Elvis Merzlikins made 31 saves.

Jets 4, Devils 0 WINNIPEG, Manitoba Connor Hellebuyck made 24 saves for his NHL-best seventh shutout of the season and the fast-starting Winnipeg Jets regained the league points lead, beating the New Jersey Devils 4-0 on Friday night for their 50th victory.

Alex Iafallo scored twice, Mark Scheifele had a goal and an assist and David Gustafsson also scored.

At 59-19-4, Winnipeg moved a point ahead of Eastern Conference-leading Washington.

Iafallo opened the scoring 58 seconds in, and Gustafsson made it 2-0 at 1:52.

Iafallo added a power-play goal in the second, and Scheifele had his 36th of the season in the period.

Golden Knights 5, Blackhawks 3 CHICAGO Pavel Dorofeyev scored a power-play goal with 3:10 left to snap a tie, and the Vegas Golden Knights rallied for their fifth straight win, 5-3 over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night.

Victor Olofsson scored twice for the Golden Knights, who overcame the first career hat trick by Chicagos Ryan Donato.

Mark Stone had a goal and an assist, Brett Howden scored an empty-netter and William Karlsson added three assists for Vegas.

Adin Hill made 18 saves.

Ilya Mikheyev had two assists and Spencer Knight stopped 17 shots for Chicago, which has lost nine of 10 (1-8-1) and is in last place in the Central Division.

Dorofeyev ripped in his 31st goal on a one-timer from the right circle.

The Golden Knights league-leading power play cashed in on its second chance of the night after Teuvo Teravainen was sent off for hooking.

Donato now has 28 goals to lead Chicago.

He has never had more than 16 goals in seven previous NHL seasons.

Donato popped in a rebound to cap a breakaway with 3:45 left in the first period.

Stone and Olofsson scored 53 seconds apart in the second to put Vegas ahead 2-1..

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