NHL results | Wednesday

N.Y.

Rangers 5, Wild 4, OT Vincent Trocheck scored at 24 seconds of overtime to give the New York a victory over Minnesota.

Trocheck slid the puck past goalie Filip Gustavsson to help the Rangers keep pace with Montreal in the Eastern Conference wild-card race.

Both teams have 79 points.

Artemi Panarin scored his team-leading 34th goal and Braden Schneider, KAndre Miller and Chris Kreider added goals for New York.

Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves.

Minnesotas Marco Rossi tied it at 4 early in the third.

Gustav Nyqvist, Brock Faber and Marcus Johansson also scored, and Gustavsson made 34 saves.

The Wild are in wild-card position in the Western Conference with 89 points.

Hurricanes 5, Capitals 1 LRALEIGH, N.C.

Alex Ovechkin scored his 892nd career goal, moving him three away from breaking Wayne Gretzkys NHL record, but rookie Jackson Blake scored twice to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals 5-1 on Wednesday night and clinch a playoff spot.

Logan Stankoven, Seth Jarvis and Sean Walker also scored for the Hurricanes, who qualified for the playoffs for a seventh consecutive season.

That matches a franchise record.

Frederik Andersen stopped 20 of 21 shots to win his seventh straight start for Carolina.

Maple Leafs 3, Panthers 2 TORONTO Mitch Marner scored the goal-ahead goal midway through the third period, Anthony Stolarz made 29 saves and Toronto beat Florida in an Atlantic Division showdown.

John Tavares and Matthew Knies also scored to help division-leading Toronto wrap up a playoff spot and and move three points ahead of Tampa Bay and four in front of Florida.

Marner and Knies also had assists.

Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist for defending Stanley Cip champion Florida.

Gustav Forsling also scored, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 shots.

Avalanche 3, Blackhawks 2 CHICAGO Martin Necas tied it with 11 seconds left and Nathan MacKinnon and Artturi Lehkonen scored in a shootout to give the Colorado Avalanche a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.

Cale Makar pulled Chicago to 2-1 midway through the third period with his career-high 29th goal of the season, and Necas completed the comeback with his 27th.

Necas deflected Makars point shot past goalie Spencer Knight.

Scott Wedgewood stopped 22 shots for Colorado.

Ilya Mikheyev opened the scoring for Chicago in the first with a short-handed goal, and Connor Murphy made it 2-0 midway through the second.

Knight made 29 saves.

Teuvo Terevainen scored the lone shootout goal for Chicago.

After the first three shooters failed to score, MacKinnon scored, Terevainen followed with his goal and Necas then ended it.

Colorado snapped a two-game losing streak.

Chicago lost for the 11th time in 12 games.

Kraken 5, Canucks 0 VANCOUVER, British Columbia Joey Daccord made 25 saves for his second shutout of the season and fifth overall in the Seattle Krakens 5-0 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night.

Andre Burakovsky had a goal and an assist and Michael Eyssimont, Chandler Stephenson, Shane Wright and Adam Larsson also scored.

Jared McCann and Vince Dunn each had two assists.

Thatcher Demko made 14 saves for Vancouver..

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