NEW YORK -- Brett Connolly's second goal of the game during a third-period power play lifted the Tampa Bay Lightning to their third straight win over the New York Rangers, 6-3 on Monday night.
With Martin St. Louis off for slashing, Connolly scored past Henrik Lundqvist at 5:34 for his fourth of the season. Tyler Johnson gave the Lightning a two-goal lead 1:24 later with his second of the night, and Ondrej Palat added an empty-netter with 26.4 seconds left to give Tampa Bay its fourth consecutive victory.
Victor Hedman had three assists, and Ben Bishop made 32 saves to improve to 8-0 against the Rangers -- including three wins in 15 days (see full recap).
Jackets beat Panthers to snap skid
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Boone Jenner scored at 10:05 of the third period to lift Columbus past the Florida Panthers 2-1 and end the Blue Jackets' six-game skid on Monday night.
Matt Calvert also scored for Columbus, which entered having won only two of its past 17 games to drop to the bottom of the Eastern Conference.
Rookie Aaron Ekblad, the top overall pick, scored his third goal of the season for Florida, which has lost nine in a row to Columbus.
Tied at 1 in the third, Jenner poked home a loose puck in front of the goal. Al Montoya had stopped Kerby Rychel's spin-around shot, but Jenner got to the rebound for his second of the season.
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Moments later, Sergei Bobrovsky, who finished with 24 saves, went right to left to kick aside Tomas Fleischmann's shot (see full recap).
Habs score late to beat Avs
DENVER -- Max Pacioretty scored the tiebreaking goal late in the third period and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Monday night.
P.K. Subban and Andrei Markov each had a goal and an assist, and Jiri Sekac also scored for Montreal, which ended a three-game losing streak. Carey Price made 26 saves for the Canadiens.
Pacioretty had a breakaway chance in the first period that was saved by Calvin Pickard but made the most of his second opportunity. Pacioretty skated in on the left side and beat the rookie goalie with a snap shot with 6:06 left in the third.
It was his team-leading 12th goal of the season.
Ryan O'Reilly, Daniel Briere and Tyson Barrie scored goals, and Pickard had 26 saves for Colorado (see full recap).