Sam Carrick scored in overtime and Igor Shesterkin made 21 saves as the New York Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Thursday night.

Carrick one-timed a pass from Reilly Smith past Devils netminder Jacob Markstrom 2:48 into the extra session.

Carrick’s third goal this season and gave the Rangers a much-needed home win before a three-game road trip.

Adam Fox and Artemi Panarin also scored for the Rangers, who have won two of their last three games.

Jesper Bratt and Jack Hughes scored for the Devils, who lost for the fifth time in their last six games.

After Fox scored on the power play at 12:05 of the first, Hughes scored his 16th at 4:03 of the second.

Bratt put New Jersey ahead at 8:28, whipping a high shot past Shesterkin for his 15th goal. Hughes assisted for this team-leading 50th point.

Panarin tied the contest with his team-leading 17th goal on the power play at 17:13 of the second. Fox and Mika Zibanejad assisted.

Markstrom made 29 saves.

New York’s Matt Rempe returned from an eight-game suspension. He had no penalty minutes in 11 shifts and 7:47 of ice time.

Takeaways
Rangers: Improved to 9-10-2 at home with their first overtime win of the season.

Devils: Hughes has five goals and three assists in three games against the Rangers this season. He leads the Devils with 50 points, one more than Bratt.

Key moment
Shesterkin stopped Dawson Mercer on a short-handed breakaway with just over nine minutes left in the third.

Key stats
Shesterkin, who returned after four games on injured reserve, improved to 12-15-1 with his first win since Dec. 20 at Dallas. Panarin leads the Rangers with 44 points and has points in 28 of his 39 games this season.

Up Next:
Rangers: Visit the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night.

Devils: Host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.

Jamie Benn scored on a power play 2:17 into overtime and the Dallas Stars rallied from an early three-goal deficit to defeat the struggling New York Rangers 5-4 on Tuesday night.

Jake Oettinger made 21 saves and Dallas defenseman Thomas Harley had a goal and two assists. Harley’s snap shot tied it 4-all at 17:21 of the third period following a terrible turnover by Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller deep in his own end.

Benn’s 11th goal came with Artemi Panarin in the penalty box for hooking and gave the Stars their only lead. Dallas’ captain tipped in a centering pass from Jason Robertson. Harley also assisted on the play.

Dallas denied New York goalie Jonathan Quick his 400th career win.

Vincent Trocheck put the Rangers ahead 4-3 with a power-play goal at 12:56 of the third.

Trocheck and Alexis Lafreniere each scored twice for New York, which is 6-16-1 in its last 23 games. Panarin had three assists.

The Rangers, coming off a 6-2 victory Sunday in Chicago, haven’t won consecutive games since Nov. 17 and 19.

New York led 3-0 less than 12 minutes in, but Dallas tied it on goals by Matt Duchene, Evgenii Dadonov and Robertson.

Quick finished with 34 saves.

Takeawaysues
Stars: Started a five-game trip with a win to avenge a 3-1 home loss to the Rangers on Dec. 20.

Rangers: Fell to 8-9-2 at home. New York was 30-11-0 at Madison Square Garden last season when it won the Presidents’ Trophy as the NHL’s top team during the regular season.

Key moment
Robertson’s tying goal on a second-period backhand sent the game into the third tied at 3.

Key stat
Oettinger improved to 20-9-1, becoming the third goaltender to reach 20 wins this season.

Up next
Stars: Visit the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday.

Rangers: Host the New Jersey Devils on Thursday.

The Rangers won for the second time in three games and are 2-5 over their last seven games. The Blackhawks lost for the sixth time in seven starts.

Brodzinski and Borgan scored in the final five minutes of the first period to give the Rangers a 2-1 lead. Both shots beat Chicago goaltender Arvid Soderblom (28 saves) from the high slot, Brodzinski’s was aided by Mika Zibanejad’s screen.

Chytil made it 3-1 on a wrist shot 3:28 into the second, then added New York’s last goal on a double-deflection with 11:24 to play.

The Blackhawks took an early lead on Tyler Bertuzzi’s 14th goal of the season, set up by Connor Bedard’s pass following a steal from Zibanejad, at 5:37. Chicago’s Wyatt Kaiser scored his first NHL goal late in the second period.

Rangers goaltender Louis Domingue, called up from Hartford on New Year’s Eve, stopped 25 shots in his first start of the season and first NHL win since Nov. 9, 2023.

Takeaways

Rangers: The win over the league’s worst team was timely, as New York’s next six games are against teams .500 or better.

Blackhawks: Chicago again failed to take advantage of scoring first, falling to 11-12-2.

Key moment

Zibanejad’s stretch pass to Reilly Smith midway through the second period caught the Chicago defensive pair of Seth Jones and Kaiser napping. Smith backhanded the puck between Soderblom’s legs for a 4-1 lead.

Key stat

The Rangers picked up their 245th win in 600 regular-season meetings with the Blackhawks, a series dating to 1926.

Up next

The Rangers host Dallas on Tuesday night. The Blackhawks host Colorado on Wednesday to conclude a three-game homestand.

By Tim Cronin

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin scored his 872nd career goal to move 23 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record, and the Washington Capitals beat the struggling New York Rangers 7-4 Saturday.

Ovechkin has four goals in five games since returning from missing the previous 16 because of a broken left leg. The 39-year-old has 19 goals this season and is on pace to pass Gretzky’s mark of 894 this spring.

Dylan Strome, Lars Eller, Andrew Mangiapane, Connor McMichael and Aliaksei Protas also scored against Jonathan Quick, who remains stuck on 399 career wins. Tom Wilson sealed it with an empty-netter with 37.5 seconds left, and Logan Thompson made 28 saves to compensate for giving the puck away to Chris Kreider for his goal into a wide-open net.

Sam Carrick also got a goal off a turnover by Ovechkin and Filip Chytil and Mika Zibanejad scored in the third period to make things interesting. Quick allowed six goals on 27 shots as the Rangers lost for a 16th time in 21 games to sink from solidly in a playoff to tied for last place.

TAKEAWAYS

Rangers: After showing life Thursday by beating Boston to end a four-game skid, they were back to their sloppy, inconsistent play. Peter Laviolette’s job is in jeopardy even if his coaching is hardly to blame for so many top players underachieving.

Capitals: They didn’t play their best, and they’re in a bit of a midseason lull, but they keep winning.

KEY MOMENT

Less than a minute after Zibanejad scored to cut Washington’s lead to 5-4 with 6:56 left, Protas restored the two-goal lead following his shot off the right post to the crease and putting the puck in.

KEY STAT

With two power-play goals, the Capitals have scored seven in seven games.

UP NEXT

The Rangers play at Chicago on Sunday afternoon, while the Capitals visit Buffalo on Monday night.

The Rangers won at home for the first time since Dec. 6 as Quick was steady in place of injured starter Igor Shesterkin to get his 399th career victory.

Elias Lindholm scored for Boston, and Jeremy Swayman had 25 saves. The Bruins have lost three of four.

Zibanejad tapped a loose puck past Swayman at 9:48 of the first for his seventh goal of the season and second since Nov. 30.

Berard made it 2-0 with 7:07 remaining in the period with his third.

Lindholm scored at 7:57 of the second to get the Bruins on the scoreboard.

Takeaways

Rangers: New York improved to 8-9-1 at home this season after going 30-11-0 at Madison Square Garden year.

Bruins: Boston fell to 8-10-2 on the road.

Key moment
Quick, who turns 39 on Jan. 21, made successive saves on Boston’s Mark Kastelic, Justin Brazeau and John Beecher about 7 1/2 minutes into the second. He improved to 6-4-0 this season. His previous win was on Nov. 30.

Key stat
Zibanejad’s goal was the 301st of his career and his 700th point. The 31-year-old forward has 22 points in 37 games this season.

Up Next
Bruins visit Toronto on Saturday and Rangers play at Washington.

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TAMPA — Brayden Point scored twice and added an assist to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning past the reeling New York Rangers 6-2 on Saturday night.

Nikita Kucherov added a goal and two assists for Tampa Bay. Anthony Cirelli and Ryan McDonagh each had a short-handed goal.

Nick Paul also scored for the Lightning, who have won six of seven. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 42 saves.

Artemi Panarin had a power-play goal and Vincent Trocheck scored short-handed for New York. Igor Shesterkin allowed five goals on 13 shots before being pulled at the 8:08 mark of the second period. Jonathan Quick allowed one goal on 12 shots.

After a strong start, the Rangers are 4-14 in their past 18 games.

Tampa Bay pulled away with three goals in the second, two by Point. He has 24 this season, tied with Edmonton star Leon Draisaitl for the NHL lead.

The Rangers also scored on their penalty kill, Reilly Smith’s short-handed goal tying the score midway through the first period. Vincent Trocheck scored the tiebreaking goal and Chris Kreider added an empty-netter late in the third period.

Roope Hintz scored for the Stars, who completed a season-high six-game homestand at 3-3-0. Jake Oettinger stopped 27 shots making his eighth consecutive start.

New York won for the fourth time in 18 games after allowing the first goal.

Eight of Shesterkin’s saves came during a five-minute elbowing penalty against Matt Rempe midway through the third period.

Hintz has four goals in the last six games and a team-high 16 this season.

Each team had a goal disallowed during the first 1:15 for offside.

TAKEAWAYS

Rangers: Artemi Panarin, who leads the team in goals and points, returned after missing two games with an upper body injury and assisted on Trocheck’s goal. Rempe, who was given a game misconduct, drew all three Dallas penalties.

Stars: They went in 31st in home power play and dropped to 10.3%

KEY MOMENT

Smith took the puck from Thomas Harley, the lone defender on Dallas’ power play, near the Rangers’ blue line and broke in to tie the score after the Rangers fell behind early.

KEY STAT

A matchup of the second-best penalty kills both home and road delivered no goals in 23 combined power play minutes.

UP NEXT

Rangers host Carolina on Sunday, and Stars visit Utah on Monday night.

Jonathan Marchessault and Adam Wilsby scored and Juuse Saros made 25 saves to lead the Nashville Predators to a 2-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.

The Predators have won two of three following a franchise record-tying eight-game losing streak.

Igor Shesterkin made 30 saves for the struggling Rangers, losers of three straight.

The shutout was the third of the season and 26th of Saros’ career. Steven Stamkos and Filip Forsberg each had two assists.

Driving down the center of the ice, Stamkos took a pass from Forsberg on the left side and quickly slipped a backhand pass to Marchessault on the right for a tap-in past Shesterkin.

Marchessault has three goals and three assists in his last four games.

Wilsby added an insurance goal in the third period, his first NHL goal.

Takeaways

Rangers: Nothing seems to be going right for the defending Presidents’ Trophy-winning Rangers, and losing to the team with the fewest standings points entering Tuesday is just another hit to a team that is struggling to have anything go right for over the last month.

Predators: After struggling to put consistent line combinations together all season, Stamkos has been centering Forsberg and Marchessault on Nashville’s top line for the last four games and the trio have displayed chemistry playing together.

Key moment
With 1:35 remaining in the second period, Saros stopped Vincent Trocheck on a shorthanded breakaway to preserve Nashville’s 1-0 lead. Saros gloved down Trocheck’s wrist shot from the low slot.

Key stat
Nashville defenseman Luke Schenn recorded a career-high seven shots on goal. Six of those shots came in the span of three seconds midway through the second period, all on backhand shots from within 10 feet of the goal.

Up next
The Rangers complete their three-game road trip Friday in Dallas, while the Predators host the Pittsburgh Penguins Thursday.

BUFFALO — Adam Fox had a goal and two assist and the the New York Rangers beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 on Wednesday night.

Mika Zibanejad got his 300th career goal and Reilly Smith also scored for the Rangers, who snapped a two-game skid and got their third win in 11 games. Igor Shesterkin stopped 29 shots.

Owen Power and Tage Thompson scored for the Sabres, who have lost eight straight (0-5-3). Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 25 saves.

Fox had assists on Zibanejad’s power-play goal at 7:01 of the first period and Smith’s goal with 6:31 left in the third period that made it 2-0. After Power pulled the Sabres within one less than 2 minutes later, Fox’s empty-netter with 2:02 remaining sealed the win.

Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller did not play in the third period due to an upper-body injury.

TAKEAWAYS

Sabres: After stressing accountability all season, head coach Lindy Ruff benched star defenseman Power for the final 12 minutes of the first period after a turnover and forward J.J. Peterka for 19 minutes of the second period.

Rangers: Shesterkin’s win is his first since he signed an eight-year, $92 million contract extension and helps relieve some pressure after New York had back-to-back ugly losses to Seattle and Chicago at home.

KEY MOMENT

Zibanejad’s goal gave the Rangers the early lead and forced the Sabres to play from behind the rest of the way. New York’s record when scoring first improved to 12-2-0

KEY STAT

The last time the Sabres lost eight in a row was November 4-19, 2022, when they went 0-8-0. Buffalo last lost at least nine in a row when they dropped 18 straight games in February and March of 2021.

UP NEXT

Sabres visit Washington on Saturday to open a three-game trip, and Rangers host Los Angeles.

Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist, Arvid Soderblom stopped 29 shots and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Monday night.

Tyler Bertuzzi also scored for the Blackhawks, who were 0-5-1 in their previous six road games.

Will Cuylle scored a short-handed goal and Igor Shesterkin finished with 30 saves as the Rangers lost for the eighth time in 10 games.

Bertuzzi opened the scoring at 8:10 of the first, whipping the puck past Shesterkin for his sixth goal of the season.

Cuylle tied it with 43 seconds remaining in the opening period for his 10th goal of the season, tying him with Chris Kreider for second on the team.

Hall, who set up Bertuzzi’s goal, put Chicago ahead again with his sixth at 6:16 of the second, scoring on a 2-on-1 break with Connor Bedard.

TAKEAWAYS

Rangers: Finished 2-3-0 on a five-game homestand to fall to 7-7-1 at Madison Square Garden this season.

Blackhawks: Soderblom won for only the second time in nine decisions this season. The 25-year-old Swedish backup goalie is 2-6-1.

KEY MOMENT

Soderblom stopped Filip Chytil point-blank with just under 3 minutes left in the first period. He also denied defenseman K’Andre Miller with 5:28 left in the third.

KEY STAT

Bedard had an assist on Hall’s goal, giving him a team-high 21 points (five goals, 16 assists) in 28 games.

UP NEXT

Blackhawks visit the New York Islanders on Thursday, and Rangers visit Buffalo on Wednesday.