NEWARK — Stefan Noesen scored a power-play goal in overtime and Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves as the New Jersey Devils defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Saturday night.

Ondrej Palat and Jack Hughes also scored for New Jersey, which was coming off a 1-4-1 road trip since a 4-2 win over Carolina at home on Dec. 27. Markstrom is 21-8-3 in his first season with the Devils.

Noesen got his 17th goal 3:19 into the extra session with Nick Paul in the penalty box for tripping. Jesper Bratt had two assists in New Jersey’s sixth straight victory at home.

Victor Hedman and Nikita Kucherov scored for Tampa Bay.

Palat opened the scoring at 8:09 of the first period with his 10th goal, assisted by Dougie Hamilton and Bratt.

Hedman tied it with his sixth at 9:57.

Hughes whipped a high shot past Tampa Bay netminder Andrei Vasilevskiy at 15:16 of the second to put New Jersey ahead 2-1 with his 17th goal.

But after the Lightning failed to convert on two power-play chances early in the third, Kucherov scored his 18th on a breakaway at 8:05.

Vasilevskiy finished with 23 saves.

TAKEAWAYS

Lightning: Lost their fourth straight on the road.

Devils: Improved to 19-10-2 since a 3-0 loss at Calgary on Nov. 1.

KEY MOMENT

Markstrom denied the Lighthing on two power plays early in the third. His best stop was a sprawling glove save on Brayden Point at 3:19.

KEY STATS

The Devils are 21-0-1 when leading after two periods. Hughes leads the team with 52 points.

UP NEXT

Lightning: Visit the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.

Devils: Host the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers on Tuesday.

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

With the game tied 2-2, Ceci’s slap shot from the point beat Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom.

Yaroslav Askarov stopped 28 shots for San Jose, and Markstrom made 21 saves for New Jersey.

Macklin Celebrini gave the Sharks a 2-1 lead with a hard wrist shot on his first shift of the third period, but Paul Cotter answered for the Devils.

Nikolai Kovalenko scored his first goal with the Sharks late in the first period after joining the team in a trade last month. Nico Hischier, on his 26th birthday, tied the game in the second on the power play by deflecting the puck in off a pass by Jack Hughes.

TAKEAWAYS

Devils: The Devils lost their four straight on a six-game road trip, and have yet to find a rhythm coming off the holiday break.

Sharks: The Sharks won against a second consecutive playoff team after beating the Lightning on Thursday to snap an eight-game losing streak. Askarov, coming off a perfect third period on Thursday, looked solid in his second straight start as the Sharks are giving their goaltender of the future more experience.

KEY MOMENT

With the puck in the Devils’ zone in the final seconds of the third, Jonas Siegenthaler fell in the corner. The Sharks’ Alexander Wennberg retrieved the puck and passed it up high to Ceci, whose slap shot trickled off Markstrom’s glove and in.

KEY STAT

Celebrini’s 13th goal of the season put him in first amongst rookies. He entered the game tied with the Flyers’ Matvei Michkov.

UP NEXT

The Devils visit the Kraken on Monday, while the Sharks host the Golden Knights on Tuesday.

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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Casey Cizikas and Anders Lee each scored twice and the New York Islanders beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 on Saturday night.

Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Anthony Duclair also scored, and Mathew Barzal and Alexander Romanov each had two assists for New York, which had lost three of four. Ilya Sorokin finished with 22 saves.

Michael Bunting, Noel Acciari and Rickard Rakell scored for the Penguins, who were 4-1-1 in their previous six games. Tristan Jarry made 28 saves.

New York scored three-goals during a 4-minute stretch in the second period to take the lead.

Duclair put the Islanders ahead for good at 5:39. Lee made it 3-1 at 8:36 as his shot from the left side was stopped by Penguins defenseman Kris Letang behind a sprawled Jarry, but Letang then knocked the puck in. Cizikas scored 1:03 later on a deflection.

Acciari scored with 6:11 remaining in the second and Rakell made it 4-3 with 4 seconds left in the period.

Cizikas converted a breakaway with 5:17 left and Lee had an empty-netter in the final minute.

Pageau got the Islanders on the scoreboard with 5:13 left In the first period, and Bunting tied it 1:16 later for his 200th career point (86 goals, 114 assists).

TAKEAWAYS

Islanders: New York’s penalty kill was 3 for 4 after coming in a league-worst 64.4% at home.

Penguins: Pittsburgh squandered a chance to pass Ottawa for the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference after the Senators lost at Winnipeg. The Penguins remained one point behind.

KEY MOMENT

Rakell redirected Matt Grzelcyk’s shot in the closing seconds of the middle frame to pull the Penguins within one.

KEY STAT

Sidney Crosby initially was credited with a secondary assist on Bunting’s power-play goal in the first period, which would have given him No. 1,034 for his career to pass Mario Lemieux for the franchise record. However, that was later taken away.

UP NEXT

Penguins and Islanders complete a home-and-home in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

RALEIGH — Jackson Blake scored a power-play goal with 9:17 remaining to give Carolina the lead, and Jack Roslovic scored twice as the Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2 on Saturday night.

Dmitry Orlov and Sebastian Aho also scored in Carolina’s four-goal third period. Dustin Tokarski had 21 saves to help the Hurricanes forge a split of the home-and-home on consecutive nights.

Paul Cotter and Ondrej Palat scored for the Devils, who snapped a three-game winning streak. Jake Allen stopped 37 shots, but has gone more than a month without a victory.

Carolina’s Rod Brind’Amour became the fastest coach to 300 wins in NHL history. It was the Hurricanes’ 488th game under Brind’Amour, who reached that mark in eight fewer games that Bruce Boudreau.

New Jersey won 4-2 on Friday night at home.

TAKEAWAYS

Devils: They were in range of notching a season-high four-game winning streak before the Hurricanes racked up three goals in about 11 minutes. New Jersey allowed a total of two goals in its three previous games.

Hurricanes: They didn’t score until their 30th shot of the game on Orlov’s blast from the right circle with 30 seconds left in the second period. Defenseman Ty Smith made his Carolina debut against his former team with Shayne Gostisbehere out for the first time this season with an upper-body injury.

KEY MOMENT

New Jersey’s Timo Meier was called for a five-minute major and game misconduct after a center-ice hit on Hurricanes scoring leader Martin Necas (14 goals, 30 assists). Carolina took the lead on the ensuing power play.

KEY STAT

The teams split four meetings this season. The first three results came by 4-2 scores.

UP NEXT

Devils play at Anaheim on Tuesday, and Hurricanes visit Columbus.

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.