Bruins stay red-hot with 5-1 rout of New York Islanders

Fiveplayers scored a goal apiece Tuesday night for the Boston Bruins, whoremained red-hot with a 5-1 win over the New York Islanders at BarclaysCenter in Brooklyn, N.Y.Danton Heinen scored in the first, PatriceBergeron scored the go-ahead goal in the second and Brad Marchand andTim Schaller provided insurance goals in the third for the Bruins(22-10-6), who capped the scoring with an empty-netter by Noel Acciariwith 2:13 left. Boston has won seven of its last 10 (7-1-2).Bruinsgoalie Tuukka Rask, who was named the NHL’s first star of the month forDecember earlier Tuesday, recorded 25 saves in winning his sixthstraight start. Rask went 9-0-1 last month.Jordan Eberle scored forthe Islanders (20-16-4), who have lost three straight (0-3-0) and sevenof 10 (3-6-1). Goalie Jaroslav Halak made 33 saves.Both teams scored goals immediately off faceoffs within a 73-second span shortly before the midway point of the first.Afterthe Bruins’ Riley Nash won a faceoff deep in the New York zone withJohn Tavares, the puck bounced to Heinen, whose shot from the circlesailed past Halak 8:17 into the period.Bergeron won his faceoffagainst the Islanders’ Mathew Barzal in the Boston zone, after which thepuck skittered towards the net as Eberle and Bruins defenseman BrandonCarlo chased after it. But Carlo fell, which left Eberle all alone infront of Rask. Eberle maneuvered the puck to the left of the net and,with Rask falling to the right, tucked a shot into the corner.Bergeronput the Bruins ahead with an unusual goal 8:28 into the second. BradMarchand’s shot from point-blank range skipped over the head of Halakand behind the net, where Bergeron caught it, dropped it and wrapped ashot off the back of Halak’s skate and into the back of the net.Marchand and Schaller scored a little less than six minutes apart in thethird to put the game away for the Bruins.Ovechkin guides Caps past HurricanesAlexOvechkin scored the tying and winning goals as the Washington Capitalsrallied for a 5-4 overtime victory against the Carolina Hurricanes onTuesday night in Raleigh, N.C.Ovechkin’s 26th goal of the seasoncame unassisted 1:57 into overtime as the Metropolitan Division-leadingCapitals snapped Carolina’s six-game, home-ice winning streak. Ovechkintied the game at 4-4 with 7:15 to play in regulation. Alex Chiasson,Devante Smith-Pelly and Dmitry Orlov also scored for the Capitals, whowere playing in their only game of the week.Carolina (18-13-8) lostits second game in a row following a season-high, four-game winningstreak. Victor Rask collected two goals for the Hurricanes, and EliasLindholm and Teuvo Teravainen also scored.