Rangers edge Bruins in seven-round shootout

Tony DeAngelo scored in the seventh round of a shootout Wednesday night for the New York Rangers, who stormed back from a two-goal, third-period deficit to edge the visiting Boston Bruins 4-3.Neither team scored in the first two shootout rounds before the Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad and the Bruins’ Brad Marchand exchanged goals in the third round. After three more scoreless rounds, DeAngelo beat Bruins goalie Jaroslav Halak before David Krejci misfired for Boston.Zibanejad scored in the first period before Danton Heinen, David Pastrnak and Patrice Bergeron scored in the second to give the Bruins a 3-1 lead. The Rangers forced overtime when Kevin Hayes and Filip Chytil scored in a span of 3:17 in the third period.Goalie Alexandar Georgiev made 27 saves through regulation and overtime for the Rangers, who ended a two-game losing streak. Halak recorded 36 saves in regulation and overtime for the Bruins, who had a two-game winning streak snapped.The Rangers went ahead with 2:15 left in the first, when the red-hot Zibanejad swooped in between the faceoff circles and fired a shot that sailed past Halak’s glove. Zibanejad has 10 goals and 16 points since Jan. 15.The Bruins scored three times in a span of fewer than five minutes in the second half of the second period. Heinen opened the sequence at 10:37, when his redirect of a slap shot by Matt Grzelcyk fluttered over Georgiev’s shoulder and into the net. Pastrnak put the Bruins ahead just 1:12 later, when he was stationed in the crease, took a feed from Krejci and beat Georgiev from point-blank range. Boston extended the lead to 3-1 on a power-play goal by Bergeron, who redirected Torey Krug’s slap shot with 4:49 left. The Rangers tied the game in quick fashion in the third.Hayes capped an end-to-end rush by putting back the rebound of a Jimmy Vesey shot at the 9:24 mark. New York tied the game with 8:19 remaining, when Pavel Buchnevich’s shot glanced off the left post and skittered to Chytil, who fired the puck off the right post and into the net as Halak was left sprawling in front of the net.Rielly breaks tie as Leafs hold off SenatorsMorgan Rielly scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period, and the Toronto Maple Leafs held off the visiting Ottawa Senators for a 5-4 victory Wednesday night.Zach Hyman and John Tavares each produced a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs, who won their third straight. Andreas Johnsson and Auston Matthews also scored. Mitch Marner added two assists. Magnus Paajarvi scored twice and Matt Duchene and Thomas Chabot each scored once for the Senators, who have lost five in a row. Jean-Gabriel Pageau had two assists. Frederik Andersen made 40 saves for Toronto.Ottawa’s Craig Anderson stopped 25 shots.Marner’s pass from the left circle connected with Hyman at the goalmouth, and Hyman tipped the puck in for his 10th goal of the season at 7:46 of the first period.Paajarvi tied the game at 17:18 of the first, taking a pass from Pageau near the Toronto blue line, cutting through the middle and shooting from the right hash marks.Ottawa led 2-1 at 1:35 of the second period on Duchene’s 22nd goal this season, a sharp-angled shot from the left of the net to the top corner. Ryan Dzingel set it up after taking a rebound from in front of the goal and nudging the puck back to Duchene.Toronto tied it at 14:20 of the second on Johnsson’s 13th goal, on a backhander from the right circle. An attempted Ottawa clearance had bounced off the shaft of Frederik Gauthier’s stick to Johnsson.Toronto led 3-2 after Matthews, who signed a five-year contract extension this week, notched No. 24, unassisted, at 16:29 of the second. He lugged the puck toward the goal and lost it before regaining it and scoring. Tavares converted a goalmouth pass from Marner for his 32nd this season at 18:20 of the second to give Toronto a 4-2 lead.Chabot scored his 11th goal, firing home a loose puck in the slot 40 seconds into the third period.Paajarvi tied the game 4-4 at 3:59 of the third, knocking home Zack Smith’s rebound for his seventh goal this season.Rielly restored Toronto’s lead with his 14th goal on a give-and-go with Hyman at 9:12 of the third.