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TORONTO (AP) Mitch Marner had a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to 10 games and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Florida Panthers 4-3 on Wednesday night to set a franchise record with their 46th win.Toronto also set a high-water mark with its 27th home win and can clinch a playoff spot if the Philadelphia Flyers lose in regulation to the Colorado Avalanche later Wednesday.James van Riemsdyk added his 35th goal – and the 200th career – for Toronto Womens Zach Hyman Jersey , while Auston Matthews and Patrick Marleau added their 30th and 25th goals, respectively.Frederik Andersen made 30 saves and set a career high with his 36th victory.Jonathan Huberdeau scored twice, and Evgenii Dadonov also scored for Florida, which got 31 stops from Roberto Luongo, including a couple of big ones early.CAPITALS 3, RANGERS 2, OTWASHINGTON (AP) – Evgeny Kuznetsov scored 38 seconds into overtime to help Washington move closer to its fourth consecutive playoff appearance.Kuznetsov’s goal came after Washington’s Lars Eller tied it with 1:05 left in the third period with goaltender Braden Holtby pulled for an extra attacker. Holtby stopped 35 of the 37 shots he faced to look more like the Vezina Trophy winner than he had shown in recent months.Andre Burakovsky also scored for Washington, which has won five in a row and leads the Metropolitan Division. Henrik Lundqvist made 30 saves for the Rangers in his first career game with no playoff implications.Kevin Hayes and Ryan Spooner scored New York’s goals as it outshot Washington 37-33 in its first contest since being eliminated from the playoff hunt.FLYERS 2, AVALANCHE 1DENVER (AP) – Ivan Provorov had a goal and an assist, Petr Mrazek stopped all 17 shots he faced in relief of starter Michal Neuvirth and Philadelphia held off Colorado.Claude Giroux also scored as the Flyers climbed into third place in the Metropolitan Division. They’re tied in points (92) with second-place Pittsburgh, with the Penguins currently holding the tiebreaker.Philadelphia looked crisp early – scoring both goals in the first period – despite losing in overtime at Dallas a night earlier. Neuvirth turned back 10 shots in his first game since suffering a lower-body injury on Feb. 18, but he exited the game midway through the second period for an undisclosed reason.Matt Nieto scored for an Avalanche team that’s on the outside of the playoff picture with five games remaining. Andrew Hammond had 31 saves during an emergency start for Semyon Varlamov Bo Horvat Jersey , who was sidelined by an illness.COYOTES 3, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2LAS VEGAS (AP) – Kevin Connauton scored twice to lead Arizona over Vegas.It marked Arizona’s first victory over the expansion Golden Knights in the teams’ fifth and final game this season.Richard Panik also scored for the Coyotes, and Antti Raanta improved to 18-16-6 by making 27 saves.Erik Haula and Alex Tuch scored for the playoff-bound Golden Knights. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 29 shots.— CHICAGO (AP) The Anaheim Ducks are in the playoff hunt heading into the final part of the season despite a couple of injuries to key players throughout the year.Without Adam Henrique, they would be in major trouble.Henrique snapped a tie with his 18th goal 8:34 into the third period, and the Ducks handed the Chicago Blackhawks their eighth straight loss with a 3-2 victory on Thursday night.Article continues below ...”I thought the guys did a great job sticking with it in the third, even when we were under pressure,” Henrique said. ”A lot of big blocked shots and a lot of big plays that usually get overlooked, but are big plays for the win.”The 28-year-old Henrique has 14 goals, including six game-winners, and eight assists in 34 games since he was acquired in a Nov. 30 trade with New Jersey. He has adjusted to a couple different roles as injured players have returned to the Ducks.”He’s a real smart player and we feel very, very fortunate to have him,” coach Randy Carlyle said.Ondrej Kase had a goal and two assists and John Gibson made 42 saves as Anaheim improved to 1-1 on a four-game trip. Nick Ritchie added a goal and an assist.The Ducks (28-20-11) had dropped two in a row and four of six Youth Brandon Sutter Jersey , hurting their playoff positioning as they try to secure a postseason spot in the Western Conference.”It was huge win for us,” Ritchie said. ”Obviously not a perfect game, but we’ll take the two points.”Kase found a wide-open Henrique in front, and he beat Anton Forsberg to lift Anaheim to a 3-2 lead. Chicago pulled Forsberg for an extra attacker with about 2:15 left, but Gibson made a great stop on Brandon Saad to help the Ducks hold on during the frantic final minutes.Duncan Keith scored his first goal of the season for last-place Chicago (24-26-8), which has lost seven in a row at home. Saad also snapped a long scoring drought, and Forsberg made 29 stops.”I think we just made too many mistakes,” Saad said. ”We had some good minutes, but we’re giving up too many chances, breakaways, things like that.”The eight-game slide for the once-mighty Blackhawks is their longest losing streak since they dropped nine in a row in early 2012.”It just seems like it’s the way it’s been going. If we give up a goal, it seems we get down on ourselves or something Brendan Leipsic Jersey Kids , I don’t know,” Keith said. ”It kind of snowballs. There’s where we kind of have to dig in and bear down and battle a little bit harder.”Chicago jumped in front on its fourth power play of the game. With Cam Fowler in the penalty box for tripping Alex DeBrincat, Keith drove a long slap shot by a screened Gibson on the glove side 1:45 into the second period.It was the first goal for Keith since March 16 at Ottawa. The two-time Norris Trophy winner has just 26 points after he had six goals and 47 assists last season.Saad then finished off a pretty give-and-go with Vinnie Hinostroza at 9:12, tapping it in at the net for his 14th of the season. Saad had no goals and one assist in his previous 16 games.But Anaheim responded with goals on back-to-back shots midway through the period. Ritchie put a backhander into the upper corner on Forsberg’s glove side 41 seconds after Saad scored, and Kase finished off a breakaway with another nice backhander for the tying goal at 12:18.Chicago got another power play after Blackhawks forward Ryan Hartman creased Jakob Silfverberg with a big hit with about two minutes left in the second, prompting Anaheim’s Josh Manson to start a fight with Hartman. But the Ducks killed it off, part of a 1-for-5 night with the man advantage for the Blackhawks.NOTES: Chicago recalled G Jean-Francois Berube from Rockford of AHL and assigned goalie Jeff Glass to its top minor league affiliate. The 26-year-old Berube made one appearance with the Blackhawks earlier this season, stopping 12 of 14 shots on Dec. 6 at Washington. … The Blackhawks traded minor-league D Ville Pokka to Ottawa for center Chris DiDomenico, who will report to Rockford.UP NEXTDucks: Visit Minnesota on Saturday.Blackhawks: Host Washington on Saturday night.—Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap

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