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By the associated press
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) – Anders Lee, back this season after recovering from his ACL injury, scored to lead the New York Islanders to a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in a game preparatory in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Tuesday night.
Lee, the New York captain, tore his ACL in the Islanders 5-3 against the New Jersey Devils on March 11. He missed the rest of the 2021 regular season and New York’s entire run to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Anthony Beauvillier and Josh Bailey also scored for New York, and Cory Schneider stopped 24 shots for the shutout.
Martin Jones made 14 saves for the Flyers.
PANTHERS 3, ÉCLAIR 2
ORLANDO (AP) – Owen Tippett scored twice in the third period to help Florida beat Tampa Bay.
Tippett’s first goal – just 2:23 of the period – broke a tie 1-1, and his second ended up being the game winner.
Frank Vatrano also scored for the Panthers and Spencer Knight made 23 saves.
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Mikhail Sergachev scored for Tampa Bay, and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 16 shots. Sergachev’s goal with 1:15 remaining in regulation ended the scoring.
PENGUINS 5, SABERS 4, SW
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Jason Zucker scored in the ninth round of the shootout to give Pittsburgh a victory over Buffalo.
Kasperi Kapanen scored his third goal of the preseason in the third period, Drew O’Connor scored twice and Radim Zohorna also scored. Casey DeSmith made 23 saves. Bryan Rust and Danton Heinen also scored in the shootout.
Jack Quinn, Arttu Ruotsalainen and Tage Thompson scored in the shootout for Buffalo.
Anders Bjork, Brett Murray, Vinnie Hinostroza and Victor Olofsson scored in regulation for the Sabers. Dustin Tokarski started and stopped 15 of 16 shots in 30:15 of ice time. Aaron Dell stopped 19 of 22 shots in his half of the game.
Bjork had a chance to prolong the shooting but his attempt was refused by DeSmith.
PREDATORS 3, HURRICANE 2, OT
RALEIGH, NC (AP) – Philip Tomasino scored 2:49 in overtime as Nashville beat Carolina.
Ryan Johansen and Matt Duchene also scored for the Predators. Juuse Saros made 39 saves,
Steven Lorentz and Jesper Fast scored for Carolina and Antti Raanta stopped 29 shots.
MAPLE LEAVES 6, CANADIANS 2
TORONTO (AP) – Free agent signing Nick Ritchie scored his first two goals for Toronto in a win over Montreal.
Brennan Menell and Brett Seney each scored one goal and one assist, and Ilya Mikheyev and Semyon Der-Arguchintsev added goals for the Maple Leafs. Mitch Marner and John Tavares each finished with two assists.
Petr Mrazek made 20 saves for the Maple Leafs.
Joel Armia scored one goal and one assist, and Alex Belzile also scored for Montreal. Sam Montembeault made 38 saves on his Montreal debut after being claimed Saturday off waivers from the Florida Panthers.
3 STARS, 1 BLUE
DALLAS (AP) – Luke Glendening scored the deciding goal in the third period and Dallas beat St. Louis.
Joel Hanley also scored and got an assist on Jamie Benn’s empty net. Braden Holtby stopped 27 shots.
Niko Mikkola scored for Saint-Louis. Jordan Binnington finished with 26 saves,
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