Flyers 7, Rangers 4

Pressed into action after Flyers starter Michal Neuvirth left with a lower-body injury, rookie goaltender Alex Lyon was confident at Madison Square Garden having played there before for Yale.

In his fourth NHL game, Lyon calmly went out over the next 40 minutes and made 25 saves for his first NHL win as the surging Flyers rolled past the slumping Rangers on Sunday for their sixth win in seven games.

"It was good, fun building, great atmosphere and I can't give enough credit to the guys," said the 25-year-old Lyon, who signed with Philadelphia as a free agent in April 2016 after three years at Yale. "A first NHL win you can talk about for a long time."

Travis Konecny scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period to provide the margin of victory. His 15th goal of the season at 15:40 snapped a 4-4 tie.

Claude Giroux and Jori Lehtera scored in the third to finish off the win, Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist allowed all seven goals. Giroux's goal was his 20th of the season and the 200th of his NHL career.

Flyers coach Dave Hakstol expressed confidence that possibly having to go with Lyon in games ahead would be a welcome challenge for his club, which is just four points behind Pittsburgh for the Metropolitan Division lead.

"We've won games as a team. And we'll continue to do that," Hakstol said. "Whoever is in net for us will do a good job."

The Flyers are 22-8-3 since Dec. 4, when they won at Calgary to end a 10-game winless streak. Philadelphia also extended their winning streak on the road to five games.

"In the third period, Alex made some big saves for us," Giroux said. "He was solid."

The Rangers have lost four straight games. They are 3-11-0 since beating Buffalo at home on Jan. 18 and 6-15-0 since downing the Sabres in the Winter Classic on Jan. 1.

"You give up seven, it's not a good feeling," Lundqvist said. "I have to be better. Obviously, there are a lot of mistakes."

Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first game the Rangers played at the current Madison Square Garden; on Feb. 18, 1968, a 3-1 win over the Flyers.

This game started in throwback Rangers-Flyers fashion with a fight at center ice between Rangers forward Pavel Buchnevich and Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere just 15 seconds into the game.

There were two more bouts in the opening 20 minutes - a tussle between Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo and Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds and another between veteran fighters Dale Weise of the Flyers and the Rangers' Cody McLeod.

Each team also scored three times in the first.

Kevin Hayes gave the Rangers the early lead when he redirected a point shot by defenseman Ryan Sproul past Neuvirth. Hayes' 14th goal of the season came at 1:30.

Philadelphia knotted the score at 4:53 when defenseman Andrew MacDonald scored his fourth of the season.

Rick Nash, the subject of trade rumors over the past several weeks, put the Rangers ahead 2-1 with his 18th goal at 10:54 when he tapped a rebound past Neuvirth. The 33-year-old Nash, whose contract expires after this season, is one point shy of 800 for his career.

Scott Laughton tied the score again at 12:11 with his 10th goal.

The Flyers went ahead at 14:53 when Brandon Manning rifled a shot past Lundqvist after a fine setup by Giroux.

The Rangers tied it yet again on a pretty goal by Mats Zuccarello after a slick feed from Peter Holland. The goal was Zuccarello's 10th and only his second since Dec. 16.

Zuccarello, the team's leading scorer the past two seasons whose name has also surfaced in trade rumors, was not pleased with his team's effort.

"We were playing dumb defensively. We have to be better than that." the 30-year-old Norwegian forward said. "It's really, really hard right now."

Philadelphia went ahead 4-3 at 2:01 of the second on a goal by rookie Nolan Patrick, his sixth.

New York tied it at 4 when Holland scored his first of the season and first as a Ranger at 5:47.

The matchup was the second of four between the teams this season. The Rangers won the previous meeting, 5-1 at the Garden on Jan. 16.

The Rangers have been in a freefall since early January. Now they face games without playoff-race meaning as the season winds down. That would be a first for the 35-year-old Lundqvist, who has made the postseason every year but one during his career that began in 2005-06. That was in 2010 when the Rangers missed out on the last day of the season in a shootout loss at Philadelphia.

"It's terrible, absolutely terrible" he said of his mindset amid the ongoing slump. "You live for this."

Devils 3, Hurricanes 2

Taylor Hall has had the hottest stick in the NHL for the past month, but on Sunday his streak almost came to an end.

Then came overtime.

Hall came through with the winning goal with 22 seconds left in the extra period, giving New Jersey a victory over Carolina.

The goal extended Hall's league-best streak of games with a point to 18.

New Jersey had won the first of the teams' four meetings this season on Thursday night to start the Hurricanes' three-game losing streak.

"It was a self-starter type of game for us," New Jersey coach John Hymes said. "It's on them to find a way to have the motivation to play as hard as we did and they did that. That's a great sign for us moving forward."

Keith Kinkaid stopped 40 shots for the Devils.

"I think the fact that this was a 5 o'clock game was pretty understated," Hall said. "The fact that they're not on a back to back, we played last night. The flight from Tampa to Carolina is a lot longer than you think. We weren't a rested group by any means, but you saw the battle level that was there and that's always good."

The Devils led 1-0 after a first period in which the Hurricanes outshot them 13-9.

Nico Hischier scored New Jersey's first goal on a power play midway through the first, assisted by Sami Vatanen and Kinkaid.

The Hurricanes tied it at 6:25 of the second with Teuvo Teravainen scoring from Trevor van Riemsdyk and Victor Rask, who was playing in his 300th NHL game - all with Carolina.

"I thought we had some good looks," Carolina coach Bill Peters said. "We had the puck plenty. But that was a tough one. We gifted them both of their goals tonight."

The Devils went back ahead with 4:27 left in the second when Pavel Zacha scored on the assist from John Moore.

Jeff Skinner tied the game in a sixth-attacker situation with 1:18 left in regulation on assists from Brett Pesce and Jaccob Slavin.

Hurricanes goalie Cam Ward had 18 saves.

Avalanche 4, Oilers 2

Connor McDavid had his third hat trick of the season and Edmonton beat Colorado to snap a six-game losing streak.

McDavid has 11 goals in the last nine games and two hat tricks. His first two goals tied it, and the third was into an empty net with 1:26 left. He has five goals in two games against Colorado this season.

Ryan Strome also scored, and Cam Talbot had 24 saves to help the Oilers snap Colorado's 10-game home winning streak. Tyson Jost and Alexander Kerfoot scored for the Avalanche.

Penguins 5, Blue Jackets 2

Riley Sheahan scored two goals in the first period and rookie Tristan Jarry made 35 saves in Pittsburgh's victory over Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2.

Jake Guentzel had a goal and two assists, and Brian Dumoulin and Zach Aston-Reese also scored for the Penguins. They have won five straight and 10 of their last 12. The win in front of a sellout crowd at Nationwide Arena moved them past Washington into first place in the Metropolitan Division.

Artemi Panarin and Alexander Wennberg scored for Columbus.

Maple Leafs 3, Red Wings 2

Auston Matthews scored with 30.2 seconds left to push Toronto past Detroit.

Matthews took William Nylander's pass and snapped a high shot into the roof of the net from a sharp angle for his 27th goal of the season, but just his fourth winner.

James van Riemsdyk and Mitch Marner also scored for Toronto, and Curtis McElhinney made 27 saves. Anthony Mantha and Henrik Zetterberg scored for Detroit.

Sharks 5, Stars 2

Mikkel Boedker scored twice in San Jose's four-goal first period and the Sharks beat Dallas for their fourth victory in five games.

Joe Pavelski, Melker Karlsson and Justin Braun also scored and Martin Jones made 26 saves.

Gemel Smith and Tyler Pitlick scored for Dallas. Ben Bishop was chased after allowing four goals on five shots, and Kari Lehtonen made 22 saves in relief. The Stars had won six of their previous seven.

Jets 7, Panthers 2

Kyle Connor scored twice, Blake Wheeler and Tyler Myers each had three assists and Winnipeg beat Florida to take the Central Division lead.

Nikolaj Ehlers, Mark Scheifele, Bryan Little, Mathieu Perreault and Patrik Laine also scored and Connor Hellebuyck made 25 saves to help the Jets win their third straight. They are 6-2-1 with a game left on a 10-game homestand. Denis Malgin and Aleksander Barkov had power-play goals for Florida.