Saturday's NHL Capsules

Games played on April 11, 2015

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Ottawa found its point and the postseason.

Needing just one point in the season finale, the Senators wrapped up their sizzling second-half rally with a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday and clinched a spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Headed toward a spot in the NHL draft lottery two months ago, the Senators finished 23-4-4 over their final 31 games to storm into the postseason. The Senators will face the Montreal Canadiens in the first round.

The Senators hope they can play deep into the postseason behind goalie Andrew Hammond. Nicknamed the "Hamburglar", Hammond went from a borderline AHL goalie to posting a 20-1-2 record since he was recalled in the second half.

He stopped 34 shots and made sure the Senators would not need help from other teams to make the playoffs.

Mark Stone scored twice and Jean-Gabriel Pageau also scored for Ottawa. Matt Read scored for the Flyers.

PENGUINS 2, SABRES 0

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Brandon Sutter scored twice and Marc-Andre Fleury made 28 saves in Pittsburgh's playoff-clinching win over last-place Buffalo, the final day of the NHL regular season

The Penguins snapped a 0-4-1 skid to secure the Eastern Conference's remaining wild-card spot, and eliminate the Boston Bruins in the process. Pittsburgh extended its playoff string to nine consecutive seasons - the NHL's second-longest streak behind the Detroit Red Wings' 24 - and avoided a near monumental late-season collapse.

The Penguins (43-27-12), who will face the New York Rangers in the first round, limped into the playoffs by going 4-9-2 over their final 15 games.

DUCKS 2, COYOTES 1

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Ryan Getzlaf and Jakob Silfverberg scored to lead Anaheim over Arizona Coyotes in the season finale.

Frederik Andersen made 23 saves for the Ducks, who snapped a two-game losing streak and secured the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Anaheim will face Winnipeg in the first round of the playoffs.

The Ducks set an NHL record with their 33rd one-goal victory, surpassing the previous mark of 32 set by the New Jersey Devils in 2006-07.

Sam Gagner scored and Mike Smith made 36 saves for the Coyotes.

CANADIENS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3, SO

TORONTO (AP) - Alex Galchenyuk and David Desharnais scored in the shootout and Montreal beat Toronto in a shootout to clinch the Atlantic Division title and the second seed in the Eastern Conference.

Desharnais, Tomas Plekanec and Jacob De La Rose scored for the Canadiens, who got 19 saves from Vezina Trophy favorite Carey Price.

Phil Kessel, Casey Bailey and Tyler Bozak scored for Toronto, ending a season that will likely prompt plenty of changes in the coming days, weeks and months. Jonathan Bernier stopped 30 of 33 shots.

Montreal's win, combined with a victory by the Detroit Red Wings, set the playoff picture with the Habs opening up against the Ottawa Senators.

RANGERS 4, CAPITALS 2

WASHINGTON (AP) - Kevin Hayes and Dominic Moore each had a goal and an assist, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 22 shots and New York capped its stellar regular season with a win over Washington.

The Rangers (53-22-7), winners of the Presidents' Trophy as the league's top team in the regular season, set franchise records for wins and points (113) in a season. The Rangers will open the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Derick Brassard and Jesper Fast (empty netter) added goals for New York, and Martin St. Louis had two assists.

Alex Ovechkin scored his league-leading 53rd goal for Washington and Stanislav Galiev scored the first of his career. The Capitals will have home-ice advantage in their first-round series against the New York Islanders.

LIGHTNING 3, BRUINS 2, SO

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Victor Hedman scored the lone shootout goal, and playoff-bound Tampa Bay beat Boston.

The Bruins' postseason hopes were dashed midway through the third when Pittsburgh claimed the final Eastern Conference wild card by beating Buffalo 2-0. Boston had made the playoffs in each of the previous seven seasons.

Jonathan Marchessault had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who finished second behind Atlantic Division winner Montreal. Tampa Bay (50-24-8) reached 50 wins for the first time and will play Detroit in the first round of the postseason.

Loui Eriksson and Brad Marchand scored for the Bruins, who ended the season with three straight losses. Tuukka Rask finished with 23 saves while tying a team goalie record by playing in his 70th game this season.

STARS 4, PREDATORS 1

DALLAS (AP) - Jamie Benn had three goals and an assist, and Dallas beat Nashville.

Benn had 13 points in the final five games to edge Islanders star John Tavares by one point for the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL scoring leader. Benn finished the season with 35 goals and 52 assists.

Benn scored at 7:35 and 13:33 of the first period. He also shot into an empty net with 2:05 to play and assisted on Cody Eakin's goal with 9 seconds left.

Rookie Filip Forsberg scored for the Predators at 11:33 of the first period. Nashville will face Chicago in the first round of the playoffs.

RED WINGS 2, HURRICANES 0

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Petr Mrazek made 35 saves in his third shutout of the season, leading Detroit past Carolina.

Landon Ferraro scored his first career goal in the opening minute and Joakim Andersson added an empty-netter with 2:20 left to help the playoff-bound Red Wings - who gave regulars Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk the night off - clinch the Atlantic Division's No. 3 seed.

Detroit will play Tampa Bay in the first round of the postseason.

After giving up a goal on the first shot he faced, Cam Ward finished with 27 saves for the Hurricanes - who missed the playoffs for the sixth straight season.

BLUES 4, WILD 2

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Vladimir Tarasenko and Alexander Steen returned from injuries with two points apiece, helping St. Louis finish the regular season strong with a victory over Minnesota.

Jori Lehtera scored twice and Brian Elliott was solid in net for the Central Division champions, who thwarted Minnesota's bid for an NHL-record 13th consecutive road victory.

Marco Scandella and Zach Parise scored for the Wild, who allowed two or fewer goals in each of the wins that matched the 2005-06 Red Wings for the NHL's longest road winning streak. Minnesota, which pulled goalie Devan Dubnyk before the third period trailing 3-1, has the first wild-card spot in the West.

The teams will face each other in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. St. Louis will have home-ice advantage.

BLUE JACKETS 5, ISLANDERS 4, SO

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Cam Atkinson and Alexander Wennberg scored in the shootout to lead Columbus over New York in the last regular season game at Nassau Coliseum.

Atkinson, Wennberg, Brandon Dubinsky, and Scott Hartnell also scored in regulation for Columbus. Curtis McElhinney had 48 saves for the Blue Jackets.

Kyle Okposo, Eric Boulton, John Tavares and Nikolay Kulemin scored in regulation for New York and Jaroslav Halak stopped 33 shots.

The loss gives Washington home-ice advantage against the Islanders in the teams' first-round playoff series.

AVALANCHE 3, BLACKHAWKS 2

DENVER (AP) - Jarome Iginla's second power-play goal with 32.9 seconds left lifted Colorado over Chicago.

Semyon Varlamov had 28 saves and Cody McLeod also scored for Colorado, which won four of its last five despite being eliminated from the postseason a week ago.

The Blackhawks rested captain Jonathan Toews and defenseman Duncan Keith after learning they were locked into the No. 3 seed in the Central Division. Minnesota's loss to St. Louis earlier Saturday clinched a first-round matchup with Nashville.

KINGS 4, SHARKS 1

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Brayden McNabb and Marian Gaborik scored third-period goals, and Los Angeles wrapped up its season with a victory over San Jose.

Tyler Toffoli and Andy Andreoff also scored and Jonathan Quick made 20 saves for the defending Stanley Cup champions, whose reign ended quietly in an afternoon game with no stakes. Both California rivals are missing the playoffs in the same season for the first time since 2003.

The Kings are the first champs to miss the ensuing postseason since Carolina in 2007, finishing ninth in the Western Conference after a winless three-game road trip to Canada earlier in the week.

Brent Burns scored a power-play goal and Alex Stalock stopped 32 shots for the Sharks.

JETS 5, FLAMES 1

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - Lee Stempniak had a goal and assist and playoff-bound Winnipeg set a franchise record for points in a rout of Calgary.

Drew Stafford, Michael Frolik, Adam Lowry and Matt Halischuk also scored for the Jets.

The win gave the Jets 99 points, two more than the Atlanta Thrashers earned in 2006-'07 before their relocation to Winnipeg in 2011.

The Jets (43-26-13) also tied the franchise record for wins. Winnipeg will face Anaheim in the playoffs.

Michael Ferland scored for Calgary, which had its three-game winning streak end. Calgary will face Vancouver in the first round.

PANTHERS 3, DEVILS 2

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) - Jaromir Jagr had a goal and an assist, and Florida beat New Jersey in the season finale for each team.

Jagr's 17th goal of the season put him in a tie with Wayne Gretzky for 14th with 204 career power-play goals. He also grabbed sole possession of sixth on the NHL's career list for assists with 1,080.

It was Jagr's first game against the Devils since they traded him to Florida on Feb. 26. Jagr has six goals and 12 assists in 20 games with Florida.

Jonathan Huberdeau and Dave Bolland also scored for the Panthers.