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WASHINGTON -- Alex Ovechkin scored his first hat trick this season and the 16th of his 10-year NHL career to lead the Washington Capitals over the St. Louis Blues 4-3 on Wednesday night.Ovechkin had a goal in each period to move one hat trick ahead of Floridas Jaromir Jagr for the most among active players. The three-time MVP, who has 12 goals this season, led the Capitals to their third win through four games of a five-game homestand.Evgeny Kuznetsov had a goal and an assist for Washington, which outshot St. Louis 25-21 and held a lead throughout the final two periods.Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice and Alex Pietrangelo added a late goal for the Blues, who had won four straight. Carter Hutton made 21 saves as No. 1 goalie Jake Allen sat out the second of back-to-back games.PENGUINS 6, RANGERS 1NEW YORK -- Sidney Crosby had two goals and an assist during a five-goal second period and Pittsburgh shut down division-leading New York in a rout.The Penguins held New York without a shot on goal over 23:59 spanning the second and third periods. Scott Wilson, Conor Sheary, Phil Kessel and Matt Cullen also scored for Pittsburgh, and Matt Murray had 16 saves.The Penguins moved two points behind New York for first place in the Metropolitan Division.The Rangers won at Pittsburgh 5-2 on Monday behind a breakout second period. The Penguins exacted revenge Wednesday in nearly the exact same fashion.Pittsburgh trailed 1-0 after 20 minutes, but then the defending Stanley Cup champions took control, chasing Henrik Lundqvist after four goals on 17 shots.FLAMES 2, BLUE JACKETS 0COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Chad Johnson made 34 saves for his second shutout in five starts, leading Calgary over Columbus.Troy Brouwer and Micheal Ferland scored for Calgary, which has sought stability between the pipes during an up-and-down early part of the season. The Flames maligned special teams came up big in this one.Calgary, ranked 29th in penalty killing entering the game, was perfect during a long Columbus power play in the second period, and then its league-worst power play added a goal in the third.Columbus dropped to 10-3-3 in its last 16 and has lost two straight at home since rolling off seven wins in a row, a franchise record.RED WINGS 2, SABRES 1, SOBUFFALO, N.Y. -- Gustav Nyquist scored in regulation and in a shootout to help Detroit snap a four-game losing streak.Thomas Vanek also scored in the shootout and had an assist in regulation for the Red Wings, while Brian Gionta scored in regulation for the Sabres.Jimmy Howard made 32 saves for the Red Wings, and Robin Lehner made 23 saves for the SabresAfter 36 scoreless minutes, the Red Wings went ahead when Nyquist found the back of the net following a spinning pass from Thomas Vanek. The goal was Nyquists team-leading fourth of the season.PREDATORS 5, STARS 2NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Filip Forsberg, James Neal and Ryan Johansen each had a goal and an assist to lead Nashville over Dallas.Mike Fisher and Craig Smith also scored for Nashville, winners of three of four.Pekka Rinne made 33 saves for Nashville, improving to 7-1-2 this November.Patrick Sharp and Brett Ritchie scored and Kari Lehtonen made 16 saves for the Stars, who have lost two of three.LIGHTNING 4, FLYERS 2TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Killorn and Ryan Callahan scored 12 seconds apart in the third period to help Tampa Bay beat Philadelphia.The Lightning also got goals from Victor Hedman and Nikita Kucherov. Andrei Vasilevskiy, coming off consecutive shutouts, stopped 29 shots.Dale Weise and Ivan Provorov scored for the Flyers, who were coming off a 3-1 win Tuesday night at Florida. Philadelphia is 4-1-1 in the second of back-to-back games.Steve Mason made several quality stops when the Flyers were short-handed three times in the first 12 minutes of the third before Killorn (13:28) and Callahan (13:40) scored to give Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead.Kucherov made it 4-2 late in the third.DEVILS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 4, SONEWARK, N.J. -- Mike Cammalleri had four points in his return to the lineup and Jacob Josefson scored in the shootout as New Jersey defeated Toronto.Cory Schneider stopped all three Maple Leafs attempts in the tiebreaker, and the Devils overcame an early 3-0 deficit to snap a three-game losing streak, their longest of the season.Cammalleri had a goal and three assists after missing six games. He spent more than a week with his family after his 5-year-old daughter was hospitalized with pneumonia.Travis Zajac, Beau Bennett and Yohann Auvitu also scored for New Jersey.Top draft pick Auston Matthews had two goals and set up another by Nazem Kadri in Torontos big first period. Matt Martin also scored, and Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves.WILD 3, JETS 1ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Mikko Koivu, Jonas Brodin and Zach Parise scored to lead Minnesota past road-weary Winnipeg.Devan Dubnyk made 15 saves for the Wild and has allowed only 13 goals in his last 11 games since Oct. 25, stopping 319 of 332 shots.Blake Wheeler scored for Winnipeg, which is 0-4 on a five-game road trip -- its longest of the season. The Jets have been outscored 15-5 during their worst slide this season.Koivus goal was his first in 11 games.Air Force 1 Clearance . 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Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night.SUNDERLAND, England -- Patrick van Aanholt rescued just a second English Premier League point for Sunderland with a 1-1 draw against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.The Dutchman scored the 83rd-minute equalizer at the end of an eventful few weeks which saw him withdrawn from the team minutes before kickoff at Tottenham on the advice of a cardiologist and pictured apparently smoking a shisha pipe.Van Aanholt was introduced as a 56th-minute replacement for the injured Jan Kirchhoff and lined up in midfield rather than his more accustomed left back role.We had been training Pat further forward this week inn a couple of sessions to see how it looked, said David Moyes, who waits for his first win as Sunderland manager.ddddddddddddBut what we need is everybody else to get the goals. Then it looks like your left back has done well.Jermain Defoe earlier passed up two glorious opportunities to cancel out Nacer Chadlis 35th-minute opener.The point lifted Sunderland from the foot of the table on goal difference ahead of Stoke, which plays Manchester United on Sunday. West Brom is 11th. ' ' '