OTTAWA, Ontario -- Reilly Smith and Vincent Trocheck scored 8 seconds apart in the first period and the Florida Panthers extended their franchise-best win streak to 11 games with a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
Aleksander Barkov also scored for the Panthers and Roberto Luongo won his career-high ninth straight start behind 30 saves.
Florida's streak is the NHL's longest since Boston won 12 straight in March of 2014, according to the NHL.
Max McCormick and Milan Michalek scored for the Senators and Craig Anderson stopped 13 shots.
In the first period, Luongo made a great save, and on the ensuing play, Smith deflected Jonathan Huberdeau's shot to open the scoring at 12:01 on the Panthers' first shot of the game. Trocheck made it 2-0 after Ottawa's Fredrik Claesson turned the puck over trying a no-look pass from the end boards out front of his own net (see full recap).
Lecavalier gets assist in Kings debut
LOS ANGELES -- Jake Muzzin and Jeff Carter scored third-period goals and Vincent Lecavalier had an assist while making his Kings debut in Los Angeles' 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.
Lecavalier set up Muzzin for the game's first goal with 17:07 to play, capping a solid effort in the 17-year NHL veteran's first game since Nov. 12.
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Los Angeles acquired Lecavalier and defenseman Luke Schenn from Philadelphia on Wednesday, and both veterans played solidly against the Maple Leafs a few hours after their cross-country flight.
Peter Holland scored a power-play goal midway through the third period, and James Reimer stopped 39 shots in his first start since Dec. 3 for the Maple Leafs. Toronto's three-game winning streak ended in the middle stop of its three-game California trip.
Jonathan Quick made 25 saves to remain unbeaten since Dec. 22 for Los Angeles (see full recap).
Capitals first team to 30 wins
NEW YORK -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 497th career goal, Braden Holtby stopped 34 shots to keep up his stellar play and the NHL-leading Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders 4-1 Thursday night.
Jason Chimera, Nate Schmidt and Nicklas Backstrom also scored to help Washington reach 63 points and become the first team with 30 wins. Holtby improved to 26-4-2, including 18-0-2 in his last 21 games.
It was the teams' first meeting since the Capitals won a seven-game series with the Islanders in the first round of the playoffs last season.
Brock Nelson scored for New York and Jaroslav Halak made 34 saves in his first action in nearly three weeks. The Islanders had won four of six and fell to 7-2-2 against Metropolitan Division foes (see full recap).
Stars top Jets in SO to snap skid
DALLAS -- Tyler Seguin and Patrick Sharp scored back-to-back goals to start the shootout and the Dallas Stars ended a season-high three-game losing streak with a 2-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.
Seguin stopped a three-game pointless streak, his longest of the season, with a first-period goal. Mathieu Perreault pulled Winnipeg even in the second period.
Kari Lehtonen stopped 27 of 28 shots in regulation and all five in overtime. Leading 2-1 in the shootout, he turned away Bryan Little to clinch his seventh win in nine games against the franchise that drafted him second overall in Atlanta in 2002.
The Western Conference-leading Stars hadn't lost consecutive games all season before going 0-2-1 on an East Coast trip.
Connor Hellebuyck had 23 saves in Winnipeg's first game since he tied a rookie franchise record with 43 stops against Nashville (see full recap).