{"id":525849,"date":"2026-03-10T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525849\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:33:09","slug":"nhl-roundup-kempe-scores-in-overtime-to-lift-kings-to-5-4-win-over-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525849\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL roundup: Kempe scores in overtime to lift Kings to 5-4 win over Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Garland scored twice \u2014 his first goals since coming to Columbus from Vancouver \u2014 and Denton Mateychuk added a goal and an assist. Jet Greaves made 26 saves for Columbus, which has lost two straight at home.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets are two points behind Boston in the race for the second Eastern Conference wild-card spot, and three points behind the Islanders for third in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the NHL on Monday:<\/p>\n<p>RANGERS 6 FLYERS 2<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Mika Zibanejad had two goals and an assist, and New York scored on three power plays in a win over Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Laba and Alexis Lafreniere each had a goal an assist. Gabe Perreault and Vladislav Gavrikov also scored for the Rangers, who won for the third time in five games. Igor Shesterkin finished with 32 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier scored for the Flyers. Dan Vladar allowed six goals on 24 shots and was replaced by Samuel Ersson at the start of the third period. Ersson made three saves in relief.<\/p>\n<p>CAPITALS 7 FLAMES 3<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Connor McMichael scored twice and the Washington Capitals beat the Calgary Flames 7-3.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Sourdif had a goal and two assists and Hendrix Lapierre added a goal and an assist for Washington. Tom Wilson, Ethen Frank and Ryan Leonard also scored for the Capitals, who ended a three-game slide.<\/p>\n<p>Matvei Gridin, Blake Coleman and Yegor Sharangovich scored for Calgary, which has lost five of its last six.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Garland scored twice \u2014 his first goals since coming to Columbus from Vancouver \u2014 and Denton Mateychuk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-525849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}