Philadelphia Flyers 4, Montreal Canadiens 2<\/p>\n
The Canadiens will finish third in the Atlantic Division and not have home-ice advantage against the Lightning in the Eastern Conference First Round because of the loss. Brendan Gallagher<\/a> and Jake Evans<\/a> scored for Montreal (48-24-10), which had a six-game road winning streak end. Matvei Michkov<\/a> had a goal and two assists, and Oliver Bonk<\/a>\u00a0had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut for Philadelphia (43-27-12), which finished the regular season with three straight wins. Locked into third place and a first-round matchup with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Flyers rested several top players.<\/p>\n Minnesota Wild 3, Anaheim Ducks 2<\/p>\n The Ducks remained third in the Pacific Division, three points behind the first-place Golden Knights and one behind the second-place Oilers. Each team has one game to go. Mason McTavish<\/a> scored twice for Anaheim (42-33-6), who are 1-6-2 in its past nine. Hunter Haight<\/a>\u00a0scored his first NHL goal and Jesper Wallstedt<\/a>\u00a0made 35 saves for Minnesota (46-24-12). Locked into third in the Central Division and a matchup with the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference First Round, the Wild rested 10 regulars.<\/p>\n Utah Mammoth 5, Winnipeg Jets 3<\/p>\n The Mammoth clinched the first wild card from the Western Conference. Nick Schmaltz scored twice on the power play, Logan Cooley had a goal and an assist, and Clayton Keller extended his point streak to a franchise-record nine games for Utah (43-32-6), which has won six of eight. Kyle Connor and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg (35-34-12), which has lost three straight and is eliminated from playoff contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers 4, Montreal Canadiens 2 The Canadiens will finish third in the Atlantic Division and not have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-586101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}