Tampa Bay Lightning center Brian Boyle (11) and Calgary Flames defenseman Michael Stone (26) battle for a loose puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Tampa Bay Lightning center Brian Boyle (11) and Calgary Flames defenseman Michael Stone (26) battle for a loose puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Credit: Chris O'Meara

Toronto — Mika Zibanejad scored the shootout winner and the New York Rangers continued a strong February with a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.

Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves and J.T. Miller scored the game-tying goal in the third period for the Rangers, who improved to 8-1-1 this month.

New York moved into third place in the Metropolitan Division with 80 points.

Connor Brown scored for Toronto, which fell to 1-7 in shootouts this season. Frederik Andersen had a stellar performance in defeat with 37 saves.

Islanders 3, Canadiens 0

Montreal — Rookie Anthony Beauvillier scored in the first period, Thomas Greiss made 24 saves, and New York beat Montreal.

New York has won the first two games on a crucial nine-game road swing and improved to 12-4-2 since interim coach Doug Weight replaced the fired Jack Capuano.

Carey Price finished with 21 saves as the Canadiens lost coach Claude Julien’s 1,000th NHL game. Montreal is 1-2-0 since Julien replaced Michel Therrien last week and has totaled just 14 goals while going 2-7-1 in the last 10 games, including four shutouts.

Flames 3, Lightning 2

Tampa, Fla. — Sean Monahan scored his 100th NHL goal, Brian Elliott made 23 saves, and Calgary beat Tampa Bay.

Dougie Hamilton had a goal and two assists, and Mikael Backlund also scored to help the Flames improve to 7-2-1 over their last 10 games.

Tampa Bay, which entered with a seven-game points streak (5-0-2), got goals from Vladislav Namestnikov and Nikita Kucherov.

Predators 4, Avalanche 2

Nashville, Tenn. — Filip Forsberg scored his second straight hat trick, and Nashville beat Colorado to sweep the season series between the Central Division teams.

Forsberg, who now has 22 goals, has five goals combined in his last two second periods. Forsberg, who scored three times in the second period of Tuesday night’s overtime loss to Calgary, got the hat trick with an empty-net goal with 36.5 seconds left.