NEW YORK: Marian Gaborik broke a second-period deadlock, and Jonathan Quick shook off an opening-minute goal to lift the Los Angeles Kings to a 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday in a rematch of last year’s Stanley Cup Final.

The Kings, fighting for a chance to defend their title, have won the first two games of a five-game trip on successive nights. Robyn Regehr scored a rare goal in the first period, and Jeff Carter and Jake Muzzin extended the lead in the third. Anze Kopitar had two assists.

Quick made 34 saves.

Los Angeles, which beat the Rangers in five games for the 2014 title, is level in points with third-place Calgary in the Pacific Division, but the Flames hold the tiebreaker.

Nashville’s Filip Forsberg scored a power-play goal at 1:54 of overtime as the Predators rallied to beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 in a game between two of the NHL’s top teams.

Pekka Rinne made 27 saves in his 39th win. He pulled within a victory of the Canadiens’ Carey Price in this showdown between the league’s top goalies this season.

Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Ellis scored for the Predators, who stayed a point behind first-place St. Louis in the Central Division.

The Vancouver Canucks earned their third straight win as Radim Vrbata had two goals and an assist in a 5-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.

Henrik Sedin had an empty-net goal and two assists for the Canucks. Chris Higgins and Yannick Weber also scored, and Eddie Lack had 26 saves.

Vancouver, which also got two assists from Daniel Sedin, is second in the Pacific Division, four points up on Calgary.

In Uniondale, New York, Zach Parise scored the equalizing goal midway through the third period, then added another in the shootout to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Islanders 2-1 for its 10th straight road win.

Parise’s shootout attempt hit the post to the right of Jaroslav Halak and trickled in after it bounced off the goalie’s leg.

Devan Dubnyk made 37 saves for the Wild.

The St. Louis Blues beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 after Alexander Steen redirected Zbynek Michalek’s shot from the point into the net 35 seconds into overtime.

The Blues ended a three-game losing streak. They rallied from a two-goal deficit on scores from former Penguins Robert Bortuzzo and Marcel Goc.

The Blues remained atop the Central Division at the end of a six-game road trip, their longest of the season.

In other games, Scott Hartnell had his eighth career three-goal game as the Columbus Blue Jackets downed the Anaheim Ducks 5-3, the Tampa Bay Lightning edged the Florida Panthers 4-3 and the Arizona Coyotes were 5-4 overtime winners over the Detroit Red Wings.