Facts and Figures: Season of the Comeback continues

All three NHL games on Thursday featured the winning team overcoming being down at least one goal, continuing the League's season-long comeback trend.

Including Thursday, 349 of 780 games played (44.7 percent) have seen the winning team emerge victorious after behind behind at some point in the game. The 349 comeback wins are the most ever in an NHL season before the beginning of February; the previous high was 346 in 2005-06.

Zibanejad gets another game-winner for Rangers

Mika Zibanejad scored three goals for his second NHL hat trick to help the New York Rangers rally for a 4-3 victory against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center.
The Rangers are 4-1-0 in their past five games, and Zibanejad has all four game-winning goals. The 25-year-old center is the second player in Rangers history to score four game-winners in a five-game span, joining Rod Gilbert, who did it from Dec. 7-17, 1966. He has 11 points (eight goals, three assists) in New York's past five games.

Zibanejad's other NHL hat trick came against the Calgary Flames on Feb. 27, 2016, when he played for the Ottawa Senators.

Hart, Flyers keep rolling

The Philadelphia Flyers twice trailed by a goal before Travis Sanheim scored a power-play goal at 2:56 of overtime for a 3-2 victory against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden. It was the Flyers' sixth straight win, the longest active run in the NHL and Philadelphia's longest winning streak since it won 10 in a row from Nov. 27-Dec. 14, 2016.
Rookie goalie Carter Hart made 23 saves to extend his personal winning streak to five games; he has a 2.38 goals-against average and .930 save percentage during that span. The 20-year-old is the 10th different goalie in NHL history to have a winning streak of at least five games before turning 21, and the first since Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens went 7-0-0 from March 20-April 5, 2008.

Jets rally for sixth straight home win

Jack Roslovic scored a game-tying power-play goal at 8:47 of the third period and Kyle Connor got the game-winner with 1:14 remaining to give the Winnipeg Jets their sixth straight victory at Bell MTS Place, 4-3 against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

The Jets are tied with the San Jose Sharks for the NHL's longest active home winning streak.
Roslovic, a forward born in Columbus, became the seventh Ohio-born player to score at least one regular-season goal against the Blue Jackets, joining Bryan Smolinski (eight), Peter Harrold (two), Jeff Hamilton (two), Brian Holzinger (two), Mike Rupp (one) and J.T. Miller (one).
No Ohio-born players ever scored against the Cleveland Barons, who were active in the NHL from 1976-77 to 1977-78. Defenseman Ab DeMarco Jr., a Cleveland native, was the only Ohio-born player to face the Barons (three games played).

Pastrnak hits 30 goals, Panarin gets 20th

Bruins forward David Pastrnak scored his team-leading 29th and 30th goals in the overtime loss to the Flyers and became the 13th player to reach the 60-point mark this season. The last NHL season to feature as many 60-point scorers before Feb. 1 was 1995-96, when there were 15.

Blue Jackets forward Artemi Panarin scored against Winnipeg to reach the 20-goal mark for the fourth time in as many seasons. He's the seventh undrafted player since 1963-64 to score at least 20 goals in each of his first four (or more) NHL seasons. Wayne Gretzky tops that list; he did it in each of his first 13 seasons, from 1979-80 to 1991-92.

Red Wings to retire Kelly's No. 4

The Detroit Red Wings will retire Hockey Hall of Famer Red Kelly's No. 4 in a ceremony at Little Caesars Arena on Friday prior to their game against the Toronto Maple Leafs (7:30 p.m. ET; FS-D, TSN4, NHL.TV). Kelly will become the eighth player in Red Wings history to have his number retired, joining goalie Terry Sawchuk (No. 1), defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom (No. 5) and forwards Ted Lindsay (No. 7), Gordie Howe (No. 9), Alex Delvecchio (No. 10), Sid Abel (No. 12) and Steve Yzerman (No. 19).
Kelly, an eight-time Stanley Cup champion, was a defenseman with the Red Wings from 1947-48 to 1959-60 and a center with the Maple Leafs from 1959-60 to 1966-67, winning four championships with each team. He has won the Cup more times than any other player in NHL history who did not play for the Montreal Canadiens.
He led NHL defensemen in goals (16), assists (33) and points (49) in 1953-54, when he was the first winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy. Since then, the only Red Wings to win the award given to the NHL's top defenseman are Lidstrom (seven times) and Paul Coffey (once).
Kelly also won the Lady Byng Trophy, given for skillful and gentlemanly play, four times (1950-51, 1952-53, 1953-54 and 1960-61). Only Frank Boucher (seven times) and Gretzky (five) have won it more often since the trophy was first awarded in 1925.