BRUINS 2, SABRES 1
BOSTON -- Chris Wagner and David Backes scored, Tuukka Rask stopped
31 shots and the Boston Bruins beat
the Buffalo
Sabres 2-1 Saturday night for their fourth straight victory.
Boston won three of four games in the season series against
Buffalo.
Rask was looking for his first shutout of the season, but
former Bruins' defenseman Rasmus
Ristolainen beat him with a wrist shot on the glove side with
2:38 left in regulation.
Sabres star Jack Eichel missed
his second straight game with an upper-body injury. He's expected to be
re-evaluated early next week.
Linus Ullmark made
39 saves for Buffalo, which has won just once in its last five games.
The Sabres pulled Ullmark with just over a minute left for
an extra skater, but were unable to get a shot on goal.
KINGS 4, OILERS 0
LOS ANGELES -- Jonathan
Quick earned his 300th victory, Anze Kopitar scored
his 300th goal and Los Angeles climbed out of last place in the overall NHL
standings.
Kyle Clifford, Tyler Toffoli and Jeff Carter scored
during a dominant first period, while Kopitar added his milestone goal in the
third period of the Kings' sixth win in nine games since mid-December.
Quick made 16 saves in his 51st career shutout, fifth-most
among active goalies. The veteran netminder made a handful of big stops and
combined with his defense to end the five-game scoring streaks of Edmonton
stars Connor
McDavid and Leon
Draisaitl.
Mikko
Koskinen yielded three goals on eight Kings shots before Cam Talbot replaced
him in the first period for the Oilers, who have lost seven of eight.
All-Star Drew Doughty had
two early assists for the Kings.
ISLANDERS 4, BLUES 3
ST. LOUIS -- Jordan Eberle and Johnny
Boychuk scored 11 seconds apart in the third period to lead New
York.
Anders Lee and Matt Martin also
scored for the Islanders, who won their season-high sixth in a row and ninth in
10 games. Robin Lehner stopped
29 shots for his seventh consecutive win.
Brayden
Schenn, Zach Sanford and Ryan O'Reilly scored
for St. Louis, which has lost three of its last four.
BLUE JACKETS 4, PANTHERS 3, OT
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Seth Jones scored
18 seconds into overtime and Columbus won for the seventh time in nine games.
Brandon
Dubinsky, Josh Anderson and Anthony
Duclair also scored for the Blue Jackets. Sergei
Bobrovsky made 27 saves.
Aaron Ekblad, Mike Hoffman and Jonathan
Huberdeau scored for the Panthers. Keith Yandle
had two assists. James Reimer stopped
31 shots. The Panthers are winless in their last seven games against Columbus
(0-5-2).
MAPLE LEAFS 5, CANUCKS 0
TORONTO -- Michael
Hutchinson stopped 28 shots for his first shutout in more than
two years and Auston
Matthews had a goal and two assists to lead Toronto.
John Tavares, Andreas
Johnsson, Trevor Moore and Igor
Ozhiganov also scored as the Maple Leafs snapped a two-game
skid that followed a five-game winning streak. Hutchinson got his fourth career
shutout and the first since Oct. 28, 2016, when he was with Winnipeg.
Jacob
Markstrom stopped 29 shots for Vancouver, which was shut out
for the third time in four games.
The Canucks, playing for the third time in four nights, were
without star rookie Elias
Pettersson after the rookie injured his right knee in Thursday
night's 2-0 loss at Montreal. Pettersson leads all NHL rookies with 42 points
(22 goals, 20 assists).
PREDATORS 4, CANADIENS 1
MONTREAL -- Craig Smith scored
two goals in the win for Nashville.
Mattias
Ekholm and Viktor
Arvidsson also scored for the Predators. P.K. Subban had
two assists. Juuse Saros stopped
27 shots in place of Pekka Rinne.
Shea Weber scored
against his former team for the Canadiens. Carey Price made
28 saves as Montreal lost for the first time in three games.
It was the second matchup between Weber and Subban since the
Predators and Canadiens traded the players in the summer of 2016. The
defensemen also faced off on Mar. 2, 2017, when Montreal won 2-1 at Bell
Centre.
WILD 4, SENATORS 3
OTTAWA, Ontario -- Jared
Spurgeon scored twice as Minnesota dealt Ottawa its seventh
consecutive setback.
Jordan
Greenway and Zach Parise also
scored for the Wild (20-17-3), who improved to 2-0 on a four-game trip. Devan Dubnyk stopped
24 shots.
Matt Duchene, Ryan Dzingel and Mark Stone scored
for Ottawa, and Anders
Nilsson made 22 saves in his Senators debut after he was
acquired Wednesday in a trade with Vancouver.
FLAMES 3, FLYERS 2, OT
PHILADELPHIA -- TJ Brodie scored 1 minute, 59 seconds into
overtime after Matthew
Tkachuk tied it with 4:17 left in regulation to lead Calgary.
Tkachuk assisted on the winner in the 3-on-3 extra session.
Philadelphia's Jordan Weal turned
the puck over in the Flyers offensive zone to set up a 2-on-1 break. Tkachuk
sent a cross-ice pass to Brodie, who beat Carter Hart to
lead the Pacific Division leaders to the win.
Johnny
Gaudreau notched his 24th goal of the season for the Flames,
whose 56 points are tops in the Western Conference.
Travis Sanheim and Travis
Konecny scored for Philadelphia, which dropped its season-worst
sixth straight game. The Flyers are in last place in the Metropolitan Division.
SHARKS 5, LIGHTNING 2
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Evander Kane scored
two goals to reach 200 for his career as San Jose beat Tampa Bay and snapped
the NHL-leading Lightning's 16-game point streak.
Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski scored
34 seconds apart midway through the first period, setting the tone for San
Jose, which never trailed as it won for the fourth time in five games. Lukas Radil also
scored, Brent Burns had
two assists and Erik Karlsson added
two to extend his assists streak to 12 games. Martin Jones stopped
19 shots.
Victor Hedman and Mikhail
Sergachev scored for the Lightning, who had won seven straight
and were 15-0-1 since a 3-1 loss to Anaheim on Nov. 27. Andrei
Vasilevskiy finished with 28 saves.
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