PENGUINS 6, BLUES 1
ST. LOUIS -- Sidney Crosby had
a goal and three assists to lead surging Pittsburgh.
Juuso Riikola, Zach
Aston-Reese, Kris Letang, Jake Guentzel and
Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins, who converted on all four power
plays. Pittsburgh has won a season-best five consecutive games.
Matt Murray stopped 30 shots. He has won five straight
starts since returning from a lower-body injury on Dec. 15.
Jake Allen allowed
four goals on 17 shots before getting pulled for Jordan
Binnington almost halfway through the game.
David Perron scored
his 13th in the second period to break up the shutout bid.
DEVILS 2,
HURRICANES 0
NEWARK, N.J. -- Rookie goalie MacKenzie Blackwood stopped 37
shots for his first shutout and Pavel Zacha scored
short-handed as the New Jersey
Devils beat the Carolina
Hurricanes 2-0 on Saturday.
It was the second straight victory for Blackwood, giving the
Devils their first two-game winning streak since Nov. 13-15. Andy Greene added
an empty-netter to seal the win.
Curtis McElhinney made
28 saves for the Hurricanes who have lost four of their last five.
Zacha broke a scoreless deadlock with 36 seconds left in the
second period. He poked the puck away from Carolina's Justin Faulk and
sped into the Hurricanes' zone. McElhinney made the initial stop and Zacha
stayed with the play to collar the rebound and flip it into the net.
WILD 3, JETS 1
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Devan Dubnyk stopped
26 shots to help Minnesota end a season-high five-game losing streak.
Defenseman Matt
Bartkowski scored in his debut with the Wild, and Charlie Coyle and Eric Fehralso
scored. Zach Parise had
two assists.
Patrik Laine scored
on the power play for his 24th goal of the season for Winnipeg, and his first
point in five games. Connor
Hellebuyck finished with 21 saves for the Central
Division-leading Jets.
Winnipeg has lost two straight for just the second time this
season.
The Wild were 0-4-1 in the last five games, with only five
goals during the stretch.
BLACKHAWKS 3, AVALANCHE 2 OT
DENVER -- Patrick Kane scored
his second goal of the game 41 seconds into overtime as Chicago outlasted
Colorado.
The Blackhawks were on a power play when Kane knocked in the
decisive shot from the slot off a feed from Jonathan
Toews for Chicago's fifth win in six games. Two have come at
the expense of the Avalanche, who lost their fourth straight.
Kane has a seven-game point streak and leads the Blackhawks
with 22 goals.
Alex Debrincat also scored for Chicago. Nathan
MacKinnon and Mikko
Rantanen had the goals for Colorado.
SHARKS 7, OILERS 4
EDMONTON, Alberta -- Erik Karlsson had
a goal and three assists, Logan Couture and Melker
Karlsson each scored twice, and San Jose beat slumping
Edmonton.
Joonas
Donskoi and Tomas Hertl also
scored for the Sharks, who have won two in a row.
Connor
McDavid had two goals and Caleb Jones and Leon
Draisaitl also scored for the Oilers, who have lost a
season-high five straight.
McDavid got Edmonton on the board 6 1/2 minutes in, but
Donskoi scored 17 seconds later. That was the first of six straight San Jose
goals.
GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, KINGS 1
LOS ANGELES -- Malcolm
Subban stopped 30 shots to help the Vegas beat Los Angeles and
snap the Kings' four-game winning streak.
William
Carrier, Alex Tuch, William
Karlsson and Paul Stastny scored
as the Golden Knights improved to 6-1-3 in their last 10 games.
Anze Kopitar scored
for the Kings, and Jonathan
Quick finished with 27 saves.
PANTHERS 2, FLYERS 1
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Jonathan
Huberdeau scored with 1:06 left to cap a third-period rally and
lift Florida.
Huberdeau scored his 10th goal by finishing a pass
from Aleksander
Barkov after Hoffman scored a tying goal on the power play
with just under seven minutes left.
Shayne
Gostisbehere scored for the Flyers, who lost their second
straight.
Barkov had two assists, and James Reimer stopped
34 shots. Carter Hart had
34 saves for the Flyers.
BRUINS 3, SABRES 2
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Sean Kuraly scored
3:44 into overtime to give Boston a win over Buffalo.
Jake DeBrusk and Noel Acciari scored
in regulation for Boston. Tuukka Rask made
26 saves.
Kuraly's game-winner was a terrific one-man effort. His
initial shot from the top of the left circle led to a big rebound, and Kuraly
followed up with speed to chip the loose puck into the net.
Johan Larsson and Marco
Scandella scored for Buffalo. Carter Hutton stopped
38 shots.
ISLANDERS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 0
TORONTO -- Mathew Barzal scored
a natural hat trick in the second period and Valtteri
Filppula had a highlight-reel goal as New York prevailed in its
first game against former captain John Tavares.
New York has won six of seven. Robin Lehner made
36 saves for his second shutout of the season, and Ryan Pulock had
two assists.
The Islanders pounded the Maple Leafs in a reunion with
Tavares, who signed with Toronto as a free agent July 1. The 28-year-old played
nine seasons in New York, collecting 272 goals and 349 assists for 621 points
in 669 games.
Garret Sparks stopped
24 shots as Toronto had its five-game winning streak halted.
CAPITALS 3, SENATORS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario -- Tom Wilson and Tyler
Lewington each had a goal and an assist in Washington's win
over short-handed Ottawa.
The Capitals have won four straight, and the Senators have
dropped four in a row.
Madison Bowey also
scored for the Capitals, and Pheonix
Copley made 31 saves.
The Senators were without defenseman Thomas Chabot and
fellow blue-liner Christian
Jaros following injuries Friday in a 6-3 loss to the New York
Islanders. Jaros broke a finger, and Chabot was placed on injured
reserve with an upper body injury following a hit from Islanders forward Matt Murray in
the second period.
Goaltender Marcus Hogberg made
his NHL debut and finished with 21 saves, and Colin White
and Mark Stone scored
for the Senators, who are last in the Eastern Conference.
LIGHTNING 6, CANADIENS 5
TAMPA, Fla. -- Adam Erne scored
twice in the third period, including the go-ahead goal with 1:02 left, and
NHL-leading Tampa Bay extended its point streak to 14 games.
Nikita
Kucherov extended his point streak to 10 games (six goals, 15
assists) with a goal and an assist for Tampa Bay. He is the 14th player in NHL
history to post multiple point streaks of 10 or more games in consecutive
seasons. The only other player to do so since 1994-95 is Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin (2007-08
and 2008-09).
The Lightning, who is 13-0-1 during their current run, also
got goals from Yanni Gourde, Anton
Stralman and Tyler Johnson. Andrei
Vasilevskiy made 33 saves.
Andrew Shaw had
two goals, and Kenny
Agostino, Jordie Benn and Brett Kulak also
scored for the Canadiens. Phillip
Danault had three assists, and Antti Niemi stopped
26 shots.
RANGERS 4, PREDATORS 3
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jesper Fast scored
two goals, including the game winner, and added an assist as New York snapped a
three-game losing streak.
Chris Kreider had
a goal and an assist, Marc Stall added a score and Mika
Zibanejad had a career-high four assists for the Rangers, who
earned their first road win in regulation this season. Henrik
Lundqvist made 34 saves.
Nick Bonino scored
a pair of power-play goals and Kevin Fiala also
scored and had two assists for the Predators, who have lost six straight. Pekka Rinne made
18 saves.
STARS 5, RED WINGS 1
DALLAS -- Alexander
Radulov scored twice and Dallas routed Detroit.
The win comes a night after the Stars' front office ripped
captain Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin
by saying the high-priced forwards were underperforming for a team falling
short of expectations.
Seguin had an assist and Benn was held without a point for
the ninth time in 10 games.
Ben Bishop stopped
33 shots for the Stars.
Blake Comeau, Tyler Pitlick and Jason Spezza also
scored for the Stars.
Detroit's Dylan Larkin ended
the shutout early in the third period and extended his career-best point’s
streak to 13 games, the longest active streak in the NHL.
CANUCKS 3, FLAMES 2 OT
CALGARY, Alberta -- Alex Edler scored 3:06 into overtime for
Vancouver.
In a back-and-forth overtime, Brock Boeser sent
a pass to Edler, whose shot dribbled through the pads of David Rittich.
Boeser and Elias
Pettersson also scored for Vancouver.
The Canucks are 5-0-1 in their last six road games.
Vancouver has four points through the first two stops of their six-game trip.
Mark
Jankowski and Travis
Hamonic scored short-handed goals for Calgary.
COYOTES 5, DUCKS 4 OT
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Nick Schmaltz scored
33 seconds into overtime and Arizona rallied from a two-goal deficit.
The Coyotes trailed 4-2 less than nine minutes into the
second but tied it before the period was over. Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Christian
Fischer, Nick Cousins and Jakob
Chychrun also scored for Arizona, and Adin Hill stopped
37 shots.
Alex
Galchenyuk and Clayton
Keller each had two assists. Schmaltz and Ekman-Larsson also
had assists for multi-point games.
Ondrej Kase had
two goals for the Ducks, who have dropped five straight. Daniel Sprong and Adam Henrique also
scored. Nick Ritchie had
three assists and John Gibson made
25 saves.
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