PENGUINS 5, CANADIENS 1
MONTREAL -- Jake Guentzel scored
two goals and had two assists and Sidney Crosby had
a goal and three assists to lead Pittsburgh.
Evgeni Malkin and Jared McCann also
scored for Pittsburgh, and Matt Murray stopped
36 of 37 shots.
Brendan
Gallagher scored the only goal for the Canadiens. Carey Price gave
up four goals on 24 shots and remained one victory away from tying Jacques
Plante's franchise record with 314.
LIGHTNING 5, SENATORS 1
TAMPA, Fla. -- NHL scoring leader Nikita
Kucherov had a goal and an assist to help the Tampa Bay
Lightning earn their 50th victory of the season in their 66th
game by beating the Ottawa
Senators 5-1 on Saturday night, tying the 1995-96 Detroit Red
Wings as the fastest teams in NHL history to reach the mark.
The Lightning got goals from four defensemen -- Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonagh, Erik Cernak
and Mikhail
Sergachev -- and set a franchise record with nine points
overall from the defense.
Kucherov reached 75 assists on the season to become the
first player since Vancouver's Henrik Sedin in
2010-11 to record at least that many in a season.
Andrei
Vasilevskiy stopped 36 shots for his 30th victory.
Anthony
Duclair scored the lone goal for the Senators, who lost their
seventh consecutive game a day after firing Coach Guy Boucher and replacing him
with Marc Crawford on an interim basis. Craig
Anderson finished with 29 saves.
HURRICANES 4, PANTHERS 3, OT
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Sebastian Aho scored
at 1:46 of overtime and Carolina beat Florida for its fifth straight win.
Aho tipped in the puck from the edge of the crease for his
team-leading 27th goal.
Brett Pesce, Greg McKegg and Brock McGinn also
scored for the Hurricanes. Petr Mrazek
stopped 31 shots, including three breakaways in overtime.
Henrik
Borgstrom had two goals and an assist, and Mark Pysyk also
scored for the Panthers. Sam
Montembeault made 22 saves in his NHL debut.
BRUINS 1, DEVILS 0
BOSTON -- Brad Marchand scored
a power-play goal early in the opening period and Tuukka Rask made
it stand up with 20 saves for his third shutout of the season.
The victory improved the Bruins' streak of at least one
point in every game to 16 straight (12-0-4) and they haven't lost in regulation
since a 3-2 setback to the New York
Rangers on Jan. 19. It's their longest since 18 games (14-0-4)
last season.
Rask is 14-0-3 in his last 17 starts.
Mackenzie
Blackwood stopped 29 shots for the Devils, including Marchand's
penalty shot. New Jersey has lost five of seven.
OILERS 4, BLUE JACKETS 0
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Leon
Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, Mikko
Koskinen made 30 saves and Edmonton used a three-goal second
period to pull away from Columbus.
Koskinen improved to 18-15-4 with his fourth career shutout
-- all this season.
Zack Kassian and Alex Chiasson also
scored for the Oilers, who are 4-1-1 in their last six after a five-game losing
streak. Connor
McDavid had three assists.
Sergei
Bobrovsky had 15 saves for Columbus before being pulled after
two periods. Joonas Korpisalo stopped
the five shots he faced.
KINGS 6, BLACKHAWKS 3
LOS ANGELES -- Adrian Kempe had
a goal and an assist, and Los Angeles stopped a 10-game losing streak.
Dustin Brown scored
twice for the Kings, who avoided tying the longest losing streak in team
history, an 11-game slide from March 16-April 4, 2004. Ilya
Kovalchuk and Brendan
Leipsic each had a goal and an assist, and Sean Walker scored
a power-play goal. Jonathan
Quick made 29 saves.
Brendan
Perlini scored twice for the Blackhawks, who have dropped three
of four. Corey
Crawford made 19 saves.
MAPLE LEAFS 5, SABRES 2
TORONTO -- John Tavares had
a goal and two assists, leading Toronto past Buffalo.
Mitch Marner also
had a goal and two assists, and Morgan Rielly, Nic Petan and Nikita
Zaitsev each scored as the Maple Leafs won for the fourth time in
five games. Frederik
Andersen made 35 saves.
Jason
Pominville and Conor Sheary scored
for Buffalo, and Linus Ullmark stopped
27 shots.
COYOTES 3, RED WINGS 1
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Oliver
Ekman-Larsson and Vinnie
Hinostroza each had a goal and assist, and Arizona won its
sixth straight.
The Coyotes have won six in a row for the first time since
Feb. 16-28, 2012, and are in contention for a Western Conference wild-card spot
with 17 games left in the regular season.
Josh
Archibald added his 10th goal of the season for Arizona,
and Darcy Kuemper stopped
22 shots for his seventh straight win.
Dylan Larkin scored
for Detroit, which has lost five straight. Jimmy Howard finished
with 41 saves.
STARS 4, BLUES 1
ST. LOUIS -- Jamie Benn had
three goals for his fifth career hat trick, and Dallas beat St. Louis.
John
Klingberg had a goal and an assist, and St. Louis native Ben Bishop made
29 saves as the Stars improved to 3-1 this season and 6-1-0 in their last seven
games against the Blues. Dallas has won three of its last four and pulled three
points behind St. Louis for third place in the Central Division.
Alex
Pietrangelo scored for the Blues, who snapped a seven-game home
winning streak. Jordan Binnington had
17 saves while falling to 15-3-1 in 19 career starts.
WILD 4, FLAMES 2
CALGARY, Alberta -- Devan Dubnyk made
35 saves, and Minnesota beat Calgary on the night the Flames retired Jarome Iginla's
number.
Matt Read put
the Wild ahead to stay in the third period by deflecting a puck off the skate
of Calgary's Mark
Jankowski and past goaltender Mike Smith.
Eric Staal, Ryan Suter and Ryan Donato also
scored for Minnesota, which won its fifth straight.
Sean Monahan and Travis
Hamonic scored for Calgary, which had its seven-game winning
streak halted.
The Flames raised Iginla's No. 12 to the rafters in a
pre-game ceremony that lasted nearly an hour.
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