BLUES 5, PENGUINS 1
PITTSBURGH -- Vince Dunn scored
twice, Pat Maroon had a goal and an assist and St. Louis
Blues ended a three-game losing streak.
Former Pittsburgh draft pick Oskar
Sundqvist and Jay
Bouwmeester also scored and Jordan
Binnington made 40 saves for St. Louis. Binnington has 17 wins
and five shutouts in his first 22 starts.
Dominik Simon scored
for Pittsburgh. They had won three straight.
LIGHTNING 6,
CAPITALS 3
TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Killorn scored
three goals for his first career hat trick, and the Tampa Bay
Lightning beat the Washington
Capitals 6-3 Saturday night in the teams' first meeting since
last year's Eastern Conference finals.
Tampa Bay set team records for wins (55) and points (114) in
a season, becoming the 12th team in league history to get at least 55 victories
in a season.
Erik Cernak, Yanni Gourde and Tyler Johnson also
scored for the Lightning, and Andrei
Vasilevskiy stopped 30 shots.
Alex Ovechkin scored
twice to give him 48 on the season, John Carlson also
scored and Braden Holtby finished
with 29 saves for Washington. The Capitals remained two points ahead of
the New York
Islanders atop the Metropolitan Division.
BRUINS 2, BLUE JACKETS 1
BOSTON -- Brad Marchand scored
3:30 into the overtime and Boston snapped a three-game losing streak.
Patrice
Bergeron had a power-play goal for the Bruins and set up the
game-winner. Boston's skid came after it earned at least a point in 19 straight
games.
Bergeron spun around and fed Marchand in the right circle,
where Marchand one-timed a shot as he went to one knee for his 15th OT goal,
most in team history.
Backup goalie Jaroslav
Halak made 24 saves for the Bruins.
Matt Duchene scored
for the Blue Jackets, and Joonas
Korpisalo made 31 saves.
PANTHERS 4, KINGS 3
LOS ANGELES -- Jonathan
Huberdeau scored with 1:56 remaining and Florida beat Los
Angeles for its fourth straight victory.
Sam
Montembeault made 24 saves to win his fourth consecutive start
for the Panthers.
Evgenii
Dadonov scored twice, Mike Hoffman had
a power-play goal, and Aleksander
Barkov had three assists to extend his streak to five games for the
Panthers.
Anze Kopiar and Dustin Brown each
had a goal and an assist for the Kings. They have lost 15 of 17.
RED WINGS 2, ISLANDERS 1
DETROIT -- Andreas
Athanasiou scored twice and Jonathan Bernier stopped
41 shots in Detroit's victory over New York.
Anders Lee scored
for New York.
HURRICANES 4, SABRES 2
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Andrei
Svechnikov and Justin
Williams each scored goals, and Carolina won for the third time
in four games.
Jordan Staal scored
a late goal for his 500th career point, Lucas
Wallmark also scored early and Curtis
McElhinney stopped 35 shots to help the Hurricanes keep
themselves in playoff position entering the final three weeks of the season.
Carolina bounced back from a 3-0 loss a night earlier at
Columbus -- one of the teams also in the East's playoff race -- by scoring four
straight goals and winning its ninth straight in the series with Buffalo.
Jeff Skinner scored
against his former team and Zemgus
Girgensons added a late goal to prevent the Sabres from being
shut out in four straight games. Buffalo has lost seven in a row and is 0-6-1
in that span.
JETS 2, FLAMES 1
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Mark
Scheifele scored his 34th goal of the season, Mathieu
Perreault had the winner and Winnipeg ended Calgary's three-game
winning streak.
Connor
Hellebuyck made 27 saves for the Jets, allowing only Mark
Jankowski's goal. Mike Smith
stopped 19 shots for the Flames.
BLACKHAWKS 2, CANADIENS 0
MONTREAL -- Corey
Crawford stopped 48 shots for his second shutout of the season
and surging Chicago won its fifth straight.
Connor Murphy and Brendan
Perlini scored for the Blackhawks.
The Montreal-born Crawford earned his second shutout of the
season and improved to 9-2-2 in his career against the Canadiens. The 48 saves
were a career high in the regular season for Crawford.
Carey Price stopped
22 shots for the Canadiens, who have dropped four of their last five games to
fall out of a playoff spot.
SENATORS 6, MAPLE LEAFS 2
OTTAWA, Ontario -- Magnus
Paajarvi scored twice to lead last-place past slumping Toronto.
Cody Ceci, Brian Gibbons, Anthony
Duclair and Oscar
Lindberg also scored for the Senators. Anders
Nilsson made 35 saves.
Morgan Rielly and John Tavares scored
for the Maple Leafs, who have lost three of their past four games. Garret Sparks stopped
38 shots.
WILD 5, RANGERS 2
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Ryan Donato scored
two goals and Devan Dubnyk had
26 saves as Minnesota remained in the thick of the playoff race.
Eric Staal, Jared
Spurgeon and J.T. Brown also
scored for the Wild, who snapped a three-game losing streak that dropped them
out of the final wild card in the Western Conference. Minnesota entered the day
three points behind Phoenix for the last spot. It was the Wild's second win in
11 home games.
Mika
Zibanejad scored his first goal in nine games and Pavel
Buchnevich added a third-period goal for the Rangers, who lost
their third straight. Henrik
Lundqvist finished with 41 saves and managed to keep the
Rangers within striking distance.
PREDATORS 4. SHARKS 2
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Filip
Forsberg scored the tiebreaking goal with 12:58 left in the
third period and Viktor
Arvidsson added his second of the game into an empty net to
help Nashville beat San Jose.
Colton
Sissons also scored and Juuse Saros made
24 saves to keep the Predators within one point of first-place Winnipeg in the
division race. The Jets still have two games in hand.
Timo Meier and Joe Thornton scored
for the Sharks, who failed for the second straight game in their bid to clinch
a playoff spot with their first back-to-back home losses in regulation all
season. San Jose also remained one point behind Calgary in the Pacific
Division.
Martin Jones made
26 saves.
OILERS 3, COYOTES 2, OT
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Connor
McDavid scored two goals, including the winner in overtime, to
lead Edmonton.
McDavid beat Darcy Kuemper from
out front 58 seconds into the extra period for the Oilers, who are 8-3-1 in
their last 12 games while making a late playoff push.
Matt Benning also scored for Edmonton, and Mikko
Koskinen made 28 saves.
Alex
Galchenyuk had his third two-goal game of the season for the
Coyotes, who lost for just the fourth time in their last 14 games. Arizona
remained one point behind Dallas for the first wild card in the Western
Conference. Darcy Kuemper made 22 saves.
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