Tarasenko fight away from double-Gordie
St. Louis sniper scores 2 goals, 2 assists but only 1 fight vs Oilers
ST. LOUIS — Vladimir Tarasenko had two goals and two assists and got in a rare fight Tuesday night, helping the St. Louis Blues to an 8-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.
Brayden Schenn also had two goals and two assists, and Jake Allen stopped 26 shots for the NHLleading Blues (16-5-1).
In just the third scrap of his sixyear career, Tarasenko tangled with Matt Benning and landed a solid right hand in the process.
Tarasenko was reacting to Benning’s collision with Schenn that was almost knee-on-knee.
It was Tarasenko’s second career Gordie Howe hat trick — a goal, an assist and a fight in the same game.
Dmitrij Jaskin, Scottie Upshall and Paul Stastny also scored.
Jaden Schwartz had three points, including his 100th career goal.
Milan Lucic, Leon Draisaitl and Darnell Nurse replied for the Oilers. Cam Talbot was pulled in favour of Lauren Brossoit after allowing two goals on three shots. Brossoit faced 37 shots.
Defenceman Jay Bouwmeester played his first game of the season for the Blues after breaking his ankle in September. Edmonton is 1-5 in its last six games.
CANUCKS 5, FLYERS 2 Brock Boeser scored twice and Daniel Sedin inched closer to a milestone, leading Vancouver past the Flyers in Philadelphia.
Sedin had a goal and an assist to leave him four points shy of 1,000 for his career. Sven Baertschi scored a power-play goal, Henrik Sedin had two assists and Loui Eriksson added an empty-net goal and an assist for the Canucks.
Jacob Markstrom made 35 saves to earn his sixth win of the season for the Canucks (10-8-3). Jakub Voracek and Ivan Provorov scored for the Flyers, who lost their fifth straight.
Michal Neuvirth took the loss, allowing four goals on 22 shots. He was replaced by Brian Elliott with 5:20 remaining in the second.
STARS 3, CANADIENS 1 Devin Shore and Jason Spezza scored 59 seconds apart late in the second period to lift the Stars over Montreal in Dallas.
Shore had an assist on Spezza’s goal. So did Tyler Seguin, who scored into an empty net with 27 seconds to play.
Ben Bishop made 29 saves for Dallas on his 31st birthday. He allowed only a power-play goal by Brendan Gallagher at 12:04 of the second. After that, the Stars killed off all three Montreal power plays in the third period.
— News Services