Blues eclipse Stars for 7th straight win

ST LOUIS: Ryan O’Reilly scored the winning shoot-out goal to lead the St Louis Blues past the visiting Dallas Stars 4-3 on Saturday night for their seventh consecutive victory.

The Stars rallied from a 3-1 deficit to force overtime — with John Klingberg scoring the tying goal with 19 seconds left in regulation.

But O’Reilly scored the only goal in the shoot-out. The Central Divisionleading Blues have had three winning streaks of at least seven games this season, a franchise first.

David Perron, Tyler Bozak and Brayden Schenn scored for the Blues, and Vince Dunn earned two assists. Goaltender Jake Allen stopped 28 shots for his third victory over the Stars this season.

Tampa Bay’s special teams scored three times in their 4-3 victory against visiting Calgary just after it was announced that captain Steven Stamkos (lingering core muscle injury) would miss the remainder of the Lightning’s regular season.

Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat netted power-play goals, Yanni Gourde had a short-handed tally, and Alex Killorn added a marker. Nikita Kucherov and Mikhail Sergachev each contributed two assists. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 18 saves to notch his leagueleading 33rd victory.

Elis Lindholm had a goal and an assist, and Andrew Mangiapane and Sean Monahan posted markers for the Flames. David Rittich stopped 29 of 33 shots for Calgary, who went 6-7-1 in February.

Erik Johnson had a goal and an assist, Pavel Francouz stopped 30 shots, and visiting Colorado beat Nashville 3-2 as Johnson’s two points gave him 300 for his career.

Gabriel Landeskog and Martin Kaut also had goals for Colorado, who have won a franchise-best eight straight road games and six in a row overall.

Viktor Arvidsson and Calle Jarnkrok had goals, and Juuse Saros had 28 saves for Nashville. The Predators had their three-game winning streak snapped.