Lightning win to go up four points on B’s
Nikita Kucherov scored twice to lift the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 3-1 victory against the Edmonton Oilers yesterday in Tampa.
Louis Domingue stopped 28 shots to help the Lightning end a two-game slide and move back to four points ahead of the Bruins for the top overall spot in the Eastern Conference standings. Victor Hedman also scored and Steven Stamkos added two assists.
Tampa Bay killed off five Edmonton power-play chances and kept Connor McDavid off the scoresheet, leaving him four points behind Kucherov for the league lead in points.
Ty Rattie scored for Edmonton and Al Montoya finished with 37 saves.
Hurricanes 4, Islanders 3 — Trevor van Riemsdyk scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period and Scott Darling made 26 saves as Carolina edged host New York.
Van Riemsdyk’s second goal of the season came on a long slap shot with 6:49 remaining to help snap Carolina’s three-game losing streak and continue the late season swoon by the Islanders, who have just one win their last 12 games. Jaccob Slavin, Lee Stempniak and Victor Rask also scored for the Hurricanes.
Anders Lee scored twice and Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist for New York. John Tavares had three assists and Jaroslav Halak finished with 35 saves.
Flyers 6, Capitals 3 — Wayne Simmonds scored two goals as host Philadelphia doubled up Washington.
Oskar Lindblom, Shayne Gostisbehere, Ivan Provorov and Jakub Voracek also had goals for the Flyers, who stayed in third place in the Metropolitan Division and moved within four points of the first-place Capitals. The Flyers began play tied with Columbus, which was idle ahead of tonight’s road game in Boston, but have a tiebreaker over the Blue Jackets.
Alex Ovechkin scored his 43rd goal and shares the league lead, and Chandler Stephenson and John Carlson had goals for the Capitals.
Jets 4, Stars 2 — Patrik Laine scored twice to extend his point streak to 15 games and tie Ovechkin for the NHL goal lead with 43, and host Winnipeg downed Dallas to match the franchise wins record at 43.
Laine’s point streak is the longest active run in the NHL and adds to his league record for the longest point streak by a teenager. The streak includes 18 goals and eight assists.
Ben Chiarot also scored and Blake Wheeler added an empty-netter for Winnipeg.
Mattias Janmark and Jamie Benn scored for the Stars.
Golden Knights 4, Flames 0 — In Las Vegas, William Karlsson scored a natural hat trick and Marc-Andre Fleury made 42 saves as Vegas shut out Calgary.
Colin Miller also scored as Vegas snapped a fourgame home losing streak and improved to 25-9-2 at T Mobile Arena. With his 48th career shutout and fourth of the season, Fleury tied Chris Osgood for 12th all-time at 401.
Mike Smith stopped 27 shots for the Flames.
Blues 5, Blackhawks 4 — Patrik Berglund scored in overtime, and St. Louis, playing without top goalscorer Vladimir Tarasenko (upper body), rallied past host Chicago.
Alex Pietrangelo and Vince Dunn each had a goal and three assists for the Blues. Alexander Steen and Vladimir Sobotka also scored.
Alex DeBrincat had a hat trick for the Blackhawks.
Avalanche 5, Red Wings 1 — In Denver, Nathan MacKinnon kept up his torrid scoring with two goals and an assist, Semyon Varlamov was sharp in making 37 saves and Colorado extended Detroit’s skid to 10 straight games (0-9-1).
Gabriel Landeskog, Blake Comeau and Tyson Barrie also scored for the Ava- lanche.
Justin Abdelkader had the lone goal for the Red Wings.