Panarin scores, Trocheck adds 3 assists as Rangers take down Blackhawks, 4-1
NEW YORK >> Artemi Panarin scored his team-best 24th goal, Vincent Trocheck added three assists and New York beat Chicago.
Chris Kreider, Jacob Trouba and Jimmy Vesey also scored for the Rangers, who rebounded from Tuesday’s 6-1 home loss to Carolina and improved to 101-0 after a defeat this season. Igor Shesterkin made 22 saves.
Colin Blackwell scored against his former team for Chicago, which has lost four straight and six of seven.
The Rangers have won six of their last seven meetings with the Blackhawks and are 12-3-1 against Western Conference opponents. BLUES 2, CANUCKS 1 >> Robert Thomas had a goal and an assist to lead St. Louis over Vancouver.
Thomas, selected to his first All-Star Game earlier in the day, broke a 1-all tie at 8:03 of the third period for his team-leading 16th goal of the season.
Colton Parayko also scored for the Blues, who snapped a two-game skid. Jordan Binnington made 25 saves to improve to 12-11-1.
Conor Garland scored for the Canucks, who had won eight of 11. Thatcher Demko made 30 saves but fell to 188-1.
LIGHTNING 4, WILD 1 >> Lightning defenseman Darren Raddysh scored his first two goals of the season and Victor Hedman had a power-play goal in Tampa Bay’s victory over injuryravaged Minnesota.
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves to end a threestart losing streak and Brandon Hagel added an empty-net goal to help the Lightning hand the Wild their fourth consecutive loss. Vasilevskiy’s bid for his 34th career shutout lasted until Zach Bogosian
snapped a shot past him with 4:25 left.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots for the Wild, failing for the third straight game to match Patrick Roy for second place on the NHL victory list with 551.
Nikita Kucherov was limited to one assist for the Lightning on the night he was named to his fifth AllStar Game, ending his fourgame goal streak. The Russian right wing has 10 goals and 10 assists in his last 12 games.
BLUE JACKETS 3, FLYERS 2, SO
>> Johnny Gaudreau scored in the shootout, Damon Severson and Jake Bean netted goals in the third period and Columbus came back to beat Philadelphia.
Gaudreau, the first Blue Jackets shooter, beat Flyers goalie Samuel Ersson and Daniil Tarasov clinched the victory with a glove save on Tyson Foerster. Neither Sean Couturier nor Bobby Brink could convert for Philadelphia.
Tarasov stopped 39 shots. The win was just the second in seven games for Columbus.
All-Star forward Travis Konecny scored both goals for the Flyers, who have dropped four in a row and six of seven.
SABRES 6, CANADIENS 1 >> Buffalo rookie Devon Levi made 32 saves in his first game at hometown Bell Centre to help the Sabres defeat Montreal.
The 22-year-old Levi, from nearby Dollard-desOrmeaux, grew up watching the Canadiens and idolizing goalie Carey Price.
Tage Thompson had two goals and an assist, and Jeff Skinner added a goal and three assists as the Sabres improved to 16-19-4. Casey Mittelstadt and Jack Quinn each had a goal and an assist, and Rasmus Dahlin scored into an empty net.