Tarasenko out rest of Blues’ series

Two-time All-Star winger Vladimir Tarasenko will miss the rest of the Blues’ first-round playoff series against the Canucks after aggravating his surgically repaired left shoulder.

The team said Tuesday that Tarasenko is returning to St. Louis from Edmonton, Alberta to have the shoulder looked at by team doctors. His status will be updated Monday, which is scheduled to be the day off before the start of the second round.

Tarasenko missed Games 3 and 4, which the Blues won to tie the series. Game 5 is Wednesday.

“He’s not feeling right, and so that’s why he’s going to get it looked at,” coach Craig Berube said. “It’s concerning, but we don’t know a lot yet, so I’m not going to jump to conclusions on anything.”

The 28-year-old Russian missed the majority of the season after having his dislocated shoulder operated on in October. He returned to the ice for training camp but had zero points and 10 shots in goal in four games since the NHL restarted and clearly didn’t look like himself.

The defending Stanley Cup champions played the majority of the season without Tarasenko and were first in the Western Conference when the season was halted in March.

Tarasenko had 11 goals and six assists during the Blues’ playoff run last year. He had 10 points in 10 games this season before being injured.

Hart stays hot for Flyers: Carter Hart stopped 29 shots for his second straight shutout, Michael Raffl and Phil Myers each scored and the Flyers beat the Canadiens 2-0 to take a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference series in Toronto.

It’s the fifth time in NHL history a goalie had back-to-back postseason shutouts before age 23 and the first since Felix Potvin in 1994.

Hart became the youngest goalie in Flyers history to notch a shutout in Game 3 on Sunday at 22 years, 3 days and followed it up with another stellar effort Tuesday.

The top-seeded Flyers can wrap up the series in Game 5 on Wednesday.

Stars take 3-2 lead: Defenseman John Klingberg scored early in the third period, and the third-seeded Stars held on for a 2-1 win over the sixth-seeded Flames in Game 5 of their Western Conference series.

Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin teamed up for the first goal as the Stars took a 3-2 lead in the first-round series.

Anton Khudobin stopped 28 of 29 shots in Tuesday’s victory.

Caps rally, avoid sweep: Alex Ovechkin scored twice, including the go-ahead goal early in the third, as the Capitals rallied from two goals down to beat the Islanders 3-2 and avoid a sweep in their Eastern Conference series.

Evgeny Kuznetsov also scored for the third-seeded Caps and Braden Holtby stopped 24 shots.

Mathew Barzal and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored in the first period to give the sixth-seeded Islanders a 2-0 lead.