NHL roundup
Kings 3, Blues 0
ST. LOUIS — Dustin Brown scored two goals, and veteran Jonathan Quick stopped 30 shots for his 54th career shutout to lift Los Angeles to a shutout against St. Louis on Monday night.
It was the second shutout this season for the 35-year-old Quick, who helped the Kings win two Stanley Cup championships in his career.
Gabriel Vilardi added a goal for the Kings, who scored in each period and extended their winning streak to five games.
Brown closed out the scoring with an empty-net goal at 18:57 of the third.
Panthers 3, Stars 1
SUNRISE, Fla. — Aaron Ekblad and Keith Yandle scored, Chris Driedger made 24 saves and Florida beat slumping, rusty Dallas.
Aleksander Barkov scored an empty-net goal to seal the Panthers’ sixth win in eight games.
Blake Comeau scored for Dallas, and Anton Khudobin stopped 49 of 51 shots. The Stars lost their sixth in a row and eighth of nine overall while playing their first game since Feb. 13 due to the weather conditions in Dallas.
Lightning 4, Hurricanes 2
RALEIGH, N.C. — Ondrej Palat snapped a tie 8:04 into the third period, and Tampa Bay topped Carolina.
Palat, Steven Stamkos and Victor Hedman each had a goal and an assist for the Lightning, who were shut out in each of their first two matchups with the Hurricanes this season.
Stamkos got the Lightning on the board early in the second, and Palat picked up his seventh goal when he poked his own rebound off the skates of Carolina defenseman Brady Skjei and goalie James Reimer before it went into the net.
Flames 3, Maple Leafs 0
TORONTO — David Rittich made 34 saves for his first shutout of the season and fourth of his career as the Calgary beat Nhl-leading Toronto.
Matthew Tkachuk and Sean Monahan each had a goal and an assist, and Sam Bennett added a goal for Calgary.
Rasmus Andersson added two assists for the Flames, who had lost four of five in regulation and had been outscored 14-3 in three straight losses, including a 7-1 decision to Edmonton on Saturday.
Islanders 3, Sabres 2
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Jeangabriel Pageau scored a tiebreaking power-play goal in the third period, and Semyon Varlamov made 33 saves, leading New York past last-place Buffalo.
Pageau got his seventh goal at 15:08 when he banged in a rebound on the backhand after Oliver Wahlstrom’s initial shot with stopped by Buffalo goaltender
Linus Ullmark.
The Islanders beat the Sabres for the third straight time this season after two victories in Buffalo last week. The Islanders also moved to 5-0-1 at Nassau Coliseum.