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Vegas beats Tampa Bay 4-1 in matchup of conference leaders
By The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Marc-
Andre Fleury made 28
saves, David Perron had
a goal and an assist, and
the Vegas Golden Knights
beat the Tampa Bay Light-
ning 4-1 Thursday night in
a matchup of conference
leaders. James Neal, Nate
Schmidt and William Karls-
son also scored for the
Golden Knights, who swept
the two-game season se-
ries with the NHL-leading
Lightning.
Tampa Bay, coming off
its bye week, got a goal
from Ondrej Palat, and
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped
26 shots. Vasilevskiy, an
All-Star this season, has al-
lowed 19 goals over his last
four games. Fleury made a
number of impressive stops,
including a left-circle shot
by Steven Stamkos and
in-close chance from Ni-
kita Kucherov during the
second period. The goalie,
who spent most of career
with Pittsburgh, is 19-11-4
against the Lightning.
Neal opened the scoring
with a nifty deflection 56
seconds into the first, and
Schmidt made it 2-0 with
3:57 left in the period. Deryk
Engelland got his 100th NHL
assist on Neal’s goal.
BRUINS 5, ISLANDERS 2
NEW YORK (AP) — Patrice
Bergeron scored three
goals to lead Boston to an-
other victory, giving the Bru-
ins at least a point for the
15th consecutive game.
Brad Marchand had a goal
and two assists as Boston
improved to 11-0-4 since its
last regulation loss Dec. 14
against Washington — its
best stretch since going 15-
0-1 from March 2-30, 2014.
Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Chris Kunitz (14) tries to pick up MacKinnon scored twice Adrian Kempe scored and
a rebound after Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre during a 58-second span Jonathan Quick made 28
Fleury (29) made a save on a shot during the second period of in the first period, Matt Ni- saves for the Kings, who
an NHL hockey game Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. eto added a late insur- have lost five straight for
ance goal and Colorado the first time this season.
Associated Press ran its winning streak to DEVILS 4, CAPITALS 3, OT
eight straight. Carl Soder- NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Tay-
Ryan Spooner had a goal Nolan Patrick and Wayne berg also scored and Mikko lor Hall scored on a break-
and an assist, and Anton Simmonds scored early Rantanen had a goal and away 34 seconds into over-
Khudobin stopped 22 shots. in the third period for the two assists for the Avs, who time, lifting New Jersey to
Jordan Eberle and John Ta- Flyers. Michal Neuvirth have won eight in a row the victory.
vares scored for New York, stopped 29 shots, including for the first time since the Sami Vatanen collected
which has dropped seven a sprawling pad save on 2005-06 season. It’s tied for his third assist of the game
of 10 — with each of the Patrick Marleau with 2:48 the third-longest streak in on the winning goal, a shot
losses coming in regula- left in regulation. franchise history. Joe Thorn- over the shoulder of goal-
tion. Jaroslav Halak made Fourth-liners Connor Brown ton, Timo Meier and Marc- tender Braden Holtby.
29 saves while facing fewer and Frederik Gauthier Edouard Vlasic scored for Drew Stafford, Andy
than 35 shots for the first scored 28 seconds apart San Jose. Jonathan Bernier Greene and Miles Wood
time in his last 11 games. in the second period for stopped 45 shots to run his also scored for the Devils,
FLYERS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2, OT Toronto in its season-high winning streak to a career- who have won two straight
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sean fourth straight loss. Ander- best seven games. He is fill- since a six-game winless
Couturier scored 18 sec- sen made 34 saves. ing in with starter Semyon streak (0-3-3). Keith Kinkaid
onds into overtime and Back on good terms with Varlamov sidelined by a had 16 saves and the Devils
Philadelphia rallied for the the organization after an lower-body injury. killed off all five Washington
win after retiring the No. 88 ugly 2001 departure, Lindros PENGUINS 3, KINGS 1 power plays.
jersey of Hall of Fame cen- received several standing LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patric Brett Connolly scored twice
ter Eric Lindros. ovations before his number Hornqvist scored two goals and Dmitry Orlov had a
Couturier took a feed from was hoisted to the rafters in and Evgeni Malkin got the goal for the Capitals, who
Travis Konecny and beat a ceremony that delayed tiebreaking goal early in lost for only the second
Frederik Andersen with a the start by an hour. the third period of the Pen- time in eight games. Holtby
wrist shot to give the Flyers AVALANCHE 5, SHARKS 3 guins’ fifth win in six games. made 28 saves, but gave
their fifth win in six games. DENVER (AP) — Nathan Casey DeSmith stopped up three breakaway goals.
28 shots to earn his first BLUE JACKETS 2, STARS 1, SO
NHL victory in his third ca- COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
reer appearance for Pitts- Artemi Panarin scored in
burgh. Malkin had a goal the second round of a
and an assist as the Pen- shootout, sending the Blue
guins bounced back from Jackets to the win.
a loss in Anaheim one night Joonas Korpisalo had 35
earlier with a solid effort at saves for Columbus, which
Staples Center in the sec- returned from its five-day
ond stop of the back-to- break after losing both
back Stanley Cup champs’ ends of a back-to-back last
three-game California trip. week. Jordan Schroeder
Hornqvist scored in the scored his first goal of the
opening minute and got season in the first period.
another during a five-min- Korpisalo blocked a shoot-
ute power play midway out try by Jason Spezza
through the third after before Alexander Radulov
Dustin Brown got a game and Tyler Seguin came up
misconduct penalty for empty. Dallas goaltender
sending a kneeling Jus- Ben Bishop blocked Jussi
tin Schultz into the boards Jokinen’s shootout attempt
near the Kings’ bench. before Panarin beat him.q