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Bruins beat Predators 6-2 to spoil Hynes' debut as coach

By The Associated Press less than a minute to finish
WASHINGTON (AP) — Da- a six-goal second period
vid Pastrnak scored for the that propelled the Light-
third consecutive game ning past Vancouver for
and the Boston Bruins beat their season-best eighth
Nashville 6-2 on Tuesday straight victory.
night, spoiling the debut of Verhaeghe, Tyler Johnson,
new Predators coach John Steven Stamkos, Alex Kil-
Hynes. lorn, Nikita Kucherov and
Hynes was hired as the third Erik Cernak all scored in the
coach in franchise history second as the Lightning
earlier in the day to replace matched a team record
Peter Laviolette, who was for goals in a period. They
fired Monday after 5½ sea- chased goaltender Jacob
sons as coach. Hynes was Markstrom and ended the
fired as coach of the New Canucks' seven-game win-
Jersey Devils on Dec. 3. ning streak.
Danton Heinen, Patrice Brayden Point had three
Bergeron, Chris Wagner, assists as Tampa Bay built
David Krejci and Charlie a 6-2 lead against Mark-
Coyle also scored for the strom, who was pulled with
Bruins, who snapped a just over two minutes left in
three-game losing streak. the third after yielding six
Tuukka Rask made 34 goals on 21 shots. Verhae-
saves. Boston Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask, of Finland, reaches for the puck in the second period of an ghe, Kucherov and Cernak
Filip Forsberg and Mikael NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. scored within a span of 56
Granlund scored for Nash- Associated Press seconds to finish the goal-
ville, which has lost five of ie's night.
six. Pekka Rinne finished Andrei Burakovsky had two RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dou- lost 5-3 to Chicago in their Point added his 18th goal
with 30 saves. assists and Philipp Grubau- gie Hamilton scored 1:56 first meeting of the season of the season, assisted
BLUES 3, SHARKS 2 er finished with 24 saves. into overtime on a shot be- on New Year's Eve. Cam by Stamkos and Cernak,
ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Per- Shesterkin was 15-4-3 with tween goalie Brian Elliott's Talbot made 31 saves. when he beat Markstrom's
ron scored his 18th goal of a 1.93 goals-against aver- pads to lift Carolina over The Blackhawks lost key replacement, Thatcher
the season and Jordan Bin- age and three shutouts Philadelphia. forward Dylan Strome to a Demko, early in the third.
nington stopped 28 shots to in 23 games with Hartford Warren Foegele, Jake right ankle injury early in the Verhaeghe scored twice in
lead St. Louis over San Jose. of the AHL in his first sea- Gardiner, Lucas Wallmark second period. They had the period, getting his third
Tyler Bozak and Ivan Bar- son in North America. The and Joel Edmundson also won four of five during one of the game on a 5-on-3
bashev also scored for the 24-year-old Russian, called scored for the Hurricanes, of their best stretches of the power play with 1:51 re-
Blues, who have won six up on Monday, was a who bounced back from season. maining.
straight at home. Timo Mei- fourth-round pick by the a two-goal deficit in the Dominik Kubalik scored his Tampa Bay's eight-game
er and Erik Karlsson had San Rangers in the 2014 NHL first period with four straight 13th goal for Chicago, and winning streak is its longest
Jose's goals. draft. goals, then squandered Corey Crawford stopped since the team won a fran-
This was the first matchup CAPITALS 6, SENATORS 1 their own two-goal cushion. 26 shots. chise-record 10 straight last
between the teams in St. WASHINGTON (AP) — T.J. Carolina stopped a two- ISLANDERS 4, DEVILS 3, OT February. Andrei Vasilevs-
Louis since the Blues elimi- Oshie and Alex Ovechkin game skid and improved NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An- kiy stopped 21 of 23 shots,
nated the Sharks in Game 6 each scored two goals as to 3-2 on its seven-game ders Lee scored with 51 with Elias Pettersson giving
of last year's Western Con- Washington defeated Ot- homestand. seconds left on the clock the Canucks a 1-0 first-pe-
ference Final. St. Louis won tawa. Travis Konecny, Michael in overtime to lift New York riod lead and Loui Eriksson
5-2 in San Jose on Dec. 21. Oshie, who scored the ty- Raffl, Nicolas Aube-Kubel over New Jersey. briefly making it 2-all in the
The Blues are 8-3-1 in their ing goal in Sunday's wild and Travis Sanheim scored Casey Cizikas, Jordan Eb- second.
last 12 regular-season comeback win over San for the Flyers, who lost their erle and Tom Kuhnhackl PENGUINS 4, GOLDEN
games against the Sharks. Jose, tied this one at 1. The fourth straight and dropped also scored for the Island- KNIGHTS 3
RANGERS 5, AVALANCHE 3 Capitals, who have won five of six on their road trip. ers. Thomas Greiss made 32 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Dominik
NEW YORK (AP) — Artemi three straight, scored six After the game, Carolina saves, including one on de- Kahun had a goal and an
Panarin had a goal and unanswered goals after announced the signing of fenseman Sami Vatanen assist, Tristan Jarry made 32
two assists, and Igor Shes- Artem Anisimov gave the veteran forward Justin Wil- on a 3-on-1 break in over- saves and Pittsburgh de-
terkin stopped 29 shots to Senators a 1-0 lead at 5:40 liams for the remainder of time. feated Vegas.
win his NHL debut as New of the first period. the season. Williams has P.K. Subban, Nico Hischier The Penguins have won
York beat Colorado. Ottawa has lost five straight, won three Stanley Cups, and Kyle Palmieri scored three straight and six of sev-
Mika Zibanejad and Ryan its second five-game skid of two with the Kings and one for the Devils, who were en on the road (6-1-0).
Strome each had a goal the season. with the Hurricanes. He looking for their second win Vegas had its season-
and an assist, and Chris Ilya Samsonov stopped 26 has 312 goals and 474 as- over the Islanders in less best four-game win streak
Kreider and Brady Skjei also shots to bring his record to sists in 1,244 career games. than a week. snapped.
scored for the Rangers. Jes- 12-2-1. FLAMES 2, BLACKHAWKS 1 Mackenzie Blackwood Evgeni Malkin, Patric Horn-
per Fast had three assists Craig Anderson allowed CHICAGO (AP) — Elias shook off an illness and qvist and Brandon Tanev
and Tony DeAngelo added five goals on 30 shots be- Lindholm scored twice to bloodied mouth to stop 37 also scored for the Pen-
two. fore he was pulled after reach 300 points in his 500th shots for New Jersey. guins, who had 16 shots on
J.T. Compher scored twice Lars Eller's goal at 2:08 of NHL game, and Calgary LIGHTNING 9, CANUCKS 2 goal. Max Pacioretty, Paul
and Nathan MacKinnon the third period. Radko topped Chicago for its third TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Carter Stastny and Reilly Smith
had a goal in his 500th Gudas also scored for the straight win. Verhaeghe had his first ca- scored for Vegas. Marc-An-
game for the Avalanche, Capitals. Matthew Tkachuk had two reer hat trick and Tampa dre Fleury made 12 saves
who have lost two straight. HURRICANES 5, FLYERS 4, OT assists for the Flames, who Bay scored three times in against his former team.q