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NHL Capsules
Lundqvist has milestone night as Rangers beat Blues 2-1
CHICAGO (AP) — Calle
Jarnkrok scored with 1:51
remaining, Pekka Rinne
made 38 saves and the
streaking Nashville Preda-
tors beat the Chicago
Blackhawks 3-1 on Thurs-
day night.
Viktor Arvidsson also scored
in the first as Nashville won
for the fourth time in its last
five games and extended
its point streak to eight in
a row. Miikka Salomaki
added an empty-net goal,
and Mike Fisher finished
with two assists.
It was a lousy ending to
a big night for Chicago,
which bolstered its shot for
a second straight Stanley
Cup title by reacquiring
forward Andrew Ladd in
a trade with Winnipeg an-
nounced right before the
game. The Blackhawks
have lost two in a row and
five of seven.
RANGERS 2, BLUES 1
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Chris
Kreider and Tanner Glass
scored, and Henrik Lun-
dqvist made 35 saves as
the New York Rangers beat
the St. Louis Blues.
Lundqvist got his 30th vic-
tory of the season, joining
Martin Brodeur and Patrick
Roy as the only goalies in
NHL history to have at least
30 wins in 10 different sea-
sons. Lundqvist also passed
Mike Richter as the team’s
all-time regular season
saves leader with save on
Vladimir Tarasenko’s wrist
shot late in the first period.
Troy Brouwer scored for the
Blues.
BLUE JACKETS 6, DEVILS 1
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —
Nick Foligno had his sec-
ond career hat trick and
added an assist to lead
the Columbus Blue Jackets
over the New Jersey Devils.
Brandon Saad, Brandon
Dubinksy — playing his
600th career game — and
Rene Bourque also scored,
and Matt Calvert and Wil-
liam Karlsson each had
three assists as the Blue
Jackets improved to 8-2-
3 in their last 13 games.
Steady rookie Joonas Kor-
pisalo made 25 saves and
is 10-2-3 in his past 14 starts.
Reid Boucher scored for
New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, of Sweden, blocks a shot by St. Louis Blues’ Scottie
Upshall during the third period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in St. Louis. The
Rangers won, 2-1.
New Jersey, which lost
for the fourth time in five
games.
PANTHERS 3, COYOTES 2
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Alek-
sander Barkov scored two
goals in his first game back two stellar saves late, help- also scored for Toronto, and
from an injury, lifting the
Florida Panthers over the
Arizona Coyotes.
Vincent Trocheck also
scored for the Panthers,
and Roberto Luongo made
22 saves. Barkov returned
to the lineup after missing
the last six games with an
upper-body injury.
With an assist, 44-year-old
Jaromir Jagr became the
oldest player to record
over 43 points in a season.
Jagr has 44 points this sea- Granlund also scored for
son and is four points away
from tying Gordie Howe
for third in career points
(1,850).
Oliver Ekman-Larsson and
Shane Doan scored for the
Coyotes, who have lost
four straight.
FLYERS 3, WILD 2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
scored the go-ahead goal
early in the third period
and Michal Neuvirth made
ing the Philadelphia Flyers
open a six-game homes-
tand with a victory over the
Minnesota Wild.
Mark Streit and Sam Gag-
ner also had goals for Phila- for the Leafs, currently the
delphia, which won for just
the fourth time in 11 games.
The Flyers opened play five
points out of a playoff spot, corded the only goal for
but they needed to leap
over five teams.
Thomas Vanek had a goal
and an assist and Mikael
the Wild, who dropped
their second straight while
falling to 4-2 under interim
coach John Torchetti.
HURRICANES 3, MAPLE
LEAFS 1
TORONTO (AP) — Pierre-
Alexandre Parenteau had
in the three-goal third. Mi-
chael Hutchinson had 27
saves. The Jets were play-
ing without former captain
Associated Press Andrew Ladd, traded to
Chicago earlier in the day,
a goal and an assist and and injured center Bryan
the Toronto Maple Leafs Little.
earned their first victory in Jason Spezza had two
nearly two weeks, topping goals for Dallas, includ-
the Carolina Hurricanes. ing the tying score early in
Brad Boyes and Josh Leivo the third period, and Tyler
Seguin also scored.
Jonathan Bernier made 28 ISLANDERS 2, FLAMES 1, OT
saves for the Leafs, who CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
won for the first time since Josh Bailey scored with 18
Feb. 13. It was just the fifth seconds left in overtime,
victory in the past 21 games Jaroslav Halak made 31
saves, and the New York
worst team in the Eastern Islanders rallied past the
Conference with 52 points. Calgary Flames.
John-Michael Liles re- Thomas Hickey also scored
as the Islanders improved
Carolina, and Cam Ward to 3-0-0 on their season-
stopped 25 of 28 shots. high seven-game stretch
JETS 6, STARS 3 of road games and re-
DALLAS (AP) — Joel Armia mained three points be-
scored twice to double his hind the second-place
season total, and the short- New York Rangers in the
handed Winnipeg Jets Metropolitan Division.
beat the Dallas Stars. Jiri Hudler scored for Cal-
Blake Wheeler and Toby gary, which fell to 1-5-1 in
Enstrom scored during Win- its last seven.
nipeg’s three-goal first pe- CANUCKS 5, SENATORS 3
riod, and Mark Scheifele VANCOUVER, British Co-
and Jacob Trouba scored lumbia (AP) — Matt Bart-
kowski and Emerson Etem
each scored two goals,
and Jake Virtanen had
the go-ahead score in the
third period, leading the
Vancouver Canucks over
the Ottawa Senators.
Bartkowski added an as-
sist for the first three-point
game of his career, Linden
Vey had two assists, and
Ryan Miller made 27 saves
for the Canucks.
Mike Hoffman, Mark Stone
and Bobby Ryan had goals
for Ottawa, which had its
four-game winning streak
stopped.
KINGS 2, OILERS 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff
Carter and Dwight King
scored in the third pe-
riod and Jonathan Quick
made 26 saves, leading
the Los Angeles Kings over
the Edmonton Oilers.
Zack Kassian scored late in
the second for the Oilers,
who have lost six straight
games and eight in a row
at Staples Center dating
to a 3-0 victory on Nov. 3,
2011. Cam Talbot stopped
34 shots.