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            NHL Capsules

              Blue Jackets beats Rangers, Wild defeat Oilers




            The Associated Press                                                                                                18 saves as the Bruins beat
            NEW  YORK  (AP)  —  Seth                                                                                            the  Lightning  for  their  first
            Jones  scored  twice  while                                                                                         three-game winning streak
            Alexander  Wennberg  had                                                                                            since early December.
            a  goal  and  two  assists  as                                                                                      Boston also got goals from
            the Columbus Blue Jackets                                                                                           Patrice  Bergeron,  David
            beat the New York Rangers                                                                                           Krejci and Frank Vatrano.
            6-4 on Tuesday night.                                                                                               Alex  Killorn  scored  twice
            Brandon  Saad  added  a                                                                                             and Brayden Point also had
            goal  and  an  assist  while                                                                                        a  goal  for  the  Lightning,
            Nick Foligno and Matt Cal-                                                                                          while  Victor  Hedman  had
            vert also scored for the Blue                                                                                       three assists and Ben Bishop
            Jackets, who led 6-0 early in                                                                                       stopped 31 shots.
            the third. Joonas Korpisalo,                                                                                        STARS 6, MAPLE LEAFS 3
            starting  in  place  of  All-Star                                                                                   DALLAS    (AP)   —     Kari
            Sergei  Bobrovsky,  stopped                                                                                         Lehtonen  made  40  saves
            33 shots.                                                                                                           as  the  Stars  scored  five
            The  Blue  Jackets  won  for                                                                                        times in the first period.
            the  sixth  time  in  13  games                                                                                     Dallas  took  a  3-0  lead
            since  a  franchise-record                                                                                          on  goals  by  Devin  Shore,
            16-game  winning  streak                                                                                            Radek Faksa and Lauri Ko-
            and  beat  the  Rangers  for                                                                                        rpikoski.  After  Korpikoski’s
            the  second  time  in  three                                                                                        goal  at  11:18,  Curtis  McEl-
            meetings  this  season  after                                                                                       hinney  replaced  Maple
            losing the previous seven.                                                                                          Leafs  goalie  Frederik  An-
            Jimmy     Vesey,   Michael   Winnipeg Jets’ Adam Lowry, left, is checked into the boards by St. Louis Blues’ Jori Lehtera, of Fin-  dersen.
            Grabner, Chris Kreider and   land, during the second period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in St. Louis.   Tyler  Bozak  scored  on  a
            Kevin  Klein  scored  for  the                                                                     Associated Press  power play at 13:50 of the
            Rangers,  who  announced     for  the  Blackhawks  and  zona  and  Smith  had  36  Boychuk  scored  into  an        first  for  Toronto  but  Brett
            a  two-year  contract  ex-   Corey  Crawford  made  26  saves.                         empty  net  with  1:08  left,   Ritchie and Jamie Benn an-
            tension for coach Alain Vi-  saves.                       PENGUINS 4, PREDATORS 2      and Alan Quine also scored   swered  to  give  the  Stars  a
            gneault  earlier  in  the  day.   DUCKS 5, AVALANCHE 1    PITTSBURGH  (AP)  —  Patric  for New York.                5-1 lead after one.
            Henrik Lundqvist was pulled   ANAHEIM,  California  (AP)  Hornqvist scored twice and  The  Islanders  are  5-0-1  un-  Toronto   outshot   Dallas
            less  than  four  minutes  into   — Jakob Silfverberg scored  Matt  Murray  stopped  37  der  interim  coach  Doug   43-20   overall.   Lehtonen
            the  second  period  after   two goals and John Gibson  shots, leading Pittsburgh to  Weight.                       stopped  all  14  shots  in  the
            giving up three goals on 16   made 28 saves as Anaheim  the win.                       Alex  Ovechkin  scored  his   third period, when the Stars
            shots.                       wrapped up a three-game  Trevor  Daley  and  Chris  24th  goal  with  47  seconds      had only one shot on goal.
            WILD 5, OILERS 2             season sweep of struggling  Kunitz  also  scored  for  the  left  and  Evgeny  Kuznetsov   JETS 5, BLUES 3
            EDMONTON,  Alberta  (AP)     Colorado.                    defending  Stanley  Cup  also scored for Washington.      ST.  LOUIS  (AP)  —  Mark
            —  Tyler  Graovac  scored    Rickard  Rakell,  Korbinian  champions.  Sidney  Cros-    Grubauer made 26 saves.      Scheifele and Blake Wheel-
            twice as the Wild beat the   Holzer  and  Cam  Fowler  by  picked  up  an  assist  on  HURRICANES 5, FLYERS 1       er  each  had  a  goal  and
            Oilers.                      each added a goal for the  Hornqvist’s first goal for the  RALEIGH,  North  Carolina   two  assists,  powering  Win-
            Jason  Zucker,  Zach  Parise   Ducks, who moved ahead  994th point of his career.      (AP) — Sebastian Aho had     nipeg to the win.
            and  Chris  Stewart  also    of  Edmonton  for  second  Calle  Jarnkrok  scored  his  three  goals  and  an  assist,   Patrik  Laine,  Jacob  Truba
            scored  for  the  Wild  while   place in the Pacific Division  eighth  goal  and  Colin  Wil-  leading  the  Hurricanes  to   and  Nikolaj  Ehlers  also
            Darcy  Kuemper  made  41     by picking up at least one  son  added  his  seventh  the victory.                     scored  for  the  Jets,  who
            saves.                       point  for  the  16th  time  in  for  the  Predators.  Pekka  Aho,  a  19-year-old  from   improved  to  12-4-1  within
            Adam  Larsson  and  Leon     their last 18 games.         Rinne  made  35  saves  but  Finland,  became  the  first   the Central Division. Ondrej
            Draisaitl  each  had  a  goal   Mikko  Rantanen  scored  the  Penguins  dominated  Carolina rookie to record a      Pavalec made 24 saves.
            for the Oilers.              and Calvin Pickard stopped  the  second  period  behind  hat trick since Erik Cole dur-  Alexander  Steen,  Vladimir
            SHARKS 3, BLACKHAWKS 1       26 shots for the Avalanche.  Hornqvist.                   ing  the  2001-02  season.  It   Tarasenko, Alex Pietrangelo
            SAN  JOSE,  California  (AP)   KINGS 3, COYOTES 2         ISLANDERS 3, CAPITALS 2      was the third multiple-goal   scored  for  the  Blues,  while
            —  Tomas  Hertl  scored  the   GLENDALE, Arizona (AP) —  Ryan  Strome  and  Johnny  game  this  season  for  Aho,   Jake Allen made 19 saves.
            game-winner  with  2:03  re-  Jake Muzzin scored a pow-   Boychuk scored in the third  who has 15 goals.            CANADIENS 5, SABRES 2
            maining  in  regulation  af-  er-play  goal  with  1:49  to  period  while  Thomas  Gre-  Jeff  Skinner  and  Justin   MONTREAL (AP) — Max Pa-
            ter  Patrick  Marleau  got  his   play as the Kings snapped  iss  made  28  saves  as  the  Faulk,  the  Hurricanes’  only   cioretty scored three times
            499th career goal, helping   the  Coyotes’  season-best  Islanders  beat  the  league-  representative  for  the  win-  and  Carey  Price  made  37
            San  Jose  beat  Chicago     three-game winning streak.   leading Capitals             ning  Metropolitan  Division   saves,  leading  the  Cana-
            for  its  seventh  win  in  eight   Anze  Kopitar  and  Jordan  Strome’s  first  goal  since  in  Sunday’s  All-Star  Game,   diens to the win.
            games.                       Nolan  also  scored  for  Los  Dec.  31  lifted  New  York to  also scored for Carolina.  David Desharnais and Paul
            Hertl, who missed 32 games   Angeles  and  Peter  Budaj  a 2-1 lead at 6:31. Anthony  Brayden Schenn scored his     Byron also scored for Mon-
            with  a  knee  injury,  got  his   had 30 stops.          Beauvillier  stole  the  puck  100th NHL goal, all for Phila-  treal.  Alexander  Radulov
            first goal since Oct. 27 when   Arizona  goalie  Mike  Smith  behind  the  Capitals  net  delphia, on a power play in   and  Phillip  Danault  each
            he knocked in the rebound    withstood  a  barrage  of  and passed it to Brock Nel-    the third period.            had two assists.
            of Brent Burns’ shot.        third-period shots before fi-  son.                       BRUINS 4, LIGHTNING 3        Dmitry  Kulikov  and  Brian
            Joe  Pavelski  added  an     nally allowing the deciding  The Islanders forward sent a  TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Zde-  Gionta  scored  for  Buffalo
            empty-netter  while  Martin   goal.                       quick  pass  to  Strome,  and  no  Chara  scored  the  go-  late in the third period and
            Jones made 24 saves.         Jordan    Martinook    and  he  tapped  it  past  goalie  ahead goal in the third pe-  Robin  Lehner  stopped  30
            Dennis  Rasmussen  scored    Ryan  White  scored  for  Ari-  Philipp Grubauer.         riod and Tuukka Rask made    shots.q
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