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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