GLENDALE, Arizona (AP) — Corey Perry had a goal and two assists and Jamie McGinn and Rickard Rakell scored on Anaheim's first two shots as the Ducks tied a franchise record with their 10th straight victory, routing Arizona 5-1 on Thursday night.
Cam Fowler and Josh Manson also scored, and Frederik Andersen stopped 27 shots as Anaheim stayed atop the Pacific Division. The Ducks matched the 2013-14 team's winning streak despite injured captain Ryan Getzlaf's absence.
Anthony Duclair scored, and Niklas Treutle allowed five goals on 16 shots in his first NHL start for the Coyotes in their seventh straight loss.
LIGHTNING 4, SENATORS 1
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ben Bishop made 33 saves as the Tampa Bay Lightning tied a franchise record with their eighth straight victory.
Cedric Paquette, Ondrej Palat, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos — into an empty net — scored for the Lightning, who wrapped up a four-game road trip.
Marc Methot scored the lone goal for the Ottawa Senators. Andrew Hammond, making his first start since February 11, made 25 saves.
PENGUINS 4, RANGERS 1
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Patric Hornqvist each scored in the final 2:13 of the second period, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins past the New York Rangers.
Malkin added two assists and Phil Kessel scored into an empty net for the Penguins, who frustrated Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist midway through the second and chased him with a three-goal flurry at the end of the period.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 27 shots for the Penguins and is one away from becoming the 20th goalie in NHL history to reach 350 wins.
Chris Kreider scored his 14th for the Rangers, whose three-game win streak ended.
BRUINS 4, BLACKHAWKS 2
View galleryAnaheim Ducks' Nick Ritchie, right, fights with …
Anaheim Ducks' Nick Ritchie, right, fights with Arizona Coyotes' Jarred Tinordi (28) during …
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand each had a goal and an assist to help lead the Boston Bruins over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Ryan Spooner and Loui Eriksson also had goals for Boston, which won for the fifth time in seven games. The Bruins now prepare to face the Washington Capitals, the NHL's points leader, on Saturday, before heading out on the road for six of the next eight games.
Jonathan Toews and Thomas Fleischmann scored for Chicago, which has dropped three of its last five and 6 of 10, but the Western Conference leaders remained two points ahead of Dallas and St. Louis, who were idle.
OILERS 4, FLYERS 0
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, (AP) — Taylor Hall, Nail Yakupov, Patrick Maroon and Lauri Korpikoski all scored, and Cam Talbot made 35 saves to lead Edmonton to its third straight victory.
Talbot, in his ninth straight start, earned his second shutout of the season and 10th of his career.
Top rookie Connor McDavid had an assist in his first game versus the Flyers since being injured against them in Philadelphia's 4-2 win at Edmonton on Nov. 3. The 2015 No. 1 overall pick missed 37 games after breaking his clavicle when he was ridden hard into the boards by Philadelphia's Brandon Manning, who watched from the press box as a healthy scratch.
SABRES 6, FLAMES 3
BUFFALO, New York (AP) — Johan Larsson scored the go-ahead goal with 9:31 left and Marcus Foligno had a goal and two assists in the Buffalo Sabres' win over the Calgary Flames.
The loss extended Calgary's skid to 0-6-1 and dropped it into last place in the Western Conference.
Jack Eichel, Nicolas Deslauriers, Rasmus Ristolainen and Evander Kane, with an empty-netter, also scored in helping Buffalo extend its home dominance over Calgary. The Sabres improved to 10-0-2 in their past 12 home games against the Flames, with their last regulation loss a 3-1 defeat on March 15, 1996.
Sean Monahan and Dougie Hamilton each had a goal and an assist, and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames. Calgary dropped its sixth consecutive road game. The Flames' winless streak is their longest since going 0-7-1 in December 2014.
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Colorado Avalanche goalie Calvin Pickard, left, stops a shot off the stick of Florida Panthers right …
WILD 2, MAPLE LEAFS 1
TORONTO (AP) — Mikko Koivu and Mikael Granlund scored power-play goals to lead the Minnesota Wild past the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Devan Dubnyk had 21 saves for the Wild, who hold the second wild-card playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Jake Gardiner gave the Leafs the lead early in the second period and Garret Spars — making his second start since being recalled from Toronto of the AHL last weekend, finished with 20 saves.
ISLANDERS 4, JETS 3, OT
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Kyle Okposo scored off a quirky rebound 2:20 into overtime to lift the New York Islanders over the Winnipeg Jets.
New York's Frans Nielsen blasted the puck toward the net, but it hit Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers in the face. Okposo got the rebound and shot it in past Michael Hutchinson.
Calvin de Haan, Shane Prince and Anders Lee also scored, and Thomas Greiss stopped 26 shots as the Islanders improved to 5-1 on their season-high seven-game road trip that concludes Sunday against the crosstown-rival New York Rangers.
Mark Scheifele had two goals and Tyler Myers also scored for the Jets, who have lost six straight at home.
DEVILS 5, PREDATORS 4, OT
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Adam Henrique forced overtime with a goal, then scored 1:54 into the extra period on the power play as the New Jersey Devils snapped the Nashville Predators' five-game winning streak.
Henrique's wrister tied it with 39.7 seconds left, and his 22nd goal this season — 12 seconds after Nashville took a delay of game penalty — led the Devils to their first win in four games. Travis Zajac also scored in the third, Kyle Palmieri had a power-play goal and two assists, and Devante Smith-Pelly also had a goal and an assist in his New Jersey debut.
Filip Forsberg had a goal and two assists, and Craig Smith and Mike Ribeiro each scored power-play goals and added an assist. The Predators set a franchise record with a point in their 11th straight game (7-0-4).
AVALANCHE 3, PANTHERS 2
DENVER, Colorado, (AP) — Gabriel Landeskog had a goal and an assist and Calvin Pickard made 24 of his 38 saves in the third period to lift the Colorado Avalanche over the Florida Panthers.
Jaromir Jagr had an assist on Florida's first goal to tie Gordie Howe for third in career points with 1,850. He is 37 points behind Mark Messier for second. Jagr, in his 22nd season, also ranks third in goals with 743 and his 1,107 assists are sixth.
Matt Duchene and Mikkel Boedker also scored and Tyson Barrie had two assists for Colorado.
Brian Campbell and Erik Gudbranson had the goals for Florida, and Roberto Luongo had 23 saves.
SHARKS 3, CANUCKS 2
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Patrick Marleau scored the go-ahead goal in the third period as the San Jose Sharks won their third straight, beating the Vancouver Canucks.
Brent Burns and Tomas Hertl had a goal and an assist each for the Sharks, who rebounded from a 2-0 deficit to remain third in the Pacific Division. Martin Jones made 28 saves for San Jose.
Jake Virtanen and Sven Baertschi scored for the Canucks, who have lost three straight and fell 10 points behind Minnesota and Colorado for the second wild-card berth in the Western Conference.
KINGS 3, CANADIENS 2
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anze Kopitar and Tanner Pearson scored less than 3 minutes apart early in the first period and Dwight King scored on a breakaway in the third, leading the Los Angeles Kings over the Montreal Canadiens.
The victory kept the Kings tied for the Pacific Division lead with the Anaheim Ducks, who come to Staples Center for a Saturday matinee. Jonathan Quick finished with 13 saves in the opener of a five-game homestand. He handed the Canadiens their only shutout loss of the season on Dec. 17, making a season-high 45 saves in a 3-0 victory.
P.K. Subban and Lars Eller scored and Andrei Markov had two assists for the Canadiens, who are 11-25-3 following a 19-4-3 start that included a season-opening nine-game winning streak.
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