At Tampa, Florida, Brad Richards scored the lone goal in a shootout and John Grahame stopped three shots in the tiebreaker to lift Tampa Bay over the New York Rangers.
Tampa Bay got goals from Martin St. Louis, Fredrik Modin and Cory Sarich. The Lightning are 4-0-1 over the past five games. The Rangers, who are tied atop the Atlantic Division with the Philadelphia Flyers, lost for the second straight night in a shootout.
New York's Jaromir Jagr, the NHL leader in goals and points, had a goal and assist but was stopped on the Rangers' first shootout attempt. Jagr scored his 51st goal in the second period to move past Vic Hadfield (1971-1972) into second place on the Rangers' single-season, goal-scoring list. He is one short of tying Adam Graves' team record set in 1993-1994.
Sharks 5, Wild 1
At St. Paul, Minnesota, Jonathan Cheechoo scored two goals, including his team-record 45th of the season, to help the surging San Jose beat Minnesota.
Joe Thornton had three assists and tied San Jose's single-season record with 53 in only 44 games with the Sharks, 7-1-2 in their last 10 contests.
Brian Rolston scored the lone goal for Minnesota. It was the fifth loss in five games for the Wild.
Oilers 3, Canucks 2
At Vancouver, British Columbia, Steve Staios' third-period goal helped Edmonton salvage the final game of a three-game series with Vancouver.
After losing to the Canucks one in regulation and another in a shootout, the Oilers finished the set in a tie with the Canucks for seventh place in the Western Conference standings.
Ryan Smyth and Sergei Samsonov also scored for the Oilers, who blew a third-period lead on Thursday before hanging on to finally beat the Canucks on Saturday.
Dwayne Roloson made 23 saves to improve to 3-3-3 since being acquired by the Oilers from Minnesota.
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