Alexander Steen had a goal and two assists to help St Louis coach Ken Hitchcock move into sole possession of fourth place on the NHL wins list in the Blues’ 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.
Hitchcock’s 693rd regular-season win broke a tie with Dick Irvin. The Blues coach trails only Joel Quenneville (739), Al Arbour (782) and Scotty Bowman (1,244), who scouted the game as a Chicago senior adviser.
T.J. Oshie, Dmitrij Jaskin, David Backes, Paul Stastny and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored for the Blues.
Tampa Bay got goals from Tyler Johnson, Brett Connolly and Steven Stamkos.
ISLANDERS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2
In Uniondale, New York, Anders Lee scored two goals, including the tiebreaker in the second period, and Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves for his 30th win of the season.
Lee scored in each of the first two periods, while Casey Cizikas added a goal for the Metropolitan Division-leading Islanders, who have won three straight and four of five.
Richard Panik and Trevor Smith scored goals in the second period as Toronto erased a 2-0 deficit. Jonathan Bernier stopped 38 shots, but dropped his eighth straight decision. The Maple Leafs have lost 13 of 14 (1-12-1) overall and 12 straight (0-11-1) on the road.
DUCKS 2, HURRICANES 1
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Matt Beleskey had the go-ahead goal and an assist as the Ducks snapped a three-game losing streak.
Francois Beauchemin and Beleskey scored 2 minutes, 52 seconds apart in the second period to help the Pacific Division leaders improve to 24-0-7 in one-goal games.
Jeff Skinner scored a power-play goal for Carolina, who had their two-game winning streak snapped.
In his first start since Oct. 30 last year, John Gibson made 35 saves for Anaheim and Cam Ward stopped 15 shots for the Hurricanes.
PENGUINS 5, SENATORS 4, SO
In Ottowa, David Perron scored the shootout winner to lift the Penguins.
Sidney Crosby, with two goals, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins, while Thomas Greiss made 29 saves.
Mika Zibanejad, Mike Hoffman Mark Stone and Kyle Turris scored for the Senators, playing their first of a five-game homestand.
Robin Lehner, making his career-high seventh consecutive start, stopped 25 shots.
Down 3-0 to start the third period, the Senators made an impressive comeback to tie the game 4-4 late in the period.
Perron scored the only goal of the shootout with a quick wrist shot.
OILERS 4, CANADIENS 3, OT
In Montreal, Anton Lander scored at 1:47 of overtime to lift Edmonton.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ second goal of the game tied it with 25 seconds left in regulation, while Edmonton was playing with an extra attacker.
Matt Hendricks also scored for the Oilers, who are 2-2-0 on a six-game road trip that takes them to Ottawa today and Winnipeg on Monday.
Lander scored the winner from in front of the net, while Nugent-Hopkins took a puck off defenseman Andrei Markov’s skate and scored on a spin-around shot from the slot to force the extra period.
Christian Thomas, Alex Galchenyuk and Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, who had their three-game winning streak ended.
In other results, it was:
‧ Predators 3, Jets 1
‧ Wild 2, Panthers 1
‧ Rangers 6, Avalanche 3
‧ Kings 5, Flames 3
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