ST. LOUIS (AP) — Zack Bolduc scored two power-play goals, Robert Thomas added a goal and three assists, and the St. Louis Blues extended their franchise-best winning streak to 12 games with a 5-4 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night.
St. Louis has the longest winning streak in the NHL this season and has won 11 straight home games.
Jake Neighbours and Pavel Buchnevich also scored for the Blues and Jordan Binnington made 35 saves, matching the franchise record home win streak for a Blues goaltender at 10.
Russ Colton, Miles Wood, Nathan MacKinnon and Sam Malinski scored for Colorado. Mackenzie Blackwood had 17 saves.
Bolduc scored his first 49 seconds into the game, taking the puck from Thomas in the slot and snapping a wrist shot by Blackwood. Neighbours made it 2-0 at 7:40 of the first.
Buchnevich scored on a backhand from in front at 1:01 of the second period and Bolduc added his second at 8:53 for a 4-0 lead.
PENGUINS 5, STARS 3
DALLAS (AP) — Sidney Crosby had three goals and an assist, and Pittsburgh rallied to beat Dallas.
Bryan Rust and Blake Lizotte also scored to help the Penguins get their second win in three games. Tristan Jarry stopped 21 shots.
Evgenii Dadonov scored three goals for his second hat trick, and Casey DeSmith finished with 35 saves as Dallas snapped a seven-game win streak and 10-game point streak (8-0-2).
Rust tied it 3-3 at 8:49 of the third period as he got a pass in front from Crosby, staked around a sprawled DeSmith and put a backhander into the open net. It was Rust’s 200th NHL goal.
Lizotte put the Penguins ahead 4-3 with 1:43 remaining, and Crosby completed his 17th career hat trick with an empty-netter for his 30th goal with 15 seconds to go.
Crosby tied it 2-2 just 20 seconds into the third, getting a centering pass from Rutger McGroarty on the goal line back in front and redirecting a backhander past DeSmith.
Dadonov finished his hat trick at 3:11 to put the Stars back in front as he beat Jarry from the right side with a backhander.
DEVILS 4, RANGERS 0
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Timo Meier scored twice and Jacob Markstrom made 26 saves as New Jersey defeated New York in an outcome that clinched the Tampa Bay Lightning their eighth straight playoff berth.
Jesper Bratt and Nico Hischier also scored as New Jersey won its third straight while the Rangers had their two-game winning streak snapped.
After a scoreless first, Meier scored on the power play at 10:56 of the second, beating Rangers netminder Igor Shesterkin just four seconds after Sam Carrick took an interference penalty.
Bratt made it 2-0 — shorthanded at 12:23 — with his 21st goal.
Meier scored his second of the game and 24th of the season at 15:01 of the third. Hischier made it 4-0 at 16:12 with his team-leading 35th goal. Hischier added two assists.
Markstrom denied the Rangers the rest of the way for his fourth shutout of the season and the 24th of his career. The 35-year-old Swedish netminder is 26-14-6 in his first season with the Devils.
SENATORS 3, PANTHERS 0
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Anton Forsberg made 40 saves in his third shutout of the season as Ottawa beat Florida.
Jake Sanderson had a goal and an assist and Drake Batherson and Matthew Highmore also scored for Ottawa.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves for the Panthers, who dropped their fourth straight game.
The Panthers had not been shut out since a 4-0 loss to Montreal on Dec. 28.
Forsberg was peppered with shots from Florida. He went side-to-side for a save midway through the second period on Seth Jones and made a highlight-reel save on Sam Reinheart near the end of the ...
