Alex Iafallo broke a tie in the third period and the host Winnipeg Jets snapped the St. Louis Blues’ franchise-record 12-game winning streak with a 3-1 decision on Monday.
Morgan Barron and Adam Lowry also scored for the Jets, who have the NHL’s best record and have won five of their past seven. Connor Hellebuyck made 14 saves.
Pavel Buchnevich produced the lone goal for the Blues and Joel Hofer stopped 23 shots. St. Louis holds the top spot in the Western Conference wild-card race by two points over the idle Minnesota Wild.
Iafallo gave the Jets a 2-1 lead 7:05 into the third period when he put in the rebound of a shot by Kyle Connor. Lowry added an empty-net goal with nine seconds left.
Lightning 5, Rangers 1
Tampa Bay scored three goals in a 1:45 span in the first period and never looked back, cruising past host New York.
Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point scored two of the goals on the power play — part of three-point showings for both — while Yanni Gourde tallied the middle goal of the flurry. The Lightning, who got 38 saves from Andrei Vasilevskiy, moved within two points of the idle Toronto Maple Leafs for the Atlantic Division lead.
Mika Zibanejad scored a power-play goal for the Rangers, who are six points behind the Montreal Canadiens for the Eastern Conference’s second wild-card spot. New York’s Igor Shesterkin allowed four goals on 22 shots.
Kraken 2, Kings 1
Joey Daccord stopped 28 of 29 shots to lead visiting Seattle past Los Angeles for its third consecutive win.
Matty Beniers and Brandon Montour scored goals for the Kraken. Daccord was aided by 30 blocked shots from his teammates.
Quinton Byfield scored a goal for the Kings, who had a four-game win streak snapped. Darcy Kuemper finished with 26 saves. He extended his streak of allowing two goals or fewer to 14 games, tied for the second-longest since 1967-68 behind Calgary’s Miikka Kiprusoff’s 16-gamer in 2003-04.
Flames 3, Sharks 2
Calgary used a three-goal, third-period comeback to keep its playoff hopes alive with a victory at San Jose.
Adam Klapka, Jonathan Huberdeau and Matt Coronato all scored in the final frame for the Flames, who are 3-1-1 in their past five. Dustin Wolf made 29 saves.
Will Smith scored both goals for the Sharks, who have lost six in a row. With his two assists, Macklin Celebrini set a franchise record for helpers by a rookie with 36. Georgi Romanov stopped 29 shots but was unable to earn his first NHL victory.
Ducks 3, Oilers 2
Mason McTavish scored the game-winner and Lukas Dostal tied his season high with 45 saves as Anaheim edged visiting Edmonton.
Cutter Gauthier scored twice for the Ducks, who avoided a third straight loss.
Adam Henrique had a goal and an assist and Jeff Skinner also tallied for the Oilers, who have lost back-to-back games. Olivier Rodrigue, in his first NHL start, stopped 18 shots in the loss.
–Field Level Media
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