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Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 40 shots for his first NHL victory Derek Ryan Jersey Womens , Blake Coleman scored twice and the New Jersey Devils beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 on Thursday night.Damon Severson scored 25 seconds into the game and Kyle Palmieri added his team-high 19th goal for the Devils, who won on the road for just the fourth time this season.Nico Hirschier had a goal and an assist and Andy Greene had a pair of assists as New Jersey got its first win in Boston in five years.Patrice Bergeron and Chris Wagner scored for Boston, and Jaroslav Halak had 28 saves.Severson’s early goal on a wrist shot from the right circle gave the rookie Blackwood a lead the Devils never relinquished.Blackwood, who was making his second career start, stopped 18 of 19 shots in the second period to help stave off the Bruins.CAPITALS 3, HURRICANES 1WASHINGTON (AP) — T.J. Oshie scored his 11th goal and John Carlson had an empty-netter as Washington won its third straight game.Chandler Stephenson added his second goal in three games for the Capitals, winners of 15 of their last 18 games.Braden Holtby stopped 28 shots for the Metropolitan Division leaders. The Capitals killed all four Hurricanes penalties, including a high-sticking minor on Michal Kempny with 3:46 remaining.Sebastian Aho scored his team-leading 15th goal in the third period for the Hurricanes, who lost their third out of four games. Petr Mrazek stopped 30 shots.PENGUINS 5, RED WINGS 2PITTSBURGH (AP) — Phil Kessel scored two power-play goals and Derick Brassard added two scores as Pittsburgh ran its winning streak to four games.Patric Hornqvist scored his 13th of the season. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin each finished with two assists. Crosby has registered points in nine of his last 11 home games and has 24 points in his last 18 games. Matt Murray stopped 27 shots for his fourth straight win since returning from a lower-body injury.Dylan Larkin extended his career-long, 12-game point streak with his 16th goal of the season for Detroit. Andreas Athanasiou returned from a two-game absence due to an upper-body injury and scored his 12th of the season. Jimmy Howard made 35 saves.BLUE JACKETS 4, RANGERS 3 OTNEW YORK (AP) — Pierre-Luc Dubois scored 31 seconds into overtime and Columbus won its fifth straight victory.Dubois’ 14th goal came after Columbus tied the game with less than three minutes left in regulation. Blue Jackets backup goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made 19 saves for the win.Oliver Bjorkstrand, David Savard and Zach Werenski also scored for the Blue Jackets.Chris Kreider scored twice and Jimmy Vesey added a goal for New York. Henrik Lundqvist made 25 saves.BLACKHAWKS 5, WILD 2CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Kane had a hat trick, Brandon Saad scored twice and Chicago picked up its fourth win in five games.Collin Delia made 46 saves, and Jonathan Toews, Erik Gustafsson and Dylan Strome each had two assists for Chicago, tied for last place with St. Louis in the Central Division.Kane completed his first hat trick since March 2017. He leads the Blackhawks with 20 goals and 47 points and has five goals and five assists during a six-game point streak.Zach Parise and Eric Staal scored for the Wild John Carlson Jersey , who dropped their season-worst fifth straight (0-4-1).CANUCKS 4, OILERS 2EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Elias Pettersson and Antoine Roussel each had a goal and an assist for Vancouver.The Canucks scored four goals on their first six shots. Tyler Motte and Brock Boeser also scored for Vancouver, which is 7-2-1 in its last 10 games.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl scored for the Oilers, who have lost four straight.Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen gave up all four goals and made just two saves before being replaced by Cam Talbot, who stopped all 14 shots he faced.Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves in the win for the Canucks.LIGHTNING 6, FLYERS 5 OTTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Killorn scored 18 seconds into overtime and Tampa Bay, after blowing a three-goal lead in the third period, extended its point streak to 13 games.Steven Stamkos had two goals and two assists, and Nikita Kucherov added a goal and three assists for the Lightning, who are 12-0-1 during their current run.Brayden Point and Tyler Johnson had the other Tampa Bay goals, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves.Dale Weise, Robert Hagg, Ivan Provorov, Michael Raffl and Claude Giroux scored for the Flyers. Michal Neuvirth stopped 31 shots.BLUES 4, SABRES 1ST. LOUIS (AP) — Robert Thomas had a goal and an assist and Jake Allen made 30 saves to lead St. Louis past Buffalo.Jay Bouwmeester, Pat Maroon and Ryan O’Reilly scored for the Blues.Jack Eichel scored his 15th goal of the season in the second period for the Sabres. Carter Hutton stopped 28 of 32 shots in his first appearance against St. Louis after spending the previous two seasons with the Blues.STARS 2 Lars Eller Jersey , PREDATORS 0NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Anton Khudobin made a career-high 49 saves to lead Dallas over slumping Nashville.Tyler Pitlick and Mattias Janmark scored for Dallas, which has won two of three.Pekka Rinne stopped 28 shots for the Predators, who have lost five straight.Khudobin posted his first shutout of the season and seventh of his career.FLAMES 4, JETS 1WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Johnny Gaudreau had a hat trick as Calgary ended a three-game winless streak.Mark Jankowski had a short-handed, third-period goal for Calgary. Sean Monahan contributed three assists and Elias Lindholm added a pair.Adam Lowry scored for the Jets, who had won their previous two games and had a four-game win streak at home halted.David Rittich made 35 saves for Calgary, and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 24 shots for Winnipeg.GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2, AVALANCHE 1LAS VEGAS (AP) — Brandon Pirri scored his fourth goal of the season midway through the third period to send Vegas past Colorado.Pirri, recalled from the AHL’s Chicago Wolves earlier in the day, blistered a shot from the point past goaltender Philipp Grubauer with 9:49 left.Vegas staved off back-to-back power plays for Colorado in the final six minutes.Paul Stastny celebrated his 33rd birthday with a goal for Vegas, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 31 saves to improve to 21-10-4. He earned his 50th win overall with the Golden Knights.J.T. Compher scored for the Avalanche, and Grubauer (8-4-3) made 41 saves.SHARKS 4, DUCKS 2SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Brent Burns scored midway through the third period of his 1,000th career game and led San Jose to a victory over Anaheim.Burns scored his fifth goal at 10:21 of the third period to break a 2-2 tie, and the Sharks snapped a three-game losing streak. The 33-year-old Burns was playing in his 428th consecutive regular-season game. The 2017 Norris Trophy winner as the league’s top defenseman hasn’t missed a game since November 2013.Marcus Sorensen Madison Bowey Jersey , Melker Karlsson and Tomas Hertl also scored for San Jose. Barclay Goodrow had two assists and Martin Jones had 26 saves.Jakob Silfverberg and Kiefer Sherwood scored for Anaheim, which lost its fourth straight game after winning four in a row and nine of 10.KINGS 2, COYOTES 1LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dustin Brown scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period for Los Angeles.Jake Muzzin also scored for the last-place Kings, who have won a season-high four consecutive games. Jonathan Quick made 26 saves.Jakob Chychrun had a power-play goal and Darcy Kuemper stopped 24 shots for the Coyotes, who won their previous two. Thomas Vanek learned early in his career how tough it is to win in the playoffs.When Vanek and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in 2006 to advance, the rookie winger looked across the locker room at 37-year-old Teppo Numminen, who was on the verge of tears. Numminen had never made it out of the first round in his previous 16 NHL seasons and was overjoyed.”It hit me right there and then, `Man this is hard,”’ Vanek said.Vanek is now on the other side. In the playoffs for the seventh time, he is the Columbus Blue Jackets‘ oldest player at 34. Just like Rick Nash in Boston, postseason struggles and inconsistencies have followed Vanek his entire career. Based on his play down the stretch and in Game 1 against Washington, he looks poised for some playoff redemption.”A very consistent scorer throughout his year and has a lot to prove and wants to win the Stanley Cup,” Columbus general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said Friday. ”That’s why he’s excited to be here. He wants to prove people wrong, if they think that he can’t do it in the playoffs. He wants to show that he can, and he had a good start.”Vanek had a goal and an assist to help the Blue Jackets take a 1-0 series lead on the Capitals, and young teammate Artemi Panarin scored the game-winner to finish with three points – two more than he had in Chicago’s first-round sweep at the hands of the Predators a year ago. Kekalainen pointed out Panarin was a point-a-game player for the Blackhawks in the playoffs two years ago, so hold up on the reputation rehab there.The same goes for Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov, who has been up and down in the playoffs. The 25-year-old from the same town in Russia as Panarin already has more goals in one game this year than he did in the 2016 playoffs Nicklas Backstrom Jersey , when Washington lost in the second round.Vanek and Nash know they’re running out of time to win the Cup and make a difference on that journey.Nash, who drew two penalties and played over 17 minutes in his return from injury in the Bruins’ Game 1 blowout of the Maple Leafs, has seen his goal production drop by half from the regular season to the playoffs over the course of his career. The 33-year-old trade-deadline pickup should get plenty of chances to show he can still be a playoff performer.”He’s an important player for us,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. ”That deal was made for a reason. He’s an elite player … makes us more of a threat (as) a team. He’s just a proven player in this league that can finish, that can win pucks and get to the net.”Getting to the net has never been a problem for Vanek, whose power-play goal in Game 1 came from crashing the crease. But he hasn’t always found it easy to score in the playoffs and has struggled with a minus-16 rating in six previous appearances with the Sabres, Canadiens and Wild.Vanek didn’t know how he would fit in with Columbus, though the reviews from coach John Tortorella are positive – and honest. Vanek’s propensity for defensive miscues and mistakes with the puck, and his sometimes frustrating inconsistencies, have given Tortorella and others grey hairs.”I think he really is thriving and is excited about the role he has, that he was and we were in a playoff hunt and now he’s in the playoffs,” Tortorella said. ”I can see why he gives coaches nightmares in some of the things he does. I get that. But I think sometimes you need to ignore some of that and allow him to play and not get in his way. I think he’s been terrific.”Several times leading up to the start of the playoffs and even after his goal, Vanek was asked about making an important contribution in the playoffs. Each time he changed the subject to the need for someone, anyone, on the team to have success.”You can tell how excited everyone is,” Vanek said. ”It doesn’t matter if you score or not.”Scoring or not, making a long run a reality would be Vanek’s real redemption.—