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Flyers pick up 2 critical points against Blues

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Del Zotto and Wayne Simmonds scored third-period goals to rally the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-1 win over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night.

Del Zotto and Simmonds helped the Flyers erase a 1-0 hole and give them an important two points in the Eastern Conference playoff chase. Michael Raffl scored an empty-net goal to seal the victory.

Steve Mason stopped 28 shots for the Flyers

Islanders 4, Predators 3

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brock Nelson scored with 6:08 left, helping the New York Islanders rally after blowing a two-goal lead in the third period with a win over slumping Nashville, which lost its season-worst fifth straight game.

The Islanders moved back atop the Metropolitan Division ahead of the idle Rangers and swept the season series with Nashville for the first time. The Islanders had been 2-7 in Nashville, is second in the Western Conference.

Kings 4, Canadiens 3

LOS ANGELES — Marian Gaborik’s second power-play goal tied it with 45 seconds left in regulation, and he scored again in the shootout as Los Angeles rallied to beat Montreal.

Flames 4, Bruins 3

BOSTON — Sean Monahan scored Calgary’s first goal at Boston in more than eight years, and the Flames earned their first road win against the Bruins since 2003 with a shootout victory.

Wild 2, Capitals 1

WASHINGTON — Jason Pominville scored two third-period goals, Devan Dubnyk made 24 saves, and Minnesota rallied to edge Washington.

Pominville tied it with his 14th goal of the season off a scramble in front of the net at 9:19, then blasted a high shot past Braden Holtby from the left circle with 5:32 left after a Washington turnover in the neutral zone.

Stars 4, Panthers 3

SUNRISE, Fla. — Colton Sceviour scored the winning goal in the shootout to lift Dallas over Florida.

Sceviour’s goal came on a backhand shot past goalie Dan Ellis in the third round. The Stars won their second game in a row after losing the previous six. The Panthers have lost two straight.

Lightning 4, Leafs 2

TAMPA, Fla. — Ben Bishop made 25 saves, and Tampa Bay topped Toronto.

Nikita Kucherov, Ryan Callahan, Vladislav Namestnikov and Alex Killorn scored for Tampa Bay. Steven Stamkos added two assists.

Coyotes 3, Canucks 2

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Sam Gagner scored the lone goal in the shootout, helping Arizona snap a 10-game losing streak with a victory over Vancouver.

Mike Smith kept the Canucks off the scoreboard in the shootout.

otes allowed two third-period goals to relinquish a 2-0 lead. Smith finished with 32 saves for Arizona, which hadn’t won since Feb. 9 at Chicago and hadn’t earned a victory at home since Jan. 8 against Winnipeg.

Tobias Rieder and B.J. Crombeen scored in regulation for the Coyotes, who have four straight wins at home over the Canucks, dating to last season.

Vancouver’s Eddie Lack stopped six shots in overtime, but couldn’t get to Gagner’s hard forehand in the shootout. Lack had 33 saves, and Chris Higgins and Radim Vrbata had goals for the Canucks.

Vrbata’s goal came with 53 seconds left in regulation.

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