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just keep on rolling.NHL points leader Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three
assists, Brayden Point added a goal and two assists, and the Lightning beat the
Calgary Flames 6-3 on Tuesday night.Kucherov has 88 points, including seven over
his last two games after going a pair of games without getting on the
scoresheet.¡°He has that ability to find guys even when I don¡¯t think guys know
they¡¯re open,¡± Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.Kucherov has a career-high 63
assists. He stopped a 10-game goal drought with a pair Sunday in a 5-2 win at
Florida.¡°Good to see we got two games with ¡®W¡¯s,'¡± Kucherov said. ¡°That¡¯s
better.¡±Kucherov and Point (72) are the second pair of Tampa Bay teammates to
reach 70 points in 57 team games. Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier did it
in 2006-07.Cedric Paquette, Anthony Cirelli, Yanni Gourde and Steven Stamkos
also scored for the NHL-leading
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who are 5-0-2 over the last seven games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.¡°We¡¯ve
got the top guys going and we¡¯re getting scoring from the other guys as well,¡±
Stamkos said. ¡°So, that¡¯s a pretty dangerous combination to have.¡±Calgary, 1-3-1
in its last five games, got two goals from Sean Monahan. Mark Giordano had the
other Flames goal, and David Rittich stopped 21 shots.¡°Pretty disappointing with
letting that one go the way it did,¡± Giordano said. ¡°Our details weren¡¯t where
they needed to be. We¡¯ve got to be a lot sharper and its starts with me and the
leaders and the older guys and it trickles down.¡±Monahan didn¡¯t have a goal in
his previous five games. Teammates Matthew Tkachuk (eight) and Johnny Gaudreau
(six) remain in goal droughts. The trio has combined to score 82 goals.Point
scored his career-high 33rd goal to open the scoring 11:54 into the game.Point¡¯s
goal came shortly after Vasilevskiy made a save on Elias Lindholm¡¯s short-handed
breakaway.Lindholm had three assists, while Gaudreau added two.After Paquette
scored at 16:06 of the
first
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Flames¡¯ deficit to 3-1 during a 5-on-3 power play 47 seconds after Kucherov¡¯s
goal. The 35-year old became the 10th defenseman in NHL history to have 55 or
more points at age 35 or older.Calgary pulled within 3-2 on Monahan¡¯s goal at
9:13 of the second, but Tampa Bay responded 57 seconds later when Cirelli
scored.¡°It¡¯s a huge shift,¡± Giordano said. ¡°It¡¯s a big part of the game.
Obviously you want to grab momentum when you¡¯re back in it.¡±Gourde put Tampa Bay
ahead 5-2 later in the second.Stamkos reached 30 goals for the sixth time during
a third-period power play.Monahan had a power-play goal late in the third.NOTES:
Neither Gaudreau nor Tkachuk had a shot on goal. Monahan scored on both of his
shots. ¡ The Lightning sent rookie RW Mathieu Joseph, who has 13 goals, to
Syracuse of the AHL to make room on the roster for minor league D Jan Rutta.
Rutta was recalled because D Erik Cernak was scratched due to an undisclosed
lower-body injury. ¡ Tkachuk played in his 200th NHL game.UP NEXTFlames: Play at
Florida on Thursday.Lightning: Hosts Dallas on Thursday. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ¡ª
Eric Staal ensured two solid periods didn¡¯t go to waste for the Minnesota
Wild.Staal scored his second goal of the game with 5:58 left and Minnesota
overcame a sloppy third period to beat the Ottawa Senators 6-4 on Wednesday
night.Matt Dumba also scored twice as the Wild ended a two-game slide and won
for the 12th time in 17 games. Mikael Granlund had three assists.¡°We gutted it
out and got the job done,¡± Staal said. ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter how you do it.¡±Down by
three to start the final period, Ottawa¡¯s Thomas Chabot made it 4-2 with a
short-handed goal 24 seconds in. Christian Jaros scored his first career goal
midway through the
period
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Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk to the bench.¡°I¡¯ve never made that change in my
life. I don¡¯t want to make that change,¡± Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau said.
¡°But I thought we needed a break, and we needed something without calling a
timeout. Sometimes you call a timeout and that energizes the other team because
they think you¡¯re afraid.¡±On the winner, Jason Zucker controlled the puck behind
the Ottawa net before blindly sending a backhand pass in front. Charging down
the slot, Staal put the puck behind Craig Anderson.Eric Fehr added an empty-net
goal, and Alex Stalock made one save down the stretch to get the win.¡°It just
kind of feels like a waste,¡± said Chris Tierney, who also scored for Ottawa.
¡°You work that hard to get back and to give it up a couple minutes later is a
sour feeling.¡±This was the start of a four-game trip for the Senators.The Wild
were 2 for 4 on the power play against the league¡¯s worst short-handed team.
Ottawa is at 67.1 percent on the penalty kill.Staal scored Minnesota¡¯s second
power-play goal on a one-timer from the slot six minutes into the second period
with a follow-through that dropped him to one knee for a 3-0 lead.Dumba scored
on the man advantage with 9.9 seconds left in the first period.Minnesota has
scored at least one power-play goal in five straight games (seven goals) and 10
of its past
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going 14 for 47 in that span.¡°We showed that we can score goals, but we also
showed that we¡¯re far away from having a defensive awareness and everything that
we need to do defensively to be able to win games on a regular basis,¡± Ottawa
coach Guy Boucher said.Scoring 3.59 goals per game, Ottawa trails only Tampa
Bay, but the Senators allow a league-worst 4.27.Tierney scored on a tap-in
midway through the second period to get the Senators within 3-1, but Dumba
countered with a long shot late in the second.Dumba has five goals and two
assists during a career high-tying five-game point streak. His 10 goals are a
league high for defenseman, and his four power-play goals are also best by a
blue liner. He¡¯s the sixth defenseman since 1989-90 with 10 or more goals
through 22 team games, joining Shea
Weber
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Brown.Dumba, who had a career-high 14 last season, is on pace for 39.¡°Yeah,
that¡¯d be something else,¡± Dumba said with a laugh. ¡°That¡¯s not happening.¡±The
Wild and Senators each have a league-high 20 goals from their defensemen.NOTES:
Jordan Greenway also scored for Minnesota. . Dubnyk had 22 saves and Anderson
had 28. ¡ Wild LW Marcus Foligno played. He left Sunday¡¯s game after taking a
shot off the outside of his right leg that caused him to briefly lose feeling in
the leg. ¡ Ottawa LW Mikkel Boedker recorded his 300th career point with an
assist on Tierney¡¯s goal.UP NEXT:Senators: At Dallas on Friday night.Wild: Host
Winnipeg on Friday.