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Minnesota¡¯s goals for his first career hat trick, Devan Dubnyk made 25 saves for
his second shutout of the season and the Wild beat Tampa Bay 3-0 on Thursday
night to deny the Lightning a chance to become the first NHL team to clinch a
playoff spot.Ryan Donato had a pair of assists for Minnesota, which blocked 18
shots by Tampa Bay. The Wild are 6-0-2 in their last eight games and are in the
first wild-card spot in the Western Conference playoff race.Andrei Vasilevskiy
finished with 27 saves, but had his 10-game winning streak snapped one game
short of tying the franchise record set by Louis Domingue earlier this season.A
victory by the Lightning would have clinched a playoff spot after Columbus loss
to Pittsburgh earlier in Thursday night.Tampa Bay lost for the second time in
four games after a 12-0-2 stretch in the previous 14, and was shut out for the
second time this season ¡ª first in regulation.ISLANDERS 4, SENATORS 2OTTAWA,
Ontario (AP) ¡ª Valtteri Filppula scored twice to lead the New York past Ottawa
and into a tie for first place in the Metropolitan Division with the Washington
Capitals.Anthony Beauvillier and Casey Cizikas also scored for the Islanders.
Thomas Greiss stopped 35 shots.Brady Tkachuk and Oscar Lindberg scored for the
Senators, while Anders Nilsson made 27 saves.BRUINS 4, PANTHERS 3BOSTON (AP) ¡ª
Patrice Bergeron scored twice, including the winner with 7.2 seconds remaining
as Boston scored twice in the final minute to beat Florida and extend its points
streak to 18 games.David Krejci and Matt Grzelcyk also scored for the Bruins,
who are 14-0-4 during their points streak. It matched the second-longest points
streak in team history after a similar run last season and 15-0-3 mark in the
1940-41 season. Tuukka Rask made 22 saves to extend his personal points streak
to 18 games (15-0-3).Jonathan Huberdeau scored twice and Aleksander Barkov also
had a goal for the Panthers, who lost their sixth straight (0-2-4). Roberto
Luongo finished with 24 saves.RED WINS 3, RANGERS 2DETROIT (AP) ¡ª Andreas
Athanasiou scored in the third period and had the only goal in a shootout as
Detroit snapped an eight-game losing streak with a win over New York.Tyler
Bertuzzi also scored and Jimmy Howard made 32 saves for the Red Wings, who ended
their longest skid of the season.Detroit played without leading scorer Dylan
Larkin and top-scoring defenseman Mike Green. Larkin was out with a back injury
and Green will miss the rest of the season because of a virus.New York¡¯s Pavel
Buchnevich made it 2-all with 5:31 left in the third by scoring his second goal
of the game on a breakaway. The Rangers have lost a season-high six
straight.PENGUINS 3, BLUE JACKETS 0PITTSBURGH (AP) ¡ª Matt Murray stopped 25
shots for his 10th career shutout and Pittsburgh won the opener of a pivotal
home-and-home with Columbus.Phil Kessel scored for the first time in 17 games
for the Penguins. Nick Bjugstad collected his ninth of the season for
Pittsburgh. Sidney Crosby took a high stick from Columbus¡¯ Boone Jenner in the
third period but returned to add an empty-net goal and extend his goal streak to
six consecutive games for the Penguins.The Penguins have won eight straight over
Columbus and moved into third place in the Metropolitan Division.Joonas
Korpisalo received a surprise start and finished with 28 saves for
Columbus.STARS 4, AVALANCHE 0DALLAS (AP) ¡ª Alexander Radulov recorded his first
career hat trick in his return after missing the previous game for disciplinary
reasons, and Ben Bishop stopped 31 shots in his second consecutive shutout for
Dallas.Jamie Benn added his 25th goal of the season for the Stars, who hold the
first wild card in the Western Conference. Benn also assisted on Radulov¡¯s first
goal.Radulov earned his first hat trick in his six NHL seasons. He has 20 goals
this season.With its fourth win in a row, Dallas has 75 points and moved five
points ahead of the Avalanche, who started the night the first team out of the
second wild card.BLACKHAWKS 5, SABRES 4CHICAGO (AP) ¡ª Jonathan Toews, Patrick
Kane and Alex DeBrincat beat Carter Hutton during a perfect shootout as Chicago
beat Buffalo.Artem Anisimov scored twice for
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Brendan Perlini also scored, and Corey Crawford made 35 saves.Zach Bogosian
scored a short-handed goal in the second period for Buffalo, which lost for the
fifth time in six games. Vladimir Sobotka, Brandon Montour and Kyle Okposo also
scored.COYOTES 2, FLAMES 0GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) ¡ª Darcy Kuemper made 30 saves to
shut out Western Conference-leading Calgary.Clayton Keller and Jakob Chychrun
scored goals for the Coyotes, who sent the suddenly struggling Flames to their
fourth straight defeat.Kuemper improved to 16-4-3 in goal since Jan. 1. Arizona
has won seven of eight and kept pace with wild-card leaders Dallas and
Minnesota. The Coyotes are three points out of the second wild-card spot in the
West.The Flames were shut out for the first time since losing 2-0 at Dallas on
Dec. 18, and were held scoreless for the fourth time this season.OILERS 3,
CANUCKS 2EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) ¡ª Connor McDavid had two assists, Mikko Koskinen
made 35 saves and Edmonton kept up its playoff push by beating Vancouver.Alex
Chiasson, Zack Kassian and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for the Oilers (30-30-7),
who have won four straight games and are 6-1-2 in their last nine to move within
seven points of Minnesota for the second wild card in the Western Conference.Jay
Beagle and Alexander Edler scored for the Canucks (28-31-9), who have lost four
of five.SHARKS 5, CANADIENS 2SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) ¡ª Tomas Hertl scored his
career-high 30th goal of the season, Martin Jones made 37 saves and San Jose
extended its two-decade home dominance over Montreal.The Sharks haven¡¯t lost at
home to the Canadiens since Nov. 23, 1999, winning 12 straight. San Jose won its
eighth straight overall in the series.Marcus Sorensen and Timo Meier each scored
for the third game in a row, Joe Thornton also had a goal and Gustav Nyquist
added an empty-netter.Artturi Lehkonen and Andrew Shaw scored for the Canadiens.
Antti Niemi made 20 saves.BLUES 4, KINGS 0LOS ANGELES (AP) ¡ª Vladimir Tarasenko
had a goal and an assist, Jake Allen stopped 28 shots for his 19th career
shutout and St. Louis beat Los Angeles.Tyler
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games against Anaheim and Los Angeles to open their three-game California trip.
Brayden Schenn had two assists. Allen¡¯s shutout was his third this
season.Jonathan Quick made 28 saves for the Kings, who have lost 12 of their
past 13 games. DETROIT (AP) ¡ª Ted Lindsay lived to do what he thought was
right.He pioneered the first NHL players¡¯ union despite intense opposition from
team management, began the tradition of taking the Stanley Cup closer to fans by
skating it around the ice and refused to attend his own Hall of Fame induction
ceremony because only men were allowed.¡°I was led by a feeling of fairness,¡±
Lindsay once said.Lindsay, the 5-foot-8, 160-pound tough guy who provided muscle
and meanness on the Detroit Red Wings¡® famed ¡°Production Line¡± of the 1950s,
died Monday at the age of 93 in his home in Michigan, according to Lew LaPaugh,
his son-in-law and president of the Ted Lindsay Foundation, which raises money
for autism research.The player known as ¡°Terrible Ted¡± was one of the game¡¯s
best left wings and an 11-time All-Star who played on four Stanley Cup winners
in the early 1950s. Lindsay, Sid Abel and Gordie Howe formed an offensive
juggernaut of a line that helped make Detroit one of the first of the NHL¡¯s
great postwar dynasties and they had a fitting nickname in the Motor City.He
finished his NHL career with 379 goals and 472 assists in 1,068 games with 14 of
his 17 seasons with Detroit. With Howe and Lindsay centered first by Abel and
then by Al Delvecchio, the Red Wings won Stanley Cups in 1950, 1952, 1954 and
1955. The Red Wings retired his No. 7 in 1991.Lindsay is credited with beginning
the ritual in which players skate around the rink holding the Stanley Cup they
have just won.¡°I saw it sitting there, and I thought, ¡®I¡¯ll just pick it up and
I¡¯ll take it over,'¡± Lindsay recalled in an interview with The Associated Press
in 2013.¡°I just moved along the boards. I didn¡¯t have it over my head. I had it
so they could read it. I wasn¡¯t starting a tradition. I was just taking care of
my fans that paid our salary.¡±Lindsay took his toughness off the ice to organize
a players¡¯ union despite opposition from team executives and without the support
of Howe, perhaps the most famous hockey player of all. Lindsay pressed on anyway
without the backing of ¡°Mr. Hockey.¡±¡°All of us who were involved in trying to
establish the players¡¯ association weren¡¯t the ones who needed it,¡± Lindsay
explained. ¡°It was for the fringe players that were the worst off. When I got
caught up in this, I was so grateful to the game for all it had done for me. But
it was a dictatorship on the part of the
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brain.¡±At one point, Lindsay gathered secretly with a handful of players in New
York in 1957. The next day, Red Wings general manager Jack Adams was very angry
about it.¡°He was ranting and raving,¡± Lindsay recalled in an interview with the
NHLPA . ¡°But, I¡¯d do the same thing.¡±Lindsay, who was named president of the
short-lived union, was traded to Chicago the next summer.¡°It didn¡¯t matter that
they traded me,¡± he said in 1995. ¡°I have a Red Wing on my forehead and on my
behind and on my heart. That will never change.¡±The NHL Players¡¯ Association was
formed for good in 1967 ¡ª a decade after the Lindsay-led attempt to unionize ¡ª
and the organization put Lindsay¡¯s name on its version of the MVP award. The
honor, which is chosen by an NHLPA vote, was previously called the Lester B.
Pearson Award after the former Canadian prime minister.¡°On the ice, Ted Lindsay
was one of the best players to ever to put on a pair of skates,¡± NHLPA executive
director Don Fehr said. ¡°But his greatest legacy was off the ice. A true
trailblazer in seeking to improve conditions for all players, Ted was
instrumental in organizing the original players¡¯ association in 1957. All
players, past, current and future, are in his debt. All those who have, and will
follow him into the NHL, enjoy improved rights and benefits in large part due to
the efforts he made.¡±The Hockey Hall of Fame waived its three-year waiting
period when it inducted Lindsay in 1966, but he declined to attend the banquet
because his wife and children were not welcome. The following year, the banquet
was open to men and women.¡°That¡¯s amazing,¡± Edmonton star Connor McDavid said as
news of Lindsay¡¯s death filtered out. ¡°That just goes to show what he¡¯s about
and he was not afraid to stand up to anyone and stand up for what he believed
in.¡±Born July 29,
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nine children, Lindsay joined the Red Wings in 1944. He led the NHL with 33
goals in 1947-48 and won the Art Ross Trophy for the most points in 1949-50 when
he had 23 goals and a league-best 55 assists. In 1955, Lindsay scored four goals
in a 7-1 victory over Montreal in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final.During his 14
seasons in Detroit, he led the team in goals only once. He led or tied for the
team lead in penalty minutes 10 times, including his final season of 1964-65,
when he was approaching 40 years old.Former Bruins player Milt Schmidt said
Lindsay ¡°probably was one of the most hated players in the National Hockey
League¡± because of the way he came after other teams.¡°But every franchise would
have given their right arm for Ted Lindsay,¡± he said.Lindsay retired following
the 1959-60 season and focused on his automotive business. He came back for one
more season with the Red Wings in 1964-65 and returned to Detroit as general
manager in 1977 and remained in that role until 1980. During the 1980-81 season,
he coached the team for 20 games.He was a familiar face around the Red Wings for
decades after his retirement ¡ª and what a face. Pucks, fists and elbows took a
toll on his face, leaving scratches and dents after uncountable numbers of
stiches. He was booed on road trips, the player every opposing team loved to
hate.¡°There¡¯s only one reason I played. That was to win,¡± he told The Canadian
Press in March 2015. ¡°And also to play better the next day than I did the last
game.¡±Lindsay, whose wife, Joanne, died two years ago, is survived by his
children Blake, Lynn and Meredith, stepdaughter Leslie, six grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.