Nick Schmaltz scored his first career hat trick and added an assist to lead the Arizona Coyotes over the visiting St. Louis Blues 5-0 Thursday night in Tempe, Ariz.

Karel Vejmelka made 33 saves for his third shutout of the season and fourth of his career.

Travis Boyd and Barrett Hayton also scored for the Coyotes, who won for just the third time in 15 games.

The Blues lost their third straight game as Thomas Greiss allowed the five goals on 27 shots.

Blues center Robert Thomas was knocked out of the game midway through the second period when he absorbed a slap shot in his midsection.

Justin Faulk thought he put the Blues up 1-0 early in the first period, but the officials waved off the goal due to goaltender interference.

The next best St. Louis opportunity during the scoreless first period came on Jordan Kyrou’s power-play shot from the bottom of the left circle, but Vejmelka made a blocker save.

The Coyotes had several good scoring chances in the period, including Hayton’s blast off the left post.

Schmaltz finally put Arizona up 1-0 with a goal off the rush at the 10:55 mark of the second period by converting Lawson Crouse’s lead pass from the left wing.

Then Schmaltz made it 2-0 three minutes later by pouncing on Kyrou’s turnover in the neutral zone and beating Greiss on a clear breakaway.

The Blues had multiple scoring chances in the period, including Kyrou’s 10-foot shot from straight away and Josh Leivo’s redirection of Brandon Saad’s pass toward the net.

Schmaltz increased the Arizona lead to 3-0 13 seconds into the third period by whacking in a rebound while St. Louis’ Brayden Schenn knocked the net off its moorings.

Boyd made it 4-0 less than five minutes later by taking a pass from Christian Fischer and reaching the puck around Greiss. Just over two minutes after Boyd scored, Hayton made it 5-0 by pounding in a power-play rebound.

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Boris Katchouk, Jason Dickinson and Sam Lafferty scored in the second period as the visiting Chicago Blackhawks collected four unanswered goals in a 5-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday.

Taylor Raddysh and Connor Murphy also scored for the Blackhawks, who went into the game at the bottom of the league standings and snapped a two-game losing streak despite being without captain Jonathan Toews due to non-COVID illness.

Chicago goaltender Jaxson Stauber made 34 saves, 18 in the third period, in his second NHL start. Stauber has won both of his games.

Jonathan Huberdeau scored for the Flames, who were defeated by the Blackhawks for the second time this month. Goalie Jacob Markstrom stopped 24 shots.

With the score tied 1-1, Katchouk’s second goal of the season at 9:39 of the second period sent his team away. The second-year player made a triumphant return to the lineup after being a healthy scratch for the nine previous games when he buried a slap shot from the high slot.

Luke Philp, a former Flames prospect from the nearby city of Canmore who was playing his second NHL game, collected an assist for his first career point.

The visitors pulled away with a pair of goals 32 seconds apart, starting with Dickinson’s sixth of the season at 15:37 of the middle frame. Dickinson was sprung on a partial breakaway and chipped a forehand into the net.

Lafferty notched his eighth goal of the campaign when he finished a two-on-one rush feed from Colin Blackwell to make it a 4-1 affair. Lafferty has scored three goals in the past four games.

The Flames pressed in the third period but could not mount any form of a comeback before Murphy’s empty-net goal rounded out the scoring with 43 seconds to go.

The Blackhawks have compiled an 8-2-4 record in their last 14 visits to Calgary.

Chicago had more jump from the drop of the puck and was rewarded when Raddysh opened the scoring at the 17:47 mark. He converted a wrist shot from the left circle for his 13th goal of the season.

Huberdeau replied with 27.7 seconds left in the first period to make it a 1-1 game, collecting his 10th of the season when he showed quick hands from in close, but his team failed to build any momentum.

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Mats Zuccarello scored at 2:08 of overtime to lift the Minnesota Wild past the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Thursday in Saint Paul, Minn.

Matt Boldy had two goals and one assist and Zuccarello added an assist for the Wild, who snapped a three-game losing streak.

Minnesota goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 28 saves.

Noah Cates and Tony DeAngelo each scored one goal for the Flyers, who dropped their third game in a row (0-1-2). Carter Hart made 20 saves as Philadelphia fell to 1-8 in overtime this season.

Hart left for an extra skater at 18:26 of the third period and DeAngelo scored six seconds later to equalize the game 2-2. It was DeAngelo’s first goal in 14 games.

With the score 1-1, the Flyers were aggressive early in the third period as Kevin Hayes and James van Riemsdyk each fired shots on goal.

Boldy’s second goal of the night, at 4:48 on a power play, gave the Wild a 2-1 advantage. It was Boldy’s 16th goal of the season.

Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov had a solid scoring chance saved by Hart at 11:12.

Philadelphia’s Travis Konecny came close to tying the game soon after at 12:11 and then was called for interference against Jon Merrill. Simultaneously, Minnesota’s Marcus Foligno and Konecny drew roughing penalties, ultimately giving the Wild a power play.

The game featured four fights, the last taking place at 2:45 of the second period between Philadelphia’s Patrick Brown and Brandon Duhaime.

Minnesota soon equalized the game 1-1 when Boldy connected at 3:39.

Boldy nearly scored again at 14:30 of the second but was denied with a stellar save by Hart.

The Flyers went ahead 1-0 at 5:14 of the first period when Cates redirected a shot from the point by Rasmus Ristolainen.

Minnesota’s Connor Dewar had two solid scoring chances around the 13-minute mark, but Hart was able to corral the second shot off a rebound and prevent the goal.

The Wild were buzzing in the Flyers’ zone in the final 30 seconds of the opening period yet couldn’t capitalize.

The first period was physical throughout with three separate fights.

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Matt Duchene and Filip Forsberg scored off turnovers in the third period for the host Nashville Predators, who overcame a trio of one-goal deficits to beat the New Jersey Devils, 6-4, on Thursday night.

Duchene scored after a pass by Devils defenseman Nikita Okhotiuk intended for Yegor Sharangovich sailed beyond the center and was picked up by Roman Josi, who dished to Duchene. The center was turned back by New Jersey goalie Mackenzie Blackwood but put home the rebound with 11:11 left.

Duchene helped set up the game-winner by stealing the puck from Ryan Graves and passing to Forsberg, who fired over Blackwood’s glove on a semi-breakaway with 3:55 remaining.

Blackwood was pulled for an extra attacker just 31 seconds later and Dawson Mercer put back the rebound of a shot by Ondrej Palat with 2:14 left, but Tanner Jeannot iced the victory by scoring an empty-netter with eight seconds remaining.

Cody Glass and Cole Smith scored in the first and Mikael Granlund scored in the second for the Predators, who have won five of six. Goalie Juuse Saros made 35 saves.

Jesper Bratt and Sharangovich scored in the first before Jack Hughes scored his 31st of the season in the second for the Devils, who had their eight-game point streak (7-0-1) snapped. Blackwood recorded 35 saves.

The teams combined for four goals in a six-minute span beyond the midway point of the first. Bratt beat Saros with a shot that glanced off his pads with 9:41 left before Glass tucked home a second-chance rebound just over two minutes later.

Hughes weaved through four Predators players before backhanding a pass to Sharangovich, who fired a shot over Saros’ stick shoulder with 4:03 remaining. Nashville tied the score just 23 seconds later, when Juuso Parssinen’s shot glanced off the stick of Smith and fluttered over the glove of Blackwood.

Hughes put a loose puck in the crease beyond Saros’ stick 4:06 into the second. Granlund tied the score again with 8:27 left, when Ryan Johansen’s shot into the crease bounced around and off the skate of Granlund before he shoved it across the goal line.

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Tage Thompson had a goal and an assist to help the visiting Buffalo Sabres to their fifth straight win, 3-2 over the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.

Rasmus Dahlin and Jeff Skinner each had two assists for the Sabres, while Eric Comrie made 19 saves in his return to Winnipeg — just his second game since returning from a lower-body injury on Jan. 10.

Nate Schmidt and Pierre-Luc Dubois scored for the Jets, who got 33 saves from goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. Winnipeg is 2-4-0 in its last six.

After a scoreless first period in which Buffalo outshot Winnipeg 14-6, it was all Sabres in the second.

Owen Power scored for the third straight game to give the Buffalo 1-0 lead at 10:32. Fresh off the bench, Power took a pass from Dahlin at the right point and skated to the left circle before firing short side on Hellebuyck.

With the goal, he became the first rookie defenseman in Sabres history to record a goal streak of at least three games.

Dahlin’s assist on the goal was his 40th of the season in his 47th game, making him the second defenseman in Buffalo history to reach the mark in fewer than 50 games after John Van Boxmeer, who achieved the feat in 38 games in 1981-82.

Thompson made it 2-0 at 14:15. Skinner carried the puck into the zone along the left wing and dished off to Alex Tuch on the far side, where Hellebuyck slid over in anticipation of a shot. But Tuch sent a quick pass to Thompson, who had an open net for his 34th of the season.

The Sabres outshot Winnipeg 14-5 in the second period.

Victor Olofsson took a feed from Skinner down low on the power play and connected from the bottom of the right circle to push the lead to 3-0 at 10:30 of the third period.

Schmidt got the Jets on the board with a power-play goal from the inner right hashmarks at 15:14 and Dubois made it 3-2 from the bottom of the left circle with 43 seconds remaining, but that was too late for the Jets to complete the comeback.

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Darcy Kuemper made 35 saves and stopped two of three shots in the shootout, and Alex Ovechkin posted his 32nd goal of the season as the Washington Capitals outlasted the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins for a 3-2 victory on Thursday night.

Kuemper was stout most of the night while dueling Pittsburgh’s Casey DeSmith, who made a season-high 43 saves. After allowing Rickard Rakell to score on the Penguins’ first shootout attempt, Kuemper stopped superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in back-to-back rounds.

Meanwhile, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Nicklas Backstrom, who each had an assist in regulation, converted in the shootout round to help the Capitals avoid a third straight loss.

The victory was just the fourth in the last 10 games for Washington which, like Pittsburgh, is trying to remain in playoff position in the Eastern Conference.

DeSmith was sharp all evening, but Pittsburgh could only muster goals from Danton Heinen and Bryan Rust while losing a fourth consecutive road contest. The Penguins, though, are amid a 3-0-3 stretch overall.

At 5:17 into the third period, Marcus Johansson took a drop pass from Backstrom and drove the puck from the top of the circle over the glove of DeSmith to give Washington a 2-1 lead.

However, Rust answered with 7:08 remaining in regulation when he ripped the puck into nearly the same spot on Kuemper to tie the game at 2-2.

Ovechkin opened the scoring on the power play just six minutes into the game when he one-timed a seam pass from Kuznetsov. Ovechkin has scored in back-to-back games after going three straight without a goal and now sits at 812 career goals, 82 behind Wayne Gretzky for the NHL record.

Even though the Capitals significantly outshot the Penguins 21-7 in the first, that was the period’s only goal.

Meanwhile, Pittsburgh has allowed opponents to score nine power-play goals in its last six contests.

Pittsburgh tied the game 2:37 into the second when Heinen snuck in the rebound of his own shot.

Crosby registered an assist to extend his point streak to six games.

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Robby Fabbri scored at 2:36 of overtime to give the visiting Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.

Michael Rasmussen supplied a goal and assisted on Fabbri’s game-winner. Jonatan Berggren and Oskar Sundqvist also scored for Detroit, and Moritz Seider contributed three assists. Ville Husso made 20 saves.

Rafael Harvey-Pinard had two goals and assisted on the other end in his ninth career game for the Canadiens. Michael Pezzetta had a goal and an assist, while Jake Allen stopped 38 shots.

This was the third game in the four-game season series. Detroit now leads the series 2-1.

The game was tied at 1-apiece after the first period.

Rasmussen scored an unassisted goal when Montreal lost the puck near its blue line and he scored from the left circle.

Pezzetta tied it after the Red Wings made a turnover in their zone.

Both teams scored twice in the second period.

Berggren scored on a power play, stuffing in a rebound of a Dylan Larkin shot. Harvey-Pinard answered with a short-handed goal, converting on a 2-on-1 situation off a feed from Kirby Dach.

Sundqvist was credited with a goal when a shot by Dominik Kubalik bounced off his leg.

Harvey-Pinard knotted the score once again with 1:21 left in the period. He fought off a defender and lifted a backhander over Husso’s shoulder.

Rasmussen was called for high sticking with 1:04 remaining in regulation. Husso made a lunging save against Mike Hoffman with 3 seconds left to preserve the score and force overtime.

After the Wings killed off the remainder of the penalty during overtime, Detroit’s Ben Chiarot nearly won it when his shot banged off the goalpost.

Husso stopped a Canadiens breakaway before Rasmussen set up Fabbri in front of the Montreal net. Allen had no chance to recover as Fabbri scored his fourth goal this season.

The Red Wings were playing the first game of a back-to-back. They’ll play their final game before the All-Star break at Elmont, N.Y., against the Islanders.

Montreal has a home-and-home against Ottawa prior to the break.

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Nikita Kucherov had a goal and two assists, including one on Victor Hedman’s game-winning tally, as the Tampa Bay Lightning won for the 11th straight time at home, edging Boston 3-2 and breaking the Bruins’ seven-game road winning streak on Thursday night.

In a 2-2 game in the third period, Hedman potted the go-ahead goal — his third of the season — at 13:19 after Bruins defenseman Brandon Carlo made hard contact and knocked down Boston goaltender Linus Ullmark (32 saves).

The Lightning, who beat Boston for the first time in three tries, withstood a strong push by the Bruins with an extra skater on at the end and held on for goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy.

He made 37 saves in his 400th NHL game, improving to 22-12-1, as his club registered its second-longest home winning streak in franchise history.

The Lightning’s Brandon Hagel scored on a power play, and Brayden Point had two assists. Steven Stamkos’ helper gave the captain his second 10-game point streak for Tampa Bay, which moved to 19-0-0 when leading after one period.

Brad Marchand and Pavel Zacha tallied for the Bruins, who lost for the first time in seven games overall and slid to 10-2-0 in January.

With Marchand off for high-sticking, Tampa Bay took a 1-0 lead 30 seconds into the man advantage when Kucherov slid a pass to Hagel, who was alone in the low slot. He deftly flipped the puck to his forehand and scored his 19th goal at 10:42.

The play opened up even more in a brisk second period that featured more scoring chances. The visitors took advantage during four-on-four play with Boston’s Taylor Hall and Tampa Bay’s Mikhail Sergachev off for matching minor infractions.

During a long cycle in the Lightning end, Boston’s forecheck kept the home side pinned in and unable to change lines. Marchand jumped over the boards on a change, quickly received a pass from Connor Clifton and ripped his 16th tally from inside the left circle at 16:58.

Bruins standout defenseman Charlie McAvoy left after a long slide and crashing hard into the end boards during the first minute of the third period, clutching his left arm, but he surprisingly returned in three minutes. Kucherov scored for the 20th time off a faceoff two seconds after McAvoy left.

The Bruins matched the marker less than two minutes later when Zacha netted his ninth of the year for a 2-2 tie.

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Golden Knights left winger William Carrier will return from an upper-body injury Friday against the New York Rangers, Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy confirmed Thursday.

Carrier, who hasn’t played since Jan. 14 after sustaining the injury against the Edmonton Oilers, is nevertheless still tied for fifth on the team with 11 goals this season. Overall, he has 16 points in 43 games played.

Vegas defenseman Shea Theodore, who has been out since Dec. 9, has made progress on his lower body injury and is close to a return, but he will be a game-time decision for Friday.

“I’m pretty close,” Theodore said. “I think it still depends on what the coaches and trainers are saying, but as of right now, I feel pretty good.”

Theodore, 27, has 22 points (four goals, 18 assists) in 29 games this season.

The Golden Knights could use the good news after falling into a first-place tie in the Pacific Division with the Kraken after Seattle drubbed the Vancouver Canucks 6-1 on Wednesday.

Vegas, which lost to the host New Jersey Devils 3-2 in overtime on Tuesday, is 1-4-1 in its past six games. The Golden Knights are two games into a six-game road trip.

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