Andreas Athanasiou scored twice and the Chicago Blackhawks snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 4-2 win against the host Calgary Flames on Tuesday.

Lukas Reichel had two assists and Petr Mrazek made 33 saves for the Blackhawks (25-46-6, 56 points).

Noah Hanifin had a goal and an assist for the Flames (36-27-15, 87 points), who missed a chance to tie the Winnipeg Jets for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference. Jacob Markstrom made 19 saves.

Athanasiou gave Chicago a 1-0 lead at 5:09 of the first period. Reichel took a pass from Jonathan Toews and quickly fed Athanasiou, who took it to the slot before beating Markstrom glove side.

Tyler Toffoli tied it 1-1 at 11:52. Chicago defenseman Seth Jones intercepted Andrew Mangiapane’s pass attempt and tried to send it over to his brother, Caleb Jones, but Toffoli got his stick on the floating puck to put it in the back of the net.

Jujhar Khaira put the Blackhawks back in front 2-1 at 19:22. Boris Katchouk intercepted a soft rim behind the net by Nazem Kadri and quickly dished to Khaira streaking toward the net.

Hanifin finished off a passing play from the slot to tie it 2-2 at 11:44 of the second period.

The Flames outshot the Blackhawks 19-4 in the middle frame, holding the visitors without a shot on goal for the final 11 minutes of the period.

Athanasiou stole the puck in the neutral zone and converted on a give-and-go on a 2-on-1 with Reichel for a 3-2 Chicago lead at 1:42 of the third period, depositing it into a wide-open net after Markstrom overcommitted to Reichel.

Austin Wagner pushed it to 4-2 at 3:11 when he scored from the left circle on a 2-on-1.

Mikael Backlund banked one off the skate of Blackhawks defenseman Ian Mitchell from the bottom of the right circle to narrow it to 4-3 at 13:09.

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Cody Glass scored a power-play goal at 3:30 of overtime to lift the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 win against the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night.

Tommy Novak had two goals and an assist, Glass finished with two points and Kevin Lankinen made 30 saves for the Predators (39-30-8, 86 points). Nashville moved within three points of the Winnipeg Jets for the second and final Western Conference wild-card spot with five games left.

Alex Pietrangelo scored two goals and Jonathan Quick made 24 saves for the Golden Knights (48-22-8, 104 points), who lead the Pacific Division.

Novak gave the Predators a 1-0 lead at 6:50 of the first period, scoring on a breakaway off a long stretch pass from Luke Evangelista.

Novak scored again during a power play to make it 2-0 at 13:08 of the opening period. The puck went into the slot and caromed around before coming out to Novak arriving through the left circle, and he scored with a one-timer.

Rasmus Asplund and Ryan McDonagh committed minor penalties for Nashville 14 seconds apart later in the opening period, but the Predators killed the five-on-three with help from five saves from Lankinen and two blocked shots by Kevin Gravel.

Nashville briefly appeared to go ahead 3-0 with 2:59 left in the first, but the apparent goal by Tyson Barrie was quickly waved off because he kicked the puck across the goal line.

Pietrangelo cut the deficit to 2-1 at 6:00 of the second period. He took a wrist shot from the left circle that was saved by Lankinen, but the rebound went off Gravel and into his own net.

The Golden Knights killed a penalty in the middle of the second period and then Pietrangelo scored his second goal 15 seconds later to tie it 2-2 at 13:39. Jonathan Marchessault sent a pass back to Pietrangelo just as he crossed the Nashville blue line, and Pietrangelo skated in and scored with a wrist shot from the inside edge of the right circle.

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Alexey Toropchenko and Justin Faulk each had a goal and an assist to lead the host St. Louis Blues to a 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.

Jordan Kyrou and Tyler Pitlick also scored for St. Louis (36-35-7, 79 points), which has won three of its past five games (3-1-1).

Jordan Binnington made 32 saves for the Blues, who have been eliminated from playoff contention for the first time in the past five seasons.

James van Riemsdyk and Morgan Frost scored for the Flyers (29-35-13, 71 points), who have dropped four straight (0-3-1) and will miss the playoffs for the third straight season. Goalie Samuel Ersson made 28 saves.

The Flyers outshot the Blues 34-32 and each team went 0-for-3 on man-advantage opportunities.

Trailing 3-0 entering the third period, the Flyers got on the board when van Riemsdyk deflected Nick Seeler’s shot from the point past Binnington to make it 3-1 at the 5:51 mark. Scott Laughton was also credited with an assist on the play.

Philadelphia pulled to within 3-2 when Frost scored on a rebound off Cam York’s shot from the point with 8:17 remaining.

Toropchenko secured the win with an empty-net goal off assists from Faulk and Brayden Schenn with 32 seconds left.

The Blues broke through at the 5:53 mark of the first period when Brandon Saad slid a pass to Kyrou, who wristed a shot from the slot past Ersson.

St. Louis doubled its lead early in the second period. After getting an outlet pass from Nathan Walker, Toropchenko flicked the puck to a streaking Pitlick, who wristed it past Ersson at the 5:04 mark.

The Blues put the game away a few minutes later when Faulk scored off assists from Sammy Blais and Nick Leddy at the 8:26 mark.

The Flyers conclude their four-game road trip against the Dallas Stars on Thursday and the New York Islanders on Saturday before hosting the Boston Bruins on Sunday.

The Blues finish their three-game homestand against the New York Rangers on Thursday before visiting the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

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Dawson Mercer recorded his first career hat trick Tuesday night as the New Jersey Devils damaged the Pittsburgh Penguins’ wild-card hopes by cruising to a 5-1 win in Newark, N.J.

At 21 years and 159 days old, Mercer is the youngest Devils player to record a hat trick since Scott Gomez (20 years, three days) did so on Dec. 26, 1999.

Dougie Hamilton and Timo Meier also scored for the Devils (49-21-8, 106 points), who entered Tuesday three points behind the first-place Carolina Hurricanes in the Metropolitan Division. The Hurricanes beat the Ottawa Senators in overtime Tuesday night.

New Jersey lengthened its lead over the idle third-place New York Rangers to five points.

Devils goalie Vitek Vanecek made 22 saves.

Bryan Rust scored in the third for the Penguins (38-30-10, 86 points), who missed a chance to surpass the idle New York Islanders in the race for the first wild card in the Eastern Conference. Pittsburgh entered Tuesday one point ahead of the Florida Panthers, who beat the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday and now hold the first wild-card spot.

Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry recorded 32 saves.

Hamilton opened the scoring shortly before the midway point of the first period. Ondrej Palat skated around the back of the net and passed to Hamilton, whose shot from the right faceoff circle sailed over Jarry’s glove at the 8:58 mark.

Mercer scored his first goal to cap a two-on-one rush with Nico Hischier just under six minutes later.

Meier, stationed next to Jarry in the crease, took a pass from Jack Hughes and beat Jarry for a five-on-three goal at the 2:54 mark of the second.

The Devils extended their lead to 4-0 in the final minute of the period. Jarry deflected a shot by John Marino but couldn’t cover up the puck before Mercer put the rebound under the stick of Kris Letang and beyond Jarry with 34 seconds left.

Mercer completed his hat trick in similar fashion 2:52 into the third, when Jarry turned back a pair of shots by Michael McLeod before Hischier sent a wraparound pass to Mercer, whose shot went into an open net.

Rust ended Vanecek’s shutout bid at the 6:14 mark, when he redirected a shot by Pierre-Olivier Joseph.

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Martin Necas scored with 41 seconds remaining in overtime, while Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Brady Skjei each added a goal and an assist, as the Carolina Hurricanes won 3-2 over the visiting Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night in Raleigh, N.C.

Stefan Noesen recorded two assists and Antti Raanta made 26 saves to improve to 10-0-1 at home for the Metropolitan Division-leading Hurricanes (50-18-9, 109 points), who have won three in a row following an 0-2-1 rut.

Down 2-1 entering the third, Ottawa made the most of its fourth power play of the night to level the contest at 2:52 into the final frame. Brady Tkachuk tapped in Alex DeBrincat’s pass for the Senators (37-34-7, 81 points).

However, with less than a minute to play in the extra session, Necas — who’s the team leader with 69 points but was blanked in his last four games — rang a drop pass from Seth Jarvis off the post and in for a thrilling Carolina triumph.

Six points out of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, Ottawa also got a goal from Claude Giroux. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Finnish netminder Leevi Merilainen was stellar while making 34 saves in his NHL debut for the Senators, who are mired in an 0-1-2 rut with time running out on their playoff hopes.

The Hurricanes wasted no time in opening the scoring. Just 1:50 into the contest, Kotkaniemi deflected in Skjei’s shot from the point past Merilainen, who was screened by the Hurricanes’ Jesse Puljujarvi. Skjei made it 2-0 when he drove the puck home, through traffic and past an again-screened Merilainen, during the second half of a four-minute power play with 4:02 remaining in the first period.

Meanwhile, Raanta was solid in stopping all 10 shots Ottawa threw at him over the first 20 minutes. He made an impressive toe save on Ridly Greig with roughly 11 1/2 minutes left in the second period but the Senators finally broke through shortly after.

On the push, DeBrincat sent a perfect cross-slot pass for Giroux to bury in the net with 9:21 remaining in the middle frame to make it a 2-1 game.

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Ville Husso made 24 saves and David Perron had two goals and an assist as the visiting Detroit Red Wings recorded a 5-0 shutout of the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday.

The victory kept Detroit’s slim playoff chances alive, though the Wings (35-33-9, 79 points) may need to win all of their remaining five games to pass the four teams ahead of them for the final Western Conference wild-card slot. The Red Wings are 4-1-0 in their last five games.

Olli Maatta and Jordan Oesterle each had two assists. Lucas Raymond collected the game’s opening marker at 4:55 of the first period, while Matt Luff and Joe Veleno scored the Red Wings’ other goals.

Goaltender Cayden Primeau stopped 16 of 21 shots as Montreal (30-42-6, 66 points) was shut out for the second time in as many games. The Habs also went scoreless in Saturday’s 3-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.

The Canadiens are 0-4-0 in their last four games, with the last three losses coming on home ice.

Perron scored on a breakaway midway through the first period, after taking a long stretch pass from Oesterle down the middle of the ice. Perron’s next tally came on a tip-in goal 7:26 into the third period.

Perron has 12 points (six goals, six assists) in his last nine games.

Husso missed the Red Wings’ previous seven games due to a lower-body injury but looked sharp in his return to action. It was Husso’s fourth shutout of the season and his second against Montreal, as Husso also delivered a 29-save gem in Detroit’s 3-0 win over the Canadiens in the first game of the season.

After firing a season-low 14 shots against the Hurricanes, Montreal generated at least a little more pressure with 24 shots on Tuesday. Jonathan Drouin had perhaps the Habs’ best scoring chance at 14:07 of the second period, but Husso made a tremendous stop on Drouin’s point-blank shot.

Detroit finished its regular-season series with Montreal with a 3-0-1 record.

–Field Level Media