MONTREAL (AP) — Carey Price made 33 saves in his return from injury to help the Montreal Canadiens beat the Vancouver Canucks 2-0 on Thursday night.Price picked up his second shutout of the season and 42nd overall in his first appearance after missing three games because of a lower-body injury. Jordie Benn and Jonathan Drouin scored for Montreal.Canucks rookie Elias Pettersson left because of a lower-body injury in the second period. Named to the All-Star Games on Wednesday http://www.officialsharks.com/authentic-adidas-tomas-hertl-jersey , Pettersson was injured after getting tangled with fellow rookie and Habs forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi. Pettersson’s right knee was caught between Kotkaniemi’s legs as they both fell to the ice. The Swede stayed down on the ice before getting to his feet and going to the dressing room.Benn opened the scoring with his third goal of the season at 11:50 of the first. Minutes after Pettersson’s injury, Drouin burst up the wing for his 13th of the season.LIGHTNING 6, KINGS 2LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists as Tampa Bay kept steamrolling along, beating Los Angeles for its seventh straight victory.The NHL-leading Lightning have earned at least one point in 16 consecutive games — the longest streak in the league this season. They are 15-0-1 during the run.Kucherov has eight goals and 19 assists during a 12-game point streak. He has scored in five straight games and has seven consecutive multipoint games.Steven Stamkos added a goal and two assists, and Brayden Point had a goal and an assist for Tampa Bay. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves for his sixth consecutive win.Austin Wagner and Drew Doughty scored for the Kings, who have lost three of four. Jonathan Quick stopped 27 shots.BLUES 5, CAPITALS 2ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his 30th goal of the season, but St. Louis came back to beat Washington.Ovechkin’s first-period goal snapped a six-game drought and tied him with Mike Gartner as the only players in NHL history to begin their careers with 14 straight 30-goal seasons. Gartner scored 30 or more in his first 15 seasons.Alex Pietrangelo had a goal and an assist for the Blues, Colton Parayko, Oskar Sundqvist, Robert Thomas and Tyler Bozak also scored, and Jake Allen made 23 saves.Brett Connolly also scored for the Capitals.WILD 4, MAPLE LEAFS 3TORONTO (AP) — Zach Parise broke a tie off a turnover early in the third period and Minnesota rallied to beat Toronto.Auston Matthews lost the puck to Parise Womens Alexander Steen Jersey , who beat goalie Michael Hutchinson high over his glove at 4:21 for his 18th goal of the season. Minnesota overcame deficits of 2-0 and 3-2.Toronto got a power play midway through the period, with Matthews hitting the post short side on Devan Dubnyk. The Leafs pulled Hutchinson with 2:45 left, but were unable to get anything past the Wild netminder, including a chance that dribbled off the post in the dying seconds.Jared Spurgeon had a goal and two assists, Charlie Coyle added a goal and an assist, and Mikko Koivu also scored for Minnesota. Dubnyk stopped 38 shots.Mitch Marner scored twice and William Nylander had the other goal for Toronto. John Tavares added two assists, and Hutchinson made 30 saves in his debut in an emergency recall from the minors.ISLANDERS 3, BLACKHAWKS 2, OTUNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Devon Toews scored his first NHL goal at 1:48 of overtime to lift New York past Chicago for its fifth straight victory.Mathew Barzal scored twice to keep up his scoring binge and help the Islanders win for the eighth time in nine games. Robin Lehner, making his third straight start, stopped 19 shots as New York moved to 3-0-1 in four games at the Nassau Coliseum this season.Toews, playing in the fifth game of his career Brayden Schenn Jersey , got the winner when he knocked in the rebound of his own shot that Collin Delia stopped, with the puck coming to him at the right side.Patrick Kane and Dominik Kahun and scored for Chicago.HURRICANES 5, FLYERS 3PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dougie Hamilton, Justin Williams and Teuvo Teravainen scored second-period goals to lead Carolina past Philadelphia.The Flyers fired coach Dave Hakstol and general manager Ron Hextall last month and the shake-up has yet to spark any kind of sign of playoff life for a franchise that hasn’t won a Stanley Cup since 1975. The Flyers lost their fifth straight game and fell to 3-5-1 under interim coach Scott Gordon.Wayne Simmons scored in the third to make it 4-1 and end Philly’s scoreless streak that stretched more than 123 minutes. Sean Couturier and James van Riemsdyk also scored in the third for the Flyers.Teravainen’s second goal of the game ended the Flyers’ comeback and secured Carolina’s third win since Dec. 20. Warren Foegele also scores, and Petr Mrazek stopped 31 shots.SABRES 4, PANTHERS 3BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jeff Skinner scored twice and Buffalo ended a seven-game skid against Florida.Sam Reinhart had a goal and an assist, and Tage Thompson also scored in a game the Sabres played minus injured captain Jack Eichel. Buffalo coach Phil Housley said Eichel will miss at least one more game with an upper-body injury after he was hurt in the first period of a 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday.Linus Ullmark stopped 35 shots. Buffalo was 0-6-1 in its previous seven meetings against Florida, dating to a 4-2 win on March 27, 2017. More important, the Sabres snapped an 0-2-1 slide overall while improving to 5-7-4 since their 10-game winning streak, which matched a franchise record.Alexander Barkov had a goal and an assist for Florida, and Mike Hoffman and Frank Vatrano also scored.BRUINS 6 Authentic Carl Gunnarsson Jersey , FLAMES 4BOSTON (AP) — Jake DeBrusk and Brad Marchand each had two goals to lift Boston past Calgary.Boston has won three in a row and six of eight. The Bruins built on their win over Chicago in Tuesday’s Winter Classic by beating the top team in the Western Conference.Jaroslav Halak stopped 33 shots, and John Moore and David Pastrnak also scored.Mike Smith had 21 saves for Calgary, which has dropped five of eight. Michael Frolik, Elias Lindholm, Johnny Gaudreau and Mikael Backlund scored. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Late goals have hurt Pittsburgh lately. Sidney Crosby and the Penguins were able to reverse the trend Thursday night.Crosby’s goal in the shootout gave Pittsburgh a 2-1 victory over the Nashville Predators, ending a three-game losing streak.It was the third straight game that has gone past regulation for Pittsburgh, which lost 2-1 to Philadelphia in overtime on Sunday and 3-2 at Carolina in a shootout on Tuesday.But Crosby came to the rescue this time.“That’s what he does for us,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. “I’ve run out of adjectives to describe Sid’s play. He’s a tremendous player and he’s the ultimate competitor.”Crosby, who has led Pittsburgh to three Stanley Cups, is fourth in the NHL with 93 points.The Penguins center rifled a wrist shot into the left side of the net to beat Nashville’s Pekka Rinne in the second round of the shootout.Nashville’s Ryan Johansen missed a shot wide in the first round before Pittsburgh’s Matt Murray made saves on Ryan Ellis and Brian Boyle in the last two rounds.Murray, who shut out Nashville in his previous two outings against the Predators, earned the win with 28 saves.Pittsburgh has allowed eight goals in the final 3:01 of regulation or overtime since Feb. 23.“I thought both goaltenders played really well Colton Parayko Jersey ,” Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. “You see the time ticking down, that’s a huge goal (for Ellis), so it was good to get the point. I wish we had the puck a little more in overtime.”Bryan Rust scored in regulation for the Penguins, who moved into a second-place tie with the New York Islanders in the Metropolitan Division with 91 points each. Murray, who shut out Nashville in his previous two games against the Predators, made 27 saves.Ryan Ellis scored for Nashville, which had its three-game winning streak snapped. Pekka Rinne made 32 saves in the loss as Nashville removed within two points behind first-place Winnipeg in the Central Division.Rust gave the Penguins a 1-0 lead when he scored on a backhander at 5:57 of the second period. The left wing skated across the crease before firing the puck into an open net on Rinne’s stick side for his career-high 18th goal.Ellis tied it at 1 with a wrist shot that beat Murray to the near post with 3:01 left in regulation. It was Ellis’ first goal since Feb. 5 against Arizona.“Yeah, it was a bit of a knuckle puck and I just didn’t squeeze tight enough,” Murray said.Pittsburgh improved to 133-1-6 when leading after two periods since the start of the 2015-16 season, best in the NHL during that stretch.NOTES: The Penguins have scored only five goals in the last four games. … Penguins LW Adam Johnson, 24, made his NHL debut. He was paired with C Matt Cullen and RW Garrett Wilson on the fourth line. Johnson was Wilkes-Barres/Scranton’s second-leading scorer with 40 points in the AHL. … This was the first of two meetings between the teams who meet again at Pittsburgh on March 29. … Nashville’s power play entered the game ranked 30th out of 31 NHL teams.UP NEXTPittsburgh: Visits Dallas on Saturday.Nashville: Visits Winnipeg on Saturday in a showdown of the Central Division’s top teams.