TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Darren Raddysh had a goal and two assists to reach 100 career points and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Monday night.
Oliver Bjorkstrand scored his 400th power play point, and Pontus Holmberg and Anthony Cirelli also scored for Tampa Bay. Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel each had two assists and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 23 saves as the Lightning won back-to-back games for the second time since early December.
Justin Faulk scored for St. Louis and Jordan Binnington finished with 13 saves. The Blues have scored two or fewer goals for the 21st time in 38 games this season.
Holmberg scored 21 seconds into the game on a shot from Raddysh, who deflected the puck past Binnington. It's the 13th fastest goal to start a game in Lightning franchise history and the fastest since Steven Stamkos scored in 20 seconds on March 16, 2024.
Raddysh scored on the power play at 9:12 of the first period when his shot from center hit Faulk and crashed into the net.
Faulk cut the Lightning's lead in half at 6:43 of the second, but Cirelli responded 1:18 later, getting stuck in the middle slot on Raddysh's shot. Raddysh became the second-fastest defenseman in Lightning history to score 100 career points in his 206th game.
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FLYERS 5 CANACS 2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nikita Grebenkin had a goal and an assist, Carl Grundstrom also scored and Philadelphia beat Vancouver.
Grebenkin and Grundstrom were part of Philadelphia's revamped fourth line, which struggled for much of the season to get big results out of the lineup. Rodrigo Abols had two assists for five points.
Christian Dvorak, Owen Tippett and Matvey Michkov scored third-period goals to help the Flyers overcome a two-game skid and give coach Rick Tocchet a win in his first game against his former team. Tocchet coached the Canucks for two and a half seasons before leaving to take the Philadelphia job in May.
Dan Vladar made 23 saves to earn his 13th win of the season.
Max Sasson and Drew O'Connor scored the final goals for Vancouver, while Thatcher Demko made 34 saves. The loss snapped the Canucks' four-game winning streak and was their first loss since defenseman Quinn Hughes was traded to Minnesota.
BLUE JACKETS 3 QUEENS 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mason Marchment scored two power-play goals, Kirill Marchenko had one and Columbus beat Los Angeles.
Jet Greaves made 23 saves and Damon Severson had two assists as Columbus snapped a four-game road losing streak.
Andrei Kuzmenko scored and Anton Forsberg made 27 saves as the Kings were held to fewer than three goals for the sixth straight game.
Columbus was without defenseman Zach Werenski, who was day-to-day with a lower-body injury and had a shot blocked against Anaheim on Saturday. Werenski leads the Blue Jackets in goals, assists and points, and his 14 goals are tied with Washington's Jakob Chykrun for the most NHL goals among defensemen.
However, rookie Marchment made up for it by scoring twice in the first period, giving him three goals in two games since he was acquired from Seattle on Friday. He opened the scoring 4:07 into the game with a wrist shot off a Forsberg blocker and then made it 2-0 with 23.5 remaining when Boone Jenner's shot deflected twice and hit Marchment's shoulder.
KRAKEN 3 DUCKS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jordan Eberle scored the game-tying goal midway through the third period and added an empty-netter in the final minute and Seattle beat Anaheim.
Frederic Gaudreau also scored and Kaapo Kakko had two assists for the last-place Kraken. Philipp Grubauer stopped 39 shots.
Mikael Granlund scored for the Pacific Division-leading Ducks, and Lukas Dostal made 18 saves.
Matty Beniers scored by sliding the puck past defenseman Radko Gudas onto the stick of a wide-open Eberle, who fired a shot from the left circle into the top right corner of the net to give the Kraken a 2-1 lead with 9:56 left.
Grubauer made 16 saves in the second period and 15 in the third.
