NHL roundup: Pens pound Flyers for 6th straight win

[April 04, 2016]  PITTSBURGH -- Matt Murray made 28 saves to win for the second day in a row, Sidney Crosby scored yet another goal against Philadelphia and the Pittsburgh Penguins remained the NHL's hottest team, defeating the Flyers 6-2 on Sunday.

The Penguins won a season high-tying sixth in a row and 12th in 13 games to cool off the Flyers, who were on a 13-3-2 surge that elevated them to the Eastern Conference's No. 2 wild-card position.

Eric Fehr scored the final two goals with Pittsburgh up big in the third period and Beau Bennett, Patric Hornqvist and Carl Hagelin also scored for the Penguins, who got at least one goal from each of their four lines while opening leads of 3-0 and 4-1 against goalie Steve Mason.

Wayne Simmonds ended Murray's 122:05 scoreless streak by scoring in the final minute of the second period. Jakub Voracek also scored for Philadelphia.

Blackhawks 6, Bruins 4

CHICAGO -- Patrick Kane scored a hat trick and dished an assist to reach the 100-point milestone for the first time in his career, and Chicago held on for a win over Boston.
 

Artemi Panarin scored a goal and tallied three assists and Artem Anisimov also scored for the Blackahaks.

Patrice Bergeron tallied two goals and an assist, Brad Marchand contributed a goal and an assist and David Pastrnak scored for the Bruins.

Jets 5, Wild 1

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Andrew Copp, Drew Stafford and Blake Wheeler scored third-period goals to solidify Winnipeg win over Minnesota at MTS Centre.

Mark Scheifele and Chris Thorburn also scored for the Jets.

Mikael Granlund scored the Wild's lone goal.

Blues 5, Avalanche 1

DENVER -- David Backes scored early in a three-goal first period, Vladimir Tarasenko had two assists, and St. Louis beat reeling Colorado.

Alex Pietrangelo, Troy Brouwer, Colton Parayko and Magnus Paajarvi also had goals for the Blues, who lost goalie Jake Allen to an undisclosed injury.

Matt Duchene scored his 30th goal late in the third for the Avalanche and Calvin Pickard had 23 saves in relief of Semyon Varlamov, who was pulled after allowing three goals on 14 shots in the first period.

Ducks 3, Stars 1

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Nate Thompson and Ryan Kesler scored short-handed goals to give Anaheim a victory over Dallas at the Honda Center.

Ryan Getzlaf added an empty-net goal and John Gibson stopped 25 shots for the Ducks, who used their fourth win in five games to move into first place in the Pacific Division by one point over the idle Los Angeles Kings.

The Stars, despite getting a late goal from Radek Faksa, watched their four-game winning streak end and their lead in the Central Division shrink to two points over the second-place St. Louis Blues and four points over the Chicago Blackhawks.

-----------------------------------------------

[© 2016 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.]

Copyright 2016 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.