Highlights of Sunday's NHL games

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[February 23, 2015]  Feb 22 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Sunday's National Hockey League games:

Bruins 6, Blackhawks 2

Patrice Bergeron scored his 200th career goal and notched two assists, and the Boston Bruins cruised to a win against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Reilly Smith added a goal and an assist for Boston, which set a season-high in goals.

Jonathan Toews and Bryan Bickell scored for Chicago.

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Predators 2, Sabres 1 (SO)

Filip Forsberg scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lead the ashville Predators to a win over the Buffalo Sabres.

Forsberg's shootout winner came as he skated with speed, turned to his left and lifted a strong backhand into the top of the net.

Goalie Michal Neuvirth made 37 saves for Buffalo but could not fend off Nashville in the end.

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Rangers 4, Blue Jackets 3 (SO)

Rick Nash scored the deciding goal in a shootout as the New York Rangers defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Martin St. Louis scored his 17th and 18th goals of the season for the Rangers.

Backup goaltender Cam Talbot made 27 saves.

Goaltender Curtis McElhinney made 34 saves and took the loss for Columbus.

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Wild 6, Stars 2

The Minnesota Wild continued their red hot play, scoring a six third-period goals to beat the Dallas Stars.

Zach Parise scored two goals for Minnesota while Dallas got a pair from Jason Spezza.

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Avalanche 5, Lightning 4

Nathan MacKinnon broke a 13-game goal drought with his first career hat-trick, leading the Colorado Avalanche over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Matt Duchene and Alex Tanguay also scored and goaltender Semyon Varlamov had 28 saves for the Avalanche.

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Canucks 4, Islanders 0

Zack Kassian scored the first of the Canucks' three second-period goals and Vancouver goalies Ryan Miller and Eddie Lack combined to stop all 37 shots they faced in a victory over the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.

Miller left early in the second period after he was injured in a goalmouth collision with Canucks right winger Jannik Hansen.

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Penguins 5, Panthers 1

Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves and the Pittsburgh Penguins came alive in the third period to beat the Florida Panthers.

Patric Hornqvist and Evgeni Malkin scored two goals each for Pittsburgh.

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Flyers 3, Capitals 2

Philadelphia Flyers center Claude Giroux and right winger Wayne Simmonds each scored power-play goals, and Flyers defenseman Michael Del Zotto added a late go-ahead goal to lead Philadelphia to a win over the Washington Capitals.

Washington fought back from a 2-0 deficit and tied it on second-period scores from Tom Wilson and Joel Ward before Del Zotto provided the winner from the Flyers with 4:13 remaining. (Editing by Jahmal Corner)

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