Tuesday's NHL roundup

The Associated Press
February 13, 2019 at 6:01AM
Tampa Bay Lightning center Cedric Paquette (13) celebrates his goal, beating Calgary Flames goaltender David Rittich (33) during first period action on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times/TNS)
The Lightning’s Cedric Paquette celebrated his goal against the Flames. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

High-powered Tampa Bay just keeps rolling.

NHL points leader Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists, Brayden Point added a goal and two assists, and the host Lightning beat the Calgary Flames 6-3 on Tuesday night.

Kucherov has 88 points, including seven over his past two games after going a pair of games without getting on the score sheet.

"He has that ability to find guys even when I don't think guys know they're open," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.

Kucherov has a career-high 63 assists. He stopped a 10-game goal drought with a pair Sunday in a 5-2 victory at Florida.

Kucherov and Point (72) are the second pair of Tampa Bay teammates to reach 70 points in 57 team games. Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier did it in 2006-07.

Calgary, 1-3-1 in its past five games, got two goals from Sean Monahan.

St. Louis 8, New Jersey 3: Alex Pietrangelo and Ivan Barbashev each scored twice and the host Blues won their seventh consecutive game, blowing out the Devils. St. Louis' winning streak is its longest since Jan. 17-Feb. 5, 2015, when it also won seven in a row.

Boston 6, Chicago 3: David Krejci, Danton Heinen and Brad Marchand scored during a four-minute span at the end of the first period and the host Bruins beat the Blackhawks to stop Chicago's seven-game winning streak. The Blackhawks' Patrick Kane had an assist for the 14th consecutive game, tying Stan Mikita for the longest assist streak in the history of the Original Six franchise.

Notes

• Bruins leading scorer David Pastrnak will miss at least two weeks recovering from surgery on a tendon in his left thumb after falling Sunday night after attending a team sponsorship dinner. Pastrnak, 22, is tied for ninth in the NHL with 66 points and is seventh with 31 goals.

• Pittsburgh center Evgeni Malkin was suspended one game for high-sticking Philadelphia's Michael Raffl late in the Penguins' 4-1 victory over the Flyers on Monday night.

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