TAMPA, Fla. — Alexander Steen had a goal and two assists to help St. Louis Coach Ken Hitchcock move into sole possession of fourth place on the NHL wins list in the Blues’ 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night

Hitchcock’s 693rd regular-season win broke a tie with Dick Irvin. The Blues coach only trails Joel Quenneville (739), Al Arbour (782) and Scotty Bowman (1,244), who scouted the game as a Chicago senior adviser.

T.J. Oshie, Dmitrij Jaskin, David Backes, Paul Stastny and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored for the Blues.

Tampa Bay got goals from Tyler Johnson, Brett Connolly and Steven Stamkos.

OILERS 4, CANADIENS 3: Anton Lander scored at 1:47 of overtime to lift Edmonton to a win at Montreal.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ second goal of the game tied it with 25 seconds remaining in regulation while the Oilers were playing with an extra attacker.

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Matt Hendricks also scored for the Oilers.

Christian Thomas, Alex Galchenyuk and Max Pacioretty scored for Montreal, which had its three-game winning streak ended.

ISLANDERS 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2: Anders Lee scored two goals, including the tiebreaker in the second, and Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves for his 30th win for the host Islanders.

Lee scored in each of the first two periods, and Casey Cizikas added a goal for the Metropolitan Division-leading Islanders.

Richard Panik and Trevor Smith had goals in the second as Toronto erased a 2-0 deficit. Jonathan Bernier stopped 38 shots, but dropped his eighth straight decision.

WILD 2, PANTHERS 1: Jason Pominville and Zach Parise each scored on assists from Mikko Koivu, and Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves to lead host Minnesota.

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The Wild improved to 9-1-2 in their past 12 games, all with Dubnyk in net.

PENGUINS 5, SENATORS 4: David Perron scored the shootout winner to lift Pittsburgh to a victory at Ottawa.

Sidney Crosby, with two goals, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins. Mika Zibanejad, Mike Hoffman Mark Stone and Kyle Turris scored for the Senators.

Down 3-0 to start the third period, the Senators made an impressive comeback to tie the game 4-4.

PREDATORS 3, JETS 1: Filip Forsberg set a franchise rookie record with his 19th goal and also had an assist as Nashville won at home.

Forsberg topped the mark set by Alexander Radulov in 2006-07 with a power-play goal that put Nashville up 2-1 in the second period.

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DUCKS 2, HURRICANES 1: Matt Beleskey had a goal and an assist and Anaheim snapped a three-game skid with a road victory.

Francois Beauchemin and Beleskey scored 2:52 apart in the second to help the Pacific Division leaders improve to 24-0-7 in one-goal games.

Jeff Skinner scored a power-play goal for Carolina.

NOTES

STARS: Forward Antoine Roussel was suspended for two games for a hit under the chin of Boston defenseman Adam McQuaid.

Roussel was assessed a five-minute major penalty for cross-checking and ejected early in the first period of Dallas’ 5-3 win Tuesday night.

COYOTES: Center Martin Hanzal is scheduled to have back surgery and is likely done for the season.


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