Blues top Stars with overtime goal

Blues top Stars with overtime goal

Alex Pietrangelo scored 2:11 into overtime as the St. Louis Blues moved into a tie with the Stars for the Western Conference and Central Division leads, thanks to a 5-4 win at Dallas on Saturday night.

The Stars forced overtime with a 6-on-4 advantage in the final two minutes of the third period when Jamie Benn redirected Tyler Seguin’s shot past goalie Jake Allen.

Kings goalie Jonathan Quick made 22 saves, but couldn’t stop Moore from skating out in front and beating him with a shot for the defenseman’s first goal since Jan. 2.

Antoine Vermette scored twice and Mike Smith stopped 44 shots for his second shutout of the season for visiting Arizona.

Bo Horvat had a goal and an assist as host Vancouver beat Nashville, which was 9-0-5 in its previous 14 games.

Mark Scheifele had a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to seven games and host Winnipeg erased a two-goal deficit to beat Colorado.

Red Wings 3, Rangers 2:

Aleksander Barkov scored the winning goal in a shootout for host Florida, which won its second in a row after a three-game skid.

New York’s Thomas Greiss stopped 28 shots in his first regulation loss since Jan. 2.

Craig Anderson made 29 saves for his fourth shutout of the season for host Ottawa, which snapped a three-game losing streak.

Pittsburgh center Evgeni Malkin is expected to be sidelined for at least six weeks with an upper-body injury suffered Friday in a collision with Columbus defenseman Dalton Prout.

NHL linesman Don Henderson, who was knocked to the ice by Calgary defenseman Dennis Wideman in January, is still recovering from the concussion he suffered and is out for the season, according to the NHL Officials Association.

In a statement emailed to the Associated Press, the NHLOA said it “strongly disagrees” with the decision by an independent arbitrator to reduce Wideman’s suspension from 20 games to 10.