Who says the Nashville Predators need help scoring?

James Neal netted his 30th goal of the season Saturday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets, snapping a quick shot through a screen to beat Joonas Korpisalo.

Neal became the second Predators forward to hit the 30-goal mark in 2015-16, joining Filip Forsberg, who scored his 30th against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday before tallying again against the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.

Nashville has two 30-goal scorers for the first time since 2005-06. The Dallas Stars are the only other team with a pair of 30-goal scorers this season.

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The Tampa Bay Lightning took the ice Saturday against the Florida Panthers without one of their leading scorers, as Nikita Kucherov is sidelined with a lower-body injury, the team announced. He is considered day-to-day.

Kucherov's 61 points tie captain Steven Stamkos for the highest mark on the Lightning entering Saturday's action. The 22-year-old extended his goal-scoring streak to four games Friday with his 29th of the season, matching his career high set one year ago.

The Lightning placed 11 forwards and seven defenseman in the lineup for their key division battle, with Valtteri Filppula and Ryan Callahan also out with injuries.

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Jeff Blashill is looking forward, not back.

The Detroit Red Wings head coach delivered some real talk after his team was blown out 7-2 at home by the Pittsburgh Penguins in a game that, like most at this time of year, was virtually a must-win.

Blashill didn't go into too many specifics about the game, saying tape would be watched and adding that he knows only one thing moving forward:

"I know we gotta win a hockey game Monday," he said.

Detroit's first-year head coach once again said his squad didn't show enough resiliency after being scored upon, allowing the Penguins to take control of momentum and the game. The Red Wings opened the scoring and led 1-0 after 20 minutes, but Pittsburgh erupted for four second-period goals, putting the game away.

"It's a loss," Blashill said. "It was frustrating, it was embarrassing, but it's a loss. That's it. So we have to win a game on Monday.

"I have tons of belief in these guys. We gotta come here and win a game on Monday, period."

The Buffalo Sabres are in Detroit on Monday. Should the Red Wings lose that game, their streak of 24 straight seasons competing in the playoffs will almost surely end over the next two weeks.

Blashill added his team must do a better job of keeping the puck out of its net, but wouldn't say if Petr Mrazek or Jimmy Howard would start Monday. Mrazek was pulled after allowing four goals on 27 shots Saturday. Howard didn't fare much better, allowing three goals on 14 shots.

Detroit's tied with the Philadelphia Flyers for the second wild-card spot in the East with 85 points, but the Flyers will have a game in hand after Saturday night. Philly's in Arizona to face the Coyotes late Saturday. They can pull two points ahead of Detroit with a win.

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J.T. Miller 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/zYAfxOJdbt

— NHL France (@NHL_France_) March 26, 2016

J.T. Miller's career season continued Saturday evening.

The New York Rangers forward scored his 21st goal of the year, abusing Montreal Canadiens defenseman Andrei Markov with a slick toe-drag, before going backhand five-hole on Mike Condon, who had no idea what was coming.

Only 23 years old, Miller's registered already career highs across the board, and his 41 points are quietly good for fifth on the club in scoring.

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Less than five minutes after Florida Panthers forward Vincent Trocheck scored his team-leading 25th goal of the season, a man twice his age matched him on the power play.

Jaromir Jagr, 44, reached the 25-goal mark for the first time since the 2007-08 season when he played with the New York Rangers, accomplishing the feat Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Jaromir The Legend Jagr has 25 goals.https://t.co/HYpNdmS3Jq

— NHL (@NHL) March 27, 2016

It's Jagr's 18th career 25-goal season, second-most in NHL history, passing Mike Gartner's 17.

The Czech winger still has a chance at hitting 30 goals before season's end, with seven games remaining. He last accomplished that feat in the 2006-07 campaign.

The ageless wonder has amazed many with his play this season, but his performance Saturday apparently didn't impress Minnesota Twins pitcher and die-hard Lightning fan Phil Hughes:

Jagr? Never heard of him #FLAvsTBL

— Phil Hughes (@PJHughes45) March 26, 2016

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Jimmy Vesey's future is a hot topic after the Harvard captain's college season came to an end Friday.

The Nashville Predators own Vesey's rights after drafting him in 2012, and plan to sort out his status with the club by next week. The club released the following statement Saturday evening:

Nashville Predators representatives, including general manager David Poile, were in Worcester, Massachusetts last night to watch Harvard's NCAA Tournament game against Boston College. Jimmy Vesey's exceptional college career came to a close as Harvard was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. At some point over the next several days, David and Predators' hockey personnel plan to meet with Jimmy, his family and his representatives to discuss and reinforce his opportunities to begin his NHL career with the Predators in the immediate future.

The Predators want Vesey for their playoff run. "We'll be excited to have him," head coach Peter Laviolette said.

Vesey finished his senior season with 24 goals and 46 points.

The Predators appear to have a wild-card spot all but locked up in the Western Conference, so if Vesey wants to play some more hockey this spring, he'll have an opportunity to do so.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Mattias Janmark returned to the lineup from injury and posted his first career two-goal game and Antti Niemi made 34 saves against his former team as the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Saturday. Patrick Sharp ...

Mikko Rantanen won't play in the NHL again this season.

The Colorado Avalanche prospect will not appear in his 10th game of 2015-16, and, as a result, the club won't be on the hook for the first year of his entry-level contract.

"We're not going to burn a year, first of all. He will start next year," Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic told Mike Chambers of The Denver Post.

Sakic added that a potential expansion draft and the rules about protecting young players are factors in the decision.

"(Expansion rules) can change, it (has) to be negotiated, but in his first two years he would be treated like a junior player. From our understanding, but not 100 percent, the first two years he won't be exposed so you don't have to protect them.

"So you can protect your other guys. If expansion (starts) in another year he would be a one-year pro, not a two. If we have to protect him, that's a guy we'll protect. You only (have) so many players to protect."

Shortly after Sakic's comments, the Avalanche made it official.

UPDATE: The #Avs have reassigned Mikko Rantanen to @sarampage.

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) March 26, 2016

Rantanen failed to record a point in nine games with Colorado this season, but racked up 21 goals and 52 points in 44 games with the AHL's San Antonio Rampage.

The Avalanche signed him to a three-year entry-level deal last July after selecting him 10th overall in the 2015 draft.

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DENVER - Zach Parise scored twice, Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves for his 19th NHL shutout and the surging Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-0 on Saturday in a pivotal game between two teams contending for the final Western Conference pla...