What a night for Jarome Iginla.

The veteran forward almost single-handedly willed the Los Angeles Kings to a crucial victory over the Nashville Predators on Thursday night, burying the overtime winner on the power play for his second goal of the game.

Iginla tied the game early in the second period with his first goal as a member of the Kings.

The two-goal performance came in his third contest with Los Angeles after being acquired by the Kings on trade deadline day.

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CALGARY, Alberta - Johnny Gaudreau had a goal and three assists, and the Calgary Flames beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-0 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win.

Brian Elliott had 24 saves for his first shutout of the season. After assisting on all three second-period goals as the Flames blew open a 1-0 game, Gaudreau added his 14th goal at 16:12 of the third period.

Gaudreau has 13 points (three goals, 10 assists) during the Flames' win streak. It's the longest streak for Calgary since it also won eight in a row in November 2005.

Mark Giordano, Sean Monahan, Michael Stone and Micheal Ferland also scored for Calgary (37-26-4), which visits Winnipeg on Saturday.

Montreal (38-22-8) had won six in a row. The Canadiens were without goaltender Carey Price (flu), who was supposed to start for the 10th time in the last 11 games but instead served as the backup to Al Montoya - although he didn't appear on the bench.

Montoya had 33 stops.

Elliott, playing his finest hockey of the season, improved to 11-1-1 in his last 13 starts. He has a .931 save percentage over that span. He is 19-13-3 on the season.

Stone made it 2-0 in the second when he scored through a crowd from the blue line. It was his first goal since joining Calgary in a trade with the Arizona Coyotes on Feb. 20.

Stone left early in the third. He appeared to be favoring his shoulder. The Flames also lost defenseman Dougie Hamilton to an undisclosed injury late in the second period.

There were no updates available.

Calgary made it 4-0 on goals 26 seconds apart late in the second. Monahan fired in his team-leading 22nd goal after Stone's shot didn't get through. Then Ferland got his 14th goal, whipping a shot into the top corner.

NOTES: Calgary's franchise record win streak is 10 in a row from Oct. 14 to Nov. 3, 1978, while the team was in Atlanta. ... Montreal's Claude Julien coached his 1,007th game, tying him with Jacques Demers for 25th on the NHL's career list.

UP NEXT:

Canadiens: Visit Edmonton on Sunday night.

Flames: Visit Winnipeg on Saturday night.

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Erik Karlsson, showstopper.

The Ottawa Senators defenseman ended Thursday's game in Arizona by going top shelf on the Coyotes on a breakaway opportunity.

The goal was his second of the game after he tied it in the third period, and his 13th of the season.

Karlsson added an assist to boost his season point total to 61 through 66 games.

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Three games into his Los Angeles tenure, Jarome Iginla is on the board.

The Kings' deadline acquisition picked up a loose puck Thursday versus Nashville, and neatly deposited his ninth goal of the season, and first with his new club.

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CHICAGO - Jonathan Bernier made 43 saves for his 100th NHL win, and Anaheim Ducks cooled off the Chicago Blackhawks with a 1-0 victory on Thursday.

Corey Perry scored in the second as Anaheim ended Chicago's seven-game winning streak despite being outshot 43-26 on the night. Corey Crawford blocked 25 shots as the Blackhawks lost for only the second time in their last 14.

Bernier's second shutout this season and 14th of his career helped the Ducks pull ahead of idle Edmonton for second place in the Pacific Division. Bernier made his sixth straight start with John Gibson sidelined a lower-body injury.

Perry stopped a 10-game scoring drought with his 12th goal at 17:44. He hadn't connected since scoring twice on Feb. 9 at Buffalo.

The Blackhawks outscored their opponents 53-29 in their previous 13 games, and they held the Ducks without a shot for more than 18 minutes stretching from the first period until early in the second.

But Chicago wasted a chance to overtake Minnesota for the top spot in the Central Division and Western Conference. The Wild lost 4-1 at Tampa Bay.

Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson returned after missing four games with an upper-body injury. He was paired with Swedish countryman Johnny Oduya, who played in his first game since being reacquired on Feb. 28 from Dallas. He had been resting an ankle injury.

Hjalmarsson and Oduya often played together on Chicago's 2013 and 2015 Stanley Cup teams.

The Blackhawks outshot the Ducks 19-2 in a chippy first. Anaheim forward Ryan Getzlaf fought Chicago's Richard Panik late in the first, and the Ducks captain drew an extra minor for instigating and a misconduct on the altercation. Getzlaf entered with just 26 penalty minutes.

The Blackhawks kept dominating into the second, but Bernier stepped up every time he was challenged. His best stops included a point-blank right pad save on Jordin Tootoo in the opening minute, a glove save on Patrick Kane's backhander with 5:05 left in the period and a block of Artem Anisimov's quick shot from the side of the net about a minute later.

Perry scored on the Ducks' 14th shot, just moments after Marian Hossa's drive dribbled off the post to Bernier's left. He beat Crawford on the stick side as he cut across the slot.

Aided by solid defensive support, Bernier preserved the lead in the third.

Bernier had to come up with a sprawling pad save in Artemi Panarin and close-in stop on Jonathan Toews with Crawford on the bench for an extra attacker in the final 1:40.

NOTES: With Gibson out, Bernier was backed up by Jhonas Enroth. Jeff Glass backed up Crawford for a third game. Scott Darling is recovering from an upper-body injury. ... Anaheim's Logan Shaw played in his 100th NHL game. ... With Hjalmarsson and Oduya in the lineup, Ds Michal Kempny and Michal Rozsival were scratched. ... Ducks F Antoine Vermette served the ninth game of a 10-game suspension for slashing linesman Shandor Alphonso. He's eligible to return when Anaheim hosts Washington on Sunday.

UP NEXT:

Ducks: At St. Louis on Friday in second of a two-game Midwest swing.

Blackhawks: At Detroit on Friday in their final visit to the Joe Louis Arena.

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Jannik Hansen is feeling the California love.

In his first game with the San Jose Sharks since being acquired from Vancouver prior to the trade deadline, the winger - who was given an opportunity to start on the top line - made an immediate impression by assisting on a relatively rare goal by Joe Thornton.

The point was Hansen's 14th in 29 games this season.

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A look at Thursday night's result for the Tampa Bay Lightning seems encouraging - a convincing 4-1 win over the Western Conference-leading Minnesota Wild.

The two points - although crucial in Tampa's push toward the postseason - don't nearly tell the whole story, though, as centers Vladislav Namestnikov, Tyler Johnson, and Cedric Paquette all left the game with injuries.

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Head coach Jon Cooper said there's no update on any player, and indicated he'll wait for Friday's medical reports before hitting the panic button, but did offer a rather ominous prediction.

"It doesn't sound encouraging for any of them," he said, according to Bryan Burns of the club's official website.

Tampa Bay's season likely hangs in the balance, as their depth down the middle may take a major hit. The Lightning sent out pivots Brian Boyle and Valtteri Filppula at the trade deadline, and have been without captain Steven Stamkos since mid-November.

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When he came out of the University of Wisconsin ahead of the 2012-13 season, the Edmonton Oilers thought Justin Schultz was the mobile offensive defenseman they so desperately coveted.

But Schultz never really panned out in Edmonton, and the Oilers shipped him to the Pittsburgh Penguins ahead of last season's trade deadline for a third-round pick. Then Oilers fans watched the reinvigorated blue-liner play a key role for Pittsburgh en route to winning the Stanley Cup.

His former bench boss, at least, is happy to watch the 26-year-old succeed in a new environment.

"He needed an opportunity to go somewhere else and start over and start fresh," Oilers coach Todd McLellan told reporters Thursday. "There was a lot of stress and tension put on him here with the Oilers, whether it's fans, teammates or coaches.

"I'm proud of him," McLellan said. "I'm glad he's that he's having that year."

Schultz makes his return to Edmonton on Friday night. He's crafted a career season with 45 points so far, ranking fourth among all NHL defensemen.

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Alain Vigneault is not seeing eye to eye with NHL officials.

The New York Rangers head coach was not happy about an upheld goal call in Thursday's game against the Carolina Hurricanes. The moment in question was this game-tying power-play goal off the stick of Sebastian Aho wherein Vigneault believed goalie Antti Raanta was clearly interfered with.

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Here's what Vigneault had to say after the eventual 4-3 loss, per Steve Zipay of Newsday.

In all the times I’ve asked for challenges, this one I’m 100 percent sure I’m right. The ref that didn't make the call said it was a good goal because Antti was out of the blue, which I’m looking at (replay), and there’s contact that lifts his mask. Then they told us that Antti’s feet were in the blue, but his head was outside the blue In my opinion, it was the wrong call. Ask the league, they're going to spin it any way so they look alright and that's the way it always is.

The NHL ruled that "no goaltender interference infractions occurred before the puck crossed the goal line." Thus, the original decision stood.

The Rangers lost their timeout, the game, and eventually their cool.

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