CALGARY, Alberta - Ty Conklin made 34 saves for his third shutout of the season, and the St. Louis Blues beat the struggling Calgary Flames 2-0 on Monday.
Patrik Berglund and David Perron scored for St. Louis. The Blues moved within four points of the Flames and the Red Wings, who are tied for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Trailing 1-0 after 40 minutes, the Flames tried to get their offense going in the third period when they outshot the Blues 7-0 over the first 10 minutes, but they could not solve Conklin.
Rene Bourque had a partial breakaway on a power play, but he was stopped by Conklin. Seconds later, Bourque's deflection in front was also turned aside.
Perron then gave the Blues a 2-0 lead with his 15th goal at 11:21 of the third. Andy McDonald drew two Flames toward him, then threaded a pass through the slot to Perron on the other side, who whipped a shot past Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff.
People are also reading…
• Canucks 3, Sabres 2: In Vancouver, British Columbia, defenseman Brad Lukowich scored a tiebreaking goal in the third period.
Thomas Vanek tied the game on a power play 1:49 into the period, but Henrik and Daniel Sedin combined on a nice play to set up Lukowich for the winner. After taking a pass from twin brother Henrik, Daniel cut into the slot before making a between-the-legs drop pass to Lukowich pinching in hard from the point.
Lukowich, who was in the American Hockey League until recently because of the Canucks' salary cap issues to start the season, quickly snapped a shot over Ryan Miller's glove at 5:21 of the third period for his first goal since Nov. 5, 2007.
Mikael Samuelsson and Henrik Sedin also scored, and Daniel Sedin had two assists for the Canucks, who have won five straight games for the first time since March 2007. Roberto Luongo made 30 saves as Vancouver improved to 12-2-2 over its past 16 games to move into a tie with Colorado atop the Northwest Division.
• Penguins 4, Rangers 2: In New York, Chris Conner, recalled from the minor leagues earlier in the day, scored two goals, and Pittsburgh scored twice one minute apart in the third period to beat the slumping Rangers.
After Artem Anisimov gave the Rangers their only lead 9:15 into the third period with his second goal of the night, Evgeni Malkin got Pittsburgh even at 9:46 - 16 seconds into a power play. Conner then fired in a rebound of Sidney Crosby's shot one minute later to put the Penguins back in front.
Pascal Dupuis' empty-netter sealed Pittsburgh's fourth win over the Rangers this season with 39.8 seconds left.
That was enough to give a win to Marc-Andre Fleury, who returned from a four-game absence caused by a broken finger.
