MONTREAL (AP) Jonathan Quick made a season-high 45 saves, and Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty scored as the Los Angeles Kings beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 on Thursday night.
The shutout was Quick’s second of the season. Marian Gaborik added an empty-net goal to help the Kings improve to 20-9-2.
Mike Condon made 17 saves for Montreal and has lost four straight starts.
The Canadiens have lost six of their last seven games and scored just 11 goals over that stretch. They fell to 20-10-3.
The Calgary Flames beat the Dallas Stars 3-1 for their seventh straight win after Karri Ramo stopped 35 shots, and n Monahan, Dougie Hamilton and Mason Raymond scored.
Ramo had 17 saves in the third period and outplayed Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen to win his fifth in a row. Ramo has allowed 11 goals in those five games.
Johnny Oduya scored for Dallas and Lehtonen had 24 saves.
In Glendale, Arizona, Brandon Saad, Alexander Wennberg and Cam Atkinson each had a goal and two assists as the Columbus Blue Jackets ended a five-game losing streak with a 7-5 win over the Arizona Coyotes.
Arizona goalies Anders Lindback and Louis Domingue faced just 20 shots on goal. Lindback allowed four goals on 10 shots and Domingue let in another two goals after entering in the second period.
Matt Calvert, Nick Foligno, David Clarkson and Brandon Dubinsky also scored for Columbus.
San Jose’s Brent Burns banked the winning goal off Toronto center Peter Holland’s leg 2:13 into overtime as the Sharks edged the Maple Leafs 5-4.
Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Matt Nieto scored in regulation for San Jose, and Martin Jones had 28 saves.
Holland, Leo Komarov, James van Riemsdyk and Michael Grabner scored for the Maple Leafs.
Corey Crawford made 33 saves for Chicago in his NHL-best fifth shutout and Teuvo Teravainen had two goals and an assist as the Blackhawks beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-0.
Jonathan Toews added a goal and two assists in a strong performance by Chicago’s top line. Marian Hossa had three assists as the Blackhawks won for the third time in four games.
It was Crawford’s third shutout in his last four starts and No. 17 for his career.
Colorado defenseman Francois Beauchemin scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal late in the third period and Semyon Varlamov stopped 33 shots as the Avalanche beat the New York Islanders 2-1 for their fourth straight win, while the St. Louis Blues edged the Nashville Predators after Vladimir Tarasenko scored a power-play goal with 5:20 left.
In other games, Devan Dubnyk made 21 saves in his return to action and Mikko Koivu had two goals and an assist as the Minnesota Wild downed the New York Rangers 5-2, the Buffalo Sabres blanked the Anaheim Ducks 3-0, the Philadelphia Flyers shut the Vancouver Canucks out 2-0 and the Florida Panthers were 5-1 winners over the New Jersey Devils.
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