Blues 5, Bruins 1

At 23, Vladimir Tarasenko became the youngest St. Louis player to score 30 goals in 23 years.

Two years younger than Tarasenko, Boston Bruins goalie Malcolm Subban wanted a do-over.

“You try to score on every shift so hard,” Tarasenko said after getting the last two goals in the Blues’ victory over sagging Boston on Friday night. “I need to keep going. We have 25 games more.”

Petteri Lindbohm, Alex Pietrangelo and T.J. Oshie scored on the Blues’ first three shots of the second to chase Subban and cancel Tuukka Rask’s scheduled night off. Rask, who has played in 25 of the last 26 games, flipped a chair before leaving the bench.

“Tough start for Malcolm, not getting any shots and then bang, bang, bang, a few goals and that’s it,” Rask said. “I felt bad for him. I just told ‘Don’t worry about it’ when he was skating off.’”

Brad Marchand scored for Boston, which lost its sixth in a row and played most of the final two periods without David Krejci (lower body). Subban re-entered with 4:06 to go and didn’t see another shot but it was far too late for the Bruins, who are 0-4-2 in their longest winless stretch since going 0-6-4 Jan. 16-Feb. 6, 2010.

Coach Claude Julien yanked Subban with Boston trailing 3-1 to give players a confidence boost. He put him back in because the game was out of hand.

The Bruins are in a tough spot, one point ahead of Florida for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

“We’d like to get a little bit of a break with some good goal-tending from our backup,” Julien said. “And I guess we’ll have to go back to the drawing board and look at how we want to approach this.”

Tarasenko’s 30th of the season capped the four-goal second and he got his 31st midway through the third. At 23 years, 65 days, he’s the team’s youngest 30-goal scorer since Brendan Shanahan got his 30th at 23 years, 63 days in 1991-92.

“He’s a tremendous talent,” forward Alexander Steen said. “He’s extremely skilled and he’s got a heck of a shot.”

Steen had three assists in the second period and goalie Jake Allen moved past a shaky start for the Blues, who mustered just three shots in the first period before coming alive. They made the most of just 15 shots on the night, with Boston getting 27 shots.

“We can quick-strike, and we’re dangerous,” coach Ken Hitchcock said.

The 21-year-old Subban was the Bruins’ first-round pick in 2012. His NHL debut went bad in a hurry, beginning with Lindbohm’s first career goal that went in and out of the glove and then off the goalie’s backside into the net at 48 seconds of the second.

“I guess I’ve got to look at the game tonight and think about all the stuff I did wrong,” Subban said. “Obviously, I was way too deep on all three goals. Regardless of how they went in — tip, screen, whatever, knuckle puck, it doesn’t matter — I’ve got to challenge more.”

Rangers 3, Sabres 1

It took 14 seconds into his first NHL game for Mackenzie Skapski to give up his first career goal. New York’s 20-year-old goalie proved to be perfect over the rest of his debut.

After being beaten by Matt Moulson on the first shot, Skapski stopped the final 24 he faced in a win over Buffalo. Rick Nash had a goal and assist, while Carl Hagelin and Mats Zuccarello also scored for New York.

“Super pumped,” Skapski said, noting the victory came on his father’s birthday. “I couldn’t have scripted it better.”

Even the opening minute?

“I think I rebounded well from that,” Skapski said. “It’s tough to really sit back right now and acknowledge I got my first NHL win, so hopefully there’s many more.”

Coach Alain Vigneault was pleased how Skapski and the Rangers responded to the opening goal, when Moulson was left untouched in front to redirect Torrey Mitchell’s centering pass.

“It wasn’t the way we wanted to start, but sometimes stuff happens on the ice,” Vigneault said. “But after that, I thought we played a pretty solid game.”

The Rangers improved to 8-1-2 in their past 11, defeated Buffalo for the sixth straight time, and extended their road winning streak to a season-best five straight.

Buffalo, coming off a 3-2 shootout win at Philadelphia on Thursday, dropped to 1-4-1 in its past six.

The Sabres didn’t muster many chances after the opening minute in a game they were outshot 31-12 through two periods and 43-25 overall. Buffalo, which has produced a league-low 102 goals has failed to score three or more in regulation in 19 of its past 23 games.

Devils 4, Canucks 2

Mike Cammalleri scored twice in New Jersey’s victory over Vancouver.

Jordin Tootoo and Patrik Elias also scored, defenseman Adam Larsson had three assists and Cory Schneider had 21 saves against his former teammates to give New Jersey points in 12 of its last 14 games (9-2-3) at the Prudential Center.

Zack Kassian scored twice for the Canucks.

Avalanche 4, Blackhawks 1

Tyson Barrie had two goals and an assist, Gabriel Landeskog scored for the fifth straight game, and Colorado beat Chicago.

Colorado used a pair of costly interference penalties on Chicago to win for just the third time in its last eight games. Brad Stuart added his second goal of the season when goaltender Corey Crawford badly misplayed his dump in from center ice, punctuating a frustrating performance for the Blackhawks.

Semyon Varlamov had 27 saves for Colorado, and Landeskog also had an assist.

Kris Versteeg scored in the second period for Chicago, which dropped to 2-1-3 on its eight-game homestand. Crawford finished with 26 stops.

Hurricanes 2, Maple Leafs 1

Eric Staal had a goal and an assist and Carolina beat Toronto to sweep the three-game season series.

Jordan Staal had the other goal for the Hurricanes. Carolina goalie Cam Ward, playing in his 499th NHL game — all for the Hurricanes — had 23 saves. Brandon Kozun had his first NHL goal for the Maple Leafs.

Wild 4, Oilers 0

Devan Dubnyk stopped all 15 shots he faced to get his sixth shutout of the season, leading Minnesota to a victory over Edmonton.

The former Oilers goalie now has five shutouts in 16 games for Minnesota since being acquired in a trade with Arizona on Jan. 14. He improved to 5-0 this season against Edmonton.

Justin Fontaine had two goals, and Nino Niederreiter and Jordan Schroeder also scored for the Wild, who improved to 10-1-1 in their last 12 games.

Ben Scrivens finished with 25 saves for the Oilers, who have lost three of their last four.

Ducks 6, Flames 3

Ryan Getzlaf scored a fluke tiebreaking goal midway through the third period to key Anaheim’s five-goal outburst in the final 14 minutes in a victory over Calgary.

Getzlaf’s slap shot from the blue line went over the net and caromed back off the end boards, deflecting in off the back leg of Flames goalie Jonas Hiller at 8:53 of the third to put Anaheim up 3-2. Francois Beauchemin had tied the score less than 3 minutes earlier.

Andrew Cogliano got the Ducks on the scoreboard in the second period, and Kyle Palmieri, Jakob Silferberg and Hampus Lindholm also scored in the third. John Gibson finished with 25 saves.

Matt Stajan, Lance Bouma and Sean Monahan scored for the Flames, and Hiller stopped 32 of the 37 shots he faced.