Senators 6, Lightning 3

Ottawa is playing with confidence and it's showing.

Ryan Dzingel scored twice and Mark Stone had a goal and two assists to help Ottawa beat league-leading Tampa Bay on Saturday night.

Matt Duchene, Zack Smith and Jean-Gabriel Pageau also scored for the Senators, who have won consecutive games for the first time since Dec. 13-16.

"We're starting to come," Stone said. "It shows character and the ability to stick together as a team."

Craig Anderson stopped 45 shots as the Senators had the start and finish they wanted — scoring three goals each in the first and third periods — and weathered a difficult second period.

"It's been a while since we played two games back-to-back the way that we did here," said captain Erik Karlsson, who had three assists.

"Last game I don't think we started well and definitely didn't have a second period that was good enough and neither did we today, but we found a way to hang in there and gave ourselves a chance and it was definitely nice to play the way that we do and help each other out as much as we do. It makes it a lot easier for everybody out there to be themselves and believe in themselves and we're going to need a lot more of it too."

Victor Hedman, Slater Koekkoek and Yanni Gourde scored for the Lightning, who allowed six goals for the first time this season. Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 27 saves.

Lightning coach Jon Cooper was far from impressed with his team's effort.

"You can't win a Stanley Cup in the regular season, you have to get to the playoffs first," Cooper said. "I think there is a team in there that thinks we've already made the playoffs. With that attitude, we are not going to go anywhere. I feel bad for our goaltender. You can't spot them a 3-0 lead in this league and expect to come back. Give them a little credit for coming back, but in the end, the same mistakes cost us.

"Give Ottawa credit, they didn't care who they were playing. They just came out and played a hockey game and they won it. Good on them."

After jumping out to a 3-0 lead in the first, the Senators allowed the Lightning to tie it in the second. But when Tampa Bay started pressing in the third the Senators managed to hold their own and took back control midway through the period.

Stone picked up a rebound of Derick Brassard's shot to beat Vasilevskiy at 10:44 to put Ottawa up 4-3.. Pageau and Dzingel scored insurance goals soon after to pull away.

"What we wanted to have in the third period was a push," Ottawa coach Guy Boucher said. "I thought in the second period we weren't as physical, and that was part of our game plan and we got back to that in the third period."

The Senators dominated the first period and took a 3-0 lead, but the second was all about the Lightning as they tied the score.

Hedman made it 3-1 just 26 seconds into the middle period as he pounced on a loose puck and beat Anderson with a wrist shot.

Just over a minute later, Koekkoek took a feed from Nikita Kucherov to score from the circle.

The tying goal came on the power play with Smith in the box for a roughing penalty and Gourde deflected Mikhail Sergachev's shot to tie with 4:03 left.

Dzingel got the Senators on the scoreboard 4:48 into the game as he took a pass from Stone in the slot and beat Vasilevskiy.

Just over one minute later Duchene jumped on a loose puck and got some help from the post to make it 2-0.

Smith then deflected a shot by Erik Karlsson with 2:56 left to cap the first-period outburst.

Predators 4, Kings 3

Austin Watson scored two goals, P.K. Subban added two assists and Nashville sent Los Angeles to its first regulation loss at home since mid-November.

Roman Josi and Scott Hartnell scored early goals and Pekka Rinne made 26 saves for the Predators, who wrapped up a three-game West Coast road trip with their first win.

Adrian Kempe, Trevor Lewis and Tyler Toffoli scored for the Kings, who lost their second straight. Los Angeles is 5-5-2 over the last month, falling out of first place in the Pacific Division.

Avalanche 7, Wild 2

Carl Soderberg had two power-play goals, Nathan MacKinnon also scored with the man-advantage and added two assists, and Colorado beat Minnesota.

Mikko Rantanen also had a goal and two assists, and Gabriel Bourque and Patrik Nemeth each scored in the opening period for the Avalanche, who pushed their season-best winning streak to five games. Tyson Jost added the final goal in a chippy third period and Jonathan Bernier stopped 34 shots while filling in for starter Semyon Varlamov for the second straight game.

Earlier in the third, emotions boiled over when Colorado center Alexander Kerfoot bumped into Minnesota goalie Devan Dubnyk in the net. The frustrated Wild netminder then jumped on the back of Kerfoot and appeared to punch him in the head.

Flames 3, Ducks 2

Dougie Hamilton scored with 16 seconds left to lift Calgary over Anaheim.

Hamilton took a pass from Micheal Ferland and tucked a shot past John Gibson to give the Flames their third straight win.

Ferland and Mark Giordano also scored for the Flames, while Mike Smith made 27 save for his 17th win.

Jakob Silfverberg and Ryan Getzlaf scored in the third for the Ducks, who trailed 2-0 after 40 minutes. Gibson made 28 saves.

Maple Leafs 3, Canucks 2 (SO)

Auston Matthews and Tyler Bozak scored in the third period and again in the shootout, and Toronto beat Vancouver.

It’s the second straight shootout win for Toronto. Frederik Andersen stopped 2 of 3 shootout attempts after making 34 saves.

Brock Boeser scored in the second period and Sam Gagner in the third to put Vancouver ahead 2-0 before Matthews and Bozak brought Toronto back.

Stars 5, Oilers 1

Linemates Alexander Radulov, Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin scored first-period goals within a span of 6½ minutes, leading Dallas over Edmonton.

John Klingberg had a goal and two assists, and Mattias Janmark had a goal and an assist for Dallas.

The Stars have won six of their past eight games. Edmonton has lost three of its past four and has been outscored 16-2.

Leon Draisaitl’s power-play goal for the Oilers at 2:04 of the third period denied Ben Bishop his fifth shutout of the season.

Flyers 6, Blues 3

Sean Couturier scored two goals, Claude Giroux had a goal and two assists, and the Flyers spoiled Brayden Schenn’s return to Philadelphia with a victory over St. Louis.

Scott Laughton, Jordan Weal and Wayne Simmonds also scored, Jakub Voracek earned his NHL-high 41st assist and Brian Elliott made 28 saves against his former team in the Flyers’ third win in four games.

Ivan Barbashev, Paul Stastny and Colton Parayko scored and Jake Allen made 33 saves in a sluggish performance by the Blues, whose three-game win streak ended.