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NEWARK Adam Pelech Jersey Womens , N.J. (AP) — Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists for his first four-point game, leading the Tampa Bay Lightning to an easy 5-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Monday night.Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, Steven Stamkos added a goal and an assist, and Tyler Johnson and Yanni Gourde also scored to help the Lightning become the first team in the league to reach 20 wins this season.Ryan McDonagh had two assists and Louis Domingue stopped 26 shots as Tampa Bay got its third straight win and sixth in seven games.Egor Yakovlev scored his first career goal for the Devils, who have lost six straight and eight of nine. Keith Kinkaid started and gave up four goals on 20 shots before he was pulled after two periods. Cory Schneider had five saves in the third.PREDATORS 2, SABRES 1NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kevin Fiala scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period to lead Nashville.Ryan Ellis also scored and Pekka Rinne stopped 20 shots to help the Predators win their second straight.Sam Reinhart had a goal for Buffalo Thomas Hickey Jersey Womens , which has lost three straight after a 10-game winning streak. Carter Hutton had 23 saves.Rinne denied a slap shot from the Sabres’ Jack Eichel with 15.4 seconds remaining to preserve the victory.STARS 4, OILERS 1DALLAS (AP) — Jamie Benn scored his fifth goal in six games, helping Dallas beat Edmonton.Jason Dickinson, Brett Ritchie and Esa Lindell also scored in the Stars’ third straight win. Mattias Janmark had two assists and Anton Khudobin stopped 28 shots.Jujhar Khaira spoiled Khudobin’s shutout bid with 5:24 left in the third and Mikko Koskinen finished with 21 saves as the Oilers snapped a three-game win streak. Edmonton’s streak started with a 1-0 overtime win at home over Dallas last Tuesday. WASHINGTON (AP) For a few moments, it looked as if the Detroit Red Wings were headed for another embarrassing loss. Then Tomas Tatar stepped up again.Tatar scored his second goal of the game 2:47 into overtime, and the Red Wings escaped with a 5-4 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.Detroit had dropped three in a row. It blew a 5-2 third-period lead against the New York Islanders on Friday and lost 7-6 in overtime.”A lot of people expected us to fold after a tough game,” coach Jeff Blashill said. ”I thought we got back up real well.”Tatar beat Braden Holtby for his 14th goal of the season. He also scored with 11 seconds to play in the second period to give Detroit a 4-1 lead.Justin Abdelkader John Tavares Jersey , Luke Glendening and Anthony Mantha also scored for the Red Wings, and Jimmy Howard made 23 saves in his first win since Jan. 5.”It was tough. I was worried it might be the same story as against the Islanders,” Tatar said. ”You don’t want that to happen. I felt really bad after the game. If you have two in a row like that, it would be just miserable.”Dylan Larkin, who assisted on both of Tatar’s goals, felt the team stayed together after Nicklas Backstrom tied it for Washington with 17 seconds to play.”All right, we’ve got 17 seconds and OT Authentic Jordan Eberle Jersey ,” Larkin said. ”The encouraging thing is we can play like that. We can have teams on the ropes – and good teams on the ropes.”Alex Ovechkin scored his NHL-best 33rd goal for Washington, which was coming off a home-and-home sweep of Columbus. Brett Connolly, Dmitry Orlov and Backstrom scored in the third, and Holtby stopped 24 shots.Ovechkin’s 10th power-play goal made it 1-0 at 4:20 in the first period. Evgeny Kuznetsov picked up an assist on the play, extending his point streak to a team-high seven straight games.The Red Wings responded with four straight goals, including three during a dominant performance in the second.Abdelkader stole the puck at the red line and tied it at 1 with his ninth of the season at 13:37 of the first. Glendening and Mantha scored nine seconds apart in the second, and Tatar’s first goal gave the Red Wings a 4-1 lead.”It’s not good enough. No one wants to play like that in the second Josh Bailey Jersey ,” Washington center Jay Beagle said.”We can’t leave our goalie out to dry, and it’s been happening a lot lately. They’ve been holding us in there and getting us wins, but it’s starting to show now.”The Capitals pulled within one on goals by Connolly and Orlov. They had a two-man advantage when they pulled Holtby and Dan Dekeyser was called for holding with 1:15 left, and Backstrom tied it with his 13th goal.NOTES: Washington coach Barry Trotz said F Lars Eller, who signed a five-year, $17.5 million contract extension Saturday, should be able to play more confidently. ”Now Brady Skjei Jersey , he knows he’s going to be here,” Trotz said. ”It makes us strong up the middle.” … Detroit F Todd Bertuzzi, who committed a costly penalty that led to the Red Wings’ ugly loss to the Islanders on Friday, was a healthy scratch.UP NEXTRed Wings: Host Anaheim on Tuesday.Capitals: Begin a four-game trip Tuesday at Winnipeg.—