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TAMPA Joel Armia Jersey Womens , Fla, (AP) — R highest scoring team and Brayden Shenn broke out of a goal drought for the surging St. Louis Blues.Binnington made 32 saves, Shenn scored with 58.2 seconds left in overtime and the Blues won their fourth straight game, 1-0 over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night.St. Louis is 10-4-1 since the start of this calendar year. Binnington has played a prominent role, going 8-1-1 with two shutouts since making his first NHL start on Jan. 7.“We’ve really come together as a team,” Binnington said. “We’re playing smart hockey, disciplined hockey. It’s just fun right now. I was just really excited when Schenner put that one home.”Schenn skated in from the left wing boards and beat Andrei Vasilevskiy for the win.“I owe these guys some goals,” said Schenn, who went 11 straight games without one. “Hopefully tonight’s a step in the right direction.”Vasilevskiy, who dropped to 9-0-1 this season following a loss, stopped 38 shots. The Lightning were coming off a 3-2 shootout loss Tuesday night to Vegas. Tampa Bay has lost consecutive games just twice this season.NHL-leading Tampa Bay has gone 4-3-2 over its last nine games. The Lightning have been held to two or fewer goals in seven of those contests.“You score a bunch of goals and you give up a bunch of goals Torey Krug Jersey ,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “Now we’re not scoring, but we’re not giving anything up. So, at some point we’ve got to find a happy medium.”After Colton Parayko hit the post, Vasilevskiy stopped Schenn’s in-close rebound while on his stomach with 7 ½ minutes left in the first.Binnington got a piece of Nikita Kucherov’s shot off a faceoff midway through the second that also hit the crossbar. He also had an in-close save on Victor Hedman during a 2-on-1 early into overtime.“Fastest game all year we’ve played by far,” Schenn said. “They’re a fast team. We moved the puck quick. That’s the games that you want to be part of, those are fun.”Tampa Bay’s No. 2 ranked short-handed unit kept St. Louis off the scoreboard and had a quality scoring on each of three consecutive penalty kills in the second.The Blues outshot Tampa Bay 15-8 during the opening period, and 32-19 through two.“We had plenty of chances during the game and the goalie made some saves,” Cooper said. “Not a whole lot to complain about other than the fact the first half of the game we didn’t have that killer instinct to go to the net and shoot pucks as we did the second half.”St. Louis has outshot its opponent in 18 straight games, which is three away from the team record set during the 2001-02 season.Tampa Bay’s top-ranked power play went 0 for 2.NOTES: Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos was held off the scoresheet on his 29th birthday. … Blues C Ryan O’Riley had an eight-game point streak (four goals, 11 points) end on his 28th birthday. … St. Louis D Carl Gunnarsson sat out with an upper-body injury. … Tampa Bay RW Ryan Callahan was scratched for the second straight game and fourth time in five games.UP NEXTBlues: Start a home-and-home Saturday with Nashville in St. Louis. The teams then play Sunday in Nashville.Lightning: Host Pittsburgh on Saturday night. NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — After going more than 13 months between wins Womens Tuukka Rask Jersey , Cory Schneider is on a winning streak. So are the New Jersey Devils.Schneider made 34 saves to pick up his second win in three days and Kyle Palmieri had a goal and two assists as the Devils posted a 4-1 victory over the slumping Buffalo Sabres on Sunday night.“I strive to be consistent and obviously you know the past year hasn’t really been that at all,” said Schneider, who struggled to regain his form after hip problems that required offseason surgery. “But to get back to that and the guys know what they’re going to get every single night, that I’m going to give them a chance to win is really important to me and I think to the team.”Schneider has been outstanding his past two games. He stopped 15 shots in relief of Keith Kinkaid in an overtime win over Minnesota on Friday and was nearly perfect against the Sabres, who have not had consecutive wins since the start of the year.“We found a way to claw back and get that win for him,” Palmieri said of the game against the Wild. “Hopefully this is the start of Cory Schneider of old and he can keep growing that confidence and keep playing well because he plays like he did the other night and tonight he’ll give us great chances to win.”Miles Wood, Jesper Bratt and Joey Anderson also scored as the Devils won consecutive games for the second time in 2019.Sam Reinhart scored for the Sabres, whose wild-card playoff chances took a hit with a second loss in three days. Carter Hutton made 20 saves as Buffalo fell six points behind Pittsburgh in the race for the final wild-card spot.“It doesn’t make it easier with other teams winning, but we don’t feel like we are toast at all,” Reinhart said. “It doesn’t take much to turn around. We need to bear down and start putting up more points. We are focused on getting back and getting ready for the Panthers. It’s another opportunity to put up points, but it’s tough to swallow.”After a scoreless first period Zdeno Chara Jersey , the Devils jumped to a 2-0 lead as Palmieri set up on goals by Wood and Bratt.Wood got the first one from right in front at 7:25 of the second with a quick rush up the ice. He sent a pass to Travis Zajac who tipped it to Palmieri, who found Wood coming down the middle of the ice for his sixth goal.Bratt doubled the margin with 6:22 left in the period early in a power play. He took a pass from Palmieri in the right circle and one-time a shot past Hutton for his sixth goal.The Sabres got back in the game with 56 seconds left in the second when defenseman Zach Bogosian made a nifty, cross-ice pass to Reinhart for a shot into an open net.Palmieri iced the game with his team-high 26th goal. He broke in on the right side and roofed a shot from the faceoff circle. Joey Anderson added a short-handed, empty-net goal with 3:09 to play.“In the third, we protected the lead well but stayed on the offense and Palms scored a huge goal for us and the penalty kill with the empty net right away to kind of put it away,” Schneider said.NOTES: Sabres C Casey Mittelstadt returned to the lineup after missing two games with a lower-body injury. … Devils captain Andy Greene left the ice in the first period after being hit by the puck near his facial area. He returned later in the period. … Devils C Pavel Zacha missed his first game since early November with an upper-body injury. … New Jersey has a power-play goal in five straight games.UP NEXTSabres: Start a Florida swing, playing the Panthers on Tuesday night and Lightning on Thursday night.Devils: Host Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, looking to sweep their four-game season series.