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COLUMBUS Montreal Canadiens Hats Authentic , Ohio (AP) — Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers jumped all over the listless Columbus Blue Jackets.Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, Mikko Koskinen made 30 saves and the Oilers beat the Blue Jackets 4-0 on Saturday.“It was another good team performance,” coach Ken Hitchcock said. “You don’t have to have the best players in the league to be successful, you need to have the best team, and that’s what we’re proving night in and night out. We’ve got a hell of a team going on right now, and we’re not going to let go of the rope.”Columbus had won three of four, including a high-energy overtime victory against Philadelphia on Thursday night. The Blue Jackets are fighting to stay above the wild-card line in the Eastern Conference, but they were off right from the start against Edmonton.“The way we played, the way we turned the puck over in the neutral zone, their guys had it easy, I think,” Columbus defenseman Seth Jones said. “We didn’t have any sustained forecheck Custom Montreal Canadiens Jerseys , we didn’t make their top lines play defense, I thought, for long stretches of the night. That’s what they want.”Columbus coach John Tortorella’s postgame session with reporters lasted all of 36 seconds.“I’m not going to pick it apart,” he said. “We’re moving right by it.”Zack Kassian, Josh Currie and Alex Chiasson also scored for the Oilers, who are 4-1-1 since a five-game losing streak. Connor McDavid had three assists.Koskinen improved to 18-15-4 with his fourth career shutout — all this season.Sergei Bobrovsky had 15 saves for Columbus before he was pulled after two periods. Joonas Korpisalo stopped each of the five shots he faced, but Columbus still couldn’t generate any offense.Kassian, who broke Brandon Dubinsky’s eye socket in a fight in his previous game at Columbus, got his 10th goal of the season 6:27 into the game, going high to beat Bobrovsky from the right circle off a cross-ice pass from Draisaitl.Early in the second period, the Oilers had their way for a long stretch in the Columbus zone, picking at the edges until McDavid circled around the net and fed Currie www.officialpredators.com , who scored his second of the season at 5:07.Draisaitl then buried a shot from the right circle after a give-and-go with McDavid, making it 3-0 at 8:53. Draisaitl became the third NHL player to reach 40 goals this season, behind only Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Chicago’s Patrick Kane.Chiasson broke a 21-game goal drought when he scored the Oilers’ fourth late in the second, eliciting boos from the Nationwide Arena crowd.“What, is there 17 games left?” Chaisson said. “We’re all playing 17 playoff games. For us, we can’t look too forward. We have to focus on what we can control. With that mind set, and we keep our energy level up and everyone is buying in and playing the right way, we have a chance.”Hitchcock said Edmonton is reaping the benefits of great team play for about the past month and believes his team is in striking distance for a Western Conference playoff spot.“If you keep playing at this level,” he said, “eventually the hockey gods help you out.”NOTES: Draisaitl is 32nd Edmonton player to have a 40-plus goal season. He has eight goals and seven assists in the last 10 games. … McDavid has five points in his last three games. He has 90 this season, third in the NHL.UP NEXTOilers: Visit Buffalo on Monday.Blue Jackets: Host Winnipeg on Sunday. SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau was at the perfect place at just the right time against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.Huberdeau dashed out of the penalty box and scored on a breakaway to help lift the Panthers to a 6-1 win over the Kings Nashville Predators T-Shirts Authentic , as Florida closed out a seven-game homestand.With the game tied at 1-all in the second period, Huberdeau stepped out of the penalty box and collected an errant slap shot by Anze Kopitar that wrapped around the boards and skidded beyond defenseman Drew Doughty. Huberdeau then skated in on goalie Jonathan Quick and scored his 17th goal of the season at 13:33, giving the Panthers a lead they never relinquished.“That was the difference, I thought, in the game,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said. “All of a sudden he gets out of the box and he gets a goal and it’s 2-1 and you see the bench automatically stand up a little bit.”The Kings’ captain said he has to make a better play in that situation.“The second goal, I’ll take full responsibility for that,” Kopitar said. “You’ve got to hit the net there, and the puck goes around the wall right to the guy, he’s got a breakaway and he scores. That’s really a momentum-changer.”With Florida set to begin a 5-on-3 power play, Boughner called a timeout because his players were “huffing and puffing,” and Aleksander Barkov and Keith Yandle responded with goals.Barkov netted his 25th goal at 18:16 for a 3-1 lead. Yandle then pushed it to 4-1 when he scored the second power-play goal Nashville Predators Hoodies Authentic , his ninth, at 19:22, through plenty of traffic in front of Quick.“We had a power play and a chance to get in front,” Los Angeles coach Willie Desjardins said. “They got a break coming out of the box to make it 2-1. We were still there, and then they got the 5-on-3 and they got two off that.”Vincent Trocheck, Jamie McGinn and Ian McCoshen also scored, and Barkov, Huberdeau and Yandle added assists for the Panthers, who have won four of five and are 10-5-0 in their last 15.Florida’s Roberto Luongo stopped 18 shots and tied Ed Belfour for third place in career wins among goaltenders with 484.“Listen, it’s nice obviously to get those recognitions, but at the end of the day I just want to get wins for our club and obviously make a push here and try to sneak in back in the playoffs,” Luongo said.Dustin Brown scored for the Kings Nashville Predators Hats Authentic , who dropped their seventh straight. Quick stopped 17 of 23 shots before being lifted in the third period. Jack Campbell made two saves in relief.Trocheck skated into the left circle in the second period, took a pass from Evgenii Dadonov and scored his sixth goal, and first since Jan. 21 at 11:56 of the first.Brown tied it at 1 when he stole a pass just outside the blue line, raced in on Luongo and scored his 13th goal at 13:59.Brown, who ended a run of 12 games without a goal, nearly scored his second to give Los Angeles its first lead on a short-handed breakaway in the period’s last minute, but Luongo denied him.McGinn and McCoshen scored their first goals of the season in the third period — McGinn at 6:14, McCoshen 28 seconds later — for the final margin.NOTES: Brown’s goal was his first since Jan. 17. . Doughty skated in his franchise-record 389th consecutive game. . Florida concluded its seven-game homestand with a 4-3-0 mark. . The Panthers scratched C Derick Brassard ahead of Monday’s trade deadline. The club acquired the unrestricted free agent Brassard and C Riley Sheahan (also a UFA) plus three 2019 picks from Pittsburgh on Feb. 1. . Barkov’s fourth consecutive multi-point game is the longest such streak of his career. . McGinn skated in his 600th NHL game.UP NEXTKings: At Tampa Bay on Monday.Panthers: At Colorado on Monday.