Nashville Predators suffer sixth-straight NHL defeat

Nashville Predators' late-season losing streak reached a season-worst six games with a 3-1 home defeat to Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, with the Predators' lead in the NHL Central Division reduced to two points.

Winnipeg's Michael Frolik opened the scoring in the first period to extend his scoring streak to six games.

After Ryan Ellis levelled for Nashville, Blake Wheeler restored the Jets' lead and Drew Stafford scored a clinching third.

St Louis Blues are second in Central Division, while the Jets remained tied for sixth in the tight Western Conference play-off race, level with Vancouver Canucks, who won at San Jose Sharks.

St. Louis had six different scorers as the Blues cruised to a 6-1 win at Toronto.

Los Angeles Kings lost ground in the West race with a home defeat in overtime to Pittsburgh Penguins, while Tampa Bay Lightning moved into a share of second in the East by beating Dallas Stars.

Pittsburgh's Patric Hornqvist scored on a turnover in overtime to give the Penguins a 1-0 win at Los Angeles.

Successive road victories over Anaheim and Los Angeles gave the Penguins six wins in seven games, while the Kings lost despite outshooting Pittsburgh 31-16 in regulation.

Tampa Bay's Alex Killorn and Victor Hedman scored early third-period goals to rally the Lightning to a 5-4 win against Dallas.

Dallas centre Tyler Seguin scored twice on his return after missing 10 games with a knee injury. Vernon Fiddler also scored twice for the Stars.

Vancouver's Radim Vrbata scored his second goal of the game to break a tie in the third period and help the Canucks come from two goals down to win 3-2 at San Jose.

Boston Bruins' Brad Marchand scored the tying goal late in regulation time and added the winner in overtime in a 3-2 victory over Philadelphia Flyers.

Montreal Canadiens maintained its lead in the East with a 2-0 win at Arizona Coyotes, with Carey Price making 29 saves for his seventh shutout.

Colorado Avalanche's Jarome Iginla, Gabriel Landeskog and Matt Duchene all scored in the first 10 minutes to set up a 4-0 win against Columbus Blue Jackets.

Washington Capitals' Curtis Glencross notched a goal and two assists to help secure a 6-1 win over Buffalo Sabres.

Jonathan Huberdeau scored the deciding shootout goal to lift the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders.