Best of NHL: Edmundson's last-second goal gives Blues victory

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ST. LOUIS -- Joel Edmundson scored with 20 seconds left and Jake Allen made 23 saves in the St. Louis Blues' 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.

Paul Stastny, Vladimir Tarasenko and Ryan Reaves also scored to help the Blues win their third straight.

Jakob Silfverberg, Chris Wagner and Rickard Rakell scored for the Ducks. They had won two in a row.

Stastny snapped a 2-2 tie in the first minute of the third with a blast from the slot that eluded goalie John Gibson, who was making his first start after missing six games in a row with a lower-body injury.

Silfverberg tied it at 3 on a power play with 10:36 left (see full recap).

Penguins top Oilers in shootout
EDMONTON, Alberta -- Phil Kessel scored the shootout winner in the Pittsburgh Penguins' 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 40 saves, Nick Bonino and Evgeni Malkin scored in regulation for Pittsburgh, and Sidney Crosby had a goal in the shootout. The Penguins have won four games in a row.

David Desharnais and Connor McDavid countered for Edmonton, with McDavid getting the Oilers' lone goal in the tiebreaker. They have lost two straight (see full recap).

Wild pull away for win over Panthers
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Zach Parise scored the go-ahead goal with 5:07 left and Minnesota Wild pulled away to beat the reeling Florida Panthers 7-4 on Friday night.

With the score tied 4, goalie James Reimer blocked a shot from the point by Jonas Brodin, but the puck bounced out to his left side where he didn't see it and it sat in the crease. Parise swept the loose puck in.

Mikael Granlund scored an empty-net goal with 1:10 left, his team-leading 22nd of the season, and Charlie Coyle added another empty-netter with 2.5 seconds left.

Eric Staal scored twice for Minnesota, and Jason Pominville and Jason Zucker also connected. Darcy Kuemper made 25 saves before he was replaced by Devan Dubnyk to start the third period. Dubnyk stopped 11 shots.

The Western Conference- leading Wild won for the first time in three games.

The Panthers have lost seven of their past eight.

Jaromir Jagr scored his 762nd NHL goal. Mark Pysyk had a goal and an assist, and Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Marchessault also scored. Reimer stopped 38 shots (see full recap).

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