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Highlights of Saturday's National Hockey League playoff games

ByReuters

Published 18/04/2015 at 23:29 GMT

April 18 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Saturday's National Hockey League playoff games:

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Lightning 5, Red Wings 1
Tampa Bay got two goals from center Tyler Johnson as the Lightning rebounded with a victory over Detroit that tied their first round playoff series at 1-1.
"I thought we were pretty good in Game One (a loss), and we continued with that," said Lightning coach Jon Cooper. "I'd like to see us coming out 2-0, but it's 1-1, and that's better than 0-2. So now we go win one on the road."
The series heads to third-seeded Detroit for Games Three and Four on Tuesday and Thursday. The teams split two games there during the season.
The five goals were the most allowed by the Red Wings in a playoff game since 2010.
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Blues 4, Wild 1
Right wing Vladimir Tarasenko scored his first career playoff hat trick and goalie Jake Allen stopped 24 of 25 Minnesota shots as St. Louis evened the first-round playoff series at a win each.
Game Three of the best-of-seven series will be Monday night in Minnesota.
Tarasenko, who led the Blues with 37 goals during the season, had been held without a shot on goal in the Blues' Game One loss. He made certain that did not happen again, scoring his fifth and sixth career playoff goals in the first period before completing the hat trick with an empty-net goal with 17 seconds to play.
Tarasenko became the first Blues player to record a hat trick in the playoffs since Mike Sillinger in 2004. It was the 13th playoff hat trick in franchise history.
Left wing Patrik Berglund scored the Blues' other goal. Defenseman Marco Scandella scored for Minnesota.
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