Shutting down the big guns isn't enough to stop the Pittsburgh Penguins, it seems.

Young guns Conor Sheary and Jake Guentzel proved once again why the Penguins are among the most dangerously deep teams in the league, using their speed to outmatch Vancouver's defense for a clutch, late-game insurance goal.

The tally was Guentzel's 10th of the season, while Sheary later added an empty-netter to give him two points on the night as Pittsburgh finished with a 3-0 win.

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The Vancouver Canucks came out on the losing end of their Saturday night matchup with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but netminder Ryan Miller still managed to post arguably his best outing of the season.

Excluding an empty-netter at the tail end of the contest, Pittsburgh launched 47 shots on Miller in a 3-0 win, marking the heftiest workload the veteran goaltender has faced this season.

Miller stood tall, however, turning aside 45 shots and keeping the Canucks just one goal down until the final minutes of the game.

And they certainly weren't easy ones to stop. Penguins captain Sidney Crosby finished with nine shots on target - all of which were kept out - while Conor Sheary had eight and Evgeni Malkin had five.

Miller's highest shots-against total this season had come against the Calgary Flames in early January. The Flames put 46 on net in that affair, scoring just two as Vancouver netted the win.

The Canucks' forward corps weren't able to support Miller's performance this time around, but considering the quality of talent on the Penguins' roster, it's safe to say the veteran goaltender's effort was nothing short of exceptional.

Miller's counterpart in the Penguins' net, Matt Murray, registered a shutout on the evening, while facing 20 fewer shots.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. - Tobias Rieder and Anthony DeAngelo each had a goal and assist and the Arizona Coyotes survived a furious New Jersey rally to hand the Devils their 10th consecutive loss, 5-4 on Saturday night.

The Coyotes led 4-0 early in the second period, but needed the goal from the rookie DeAngelo with 6:29 to play for what proved to be the winning margin.

DeAngelo's goal, a patient shot through traffic from the slot, put Arizona up 5-3 before John Moore's backhanded upper shelf shot past goalie Mike Smith cut it to 5-4 with 4:58 remaining.

Smith preserved the victory by blocking Taylor Hall's penalty shot with 2:38 to play.

Devils goalie Cory Schneider was lifted after allowing four goals on 10 shots in the first 24:13 of the game.

Smith had 26 saves. Schneider's replacement, Keith Kinkaid, had 20 saves on 21 shots.

Schneider left after Brendan Perlini's sizzling one-timer from the top of the left circle on a power play 3:59 into the second period.

The Coyotes were up 2-0 before the game was three minutes old.

The first came 1:27 into the game when Radim Vrbata took a pass from Max Domi in front of the net and tapped it past Schneider. Devils coach John Hynes challenged that Arizona was offside on the play but the goal was upheld.

A nearly identical score followed 1:26 later, this time the pass was from Jordan Martinook found Rieder open in front of the net. Rieder knocked it into the open left side of the net for his career-best 15th goal of the season and it was 2-0.

Arizona made it a three-goal first period, again from in front of the net. The power-play goal by Jakob Chychrun, with an assist by Rieder, made it three scores in eight first-period shots for the Coyotes. It was only the fourth power-play goal in the past 41 tries.

Shortly after Schneider's exit, the Devils got a power-play goal from Kyle Palmieri with a pretty assist from Hall to make it 4-1.

New Jersey got its second goal when the puck skipped over the stick of Arizona's Luke Schenn and right to Beau Bennett, who shot the puck high into the left corner of the net, over the goalie, to make it 4-2 with 7:51 still to play in the second period.

Just 17 seconds into the third period, Palmieri scored his second of the game to cut the lead to 4-3.

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Tom Rowe wasn't thrilled about Gabriel Dumont's concussive check on Aaron Ekblad.

"I thought the hit on Ekblad was dangerous," the Florida Panthers head coach told reporters after Saturday's loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, via One Panther Parkway.

"We'll leave that up to the league to review it and see what they think of it, but when you lose three guys - two to concussions - Ekblad, which I thought was a real cheap shot from behind, but the league does a great job of reviewing those (hits), and we'll just wait for their judgement."

Here's another look at the hit in question:

Ekblad suffered the third concussion of his young career on the play, and teammate Denis Malgin also sustained one moments later on a hit from Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman that Rowe didn't take issue with.

"No problem with that one whatsoever," Rowe said.

The head coach added that he spoke to the officiating supervisor about the Ekblad hit, for which Dumont wasn't penalized.

The Panthers' loss was their fifth straight, and eighth in their last nine games.

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Jonathan Quick never stood a chance.

The Los Angeles Kings netminder was burned by a gorgeous tally from Washington Capitals winger T.J. Oshie on Saturday night. He got help from Marcus Johansson, who kicked things off with a slick move to get past the Kings' defense and whip a shot on net.

Oshie then finished off the play in style, tapping in the airborne rebound to net Washington a 2-1 lead.

In doing so, Oshie tied his career high in goals, scoring his 26th of the season in his 54th game of 2016-17. It took him 23 more games to post that amount last season, as he registered his 26th tally in his 77th appearance of 2015-16.

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Anze Kopitar might not be scoring goals with his usual regularity these days, but the veteran pivot still knows how to pull his offensive weight.

Kopitar broke out some vintage dangles during the Los Angeles Kings' matchup with the Washington Capitals on Saturday night, toe dragging past defender Matt Niskanen to launch a quick shot on net. Philipp Grubauer stopped Kopitar's initial attempt, but poked out a hefty rebound which was promptly buried by Marian Gaborik.

The goal was Gaborik's second in as many games, and the assist gave Kopitar 39 points on the season.

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As the NCAA free-agency period approaches, a trio of Canadian teams have their eyes on Northeastern forward Zachary Aston-Reese.

The Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, and Ottawa Senators are among those in the mix for the 22-year-old, reports Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

Aston-Reese, who went undrafted, led the Hockey East conference with 67 points this season, scoring 31 goals and 32 assists in 37 games.

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Tampa Bay Lightning forward Gabriel Dumont's hit on Aaron Ekblad gave the star defenseman a concussion, Florida Panthers head coach Tom Rowe confirmed postgame Saturday.

Ekblad's head hit the glass after Dumont hit him early in the second period Saturday night. The Panthers blue-liner left the game and was later ruled out for the rest of the contest.

It's the third concussion and fourth significant injury in the 21-year-old's career.

A whiplash diagnosis ended his World Cup of Hockey in the fall, and he sustained a pair of previous concussions - one coming on a hit by Edmonton Oilers forward Matt Hendricks last January, and the other suffered in a pre-tournament game with Canada's world junior squad in 2014.

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The Calgary Flames have accomplished a feat they hadn't seen since moving to Alberta.

Saturday's 3-0 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night marked the club's ninth consecutive victory, something the Flames haven't done since 1978 when they were stationed in Atlanta, per Statscentre.

Here's Calgary's body of work during its torrid stretch:

The 1978-79 Atlanta Flames would go on to win 10 straight, a franchise record Calgary can match with a win Monday.

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The Montreal Canadiens' 142-day stranglehold on the Atlantic Division has ended at the red-hot hands of the Ottawa Senators.

Upon winning their sixth consecutive game on Saturday in Colorado, the Sens jumped into first place and knocked Montreal out of top spot for the first time since Oct. 20.

Through 67 games, Ottawa's earned 84 points - the same total as Montreal - but by virtue of points percentage, the Senators hold a slim edge with one game in hand.

Ottawa's managed an 8-2 record over its past 10 games, and remains undefeated since a series of trade deadline moves.

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