Dallas Stars head coach Lindy Ruff reached a significant milestone with Saturday's win over the Los Angeles Kings.

HORN SOUNDS. #STARS WIN!

The boys drop the Kings, 3-2, to give Coach Ruff his 700th @NHL victory! pic.twitter.com/U9lxHraZyZ

— Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) April 2, 2016

Ruff became only the fifth coach in NHL history to reach the 700-win mark, slotting him among the game's all-time top bench bosses.

Coach	Wins
Scotty Bowman	1244
Joel Quenneville	799^
Al Arbour	782
Ken Hitchcock	754^
Lindy Ruff	700^

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129 of those wins have come with the Stars, while the other 571 carry over from Ruff's time with the Buffalo Sabres.

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TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos is out with an undisclosed upper-body injury. The team announced the news before Saturday night's game against New Jersey. Stamkos has 36 goals and 64 points in 77 games.

Steven Stamkos will miss his first game this season Saturday versus the New Jersey Devils due to an upper-body injury.

It will be the Tampa Bay Lightning captain's first game lost to injury since returning from a broken leg in March 2014, Erik Erlendsson of the Tampa Bay Tribune notes.

Stamkos sat out practice Friday and wasn't a participant at the team's morning skate.

He was vocal following Thursday's shutout loss to the Montreal Canadiens, challenging the "passengers" in the Lightning lineup. From the press box, he'll now have a better vantage point at who may or may not be coasting.

Tampa Bay remains two points behind the first-place Florida Panthers with five games remaining.

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The captain isn't happy.

John Tavares had some choice words for his New York Islanders teammates following a 5-0 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday, calling them out for picking the wrong time of year to underperform.

"We went out there and got embarrassed because we didn't play hard enough. This time of year, that is unacceptable," he told reporters. "Everyone has to look themselves in the mirror and ask themselves how much they want it."

It's a sentiment shared by head coach Jack Capuano, who appears to have Tavares' back.

Capuano: "I think that certain guys feel that other guys can pick it up. I don’t think our secondary guys are doing anything to help us win"

— Brett Cyrgalis (@BrettCyrgalis) April 2, 2016

While the Islanders continue to hold the Eastern Conference's first wild-card spot, Philadelphia is two points back, with Detroit - a team on the outside looking in - only four points away.

Tavares' squad has posted a record of 4-5-1 in its last 10 games, and have five contests remaining on the regular-season schedule to gain some positive momentum.

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Arizona Coyotes defenseman Michael Stone underwent surgery Friday to repair ACL and MCL injuries, and will miss a minimum of six months, head coach Dave Tippett announced Saturday.

The 25-year-old was hurt near the end of a 2-1 win on March 26 against the Philadelphia Flyers, in which he was credited with the game-winning goal.

Stone's season ends prematurely with a career-high 36 points in 75 games.

Tippett expects to have fellow defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson back in the lineup Saturday against the Washington Capitals after missing one game due to illness.

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By setting up a Justin Schultz point shot that Patric Hornqvist would deflect into the net, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby joined an exclusive club Saturday with the 600th assist of his NHL career.

Congrats to Crosby on earning 600 career assists. Sid is the 3rd player in #Pens history to accomplish that feat. pic.twitter.com/EzdFkStarW

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 2, 2016

The other two Penguins to reach the milestone are two of the greatest players to take the ice in NHL history - Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr.

The helper extended the 28-year-old's personal point streak to five games and he now has points in 17 of his last 18 outings, only held off the scoresheet in a shutout loss to New Jersey Devils on March 24.

A Penguins win on Saturday would clinch the franchise's tenth consecutive playoff berth.

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After being banned six games for a stick-swinging incident against the Minnesota Wild, Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith told reporters Saturday he will not appeal the suspension.

"There's a limit there and I gotta know that," Keith said, according to Mark Lazerus of the Sun-Times. "I will."

"Everybody wants to have a reputation as a clean, honest player. There's a line and a limit," Keith continued. "It's just being smarter and knowing that."

Keith also said he has spoken with Wild forward Charlie Coyle - the victim of the stick swing - and apologized for his actions.

The 32-year-old will miss the Blackhawks' final five games of the regular season, as well as the team's first postseason game.

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A Saturday afternoon tilt between the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Islanders featured a battle of rookie goaltenders, and it was Islanders 'keeper Jean-Francois Berube who cracked first.

While on a power play, Berube's attempted pass to defenseman Nick Leddy went straight to the stick of Penguins forward Oskar Sundqvist, who took the puck and wristed home a short-handed tally for the first goal of his NHL career.

Matt Murray started in goal for the Penguins, who are without Marc-Andre Fleury after he was diagnosed with his second concussion of the season.

(Video courtesy: NHL.com)

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