Amazingly, the Los Angeles Kings had two Stanley Cups more than they had 30-goal scorers over their last six largely successful seasons - until now.

Tyler Toffoli became the first Kings skater since Anze Kopitar in 2009-10 to crash through the 30-goal threshold, jumping on and burying a loose puck skipping through the Vancouver Canucks' crease early in the first period Monday night.

Toffoli continues to build on his career-best totals, upping his overall production to 56 points.

He'll need another four over the final three-plus games to match Kopitar's 34 six years back.

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When Vladimir Tarasenko gets a head of steam, look out.

The St. Louis Blues sniper added another highlight to his reel Monday night, skating from one end to the other, then roofing a wrist shot past Arizona Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith.

The goal was Tarasenko's 37th of the campaign, matching his career high from a season ago and vaulting him into sole possession of fourth in the NHL goal-scoring race.

His assist on Kyle Brodziak's goal less than three minutes later padded his impressive late-season hot streak.

With a goal and assist, Tarasenko has 17 points (8 goals, 9 assists) the past 15 games & six-game point streak. #stlblues

— Lou Korac (@lkorac10) April 5, 2016

The 24-year-old forward has 71 points in 78 games.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Chris Kreider and Derek Stepan each scored their 20th goals and had an assist, and the New York Rangers hung on to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2 Monday night to earn a sixth-consecutive playoff berth. Dan Boyle and Mats ...

NEW YORK - John Tavares got his 30th goal and two assists, and the New York Islanders scored three times in a 5:15 span to get a crucial 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night.

Ryan Pulock, Matt Martin, Brock Nelson and Johnny Boychuk also scored for the Islanders, and Thomas Greiss had 32 saves. New York holds the Eastern Conference's first wild-card spot and won for the third time in four games to reduce its magic number to two over Boston to secure a third straight postseason berth.

Alex Killorn and Victor Hedman scored for the Lightning, and Ben Bishop gave up five goals on 23 shots before he was replaced by Andrei Vasilevskiy, who stopped 13 shots. Tampa Bay remained two points behind first-place Florida in the Atlantic Division, and the Lightning's magic number for their third consecutive playoff berth remained at one.

The Lightning were without star Steven Stamkos, who had surgery to remove a blood clot from near his right collarbone Monday and is expected to miss 1 to 3 months.

The Islanders remained two points behind the crosstown-rival Rangers for third place in the Metropolitan Division, and the teams meet at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night. The Islanders improved to 10-2-1 at home since the All-Star break and play two of their last four at Barclays Center.

Martin put the Islanders ahead 2-1 with 9 minutes remaining in the second when he took a pass from Cal Clutterbuck, cut toward the net and lifted the puck in off Bishop for his ninth of the season.

Nelson made it a two-goal game about 4 1/2 minutes later when he got ahead of Lightning defenders, took a perfect pass from Nikolay Kulemin and lifted a backhand into the top right corner.

With the Lightning's J.T. Brown off for a high-stick to Clutterbuck's face, Tavares made it 4-1 with a slap shot from the top of the left circle with 3:45 left in the second. Kyle Okposo had his team-high 39th assist on the play.

Hedman pulled the Lightning back within two with his 10th of the season with 7 seconds left in the middle period.

Bishop stopped two shots by Anders Lee on a breakaway, but Boychuk wristed it in at 4:28 of the third. Tavares had his second assist of the game and team-high 64th point on the score.

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— Cats on the Prowl (@Cats0ntheprowl) April 5, 2016

You'll flip over this Steven Kampfer hit.

The Florida Panthers' depth defenseman sent his counterpart Frank Corrado cartwheeling with a gorgeous hip check from just inside the blue line on Monday night.

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NEW YORK, N.Y. - John Tavares got his 30th goal and two assists, and the New York Islanders scored three times in a 5:15 span to get a crucial 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday night. Ryan Pulock, Matt Martin, Brock Nelson an...

Simon Despres is getting healthy at the right time for the Anaheim Ducks.

Despres has healed from his latest injury, and has received clearance to return to the lineup after missing six games with an upper-body injury, he's revealed via Curtis Zupke of the Los Angeles Times.

It's been a trying season for the 24-year-old defenseman, who missed 42 games earlier this season with a concussion.

Despres' availability puts coach Bruce Boudreau's entire defensive rotation in play, with four games left on the schedule and the Pacific Division up for grabs.

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