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TAMPA Auston Matthews Jersey , Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning have streaked to 50 wins like just one other team in NHL history.They’re looking for plenty more victories this season.NHL scoring leader Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist to help the Lightning earn their 50th victory of the season in their 66th game by beating the Ottawa Senators 5-1 on Saturday night and tying the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings as the fastest teams in league history to reach the mark.“As we’ve been winning here, I don’t know if we’re fully aware all the time,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “A lot of these things I find out in the media scrums.“Our senior advisor (Steve Yzerman) was on that (Red Wings) team, so it’s probably good we didn’t break that record. We just tied it.”Tampa Bay remains on pace to challenge the record of 62 wins,also set by that same Red Wings team, and could challenge that Detroit team along with the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens as the only two teams to reach 130 points in a season.“Years from now we might look back on that,” Cooper said, “but you know what the guys want and what they are playing for.”The Lightning also got goals from four different defensemen — Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonagh, Erik Cernak and Mikhail Sergachev — and set a franchise record with nine points overall from the defense.“You think they’re going to create,” Ottawa forward Bobby Ryan said, “and when they got their defensemen into the cycle Connor Brown Jersey , there were times when it looked overwhelming for us.”Kucherov reached 75 assists to become the first player since Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin in 2010-11 to record at least that many in a season.Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 36 shots for his 30th victory.Anthony Duclair scored the lone goal for the Senators, who lost their seventh consecutive game a day after firing coach Guy Boucher and replacing him with Marc Crawford on an interim basis. Craig Anderson finished with 29 saves.“I didn’t like the number of puck battles we lost tonight,” Crawford said. “The NHL is a league that if you win puck battles, you win the game and they were so far ahead of us in terms of their ability to win puck battles. It isn’t all about skill, it’s about commitment.”Tampa Bay scored three consecutive goals to pull away in the final two periods.Second-period goals from Cernak and Kucherov, followed by Sergachev’s goal 1:59 in to the third period put the game out of reach as Tampa Bay reached 50 victories for the second consecutive season and third time in franchise history.Hedman’s ninth of the season off a rebound put Tampa Bay in front 1-0 at 7:17 of the first period.McDonagh made it 2-0 at 8:51 as Erik Cernak cut down the right boards off a drop pass from Kucherov and found McDonagh on a cross-seam pass to the slot for his seventh of the season.Ottawa answered that 37 seconds later on Duclair’s 13th of the season, his second in four games since being acquired from Columbus before the trade deadline.Cernak came off the bench to take a pass from Killorn in the right circle to snap a shot past Anderson at 3:15 of the second period for his third of the season.Kucherov scored his 31st of the season on a long-range wrist shot from the left circle at 15:27, while Sergachev scored his fifth of the season off a one-timer from a pass by Braydon Coburn.Tampa Bay has lost consecutive games in regulation only once this season, which came Nov. 9-12. After dropping a game to Boston on Thursday, that stretch remains intact.“We definitely needed to find a way to find a win tonight,” McDonagh said. “You never want to let things snowball or get to a negative slide into our game. We have a lot of experience and good leaders in here to where we wanted to make a stand here at home and it’s a great sign.”NOTES: Tampa Bay scratched RW Ryan Callahan, D Anton Stralman and C Danick Martel. … Kucherov recorded his 31st multi-point game of the season. … Ottawa scratched D Christian Wolanin. … The Senators allowed five or more goals in a game for the 22nd time this season. … Tampa Bay G Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped Bobby Ryan on a second-period penalty shot attempt.UP NEXTLightning: Host Winnipeg on Tuesday night.Senators: at Florida on Sunday. EDMONTON Frederik Andersen Jersey , Alberta (AP) — The San Jose Sharks have been getting contributions from just about everyone during their five-game winning streak.On Saturday night, it was Kevin Labanc’s turn. The 23-year-old recorded his first career hat trick as the Sharks beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2.“I have to show that I’m doing everything I can to be here and to make myself better and make this team better as well,” Labanc said. “We’re trying to improve ourselves in the standings. We have a great team here and we have to keep this rolling.“Besides the hat trick, we got the two points and that was huge for us.”Evander Kane and Tomas Hertl also scored for San Jose, and Aaron Dell stopped 21 shots.“When mentally we want to engage, and do it the right way, we’ve eliminated a lot of odd-man rushes and on top of it our goalie has been playing really solid,” Sharks captain Joe Pavelski said.Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zack Kassian scored for the Oilers, who have lost seven of eight. Edmonton has also lost five straight at home and is 2-11-0 in its last 13 games at Rogers Place.“We can’t play this way and actually expect to win hockey games, not at this time of year. Quite frankly, not ever. Maybe in an exhibition game,” Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock said. “This Womens Jake Gardiner Jersey , for players, has to be really unacceptable. To play that way, with so much at stake, to be able to move with two or three points of eighth place and play this way, it can’t be acceptable.“At this time of year the coaches can’t want it more than the players.”The Sharks got a break on the first goal of the game midway through the first period when Labanc’s shot caromed off of defender Kevin Gravel and past Oilers goalie Cam Talbot.San Jose added to its lead a couple of minutes later when Kane was left all alone on his path to the front of the net. He easily scored his 24th goal of the season.The Sharks made it 3-0 on the power play six minutes into the middle period when Labanc rifled a shot top corner.The Oilers finally got one past Dell when Nugent-Hopkins notched a power-play goal 12 minutes into the second.Labanc recorded his third goal of the game and ninth of the season early in the third period, beating Talbot with a quick wrist shot from the slot.The Sharks made it 5-1 three minutes later as Hertl went untouched as he dipsy-doodled in front of the net before scoring his 25th.Kassian batted a puck out of the air and past Dell with six minutes left for the Oilers.NOTES: Sharks veteran Joe Thornton dressed in his 1,540th game, tying Shane Doan and Johnny Bucyk for 15th in league history. The 39-year-old had a pair of assists to tie Hall of Famer Gordie Howe for ninth place on the NHL list. … San Jose D Erik Karlsson missed his seventh straight game with an undisclosed injury. … Gravel was inserted on the Oilers blue line in place of Matt Benning, who was nursing a minor injury.UP NEXTSharks: Close out a four-game trip in Vancouver on Monday.Oilers: Embark on a three-game trip, beginning in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.