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Plenty of his Tennessee teammates are experiencing all sorts of emotions after helping end the franchise’s playoff drought after eight long seasons.

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Rather than adding a player, the Red Wings subtracted . They traded established forward Tomas Tartar to the Western Conference-leading Vegas Golden Knights for three draft picks, including a first-round selection.

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The Golden Knights weren’t the only contender giving up high draft picks on a day 18 trades were completed.

Six first-round selections – two of them conditional – were dealt Monday, the most to move on the final day of NHL trading since at least 2008, according to league figures. And no first-rounders had moved on each of the previous two trade-deadline days.

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Nashville parted ways with a first-round pick to land forward Ryan Hartman from Chicago.

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Rangers GM Jeff Gorton was the big winner as far as accumulating top draft picks to help spur an overhaul of New York’s aging roster.

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The Rangers now have three first-round picks and seven over the first three rounds, leaving Gorton with the option of using some of them in trades.

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”It wasn’t easy. I was feeling a little bit sluggish today for some reason, but tell you what, the boys probably played their best game of the year,” Luongo said. ”That’s the best gift the boys could have given me.”

Aleksander Barkov scored his 100th career goal, and Florida’s Frank Vatrano scored a goal against his former team.

Barkov left the game with 6:51 left in the third period with an apparent upper-body injury after he was checked hard into the boards by Colby Cave. McCann took his spot on the top line and was able to make an impact.

”I was ready to go,” McCann said. ”I look for those opportunities every day. I was able to step up.”

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Danton Heinen and Ryan Donato scored for the Bruins. Tuukka Rask stopped 32 shots.

”Yeah, a tough start,” Rask said. ”They came to play, that’s not a surprise to anybody. They’re fighting for their lives and need every point they can get. You have to be ready for that and we weren’t.”

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”You don’t want to go into the playoffs limping,” Rask said. ”You want to go in full stride and that’s something we have to fix the last two games.”

Boston remains tied with Tampa Bay for the lead in the Atlantic Division, but Tampa owns the tiebreaker. Each team has two games left.

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McCann tipped in the winner off Mike Matheson’s shot from the left side.

The Bruins tied it at 2 on Heinen’s goal 2:11 into the second period. After a defensive turnover, David Krejci passed across to Heinen, who beat Luongo on the stick side.

Trailing 2-0, the Bruins closed to 2-1 on a power-play goal by Donato, who corralled a bouncing puck in front and swept it behind Luongo with 4:41 left in the first.

The Panthers took a 1-0 lead on Barkov’s goal. Evgenii Dadonov made a nice pass from the right side to Barkov, who tucked the puck into the corner of the net at 7:42.

The Panthers went ahead 2-0 after Vatrano, acquired by the Panthers in a trade with Boston on Feb. 22, poked in a rebound at 9:34.

NOTES: Bruins F Brad Marchand played in his 600th NHL game. … Donato has eight points in his first 10 NHL games. … A video tribute to Luongo’s 1 [url=http://www.bostonredsoxteamshop.com/authentic-andrew-benintendi-jersey]Authentic Andrew Benintendi Jersey[/url] ,000-game mark, midway through the first period, drew a standing ovation, including from Bruins players.

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Bruins: Hosts Ottawa on Saturday night.

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“Well, it’s step one, right? Going into the season, we wanted to make the playoffs, be a Stanley Cup contender, at some point hopefully you’re a Stanley Cup favorite,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said postgame in St. Louis. “That’s kind of where it goes from there, but right now we got in, so we’re going to be a contender, right? That’s the good news. Now going forward [url=http://www.chargersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-kyzir-white-jersey]Authentic Kyzir White Jersey[/url] , we want to be in the best position possible.”

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Boston did not practice Thursday, but some players found their way onto the court at American Airlines Center to shoot baskets since the Utah Jazz had cancelled their morning shootaround in advance of a Thursday night game with the Dallas Mavericks.

The Bruins, who are 20-10-5 on the road, are led offensively by a pair of 70-point players in Brad Marchand (75 points) and David Pastrnak (70 points).

Boston is 8-2-2 in its past 12 games, 15-9-3 against the Western Conference and 5-4-2 against the Central Division.

And even though the Bruins crossed one pretty huge thing off their to-do list Wednesday by punching their ticket to the postseason, Boston defenseman Matt Grzelcyk knows there is still plenty of work to do, even with 10 games remaining in the regular season.

“Yeah, obviously it’s exciting and we’re looking forward to it, but we still got 10 more games left to play and we want to go into the playoffs playing the right way,” Grzelcyk said after the St. Louis game.

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The Stars will be playing at home, where they are 24-10-3, for the first time since a disastrous six-game road trip that saw them go 0-4-2.

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Dallas coach Ken Hitchcock was asked after practice Thursday if he’s happy to be home and to have a change of scenery, a query he answered in a roundabout way.

“I don’t even look at it that way,” Hitchcock said. “We had such great energy in the last four games and such great efforts throughout the hockey club, you feel like through the process that it’s going to turn your way. Now, the shortness of what’s left in the season kind of magnifies everything. At the end of the day, we know we need wins.”

Another oft-discussed topic during Hitchcock’s media scrum Thursday was injuries as he offered updates on several injured Stars.

Center Jason Spezza (back) remains sidelined and will be evaluated again in two weeks, about the same time goaltender Ben Bishop (knee) will be evaluated.

Defenseman Marc Methot (hand), who has been in and out of the lineup for much of the year, practiced with his teammates Thursday and could return for Friday’s game.

Hitchcock said if Methot can’t play, he would plug young defenseman Dillon Heatherington back into his defensive rotation.

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“I want to get there for the players because we need that experience. We need the experience of the next level and the next level,” Hitchcock said. “The longer we stay in this thing, the better it’s going to be for us franchise-wise and that’s what we need.”

Dallas is 14-8-8 against the Eastern Conference this season and considering that two of the three games on this homestand are against Eastern foes (Philadelphia), there’s no time like the present for the Stars, who are 1-5-3 in their past nine games, to start righting

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