Blackhawks goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury battles with Montreal’s Jonathan Drouin during Chicago’s 2-0 win Thursday night in Montreal. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP

MONTREAL — Marc-Andre Fleury made 27 saves and earned his 500th career win as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-0 Thursday night.

With a shutout, Fleury joined Martin Brodeur and Patrick Roy as the only NHL goaltenders to reach 500 career victories.

As the clock reached zero, Blackhawks teammates rushed over to Fleury in celebration.

Jonathan Toews and Henrik Borgstrom scored for Chicago. Patrick Kane and Seth Jones picked up assists.

Jake Allen had 23 saves for Montreal.

LIGHTNING 5, MAPLE LEAFS 3: Steven Stamkos scored early and set up Tampa Bay’s final three goals as the Lightning won at Toronto.

The short-handed Lightning were without four significant players but still managed to win their fifth straight game. Tampa Bay played forwards Nikita Kucherov (lower body), Brayden Point (upper body), Anthony Cirelli (upper body) and defenseman Erik Cernak (foot).

Ondrej Palat scored twice and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Taylor Raddysh added goals for Tampa Bay. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 35 saves.

DUCKS 2, BLUE JACKETS 1: Trevor Zegras and Rickard Rakell scored in the shootout and Anaheim rallied for a win in Columbus, Ohio.

Isac Lundestrom scored for Anaheim and John Gibson stopped 33 shots for his fourth straight win against Columbus.

Alexandre Texier scored for the Blue Jackets and Elvis Merzlikins stopped 25 shots in the loss.

PREDATORS 3, ISLANDERS 2: Eeli Tolvanen scored with 11.5 seconds left to cap Nashville’s third-period comeback at New York.

The Islanders led 3-2 after Noah Dobson’s goal early in the third, but Nashville rallied to keep New York winless in seven games at its new arena.

BLUES 6, RED WINGS 2: Nathan Walker scored his first career hat trick and fourth-string goaltender Charlie Lindgren made 29 saves, leading St. Louis past visiting Detroit.

The Blues recalled Walker from their AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, under emergency conditions Wednesday. The 27-year-old Walker, from Wales, had previously dressed in 25 NHL games, recording three goals and two assists.

KINGS 4, STARS 0: Adrian Kempe and Arthur Kaliyev scored as Los Angeles won at home.

Jonathan Quick made 27 saves for his second shutout of the season and 56th of his career. Viktor Arvidsson and Andreas Athanasiou added empty-net goals.

JETS 3, KRAKEN 0: Kyle Connor scored two goals and Connor Hellebuyck stopped 25 shots to lead Winnipeg to a win at Seattle.

It was Winnipeg’s first shutout of the season. Dominic Toninato also scored for the Jets.

HURRICANES 2, FLAMES 1: Sebastian Aho scored his second goal of the game 4:07 into overtime to give Carolina a victory at Calgary.

Aho also scored in the first period to extend his point streak to four games. Frederik Andersen stopped 26 shots in the win.

WILD 5, SHARKS 2: Jordan Greenway scored twice and visiting Minnesota got its eighth straight win.

Kevin Fiala, Joel Eriksson Ek and Kirill Kaprizov also scored for the Wild, who took over the NHL lead with 39 points, their most through 26 games in franchise history.

NOTES

COYOTES: The Arizona Coyotes paid off their overdue taxes and other bills, a day after receiving word the city of Glendale was going to lock the team out of Gila River Arena if all outstanding debts to the city and the management company for the arena are not paid.

Glendale city manager Kevin Phelps sent a letter Wednesday informing the Coyotes they owed $1.3 million in taxes, including $250,000 to the city.

Phelps informed the Coyotes that the Arizona Department of Revenue had filed a notice of tax lien for unpaid state and city taxes owed by IceArizona, the Coyotes’ ownership company. Phelps also said in his letter that he had instructed ASM Global, which manages Gila River Arena, to not allow the Coyotes in the arena if the bills were not paid by 5 p.m. on Dec. 20.

The Coyotes issued a statement late Wednesday saying the unpaid bills were an unfortunate human error and they would rectify the situation quickly. They did on Thursday, avoiding what would have been an awkward turn in the franchise’s long journey to find a permanent home.

CANUCKS: Vancouver hired veteran NHL executive Jim Rutherford as team president.

Rutherford will also serve as interim general manager while leading the search for a new GM.

The Canucks cleaned house on Sunday, firing general manager Jim Benning, coach Travis Green and other front-office staff. The team hired Bruce Boudreau as coach on a two-year deal.

The 72-year-old Rutherford, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders’ category, was most recently GM of the Pittsburgh Penguins from 2014-21. The team won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2016 and ’17.

Before that, he served as Carolina’s GM for 20 years and saw the Hurricanes win the Cup in 2006.

TRADE: The Chicago Blackhawks acquired forward Kurtis Gabriel from the Toronto Maple Leafs for defenseman Chad Krys.

Gabriel, 28, has one goal and one assist in 13 games with the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. He is slated to join the Blackhawks in Toronto before their game against the Maple Leafs on Saturday night.

The 23-year-old Krys, a second-round pick by Chicago in 2016, has yet to make his NHL debut.