The Rangers made historywhile the Blues and Blackhawks filled two more spots in the Stanley Cup playoffs Thursday night. J.T. Miller's goal in the third period helped give the Rangersa 3-2 victory against the Wild and clinchthe Metropolitan Divisiontitle Valeri Nichushkin Jersey for New York. The Blueshirts also set a franchise record withtheir26th road victory. MORE: | Miller's game-winner came two days after he was cro s-checked in the back of the neck by the Jets' Dustin Byfuglien. "That felt good. I've been taking a little bit of a beating here. I'm going to try to go through a game without getting hit in the head," Miller told reporters, according to The A sociated Pre s. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 28 shots. The Blueshirtsimproved to26-11-2 on the road, surpa sing the record they set last year. MORE: | | "You've got to play the right way, and we try to do that every time we step on the ice, whether we're in front of our fans or on the road," coach Alain Vigneault said, per the AP. The Wild lead the Jets and Kings by five pointsfor the top wild-card spot in the West. The Kings moved into the second wild-card positionwith an 8-2 home victory over the Oilers. After that will celebrate the return of baseball to St. Louis, the Blues celebrated a fourth consecutive playoff berth after beating the Flames4-1.St. Louis was mi singtop forwards Vladimir TarasenkoandAlexander Steen, but winger Jaden Schwartz stepped upwith a goal and an a sist. Jake Allen stopped 17 shots for his 19th win of the season. "It's nice (clinching)on home ice," forwardPaul Stastny said, . "Now the next step for us is get better until April 15, or whenever the playoffs start, but our focus is trying to get home ice." The Blues (47-23-7, 101 points)are battling for the top spot in the Western Conference, which would give them home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs. They're six points behind the Ducks. St. Louis has a more realisticchance of winning the Central Division; it's justtwo points behind the first-placePredators with five games remaining. MORE: The Blackhawks tallied twicein the third period to beat the Canucks, 3-1, at home.Jonathan ToewsandMarcus Krugerscored for Chicago(47-24-6, 100 points), which clinched a seventh consecutiveplayoff berth. "That was our goal going into Game 1 (of the season): Get into the playoffs," Kruger told reporters, ."It's a tough league, and we play in a good division and conference. It's tough to do that and that's something we feel proud of, but now we want give ourselves the best po sible chance here." MORE: ,the Blues and Blackhawks wouldface each other in the first round of the playoffs, while East-leading Rangers (49-21-7) would square off against the wild-card Bruins (40-25-13). Sporting News Media's Tom Gatto contributed to this report. Logan O'connor Jersey