Blackhawks streak by Kings

CHICAGO: Brent Seabrook and Jonathan Toews each scored a goal and added an assist to help lead the Chicago Blackhawks over the Los Angeles Kings, 3-2, on Sunday, extending their season-opening point streak to 15 games.
Patrick Sharp also scored for the Blackhawks (12-0-3), who matched the 1984-85 Edmonton Oilers for the second-longest season-opening point streak in NHL history. Chicago is one away from the league record, set by Anaheim in 2006-07, and will try to match the mark Tuesday against Vancouver.
Mike Richards scored two power-play goals in the third period to pull the Kings within one after the Blackhawks had built a 3-0 lead.
Chicago backup goalie Ray Emery made 25 saves. He lost a bid for his first shutout in more than three years when Richards connected 56 seconds into the third period.
Penguins 4, Sabres 3: At Buffalo, New York, Sidney Crosby is so prolific, good things happen even when the Pittsburgh Penguins’ star isn’t attempting to make a pass.
That was the case in how Crosby helped the Penguins rally to a 4-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. Crosby finished with a goal and two assists, including setting up defenseman Paul Martin’s go-ahead goal with 2:04 remaining.
Accurate as Crosby’s pass was in finding an open Martin in the high slot, the Penguins’ captain acknowledged he wasn’t looking to set up his teammate.
“Honestly, the puck was poked off my stick,” said Crosby, who had dug the puck out of the corner of the Sabres zone and was attempting to skate into the middle. The Penguins got another break when Martin’s shot deflected in off Sabres defenseman Christian Ehrhoff and past goalie Ryan Miller, who was screened.
What’s not a fluke is Crosby in the familiar position of being among the NHL points leaders a month into the season.
With 24 points (seven goals and 17 assists), Crosby ranks second following a 10-game surge, in which he has four goals and 14 assists.
Pascal Dupuis had two goals and an assist for Pittsburgh, which won its third straight and improved to 8-2 in its past 10 to move one point ahead of idle New Jersey atop the Eastern Conference standings.
After building a 2-0 lead before the game was 90 seconds old, the Penguins were forced to rally from a 3-2 deficit.
The Sabres, in comparison, had nothing to show for their comeback after giving up two goals in the final 13 minutes.
Miller was so upset with how the team lost in squandering a third-period lead, he resorted to using several profanites in addressing reporters following the game.
Thomas Vanek had a goal and assist, while Steve Ott and Cody Hodgson also scored for the Sabres. Buffalo failed to build off a 4-2 win over Boston on Friday, and has now gone 4-9-1 in its past 14 games. Buffalo has yet to win two in a row at home, and dropped to 2-9-0 in its past 11 against Pittsburgh.
Turnovers and defensive breakdowns cost the Sabres on Sunday.
Less than 2 minutes after Ott scored to put Buffalo ahead 3-2, the Penguins countered with Kris Letang eluding two Sabres defenders along the left boards and then setting up Dupuis for a one-timer in the right circle.
Miller bounced back after allowing the Penguins to score on their first two shots on goal. He finished with 31 saves, with his best coming with 3:08 left in the third period. That’s when Miller got across to his left to snag James Neal’s one-timer from the right circle.
Dupuis opened the scoring 35 seconds in by deflecting in Brooks Orpik’s point shot. That extended a Penguins streak in which they’ve now scored the opening goal in all 10 road games this season. Crosby scored 33 seconds later.
Rangers 2, Capitals 1: At New York, Derek Stepan’s power-play goal early in the third period snapped a tie and completed New York’s rally past Washington.
Washington, which lost to New York in the second round of last year’s playoffs, had been 11-5-2 in its last 18 regular-season games against the Rangers. New York is 5-1-1 in its past seven games.
Carl Hagelin tied it for the Rangers in the second period after defenseman John Carlson put Washington ahead in the first.
Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 shots for his seventh win. Braden Holtby was busier for Washington and made 38 saves.
Wild 3, Red Wings 2: At St. Paul, Dany Heatley, Jason Zucker and Torrey Mitchell all scored in the second period to rally Minnesota over Detroit.
It was Minnesota’s first regulation win since Jan. 29 and just the second time it scored at least three goals in regulation over the last nine games.
Damien Brunner and Pavel Datsyuk scored for Detroit, which has lost three straight for the first time since March 10-21 of last season.
After Heatley snapped a nine-game scoring drought to make it 2-1, Zucker went coast-to-coast and scored his first NHL goal to tie it. Mitchell scored off a faceoff 30 seconds later.
Bruins 3, Jets 2: At Winnipeg, Brad Marchand scored 36 seconds into the third period to lift Boston to a win over Winnipeg.
Tyler Seguin and Daniel Paille also scored, and Patrice Bergeron had two assists for the Bruins (9-8-2). Tuukka Rask stopped 22 for Boston to earn his seventh win of the season.
Alexandre Burmistrov had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg (5-8-1), while Evander Kane recorded his fourth goal of the season and first in nine games.
Ondrej Pavelec made 23 saves for the Jets, who lost their third straight and fourth in a row at home — the longest home losing streak for the team moved from Atlanta prior to last season.
Flames 4, Stars 3: At Dallas, Steve Begin, Matt Stajan and Roman Horak each scored their first goals of the season in the third period and Calgary overcame a two-goal deficit to beat Dallas.
Begin snapped a 3-3 tie with 9:30 remaining. After Chris Butler’s slap shot from the left point was blocked in front, Begin outbattled two Stars defenders to get to the loose puck and fire a wrister that beat goaltender Richard Bachman.

Michael Cammalleri also scored for Calgary and Joey MacDonald made 27 saves.