Strike two against Lightning as they lose game, Stamkos to injury

BOSTON : Patrice Bergeron and Daniel Paille scored 20 seconds apart a few minutes after Tampa Bay star Steven Stamkos was taken off the ice on a stretcher with a broken right leg as the Boston Bruins beat the Lightning 3-0 on Monday.
Stamkos was hurt with 7:11 to play in the second period after entering the day level with Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby as the NHL’s leading scorer. Stamkos got tied up with Boston defenseman Dougie Hamilton and crashed into the right post.
His left skate appeared to hit the post first before his right leg crashed into it around the shin area. He tried to get up twice before going down to the ice in pain, grabbing his leg just above the ankle.
Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots for his 18th career shutout and second this season. Jarome Iginla added an empty-net goal with 59 seconds left.
Anders Lindback, playing just his fifth game of the season, made 23 saves for Tampa Bay, which had a four-game winning streak snapped.
The Bruins jumped ahead with just under 3 minutes left in the period when Bergeron scored off the rebound of Torey Krug’s shot that caromed off the skate of Loui Eriksson.
They made it 2-0 when Paille broke in down the right wing, shifted to his backhand and slipped a shot past Lindback inside the right post. During the play, Tampa Bay defenseman Sami Salo also appeared to hurt his right leg and had trouble making it to the bench. He was briefly assisted by one of the referees on the ice and didn’t return in the third period.

Anaheim Ducks re-sign Steckel, send him to AHL
Center David Steckel has re-signed with the Anaheim Ducks.
The NHL-leading Ducks assigned Steckel to their AHL affiliate in Norfolk on Monday.
Anaheim also assigned goalie Viktor Fasth and left wing Matt Beleskey to Norfolk on long-term injury conditioning loans.
The Ducks acquired Steckel from Toronto last March. He scored six points in 21 games before playing in all seven postseason games.
Steckel is a faceoff specialist and a favorite of Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau, who coached him in Washington. The 10-year NHL veteran has 79 points in 418 games.
Fasth has been out since Oct. 16 with a lower-body injury. Frederik Andersen has won his first six NHL starts in his place.
Anaheim has the league’s best record at 15-3-1. The Ducks open a four-game trip Tuesday at Florida.

Chelios, Niedermayer, Shanahan join Hall of Fame
In Toronto, Canada, Chris Chelios, Scott Niedermayer and Brendan Shanahan were among five inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame at ceremonies Monday.
Fred Shero, coach of back-to-back Stanley Cup winners in 1974 and 1975 with Philadelphia known as the “Broad Street Bullies,” and Canadian women’s player Geraldine Heaney were also enshrined.
Chelios was a three-time Stanley Cup champion and triple winner of the Norris Trophy as the National Hockey League’s best defenseman in a career that spanned 26 seasons with Montreal, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta.
The four-time Olympian played 1,651 games, fifth all-time among defensemen and the most among American-born players, scoring 185 goals before retiring at age 48 in 2010.
“I owe everything in my life to my family, friends and this great game of hockey,” Chelios said.
Niedermayer won three Stanley Cups with the New Jersey Devils and another with Anaheim during an 18-year career from 1992-2010. The two-time Olympic gold medal winner for Canada scored 172 goals in 1,263 games.
Shanahan ranks 13th all-time in goals scored with 656 in 1,524 games and won Stanley Cup titles with Detroit in 1997, 1998 and 2002, also helping Canada to 2002 Olympic gold.
“I think about you guys a lot and I’ll never forget what we were able to accomplish,” Shanahan said of his time with Detroit.
Shero went 390-225-119 in regular season contests and was the first Jack Adams Award as the league’s top coach in 1974.
Heaney helped Canada to an Olympic silver medal at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games and gold at Salt Lake City in 2002.