Devin Setoguchi added an
empty-net goal with 2.1 seconds remaining and Antti Niemi got his third shutout
of the season. He got help from his defenders, who rescued wild rebounds before
the Bruins could capitalize. Niemi hasn’t lost in regulation in eight starts.
Ryane Clowe and Marc-Edouard
Vlasic assisted on both goals for San Jose, which has won seven of eight.
Canadiens 2 Rangers 0: In Montreal, Carey Price made 35 saves for his fifth shutout
of the season, Scott Gomez scored late in the second period, and Montreal
extended the New York Rangers’ losing streak to four.
Price has nine career
shutouts. He took the NHL lead with 26 wins as Montreal won its third in a row
since the All-Star break. Price has started a league-high 46 games.
Gomez, a former Rangers
forward, made it 1-0 with 1:26 left in the second with his seventh goal. Tomas
Plekanec scored his 18th into an empty net with 37.4 seconds remaining.
Ducks 3 Avalanche 0: In Denver, Corey Perry
scored three goals and Curtis McElhinney stopped 25 shots for his second NHL
shutout, leading Anaheim over struggling Colorado.
Perry completed his second
hat trick of the season by scoring an empty-net goal with 17.3 seconds
remaining.
McElhinney bottled up the
high-scoring Avalanche while filling in for All-Star Jonas Hiller , who was
scratched due to fatigue. The Ducks have won eight of nine against Colorado.
Flyers 3 Stars 1: In Philadelphia, Andrej
Meszaros and Darroll Powe each scored on long-distance wrist shots, and Brian
Boucher stopped 30 shots to lead Philadelphia past Dallas.
Jeff Carter added his 25th
goal for the Flyers, who increased their Atlantic Division lead over Pittsburgh
to three points.
Sabres 6 Maple Leafs 2: In
Buffalo, New York, Drew Stafford scored twice and added an assist, Thomas Vanek
had a goal and two assists, and Ryan Miller finished with 23 saves to lift
Buffalo over Toronto.
Jason Pominville , Paul
Gaustad and Tim Connolly also scored for the Sabres, who bounced back from a
one-goal loss in Pittsburgh on Friday to improve to 10-4-1 in their past 15
games.
Miller made his 28th
consecutive start for Buffalo, which won its seventh straight at home against
Toronto.
Blue Jackets 4 Oilers 3:
In Columbus, Ohio, R.J. Umberger scored twice and assisted
on both of Kristian Huselius’ goals, including the game-winning tally with 4
minutes left, to lead Columbus past Edmonton.
With the Blue Jackets
trailing 3-2 and 6:16 left, Umberger tied it with a nifty move and a snap shot.
He then fed Huselius on a 2-on-1 break, with Huselius tucking a wrist shot
inside the near post and past goalie Nikolai Khabibulin .
Magnus Paajarvi had a career-best
two goals for the Oilers, who lost their fourth in a row — both goals coming on
almost identical plays off assists from fellow rookie Linus Omark . Dustin
Penner also scored.
Islanders 5 Senators 3: In Uniondale, New
York, Rob Schremp’s second goal of
the game broke a third-period tie and lifted the New York Islanders over
Ottawa.
The teams split six goals in
the first period, but Ottawa was shut down after that. Schremp made it 4-3 at
1:39 of the third with a power-play goal. Frans Nielsen sealed the win with a
short-handed, empty-netter with less than 10 seconds to go.
Hurricanes 4 Thrashers 3, OT:
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Erik Cole scored at 2:48 of overtime to give
Carolina a win against Atlanta.
The Hurricanes moved into a
tie with Atlanta for eighth place in the Eastern Conference with 58 points.
Carolina’s Cam Ward stopped
34 shots. Atlanta counterpart Ondrej Pavelec made 33 saves.
Eric Staal , Brandon Sutter
and Jiri Tlusty also scored for Carolina.
Niclas Bergfors , Brent Sopel
and Zach Bogosian had goals for Atlanta.
Coyotes 1 Wild 0: In
Glendale, Arizona, Taylor Pyatt ended Phoenix’s long scoring drought early in
the third period and Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 25 shots for his fourth shutout
this season, helping the Coyotes beat Minnesota and end a five-game home losing
streak.
Phoenix came out with an
intensity missing the previous two games, peppering Niklas Backstrom with 31
shots in the first two periods. Backstrom was stellar at times, extending his
scoreless streak to a franchise-record 157 minutes, 13 seconds before Pyatt
finally broke through early in the third.
Predators 3 Red Wings 0: In
Nashville, Tennessee, Pekka Rinne stopped 35 shots and Nashville shut out
Detroit.
Sergei Kostitsyn scored twice
and captain Shea Weber added a goal for Nashville, which snapped a four-game
losing streak.
Including a 3-0 home loss to
Columbus on Friday, the Red Wings have been shut out in consecutive games.
Rinne was stellar in earning
his third shutout of the season and 17th of his NHL career. After turning aside
six Detroit shots in the first, he saw 12 shots in the second and 17 in the
third.
Kings 4 Flames 3, SO: In
Calgary, Alberta, Justin Williams had a goal and two assists and also scored
the winning goal in the shootout and Los Angeles ended Calgary’s six-game
winning streak.
The victory helps the Kings
pass Minnesota to move into eighth place in the Western Conference.
Calgary’s seventh shooter was
defenseman Jay Bouwmeester and after he hit the goal post, Kings coach Terry
Murray turned to Williams, who snapped a shot past Miikka Kiprusoff to win it.
